Grand Prix Rejects

Ferrim

I saw a documentary last year about how the modern, advanced, rich waterfront / promenade image which Azerbaijan is trying to promote via these high-profile events hides some worrying issues beneath the surface, but perhaps that's opening the usual can of worms about sport and politics and human ri...

Ferrim

Im not so sure Ferrim. By the 90s coverage of F1 was broader than in the 60s and 70s and I remember clearly Ratzenbergers death being a big feature of the evening news that Saturday night, it wouldnt be easily forgotten about. Yeah, that's a point I thought about as well. But I still think he would...

Ferrim

I might have already made this point in these forums, but I believe it's precisely Senna's death what makes Ratzenberger to be remembered, and not the other way around like we use to say. I mean, does anyone see people remembering Ricardo Paletti on June 13th? Or Elio de Angelis, who even won races,...

Ferrim

I know (and am certain a lot of people here know) a certain website from where you can find lots of old and very old races. If anyone here is interested, please private message me (my mail account is active, I will receive the messages) and I'll give you the instructions. I'm not keeping the secret ...

Ferrim

Meanwhile, in a parallel universe, the flag guy of the 2008 Brazilian GP happens to be a Brazilian with big knowledge of the F1 rulebook, who decides to wave the flag as Massa comes by to complete lap 70. This is why I must change my nomination to The Flag Man ! (Although, what an epic moment that ...

Ferrim

Can i nominate Webber for having his reputation slowly decreasing with every performance by Ricciardo? It's showing that 2013 probably was one year too many for him. Although I think he would have been closer this year, without exhausts' blowing. Anyway, it has to be between Räikkönen, McLaren and ...

Ferrim

Can't see Brawn back to be honest. He has nothing left to do in F1, and he'll probably feel too old and the next big rule change is too long in the future. It would be much pain, without guarantee of success - and even in success, he could always find himself in a situation on which he ends up displ...

Ferrim

Pérez has to win it, but it's yet another week I have to mention Hamilton - this time, I didn't expect him holding the lead. He stayed very cool after losing that much advantage.

Ferrim

Maldonado, no contest!

Ferrim

Terrific news! I fully understand he will never again be the man he was before December 29, which remains tragic. But this development probably means that there's some hope that he could recover to have a decent quality of life at some point in the future. I hadn't feel this optimistic since mid-Jan...

Ferrim

Kobayashi: I think he was clearly within 3 secs of top pace, and he made it look like his car belonged in a different category to those of the other minnows. Still not enough to reach the midfield, but then the Saubers didn't finish - he wouldn't have been that far off them. Grosjean and Hülkenberg ...

Ferrim

Considering the forums started five years ago and assuming a constant posting rate, we won't go OVER NINE THOUSAND before 2032.

Ferrim

My Twitter TL still deserves a nomination, I've now had to start unfollowing people... it seems that if a race is boring now it's all the fault of the new regulations. Meh.

I believe Sauber are a strong candidate indeed.

Ferrim

Great race today! If he can put up this kind of giant-killing performances with any regularity, it will have been worth to have him back.

Ferrim

East Londoner wrote:Massa's getting Massa'd.

Fixed.

Ferrim

2014 (after 2 races) Nico Rosberg 50 (2 wins) Nico Hülkenberg 30 (1 2nd, 1 4th) Kevin Magnussen 28 (1 2nd, 1 5th) Valtteri Bottas 27 (1 3rd, 1 4th) Danill Kyvat 16 (2 6ths) Felipe Massa 15 (1 3rd) Jean-Éric Vergne 10 (1 5th) Sergio Pérez 6 (1 7th) Romain Grosjean 6 (1 7th) Adrian Sutil 4 (1 8th) Ka...

Ferrim

The behaviour you are experiencing now is the default one, and is really annoying. I don't know what could have happened for your game to reset to default, but I guess there is some parameter within the .PLR file that you can modify to keep your car in the track after it retires. It would have been ...

Ferrim

It's clearly Hamilton vs Bottas vs Sutil here

Ferrim

Jocke1 wrote:
Shizuka wrote: Verstappen was the IIDOTR easily, I was disappointed that he only finished 7th.

And Walkinshaw weren't even there to witness his teams most competitive race in a long time!

Only if six months is "a long time" for you.

Jos finished 4th at Monza, in September the year before

Ferrim

They REALLY should move the time of Sepang. Come on! And yes, with these new cars they won't have the guts to run in heavy rain. They had trouble in the previous race and the rain was not heavy. The wets these days are a joke. OTOH, last year in Australia we saw qualifying suspended while this year...

Ferrim

And people wonder why Red Bull are disliked... Of course they won't be around indefinitely, that's exactly why the FIA shouldn't make too much to appease them.

Ferrim

Am I the only person that does not understand this, fuel flow is limited to 100kgh but they are only allowed 100kg, of Riccardo exceeded the fuel flow how did he have enough fuel to finish? Secondly how can the flow be above 100 when there is only 100kg of fuel? Well, you'd only use the 100kg of fu...

Ferrim

I'm liking the fact that all the nominations are purely for drivers and teams - quite often the first race of the season (like 2004 and 2010) it goes to something to do with the new rules which people don't like - good to see there's none of that now. i guess the wet qualifying has something to do ...

Ferrim

And while Damon's father was a world champion, Jacques' wasn't, exactly the same for Nico and Kevin respectively. Of course we cannot compare Gilles' and Jan's careers, but still is striking... So this means Rosberg Jr. is going to become 2014 world champion, after a year of domination only conteste...

Ferrim

Stewards: Ricciardo's DSQ ruined my prediction. They robbed me a potential win. Brazilian TV Coverage: spent the whole time talking about Massa/Kobayashi crash, saying that Massa lost a potential podium finish and the crash was equivalent of what Grosjean did in the Belgium Grand Prix (2012). Speci...

Ferrim

In related news, this decision moves Talent to 13th. Which is better than anything Caterham managed last year, and by the looks of it, could well settle the battle of the minnows.

Ferrim

And back for another year! 2014 (after 1 race) Nico Rosberg 25 (1 win) Kevin Magnussen 18 (1 2nd) Valtteri Bottas 15 (1 3rd) Nico Hülkenberg 12 (1 4th) Jean-Éric Vergne 10 (1 5th) Danill Kyvat 8 (1 6th) Sergio Pérez 6 (1 7th) Adrian Sutil 4 (1 8th) Esteban Gutiérrez 2 (1 9th) Max Chilton 1 (1 10th) ...

Ferrim

Personal reject - my Twitter feed. Almost no one seemed to have good words for what was a quite decent first race of the new formula. Reject Of The Race - Kamui Kobayashi. It was going all the way of Lotus until his brainfade at the first corner, which is the kind of event that usually grants a ROTR...

Ferrim

By my numbers is five/six retirements related to mechanical failures (depending on how you count Bianchi, he was running at the end but unclassified): both Lotus, Hamilton, Vettel and Ericsson. I've said somewhere that we wouldn't get more than five mechanical-induced retirements in Oz, so basically...

Ferrim

I'm not too happy from what we've seen. The session was very good but looking at the bigger picture, Red Bull are P2 with essentially no testing -and Ricciardo was also very fast on the dry, so it's not because of the weather. I believe the writing is on the wall now, and we'll back to Red Bull domi...

Ferrim

BTW, my ROTR and serious candidate to ROTY is the disappearance of sectors times from the live timing service. *... *.. Bernie!!! Rolex is F1's new timer so that may contribute to the fact that the sector times have gone. But I'm also annoyed about that. Conspiracy theory, anyone? Not a conspiracy,...

Ferrim

I hope it suffers the same fate as my bet on Massa at 6/1 in July 2008.

To this day I still curse Glock...

Ferrim

The pace of progress at Red Bull is scaring, more so given that they seemed to have progressed barely if at all during the second Bahrain test. I guess Ricciardo's performance at the second day of that test was the give away. They were still having problems (and I guess they are still more likely to...

Ferrim

For sure he is breathing unaided, there would be no hope whatsoever if it wasn't so by now. The fact that they admit that Michael is severely injured while they don't affirm that he's able to properly interact with the environment to some degree (like following an object with his eyes, for example) ...

Ferrim

There hasn't even been a wet standing start since...I wanna say China '06. Which is also somewhat ridiculous. Britain 2008 was wet at the start IMO. And what a race that turned out to be. That's the last time it started to rain cats and dogs during the race and they didn't bring out the SC. I remem...

Ferrim

To be honest, I prefer dry races these days. Nowadays, wet races consist of a few laps in a track dry enough for intermediate tyres, and everyone switching to slicks within 10 laps, after an absurdly long SC period that wasn't needed in the first place. Not my cup of tea.

Ferrim

In 1995, there were 130 mechanical failures, or ~31.1% of the entries. No year since then has beaten either figure. We can do it. It's possible. We won't get even close to that, but I will be happy if we have around five cars retiring every race because of mechanical issues. It's not like in the ol...

Ferrim

You might want to check the 2008 season results...

Ferrim

Given the problems the teams are facing during preseason testing, how many races would have taken for HRT to get their car running?

Bonus track: there may be two possible answers for this, depending on whether we talk about HRT-Renault or about HRT-Whatever.

Ferrim

My natural pessimism leads me to the following: -Renault teams take 4 or 5 races to catch up -Mid-season is competitive -Red Bull dominate the 2nd half -Vettel seemingly too far behind but then -Oh...stupid double points finish -Vettel wins again At least that would be an improvement on the awful 2...

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