Grand Prix Rejects

I see Grosjean, Giovinazzi and Kubica being most at risk of being bumped from their seats. Grosjean has been quite poor this season; it's clear that Magnussen's the de facto team leader now, and Haas needs to find somebody else who's not going to waste opportunities. If either of the Toro Rosso guys...

You're right about the WEC having fairly significant problems though, as it is stuck in a bad spot - none of the manufacturers which were talked about have offered any definite guarantees of entering, which has now seen the ACO floating the idea of a GTE Plus category as another fairly desperate me...

Disagree on the Hamilton complaints. You're driving around Monaco, your tyres are dead and you've got Verstappen all over you like a rash. How else would you react under that amount of pressure? Ultimately, he's venting - sure, he's getting agitated in the cockpit, but what person wouldn't? There's ...

He acknowledged it was a good car; the aero was very good and it was about 60kg lighter than the previous car. The twin keel suspension was there to clean up the underbody flow, but had its roots in the Williams FW11 with regards to the suspension pickup points on the chassis. He reckons you couldn'...

I think we've got to afford Giovinazzi a bit of time - at least as much as we gave Leclerc. Baku was the turning point, and back in the GP2 days Giovinazzi did the double in 2016. So far, he's not looked great - and we must remember that last year's Sauber was not in the position that this year's Al...

Checked the Forti one out, good stuff! On the involvement of Sergio Rinland, he left All American Racers in early '95 to join Forti, which had basically bought a bunch of F1 assets from his company and turned it into something with a passable resemblance to a car. He was there for about two weeks be...

If you like podcasts, here's one with Ricardo Rosset - talking about the F3000, Arrows, Lola and Tyrrell days...

https://www.spreaker.com/user/10600217/ ... sode_title

Anyone who says "well ACKTUEUAURLLY it's not 1000" needs to get in the bin. Pretty tasty lids for the Renault lads - feel like a throwback helmet race (much like the Darlington 500) would be a nice addition for future F1 seasons. https://twitter.com/RenaultF1Team/status/1116283683776888833

If I'd never joined up here, I'd never be doing what I do now.

So thanks all - you've all been lovely.

I can't help but draw an ounce of humour from the fact that F1's 999th race will be my last one. I guess humans can have overflow errors. It is clear that, for whatever reason, the universe has decided to conspire to give a man who hardly has enough talent to justify more than one championship his ...

Swinging in to agree with Aerond here. I understand you don't want to lose the hours of time spent here, but if you enjoyed taking part then it was time well spent. If anyone was serious about breathing some life into this, they'd have done it by now. As it stands, you've got some interest but nobod...

Aside, that was a phenomenal race. Action up and down the field you could hardly keep up with, cars racing closely together, it had everything. Sure, it didn't have the feel-good result; Leclerc hadn't put a foot wrong all weekend, but he's just proven that he's got such a brilliant mentality to go ...

Distressingly, Williams won't improve any time soon. Lowe's been a disastrous hire, everything's a mess in Grove and they desperately need someone to pull everything together.

It's definitely a bit of a Lowe point for them.

Here's something I hope might be up your alley: we got Sergio Rinland in for a podcast, and he's got some pretty cool thoughts on how the tech regs should be rehashed...
https://www.spreaker.com/user/10600217/ ... sode_title

Albert Park's an absolutely garbage track, isn't it? It's entertaining when you've got variables like wet weather, but it's not wide enough for cars to race close to each other - especially post-2016 where the cars are now two metres wide. So you're left to rely on lunges into turn three that, by an...

Wallio wrote:Just what in the hell is Alfa doing with that front wing? Outwash? Or some other bizarre loophole?

Here's our thoughts, got dragged away from Woking (and free bottles of Estrella Galicia and Huski Chocolate) to make sense of it!

https://youtu.be/7D2y57UjOeE

Faustus wrote:The Toro Rosso has been revealed:

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/14142 ... -f1-design

The livery is the same as last year and the car isn't very different, apart from the changes enforced by new regulations.

Gary Anderson's analysis:

https://www.autosport.com/f1/feature/88 ... is-closing

Gary Anderson AND...?

For those interested, this week's Autosport magazine has a feature on the 2012 HRT car.

I hear it's pretty good

So I'm here in Morocco, and boy it's been pretty fun! One thing to take away from this weekend: the JEV custom forum emoji might need a wee update...

Pacific 777 wrote:Quite frankly, I'm getting very tired of the feminist/PC brigade trying to put pressure on everyone. That said, I kinda like Faustas' suggestion, it's an origional idea

How'd you feel about the vegan sausage rolls then?

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dr-baker wrote:There's a premium Autosport article that explains some common misconceptions around Han Heyer's sole GP 'start'.

https://www.autosport.com/f1/feature/87 ... f1-history

Would you be able to summarise it for those of us who haven't shelled out for access?

Alternatively send me your deets and I'll buy you Plus for a year

Would anyone with a subscription kindly summarize their main arguments? Not normally keen on Autosport's journalism but this time I'd appreciate a lot! You WHAT? I tell ya, if you buy a subscription then you could feed and clothe an Ataxia for at least one whole quarter of an hour. Don't delay, sub...

dr-baker wrote:Looks like there are Rejects fans amongst the Autosport staff...

Chance would be a fine thing...

Out of the circuits which produce "boring" races, I'd contend that the worst offenders are Australia, Hungary and Sochi. One of the three is a Tilke circuit. He gets an obscene amount of crap for his circuits being not conducive to good racing - especially when Bahrain and Shanghai were ne...

DemocalypseNow wrote:Nismo Academy Voeckler extends offers to Kyoko Katayama and Rayyan Amirmoez to race for its AutoReject 2.0 squad in 2020.

RNG says yee.

Done.

Delighted for Albon, really hope the guy can prove he's got what it takes.

It's one hell of a grid next season...

Fantomette, please have your lineup completed by Wednesday. Jean-Michel Heroux(?) and Fredson Santos (form AR 3.5) will be our lineup a) You are WAY off the deadline. b) Three cars per team. c) Santos has done way too many 3.5 races to step down. Biscione, the slot's yours again if you want it - ot...

Ocon, pure and simple. Lucky to get away with just a couple of shoves.

Let's open this bad boy, shall we?

I'm gonna be a bastard and post this here, the shame of it has subsided somewhat...

Fantomette, please have your lineup completed by Wednesday.

Good news for this forum: Louis Deletraz is testing for Haas in Abu Dhabi.

So, that's what he's doing.

And that's a confirmed list for next year's F3, with the car to be launched in Abu Dhabi.

Don't be surprised if it looks similar to the old one, it's got a lot of common parts - although F3 regs dictate the use of shocks rather than torsion bars, so the bulkhead will be, well, bulkier.

And to add to the already-stacked 2018-19 grid, Princess Pascal joins the party...

There's not a single weak driver this year, and it's pretty great.

Can everyone ensure that their lineups are complete by the 1st November? If you're struggling for drivers, check out last year's 2.0/F3/F4 championships and cherry-pick some unsigned drivers.

Liveries are in progress, but I'll wait until they're all done before posting the album.

And here's the list.

There were also entries from Eurocup teams Tech 1 and R-ace GP, but were also given the thumbs-down.

Ocon to Williams didn't really work for either party. Williams didn't want Ocon on the basis that he'd only have been available for a one-year deal, and Ocon would hardly benefit from a year with a team down on their luck. It makes sense for Russell, as they can give him a chance to develop in a rel...

Please remember to create wiki pages for each driver, complete with date of birth to ensure they're under 21 at the start of the season. Alternatively, drop them here so I can go ahead and build them.

Anything over 20 rounds is too much. 11 rounds of F2/GP3 and five pre-season tests was enough to see me off, god knows how those who attend every race each year do it. I get that, for some, the F1 circus is their life...but imagine the strain on relationships and on families. Either there has to be ...

Much like Lando Norris, I'm moving "up" from F2...albeit this time, after this weekend at Sochi. In other words, this is my last weekend. More on this as we have it... Interesting. ....keep us informed. The F2 and GP3 action was pretty good again this weekend . A strange outbreak of music...

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