Grand Prix Rejects

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Alex Mason: the motorsport years.

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To mario: Oh, I see. Hmmph. The publications I read certainly like fudging with the dates just to make an article. Thank you for clearing that up, anyhow. That's odd: the power band was that narrow? Never knew that. And to you, ibsey, excellent work finding that article. Isn't it weird how today the...

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A non-reject example that springs to mind from my aforementioned favorite era is the Brabham BT52, especially in its legendary qualifying trim. In a world without ground effects, a power-weight ratio of 3000 HP/tonne would be terrifying to try to rein in, especially in the wet. I've seen rFactor sim...

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Ostensibly this was right before the Smooth Criminal dance number.

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Autobots, Megatron is faster than you! Can you confirm...

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I think they should look at the possibility of an engine revving to 20000 rpm, have the limiter on it, but at any given point in the race, a team has the option, if they so wish, to temporarily remove it for a period of five laps. This would be similar to a batting powerplay in one day cricket. The...

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Bernie's masterplan: play in the circuit's speakers the sound of the old V10s. Everyone's happy. End. While flooding the track with sprinklers at dawn... And marshalls are drinking moonshine and jumping to the track completely drunk with tartan skirts and playing bagpipes... No, tell you what. One ...

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Oh, really? Figures my knowledge of those years was that spotty. ...admittedly, my knowledge of the 1982 season is limited to some snarky recaps of the races at Long Beach and Monaco. What other year, if any, did the 126C series run that funky asymmetrical, extra-wide wing? Perhaps the one I was loo...

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With Vettel looking on, Lewis Hamilton prepares to perform his famous "talking through my butt" pre-race ritual.

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In my mind, the 126C2 had the makings of a good F1 car to break the cycle of almosts and downright failures from 1979 to 2000 but never lived up to the promise. It had the speed to quite possibly take on the Brabhams, but weird wings, lacking chassis dynamics and other things killed whatever advanta...

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Five dolla footlong!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmYQKXNSHXg
It lives!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ9hBtG7dVg
Never mind.

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The World's Most Dangerous Game.
Of Frogger.

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http://img1.auto-motor-und-sport.de/Jerez-Test-2011-f830x554-F4F4F2-C-84f1df23-454158.jpg Vettel's name for his savagely-fast X2010 chassis? "HRRRRGLBLBLBLLBLBBLL" http://photos.gpupdate.net/large/170078.jpg GT5 players, always remember to care for your Bobs in between races. http://motor...

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After Cyber Formula Saga, every F1 driver and their dog were trying the Lifting Turn technique.
Without fans it got very painful, very fast.

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Long before the tradition of named chassis was revealed with "Kate's Dirty Sister," Minardi codenamed this particular car the "Rolling Soccer Riot."

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brewOS9vHMM
HWNSNBM once again caught in the wild, brought to us by a user with a name only Andrea Sassetti could love.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eto9Epfj6Sw AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! Maybe it's the same guy who said "Ladies and gentlemen! STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRT you're engines!" No, no, you've got it all wrong. It's: LAADIES AND ...

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I wonder if there's a white-with-red FGT scheme out there.

You know, so with all hope we can get our SOOPA AGOORI on.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVCN5ulbJww Speaking of which, here's another rfactor video, this time of the Andrea Moda making its rounds.

I like to imagine this kind of speed is possible, if only because maybe it's McCarthy's car.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtfp3SUdPFA

The most reliable it's ever been. Then again, this IS a simulation...

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I always thought that the Lambo was a remarkable looking car. Martin Brundle once said that a good looking car is rarely slow - whereas a slow car is often pig ugly (see Damon Hill's 1992 Brabham). The Lambo was classy. I particularly like the sidepods. Remember that Lola from 1997? That hit every ...

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I would also like to nominate the Osella FA1L. Lived up to its name by failing to put its driver anywhere near the podium, failing to qualify anywhere close to competitively (and that's WHEN it qualified), and failing to finish little more than half its races in 1988. It didn't even look as cool as...

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http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/05/06/article-1177954-04D5D9C0000005DC-73_468x341.jpg Max Mosley's almost spot-on impressions of an F1 driver complete with engine noise terrified all who dared approach him except for a cursed few: these poor women. They're deaf, you see, but they weren't when t...

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I'm a dyed-in-the-wool American and allow me to say, WTF Ford? Does that really matter? Is the Scuderia Ferrari F150 going to pull up at rock quarries with a flatbed where the tailwing should be and start hauling around rocks to took yer jerbs? They're a letter and three numbers! You must really be ...

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Having mastered the art of weird sidepods, McLaren's next step was to tackle the problem of making nonsensical diffusers.

So far, the search is going well.

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Budget cuts forced the Red Bull team to make some adjustments to their training simulator...

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2012 is when Red Bull Racing prepares to debut a design known as The Emperor's New Car.

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FMecha wrote:
ADx_Wales wrote:

^Mark Webber pressed the panic button on the X2010. Here's the effect...

...and THAT'S why Vettel's the only one with an X2010.

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1989 was the year Alain Prost won a World Championship.

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I went searching around for more info on HWNSNBM and I actually managed to find an onboard lap of him on the edge (I assume) around Monza.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YXTHNSgsXs Here he is, and it's a fine lap in the Jordan.

I posted this in my own thread because I'm sort of an idiot like that and forgot we had this thread.

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I went searching around for more info on HWNSNBM and I actually managed to find an onboard lap of him on the edge (I assume) around Monza. m Here he is, and it's a fine lap in the Jordan. I figured "Hey, I should post this," but why should I have all the fun? Let's make this a thread for ...

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I went searching around for more info on HWNSNBM and I actually managed to find an onboard lap of him on the edge (I assume) around Monza. m Here he is, and it's a fine lap in the Jordan. I figured "Hey, I should post this," but why should I have all the fun? Let's make this a thread for t...

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https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_xREWbcQ1zic/TUwCA1Iwa4I/AAAAAAAADCI/kWFaF0aPTec/181963_196281923717020_154276447917568_766884_2108831_n.jpg After the 2011 banning of multiple-deck diffusers, teams are willing to put holes ANYWHERE to sneak some extra downforce past the rulesmakers...

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I would also like to nominate the Osella FA1L. Lived up to its name by failing to put its driver anywhere near the podium, failing to qualify anywhere close to competitively (and that's WHEN it qualified), and failing to finish little more than half its races in 1988. It didn't even look as cool as ...

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Maybe manufacturer branding is like Kryptonite or something. You know, you get in a car then you have some kind of weird seizure and start Shatnering all your speech.

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Forti, as well as the CART machine of über - reject Jean-Pierre Frey indeed. Oooooh, that Forti livery on the FG01 is almost too similar. It's almost prophetic about how much of a handful it is to drive. No worries, though: all I need is practice and some time to figure out tuning. ...it's a pity I...

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Fernando Alonso regrets betting his eyebrows on the 2010 Championship title.

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I have a Formula GT now, with yellow and dark blue colors.

I keep thinking there were teams that used those for their livery, and some relevant to F1 Rejects, but I can't remember them off the top of my head...

In any case, I'm finding it quite difficult to rein in the car.

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In an act of protest in mid-2011, the two Lotus-chassis teams decided to exchange color schemes mid-race.

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