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- 12 Sep 2022, 00:16
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: Who will be the next NEW F1 world champion?
- Replies: 215
- Views: 68987
Re: Who will be the next NEW F1 world champion?
Allow me to put a dampener on the situation here. Leclerc won't ever be World Champion. Neither will Sainz, Russell, Norris, Pérez, Gasly, Ocon, Schumi junior, Albon, de Vries, Stroll, Latifi, Mazepin, Mazepin's Ukrainian cousin, Clarkson, Hammond, May, The Stig, Don Pentecost, or any other obvious ...
- 11 Sep 2022, 23:59
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: Reject of the Race - Italy 2022
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4847
Re: Reject of the Race - Italy 2022
I'm going to nominate anyone who forgot that Nyck de Vries isn't the first driver to have gone from Formula E to Formula 1 . That honour goes to another supersub, for when Sébastien Buemi was required to not drive around the streets of Brooklyn at the behest of his WEC employers, and was replaced wi...
- 13 Aug 2022, 18:22
- Forum: The Eric van de Poele Memorial Forum
- Topic: RCR Stories - The Life and Death of Saab
- Replies: 5
- Views: 899
Re: RCR Stories - The Life and Death of Saab
Incidentally, if anyone else (not just Mr Grrrrrjjjjjn) is looking for any more RCR Car Stories, or at least the longer-form versions, here's a list of as many of them as I can find: The (Ford) Edsel: A Brief History (23 January 2017, 23:47) History of the Chrysler / Mercedes merger (13 March 2017, ...
- 09 Aug 2022, 23:28
- Forum: The Eric van de Poele Memorial Forum
- Topic: RCR Stories - The Life and Death of Saab
- Replies: 5
- Views: 899
Re: RCR Stories - The Life and Death of Saab
It's even more of an outsider here, because Saab - as far as I can see - spent so little time in motorsport; Erik Carlsson and Greta Molander's exploits in rallying in the 1960s were about as far as it went. Unless anyone knows of Saab entering, say, the Swedish Touring Car Championship in the 1980s...
- 07 Aug 2022, 19:37
- Forum: The Eric van de Poele Memorial Forum
- Topic: RCR Stories - The Life and Death of Saab
- Replies: 5
- Views: 899
RCR Stories - The Life and Death of Saab
Previously, on the "Deaths of notable people in the automotive industry who weren't involved in F1 let alone Rejectdom" thread, I've directed your attention to one of Regular Car Reviews' previous RCR Stories - the life and works of Lee Iacocca. Regular RCR videos usually involve Brian - &...
- 03 Aug 2022, 19:56
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: 2023 Silly Season
- Replies: 71
- Views: 7896
Re: 2023 Silly Season
As long as Oscar Piastri is in F1 next year, somewhere, racing alongside Fernando Alonso, we'll have one of F1's quirrrrrks and featurrrrrres that has never happened before. The generously-eyebrowed former champ made his F1 debut a month before Oscar Piastri was born. Even with Jaime Alguersuari (bo...
- 02 Aug 2022, 15:48
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: Ponderbox
- Replies: 5033
- Views: 1070775
Re: Ponderbox
More interesting observations on the hair front: 48-year-old Vernon Kay and 49-year-old Dario Franchitti are also doing very well. Maybe one or both of them are more than familiar with Just For Men or Grecian 2000, and Mark Webber may be as well - but the hairline is intact. See, there's hope for ev...
- 02 Aug 2022, 08:45
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: 2022 Discussion Thread
- Replies: 323
- Views: 367846
Re: 2022 Discussion Thread
And a blue Ferrari? The 1964 US and Mexican Grands Prix called. They asked if you had heard of the North American Racing Team? ...which is exactly what I was thinking of... ...initially, then switched to a Ferrari in early 1990s Ligier Bleu de France. That'd put a few noses even more out of joint t...
- 01 Aug 2022, 08:45
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: 2022 Discussion Thread
- Replies: 323
- Views: 367846
Re: 2022 Discussion Thread
Today's F1 news is brought to you by the letters W, T and F. Meanwhile, over the summer break, Ferrari announces its intention to race in blue next year, Sebastian Vettel enlists in the Russian army, Tony Fernandes buys Mercedes and rebrands it as Fondmetal Team Brackley, the South African Grand Pr...
- 13 Jul 2022, 19:58
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: Ponderbox
- Replies: 5033
- Views: 1070775
Re: Ponderbox
I'm getting a bit of grey here and there, which is only to be expected. This is also a curse that Mark Webber appears to have escaped.
So either he's found the Fountain of Youth, or a sponsorship from Grecian 2000.
So either he's found the Fountain of Youth, or a sponsorship from Grecian 2000.
- 10 Jul 2022, 21:09
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: Ponderbox
- Replies: 5033
- Views: 1070775
Re: Ponderbox
5000th post on this thread! Just give me the champagne now. It struck me over last weekend's British Grand Prix: after however many years of Channel 4's relentless thrusting of Billy Monger in front of the camera, I've noticed that, aged a mere 23 years old, he is thinning on top rapidly. He's combi...
- 12 Dec 2021, 17:15
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: 2021 Discussion Thread
- Replies: 384
- Views: 83436
Re: 2021 Discussion Thread
Throughout this season, I've had plenty of opinions that I have kept to myself just because they would get me banned from this forum permanently - so long, thanks for the AGS articles, now never again befoul this place with your presence. And it's not that I'm in fundamental disagreement with the ki...
- 12 Dec 2021, 16:56
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: Reject of the Race - Abby Dabby 2021
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4701
Re: Reject of the Race - Abby Dabby 2021
The Formula One Season of 2021 - unbelievable, I thought Formula E's annus horribilis was the lowest motorsport would sink to this year. I was wrong. This sport, man ... just, this sport, man. And yet, you'll keep watching, for the same reason we all keep watching: Stockholm syndrome. There can't b...
- 12 Dec 2021, 16:50
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: IIDOTR - Abby Dabby 2021 (POLL)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3039
Re: Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race - Abby Dabby 20
I want to award IIDOTR to the roast chestnuts that accompanied my viewing of a live race for the first time since the summer .. But as they're not likely to win, seeing as everyone else here missed out on their starchy deliciousness, the two obvious candidates are: Yuki: unrejectification? I didn't ...
- 06 Dec 2021, 11:26
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: Good news everyone!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1087
Re: Good news everyone!
dr-baker wrote:And to be honest, I wasn't expecting the thread to go in this direction, that wasn't the plan. Honest guv'nor!
And now you've turned into Major Misunderstanding.
- 06 Dec 2021, 11:25
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: IIDOTR - Saudi Arabia 2021 (POLL)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2374
Re: Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race - Saudi Arabia
I'm going to give it to Channel 4 - or, rather whoever is in charge of deciding what adverts Channel 4 show in their breaks. During qualifying we had an advert for Johnnie Walker whisky. And better still, during the race, there was an advert for Jura whisky - i.e. whisky which I would actually want ...
- 06 Dec 2021, 11:21
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: Reject of the Race - Saudi Arabia 2021 (POLL)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4562
Re: Reject of the Race - Saudi Arabia 2021
Anyone who's made the correct interpretation of my thoughts (and for the correct reason) on the Formula E thread over the last two seasons - or is it three? - already knows what my Reject Of The Race is.
- 04 Dec 2021, 21:54
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: Good news everyone!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1087
Re: Good news everyone!
I heard Viz TV had the rights to it, and Finbarr Saunders will be the lead commentator.
- 01 Dec 2021, 13:16
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: Good news everyone!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1087
Re: Good news everyone!
There's a bright bit of news in an otherwise consistently blackpilling decade.
Keep it polished, Norberto!
Keep it polished, Norberto!
- 30 Nov 2021, 18:35
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: The Junior Series Thread
- Replies: 1936
- Views: 522579
Re: The Junior Series Thread
He'll do better than Ma Qing Hua ever did. Not that that's aiming high...
- 29 Nov 2021, 19:11
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix - Predicament Predictions!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2753
Re: 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix - Predicament Predictions!
Ugh, let's get this over with. So I'm not the only one with season fatigue, then. And it kicked in a lot earlier than this week. And to think there was once a time where I'd have handed Sky everything they wanted in order to watch the races live, if that's what it finally came to. And yet, here I a...
- 28 Nov 2021, 15:51
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: Sir Frank Williams 1942-2021
- Replies: 3
- Views: 677
Sir Frank Williams 1942-2021
2021 is steadily ripping away people who have had a significant impact on the 42 years of my life. First, "Honorary Sir" Murray Walker. Then, Sir Clive Sinclair. And now, another big one. The day we all knew was going to come, has come. Is there anyone here who needs this explaining any fu...
- 21 Nov 2021, 21:41
- Forum: The Eric van de Poele Memorial Forum
- Topic: Non-F1 deaths in the automotive world
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3888
Re: Non-F1 deaths in the automotive world
And just because I thought it was necessary given the other two similar posts: DEATH #3 OF 3 FOR LATE NOVEMBER 2021, for the EVDP forum: Tony Dron , died 16 November 2021, aged 75. Tony Dron wasn't involved in F1, or in single seaters, because he was too tall at 6'5" (just ask Matt Neal for con...
- 21 Nov 2021, 21:35
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: Bob Bondurant 1933-2021
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1183
Bob Bondurant 1933-2021
Continuing where I left off on the JDD forum... DEATH #2 OF 3 FOR LATE NOVEMBER 2021, for the Paul Stoddart forum: Bob Bondurant , died 12 November 2021, aged 88. Here's someone who wasn't a Reject, "by the beerest of marguns" as they say in New Zealand. His F1 career from 1965-66 reads: n...
- 21 Nov 2021, 21:25
- Forum: The Jean-Denis Deletraz Memorial Forum
- Topic: Mike Harris 1939-2021
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2045
Mike Harris 1939-2021
Yet again it is left to me to report the names from F1 dropping off the face of the planet, in my increasingly rare visits... it'll be me one day, and then where will you be? DEATH #1 OF 3 FOR LATE NOVEMBER 2021, for the JDD forum: Mike Harris , died 8 November 2021, aged 82. He was one of those Sou...
- 16 Nov 2021, 15:13
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: Ponderbox
- Replies: 5033
- Views: 1070775
Re: Ponderbox
Has any F1 team signed any race driver due to money based on their own announcement? And if so, who is the most recent one? If any did, it was the Rejectissimi of the late 20th Century. These days, all you'll get is an obfuscated statement along these lines: Guanyu Zhou will be a fine driver and th...
- 08 Oct 2021, 11:47
- Forum: The HWNSNBM Memorial Forum
- Topic: Teammate Collision – Episode #0: 2012 Reappraisal
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4146
Re: Teammate Collision – Episode #0: 2012 Reappraisal
By the way, you're not in the Scottish Highlands? Or it does involve a swim to a neighbouring island? It would have done 350-odd years ago... or I might have built a raft. Then again, 350-odd years ago, there were no cash machines. I now have an official distance to match the time: 6.6 miles, or tw...
- 06 Oct 2021, 19:24
- Forum: The HWNSNBM Memorial Forum
- Topic: Teammate Collision – Episode #0: 2012 Reappraisal
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4146
Re: Teammate Collision – Episode #0: 2012 Reappraisal
This would be perfect for the next time I have to visit a cash machine without the aid of motorised transport.
The nearest one to me that works and doesn't charge is two hours' walk away.
The nearest one to me that works and doesn't charge is two hours' walk away.
- 02 Oct 2021, 07:39
- Forum: The HWNSNBM Memorial Forum
- Topic: Driver Profile: Justin Wilson
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5491
Re: Driver Profile: Justin Wilson
I was waiting for this post so that I could see if it was going to be derived from the work that giraurd had already done. Glad to see it is.
I will read it when Part 2 is posted, so I can get the whole story in one sitting.
I will read it when Part 2 is posted, so I can get the whole story in one sitting.
- 25 Sep 2021, 18:15
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: 2021 Discussion Thread
- Replies: 384
- Views: 83436
Re: 2021 Discussion Thread - Styrian GP discussion!
McLaren, Ferrari and Williams in the top three? It's like being in the 1990s again.
All we need is Alpine to rename themselves back to Benetton...
All we need is Alpine to rename themselves back to Benetton...
- 23 Sep 2021, 20:36
- Forum: The Jean-Denis Deletraz Memorial Forum
- Topic: Nino Vaccarella 1933-2021
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2382
Nino Vaccarella 1933-2021
Another Reject from days long before most, if not all of us were alive has been swept away by the Grim Reaper... albeit at the grand old age of 88, unlike far too many of his contemporaries. Nino Vaccarella competed in five World Championship races from 1961-63, in five different chassis with five d...
- 16 Sep 2021, 09:41
- Forum: The Eric van de Poele Memorial Forum
- Topic: The Jacques Villeneuve Music Thread
- Replies: 1232
- Views: 256084
Re: The Jacques Villeneuve Music Thread
Heh! It even mentions Phantom Of The Opera being used on the Lucozade advert. That, though I didn't know it at the time, was my first ever contact with Iron Maiden, and I finally discovered that when I bought Live After Death at the end of 1994. It was the double-tape version, which has Phantom... a...
- 13 Sep 2021, 09:07
- Forum: The Eric van de Poele Memorial Forum
- Topic: The _TCC Series Thread
- Replies: 1657
- Views: 412171
Re: The _TCC Series Thread
Good news everybody! Andy Neate has been replaced by Jessica Hawkins for the next round of the BTCC! Looking back up at this post and remembering how much flak Andy Neate has taken over the 41 pages of this thread, I thought I'd take a look at his results. 135 BTCC starts, best result 6th, twice. I...
- 12 Sep 2021, 19:57
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: IIDOTR - Italy 2021 (POLL)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6319
Re: Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race - Italy 2021
Seeing as this is a slam-dunk that even Michael Jordan in his prime would have to admire, my nomination will be: The Pauli Exclusion Principle - because, without it, and Lewis and Max being able to occupy the same space at the same time, they'd have eventually streaked off into the distance, unharme...
- 08 Sep 2021, 23:19
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: 2021/2022 Silly Season thread
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7941
Re: 2021/2022 Silly Season thread
Someone somewhere - and it may have been the motorsport.com comments section - suggested that the reason Mick Schumacher has been bellyaching so much at Haas and his not-Russian-honest teammate is that his manager (is that still Willi Weber?) is trying to get him out of Haas and into Alfa Romeo. Thi...
- 08 Sep 2021, 23:06
- Forum: The HWNSNBM Memorial Forum
- Topic: Batchelor's Shot at Brilliance
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4064
Re: Batchelor's Shot at Brilliance
Well, there's one I didn't know. I do remember "John B&Q" in the BTCC standings - usually not doing very well, I remember the Brilliance BS6 and the abortive attempt to sell it in Europe (Auto Express was really trumpeting its imminent arrival) right up to the point where its crash tes...
- 07 Sep 2021, 20:59
- Forum: The Eric van de Poele Memorial Forum
- Topic: The Jacques Villeneuve Music Thread
- Replies: 1232
- Views: 256084
Re: The Jacques Villeneuve Music Thread
That's the first I'd heard of that. He might have done all right - and it'd have been yet another odd twist in the tale if (Paul) Bruce Dickinson had been replaced by the singer of the band that had Bruce (John) Dickinson on guitar... Incidentally, a similar story can be seen across the Atlantic in ...
- 07 Sep 2021, 14:13
- Forum: The Eric van de Poele Memorial Forum
- Topic: The Jacques Villeneuve Music Thread
- Replies: 1232
- Views: 256084
Re: The Jacques Villeneuve Music Thread
I'm not even sure they all thought that Blaze was the right man for the job - it was just Steve Harris acting as judge and jury, because he was in the middle of All Of The Bad Times, going through effectively two divorces at the same time, one with his actual wife and the other with Bruce. Blaze's h...
- 05 Sep 2021, 20:22
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: Reject of the Race - Holland 2021 (Results)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6229
Re: Reject of the Race - Holland 2021
Dishobourable mention to Heineken: it's revolting and you all know it.
The award to Heineken 0.0%: the only thing worse than regular Heineken.
The award to Heineken 0.0%: the only thing worse than regular Heineken.
- 05 Sep 2021, 20:20
- Forum: The Paul Stoddart Memorial Forum
- Topic: IIDOTR - Holland 2021 (Results)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5281
Re: Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race - Holland 2021
Rrrrrmmmmnnn Grrrrjjjjnn and Kevin Magnussen - for jumping ship when they did, even if in at least one case it was involuntary. The right decisions were made all round. Giedo van der Garde and Robert Doornbos - Dutch Rejects extraordinaire doing the interviews. Sergio Pérez's tyres - had red stripe...