Grand Prix Rejects

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DBTMOTR: Dead-Beat Teammate of the Race. He, who by some inexplicable formula, is the least competitive relative to his teammate of the weekend MLP: Minor League Placement. The best performing rookie driver. Used to include a team battle as well between Caterham/Lotus, Virgin/Marussia and HRT, but ...

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The Trident livery looks like a combo of Hilmer's and Carlin's 2013 liveries. Makes me wonder what livery those two teams are going for in 2014. Hilmer have, due to their tie-up with Force India, a replica of the F1 livery. They're all on the GP2 website. Ah yeah, forgot about the Hilmer livery alr...

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DBTMOTR: MLP: I actually don't know what these two abbreviations stand for . DBTMOTR: Dead-Beat Teammate of the Race. He, who by some inexplicable formula, is the least competitive relative to his teammate of the weekend MLP: Minor League Placement. The best performing rookie driver. Used to includ...

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The Trident livery looks like a combo of Hilmer's and Carlin's 2013 liveries.

Makes me wonder what livery those two teams are going for in 2014.

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Morning session of the first day of GP2 pre season testing at Abu Dhabi is done with Rio Haryanto leading a Caterham 1-2

I think Kamui was right in saying they should have brought their GP2 car for the F1 season

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2014 TurboUnoMelbourne Grand Prix OR the 2014 Silver Arrows Grand Prix 1. Hamilton 2. Rosberg 3. Massa 4. Alonso 5. Perez 6. Raikkonen 7. Magnussen 8. Button 9. Bianchi 10. Vergne Pole: Hamilton Fastest Lap: Raikkonen First Retirement: Hulkenberg (will take out Bottas at the start after pushed to th...

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Meanwhile, Canamasas is being rumoured to be taking the second Trident seat....

Guess who his teammate will be if that happens

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Lots of news in the past week.

GP2:

Adrian Quaife-Hobbs joins Rapax

Nathanael Berthon joins Lazarus

Felipe Nasr stays with Carlin

GP3:

Nick Yelloly joins Status

Jimmy Eriksson to drive for Koiranen

Marvin Kirchhofer will drive for ART

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http://www.paddockscout.com/karting-prodigy-max-verstappen-joins-fia-f3-grid-with-var/ Max Verstappen has gone straight from karts to F3. If anything that is testament to the deplorable state F3 is currently in. Also, I noticed a Michele Beretta on that entry list... Could it be? I'm sorry, what do...

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http://www.paddockscout.com/karting-prodigy-max-verstappen-joins-fia-f3-grid-with-var/

Max Verstappen has gone straight from karts to F3.

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Anyone know what Canamasas is up to this year? I was looking forward to him resuming his feud with Cecotto, whilst Cecotto resumes his feud with every single entity in GP2. Well, it seems he has been dropped by the Caterham Racing Academy. He could still get a seat, but at 27, he's getting on, and ...

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There is no God....

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Here's a thought... Could we end up in the interesting situation of Bottas moving on in 2015, to be replaced by Nasr so Williams would have a line-up of two drivers with almost identical names, in an attempted imitation of an early 90s Ligier with Japanese commentators all simultaneously face-palmi...

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Interlude...

Beitske Visser to test for AV Formula in Formula Renault 3.5 pre-season testing today.

That's one female driver who could make it to F1 on talent alone.

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Sublime_FA11C wrote: Well three if you count Hamilton allways getting crap cars he cant drive.

Pardon me if I'm mistaken, but I think Lewis has had potential race-winning cars throughout his career, apart from the first half of 2009 and the second half of 2013 (where nobody was close to Rb and Vettel).

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I was having a bit of an argument with my brother regarding this particular thing yesterday. He was saying that when the new rules were introduced, he was a fan of them, but now, after the completion of 2/3rds of pre-season testing, he fears that the new rules have served to increase the gulf betwee...

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According to Facebook Beitske Visser had a test with the AV Formula FR3.5 team. I will be hoping she was competitive and gets a drive as a result> There's a chance she will be testing with the team in either of the 2.0 or 3.5 categories (or both) in the upcoming official collective test at Motorlan...

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Hooray (I hope!), Mitch Evans and Artem Markelov announced as 2014 Russian Time drivers. I really hope for Mitch's sake that the team are as competitive as last year... They should be, if iSport have taken over operations..while not an ace team like Motopark, they're competitive nonetheless. I feel...

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Freeze-O-Kimi wrote:Not good times for RUSSIAN TIME

Terrible news.

RUSSIAN TIME will now need to search for some other operation to run the team.

What's worse, this is probably a death knell to the careers of Marvin Kirchhofer, Tom Dillmann and Jimmy Eriksson...

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ATTENTION, ALL REJECT USERS!! Japanese driver Kimiya Sato, who finished runner up in Auto GP last year (to Vittorio Ghirelli, the man who took GP2 team Lazarus's only point in the second half of the year), will drive for Campos in the upcoming GP2 season. Why is this so important? Because this is ap...

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UgncreativeUsergname wrote:I already said you had post of the year clinched, can't you take a Cammish holiday and give someone else a chance for post of the week?!

No, because he's Vettel, who won 18 of 20 races in Formula BMW 10 years ago..

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Max is afraid of change. He doesn't know the future.

You're kidding, Jocke? Max IS the future

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Jocke1 wrote:

That's so wrong. Ken Ham will tell you that God took an entire day to build Max Chilton.

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Backmarker wrote:
wsrgo wrote:This means that Hilmer now have the services of the last two GP3 vice champions..

The exact same situation ART were in last season!

Ah wow, yeah..

I'm hoping Calado can get a Mercedes drive for DTM. He and Wickens can be teammates and the 2010 and 2011 GP3 vice champions will be reunited!

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This means that Hilmer now have the services of the last two GP3 vice champions..

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The new Verstappen on the blocks, Max, has just got his first win in cars in the Florida Winter Series, a championship run by Ferrari Driver Academy. http://www.paddockscout.com/verstappen-gets-first-car-win-in-shortened-third-palm-beach-race/

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East Londoner wrote:Sad news from Russian Time

RIP Igor.

This could potentially have ended the careers of several driver..Dillmann, Markelov, Kirchhofer, Bernstorff, and goodness knows who else?

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According to this , the two Venezuelan drivers Camillo Schmidt and Roberto la Rocca, who were all but confirmed to be driving for Lazarus in 2014, are unlikely to get those seats, and Johnny Cecotto, Jr. will need to search for alternative funding if he wants to continue in GP2 in 2014. There was a...

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http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/112403?source=mostpopular Looks like Adrian is whinging again... Quite honestly, I don't see the problem here as long as the cars are tricky to drive. It does raise a few eyebrows when the cars are pulling through at 1:37 when the track record at Jerez is...

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Seb Morris, who finished second in the BRDC F4 championship this year, has joined the Caterham Racing Academy and will be racing in the Formula Renault 2.0 NEC season this year. Here's a complete list of drivers in the Academy.. http://caterhamf1.com/team/academy Looks like Aurelien Panis and Sergio...

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I'm 9 days older than nome66...29th of March, 1994..

2 days after the 1994 Brazilian GP...

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I'd personally put Vettel in the same car as one of Alonso/Hamilton/Rosberg/Raikkonen/Grosjean and see how he fares. He is one of the fastest drivers on the grid though. https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT4BQ4eMVgXZyWgh7u0iv47QNk-JqYlcStlBEipqioQfBvpOkQGqQ https://encrypted-tbn2...

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Okay, to further my point I made a while back about GP3>GP2, here's a little activity I made called Who Would You Pick for Your 2014 F1 Team Based on Skill Alone. This is not how much potential they have, or if they'll eventually be champion, or whatever; this is about who is better right now , and...

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go_Rubens wrote:THE HAIR. THE HAIR!!!

That's why he's so fast!

The Principles of Hair-o-dynamics by Max Chilton, second edition (2014) published by Marussia publishers..

Cost? Are you kidding? It's not for sale! It's antique

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I think the long two and a half weeks between Jerez and Bahrain will be crucial for any development. Ferrari have to work hard to try and ensure they don't fall behind the Mercedes=powered teams too much. And Renault..well they've got to get on top of all their crankshaft, recovery systems, or whate...

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Jocke1 wrote:Caterham has announced that Marcus Ericsson will get two days at Jerez, Kobayashi and Frijns gets one day each.

Amt. of money you bring = no. of km's in testing?

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CoopsII wrote:Is it just me or has moaning about the new nose cones and comparing them to animals got really boring really quickly. Everyone has started sounding like Andrew Benson, have a word with yourselves

Yeah, true, same here. It feels I've strayed back into Zoology class even on Saturday evening

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Caterham - 2 good signings, a big step up in quality. Shame they have no carry over from last season but it seems they learnt a lesson about experience drivers being a good thing. I fail to see how Marcus Ericsson could ever qualify as a good signing. He's got less to recommend him than Max Chilton...

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I personally think Marciello is a bit overrated. Like Sainz, he is probably the fastest driver of his generation in terms of sheer speed, but he tends to make mistakes and be completely anonymous over the course of the weekend. He was beaten by then fellow FDA member Brandon Maisano in his first sea...

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