Grand Prix Rejects

girry

Initially I had Williams as my ROTY, but now you guys have helped made me realise it was just my brain that was wired too casually and not to the true Reject tradition of geekdom where expectation plays a large part. At least they have it going for them that they kinda survived without embarrassing ...

girry

Indeed the author is making excellent work and I truly applaud him for trying to take up the task of ranking the drivers with an objective model. Granted, I am of the opinion that a model can never be perfect - and don't get me wrong, it's certainly not because of the low ranking of the 80's drivers...

girry

UncreativeUsername37, have you taken a look at the F1 Metrics website? It might be the sort of thing that is of interest to you, as the person behind that site has attempted to take a statistical approach towards rating drivers, as well as considering the potential long term potential of some drive...

girry

Now I must begin by admitting that due to reasons related to work obstructing a lot of F1 from me, I only saw maybe 40% of the races and barely any qualifying sessions at all. So take my rankings with a pinch of salt. Drivers 1 Lewis Hamilton - not as commanding as in 2017-18, with a few mistakes do...

girry

Thank you! Was such an indescribable feeling in the stands at the final whistle. It felt like living the ending of a movie when the aptly-named Finnish classic "Via Dolorosa" (which had become the fans' theme song during all these years of failure) started playing on the loudspeakers as pe...

girry

Here you can see him turning right - toward the racing line and Hamilton: https://i.imgur.com/eLHrhxXl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/fO6g0WIl.jpg Great example of still images not doing a justice to an event. In this image Vettel's just making a correction to avoid losing the rear completely. NOT turning...

girry

Daniel Ricciardo for colliding into Kvyat's car in an eerily similar fashion that a senile grandfather did into my road car on a supermarket parking lot just a few months back.

girry

It's a shame the activity has dipped lately. I blame that on the FIA eliminating the true Rejects. This is probably the nicest community I know online. It's a trait not many forums have these days, or have ever had, and I hope it enables us to continue - even if it is with "only" the curre...

girry

Lucky we don't have any Ukrainian or Belarusian drivers because they have languages that differ slightly from Russian, but not that much. Hence both languages, naturally, have their own spelling systems that can also be used to spell all "Russian" names, and each spelling system is - natur...

girry

19, so slightly better than just blindly guessing...

girry

A total of WDC race distances led Chris Amon: 248% Jean-Pierre Jarier: 144% Jean Behra: 115% Romain Grosjean: 71% Nico Hülkenberg: 64% Ivan Capelli: 58% Bruce McLaren: 54% A total of WDC race victories Chris Amon: 0 Jean-Pierre Jarier: 0 Jean Behra: 0 Romain Grosjean: 0 Nico Hülkenberg: 0 Ivan Capel...

girry

^ That's a mindset that, I feel,has a lot to do with people knowing little about F1 history and thus recognizing only Senna and Schumacher (and perhaps Prost, but it doesn't change the point) as F1 greats. Way too often I hear fans justifying the moves a certain young Red Bull driver occasionally ma...

girry

girry

You promised the conversation would be sedate. It was. A highly relaxing two hours with some good insight, apart from the unwarranted Jacques Villeneuve singing voice criticism of course. Remind me to never take any music advice from you from hereon as you both clearly have a rejectful taste of musi...

girry

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!

girry

How long is it going to be before Williams comes out to say that Kubica didn't get the drive because of the PKN Orlen deal, it was all synergistic and a coincidence and an interesting opportunity and he's not really a pay driver at all and he was always our first choice and and and... Do they even ...

girry

I dunno - - if he beats Kvyat whom Red Bull still seems to have faith with, and Gasly fails to impress "sufficiently" ; Albon might just get a lucky break with his timing...

girry

If they wanted to update tgeir sound, they could always use a bit of Sakon Yamamoto.

girry

Drivers 1. Lewis Hamilton - it's difficult to praise Lewis too much. He's been solid as rock in qualifying, nearly faultless in races. What more could you ask? 2. Charles Leclerc - not completely sold on the kid yet, since stepping up is always gonna be a challenge, and Charles too had his share of...

girry

What on earth has made you visit Finland in November of all months?

girry

I would not bet on Latvia, after their 2004 glory run Latvian football has mainly crashed down and burned due to clashes between the native Latvians and Russians in the country. IMO: Safe bets would be on the solidish Georgia & Belarus, secondary picks on the high-investing Azerbaijan & Kaz...

girry

I love GutiGuti's self-confidence. It has no limits.

girry

Kimi Raikkonen now has the longest gap between first and last F1 Grand Prix wins at 15 years and a certain amount of days, surpassing Michael Schumacher's previous record of 14 years and a certain amount of days. In top-line Grand Prix racing as a whole, this even surpasses Felice Nazzaro's record ...

girry

When was the last time that team orders actually changed the outcome of a championship's final standings? Has there been a more recent example where someone wouldn't have won a championship without team orders helping them? Hamilton on Kovalainen, Germany 2008. Pretty sure there was also some insta...

girry

Hopefully not unpopular here, but probably elsewhere since I'm seeing a growing number of people talking about some animals in regatds to Hamilton. Which really is a fair discussion by now - but I've got a major issue with the way that discussion tends to take. If you haven't researched into Nuvolar...

girry

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/139022/kvyat-returns-to-toro-rosso-for-2019 Kvyat's Last Stand has been extended for another season! But seriously, really? I could never have imagined this would be a thing? Is Daniil so desperate for a drive? Or are they offering him a big pay increase? OH BOY OH...

girry

I don't understand why people are against team orders? It's a team sport and when one of your drivers is a chanpionship favourite switching the positions is the only sensible move. Good strategy and well played by Mercedes. I'm especially annoyed by the finniah commentators - if the situation would...

girry

If I see any more members wanting Ericsson to be replaced, I may have to break out the banhammer. Remember, this is GP Rejects ffs. For the record I want Ericsson to return... just so everyone else can be infuriated by him inexplicably lapping within a couple tenths or so of Raikkonen. Are you seri...

girry

I find the ever-repeating narrative of "Williams/McLaren, the top team that historically ought to be on the top but shock and horror, fell from grace because x, y and z" jading. As if there has never been fluctuation of team form in the history of F1! The longevity of teams and the stabili...

girry

Well Ferrucci truly is making an effort for the Reject of the Race.

girry

I did visit the Enzo museum in Modena earlier this year, it definitely is worth going even if it had just two F1 cars on display. Walking distance from the train station, it's easy to get there from Bologna. Iirc Ferrari sell fairly affordable tour packages that involve the bus ride between their 2 ...

girry

For what it's worth I heartily recommend everyone to visit the Austrian GP some time of their life. Or any race in Zeltweg for that matter. It's one of the most beautiful places I have visited. (Slovenia still just pips the beauty of the Austrian countryside. But it doesn't have a GP, sadly.) Walked...

girry

AdrianBelmonte_ wrote:
giraurd wrote:There is an incredible amount of orange here.

They're all rooting for McLaren?

Fred just thanked them for showing support to McLaren

girry

Live from the North Tribune at Red Bull Ring: - Reports from Paul Ricard had me worried about making it in time, but for no reason. Traffic systems were flawless; in other words, there was barely any traffic at all. I arrived here by car from Slovenia at 11am, didn't even have to stop once before pa...

girry

ROTT settled then. Never seen any team as hapless as Germany!

girry

Well said, well said. For me, one of the most impressive feats I can think of is John Surtees in how he won the two-wheel and the four-wheel world championships. As far as I'm aware, he's the only person to do it, and for me that's an even bigger achievement. To go and do a completely different kin...

girry

Johnny Herbert's three wins were from fifth on the grid or lower. Keke Rosberg's final win was from third position, all others were from fifth or lower. John Watson's first win from second place, all others 7th or lower. Denny Hulme had one win from 2nd on the grid, the remaining seven from fourth o...

girry

I would not bet on Latvia, after their 2004 glory run Latvian football has mainly crashed down and burned due to clashes between the native Latvians and Russians in the country. IMO: Safe bets would be on the solidish Georgia & Belarus, secondary picks on the high-investing Azerbaijan & Kaza...

girry

Any of the Elf liveries are iconic, but I fancied the 1989 Camel and 1995 Nokia liveries too.

girry

Dan was one of those drivers who I've only ever seen spoken of in praise, both in driving ability and in character. Yup. You could say so, so much about his career, both on the driver and character & constructor and engineering side of things - but I still feel Gurney's best tribute is one famo...

Search found 837 matches