Grand Prix Rejects

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mario wrote:It does come across as a very deliberate tactic to target him as much as possible,

Yeah, it's an unusual approach. My opinion is that he's observed the way the world's turned and he's taking the opportunity to be the racist prick he's probably always been.

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Bottas - Wouldn't it be simpler to just hand your notice in at Merc rather than all this?
FIA Race Director - Reprimanding Vettel (and three others) for wearing a t-shirt during the national anthem. It's 2021, it's a t-shirt, sit down.

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Oh yes, Christian 'The biggest crybaby in F1' Horner, trying to cause as much trouble for Mercedes as he possibly can. The trouble is he's making it personal against Hamilton, rather than Mercedes, which is why Hamilton was booed at the weekend. He's a big boy and he can take it but unless Horner d...

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m So this is new. In the ongoing attempt at stirring up trouble Horner has now listed, essentially, how much Lewis Hamilton has cost Red Bull Racing. Ironically, it's a pretty cheap ploy in a sport where if you're not pissing money away why did you even show up. Dietrich Mateschitz is worth nearly 2...

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My ‘rant’ is that you don’t get many F1 jokes, do you? Here’s one Ive just been sent by a Jock relation…

Have you noticed how many Formula One drivers have names linked to Scottish towns?

Stirling Moss, Lewis Hamilton, Eddie Irvine……Ayr Town centre...

Oh please yourselves

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If I may give my verdict on Sprint Race Qualifying Race Bonanza, a.k.a. The Sprint , I didn't hate it but it didn't feel necessary, either. Old Man Trivia - I remember Saturday 'Sprint Races' being put forward as an idea in 1995 by Flavio Briatore. I think the BTCC had featured at Silverstone that ...

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1 - Christian Horner - Drop the faux-outrage mate. Sit down.
2 - Toto Wolff - Emails? Get out and don't come back.

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^I’d put that firmly on the Olympiacos car there, the gap was never there.

It’s a pity my local Macclesfield Town FC were never given the chance to field a car, it’s just down the road from the Merc garage……

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Yeah, that was great and thank you for reminding me about A1GP, I’d totally forgotten THAT was a thing.

Maybe it’s time for a “Most Forgettable Racing Series” Thread. You could put that silly football team one in it too.

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Hah, yeah and one day I’ll tell my grandchildren of that time The Matrix glitched and Felipe Massa and Felipe Nasr raced at the same time.

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That was great, loved it. Poor old Bourdais but I guess he was always destined to be 'That Other Sebastian' if he'd lasted longer in F1. Once again F1 makes Indycar look easy by comparison.

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It must be one of the "most anonymous wins" of all time. I'm not sure whether it was because his career faded out slowly rather than quickly. I'm trying to think of other examples now! Despite the win Trulli was sacked by Briatore before the season was over and, I think, he ended up with ...

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Not a stint and not a driver but did anyone else forget Trulli won Monaco? I read it in a 'Monaco winners article' over the weekend but thought, that's not right, they mean Panis in 96, don't they? But, no, his one and only win was Monaco seventeen years ago.

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Not sure how to remember Max, to be honest. Definitely helped shape F1 as we know it but it was a pretty ignoble exit from the sport.

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^ Reminds me of an interesting article I read about The Walking Dead some time back. Since it's beginning the amount of viewers has steadily decreased until it's significantly lower than ever. However, those viewers that are still watching are in the valuable market they want (late 20s to late 30s, ...

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Lewis Hamilton is #8 on the Forbes Stupid-Rich Sporty People List below.. m ...nice work if you can get it, obviously, but what surprised me was that compared to where MSC used to figure Back In The Day TM he's really far down the list. I'm pretty sure Schumacher was usually either first or second (...

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Number Two Demotion.......to Williams.....

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It always seems strange to me to hear of “fans” getting bored of F1 being dominated by Mercedes / Red Bull / Ferrari / McLaren / Williams etc as it makes me think they’re missing the point of it.

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Well, I guess the numbers are down but the ones that still watch F1 are the important ones, the ones they want, demographics etc.

Plus there's probably other ways of watching that aren't measurable, online highlights clips etc.

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This here article...
https://motorsportbroadcasting.com/tag/ratings/
..very proudly boasts how high SKYs viewing figures were soaring with an average of 1.98 million.

1.98 million? I know I'm an old twat with failing memory but I'm sure 1 hour qualifying on BBC used to get more than that?

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dr-baker wrote:I never expected this thread to get to 100,000 views...

Bots be bots

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It might be very difficult commercially but I feel that we really need to have non-championship Formula 1 events in the calendar . I agree with this because I think it'll be the junior drivers that'll be fielded. Hamilton, Verstappen etc won't want to risk an injury/won't see the point if there's n...

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Whilst I did enjoy Russell boinking Bottas on the skid-lid afterwards it looked pretty 50/50 to me.

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It's very rare these days that we get a driver like Mazepin in F1. He has the potential to end up with a Memorial Forum named after him if he keeps this up. Just enjoy it, he may well be on verge of something spectacularly Rejectful this season.

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1 Mazepin - Fantastic, I hope he does this all year.
2 Vettel - New team but same old 'Don't You Know Who I Am?' approach to other F1 cars on the track.

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Well, rather obviously I'd quite like to kick back with Deletraz Sr and ask what, exactly, he thought he was doing?

Beyond that, I'd ask Montoya about his, ahem, "tennis injury"

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I've not watched him race (yet) but I'd always heard that he was among those "worst ever" drivers lists, not that they mean very much. Yup, it's a pity those sorts of lists never take into consideration factors like 'First Season In F1' , 'Ayrton Senna's Team-Mate' or 'Entire Lotus Team C...

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Wow. One wow for the stats above and another for the wealth of knowledge the members here have.

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That’s Jonny Dumfries to you and me. Just 62, what a shame .

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Thanks for sharing that Londoner, I hadn't seen it since May 1994 and it definitely brought that weekend back to me. To be fair, I thought Palmer gave a great and measured response too. Looking back he was an underrated commentator as well as a driver. What's amazing about Murray Walker is that fans...

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I know I shouldn't be sad, 97 is a long life well lived but even so...

The older you get the crapper it all is.

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Is this year's Ferrari livery their worst one yet? https://twitter.com/ScuderiaFerrari/status/1369646574557618177 I don't know about y'all, but that green is pure.. Also, shout-out to the whole site debacle for the launch. Ferrari, please, I am free to hire and I won't turn your website into a sham...

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Rob Dylan wrote:It does remind me distinctly of a certain national flag........ probably just a coincidence.

It's quite surprising (in a not-very-surprising way) that such an All-American team would want to look so Russian.

It's like Rocky beating Drago was a waste of time. Creed Sr died for nothing....

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Patrick Friesacher.

The guy's forty now. Middle aged. He could've walked past me in the street earlier and I wouldn't have batted an eyelid. And not just because we'd both be masked up.

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Rumours that Nico Hulkenberg was seen fleeing the scene laughing maniacally have not been confirmed.

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I've pondered this opinion myself a few times over the years without really coming to a conclusion either way. One thing I do think is that Mosley and Ecclestone got away with much of their approach through familiarity. These two guys had known nearly all the team principals since the halcyon days o...

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Sprint races? Sounds like EA Sports have taken over the decision making at Liberty.

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This thing's had more comebacks than Nigel Mansell. Is this now your McLaren 1995 phase? Or are you up to the Jordan 1996 test already?

Either way, it's great you're back. The world needs Rejects.

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Just a thought; this years F1 video game is going to be either a)factually incorrect or b)really weird.

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I'm just pondering if everyone is OK, I hope everyone is OK. Listen to the advice and be sensible and stay safe.

And if you're alone and struggling, reach out online if necessary. There's always someone about.

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