Grand Prix Rejects

Barbazza

In Monaco 1996 he had a crash with Irvine in last laps and was qualified 5th too, but he didn't completed full race distance and probably had pitted.[/quote] Not quite. He was involved in the hilarious low speed crash near the end of the race where Irvine clouted the barrier roughly where Schumi ha...

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As for reject F1 games, I once tried F12003 for PS2 and 15 minutes was enough for me... Damn right! I only got a PS2 at the tail-end of last year as I wanted to take advantage of the lower prices of games and huge second hand market, which has so far worked very well (Plus they still make things li...

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If I remember correctly, the A20 was pretty much the A19 with a new paint job and a couple of aero updates, and the A19 was slow and unreliable. Here's a good video showing just how bad the damn thing was m That is truly horrific, I think he deserves a medal just for getting that thing round withou...

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Whatever Rosset's opinions on how he was treated by the teams he drove for, I totally believe him when he says Villeneuve was an utter knob. Especially after his 'I'm so desperate to get into F1 now the cars aren't boring to drive any more' interview with Martin Brundle on the grid today. **** off J...

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Nice of Buemi to try to recreate this at the GP this year wasn't it?

Next year, do you think someone will recreate the massive Piquet/Patrese crash from 84 if we ask nicely?

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Watching the Monaco GP from 96 again sent me to my yearbooks and I must admit that I'd totally forgotten about Giovanni Lavaggi pootling about very slowly in the Minardi.

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I'm telling you Vijay, that IS an Andrea Moda - it must have started off the lap in 1992 and it's only now crossing the line!

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LionZoo wrote:
Why is that one driver waving?

Because his engine's stalled I'd imagine! It's Andretti isn't it?

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Franck Lagorce is one of my favourites discussed so far, if only because I think he made the front cover of an F1 book. 'Racers' by Richard Williams shows a broken Ligier on the cover with the driver walking away looking absolutely downcast and I'm pretty sure it's Lagorce having crashed in the wet ...

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Ralph Firman was pretty tall though wasn't he? Don't remember EJ having too many qualms about squeezing him in!!

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Yes but was his KERS system working?

Whenever they went to the onboard shot I don't remember the little battery graphic ever having a yellow portion in it, though maybe I'm going mad as no-one seemed to pick up on this. I know they said Raikkonen was having problems with his.

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I've calmed down a bit now and apologies for jumping to conclusions, but my opinion on my country of origin and its newspapers stand and a particularly unsportsmanlike football team containing lots of players with attitude problems added to that just hours after I posted sadly...

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I hope the newspapers are happy now, particularly the one who reported the orgy story first (from the stable that brought you the 'facts' that all the Liverpool fans at Hillsborough were hooligans) as to me this sad death must have some connection to those events. This country really needs to get it...

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Well, I'm biased obviously! But leaving aside my F1 hero, I'm surprised no-one's mentioned Alessandro Nannini. OK, he couldn't get any points but that was mainly because the car never made it to the finish as the engine always grenaded itself or various bits fell off, but when it was on the track he...

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Oh yes, I remember that monstrosity alright. Only competitive at Long Beach where Jarier could potentially have won the race had he not done the usual and crashed into someone. They didn't even catch it on camera IIRC!!

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In tribute to Monteverdi-Onyx, can someone make sure they fit the driveshaft the wrong way round and forget about it for a bit?

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That was a very memorable weekend for me for many reasons, not just that awful race. Strangely it was just shock I felt. I never really got upset about it until I got the excellent 'Echoes of Imola' book by David Tremayne where Erik Comas talks about how he was allowed to come out of the pits to the...

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Hmmm. There don't seem to be many roles left, so I suppose I'll have to be the one holding an umbrella over the driver on the grid then. As long as I get to do something reject worthy ie leaving the brolly hanging off the rear wing to ruin downforce for example.

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I'd like Lamborghini/Modena/whatever they were really called back as they didn't really have a proper chance, were incredibly unlucky in having cars conk out twice when in the points, and made a car that at least looked different (I rather liked it!) And they hired 2 of the unluckiest people in F1 o...

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Tyrrell P34 (1976) 6-wheeler - yes, it had 6 wheels and it won at Anderstorp, but was it honestly a good-looking car? Oh, it absolutely is. I saw one of them at the Coventry Transport Museum 3 weeks ago and fell in love with it. It's surprising how low to the ground and slimline it is in the circum...

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Shame Suzuka isn't still on the calendar or you could launch yourself off the bridge at the figure of 8 bit and miss out most of the lap. The BMWs would probably manage it with minimal damage as well....

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I'm sure the fans of QPR FC would also have an opinion on Flav - mostly containing swear words I suspect.

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Fisi hasn't gone potty at the start for a fair while so I'll vote for him!

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Well, I wouldn't. I've just posted my feelings on this in the 'GP Tracks you'd like to see' as I didn't spot this thread (whoops!), so I won't repeat all that here, but I've never been that bothered about Silverstone as a GP track, though it's great for everything else.

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I'm very happy that the British GP is coming to Donington but then I did live in Castle Donington for a year so I've got a soft spot for it! I've never been that fond of SIlverstone - when the British GP alternated I always preferred Brands Hatch and I went to Silverstone for a BTCC meeting last yea...

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That was certainly the most distracting race I can remember. At the time I was doing an overnight radio show and every time I looked at the TV screen something mad was happening that made me forget that I was supposed to be doing my job! Also, that extraordinary noise that Murray made when Coulthard...

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What's Gianmaria Bruni doing these days? He's probably free....

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Those instances were both to test in-car cameras IIRC, so I guess it was felt that it was in the sport's interest to expand the entry. I remember both of them lasted about a dozen laps and provided not much in the way of footage. One of them, Streiff's presumably, had a camera that looked enormous w...

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When ITV got Anthony Davidson to do the commentary on a race a few years back (was it Hungary the year Button won?) I thought 'oh, here we go' cos at the time it was like the whole show was sponsored by Honda (hey, remember when they were quite good?!) but I was amazed at how utterly natural, unbias...

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I've missed a round already? Shows you how much ITV care about promoting it, even though it's been more entertaining than F1 most years recently. I was right about Goodman though....

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I have a horrible feeling he may turn up on the BTCC coverage, assuming ITV are still bothering with it (they should be!) as Ted Kravitz was the anchor last year, and did a pretty good job. If so, I would expect to see that useless Goodman woman fawning over more drivers as well while giving us her ...

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Actually, I've just seen you guys mention in the 'Friday drivers' thread about liking drivers with unusual names, so how about a man with as many Zs in his name as my hero, namely Renzo Zorzi? I think he got 1 point for Shadow IIRC and it would be interesting to find out if he had ever said anything...

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Well, if you're going to cheat, at least try to be clever about it. How thick were they in thinking that they could get away with this in the current climate of open radio communications and telemetry? As soon as I heard that Trulli had been booted out I smelt a rat as I thought that a guy with his ...

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I keep meaning to do an article on someone who isn't a reject (unless you count most races without a win - I think he still holds the record?) but who had a very reject-worthy season. I'm talking about Brundle in the Zakspeed in 1987. I'm halfway through his very good book where he talks about the g...

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I think he very probably was. I know Ronnie Peterson won a race or two in a March but I'm pretty sure that would have been before Brambilla.
Shame I never saw him race, he was a bit before my time. I think he would have been one of my favourites!

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You're joking! I put that feed on earlier to see what it was like and was surprised to find it quite entertaining and certainly less patronising than 99% of ITV's coverage over the last few years. I heard the second commentator (who wasn't as good) say 'well, Perry....' and thought to myself, 'no, i...

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With hair like that he looks a little like Oscar Larrauri.

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What about Germany 94? Hakkinen eliminating half the field, leaving us with a fairly processional race only livened up by Verstappen's pit stop fire (livened up especially for him I imagine...) and a pretty hilarious selection of points finishers with Bernard on the podium and Olivier Beretta so nea...

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As you can tell by my alias, I was a big fan! I think Tarquini performed miracles in the various different cars he raced in for the team, and kudos to Pascal Fabre for being on top once....in the 1987 Austrian GP pileup where as he was naturally at the back and therefore arriving quite late, he mana...

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