Grand Prix Rejects

DanielPT

Being doing my usual digging around and found more evidence which suggests M Schumi's 1994 Silverstone penalty was way too harsh, and motivated by the need to keep the WDC alive. Senna apparently ignore several black flags at Spain 1989 without any DQ's or bans as the below story details; You could...

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It is amazing how utter garbage the eurosport report on the Monaco Grand Prix is. Even I could do better...

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Perez: Another 3rd while The Hulk is closing in on most starts without a podium.

Fernando Alonso: Drove a composed race to maximize his points haul.

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Sauber: They really didn't needed that.

Renault: In a weekend where they were bringing out a new competitive update for their engine, they had one of the most torrid races. And yet it was a bit wet yesterday.

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So for the second race running RBR somehow screws Ricciardo in tyre strategy. Well done for Lewis, he should start to come back to Rosberg now.

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Those guys at Pirelli. They either don't know how to sell their tyres or they don't really know much about their business.

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Red Bull hasn't been involved in these type of strategy races for a while. They must be really rusty.

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Aguaman wrote:The heck happened to Kimi?

He made a mistake. This was probably worse than Palmer.

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That's really poor from Palmer...

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Very disappointed at the race director and this race, really. I've told this again and tell it one more time: They would do better if they just assumed once and for all that they won't race in wet weather. Restart at another time in the day and that's it.

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It's not really anything to do with F1; the Monza owners are trying to get the circuit to an FIM Grade 1 license. I guess I jumped the shark on that one. What's worse is that I mistook the corner they will change for the parabolica and it seems they are getting rid of the first chicane which was a ...

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Since the cars cannot follow each other on high speed corners, they are simply being removed one by one from the circuits. It is the butchers solution. Doesn't work? Cut it off. I bet if they removed the one in Barcelona they would solve the lack of overtaking at the end of the main straight...

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As always there's the tantalising prospect of a rain shower, the walls are close, the cars look fast (all of them - any category), the place look great...I get very excited for Monaco in a way that just doesn't quite replicate for other races.. Is it the same for others? I always like Monaco. And a...

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tommykl wrote:The first pile-up I can remember that happened at the first corner was at the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix.

I always suspected that an old F1 hack reincarnated in you but now I am sure of it.

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At risk of coming across as being as grumpy as Jacques Villeneuve seems to be these days, am I the only one who thinks that it is a bit ridiculous for people to be running articles asking if Max Verstappen might now become the most successful driver of all time in the sport? m It reminds me of the ...

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This forum is so anti-Hamilton its disgusting, lets just blame everything on him just because we don't like him, I seem to remember Sebastian Vettel getting the same treatment when he was champion. You got it all wrong. This forum is not anti-Hamilton, this forum is anti-Hamilton's idiotic fan base...

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Carlos Sainz, Jr - Went under the radar because of others but had a great race!

Max Verstappen - Kept his composure to take advantage of Mercedes absence.

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1- Mercedes: It is always RoTR material when team-mates take each other out.

2- Sky take on the incident and overall commentary of the race: It was quite poor, to say the least.

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Now, I don't make it a secret that I do not like Max Verstappen one single bit, and a popular maiden victory won't change that. I still maintain that he was massively helped by the Mercedes incident and strategies for Ricciardo and Vettel that, in hindsight, turned out pretty badly. All he had to d...

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Amazing scenes!

Niki Lauda actually says it was Hamilton's fault but I think it was fair for Hamilton to try since he was carrying more speed. It was a racing incident.

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Is this not exactly what Alonso was talking about? Ferrari can shout and predict and complain all they want, but they haven't won a championship since 2008, and they simply can't beat Mercedes. Alonso's move - while not to a competitive team - was at least a productive step to avoid the inevitable ...

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Well, it seems I partied before time. F1 went premium on a new channel called Eurosport 2 Xtra in the 3 major cable providers in Portugal. I will still honour my vow of not giving a dime to F1 as long as Bernie is there and that is not going to change. I do not wish them luck and sincerely hope they...

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I know this probably isn't an appropriate place to post it, but I felt it would be unfair if I didn't notify anyone. For a long time already I've been slowly cutting my Internet usage, I deleted all my social media and other accounts. My ultimate goal is to live a life free of Internet; my reasonin...

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Simtek wrote:
CoopsII wrote:Is it just me or does Kvyat feel like a Reject again?

Re-rejectified?

Perhaps we can swap Carlos Sainz Jr reject status for Kvyat non-reject one?

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Honda's talking sense... What is worst and pitiful about this is that FE is proving that sound really doesn't matter in order to attract new fans. Such effort going into a thing of this irrelevance is amazing. I bet dinosaurs preferred Pangea to stay intact, yet the world still changed and they wen...

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Once again Red Bull displaying how they disgracefully treat their drivers. The lad got a podium not that long ago and had good races! But I guess they had to keep Verstappen one way or another. But they could at least done it properly. If justice is to be made, that Verstappen-Red Bull combo will ne...

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golic_2004 wrote:http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/sauber-cancels-barcelona-f1-test-733213/

Things look grim for Sauber. I just hope they can make it...

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Yes Brawn is a good place to start. I will throw in that 'miraculous' Pastor Maldonado win which is a great story given Williams and Maldonado's stories before and after.

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Lovely article from David. It was a good to remind the story of this short lived team that was once a hope for all the reject lovers!

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Kvyat takes the award here for failing to recognize he wasn't in the simulator so he cannot punt other people off road like that! Gutierrez takes the second place in my opinion, for his collision at the first corner, missing a good opportunity for contributing to the team's excellent start of the se...

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Mamma Mia! What is this? Monisha Kaltenborn becoming the team's Dancing Queen? But I would love to see somebody Take a Chance on Them because the team is full of Super Troopers. In a sport where The Winner Takes It All, I hope that this isn't Our Last Summer with Sauber. That's one pun over the lim...

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1 - Alonso: Great result. If McLaren keeps this up greater haul of points than this weekend do look possible.

2 - Magnussen: Taking advantage of others falling off to grab some decent points. And repaying the faith the team placed on him. He can be what Alonso was to the Enstone team.

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WTF did Brundle just say? Big debris-deflecting windscreens are a slippery slope to "driverless cars"? He's supposed to be one of the smart ones. Yeah... Perhaps someone failed to inform him that driverless cars will be a thing in a support race for FE next year. Anyway, the car needs a v...

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What people forget is that Bernie is more calculating than you think. If he says something, don't just take it at face value, otherwise they look like the blabberings of a Alzheimer's-addled octogenarian. Thing is, the guy is sharp. Why, at this time, was he saying that female drivers wouldn't be t...

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I will support Portugal even if we play poorly (and with Fernando 'The Greek' Santos, that is pretty much a given). But after that I will be looking forward for an Albania upset. It is the hipster choice. Iceland who? They are too mainstream 'underdog' to support. Outside the obvious names, and in a...

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I wonder if Maldonado would have made a better job with that Renault. He at least would have tried to facelift it, pursuing other aerodynamic paths. Seriously though, no. Magnussen should be at least as fast as Maldonado without being as inconsistent as the Venezuelan. As for Palmer, well, yes, I r...

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It looks like Haas, Williams, and Red Bull are going pretty aggressive with their tire strategies. Hopefully it works out. On the other hand, Ferrari seem to have gone very conservative. So I predict qualifying will be the usual shootout between the Mercs, a second ahead of the field. Then Ferrari ...

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We already had one case albeit a bit different. Kamui Kobayashi's return to Caterham was at least partially crowdfunded. If it worked for him, it can work for Haryanto. Given how the driver of the day vote goes every race, I think this is the one instance that crowdfunding could actually work (in a...

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Ataxia wrote:With those stubby little legs, I wouldn't imagine he'd be able to get over most things.

Funny you mention that. I always though he married taller women just because they are able to lift him over most things.

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From that article: and then turned to the issue of women and Formula One. “I don’t know whether a woman would physically be able to drive an F1 car quickly, and they wouldn’t be taken seriously,” he said So Bernie, you managed to outqualify Maria Teresa de Filippis at the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix, di...

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