Grand Prix Rejects

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(first post in a long while!) I'm afraid I have to go with the grain and say McLaren. Sorry Jense, I don't think McLaren are the second fastest car after Mercedes! Dishonourable mention goes to RBR - they're continually wasting prime advertising space by not putting sponsors on Dan Ricciardo's teeth...

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The talent below F1 - Bottas is a capable driver, but I can't see him making much of an impression next year. Gutierrez? Well, we'll have to wait and see. But it seems to me that the talent pool has really dried up as of late. GP2 and FR3.5 seem to be filled with drivers on second or third chances....

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I'm not sure this is completely fair in other people's opinions - but here I go anyway. I would posture that one candidate for ROTY is... " The Talent of the Future " This is looking at the younger guys who've come into F1 in the past couple of seasons. For a start, there haven't been that...

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According to some sources in the paddock (one of which is Ted Kravitz) we may already have witnessed Kamui's final goodbye as the silly crash. Rumour has it that Sauber will be putting Gutierrez in the car for the last few races to "ready" him for next year. Can't help but think poor old K...

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I'll just leave this in here.

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Completely forgot to keep updating this as I finished my season in the Hispania. I managed wins at Montréal, Spa and Monza. And they say this is "expert mode"? Came 4th in the championship, behind Hamilton, Webber and Vettel. HRT came 5th in the constructors (219 points) with points share...

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Completely forgot to keep updating this as I finished my season in the Hispania. I managed wins at Montréal, Spa and Monza. And they say this is "expert mode"? Came 4th in the championship, behind Hamilton, Webber and Vettel. HRT came 5th in the constructors (219 points) with points shared...

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Well, it's nice to see that Christian is getting another chance as he seemed to be impressive enough in Singapore.
However, Sakon hasn't actually been that bad I don't think. He's managed to keep pace with Bruno in his time (even if I'd rather it were Chandhok in the car!)

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Sebastian Buemi's cousin, Natascha Gachnang? (Even if only at a backmarker team for the publicity)? Well, she had a full year against a fairly weak field in F2 in 2009 - and scored 2 points. I don't think even a backmarker team would take a 23rd placed driver. She's never even won a race in a car -...

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I have a (customary around here, it seems) Super Aguri t-shirt.
I have a Jordan hat from the later, more rejectful days!

I also may have, somewhere, some Haas-Lola teamwear....

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Yeah, it really does. On every track they have about 15mph on me down the straights. At both Shanghai and Catalunya, I was midfield around the first and 3rd sectors yet the slowest car of all (around half a second slower than the Virgins) in the middle sector! I do like the blocking but it would be ...

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Driver name: Sam Emmett F1R Forum name: Ide Software: F1 2010 Hardware: PC Career status: 1st season, 5th race (Barcelona) – HRT I've already done the first few races, and since I did them around a week ago, I've forgotten the details so I'll update from Spain onwards. Bahrain: Q24, R10 Malaysia: Q1...

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Hmmm, I don't seem to be playing in the spirits of F1 Rejects... Started an Expert difficulty career with all aids turned off, with Hispania. I've so far managed 10th - Crash - 14th - 7th in the first 4 races, 7 points. Senna has also got a couple of points - although he got away with NOT PITTING AT...

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Good stuff. Sauber seems to be going in the right direction with the car development and hopefully they and Kamui can carry their form through into next season. Once he gets his qualifying sorted I think he'll be right up there

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Before every goes voting for di Grassi for that move on Schumi... I think you'll find it was actually Glock.

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2003 British GP

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Epic bump wasn't my fault, honest!

Some spammer bumped it up, I actually replied with a normal comment!

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Giancarlo Baghetti

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Happy New Year Jamie, Enoch, and the rest of the forum. My resolution is to post more this year, haha!
Let's hope it's a good decade for rejects

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Britney Sp... I mean, Nico Rosberg.

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TI Aida/Okayama definitely due to the apparent almost 3-hour bus ride to get there. As someone else mentioned, Zeltweg due to the surface, and the fact it was four corners on an airfield which was hardly challenging. Valencia and Catalunya for obvious reasons. Jarama , none of the drivers really li...

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Auto Union.

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madcat wrote:What do you get when you win 2 world championships?

An OBE, I guess!
Jim Clark had an OBE and he won two. Same with Graham Hill.
(Surtees, Damon Hill and Mansell also have OBEs despite winning one each, so there's that theory gone.)

Then a knighthood for three?

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How about ex-NASCAR driver Dick Trickle?

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I'm quite close. My dad is a carbon fibre specialist, he's worked for Haas Lola, McLaren and as a supplier to various teams during his time. He's currently building parts for USF1 and has been spending some time out in Charlotte.

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They should make a dual-control F1 car There are 2-seater F1 cars... Like you get in some planes, both front and back seat can control the car. Yeah, that was Adelaide 95 wasn't it? The one where no-one seemed to want to finish, and Panis was 2nd with bits falling off the car IIRC. And if it had fal...

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"Flavio and I: The Good Times" by Nelsinho Piquet.

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It probably all depends on how Ferrari find the performance of whoever is in the seat for Valencia, which I think is likely to be Gené. If Gené turns out to be useless, then maybe Ferrari will turn to Weber and Schumacher. I really don't know, I think with the long break until Valencia, there'll be ...

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Fair enough, we're both entitled to our opinions.

Oh, and Weber says Schumacher won't take the drive. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77396

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I don't like Schumi, but I hugely respect him as a driver. However, I think he retired at the right time, when he was nearly world champion and still near his peak. Everyone seems to be calling for Michael to race again. I think any type of return would just harm his reputation, he's been having pro...

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The first thing that came to my mind was Andrea Moda...
Has Sasseti changed his name to Alan I wonder?

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There's plenty of nice gravel traps for ePIQ fail to get stuck in though. Although with Alonso slightly off-colour (he has an ear infection I believe) this could be Nelsinho's big chance to outqualify Fernando for the first (and possibly last) time. I reckon if Piquet does outqualify Alonso, he'll ...

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Red Button gives us: • "Classic" Grand Prix highlights from the past runnings of each race; • A discussion "forum" after the race where the race is discussed; • On-board shots (haven't seen the onboards personally); • Highlights; • Leader board; • Alternative commentary (radio co...

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There's plenty of nice gravel traps for ePIQ fail to get stuck in though.
Although with Alonso slightly off-colour (he has an ear infection I believe) this could be Nelsinho's big chance to outqualify Fernando for the first (and possibly last) time.

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I still think Brawn are hiding their true pace - we'll see come tomorrow though. It's nice to get the speculation over and actually see who is fast at each circuit and who isn't, practice times are something I don't usually read into very much.

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Back to Paul Ricard I say! I think my favourite French race track of all time would have to be Rouen-Les-Essarts, closely followed by Dijon. Sadly I don't think I will ever see an F1 race back at either of these venues. I think that Rouen, Dijon and Clermont-Ferrand were much better tracks than Pau...

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Damn, it was only after I posted that I fully read the opening post...
I'm going to have to award Reject of the Day to myself for falling for it

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It's a no-brainer for me!

Just check the alias

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If this is true, then I never really liked Stoddart when he was in charge at Minardi, but I think the team lost most of it's charm when it became Toro Rosso. Sure, I was cheering them on in Italy last year, but I think it became too much of a Red Bull B-Team, would have liked to see them a little mo...

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Does anyone know if any of the European drivers at the time attempted to qualify during the '50-'60 period? I'm aware that Ascari attempted the race and didn't do all that well, did any other driver make an effort during the time?

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