Grand Prix Rejects

Piquet - Accident littered performance. Flavio will want to think about docking 3 front nose cones from his pay cheque this month. Nakajima - Accident littered performance that finished with him parking it in the pit garage. Although his off road excursions were less damaging than Piquet's. Hamilton...

Would've been interesting to see where Massa would've ended up, he was only a couple of laps lighter than the McLarens, and unlike Raikkonen, was showing some level of race pace. Pity.


Good race otherwise.

Don't higlight the text below if you haven't heard about qualifying yet.


[spoilers]Alonso's updated Renault 2nd ahead of both Brawns. A smokescreen from Flavio?[spoilers]

His team was never going to win the World Championship, even if the FIA got everyone to replace their diffusers with bricks. Interesting question though, if the big-hitters don't catch up, will the novelty of Brawn hegemony wane and it'll become as boring as Ferrari hegemony of the early 2000s? I kn...

I read your start and was sceptical that Suzuka wasn't near the end, but then I read your final four rounds, and now I think that your fantasy calendar is probably the best.

I thank you. Although I just realised Laguna Seca's only 2.2 miles. Wonder would that be a little tight.

3) Japan: Aida a/k/a Okayama maybe alternating with Autopolis Aida? That short, narrow twisty thing in the middle of nowhere? Odd choice... Anyway, trying to be realistic: 1) Australia - Albert Park, Melbourne 2) Japan - Suzuka 3) Malaysia - Sepang 4) Singapore -Singapore 5) San Marino - Imola. Oka...

1- The nearest train station to the track, is over three miles from it, and the train service in the area is notoriously poor. 2- The buses, though good, would not be able to cope with the projected thousands of fans heading to the circuit. Classic FIA blundering. Any known plans to sort that? And ...

That's the worst thing I've ever seen.

THE IMMORTAL WORDS OF DELETRAZ: "I am very happy to be returning to Formula One and we will work hard together to make this a competitive end to the season. Although the Pacific team is quite small, they have a lot of motivation and I think everyone knows that Keith Wiggins is determined to mak...

I have been watching F1 for quite a long time now. I think current Ferrari drivers, Massa and Kimi are not driving to their potential. Both have made lots of errors during period of last 2 years. When Ferrari was clearly the best car, they drove horribly and came close to losing (Kimi-2007) OR lost...

94 is probably the best candidate, between Wendlinger, Barrichello, Senna, Verstappen, Montermini and Ratzenberger all having horrible accidents, and the litany of reject drivers that snaked into the sport. Although I have a certain fondness for it because of the Grand Prix 2 video game. 2002 would ...

ROTR has to be the race start time. Okay, no one could've predicted a few months ago when it was going to rain today, but they could've predicted what rain during the race would do to the light and visibility. Although Kovalainen deserves an honourable mention for ROTR for falling off the track afte...

It was a scheme by Tom walkinshaw to get his buddy to buy Prost, run the team for a few races and then merge the teams, (and Prost's share of the TV revenue from 2001). Unfortunately for Tom and his buddy they didn't buy the team, they just bought some old race cars from the bankruptcy auction, aft...

The thing I don't understand is why they ever suggested to Lewis to give the place back in the first place. If Trulli went off wide under the safety car, then the pass is OK, surely. Why McLaren told Hamilton first to give the place back before seeking clarification from Charlie is bizarre to me. T...

Anyone know anything about this? I've seen a throwaway mention or two about a buddy of Tom Walkinshaw's buying Prost's assets, and attempting to enter the Malaysian Grand Prix in 02 or 03 with some old chassis, older Brian Hart tuned engines and Gaston Mazzacane to drive, and having their entry reje...

Paul Tracy- Tested for Benetton in the mid 90s sometime, but probably not picked up because Schumi didn't want a strong teammate. But Tracy was also known for a lot of silly smashes, such as crashing his teammate out at Detroit during a CART event and then winning the race! Also, in 1995, Sam Posey...

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...

Julian Bailey? Anthony Davidson? Bernie F***in' Ecclestone? Gimax? Brian Henton? OK, and that's just halfway through H on this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Formula_One_drivers You can't have the Stig from Top Gear as an F1 reject... oh wait the first one's already here.

Antonio Pizzonia is another good one, total disaster of a career. Or Pantano.


Yes, I can see why they ended up closing the submission section of the website.

Hmmm... Indeed. Mr. Tarquini has but a single World Championship point, I thought he had more than that. So he's a good call. Was around F1 for a good while, it'd be interesting to know why he never got a half decent car to work with. Other than that, Tommy Byrne would be good. But there's not much ...

It is a good book (if you like reading loads of swear words), and he was clearly a driver with some talent. Leaving the McLaren test aside, you have to wonder what would've happened if whatever he thinks had broken on his Theodore in Austria had stayed in good nick and he'd qualified in the 13th pla...