Grand Prix Rejects

It's finally time.

Entrant: Bill Rutan
Driver: See entrant
Car: Er, this thing:

A1GP cars to return in new African series The 4.5-litre normally-aspirated Ferrari V8s will run Life Racing engine management systems in place of the original Magneti Marelli units, which did not come with the purchase of the cars. Any connection? How potentially rejectful could this be? Isn't ther...

The great Russian film Andrei Rublev is sometimes transliterated as Andrey Rublyov . Its director, the great Andrei Tarkovsky, similarly has his name rendered as "Andrey Tarkovsky", like in my copy of his book Sculpting in Time , or "Andrei Tarkovskii", like in my college library...

Pacific 777 wrote:Quite frankly, I'm getting very tired of the feminist/PC brigade trying to put pressure on everyone.

I never had the impression that Liberty were getting hot under the collar regarding the issue...

Rob Dylan wrote:
The Chicane wrote:Does anyone know if the category "Formula 5" exists?

A bit random I know.
@Simtek

Why, yes, they're racing in Marrakesh next weekend...

Do you actually have a mod for Pro Mazda, or is it just a quick sim? If the latter I will likely change it so I can actually run it on GP2. It was going to be a GP2 quicksim job, but with a 20-car entry list, so something like rFactor would probably be better if you want to do it 'properly' (either...

As the runner of North American Formula 4 I would be interested in forming an Formula 3 series, or the case of the US it could be Pro Mazda, USF2000, or Formula SCCA. Without Star Mazda we are missing a significant portion of the "Road to Indy" ladder. I thought about making NAF4 on par w...

Time to start cleaning out the drafts folder: Peter Collins handed the 1956 world title to Juan Manuel Fangio It may be the most famous act of good sportsmanship in the history of motor racing: In the 1956 Italian Grand Prix, Peter Collins, 24 years old and with what looked like a long and successfu...

The BRM team in Frankenheimer's Grand Prix was called "Jordan BRM". Fourteen years after the release of the film, the real BRM would compete under that name in the Aurora F1 Championship after its takeover by John Jordan.

And God, I remember that spam thread, I'm so glad it's under control better these days! I'm not. I think I've only seen like one really good spambot trying to pass inside these walls since being made a mod. On the subject of Turing Tests and what have you, this remains one of my favourite threads i...

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DemocalypseNow wrote:Also, here's the newly updated Mansell logo for F1;

I like it.

Me too.

I think every season has had a past, present or future British Formula 1 world champion on the grid. Also, as far as I've been made aware, this would extend to every race had Button not been DSQ'd along with BAR in 2005 and missed those two races. Not sure whether this is more of an "unusual s...

Damon Hill, the son of Graham Hill, won his championship in 1996, after having finished runner-up in both 94 and 95. Nico Rosberg, the son of Keke Rosberg, won his championship in 2016, after having finished runner-up in both 14 and 15. ...and both sons won their title 34 years after their dads won...

Well, I suppose it's about time I throw in my own two coppers: I do of course believe that the notion of "outperforming" is to (or should, usually) be taken metaphorically, but I somehow have the feeling that a genuine belief in some supernatural ability (the kind you'd expect to hear from...

Out of the circuits which produce "boring" races, I'd contend that the worst offenders are Australia, Hungary and Sochi. One of the three is a Tilke circuit. He gets an obscene amount of crap for his circuits being not conducive to good racing - especially when Bahrain and Shanghai were n...

At the Q&A section now (I didn't expect this level of dedication from you ), but to give a better picture of what the supergroup could be like, da Matta plays guitar (though we could put him on triangle and have Controversial Jacques on guitar) and Sutil is a classically trained pianist. Would h...

I don't know the exact dates, but Ascari's death was spookily similar to that of his father's. They died at the same age, with only four days difference, having won the same number of grand prixs, on the same day of the month, and also very soon after having survived serious crashes. Yeah, 26th of ...

The other day there was a (repeated) episode of Pointless with a round about "Bond films with three or more words int he title". The lowest scoring film was For Your Eyes Only, which - so the hosts tell us - is the film that always scores that low any time there's a round about Bond films...

Gentlemen, a short view back to the past: Thirty years ago, Niki Lauda told us: "Take a trained monkey, place him into the cockpit, and he is able to drive the car." Thirty years later, Sebastian Vettel told us "I had to start my car like a computer, it's very complicated", and N...

Oasis or Blur?

Chipsticks or Frazzles?

Esteban Gutiérrez or Jolyon Palmer?

How does a driver "outperform" the car he's driving? How does he take the car to "places it has no right to be"? Is it just hyperbole, or do people genuinely believe there's a certain performance level for a car that only a world champion-calibre driver can rise above? Are we doi...

How long is my parking permit good for?

Will Carlos Sainz Jr.'s child be called Carlos Sainz Jr. Jr.? Will the F1 race graphics have to be expanded to include all the Jr.'s in a few generations time? I was immediately reminded of these things from Final Fantasy VII . We'll also ramble, or in Nuppiz's case, as much as Finns can ramble, ab...

Lewis Hamilton has become only the second driver to win five world titles in a row and, much like the real title battle, this actually was more competitive than the final points table shows. In other news, look how McLaren and Williams did... 2018 WORLD DRIVERS' CHAMPIONSHIP 1. Lewis Hamilton - 42 2...

Due to the strict rules of this championship, only Charles Leclerc and Sergey Sirotkin qualified as rookies for this year's championship. And, I shite you not, these were the results:

2018
1. Sergey Sirotkin - 380
2. Charles Leclerc - 379

It's time to check in with the championship you can't take your eye off of for a second because someone could retroactively disqualify themselves at any race! This year has seen only Pierre Gasly unrejectify himself, meaning that the 2017 standings have had to be amended. Here's what they look like ...

- Sauber strategy : although all's well that ends well, Leclerc really could have finished 6th today, and moved a step closer to unrejectification. Now that he's going to Ferrari next year it looks increasingly unlikely that he will unrejectify himself in the near future. Yeah, it's certainly looki...

ROTR for me has to be Valtteri Bottas -- If he keeps this up, Ocon may actually find himself with a seat next season. Early this season Valtteri lost out on races either due to insane performances from other drivers (Vettel at Bahrain) or just sheer dumb luck (Baku). Now he's just shatteri'd the be...

I nominate Will Smith again.

dr-baker wrote:If 2018 is Year of Zayed, as the plane declared at the start of the race, then who or what is a Zayed???

He was the Emir of Abu Dhabi and the main driving force behind the Trucial States' transition into the modern United Arab Emirates. This year is the centenary of his birth.

cough

This wrote:i thought Barbazza was not a reject

dr-baker wrote:
FortiWinks wrote:How many reject father-sons have we had? As in both ended up as rejects?

Not sure it has happened? Definitely not the Hills, nor Fittipaldis, nor Verstappens, nor Rosbergs, nor Brabhams...

On the contrary...

I think Esteban Ocon and Max Verstappen should be considered as a single candidate now.

Well played. But this time we are looking at a scenario where FOM is not even looking at the U.K. or Italy. That's not what Bratches is saying though. Getting rid of either the British or Italian Grand Prix is a stupid idea and Liberty know that. The more likely scenario is that they're posturing f...

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Pacific 777 wrote:FOM Sends warning to historical circuits.

http://espn.com/f1/story/_/id/25205811/ ... c-circuits

Well. Try an F1 season without Silverstone and Monza, and see what happens. Hopefully the fans desert F1 in droves.

1980. Brands Hatch and Imola...

And that turned out to be the last season of the original World Championship. Coincidence?

Pacific 777 wrote:FOM Sends warning to historical circuits.

http://espn.com/f1/story/_/id/25205811/ ... c-circuits

Well. Try an F1 season without Silverstone and Monza, and see what happens. Hopefully the fans desert F1 in droves.

I hear VW are considering an F1 entry as well...

https://motorsports.nbcsports.com/2018/ ... n-indycar/

On the issue of mathematical models, I've never seen one (and it would be an impossible task anyway) that takes into account the fact that machinery is not always equal even for two drivers in the same team, and it was often exacerbated further in the days of teams entering three or four cars in eac...

No, this isn't a new PMMF series that I've accidentally posted into the wrong forum, Dieter Rencken has obtained a dossier laying out the rules for the proposed breakaway series that was planned by the FOCA teams for 1981: https://twitter.com/RacingLines/status/1057214689380327424 Some interesting p...

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