Grand Prix Rejects

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Not sure what is going on behind the scenes at Formula E but having seen Dario Franchitti sadly disappear from commentary duties they have now parted company with Jack Nicholls 'with immediate effect' (standard PR speak for 'sacked' I believe) and with Vernon Kay understandably stepping down due to...

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Perez: Congratulations to Max Verstappen on winning the 2023 drivers championship. Not for the first time have we seen a frontrunner’s Monaco weekend effectively over because they crashed in practice or qualy. Stroll: At what point do we start asking questions?. 27 points and not a single podium in ...

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Ocon

No contest whatsoever, don’t even bother with the poll.

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CoopsII wrote: ↑25 May 2023, 12:01 Speaking of which, it won't be long before we've forgotten about Jolyon Palmer too.

“You have to be alert on a street circuit”. He won’t be forgotten for that immortal quote alone

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2023 something different GP 1: Alonso 2: Leclerc 3: Verstappen 4: Hamilton 5: Perez 6: Russell 7: Sainz 8: Gasly 9: Magnussen 10: Ocon Pole: Leclerc Fastest Lap: Alonso First Retirement: Stroll ROTR: Stroll: first lap crash while Alonso wins IIDOTR: Magnussen DBTMOTR: Stroll Last Place: Sargeant MLP...

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K-Mag: Qualified 4th in a Haas, hung on to a point for 10th and also brought back Gasly Austria 2019 vibes by holding Leclerc off for nearly 40 laps.

Alpine: Mixed it with Merc’s and Ferrari’s all weekend, I really hope they can bridge the gap and respond to the CEO’s quite public dressing down

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The Miami Hype: An utter abomination of a spectacle. The forced hype is cringeworthy to the nth degree. Plus security guards trying to manhandle Jackie Stewart. This definitely isn’t the F1 I knew and loved in the 2000’s and early 2010’s Charles Leclerc: Remember when he led the championship after M...

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2023 Miami Palm trees GP 1: Verstappen 2: Perez 3: Leclerc 4: Sainz 5: Alonso 6: Hamilton 7: Russell 8: Stroll 9: Norris 10: Piastri Pole: Verstappen Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Sargent ROTR: Sargent (bins it two corners into his home home race) IIDOTR: Nobody DBTMOTR: De Vries LP: De ...

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The photographers being on the pitlane when it was still in race conditions: Slam Dunk ROTR for me, how many more careless actions are we going to see until the proverbial hits the fan? De Vries: Looking like an early ROTY candidate. Basically everything Shadaza said. It once again casts doubt about...

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Tsunoda: Competitive all weekend, scored a point and crushed De Vries

No one else did anything worthy of the award

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2023 Not so super sprints GP S1: Verstappen S2: Alonso S3: Hamilton S4: Perez S5: Leclerc S6: Russell 1: Verstappen 2: Perez 3: Hamilton 4: Alonso 5: Russell 6: Stroll 7: Leclerc 8: Norris 9: Piastri 10: Ocon Pole: Verstappen Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Sainz ROTR: Race Control IIDOTR:...

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Jaguar had a better one in 2002. From barely qualifying ahead of Minardi’s (well Mark Webber’s car anyway) for most of the year to scoring the only non Ferrari-Williams-McLaren podium all year at Monza

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Hill in Benetton for 1997 has top meme potential. Him in the place of Alesi running out of fuel at Melbourne would be absolutely bizarre in terms of how his career would potentially plummet. He might at least get a better out, with a second season at Benetton if he doesn't embarrass himself. Howeve...

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My favourite motorsports one?

Colin McRae and Carlos Sainz being teammates at Subaru (1994-95) Ford (1999-2002) AND Citroen (2003) in WRC

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Do Perez, Stroll and Ocon count? Perez (Force India 2014-18, Racing Point 2018-20) Stroll (Racing Point 2019-20, Aston Martin 2021-present) Ocon (Force India 17-18, Racing Point 18, Renault 2020, Alpine 2021-present) While they never left then came back like the others, the teams they drove for all ...

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Was just watching “The mobile chicane’s” video about BMW and it reignited a question I’ve pondered for years: What if Hamilton had rear ended Kubica at the pit lane in Canada 2008 instead of Raikkonen? Given BMW went on to abandon development of the 2008 car to focus on getting the 2009 regs wrong b...

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Race Control: The Americanization of F1 continues and not in a good way. Red Flags used to be a rare occurrence and only when necessary. Now it feels like they just get thrown around for the sake of “the show”. Sport first, entertainment second please. Kevin Magnussen: That crash was just so random....

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Gasly: Don’t let the ending take away from the fact that he was on for a comfortable 5th and just a handful of seconds behind Hamilton in 2nd. All while driving a slower Alpine. Hulkenberg: I was skeptical about him coming back but a strong weekend all around and a big (for Haas) points score. HM: M...

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2023 the down under race week joke is so overused GP 1: Verstappen 2: Alonso 3: Perez 4: Hamilton 5: Russell 6: Leclerc 7: Sainz 8: Stroll 9: Ocon 10: Piastri Pole: Verstappen Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Magnussen ROTR: Alfa Romeo IIDOTR: Piastri DBTMOTR: Gasly Last Place: De Vries MLP...

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K-Mag: Giving Haas their first point of the year Tsunoda: So close to points in what I thought was the worst car this weekend. Put De Vries in the shade HM: Piastri: Q3 in just his 2nd weekend and without damage would probably have scored HM: Perez: After the SC I thought Verstappen would eat him al...

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Race Control: Stroll’s retirement didn’t even warrant a VSC never mind the full SC and the Alonso penalty shambles is well documented

Saudi Arabian GP: Just because it exists. And they want a 2nd for 2027

Bottas: Debris or not he was outperformed by Zhou all weekend

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I came across this guy’s video’s the other day and I must say his work while not frequent is absolutely incredible. The Prost analysis was his best yet. I’m still in shock as to how Panis went from being genuinely talked about as a title contender to not finishing higher than 9th in the space of a y...

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2023 Saudi Arabia GP

1: Verstappen
2: Perez
3: Hamilton
4: Alonso
5: Russell
6: Sainz
7: Bottas
8: Gasly
9: Ocon
10: Norris

Pole: Verstappen
Fastest Lap: Verstappen
First retirement: Leclerc
ROTR: Ferrari reliability
IIDOTR: Norris
DBTMOTR: Stroll
LP: Magnussen
MLP: Piastri

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Eh, the Merc "letter" was pretty cringeworthy, but they had to say SOMETHING. Last year they seemed......content? With where they were. This at least is a response to Sir Lewis throwing them under the bus. I still think the most bizarre behaviour from the team, or at least the behaviour I...

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Excellent read, it really put into perspective just how expensive Motorsport is for anyone so it was impressive enough for him to get near F1 in the first place. And also he was 31 at the time, we’ll probably never see a debutant like that again given the junior academies that populate the sport now...

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For once there’s a lot of genuine candidates for this, so many in fact it was difficult to pick Williams: Well well well, maybe the new addition of James Volwes is actually working wonders. We expected both cars to be near the back but they mixed it with the lower midfield all weekend and were despe...

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Name: Freeze-O-Kimi

How many races will Verstappen win in 2023?: 19

How many races will Verstappen place 2nd?: 3

How many races will Verstappen place 3rd?: 0

How many races will Verstappen not place due to a DNF?: 1

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Ocon: Clear winner here for reasons everybody else has said. A race to file nicely into the “worst stinkers” of individual performance category McLaren: We kind of expected it but my word they were gash in a very 2017-18 style way. With the Indycar team continuing to thrive I wonder why they even bo...

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2023 It’s that time of year GP

1: Verstappen
2: Leclerc
3: Hamilton
4: Perez
5: Alonso
6: Ocon
7: Gasly
8: Bottas
9: Hulkenberg
10: Magnussen

Pole: Leclerc
Fastest Lap: Verstappen
First Retirement: Sainz
ROTR: McLaren
IIDOTR: Haas
DBTMOTR: Stroll (if he races)
LP: Sargent
MLP: De Vries

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Has Saudi Arabia really been given that contract this year? That’s an absolute shambles and just shows how much the green notes really matter to those who run F1. I’ve said it before but I hope all 20 drivers just flat out refuse to go there. Unlike this year there’s a 2 week gap between Bahrain and...

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Maybe I haven't taken my brain medicine tonight, but was Ralf really that bad in 2007? I rewatched the season a few years ago and remember more that he was anonymous and had a kind of crappy season compared to his earlier Toyota years and to Trulli. But I've never understood why specifically Ralf 0...

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dr-baker wrote: ↑29 Nov 2022, 22:00
Har1MAS1415 wrote: ↑29 Nov 2022, 20:29 For the time being, Mick Schumacher, all anyone will remember him for is being Michael's son.
Or perhaps Ralf's nephew?

I’d agree with the latter given he drove most of 2022 like Ralf’s final season with Toyota

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Lando Norris: Fastest lap in that car was unexpected. Please give him a better car next year McLaren Aston Martin drivers: Vettel looked on it all weekend and was unlucky not to get more while Stroll put in a quietly impressive race to earn his 2nd best finish of the year. Both cars in the points is...

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Mick Schumacher: And that is why you’ve been turfed out mate. Flashes of speed alone are not good enough at this level. Mercedes: A massive reality check this weekend. Mexico and Brazil had circuits and conditions which hid their weaknesses. With no altitude and long straights here it was back to pr...

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2022 The race where we do the farewell’s GP 1: Verstappen 2: Russell 3: Hamilton 4: Leclerc 5: Perez 6: Sainz 7: Alonso 8: Norris 9: Vettel 10: Gasly Pole: Verstappen Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Tsunoda ROTR: Haas IIDOTR: Vettel DBTMOTR: Ricciardo Last Place: Latifi How far back: 1 min...

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Alfa Romeo this year are worthy of a mention. 51 points in the first 9 races but only 4 points in the last 12 with team leader Valterri Bottas going 11 in a row without a point. They’ve gone from potentially beating Alpine and McLaren for 4th to barely holding off Aston Martin for 6th.

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The Stewards: How can you forget to let a car unlap itself? I swear to god if that confusion costs Carlos his podium… Daniel Ricciardo: That just sums up his season though I do love a taste of Karma HM: Alpine: I know their Sunday was great but that self implosion yesterday was almost galling to wat...

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Freeze-O-Kimi wrote: ↑29 Oct 2022, 08:40 There’s still a possibility to end this but if none of Hamilton,Russell,Norris,McLaren,Aston Martin and Williams win 1 of the remaining races it’ll be the first time since 1952!!! that Great Britain would not have a driver or constructor win a race all season.

And this stat can now be binned off

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K-Mag. I don’t think that needs any explanation

Leclerc: Recovered to 4th despite looking a certain retirement on lap 7. Even by the current spread of the field that’s impressive

HM: Alonso: 18th to 5th. He’s still got it

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Well if Mick Schumacher’s prospects for 2023 were slim before today they’ve just had a mud hole stomped into them after that Qualifying session. Potentially being replaced by the last guy who scored a shock pole position at Interlagos as well.

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