Grand Prix Rejects

DanielPT

It's been calculated that Haryanto needs 12.4 million text messages to keep his drive. From what I've read, most of the money has been paid up, there's this additional element required to keep his seat that isn't coming from sponsors, hence the fundraiser. Indonesian source (not sure on reliability...

DanielPT

Great Scott! Manor actually started to chose their tyres in Russia instead of going with the default option! Manor FTP!

DanielPT

Just my 2 cents here, but Hamilton was 29 points behind with 7 races to go in 2014 and still managed to turn it around, so being 36 behind with 18 races to go, while not ideal is really doesn't change Hamilton championship bid. If anything, this situation is good for the championship. As for the rac...

DanielPT

I will go with Kvyat (10) for the nice podium and Haryanto (6) for not finishing last!

DanielPT

I would go with Vettel before Palmer, but that is my view. Vettel had a very rejectful moment in hitting his team-mate and then tried to gallantly pin the blame on someone else. Sure Palmer had a bad race and was very poor but being beaten by Manor's is not what it used to be (although being beaten ...

DanielPT

About time someone recognized Christian Fittipaldi's huge talent!

DanielPT

And now Williams are having trouble with tyres coming off the rim (if you believe Pirelli) or punctures (if you believe Williams). This doesn't look good. Hopefully Williams don't have a fatal flaw with their wheels causing their problem. I'd hate to see them have to sit out this race. I mentioned ...

DanielPT

Seen the adverts and I see no problems with them. I mean, I was surprised to see an advertisement for a 'Fleshlight' on a family forum but if it pays the bills. Ads are served by the network based on the browsing history of the individual users. That's quite some insight into your personal life the...

DanielPT

Haas, you are awesome, I love you: http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/haas-says-formula-1-is-full-of-whiners-687204/ I never gave much attention to Gene Haas, but I find myself increasingly liking his stance. It was something I think F1 needed to hear more often although, he might be a single voice ...

DanielPT

I really don't think the FIA would care if they lost Sauber. They haven't won any championship (or races even if you count BMW Sauber as a separate entity) so from the FIA's perspective, they would not be losing any "history" if Sauber were to fold. It seems that they would be happy to lo...

DanielPT

He may be strictly speaking wrong there in that in football at least various small rule tweaks have happened down the years - mostly around the offside rule, but I do like the fact that if I watch a match and it finishes 0-0 then commentators, pundits, fans, whoever won't be moaning about how shite...

DanielPT

IF Sauber falls out of the sport, it should be a wake up call for the FIA. It will be a sad, sad day for F1 to see a team like Sauber forced to pack up. I mean, for teams like HRT and Caterham it was just a matter of time before it happened, just like so many other teams who enter the sport and nev...

DanielPT

I have the feeling Williams will mess with the strategies again despite having and interesting set of tyres. Well, what's new? I feel that they cannot mess it forever. On pure odds only. Someday they will nail it! So why not China? If they do it now, maybe they can get it right again in Silverstone...

DanielPT

From what I could see today adds are now present in the website. Only saw one per page and they are discret enough for not to become a nuisance. All in all, I am perfectly fine with how it turned out so far.

DanielPT

The problem is the larger teams complaining about lapping backmarkers and those backmarkers bringing the sport into disrepute. Both of which are total rubbish as backmarkers these days are far more compliant than the likes of Arnoux and Grouillard and those backmarkers still get virtually no TV cov...

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tommykl wrote:I'll echo the above. While I won't say I enjoy advertising (who really does?), it's hardly noticeable in those implementations, and if it means we can afford a better plan, it's at worst a necessary evil.

I will make tommykl's words mine.

DanielPT

dinizintheoven wrote:
DanielPT wrote:I think that in order to have that caption, you will also need to be British or have British passport. And while it is not mandatory, it is recommended that you belong to the female gender.

And do ye also haf tae haf ein mehr-als-vee bit of ein Churman eccent, ye ken?

Doesn't hurt your chances!

DanielPT

"The car has too much downforce". Chanoch Nissany would be proud! And talking of him, I noticed Channel 4 had Susie Wolff as a "Former F1 driver" in their caption introducing her. Does that mean the great Israeli is also a former F1 driver in their eyes, along with other Minardi...

DanielPT

IceG wrote:Do they still owe Räikkönen anything from 2001?

They still owe us another Kobayashi like driver, so they better still be around until then!

DanielPT

One misconception I had back in the days I started watching formula 1 was thinking that Ferrari was the best team. I still remember asking my father the reason why Ferrari didn't win more. I am sure (but can't remember) that his answer was along these lines: "they're s*** now son, but they are ...

DanielPT

Grosjean finished in 3rd place in his 2012 season in GP2, behind Luiz Razia and Davide Valsecchi. I think it is safe to assume that you meant Gutierrez instead of Grosjean . And he would have been a contender too for the Championship in the year after had he not come into F1 at the end of 2012. He ...

DanielPT

They're not gimmicky though, the titanium was introduced to replace the metals previously used in the skid block which would fragment and potentially cause some damage. Since titanium is lighter, there's a reduced possibility of this. Furthermore, titanium is "softer" than say, steel, so ...

DanielPT

Am I the only one who enjoy those sparks? I mean it added a sense of speed. Nope, you're not the only one. I love them. I remember wishing for them to come back during the Schumacher era, I even thought about setting up a petition to return to titanium skid blocks around about 2005. I can't tell yo...

DanielPT

Personally, I don't see the point of a works team being the junior team to another, I just believe that if you're a works team you're subservient to no other teams. Except when you depend on them completely to be midfield competitive like some are. And sure, you can be cheeky and managed to beat th...

DanielPT

So you gave up on a sort of immortality only to be murdered at the hands of a twisted mentat. Curious choice. The only thing left to discover is who will play the twisted mentat role here. Nyck de Vries? You don't understand, Jenoch has my wife imprisoned and is threatening to send her back to me! ...

DanielPT

The results are now online! It was an utterly comprehensive 'victory' for the boys from Silverstone. Hmm, I think I'll wait for Jenochs award. Yeah, DanielPT I just went Full Doctor Yueh. So you gave up on a sort of immortality only to be murdered at the hands of a twisted mentat. Curious choice. T...

DanielPT

It is a good option: Sauber have existing facilities and an existing workforce, whereas Haas had to be built from the ground up, which at the end of the day is far more expensive. Furthermore, Haas would most likely not be interested in running under the Alfa Romeo name, as it goes completely again...

DanielPT

How long until the tedious 'three car team' concept rears its ugly noggin again? I give it until Bernie find this thread and decides it's such a great idea it gets implemented for the next race. No need for it. With Red Bull effectively owning two teams, Mercedes edging closer to Manor and if March...

DanielPT

dr-baker wrote:
Rob Dylan wrote:Put my vote for the greatest driver of all time.

Ukyo Katayama?

How dare you! Shall the mightiest of mighty strike you down with a papaya-lighting.

DanielPT

I also go with 1- Wehrlein as he did light up the grand prix weekend. Great Performance from him, and 2- Vandoorne because scoring his team first points when two former WDC use to drive for the team is awesome. He was also less anonymous than his team-mates usually are, but that might have been due ...

DanielPT

Ten for Force India and and 6 for Williams for reasons written elsewhere.

DanielPT

I think it was a decent race with lots of fights in the midfield and awesome MRT coverage! It all came through for a relaxed late afternoon victory for Rosberg. Ferrari is indeed closer to Mercedes than at this time last year, yet like the pre season test indicated, it was at the cost of reliability...

DanielPT

Herbert calls for Alonso to retire. Why does he hate Alonso as much as Keith hated Maldonado? I like Johnny but here he's talking bollocks. All Fernando needs to do is point to Johnny's final season in F1 which, unless I'm misremembering was pretty much utterly terrible. He could then turn round an...

DanielPT

April fools' day! A McLaren finished 3rd in race weekend session!

DanielPT

Let's look at the positives here. At least it seems pretty tight between those behind Mercedes so we could still have a good race for the last podium.

DanielPT

After having a couple of days to percolate, I'll leave with this. I stand by any of the minor contributions to that article I made, and I still think it's a fun piece. However, I understand the criticism. I think that these articles have a future, but I don't necessarily think they should be on thi...

DanielPT

Shame on you. You could at least have warned Schumacher to stop skying as it is dangerous. And sabotage the Sauber before the Japanese GP to prevent him to make the grid. Oh, and prevent 9/11, Paris, Bruxelles and the invasion of Iraq. Erm. Try to keep it light DPT and avoid references to events th...

DanielPT

It's been a while since this thread was updated, so I want to mention Haas' fabulous 6th place finish in Australia. Even given the high finish, I expect their main goal over at least the next few races will still be just bringing the cars home in one piece. And here's hoping that Grosjean made a si...

DanielPT

Wow, Solarcold, thanks for telling us about this. I've just booked a flight and race tickets now. It was very expensive and I'm pretty sure I'll be divorced when I get home but I just couldn't miss what should be a legendary race weekend! Don't worry, you can just use your time machine bringing mon...

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Seriously, for someone who drove for shite teams the vast majority of his career, his words are blasphemous. While I know he's a quasi deity on here, I have to say it: Go Home Mark Webber! Agreed. I just made a time machine and went back to 2002 just to tell a reporter (in French) that we shoudn't ...

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