Grand Prix Rejects

yannicksamlad

I'm also of the specific opinion that, by the logic that Hamilton earned having those cars between himself and Max, I don't think it's ever a good idea to let lapped cars unlap themselves. It only adds to the artificiality already created by the safety cars themselves. It doesn't matter who it is: ...

yannicksamlad

There have been many moments that have felt like a total sea change, glimpses of it in 2019, very clear signs in 2020, and then now it's been out in the open. For better or for worse, F1 today is not what F1 was, and it's up to you to decide whether you are happy or not with what F1 is now. Indeed....

yannicksamlad

The track . Pointlessly dangerous. incapable of supporting extended periods of racing. also because it masquerades as a street track ( the longest and fastest) when plainly those are not streets that were driven down by the citizens of Jeddah ( and instead it was built on a vast open area of parking...

yannicksamlad

Thanks - I enjoyed that trip down memory lane .

yannicksamlad

The Less Braking , More Banking , Making Abu Dhabi Easier GP of 2021 . 1. Sergio Pérez 2. Lewis Hamilton 3. Valtteri Bottas 4. Max Verstappen 5. Charles Leclerc 6. Carlos Sainz Jr. 7. Fernando Alonso 8. Lando Norris 9. Esteban Ocon 10. Mick Schumacher Pole: Max Verstappen Fastest lap: Lewis Hamilton...

yannicksamlad

It makes for grim reading when even the decrier of "Bully Prix Rejects" Londoner is voting Yuki for ROTR. But I have to agree. Red Bull's early advantage with their 1-2 was completely eroded by the grand new rookie of their sister team making another silly mistake. All this talk of hope f...

yannicksamlad

The Qatar Congestion GP

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

Pole: Hamilton
Fastest lap: Perez
First retirement: Schumacher
ROTR: Ricciardo
IIDOTR: Alonso
DBTMOTR: Ricciardo
MLP: Tsunoda
HFB: 1 lap

yannicksamlad

Yep, should be interesting. But I'm a bit worried about Red Bull rear wing integrity...Once again, they seem to be a bit close to the limit..
Wing failure can be catastrophic.

yannicksamlad

Terrific article, thanks.

yannicksamlad

2021 USA South West GP 1 Lewis Hamilton 2.Valtteri Bottas 3. Max Verstappen 4. Sergio Pérez 5. Carlos Sainz 6. Charles Leclerc 7. Lando Norris 8. Pierre Gasly 9. Daniel Ricciardo 10. Esteban Ocon Pole: Max Verstappen Fastest lap: Lewis Hamilton First retirement: Antonio Giovinazzi ROTR: Alpine IIDOT...

yannicksamlad

I think I'm right in saying that over half the finishers in the Italian GP did their fastest laps on the last tour. Despite marbles and tyre wear. And yet we hear of drivers going 'as fast as they can' in the race earlier. I know they have fuel saving, and tyre saving, and tyre saving has always bee...

yannicksamlad

I answered the survey and noticed all those same things. All their suggestions of "would you like to see" were mostly either rehashing old stuff or just terrible new ideas like the aforementioned success ballast. Like all big company surveys, you have that feeling most of the questions ar...

yannicksamlad

Italian (Again) GP 1.Lewis Hamilton 2. Max Verstappen 3. Lando Norris 4. Pierre Gasly 5. Carlos Sainz 6. Sergio Pérez 7. Charles Leclerc 8. Fernando Alonso 9. Valtteri Bottas 10. Esteban Ocon SR1: Lewis Hamilton SR2: Valtteri Bottas SR3: Max Verstappen Fastest lap: Valtteri Bottas First retirement: ...

yannicksamlad

You've been Tangoed GP de Duchies 1. Verstappen 2. Hamilton 3. Bottas 4. Perez 5. Leclerc 6. Sainz 7. Norris 8. Alonso 9. Ocon 10. Stroll Pole: Verstappen Fastest lap: Perez First retirement: Mazepin Reject of the Race: Red flags Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Alonso Deadbeat Teammate of ...

yannicksamlad

I've been thinking recently about early promotions to F1, like Stroll or Verstappen, and while both of them were able to stay in the sport (through either their dad or being freakishly good, you decide which ), there have also been a lot of Wehrleins and Albons recently. Those two were both massive...

yannicksamlad

Emperor Maximilians' Holy Roman Return GP 1. Max Verstappen 2. Sergio Pérez 3.Lewis Hamilton 4. Lando Norris 5. Valtteri Bottas 6. Carlos Sainz 7. Fernando Alonso 8. Charles Leclerc 9. Sebastian Vettel 10. Daniel Ricciardo Pole: Max Verstappen Fastest lap: Valtteri Bottas First retirement: Pierre Ga...

yannicksamlad

Charles ,for me.

Puzzled by the love of Yuki: barely beat Latifi on Saturday, he repeats this speed on Sunday and scores points because Perez is messing about for fastest lap, and Gasly has a puncture, and Max is out. He beat Alfa, Williams and Haas on pace....as he ought to, no?

yannicksamlad

Who had the idea of broadcasting the attempted intimidation of the race director?
Credit to football for at least sparing the sport the embarrassment from everyone hearing the petulant protestations of players, managers , assistants, the physio..etc

yannicksamlad

I can see some people watching the sprint race and deciding they didn't want to bother with the Sunday GP...
And missing quite an event!

I really think it dilutes the GP as a special event having another F1 race in the same weekend with the same competitors.

yannicksamlad

The Year Zero New Dawn Liberty GP of Silverstone 1. Max Verstappen 2. Lewis Hamilton 3. Valtteri Bottas 4. Sergio Pérez 5. Lando Norris 6. Sebastian Vettel 7. Pierre Gasly 8. Lance Stroll 9. Daniel Ricciardo 10. Charles Leclerc SR1: Max Verstappen SR2: Lewis Hamilton SR3: Valtteri Bottas Fastest lap...

yannicksamlad

As above - I hadnt really considered how good F1 tV might be for someone who otherwise has the sort of coverage that comes with so many ad breaks and pop-ups and ad-digressions that the main event is really quite ruined as an immersive spectacle. And my experience of US TV is that it is like that. S...

yannicksamlad

UncreativeUsername37 wrote:The left-handers for keeping everyone apart despite the track being 35 or 40% DRS zone

But if you took out the left-handers ...(an endangered species in Austria already ) ....you're left with that silly Bahrain outer loop track ....aaaaargh .
Or maybe you had another cunning plan ?

yannicksamlad

The SkyF1+1 Rerun

1. Verstappen
2. Hamilton
3. Bottas
4. Perez
5. Norris
6. Sainz
7. Leclerc
8. Stroll
9. Alonso
10. Tsunoda

Pole: Verstappen
Fastest lap: Hamilton
First retirement: Gasly
ROTR: Ocon
IIDOTR: Stroll
DBTMOTR: Vettel
MLP: Tsunoda
HFB: 2

yannicksamlad

Thanks for this article: great stuff. The issues about monopolies, commercial rights, sports authorities and European law are possibly beyond my comprehension, but I understand the FIA was under pressure to split off the commercial rights, so I find it hard to criticize Max on that. I do agree with ...

yannicksamlad

Paul Ricard aerodrome and sculpture park G P de Francea

1. Hamilton
2. Verstappen
3. Pérez
4. Bottas
5. Leclerc
6. Sainz
7. Gasly
8. Norris
9. Gasly
10. Stroll

Pole: Hamilton
Fastest lap: Bottas
First retirement: Alonso
ROTR: Michael Masi
IIDOTR: Gasly
DBTMOTR: Tsunoda
MLP: Tsunoda
HFB 1

yannicksamlad

Terrific work , thanks. I do remember wanting Bourdais to do well in F2 having followed the F3000 successes, and then watching him having no luck at all in 2008. That Belgian GP - I remember well trying to work out what happened to him on the last lap ( there was a lot of other action being shown on...

yannicksamlad

Really enjoyed that article - thanks.
Appreciate the analysis compared to team- mates ; very interesting . And of course that background of not having the kind of teenage experience of much of his competition.

yannicksamlad

The first Monaco F2 race was the only junior race I've seen so far this year, and the Deledda situation was a bad joke over the top of everything. Admittedly we're GPRejects, but I felt that the chat and myself were primarily just looking at the bottom of the timing sheets to see how many laps behi...

yannicksamlad

The Baku Safety Car Enduro GP of Azerbaijan

1. Verstappen
2. Hamilton
3. Bottas
4. Perez
5. Leclerc
6. Sainz
7. Norris
8. Alonso
9. Vettel
10. Stroll

Pole: Verstappen
Fastest lap: Bottas
First retirement: Mazepin
ROTR: Tsunoda
IIDOTR: Vettel
DBTMOTR: Latifi
MLP: Schumacher
HFB: 1 lap

yannicksamlad

The Rain in Spain is not around here GP 1. Max Verstappen 2. Lewis Hamilton 3. Sergio Pérez 4. Valtteri Bottas 5. Fernando Alonso 6. Lando Norris 7. Charles Leclerc 8. Pierre Gasly 9. Lance Stroll 10. Carlos Sainz Pole: Max Verstappen Fastest lap: Lewis Hamilton First retirement: Giovinazzi ROTR: Gi...

yannicksamlad

Well, I guess the numbers are down but the ones that still watch F1 are the important ones, the ones they want, demographics etc. Plus there's probably other ways of watching that aren't measurable, online highlights clips etc. For me I think F1 wants to chase new fans ( hence sprint races etc ) as...

yannicksamlad

1. Kimi....easily done, but ..easily avoided
2. Williams - very disappointing pace on Sunday

yannicksamlad

2. Fastest Lap Point rule. The rule I'm on the fence about actually made a snore-fest of a race somewhat interesting at the end. I do think they should open it up to the entire field. Might as well let all the teams scramble and mix up running qualifying laps at the end. Interesting point - if we a...

yannicksamlad

The Best Circuit (Previously Undetected by F1) GP of Portugal 1. Verstappen 2. Hamilton 3. Perez 4. Bottas 5. Leclerc 6. Norris 7. Sainz 8. Ricciardo 9. Russell 10. Giovinazzi Pole: Verstappen Fastest lap: Bottas First retirement: Tsunoda Reject of the Race: Mazepin Infinite Improbability Drive of t...

yannicksamlad

It was tricky out there, and I like to see drivers on the edge of adhesion, and thereby going over the limit occasionally. In contrast to tyre saving and lift and coast. So I'll forgive the spins. But I won't forgive the reject ' unlap' rule. Why not let the Haas unlap themselves twice, if Lewis can...

yannicksamlad

When Max went sideways trying to line up the restart, was Charles just being polite by not leaping ahead of him and leaving Max to sort himself out?

yannicksamlad

Made in China and exported to somewhere in Italy GP 1. Verstappen 2. Perez 3. Hamilton 4. Bottas 5. Ricciardo 6. Gasly 7. Leclerc 8. Norris 9. Alonso 10. Sainz Pole: Verstappen Fastest lap: Bottas First retirement: Tsunoda Reject of the Race: Tsunoda Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Giovina...

yannicksamlad

I was 10, English, and it was 1976. Emerson Fittipaldi had a cool name, had been world champion, and had a great helmet design. I had just discovered F1. There was no way James Hunt was getting my support when there was this Fittipaldi bloke.
Who cares where heroes are born?

yannicksamlad

Great work here to get to the bottom of this. It's something I've come across before- how likely was Ralf to win. So this rather settles it for me. Thanks

yannicksamlad

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/albert-park-layout-2021-australian-gp/5416110/?ic_source=home-page-widget&ic_medium=widget&ic_campaign=widget-1 Changes to Albert Park - the hard right-hander in sector 2 which then turns left going by the lake, that's all been smoothed out a bit so it's a...

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