Grand Prix Rejects

Wallio

Ahh, so maybe that's what I'm doing right! Not being married... In fairness to my wife, I began losing my hair (noticeably) in college. It's just fun to blame her. My buddy Steve, on the other hand, being six months or so older than I am, still has the thickest head of hair you'll find. It's just b...

Wallio

dr-baker wrote: ↑10 Jul 2022, 21:36

I'm almost 3 years younger than you. I too am not losing my hair (other than when I get my hair cut, obviously!), but I am getting seriously grey on top.

I'm five years younger than you and bald as an egg. Ah married life

Wallio

And the F2 bosses seemed surprised by Hitech's decision, stating that if they were Vips's boss, he wouldn't still be there. Yeah, you have to feel for the series here. Lot of justified bad PR but not much they can do about it, I don't think. Does international single-seater racing have the equivale...

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But I don't think that Mercedes' dark past is equivalent to Saudi Arabia's present That's about the only thing I really disagree with you on. To Mario's point, I don't buy that hosting an F1 race, the Olympics, World Cup, etc. really "sends a message". Maybe 35 years ago, when information...

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Vips confirmed for the rest of the season at Hitech. It's certainly a choice.

Wallio

I'm curious to see how an incident like this on the international stage affects a driver. During the million and a half amateur fill-in e series that popped up during COVID, Bubba Wallace, Santino Ferrucci, and most notably Kyle Larson, all got in trouble for (wildly) different incidents. All three...

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I don't mind racing in country X Thanks for chiming in. I am curious why you don't mind racing in say Saudi Arabia? Because as I said, to me at least, not everything is politics. Sport is sport, and politics is politics, they have no bearing on one another. There's also the fact that at the risk of...

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I'm curious to see how an incident like this on the international stage affects a driver. During the million and a half amateur fill-in e series that popped up during COVID, Bubba Wallace, Santino Ferrucci, and most notably Kyle Larson, all got in trouble for (wildly) different incidents. All three ...

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I had not heard this term before the current golf spilt, and now its seemingly everywhere on my feeds lol. Knowing what the term means now, it honestly doesn't bother me, because I separate the work from its politics. Be it book, movie, race, whatever. From what I understand J.K. Rowling is an absol...

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Seeing you all nominate the tools at Sky really makes me thank the maker I switched to the F1TV feed last year. For my nomination it just has to be Haas . Ferrari P/U issues aside, how can you fudge up a weekend that bad? No they didn't truly "deserve" 5th and 6th in quali, but even with t...

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Ferrari have been quoted as saying that they would rather have a fast yet unreliable car rather than reliable and not fast. To be fair Horner said the same thing post-Melbourne. Hell, my Old Man said the same thing more than once when I raced and ended up parked up on fire somewhere. It may not be ...

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You guys are too harsh on AT. On F1TV, Palmer thought it was outrageous Yuki even got the Black and Orange over it. Many pundits thought the same. Less than ten laps left, tell him no DRS and let him go. The real answer is: Ferrari as I said in a great debate on here a while back, they cannot put a ...

Wallio

Ferrari is the easy (and correct pick).

Race control was fine, especially compared to the Indy 500.

Wallio

The wedding ring argument is interesting. When I raced, jewelry was banned, but I wore my wedding ring (as did most others) and never really thought anything of it. Wedding rings were specifically mentioned in NHRA/IHRA rules, but they weren't enforced, as opposed to earrings/necklaces. Some guys ta...

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Amazed no one else has nominated the slam dunk ROTR and hell ROTY so far: Carlos Sainz: Your annoying TV camera seeking out brother gets you an extension you dont deserve so you reward him by having another accident in qualifying, which puts you at the back and at the mercy of Danny Ric. Two races, ...

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RAK wrote:Russian Grand Prix contract terminated. Goodbye, Sochi, you will not be missed.

And NOW it does appear to be official. I am quite surprised by this. Not upset, mind you. But genuinely surprised.

Wallio

With Andretti making his pitch for a team, it does make you wonder if Andretti and Haas might be looking at cutting a deal with each other too - might we even see Andretti take over before the year is out? Eh, Gene is dense. m Also, it's important to note something that very few people are reportin...

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Wait....what?

https://twitter.com/MarioAndretti/statu ... ode%3Dtrue

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dr-baker wrote:I wonder if the Williams team did it out of guilt of having such a well-known driver die in one of their cars?

Bingo.

Wallio

My hot take is that I have never understood the Senna decal on the Williams in the first place. He had practically no relationship with the team, ran only three races with them, and finished none. The only connection he had with them was his (highly controversial to this day) death. If McLaren ran t...

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Ok, just something I wanted to put out there. I recently read an article about how the Fox network (not Fox News, but still owned by Rupert Murdoch) bought the rights to broadcast NFL football in the mid 90s and what they did with it subsequently. If, like me, you were an NFL fan then, Fox made maj...

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I keep seeing people mention Lewis and retiring. Like do we honestly believe that has any hope in hell of happening? And aside from one Toto outburst, is there any proof of this?

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This is really an eye-rolling cringefest, even if you think Merc got hosed, which I do.

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Row Man Gross-Gene wrote:
Wouldn't F2, F3 etc. be tightly fueled too or do they regulate the carrying of extra fuel just in case?

I honestly don't know. Being a spec series I could see the rule being that everyone must be brimmed, although how do you enforce that?

Wallio

I did not know that this was the procedure in the lower formulae. Anyone know why this is different? What are the reasons it could or couldn't work in F1? Fuel for one. The cars are so tightly fueled (or in Perez's case this week deliberately unfueled) to just make it and give a sample. An extra fi...

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Another major thread bump but....... I now own a Cosworth! A 1975 Chevrolet Cosworth Vega, more specifically. The brainchild of John Delorean, the "Cosworth Twin Cam" was going to accomplish several things. It was going to spice up the slumping (and wildly unpopular) Vega line, it was goin...

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tristan1117 wrote:The ESPN access here in the United States where there is no paywall

What? Cable is the biggest paywall we have here in the US.

TheBigJ wrote:Reading reddit's reaction

Don't ever do that. About anything. Terrible form of self-harm.

Wallio

They only have had one real stinker of an episode so far IMO, and that was the one on Austria 2002, which was back in Season 2 IIRC. It was just so out of character for the show, as they simply could not contain their bias at all. It was something like 48 minutes in before they even mentioned that t...

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Perez - You have literally ONE job. And the last two weeks you look like a bloody amateur. Reddit trolls giving you DOTD aside, a frankly embarrassing weekend, especially with RBR trying so hard to hang on to Albon.

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https://twitter.com/EliGP/status/1432034388385144834 If this is the case, then I think the entire race has ROTR under lock and key. A few journalists have asked this question, and according to the FIA, the "points after 2-laps" rule and the red flag countback rules are separate, as such, ...

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I've had an idea...surely there could have been a call to the fans at Spa to volunteer to drive around the circuit for a bit to clear a lot of water, with some kind of disclaimer that it is at their own risk? I don't know...its a bit out there but imo worth a try I don't know. I've worked at drag s...

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F1 as a whole - The big thing everyone said about Indy 2005 was that "there could have been SOMETHING they could have done". Well that applies doubles here. Indy 2005 at least had cars racing (and the Ferraris nearly took each other out). SOMETHING could have been done. This is a bathplugg...

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I know no one can control the weather. And no, they certainly shouldn't have been racing out in that.

BUT

I don't want to hear anyone ever mention Indy 2005 ever again.

Wallio

While getting ready for work, imagine my surprise when during the newest episode of Bring Back V10s Glenn Freeman cites the GPRejects.com forum as one of his primary sources! The episode is on Andrea Moda of course. Forgive me for asking this, but who are they? Bring Back V10s is IMO the best podca...

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While getting ready for work, imagine my surprise when during the newest episode of Bring Back V10s Glenn Freeman cites the GPRejects.com forum as one of his primary sources! The episode is on Andrea Moda of course.

Wallio

I have a feeling this was known internally for sometime. the official "F1 Experiences" page had ticket packages up very briefly for a Texas GP before being pulled.

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Max himself has nominated Lewis, putting him on blast on his verified Instagram, calling Lewis "disrespectful and unsportsmanlike".

Get your popcorn ready!

Wallio

1. Christian Horner and Toto Wolff . Given their behaviour during the red flag period, F1 should take a page out of NASCAR's rulebook and suspend the pair of them from attending the Hungarian GP paddock. No no, right sport, wrong "penalty". Eddie Gossage once set up a boxing ring at Texas...

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"Sir" Lewis Hamilton - The man who for years told us he was equal to Senna, pulls a Senna and takes his title rival out on purpose, never apologizes, and then cries at the slap on the wrist penalty he gets. At least he hasn't called the stewards racist this time. Not yet anyway.

Wallio

I wonder if people will feel quite the same if the 2022 cars all look pretty much the same - I don't think that some have quite realised quite how restrictive the 2022 rule set is, or quite how aggressively it limits the bodywork shapes to fit to a very clear template that those rule writers want t...

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