Grand Prix Rejects

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If we leave the politics alone (which we should IMO regardless of how dismal the whole Bahrain royal family looks like in wake of the protests), undoubtfully McLaren wins the ROTR award here. Not one but TWO botched pitstops for Hamilton plus a late-race puncture and a mechanical failure for Button....

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1. Perez
2. Senna

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Well, they both finished today which is more then I expected. Caterham had the most mechanical DNFs last season while HRT the least, but I guess it's partly down to Caterham actually trying to improve the car and throw in more new parts then Marussia and HRT. However it's all pretty similar to AGS i...

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1. Felipe Massa - for a Ferrari driver to finish only ahead of the so-called "new teams" while your teammate wins the race is absolutely apalling. Australia could have been a freakish one-off (allthough I didn't think it was), but now with a new chassis, the performance was even worse. Mas...

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Has to be d'Ambrosio. He's been Mr. Anonymous this season so far, but he reached a new low in Hungary. Qualified last even behind the HRTs and then had a laughable spin in the pits. No contest even with the lacklustre Renaults and Hamilton's spin.

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I was born on October 1st, so I share it with the likes of Willy Mairesse, Frank Gardner, Jean-Pierre Jabouille and lest I forget, Jean-Denis Deletraz Caesar's Palace US Grand Prix was held six days before I was born while the Detroit News GP @ MIS was held five days before. The nearest race after I...

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Since the introduction of F1 championship and leaving all the tin-top speciallists aside it has to be Jean-Pierre Wimille who could have been the one denying Fangio at least one of his titles...

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My picks for ROTR: 3. Mercedes Grand Prix - For all the pre-season talk about rocking the title boat, it quickly emerged Mercedes was a distant 4th in the pecking order and quite frankly Kubica's flashes of brilliance left them embarrassed on a constant basis as well. The decision of reverting their...

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Mark Webber - the most annonymous weekend he's had all year, just when he needed the opposite. You'd never have guessed he was in the title hunt but for the on screen graphics. Completely outperformed by Vettel. Ferrari's strategy proved bad but in handsight you can understand why they were coverin...

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Pedro de la Rosa has apparently signed to drive HRT next year already. Possible confirmation next week.

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Adrian Sutil - For an alleged wet-weather expert that was a shocking howler of a race.

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Over here in Poland the lead commentator always describes Brazilian drivers as "nice guys", Barrichello is a nice guy, Massa is a nice guy, Bruno Senna is a nice guy etc. Also when he refers to Ayrton Senna, he always calls him "the legendary Ayrton Senna". The same guy also has ...

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Jules Bianchi and Valtteri Bottas have the greatest chance to hit F1 on merit. The next US F1 driver could well be Conor Daly, but he'll need to get GP2 seat as soon as next year perhaps and then put some impressive drives to catch someone's attention. Ricciardo's chances would have been better if R...

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Felipe Massa - flunked qualifying then made a horrible T1 divebomb and blamed Rosberg for squeezing him there! What a twat

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Peter Sauber will be absent in Suzuka because he is attending Carlos Slim son's wedding in Mexico!!!

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Vettel's next teammate at RBR will be Buemi, it's pretty obvious and might happen as soon as 2012 unless Webber wins 2010 WDC and quits the sport in which case Buemi will be at RBR next year.

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Bruno Senna - Looked completely lost out there during the entire weekend. What's worse, Klien - who had like 40 laps in the car beforehand, made him look very ordinary and had the upper-hand ever since the second practice. With more mileage, you might think Klien could be able to challenge di Grass...

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A truly great interview, seems like Mr Lavaggi is a very likeable chap

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I'd like to see Grossgene come back soon. As Kobayashi's example shows, you don't have to be a GP2 kingpin to get hooked up with F1. In fact, more GP2 and F3000 front runners before have failed to deliver in the big league (Boullion, Zonta, Pantano) then some of the second tier rivals. I bet nobody...

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Fisichella had nothing to lose when switching to Ferrari and was probably aware of his F1 career being over after 2010 whereas Grosjean had everything to win by sticking with it no matter of the circumstances. His Interlagos weekend was probably the most embarrassing with numerous spins in practice ...

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Just like Fisichella couldn't make it stick at Ferrari? But then again, he was on the podium in Spa. So what's all that then? I don't think you can count a post Singapore-gate crappy Renault stint (where he wasn't THAT far off the pace of Alonso) as a proper chance in F1, just like you couldn't eva...

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As Kobayashi's example shows, you don't have to be a GP2 kingpin to get hooked up with F1. In fact, more GP2 and F3000 front runners before have failed to deliver in the big league (Boullion, Zonta, Pantano) then some of the second tier rivals. I bet nobody remembers when Jackie Stewart called Jan M...

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Teams at the back usually ask for some cash and Grosjean most certainly doesn't have it. Besides, his antics in 2009 when he embarrassingly got swallowed by the pack at Interlagos or Singapore disaster when he struggled with brake bias have convinced me that he's not a F1 material whatsoever. Kamui ...

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If Button bothers to stay until he's 38, he'll be the next record holder

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Anybody who followed F1@Eurosport, CART's heyday in 1997-2001 and even the A1 GP recently should know how good Edwards actually is

Kravitz as pit reporter is as lame as James Allen was in mid 90s, Louise Goodman was truly the best

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Bring back Ben Edwards FFS

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Yup, Bruno Senna said their were doing some low-downforce wings testing but decided against it for safety reasons and stuck with the casual ones which they used in Monaco and just about everywhere else too. That's the main reason they can't match neither Lotus or Virgin, their aero package is simply...

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Heidfeld has 167 starts under his belt, that makes it 41 shy of Andrea de Cesaris' illustrious record. Wonder if he'll beat that

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In 1993, Scuderia Italia competed with Lola chassis, as well as the Lola name. Plus, they made the chassis for Larrousse betwenn 1987 and 1991. Didn't know that. I thought the 1993 Scuderia Italia machine was a Dallara. That said, from what I recall, that car was a pain to drive. Scuderia Italia co...

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Talking about Hispania, running the Monaco wings on Monza is worthy of Rejectdom alone regardless of all the pit shambles

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To be honest, I had thought it would be Fisichella who would replace an early retiring De La Rosa. Yet, Pedro has performed better than expected, so I would not replace him at this point in time - only for next year. Neah, Sauber is one of the least driver-shuffling midfield teams in the modern era...

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Yeah, if Kimi would be asked to bring some cash, then I don't think he'll be that interested in F1 return

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Blaming Yamamoto for the incident in the pits is pure madness and anybody who says that just shows he doesn't have any knowledge of driver's behaviour during a pitstop. In this case driver is looking at one and one thing only, the board held by the lolipopman (especially considering pitstops last on...

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Hamilton should get ROTR award here, his Roggia move was plain stupid considering the championship situation (plus the decision to run without F-duct in qualifying that set him back on the grid already)

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Talking about Monza being too dangerous is somewhat jumping the gun, the two most serious accidents in recent years (I'm talking about the drivers getting injured not the spectacular nature of the crash itself) happened ay Hungaroring which is the second slowest circuit on the calendar (you might t...

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Talking about Monza being too dangerous is somewhat jumping the gun, the two most serious accidents in recent years (I'm talking about the drivers getting injured not the spectacular nature of the crash itself) happened ay Hungaroring which is the second slowest circuit on the calendar (you might th...

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When Christijan Albers entered F1 he requested #21 at Minardi cause that was his preferred number from lower formulae (he drove with it for Spyker in 2007 too and moreover the subsequent DTM 2008 season). Bruno Senna also requested #21 for HRT this year allthough in the initial pre-season entry list...

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Thx guys Allthough I have to admit the current Williams line-up is the worst in years (I'm one of the very few who wants Barrichello hanging up his helmet already) and Hulkenberg is having a very quiet season, nothing like the heroics Kobayashi is doing. But I guess I'll have to stick with it for th...

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Monza overrated? oh c'mon, surely it doesn't require too much driving skills with all those long straights but you can still lose a ton of time when you screw up in Lesmos or Ascari. And it's one of the last places where you can actually get beached in the gravel instead of running through these pho...

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Eddie Jordan often gives away comments that have nothing to do with reality. Obviously Schuey is having a howler this season, but I bet he's willing to give it one more try next year...

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