Grand Prix Rejects

DanielPT

I am also on AndreaModa's side and others here. He already said much, but I think I can contribute on where the article went wrong. First of all, I think, looking at F1Rejects, that the site had absolutely no need to be controversial at this point. At most, let others be controversial and then try t...

DanielPT

Damon Hill is over-rated. Just for how many times this opinion has been ventured on here. Ibsey was the first back in 2010 but it's cropped up a few times since. Short version - Hill fans disagree and will have reasons. Reason 1: His almost win in an Arrows. Probably his best race in F1 too. Althou...

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BREAKING: Gary Neville returns to Sky Sports as a commentator When they conjured to fire Nuno Espírito Santo, Valencia was ninth, but only five points off 4th and amid a recovery of sorts although they had just lost to Sevilla away and were being poor in the champions league. Phil managed to bring ...

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Why do you go with an analogy that ends poorly for both? So we can be heroes, just for one day. Love the quote! Also I come back numerous times as a ghola so it's not all bad. For me. You realize it is a ghola, so it is not really you but another being looking like you and possessing your memories.

DanielPT

Remember Captain Hammer's military coup that fell flat on its face? Maybe he'll come back. I'm not trying to incite a coup I'm supporting the current regime. Biscione is a bit like Duke Atreides discovering the Harkonnens have returned. I see myself as Duncan Idaho. This analogy doesn't end well fo...

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golic_2004 wrote:And... http://autoweek.com/article/nascar-spri ... ing-nascar
not happening. LOL

As crazy as it sounds it would probably be the only way to boost US sales in the short term after the emissions debacle.

DanielPT

Todt has power. He just doesn't use it. He is useless, end of story. All he cares about is the campaign for road safety, in order to get his UN spot. He's an idiot, and should be removed. Todt had power. He then decided to sell it in order to fund his still failed move to elsewhere (UN) which was b...

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dinizintheoven wrote:
dr-baker wrote:One day, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are going to merge into one mega global social media website. It'll be called YouTwitFace...

Friendface! FRIENDFACE! FRIENDFACE!

How about Twitty McTubeface?

DanielPT

It's been the most ridiculous season ever, hasn't it? Just when you think you've seen it all, another twist happens. It's brought me back to following football again. Luckily for your spare time, the large teams are coming around with European Super League threats, new UEFA Champions League format ...

DanielPT

Great to be listening to you guys again!

DanielPT

Compared with all the U-turns around its rules, I say Qualifying in Australia was quite an enjoyable show.

DanielPT

Don't you worry guys. F1 will be back in free-to-air TV someday like it did in Portugal. I'm not so sure. The only thing likely to get it back for the next generation of viewers is if a terrestrial TV company suddenly had the amount of money to outbid SKY and by then probably other competitors like...

DanielPT

Down went the Boaty McBoatface, with all her crew complete. Fixed. F1 seems very much like an addict at this point in that they know getting money from the loan-shark will ultimately be a bad thing in the long run but at least it means getting cash NOW. When you consider the implications this move ...

DanielPT

Don't you worry guys. F1 will be back in free-to-air TV someday like it did in Portugal. It must run its cycle before coming back. Although it might be a bit harder for you than it was for us (And it took some 10 years or so for it to happen). The pay-per-view channel that used to air F1 in Portugal...

DanielPT

Having tailed off my viewing Formula 1 towards the end of last season (shock horror!), by the time testing came around I must admit that I forgot Manor would even be on the grid this year as my memories were mainly of the team having gone into administration. They've employed some good people and h...

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Even if the tyres are frozen and the unlapping thing done away with, red flags (much like safety cars) will still always benefit/screw people in one way or another. Unless they go back to the old way of aggregate times. Which I personally would welcome with open arms but I get the feeling i'm in a ...

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DOSBoot wrote:1. Qualifying: You know it's bad when even Bernie is calling it crap.

I think most fans out there would have gone berserk, if Bernie had it his way instead. I bet it would be more hilariously dumb than anything else, ever, with all teams trying to go 10th instead of 1st.

DanielPT

Romain Grosjean deserves this award. An amazing debut for Haas!

DanielPT

Reject of the race for me is the Toro Rosso team. Sure they entertained radio wise, although the race didn't needed that, but overall their race was compounded by a mix of strategy mistakes and pitstop mistakes that led to Max Verstappen to show his ugly face.

DanielPT

I agree with this. I want to pin most of the blame of the system's perceived failure on the teams and drivers here. It seems that most of them simply didn't quite understand how it works, and that others were hell-bent on sabotaging it with the purpose of making the FIA look incompetent to gain som...

DanielPT

I will go against everyone here and say that the new system although not perfect and in need of tweaking should not be scraped after only one try. Give it at least a bit more time and if still rubbish scrap it completely. The real issue here is that teams prefer to save tyres than to do more than tw...

DanielPT

Yes. The new qualification format will be used in Australia.

DanielPT

There are some brilliant ideas to skirt around a total communications ban that could arise. Someone is going to design a helmet with a heads up display that can receive line-of-sight IR transmissions, and every time a driver comes down the pit straight, they will have a new message flash up on thei...

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Not an Autosport quiz, but a Buzzfeed quiz, trying to identify F1 stars from the 1990s. Quite easy if you ask me, although some of the commentators at the bottom are complaining that some of the drivers are not 'stars'. I would like to think that we would disagree with that analysis... m Couldn't b...

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Agreed. There was the whole discussion circa 1993 about whether electronic driver aids were turning the drivers into mere passengers, but they were still ultimately driving the car. And before 08 when they banned traction control. With all of the information being spewed from the pit wall to the dr...

DanielPT

Carmen Jorda is not the woman in the dress! It's some Aussie social media "star" - you know, Renault are trying to get down with the kids and share their message across new platforms...or something. Also, I think if the team were to expect that from Jorda, she should be playing along. I d...

DanielPT

Amazing news Jamie! Hope all is well with you guys! Be waiting to listen to both of you again some time soon.

DanielPT

http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/fia-widens-scope-of-formula-1-radio-clampdown-679928/ It goes too far now And what if the part in question doesn't fail while the team rightly believes it could be about to fail? Is that a penalty? As for the other stuff, an argument could even be made that a sneez...

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Joined in with my old Super Bock UMM entry.

DanielPT

New Renault livery. Now this I like more. Everything that reminds me of early 00s Jordan is a good thing. Go Jord... I mean Renault!

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Miguel98 wrote:Latifi has been hired by Renault to become their test driver for this year.

I know they need some aggressiveness, but hiring an MMA fighter is going a bit too far IMHO.

DanielPT

Welcome back! Glad everything went fine! For us in the rest of Europe that is.

DanielPT

There seems to be a suggestion that the drivers only need to have at least one set of each of the nominated compounds by Pirelli, but do not necessarily have to use both the medium and the soft tyres during the race (i.e. so long as they use two different compounds, they only have to use one of the...

DanielPT

Given that the mandatory tyres are medium and soft, those who only have one available set of mediums will take a gamble in going into race without having at least tried the set in practice. I guess they have high confidence in their simulations.

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[img]image[/img] That awkward moment when your cars' F1 livery looks better covered in gunk than when it's clean. To have a great livery and a crap car didn't sound right at McLaren. They get happier when things match perfectly, so they decided to make a crap livery to go perfectly with their crap ...

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New Toro Rosso. Same as the old Toro Rosso. They are targeting podiums. It is ambitious really. Given that they present themselves with last year Ferrari engines and engine development have seen more freedom this year, their best chance would be earlier in the season and have to wait for others to ...

DanielPT

Each one of us will look at a particular era and say "that's how F1 should be". But if we lock ourselves in a room together until we have a single unified set of rules that F1 should operate to, we'll never get out, we'll never be able to agree. If we did, there'd be a whole host of compr...

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I remember F1 being bad and turning off fans ever since the early noughties like CoopsII said. Back then refueling was bad and races were nothing more than glorified qualifying processions bereft of overtaking or strategy that enabled Schumacher to plant his foot down on the accelerator and disappea...

DanielPT

I complained about the lack of cars in certain parts of qualifying (Q3 mostly), even in the old format something should've been done about that and hopefully this will address this issue in some way, although I suspect that in Q3 some teams will not mind being eliminated, specially those who would p...

DanielPT

I know it's only winter testing, which is rarely an indication of who's competitive and who's not, but it's very encouraging to see Manor and Haas mixing it with the other teams. It really is. I mean, just the fact that they're running puts them ahead of some teams in the past. From what I saw thus...

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