Grand Prix Rejects

https://twitter.com/f1enigma/status/526285224607768576 Things are getting worse for Marussia. This is bad, very bad. And it's probably inevitable that three-car teams will be forced in by Bernie now, even if the teams aren't in the position to do so.... FIA stated that they won't push third cars, t...

I already watch more IndyCar than F1. Now, I'll probably barely watch F1 anymore. Even if Bernie was to kick the bucket the the chaos that would ensue would mean that the sport would probably collapse. All FOM are doing now is trying to flog a dead horse. The sport's gonna die within the next 10-20 ...

FMecha wrote:

Things are getting worse for Marussia.

This is bad, very bad.
And it's probably inevitable that three-car teams will be forced in by Bernie now, even if the teams aren't in the position to do so....

Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber-Ferrari, 2010 - Who remembers that Pedro de la Rosa was replaced by Heidfeld from the Singapore GP onward that year? I barely can, probably because Nick Heidfeld is slightly boring.

What drugs are you on?! Talent is talent. Certain drivers have a natural ability that they just win in anything you give them. Andre Lotterer is one such driver. Lotterer is the most talented racing driver Caterham have had at their disposal in their four year history. Bringing him in was the smart...

Why else would Andre Lotterer be in a Caterham? Because Lotterer is of best and Kolles knows this, having employed him previously. Duh. Wouldn't Kolles know that Lotterer is more know for sports car driving than for being even halfway decent in an open wheeler? Still, that might explain some of the...

Okay I'll change the topic.... Anyways, as this is a ponderbox, I want to post an idea I pondered:
Imagine if all the F1 drivers had to take part in a banger race together?

Would you like a chair? http://www.ikea.com/us/en/images/products/sundvik-childrens-chair__0121523_PE278178_S4.JPG Boomstick can attest to the unpleasantries of being without a suitable piece of seating apparatus I suppose this mad frog could sit down once he realises nobody is gonna take any consp...

What if a Spygate-esque scandal broke out after a team was caught spying on the likes of Monteverdi, Life, Andrea Moda or MasterCard Lola? Would they be considered to have 'brought the sport into disrepute?' Conspiracy time: Life sabotaged Monteverdi! Altough most likely, Life, Monteverdi and EuroB...

What if a Spygate-esque scandal broke out after a team was caught spying on the likes of Monteverdi, Life, Andrea Moda or MasterCard Lola?
Would they be considered to have 'brought the sport into disrepute?'

As the IndyCar calendar has already ended before September this year on recommendation of the Boston Consulting Group, who among other things, also recommended holding a race in Boston, a phantom livery has showed up in aero kit testing at Austin http://www.racer.com/images/2014/October2/IndyCar/Ae...

I've been thinking... Audi are yet again rumoured to be entering F1 in the near future (even if said rumours are sketchy at best). André Lotterer, an Audi WEC driver as we all know, drove for Caterham at Spa. What if Lotterer was placed at Caterham for some reason other than to inject this desperat...

My God what a creepy helmet design.

A few days ago when the forum was in trouble I had a dream that it had been fixed, and Enoch was using a different account to eytl, which had not been unbanned like what really happened. I can't remember anything more about it though. A pretty strange dream I guess....

takagi_for_the_win wrote:Suggesting what? Barcelona buy Caterham and Real Madrid buy Marussia and proceed to have 20 fist-fights at race circuits over the course of the world? Different sports, different set of circumstances. As Biscione said, wholly irrelevant.

And Chelsea buying out Sauber?

Why is it that, although Bernie clearly doesn't care about the financial struggles of the minor teams, he still hopes that Caterham will make it to the Abu Dhabi GP? Have the sheiks demanded that on top of having the race worth double points, it must take place with a full 22-car grid? Call me cync...

When Caterham go bust this year, proving once and for all that the Curse of Leafield is true, who'll go bust in 2020 then? Forza Rossa?

tommykl wrote:Seriously though, Sauber's chances of scoring at Austin are the same as elsewhere. There should be no effect on the results, although I'll admit it'll be sad to only have 18 cars on track...

18 cars sounds like the sort of grids Champ Car had in its final days, which is not good at all.

... there were even plans for live commentary during the Russian GP, so this was clearly not planned? why has this happened? It must be serious... They announced the cancellation of that in a thread briefly without explanation as to why, and locked the thread immediately so people couldn't comment ...

Sad and bizarre news that Marussia now apparently won't be going to the US either. You'd have thought, given they were likely to have fielded an American driver, Ecclestone would have done all he could to have them on the grid. But Bernie doesn't want those minnow teams in F1. He'd rather see them ...

Backmarker wrote:I'll believe this when I see an Audi-engined car on the grid at a race.

Would they badge them as Audi though? Personally I'd love to see them badge the engines as Lamborghini particularly when you take their proud history in F1 into account!

Yep, Autosport confirmed it. m This is pretty damn awful. So many teams are struggling financially, something needs to be done about it. Not good. Three-car teams are probably a certainty now for 2016. And in any case, Bernie wants to push those small teams out of the sport, so I doubt he'll give t...

I've been thinking... Audi are yet again rumoured to be entering F1 in the near future (even if said rumours are sketchy at best). André Lotterer, an Audi WEC driver as we all know, drove for Caterham at Spa. What if Lotterer was placed at Caterham for some reason other than to inject this desperat...

Not sure how creditable this source is, but it claims that Audi are looking to join F1 in 2016! Could this be Red Bull's solution to their engine issues? m Finding it a little hard to believe that Audi would shelve their entire DTM and Le Mans budget though... EDIT: Looking through the comments whi...

Now what we need is a massive, obscenely rich global organisation that flogs drastically life-reducing consumable products for pittance to kids in desperately poor countries, to back the event! Come on Marlboro, we know you're in there somewhere! How dare you want tobacco sponsorship back? Don't yo...

For my ROTY Podium I'm not sure who'd get third and second yet, although it would probably be either Sauber, Raikkonen, Lotus, or the FIA. However, the undisputed Reject of the Year for the 2014 Formula 1 season is *insert drum roll*: CATERHAM F1 TEAM: A crap car, absurd management antics, financial...

Has a team ever missed races and returned? Andrea Moda comically missed the French Grand Prix because their truck was stuck in a blockade and they came back (though they didn't race, obviously!). Apart from that, the only example I can come up with from the last 25 years or so is BAR getting banned...

IceG wrote:Bernie says its OK: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/29765039

Something tells me that if they do miss Austin and Interlagos like they're allowed to, they'll probably not be on the grid for Abu Dhabi either, considering that the mess Caterham is in is not too far off Monteverdi and Andrea Moda levels....

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Brad Keselowski goes full retard The fact that Russler, Jr, and Kes could all be eliminated from the Chase this weekend is hilarious. I've decided I want Ryan Newman to win the Cup this year...without winning a race or even getting a podium. Brian France will have a shitfit and be embarassed as bat...