Grand Prix Rejects

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If I have two beans and then I add two more beans, what do I have?

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Conan, what is best in life?

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https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/140261/vandoorne-will-be-mercedes-f1-simulator-driver Call me an idiot, but does being a 'simulator driver' mean literally anything? Vandoorne will be Mercedes' 'simulator driver' in 2019, whatever that means. It's like the motorsport equivalent of music venues not...

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dinizintheoven wrote:one Williams (a 1903 FW08C as tested by some bloke called Senna to see if he would be any good at this F1 lark)

Never heard of him.

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Thread archeology! I hadn't looked at BOSS GP in a couple of years and I just had a look at the website. It's looking quite healthy and there are still some very interesting cars racing in it. I may have to have a look at the 2019 calendar and see if I can find a way to go one of the races or, even ...

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Not that related to F1, but the 2003 International F3000 season has to have the worst driver lineup in any second-tier feeder series' existence. It really says something about the quality of the field when Gary Paffett - who only did one race, finished 14th and placed second-bottom in the champions...

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Unfortunately I couldn't make it to the museum. I could really only do it on 1 day but my car failed its MOT the day before. That was fun. I spent the day that I would have gone to the museum with dinizintheoven dicking around with an airbag sensor. dinizintheoven went and said it was alright, despi...

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I'll avoid the Verstappen and / or Ocon options and I'll go for McLaren. Embarassing. Until recently, McLaren had 3 things that could conceivably still classify them as a top team: 1) a factory engine 2) a top driver 3) history 1 was gone at the end of last year, 2 is going very soon and 3 is more a...

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Money is no excuse anymore, because apparently Kubica now brings the same amount of backing as Sirotkin. It seems like the team have clearly stated their intent to go with skill over money by signing Russell, so if money is not the issue, they would be crazy not to go with Robert. Money never neede...

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He is very much alive. There are retractions all over the web. Apparently RTL cocked it up and all other outlets just repeated the story.

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113. Thanks to yannicksamlad I knew that surnames only worked.

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good_Ralf wrote:Sean Gelael has been given an FP1 outing by Toro Rosso for Austin. Is there some significance in this?

Yes, he has copious amounts of money through his father, who owns a crapload of KFC franchises in Southeast Asia and quite a few construction companies.

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Sounds like a plan!
I can’t leave too late because I have a 3-hour drive to get back home.

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Eish! I've never been to the Donington Collection and with it (still) practically on my doorstep, I should. Keep us posted, I'll turn up whenever needed. Hey Jim! 26th of October. I’m aiming to leave home in Kent nice and early and be at the museum for opening time and stay as long as possible. I c...

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These are great! Thank you for making them and sharing them!

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With the recent unfortunate news of the closing of the Donington Collection on the 5th of November I think this is the time to visit. I've been twice before but I don't want to miss the opportunity of going one more time. I'm thinking of friday the 2nd of November or possibly the 26th of October. (e...

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Williams because I didn't notice they were there all weekend.

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I'm doing a reverse nipping out and I'm back, hopefully for a while.
How has everyone been?

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How much more of the Toro Rosso nonsense is Red Bull prepared to put up with? This is a result of there no being no consequences to the actions and / or inactions of Toro Rosso. There is zero pressure on the team to succeed or fail. I continue to be surprised at how long Red Bull has held on to Toro...

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Definitely Toro Rosso. This is embarassing. How much more of this nonsense is Red Bull prepared to put up with? This is a result of there no being no consequences to the actions and / or inactions of Toro Rosso. There is zero pressure on the team to succeed or fail. I continue to be surprised at how...

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I don't understand why Red Bull doesn't tell Ricciardo to stay home and puts Gasly in the car. This would allow Toro Rosso to try out Wehrlein, Kvyat or whoever-the-hell-will-get-the-drive-in-2019 to get some time in the car. Red Bull is safely in 3rd place, won't be 2nd and can't be beaten by Rena...

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I don't understand why Red Bull doesn't tell Ricciardo to stay home and puts Gasly in the car. This would allow Toro Rosso to try out Wehrlein, Kvyat or whoever-the-hell-will-get-the-drive-in-2019 to get some time in the car. Red Bull is safely in 3rd place, won't be 2nd and can't be beaten by Renau...

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Precisely, good sir.

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Unfortunately tax avoidance is legal, while evasion is a crime. The current UK tax law is far too lax so it allows for several means of avoiding tax for those are willing and can afford to exploit them.

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The 2021 engine regulations will not be very different from the current ones. It would be unthinkable to force the current manufacturers to design completely different engines. We will have roughly the same engines. What I would like to see is a 'rapprochement' (sorry, I've been writing in French a ...

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In Portugal, I grew up with Jose Miguel Barros, Paulo Solipa and occasionally Domingos Piedade. Jose Miguel Barros was very knowledgeable, as he was an accredited F1 reporter and was the editor-in-chief of a Portuguese motorsport newspaper (Autosport, the Portuguese one, not the obvious one). Solipa...

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Here you go:

https://gprejects.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... on#p150923

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Excellent read. Thanks for sharing this!
I was a very interested spectator at the crash test for the Benetton at the Cranfield Impact Centre in January of 2001.

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Another MasterCard Lola jacket came up this week on eBay. I was the first bidder on Friday, but I was then without internet/wifi until this afternoon. The bidding closed at midday yesterday. I lost. It eventually went for £32 plus £8 p&p. And there were two bids in the last 5 seconds... shite I...

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Great read bigears! Thank you for compiling this! So many interesting tidbits in there: Onyx had an Italian sponsor lined up for 1989? Lehto was lined up to join Scuderia Italia for 1989, but Marlboro blocked it? John Watson was going to test the Onyx in 1989? Eric van de Poele was going to drive in...

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Ataxia wrote:Eddie Jordan is talking a lot of sense.

This does make sense. Must have been ghost-written.

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Well, peteroli34 and AxelP800 have both got half of the answer right - it was indeed the brakes which Villeneuve wrecked, with Forghieri noting that the car came back with the discs glowing white hot and the pads disintegrating. As for the number of laps, it took Gilles just 3 laps to comprehensive...

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RonDenisDeletraz wrote:I actually genuinely quite like Organic Life.

Burn the witch!

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Greetings from New York. Amidst a bout of insomnia last night, Saw a Twitter post from @WhenF1WasDifferent linking here to the long post about Lola's colossal failure in F1 and immediately knew I had to join. I recently found the F1Archives Vimeo channel and have been hooked on the old uploads, esp...

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I agree with the Keith thing. I'm guilty of it a lot but heck I've moved on from that site. It's worse than First Take on ESPN. Your comment shows though and a lot of people support your argument. Keith has his own agenda that he wants F1 his way otherwise it's not F1, so let him be that little kid...

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Another book I'm currently reading is Nigel Mansell's new autobiography. I'm at the point in the book where he's in his Indycar days. The book is very much written as you'd imagine Nigel would write it. Almost comes across a bit condescending at times, as if he's telling the story to an eight year ...

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I hesitate to nominate McLaren-Honda because I honestly didn't think it would be any different. A year of pain was to be expected but also necessary to establish a starting point. I think Honda will be much faster next year because they had a bad year and I still think that McLaren made the right de...

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Another book I'm currently reading is Nigel Mansell's new autobiography. I'm at the point in the book where he's in his Indycar days. The book is very much written as you'd imagine Nigel would write it. Almost comes across a bit condescending at times, as if he's telling the story to an eight year ...

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Rob Dylan wrote:Currently making my way through the Mark Webber autobiography I got for my birthday. Great read, well written, very entertaining. Highly recommend you guys pick up a copy if you're a fan of the guy.

I finished it last week. Really enjoyed it, especially the pre-Formula 1 stuff.

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I can confirm that I received not 1, but 2 presents! Thank you very much guys!

My present has departed today, with my apologies for tardiness.

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