Grand Prix Rejects

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Pieman wrote:
Cynon wrote:Here's the question I have: What if the person's name was Godard? I think someone would be offended to see GOD on the timing sheets in all caps...

Add an extra D in there, and you have my surname.

DGOD is an unusual name...

Or did you mean GDOD?

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Waris wrote:Has anyone in this thread mentioned Gastón Mazzacane's famous drive in 2000 at... was it San Marino? I can't remember... where he fought with Mika Häkkinen for 3rd place?

It was Indy.

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Here's a link to the story on the Autosport website: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78195

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Button must be glad they don't use the first 4 letters...

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Nuppiz wrote:And if I recall it correctly, the engines count against the driver, not the car.

No, I believe they count against the car, so Badoer would have taken Massa's allocation, Alguersuari has taken over Bourdais's allocation and Piquet's allocation has gone to Roman Fatjohn.

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Mario And-- oh wait... he's not a reject, probably because of his podium finish at the 1993 Italian(?) GP, and I was just going to nominate that. Well than, um... I guess that finishing on the podium automatically disqualifies you, since it falls outside the reject criteria. It's hard for me to nom...

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Badoer for getting a drive at all and still being around at the end of the race. Go Luca!

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I would have to say Markus Winkelhock - qualify last, then had a 30-second lead before the race was red-flagged, then fell back from first to last before retiring. Last to first to last to DNF? Pukka!

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Or how about the tarmac stuff for the first few metres/yards off-track then kitty-litter beyound that?

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Still goes to show that Renault are guilty of something, it just gives the impression that letting stuff fly of the car is not as serious as the stewards at the last grand prix thought it was...

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I remember this debate taking place before, after Magny-Cours held its last race, and both Autosport and AutoHebdo (in their magazine and on their forum) suggested seriously about a GP at Disneyland - hotel infrastructure, transport links (near Charles de Gaulle Airport, RER railway, Eurostar, near ...

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Ferrari should be able to do straight line tests (which I believe they will do) for Schumacher to famiarise himself with the latests controls (i.e. KERS) and moveable wings and to reaquient himself with the speed, breaking and accelaration. Thats it. SHouldn't take more than an hour. These F1 teams...

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Hallelujah! I have found a place where people are talking sense!

Ferrari have always tried to twist the rules to their own advantage on so many occasions, it makes a pleasant change to see the team who have the third-highest number of GP wins standing up to them.

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Don't forget - Schumacher HAS tested an F1 car recently, albeit a 2007 model on GP2 tyres :

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77445

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Just want to show my support for many of the recent comments made here and, yes, you guessed it, I'm a Williams fan too...

(Surprising how many people support such a successful team on a rejects website

)

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I used to listen to the podcasts on my PSP for a short time...

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While I can see Williams's point, I don't think that the Alguersuari situation is directly comparable - I think that a team choosing to drop a driver should be viewed different from a team which has a driver change forced upon it by injury. Yeah, but a team bringing in a debutant should be viewed d...

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Piquet has indeed left the team!!!!!

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77538

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tristan1117 wrote:
WeirdKerr wrote:who on earth is this obscure german pay driver that ferrari are using to sub for massa.... ???

Some guy named Michael who was wandering around Maranello.

Surname is something like Shoemaker, or some-such cobblers...

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Very interesting stuff. I only started following F1 myself in 1992, having been born in 1982.

1992 would paint a very different picture again. Makes me wonder where F1 might end up in another 25 - 30 years...

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I've just got the most recent copy of Autosport, out today and guess what? A full page advertisising for a race engineer and Senior Aerodynamicist for... BMW Sauber!

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The way I see it so far is: BMW are withdrawing because the results are not matching expectations (set in part by last year's relative success). So why does the FIA think money is the be all and end all?

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Despite the commercial breaks, I still find myself downloading SpeedTV coverage after every race. The commentator crew works well together and actually adds something to the race. David Hobbs is almost as awesome as Murray Walker for random nonsensical quotes... I only suscribe to 3 F1-related podc...

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"Our long-term future in F1" by BMW-Sauber : http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77400

Preface by Piquet Jnr.

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Best wait for official news rather than speculate. Don't wish to make any mistakes about the situation. There was also another serious accident in a Seat Leon support race with a car barrell-rolling. I've been to Brands Hatch a number of times before (only 45 minutes from home) with touring cars ha...

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I think the FIA stewards have just made a stunning late entry to take RotR for Hungary: m Pathetic. I'm sorry but as I posted in another thread, I was at Brands when Henry Surtees was KILLED by an errant wheel and debris from Barrichello's car badly injured Massa, and in this instance, Alonso had t...

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Renault would be pretty dumb to replace him with di Grassi or Grosjean, since it wouldn't get them any further to have a less experienced rookie, also I think both of them want to concentrate fully on their GP2 title challenge. If they're not going to bring in a capable driver like Bourdais or Sato...

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After being at Brands Hatch last weekend, and seeing Massa's incident yesterday, I gasped at Alonso's wheel coming off today, something I normally would not do. But now that it is obvious what can still happen as a result, and knowing that Alonso could have parked it before the wheel came off, I thi...

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Was Karl Wendlinger the last F1 driver to be in a coma after an F1 crash, induced or otherwise, after his Monaco crash in 1994?

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Here in America, Jenson Button was caught using profanity on the world feed when speaking with Fernando Alonso, which bothered me none, but was pretty funny when the Speed crew apologized for it. . The BBC in Britain (and elsewhere?) also picked up on that and hastily apologised with the proviso th...

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Whn Durex stopped sponsoring I had a child. And any you had left over, you used to make rubber balloon animals out of...? Some time ago, I discovered another use for Durex other than making rubber animals. Apparently there are many sites on the web, that elaborate on this issue. Do I really want to...

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But has anything changed between 2004, when Button scored a series of podiums and finished third behind the 2 Ferraris in WDC, and this year, or was most of the maturity gained between 2000 and 2004?

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Whn Durex stopped sponsoring I had a child. And any you had left over, you used to make rubber balloon animals out of...? You know perfectly well that's not possible. Believe me, I've tried, and I have to get mine custom-made. It still doesn't work. Custom-made? You're not Indian are you? http://ne...

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Ross Prawn wrote:Whn Durex stopped sponsoring I had a child.

And any you had left over, you used to make rubber balloon animals out of...?

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How many people bought Durex or Penthouse (whatever they are...?

) purely because they were F1 sponsers in the 1970's?

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Honestly, I'm worried for the poor BBC team. EJ will not be able to say that. I'm more concerned about Legard. he's likely to say "JAY-mee Al-gay-SAW-rus". At that point, I wouldn't be surprised if he gave up completely and just called him Sebastian. Still not heard any references to Seba...

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Could Ron Dennis speak English? Or was he only fluent in Ronspeak...?

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Perhaps he is doing something similar to what the NASCAR Cup drivers did in the Busch/Nationwide series - Driving in a lower series on the same track in order to get more experience and setup ideas. Then again, I don't think Formula Renault goes on the same tracks as F1, so perhaps he's just trying...

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m Alguersuari plans to continue in F Renault 3.5 alongside F1. The only other recent F1 driver I know of to have competed in another series during an active F1 season was... Bourdais!As soon as Vettel got an F1 seat, he ditched his FRenault seat even though he was dominating the season at the time a...

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I am confident that if anything can be learnt from this very unfortunate set of circumstances, then it will be implemented, if for no other reason than Jonathan Palmer, organisor of both Brands and F2, has his own son competing in the F2 series and that his condolences will be genuine.

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