Grand Prix Rejects

MaxZero

On the grounds that it will be shown later in the day, I can see minimal effect on results knowledge before BBC broadcast unless you own and watch Sky, in whitch case it wont matter No papers are printed at that time (does the evening standard still exist?) and BBC news broadcasts in particular will...

MaxZero

Have they always used Hot Air Balloons at Monza? Certainly says something about the climate, the static ariel view it gave was quite nice too

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with the cars, woulden't the easiest way round this be to stick replica shells on Go-Karts and speed up the footage?

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Straightforward enough, who would you like to see portraying who in the film

My first initial thought is Benedict Cumberbatch as James Hunt

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so... so disappointed by this, i don't even want to rant, i am incredably miffed.

The viewing figures will speak for themselves next year, a Sky team hasn't a hope in hell in matching the beebs

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For me, has to be: Traffic, due to reliability & the drab/unchallenging circuit Cars (HRTs a lot of the time) seemed to be continually getting in the frontrunners way and produced a number of gaps between the points contenders, there's enough room on the circuit to keep it from being as tricky a...

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Has anyone inside the VW Group suggested a SEAT HRT tie-up? I think we should be lobbying that to them

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Read the follow up article in today's Times, i lost count of the amount of inaccuracies and bends of the truth, and the inevitable line "BSkyB are waiting in the sidelines to put in a bid if the terrestrial channels fail to provide", adding a knight in shining armour twist to thair part. O...

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2009 Brazilian Qualifying rain delayed, with a round of Strychnine Come Dancing (another antiques show) immediately following. That would probably be a bigger bone of contention from two years ago, and nothing was really posted on here (was it?) The amusing thing about that was they continued to pr...

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So 303-305 are now the HD channels?
I'de be disappointed if thats the case, loved how they were all in use during the Olympics

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Now theres hardly anyone on analog, i think in future, all overrunning sport should continue on the red button service, they have three (possibly four) usually dormant channels on it completely accessible to everyone with a working doopher.

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I looked into this, the sponsorship is mostly about including Ferarri on advertising material where ciggy ads aren't banned, as opposed to running the logo on the cars

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What a complete & utter twat

MaxZero

And then there's the archive footage that appears on national TV now and again, they don't filter that. There was a program about Murray Walker on the beeb on Sunday, Marlboro was all over it, didn't stop the program going out at 8pm. I've rekon the barcode's triangular logo replacement reminds me m...

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According to this account he didn't actually mean to glass him, just throw a drink over him m My interpretation of this is that in the act of throwing the drink, Sutil either let go of the glass sending drink and receptacle at him, or didn't stop thrusting the drink forward after it passed the point...

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Adrian Sutil? More like Adrian Savage. that didn't work Nehoo, is an out of court settlement actually likely? Someone in the Sutil camp mentioned they had tried to get through to Lux a number of times and gotten no responce. Sounds like Lux is the bitter type and is going for everything he can get.

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Helmut Marko has come out saying that the threat isn't serious, stating that the reason Ferrari have been so vocal about it is because their Italian

Reading the Helmet's comments usually annoy me tho this one is more agreeable than usual

MaxZero

redbulljack14 wrote:Maldonado is the only driver who survives, and still struggled to make Q2.

Nehoo, he's said sorry. Further down the page theres some tragic news regarding his team-mate
http://www.motorsport.com/#/f1/article/?s=1&i=13&id=404899

MaxZero

You can't dub someone as career-less just because they aren't so good at it

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That stupid tool. If he's dropped by his sponsors for this then presumably that's his career down the pan

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Cold and soggy certainly doesn't bode well for spectator turnout

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This is now a 'My ideal F1 Rocks lineup' thread

Biffy Clyro, Interpol, The Cat Empire, Foo Fighters

Alternative slightly Indie lineup perhaps going on in the backround - Pulp, Lykke Li, Pete And The Pirates, Metronomy

Limiting it to three, knock off the first of the two fours

MaxZero

Vijay Mallaya praised Kolles for running a small team very well when he shifted the teams management about after the '08 season. He may be a running joke here but he is considers competent at what he does, keeps the team in the news right enough

MaxZero

Never found the races in Turkey that fun to watch, turn 8 on-board is fun the first few times and there were a few Hamilton moves when he did 3 stops over everyone else's two that i can remember but other than that (and Fisi's hattrick of turn 1 brain farts) the venue has been very un-remarkable in ...

MaxZero

How did the 'Hunt sues Fernandes over non payment' pan out?

MaxZero

I must say I had never heard of Spyker before they went to F1 either. And neither have I after they left the series. Spyker's current set-up has in my view been quite comical, i've been following them since i saw them in F1 because the road cars are very much something different, the new C8 (don't ...

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looks too big on him

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Bernie did say in the denial that they would never sell to a media company as that would strangle coverage negotiations

I take some re-assurance in that, not much but a bit

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Pirelli has run out of the gold paint pens I can see that making Private Eye XD And did Petrov walk from his indecent immediately? I remember hearing that when Glock did something similar it knocked the wind right out of him. You see him in the mugshots at the start of the race in grid position and...

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The reasoning for retirements, as a safety precaution. So they retired the cars simply due to some readings rather than something breaking, that doesn't happen often does it. Technically there weren't any problems, just hot water so in that respect surely they retired a healthy car

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I think that I prefer this one though: http://lh6.ggpht.com/_XWOW7wBikkw/S2FUwtyy39I/AAAAAAAACyI/JVrpPUUQhIg/42-17312950.jpg Also superb, they both illustrate the fat back wheels looking awesome Opinion of the the Beeb's commentary team was lukewarm after Australia, how do you all think they faired...

MaxZero

This race was a superb demonstration of the new regulations, i never thought very much of the races in Malaysia but it was superb fun, theres hope for the Hungaroring yet ^_^ The Rudderless Russian reminds me of Glock in the Toyota at Australia 2008, can't remember why he got off line and was launch...

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I don't think fighting with Saubers and Force Indias was what Schumi made a comeback for!!! On the surface, perhaps not but i don't think he would complain, i rekon he would be in the Lotus if it was the only option, to borrow Eddie Irvine's mentality on the subject, he doesn't know anything else.....

MaxZero

"Prost has yet to take his fellow Frenchman René Arnoux who says, the reason i'm going so slow these days is that i'm used to Turbo cars and these normally aspirated cars are a completely different kettle of fish to drive, he says"

No points for following that up

MaxZero

Looking forward to seeing this develop ^_^
getting the front wing stuck underneath the car for a lap should be worth an extra point too

MaxZero

I would go with '07 as well with '05-'06 serving as the transition towards the differences The last of the V12s have gone and a specific wave of drivers emerge, while others become more prominent with the lack of Shumi. The races (on average) also start to really improve in interest. '07 has been th...

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so heres the latest spluttering from Carabante (not Kolles, gosh) that by May, they will be ahead of Virgin (plausible) and Lotus (tripe). m One thing i do agree with (in part) is that there hasn't been much criticism of Virgin in the UK press, although only on the grounds that they haven't actually...

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don't rule out the possibility that he simply wants to speed up the collapse

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http://old.motorsport.com/news/article. ... 2107&FS=F1

Apparently the engineers haven't been paid in two months leading to 5 resignations, and a big fib about the customs hold up

This sounds fantastically bad

MaxZero

On a plus note regarding ITV's coverage in '08, you could tune into ITV4 and see the GP2 and Formula BMW before the F1 on ITV1

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