Grand Prix Rejects

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Alfa Romeo: End of thread

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2023 will Max ever win a title normally? GP

S1: VER
S2: NOR
S3: LEC
S4: PER
S5: PIA
S6: SAI
S7: HAM
S8: RUS

1: VER
2: NOR
3: PER
4: HAM
5: LEC
6: PIA
7: RUS
8: SAI
9: ALO
10: GAS

Pole: VER
Fastest Lap: VER
First Retirement: HUL
ROTR: Race Control
IIDOTR: Nobody
DBTMOTR: STR
LP: SAR
FTP: MAG

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It’s gotta be Perez I’m afraid, he’s had a good 3 years of boosting up his win and podium stats but it’s time to get someone else, Merc, Ferrari and McLaren will all get stronger and I can’t see him making the end of 2024 if if that’s the case Sargeant: His form has now got to the point where I’ve s...

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Nothing for me as well. McLaren podiums aren’t shocking anymore and everyone else performed more or less how the weekend said they would

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2023 Land of the rising sun GP 1: Verstappen 2: Norris 3: Leclerc 4: Sainz 5: Perez 6: Hamilton 7: Piastri 8: Alonso 9: Russell 10: Bottas Pole: Verstappen Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Tsunoda ROTR: Zhou (Wipes out himself and Tsunoda on lap one) IIDOTR: Bottas DBTMOTR: Perez LP: Sargea...

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I’ll give Alonso a pass after finding out that he suffered a cracked suspension in the early stages of the race, it can’t have been easy to control at a place like Singapore. I’m amazed he still finished the race tbh. So instead George Russell: Should have just settled for the 15 points mate, an ove...

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Carlos Sainz: Be honest, who put their money on this guy to end the Red Bull juggernaut’s winning run? The best bit is he was THE man to beat all weekend, topping every session after a close 2nd in FP1. His tactics in the closing stages were Prost-esque for me and it makes me fear how even more lost...

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2023 the sauna GP

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

Pole: Leclerc
Fastest Lap: Hamilton
First Retirement: Stroll
ROTR: Williams
IIDOTR: Tsunoda
DBTMOTR: Lawson
LP: Sargeant
FTP: Hulkenberg

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5 second time penalties: They do absolutely nothing at Monza, especially to the bigger teams, bring back the penalties from 20 years ago Mercedes and it’s drivers: 2 pretty stupid 5 second time penalties there, Hamilton and Wolff haven’t really covered themselves in glory with their comments about M...

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1 Sainz: He looked genuinely on it all weekend and he gave us some great battles and a never say die attitude. The net result was a first Sunday podium of the season (To add to his Austria Sprint top 3) 2: Lawson: Please Mr Marko if you have any sense, give this guy the AlphaTauri seat not just for ...

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2023 You don’t punish the red cars at Monza GP 1: Verstappen 2: Sainz 3: Perez 4: Russell 5: Leclerc 6: Hamilton 7: Albon 8: Piastri 9: Alonso 10: Tsunoda Pole: N/A (would have put Verstappen) Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Zhou ROTR: Alpine IIDOTR: Lawson DBTMOTR: Stroll Last Place: Magn...

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Charles Leclerc: This weekend finally convinced me that’s he’s not a generational talent in the mould of Verstappen. I don’t think he had a clean session all weekend with multiple practice offs, the crash in qualifying and then the collision with Norris which damaged his car and yet another horrible...

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Gasly: Obvious choice really, raced beautifully and was there for a first podium since Azerbaijan 2021 Williams: Albon’s superlative performances are too obvious to mention alone. The surprise for me was Williams were competitive on a slower twister circuit as most of their stronger showings with th...

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2023 Double Dutch GP

1: Max
2: Checo
3: Lewis
4: Nando
5: Georgie boy
6: Oscar
7: Lando
8: Charles
9: Esteban
10: Carlos

Pole: Max
FL: Max
First retirement: K-Mag
ROTR: Lance
IIDOTR: Dutch Crowd
DBTMOTR: Lance
LP: Sargeant
FtP: Charles

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TyDye Racing Gaming, who has documented reject tracks and rejectful teams outside of F1, has posted a video on Roberto Merhi's bizarre career: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0wvGIST7r8&ab_channel=TyDyeRacingGaming Given the presence of the already-mentioned Peter Brook F1, I think this thread...

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I’ll go for the boring nominations this time Sainz’s side of Ferrari: I can only assume the reason Ferrari wasted engine mileage on Sainz was down to them praying for the rain to red flag the race so they could fix the car because if not then what was the point? Carlos of course played his part by c...

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1: Jenzer Motorsport: For a first win in Formula 3 since 2019 and not only that but also claiming a 1-3-4 finish. Not bad for a team who’s usually propping up the rear in that series 2: Sophia Floresch: An amazing 7th place finish to become the first woman to score points in the F3 era and the first...

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2023 something about waffles GP S1: Verstappen S2: Hamilton S3: Perez S4: Norris S5: Piastri S6: Leclerc S7: Russell S8: Sainz 1: Verstappen 2: Perez 3: Norris 4: Hamilton 5: Leclerc 6: Sainz 7: Piastri 8: Ocon 9: Alonso 10: Russell Pole: Verstappen Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Hulkenbe...

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Zhou Guanyu: Hero to Zero in the space of about 750 yards (or something like that). He’d clearly been watching his teammates impression of a bowling ball 2 years ago and decided to try it himself and just like Bottas he ruined a single team’s entire day, at least Bottas can say it was wet at least. ...

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If I had to mention something it’d be Alfa Romeo for their stunning qualifying speed, shame it went belly up after 2 laps. Otherwise I don’t think anyone did something worthy for it.

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People have spoken at length about Perez’s Saturday struggles and rightly so but when do we start having a conversation about George Russell? Because that’s now a Q1 exit today (while his teammate gets pole) to add to Q2 exits in Azerbaijan, Spain and Austria.

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2023 will Perez make it to 2024 GP?

1: Verstappen
2: Alonso
3: Hamilton
4: Leclerc
5: Sainz
6: Russell
7: Norris
8: Piastri
9: Stroll
10: Ocon

Pole: Verstappen
Fastest Lap: Verstappen
First Retirement: Ricciardo
ROTR: Perez
IIDOTR: Alonso
DBTMOTR: Stroll
LP: Bottas

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Listening to the interview after today's race, it sounds as if either Sam Bird has already been told he's fired for next season, or that he doesn't believe he's up to the job any more... maybe both. I would say "the curse of the second Jaguar seat strikes again", but he's been the most su...

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One of my favorite drop offs is one that I still remember left us shaking our heads at the time Stefano Colleti GP2 2013 After 11 races he’s sat top of the standings with 135 points, he’s had 3 wins, 7 podiums, 1 pole, 2 fastest laps and only 2 no scores to this point In the last 11 races he scored ...

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Personally the weirdest thing for me is that de Vries got the drive in the first place - Red Bull taking a 27 year old who was never affiliated with them, and putting him into their junior team off the back of an admittedly good one-off performance, but one that took place on a track perfectly suit...

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Ferrari: After being Red Bull’s main challenger by a distance in Austria it was back to same old Ferrari here. Outqualified and outraced by the McLaren’s and underestimating the tire wear (Vasseur saying they were scared to push in case they wore them out) meant they were easy prey for Mercedes who ...

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McLaren: Where do you want to start? 2-3 in Qualifying, should have been 2-3 in the race. The clear second quickest car all weekend. Their first podium since Imola last year, Piastri unrejectified and the team scoring more points in one race than the first 9 put together. Williams: Albon on his own ...

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

Pole: Verstappen
Fastest Lap: Verstappen
First Retirement: Stroll
ROTR: Just Stop Oil
IIDOTR: Albon
DBTMOTR: Sargeant
LP: De Vries
MLP: Piastri

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Track limits: 18 of the so called 20 best drivers in the world couldn’t keep their cars within the white line of the race track. 1200 in total is an astonishing number. Yuki Tsunoda: Tsunoda for me has been one of the top 5 drivers of the season for outperforming the boat that’s called the AlphaTaur...

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Lando Norris and McLaren’s Upgrades: Ok so both driver and team have always gone well at Austria but to finish 4th on merit in the worst McLaren since 2018 while passing a Mercedes and comfortably having the measure of Aston Martin was an incredible performance. This was only the first of a 3 part u...

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S1: Verstappen S2: Alonso S3: Leclerc S4: Hamilton S5: Perez S6: Russell S7: Sainz S8: Ocon 1: Verstappen 2: Hamilton 3: Alonso 4: Perez 5: Leclerc 6: Russell 7: Sainz 8: Ocon 9: Norris 10: Stroll Pole: Verstappen Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: De Vries ROTR: De Vries IIDOTR: Albon DBTMOT...

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Haas: Melted from a strong grid slot in Canada for the 2nd year running. 7 years they’ve been in the sport and I still don’t think they know what race pace is Russell: A silly unenforced mistake that ruined any strategy tricks Mercedes may have had to pull off an impossible win De Vries: With each p...

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Only 1 winner here

Albon: it really was both Australia and Belgium last year all over again, a mammoth tire stint like the former and some heroic defending like the latter. The end result was Williams’s first dry weather top 8 finish since Azerbaijan 2018.

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2023 it’s Groundhog Day and I don’t mean Red Bull GP

1: MV33
2: SP11
3: LH44
4: FA14
5: GR63
6: CL16
7: CS55
8: EO31
9: LN4
10: LS18

Pole: MV33
Fastest Lap: MV33
First Retirement: VB77
ROTR: PG10
IIDOTR: LN4
DBTMOTR: LS18
LP: LS2
MLP: OP81

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McLaren: An awesome qualifying but all hopes of a great result were over after just 2 corners

Russell’s sweat: thanks for fooling us all into believing we might have had some rain

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Another one for Zhou and Tsunoda. The latter in particular has been one of the unsung heroes so far this year

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2023 can’t spell Spain without pain GP

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

Pole: Verstappen
Fastest Lap: Verstappen
First Retirement: Zhou
ROTR: Stroll
IIDOTR: Bottas
DBTMOTR: Stroll
Last Place: Sargeant
MLP: Piastri

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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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