Grand Prix Rejects

CarlosFerreira

Well that looked like a much better race than China. The difference: harder tyres. Having tyres the drivers can actually lean on has made a lot of difference, and there was a lot of action on the track. I certainly enjoyed Perez's racy mood (I expect some might not have...). It was his first decent ...

CarlosFerreira

People need to stop beating up on Gutierrez , the lad is doing his best. Support his efforts no matter how lame they may appear. Yeah really. He's taking a lot of flak considering that it is his rookie season and he hasn't had much time to develop. Most drivers take half a season to really shine. W...

CarlosFerreira

Really goof to see Caterham beating Marussia. Last weekend Pic was already close to Bianchi in the race, and now there may be some possibility of actually doing. Whatever of the two teams you support, it's good to see a genuine fight. Meanwhile, the Bottas-Maldonado thing... The weirdest thing was ...

CarlosFerreira

Espargaro does a 2:06.1 to go as fast as Rossi's combined practice He is just 0.009 behind Rossi in qualifying, Espagaro is on the 3rd row (9th) on a CRT bike. It is hard to make an equivalent to F1 but I would liken that to making it to Q2 in a GP2 car! Insane pace. The next CRT bike is 1.5 second...

CarlosFerreira

Pic beat the Marussias outright and GvDG just a tenth away from Bianchi. Caterham back on the rise? As it's been noted earlier, Bahrain is one of Caterham's strongest tracks. That being said though, they sure did look much better in the last 20 minutes than they have for all of this year so far. Pi...

CarlosFerreira

FP1: 1. Marc Marquez ESP Repsol Honda Team (RC213V) 2m 8.756s 2. Jorge Lorenzo ESP Yamaha Factory Racing (YZR-M1) 2m 9.009s 3. Dani Pedrosa ESP Repsol Honda Team (RC213V) 2m 10.356s 4. Andrea Dovizioso ITA Ducati Team (GP13) 2m 10.665s 5. Nicky Hayden USA Ducati Team (GP13) 2m 10.801s 6. Valentino ...

CarlosFerreira

This is the internet, you either 'fan' or you 'hate' [/sarcasm] Unlike several other people I don't consider hate to be that strong of a word and it annoys me to no end when people say it is as bad as swearing. [/pointlessofftopicrant] This is what happens: I am not from the Internet, so for me &qu...

CarlosFerreira

I really hope Raikkonen gets the second Red Bull seat. I thought you hated Raikkonen. I think he would give Vettel a good run for his money but would not get along with the team and their Vettel favouritism. He doesn't seem like the sort of person who would like being #2. My point exactly. The pote...

CarlosFerreira

I really hope Raikkonen gets the second Red Bull seat.

CarlosFerreira

the Masked Lapwing wrote:So what's your opinion on Pastor's talent?

I hear he is very good at darts, billiard and has over time developed a good sprint to the finish line in 1500m indoors.

Racing F1 cars? I'd rather see my mother have a go. She'd crash just as much, but at least it would be amusing.

CarlosFerreira

CoopsII wrote:But comments on the bloody X-Factor are OK?

Let 'em have it!

CarlosFerreira

People, I'm sure there is something about abstaining from political discussions in the forum's Code of Conduct. Really, let's all drop this conversation about whose MPs do what and where, and stick to discussing F1. For those who want to continue the political discussion: Joe Saward has a tasty post...

CarlosFerreira

Has anyone thought so far this season that Bottas might actually be a pretty solid F1 driver? He has beat his more experienced, race winning teammate every time this year. Maybe the car is just that bad. At least I'd like to think this is the case... I'm on this boat. He's ridden through the proble...

CarlosFerreira

I'm going for Pastor Maldonado . It's Bottas 3x0 Maldonado at the moment but this time Bottas beat him because Maldonado was simply slow. And this is more rejectful than Gutierrez forgetting how to use brakes.... how, exactly? I mean, Maldonado didn't even hit anything this weekend! Because Gutierr...

CarlosFerreira

DanielPT wrote:Fantasy Racers 2013: Chinese GP Update

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Personal League table: 422th out of 1278 leagues (2038 points). Jumped another 58 places!

What? This is no good, people! We should be in the bottom, this is F1 Rejects. Get you excrement together, everyone!

CarlosFerreira

Except for the fact that Villeneuve was a decent driver while Hamilton is the fastest man on the grid, yeah, the similarities are quite striking.

CarlosFerreira

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:
roblomas52 wrote:
CarlosFerreira wrote:An American commentator having a go at a young Mexican expat. Not cringeworthy at all.

That may have to be my Sig

Even though it's factually incorrect?

Oh let's not let the facts get in the way of a good story.

CarlosFerreira

Grosjean : Again, a more experienced teammate making the man look very ordinary, except unlike Perez, Grosjean doesn't have the "bad car", "teammate favored" or "first season at the team" cards in his deck of excuses. Honestly, I think Kimi is being favored in the team...

CarlosFerreira

tommykl wrote:
CarlosFerreira wrote:An American commentator having a go at a young Mexican expat. Not cringeworthy at all.

David Hobbs is British...

Ooops.

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:
CarlosFerreira wrote:An American commentator having a go at a young Mexican expat. Not cringeworthy at all.

Hobbs is British...

Ooops again.

CarlosFerreira

Ricciardo: genuinely surprising. It's taken him almost two seasons, but this might have been that watershed performance that the British press has been anticipating for years. Let's see if he gets his head and luck in order from now on. I honestly don't have a second vote. I want to give it to Hulk...

CarlosFerreira

go_Rubens wrote:
johnnyCarwash wrote:Then Perez driving all over the place....

Over here in the U.S, commentator David Hobbs claimed that Perez was a moving chicane. Can't blame him.

An American commentator having a go at a young Mexican expat. Not cringeworthy at all.

CarlosFerreira

Ataxia wrote:What on earth happened to Hulkenberg at the end? He dropped like a stone towards the end...

I'm curious about the same thing myself. For a while he was on Vettel's pace, and then the thing faded after they put him on the prime tyres. I wonder if he was nursing some problem.

CarlosFerreira

This is a difficult one. Gutierrez didn't cover himself in glory, but he did emulate the great Schumacher. Silly, but he was fighting for position, on full tanks, during his third F1 race. Even Sutil didn't sound exceedingly cross with it on the BBC interview afterwards. Stuff happens. In the end I ...

CarlosFerreira

As I type this, the Chinese GP has just finished. I want to highlight something interesting: the teams that went for the monkey business of not qualifying on the fastest tyre in order to start on the prime - McLaren, Sauber,and most especially Red Bull - didn't seem to get any advantage from it. The...

CarlosFerreira

It's really sad to see. Williams almost compromised Hulkenberg's career with the godawful car they gave him a few years ago, I hope they don't end up doing the same for Bottas. It really pains me to see them suffering so. The 2010 Williams was not godawful. It was a solid midfield machine - it was ...

CarlosFerreira

Shizuka wrote:Well, the qualifying itself was a farce. A waiting game turned into "we are all only doing one run".

And I shall nominate the same. Caveat: this might give us a cracking race, but I felt pathetic watching that qualifying session.

CarlosFerreira

Damn, snap oversteering on air by Bottas. That Williams is awful. It's really sad to see. Williams almost compromised Hulkenberg's career with the godawful car they gave him a few years ago, I hope they don't end up doing the same for Bottas. It really pains me to see them suffering so. The 2010 Wi...

CarlosFerreira

I think most people will have read Webber's take on the tyres already, but here it is anyway: It will all look good in the first five or six laps, having everyone fighting, but it's a little bit WWF at the moment," said Webber, referring to the former name of the World Wrestling Entertainment s...

CarlosFerreira

Shizuka wrote:Damn, snap oversteering on air by Bottas. That Williams is awful.

It's really sad to see. Williams almost compromised Hulkenberg's career with the godawful car they gave him a few years ago, I hope they don't end up doing the same for Bottas.

It really pains me to see them suffering so.

CarlosFerreira

I've been puzzling with regards to the tyre situation for this year. The softer rubber has been consistently too soft - it was so in Australia, less so in Malaysia, and now again in China the tyres are visibly coming apart after a few laps. Drivers with different styles and cars, such as Hamilton an...

CarlosFerreira

That was all I watched as a young teenager, I didn't bother with F1 from about 2000 until around 2006, with a few exceptions in 2004 when Button was going well. If it came to a choice between F1 and MotoGP, the latter won hands down every time. Watching Rossi take the M1 to the championship first t...

CarlosFerreira

So, ROTR people? I'd either go with Smith - because he really needed to finish that race and accumulate the mileage and points for Tech 3 -, or with Pedrosa - for being convincingly beaten by Marquez on the very first race, undoing all the good work of last year and putting himself firmly on the way...

CarlosFerreira

I'm not a fan of Rossi, but it was very good to see him back. It was a classic performance, putting in laps which were consistently faster than the opposition for 3/4 of the race. Makes you wonder if he wouldn't have had a go at Lorenzo if he hadn't tried to out-brake Dovi (a trick only people like ...

CarlosFerreira

It would definitely be cool to see the smaller manufacturers come in and make chassis and fit a Honda or Yamaha engine into the frame - there's loads out there - Bimota as you say, but also why not the other way too, and have Aprillia or BMW come in just supplying engines for chassis builders like ...

CarlosFerreira

Away from the on-track action Yamaha have announced they'll be leasing M1 engines out to CRT teams from 2014. This is excellent news, and exactly the sort of thing I've been banging on about ever since they introduced the CRT formula to MotoGP. Now the factory teams will effectively become engine s...

CarlosFerreira

I do hope cal does good given that Britain's last great was of course the late Barry Sheen The simple fact that Cal is a Superbikes man doing well in MotoGP makes me happy. There is hope for people with different riding styles. I hope Ben Spies recovers from the damage to his should quickly, he is ...

CarlosFerreira

Looks like Honda's form has been dropping, and when it came to it in Qualifying in Losail, the Yamahas are better. Looking forward to Crutchlow giving Lorenzo a run for his money tomorrow. I hope he doesn't start the race on a "win it or bin it" mood...

CarlosFerreira

I like the concept of DRS. I just wished the Championship leader wasn't allowed to use it. Or better, that Vettel was banned from using it whenever he is in the top 10. It's all very nice releasing the fast cars, but I resent that it releases the fastest car.

CarlosFerreira

lgaquino wrote:
CarlosFerreira wrote:I think Horner's biggest lie is to say that Vergne or Ricciardo have a shot at a Red Bull seat for 2014.

did he really say that?

I'm pretty sure he did...

CarlosFerreira

I think Horner's biggest lie is to say that Vergne or Ricciardo have a shot at a Red Bull seat for 2014.

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