Grand Prix Rejects

dr-baker

News of his death was confirmed very soon after I went to bed last night and am very sorry to learn of it. He had scored his best result in F2 just the day before by finishing 3rd. What makes it even more tragic in my mind was the number of other incidents in that race that they kept replaying on th...

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The one, the only, the not-so-great YUJI IDE... Could only speak Japanese and Aguri Suzuki himself had to to the pits-to-car radio himself to get Yuji to understand...

And Max? He's surely from another planet from the rest of the motorsport world...

dr-baker

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 hav...

dr-baker

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77073

Only news from Autosport so far and nothing on F1 sites of BBC or ITV...

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http://www.formulaf1.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/77543.jpg Adrian Sutil: "We are not 'holding hands', we are merely exchanging long protien strands. If you can think of a better way to do it, then I'd like to hear about it!" ...Love the Simpsons reference. One of my other interests in ...

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Glad I was not the only one to put the thoughts of Virgin-Manor and Playboy-Mansion together...

dr-baker

I have only just got home from Brands Hatch and this is the first I've heard about the possible severity of the accident. All that I was aware of was that he had been taken to the medical centre and that they later had to safety-car the race to allow the medical helicopter to take off. However, we (...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Formula_One_season The 1995 season also only 'contained' two world champions, one of which was Nigel Mansell 'returning' to 'drive' for McLaren. Most of the 1994 season had no world champions in at all after the Imola weekend and when Mansell wasn't doing his takin...

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Out of the 10 current F1 teams, 8 have won in their current guise ! McLaren, Ferrari, Williams, Red Bull, Toro Rosso, Brawn, Renault and BMW Sauber. Toyota have scored podiums and Sutil in the Force India was running second in the most recent GP in Germany. And Force India won a grand prix in a form...

dr-baker

Ferrari won the British and Spanish GPs in 1954 and just the Monaco race in 1955 but yeah, it is nice to see different teams win. Would still enjoy watching Williams return to the top again, mind you... I actually had some money on Williams to the title, this year. Not really money, but a couple of...

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Ferrari won the British and Spanish GPs in 1954 and just the Monaco race in 1955 but yeah, it is nice to see different teams win. Would still enjoy watching Williams return to the top again, mind you...

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OK, so just flicked through some season reviews on Wikipedia (1950-1970 as McLaren started winning 1 race per year in '68 and '69 and Frank Williams started entering cars in '69 but didn't win 'til '79) and guess what? There were a number of years before McLaren and Williams started winning when Fer...

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Pretty much sums it up. As the article says, are FOTA in or out next year? Not even the FIA, who get to decide and are now a number of weeks beyond the entry deadline, can seem to decide who is competing next year. At this rate I will be losing interest. Le Mans 24 hours anyone? A lot of rejectdom t...

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Formula I-Don't-Give-A-Damn-Anymore

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Oh no! Please don't tell me they're opening the field for Robert Mugabe to be the next FIA President. That would be too embarrassing for words... "And now...let's make every person working for the F1 franchise BILLIONAIRES" - referring to the massive inflation of Zimbabwe. Yes, but isn't ...

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Marc Gene and David Brabham won Le Mans 24 Hours this year with Franck Montagny, Sebastien Bourdais and Stephane Sarrazin in second and Alan McNish 3rd and Tomas Enge 4th. Sportscars seem suited to F1 Rejectees, don't they?

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"How to Enter Formula 1" by Prodrive
"How to Succeed at F1" by Lola

dr-baker

Popi_Larrauri wrote:But I shout "REJECT THREAD!!!!!" and anybody must change topic starting now.

This isn't a reject thread. There will still be a single-seater championship next year. It will actually be F1. We can still discuss what we would like the rules to be, can't we?

dr-baker

D'uh!!!

I actually thought it was a Slim Borgudd reference initially...

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Captain Hammer wrote:
noisebox wrote:
Debaser wrote:No more Max Mosley puns...

Go easy on the man, he bent over backwards to sort this out...

He bent over backwards last year, too.

All this bending over backwards... Should he change his name to Ben Dover?

dr-baker

Jordan192 wrote:
dr-baker wrote:Just so long as we do not end up with Bernie's medal system, and we get people racing, I'll be happy.

As things stand at the moment, if FOTA and the FIA settle, the Abba method's still in the rulebook for F1 in 2010.

Sorry, what's the Abba method...?

dr-baker

Just so long as we do not end up with Bernie's medal system, and we get people racing, I'll be happy.

dr-baker

I propose the BTCC point system of 15-12-10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 to the top ten finishers - more than the 2 point difference between 1st and second there currently is, yet less than the 4 when Schumacher was dominating. Also keeps the current points system for 3rd to 10th. And Force India could claim to ha...

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Come on, Button, from domination so far this year, struggling to finish 6th? And I 've been supporting hime since his debut...

And also the future of F1.

dr-baker

I'm going to nominate Imola, post-1994 . While that weekend in may was terrible, the modifications took the soul out of the circuit. I could understand the need to change them, but I think it was done poorly. Instead of a chicane at Tamburello, it would have been better to made it a double-apex tur...

dr-baker

Captain Hammer wrote:

Spot the dummy.

...too easy!

dr-baker

Debaser wrote:Use the current point system for the last 8 classified drivers every race (including retirements). Also +1000 for getting ROTR, its a great idea.

My thoughts exactly.

dr-baker

UNlikely for any circuit to be available.... unless they build new ones... as any circuit used in the breakaway f1 would loose its FIA approval Manx TT track holds events every year for two weeks without FIA approval as far as I understand. And it would meet with F1 Rejects' site authors' desires o...

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Henrique wrote:I'm counting on crappy names

What, like Spending Half Is Tricky...

dr-baker

thehemogoblin wrote:Who is the only seven-time World Driver's Champion?

(you said very easy)

Sebastian Vettel - he just hasn't won them yet. After all, he has been hailed as the new Schumacher...

dr-baker

Well, this is open discussion. What names do you suggest?

dr-baker

Ok, so my suggestions are not going to me entirely serious

, but people can be as serious or otherwise as they wish...

F1A : Formula 1 Alternative

FOA : Formula One Alternative

F1R : Formula 1 Rejecters (for rejecting FIA's F1)

dr-baker

I like this concept - pretty much a non-Reject of the Race, one whom you expect to be a bit rejectful, but turns out not to be, right? Or could it possibly allow for Jenson Button to finish outside of the points as well?

dr-baker

http://www.astrotheme.com/portraits/EvURXsRtJ354.htm The real reason Schiatarella failed in F1 is finally revealed. Too much Yin and not enough Yang. Sorry, made no sense to me whatsoever. Thanks for your brief explanation though. How do you know it wasn't too much yang and too little yin, though?

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What, in the name of the holy pneumatic valve, are you people on about? I could google it, but I'm afraid it might be contagious. The daleks are recurring villains in DOCTOR WHO. The borg are recurring villains in STAR TREK. I don't know who the cybermen or vogons are; I don't watch either show - I...

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Yannick has made no mention of Danica Patrick either way in connction with US F1's seat, but today on Autosport's website, she has been quoted as saying that she's more interested in NASCAR. And Natasha Gachnang, Buemi's cousin and F2 driver, is wanting a Campos test, having driven for them in Spani...

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Doesn't matter; he has experience. He's not totally unfamiliar with thsort, even if it was twenty years ago. And that gives him an edge. There's a big difference between being a driver and being a team owner, and Adrian Campos has had more success with the latter than with the former. But being an ...

dr-baker

The TI Aida Circuit used for the 1994-5 Pacific Grands Prix was also a boring autodrome and neither of its races were particularly thrilling. With it also being in the middle of nowhere and very inaccessible (not a common concept in Japan, I will add!), it was wisely shelved after its second race. ...

dr-baker

The one problem that aa breakaway series won't suffer from is a lack of willing drivers. On the Autosport website today, both Massa and Webber have come out in support of a breakaway series. But there again, they both drive for teams that were given entries with their conditions ignored...

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Jonathan Palmer is, in my opinion, better known for having a doctorate, commentating in a dull fashion, owning several British race tracks and now running Formula Palmer Audi and F2 rather than his driving career (including an F2 title...). He was a F1 champion in 1987! Oh yeah, I forgot that! (Tha...

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