Grand Prix Rejects

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1. Pérez - pit lane to a quite good result
2. Albon - pit lane to a quite good result in a different way

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1. Vettel; lol
2. Giovinazzi; outqualifies Räikkönen just to have the same disappointing race as always

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I really shouldn't be thinking "yep, pretty cool" at someone winning a sixth world championship, but I've got so used to Hamilton just being the champion... the same thing happened with Vettel, and someone who's been watching for longer could say the same about Schumacher. It felt weird wh...

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The engines change automatically in terms of where to do extra power and where to recharge, don't they? Isn't that one big driver aid by this judgment? Funny enough for Racing Point, the team who benefits most from this is Toro Rosso. Force, er, Racing Point are getting the most points out of it, ga...

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I think the first five corners would be better off with a radius, like they used to have, although turns 1–3 and 4–5 felt a little similar before—4 and 5 had their "less exciting Fagnes" thing going on, but still—and now the two sections feel more different from each other. I like the new ...

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1. Carlos Sainz - Not just the front of the midfield today, the back of the frontrunners
2. Valtteri Bottas - Hate to say it, but can't say I expected that

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All right, here's my 2020 crew. There are no Finnish guys, but it'll be okay, because I'm keeping it very Nordic. Kyle Kirkwood actually won his series, so he's staying. Felipe Drugovich didn't stand out in FIA F3. He wasn't terrible, but he wasn't what I wanted. So I'm doing something I should've d...

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If only there was something that allowed you to pick an F1 points system and then multiplied the points of each race based on the length of the season. Wouldn't that be great?

Really, though, it's weird how some people take raw win records and the like seriously

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George Russell. He was, like, ahead of people.

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1. The first stint, a perfect example of, as was once said, F1 satirising itself so well it doesn't need Jamie and Enoch anymore
2. Ferrari; they did the right thing for the team and Vettel did all he needed to do, but I'm mad anyway

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1. Giovinazzi because he beat Räikkönen for once
2. Ferrari for being good on a twisty track

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Now I can be even sadder that de Vries won't be in F1!

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Techeetah sign da Costa. Now things are interesting....

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Unfortunately, the cut off time for qualifying was set as a 1m50.4s lap time (110% of pole), and Ernesto could only manage a 1m57.7s lap time, which was the 27th best time out of 30 (the cut off time meant only 21 drivers qualified in the end). It was the second fastest, not pole! At least accordin...

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It'll be interesting to see if they manage to get any TV coverage for this, with each event being run over 3 days I suppose a 1-hour highlights package after it's finished is the best you might get (if anything)? I remember seeing the word "docusport" from them, which as far as I can tell...

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well it's easy when the decade is mainly the same guy winning a bunch of times in a row

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1. Sebastian Vettel. He made a mistake in a high-pressure situation, again , and then drove right into traffic. (The traffic he drove into then proceeded to be a hypocrite, but that's not the point.) Where has the normal odd-numbered year Vettel been? 2. the race direction. I know I complain about ...

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1. Renault - it was like they were a big manufacturer-backed team or something
2. Racing Point - if not for the incident with Stroll, they would've looked quite good

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That was the best qualifying session I've seen since 2016 at Battersea.

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Spectoremg wrote:
WeirdKerr wrote:personally: I feel the race shouldn't go ahead...in fact I think let's cease all discussion on this forum until Tuesday...

Get a grip, this is business.

Someone died... evidently most of us don't agree with WeirdKerr, but it isn't an opinion that deserves a harsh response like that.

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1. Charles Leclerc - there could never be a feel-good result, but this is definitely a feel-less-bad one
2. Pierre Gasly - right after he's dropped he has a good race

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We all get so used to seemingly safe motorsport. What a tragedy. This is a better worded version of what I planned to say. Regarding what should and shouldn't be run, I don't think there's a right or wrong thing to do... whatever still happens I'll try watching and see if I feel comfortable with it...

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After the initial "woah", the first thing that came to my mind was "why not Kvyat". But they've been close enough that fancy stuff we don't have access to could make the difference. Why are Mercedes more interested in Ocon than Pérez? Or they just want to know how Albon goes sinc...

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Some silly stats... We've had twelve races so far this season. Hamilton is the de facto No 1 at Mercedes. Ignoring fastest laps. he has scored 248 (250-2) points out of a possible 300 (25x12), i.e. 83%. If it were assumed that Bottas would be expected to maximise second places then his 186 (188-2) ...

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It's like a worse version of the lap points championship.

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He's not there yet... okay, the oldest after 1980 is Schumacher, you can call me once he goes past that.

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Yep, I'm reviewing the "Starting Grid" pictures again. It's only later than last year because I decided the fairest thing to do was to take the pictures from the middle race of the season. A lot of this year's pictures are that really boring level of quality where they aren't good but stil...

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But if we agree that F E is still largely unrecognised and so won't steal significant numbers of viewers from F1, what about F1 fans; would anyone switch to having Formula E as their preferred racing category? I don't know, but there seems a lot of negativity around F1, so perhaps?...(Although I st...

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Kvyat was definitely the feel-good result of the race. Williams getting a point has to be up there too.

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So many entities deserved it today, so I'll pick the two things that caused me the most personal frustration. - The stewards, for that non-penalty. It was clear-cut and they even admitted it was an unsafe release, but all they gave was a small fine. To Ferrari. - Bottas, because I want a championshi...

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He also says he'd rather watch Formula E than Formula 1. That's just inflammatory (!) and I think indicates that he knows exactly what he's doing ..... Question; at what level of F1 sterility/predictability does the randomness and bump'n'grind of Formula E become more attractive than F1 to the 'ave...

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it took ELEVENTY BILLION YEARS but jay byers whoever that is the graphic wasn't up long enough but he FINALLY gave us a good call

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How many laps down will the last-placed finisher be?

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A World Cup is almost over with no posts to show for it! Though it wouldn't have helped that the defending champions have never looked unlikely to take it all again.... Norway are, well, back to where they should be, and Sweden nearly made it to the final despite never looking that great if I'm bein...

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He had a good enough year against Magnussen in 2017 that people were complaining when they retained Magnussen instead of sacking him for Leclerc... and we all know who had the better 2018, and then some were calling for Grosjean to be gone. Getting back to the actual question, the way things are goi...

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I didn't hate the French GP. It wasn't the most memorable race, as evidenced by the fact that I can't remember much about it, mostly Russell's pass that didn't even get shown and people complaining about the stripes I actually think look kind of cool, but it wasn't offensively bad like, say, the ave...

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1. Honda - http://hashondawonyet.com/
2. Verstappen - Won without being in a Mercedes
3. Leclerc - Second without being in a Mercedes

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Magnussen; finished behind a Williams
Haas; finished behind a Williams

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I forgot Friday had already happened, I need to watch it! So many races on top of two World Cups to watch....

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A large part of me wants to say that inevitable track-induced incidents are a fun part of FE's character, but it is probably for the best that they don't happen as much. And I'd love to see the Pau Grand Prix be in a major series again. "Winning the Pau Grand Prix" hasn't meant enough for ...

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