Grand Prix Rejects

good_Ralf

Isn't that the 2017 Mercedes that those hypers are on?

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My top 3 are: Chequered flag guy for obvious reasons Lance Stroll - Just embarrassing, not to mention he put Hartley's health (drive?) at risk McLaren - They've really fallen back since Australia, this was a performance comparable to something from the Honda days It must be said, I agree that this r...

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sswishbone wrote:Yup, get cars that can follow each other, problem solved

Even if the rules were changed successfully to make that work, I'm sure engineers would still design the cars to produce some turbulent air for the drivers behind. It's not that simple IMO.

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Bumping this thread after almost exactly 5 years (not-premeditated, I swear!), I've recently decided to do end-of-year rankings for old F1 seasons again, in this case 1997-99. 1997 gave me a real headache, it was so hard to remain unbiased, especially when so many drivers had good seasons! I might d...

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Wow, thinking about it, Herbert certainly was a lucky fellow. You can't argue that he didn't take advantage of his opportunities, though. When you compare that he got three wins whilst Alesi only got one says a lot about their careers, I think. While we've agreed he was inconsistent in another thre...

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I don't mean to bash him again, and he did nothing particularly bad in the race, but Verstappen gets a nomination from me. Had he not crashed in FP3, it could've been him standing on the top step instead of his teammate! And also Leclerc's luck with regards to the brake failure, let's hope this isn'...

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Given how Max scored the most points of anyone after Singapore, and how easily he had the measure of Ricciardo at the end of last year, I'm surprised at how badly Verstappen has thrown away his momentum going into 2018. Then again, perhaps I shouldn't be. As many have said, we haven't seen him make ...

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Grosjean is my pick again. I believe we'll have our first back-2-back winner since Kimi for his last two races at Lotus in 2013 if Romain 'wins' (sorry if that's a bit of a mouthful

).

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Don't know if it's genuinely unpopular or not, but I'll say it here: Nostalgia is doing Formula 1 more harm than good.

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Changing my vote from debris to Magnussen, for that ugly bit of driving, as well as effectively causing Bottas' puncture. The FIA/stewards ought to have thrown the book at him, I'd give him a 10-place grid drop for Spain at least, never mind a time penalty.

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The shortlist is a biggy, but here are my main 3: RB drivers - It's taken just 4 races for them to fall out of championship contention Debris - COME ON, Valtteri didn't deserve that one bit Romain Grosjean - This isn't even the first time he's done this - RG's still yet to score a point this season ...

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It is I... Leclerc! Was wondering where the real one had gone to...

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WeirdKerr wrote:both red bull drivers to blame, time to get rid of both of them

Yeah, I'd say that was a 50-50 incident between the two, to put all/most of the blame on one driver wouldn't be fair to them.

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I've lost count of how many times Raikkonen has been faster in the first two sectors on his final Q3 before losing to his rival at the death Still, given the number of mistakes from drivers, and the chance of it being more than a bit windy tomorrow, I'm still hoping it will be interesting, even with...

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So the weather forecast for the race... the air temperature will be as low as 15C and there's even a chance of rain.

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Wow, I didn't know the story to that amount of detail, that's interesting!

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Although I'm a huge Alesi fan, I agree that Jean wasn't the best when it came to consistency and making big decisions. He had some really stupid moments [ "Ohhhhhhhh Jean, you've got a major problem, sunshine!" ] and perhaps he should've signed for Williams in 1990 (I feel he had the speed...

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I believe that's the first race since 2015 where we've had 3 different leaders, on merit that is! That's something which has been a regularity at times in the past! It wasn't that fun to watch at first, but I think I might end up savouring this one more than last week's Bahrain GP.

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As good a race as that was, sadly I get the feeling that with Seb winning again, this championship will be nothing more than a two-horse race between Hamilton and Vettel once more, instead of a close fight between drivers from all three teams. Especially given how Bottas and Verstappen have shown so...

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One shouldn't jump the gun with this news but it looks like Vettel's had another slice of luck at Lewis' expense: https://www.eurosport.co.uk/formula-1/bahrain-grand-prix/2018/lewis-hamilton-handed-five-place-grid-penalty-for-gearbox-change_sto6703302/story.shtml

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I've been of the opinion that if DRS exists, drivers should be free to use it whenever they want to during the race. This is obviously harking back to the days when DRS was available all around the track during the practices and qualifying sessions. But I still think that if you're going to have it...

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This Could Be You wrote:
good_Ralf wrote:2) Hartley - Not a great home performance really, especially compared to the Ric.

TIL Melbourne is in New Zealand...

Dammit!

I blame the braindrain over the off-season for that one.

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Looking at the lap time data for the race, I noticed some trivial but interesting details: - Hamilton was the fastest driver on 26 individual green-flag laps, while Vettel was the fastest on just 13. So based on that fact, Hamilton was easily the quickest driver on the track today. - Gasly and Lecle...

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1) Haas pit crew - In a repeat of last year, neither cars finish the season opener, but this time, due to a really stupid blunder that cost them at least 15-18 points. Their shot at 4th or 5th in the WCC might already be gone. . 2) Hartley - Not a great home performance really, especially compared t...

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Top 10 drivers 1. Hamilton 2. Vettel 3. Bottas 4. Ricciardo 5. Verstappen 6. Raikkonen 7. Hulkenberg 8. Alonso 9. Sainz 10. Ocon Teams 1. Mercedes 2. Ferrari 3. Red Bull 4. Renault 5. Force India 6. McLaren 7. Williams 8. Haas 9. Toro Rosso 10. Sauber Bonus Pole Trophy: Hamilton DHL Fastest Lap Awa...

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That was an informative article, with some nice humour.

. But I believe the German GP was held at the modernised Nurburgring, not Hockenheim, in 1985.

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Or...

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Holy...

Has anyone this young been in a YD's academy before now? Either way, I'm wishing Seb Montoya all the best, if he makes F1, (it's probably at least 5 years away) hopefully he can top what his dad achieved.

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Olivier Panis was DSQed after Portugal '94 for illegal skidblock wear (source: STATSF1).

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Time to bump this thread. A while back, I was diagnosed with Aspergers'. It's mild, but it means that since forever, I've had big difficulties socialising, even when I'm online, and I also have moments of weird behaviour. When I was a new user, I remember saying some things on here that must've been...

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1) Ferrari - I thought some of you guys were crazy for completely writing off Vettel and Ferrari after Singapore, two races later and you've been proven right. I'm not that excited for either driver winning the title, whether that be Hamilton or Vettel, but either way seeing one driver with a massiv...

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Ferrari... just...

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The race in Baku this year would be near the top of my list (it's definitely the best one I've seen from F1 since I started watching it in 2010). From 2011 onwards, I loved Abu Dhabi and Italy 2012, Bahrain, Canada and Hungary 2014, Hungary and USA 2015, & Spain and Austria 2016. There's Canada ...

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Also this is the first season since 2013 with at least 5 different winners. Which leaves just Kimi out of the top 6 yet to reach the top step.

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Can Kimi ever get it completely right in Q3?

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1) P A L M E R
2) Sainz

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Hamilton and Vettel have more luck than the rest of the field IMO (today isn't completely the case). Although I'm a little peeved that we had a fairly standard winner and podium finish after 3 safety cars and 8 DNFs, this was the best GP of the year behind Baku. Most of the race was enthralling, I w...

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There's just been a cloudburst in Singapore, I don't expect to rain during the race, but if there's still water on the track at the start that could be interesting. Accuweather however is predicting a thunderstorm for 10pm local time - roughly the end of the Grand Prix!

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*sigh* Was hoping we'd get a Red Bull pole (how times have changed) but Vettel has to pip both of them. And knowing Vettel, that's probably the win done and dusted already (the polesitter has taken P1 in the race in Singapore all but twice), hopefully Red Bull still has an opportunity to challenge o...

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