Grand Prix Rejects

2. 2019 German Grand Prix - the most exhilarating two hours of entertainment I've had all year. Hopefully Liberty Media are watching and making plans to keep Hockenheim on the calendar. aaaand you've guaranteed the next five German Grands Prix to be ordinary, forgettable dry races. Otherwise, this ...

I reckon I can narrow it down to a standout candidate: The first and last corners. Most - certainly not all - but most of the more rejectful moments of the race happened in the general vicinity of these locations.

It seems that the Irish media has a bad track record when it comes to getting the names of future world champions right:

Excerpt from an... advertiser this morning: "She ended up killer via your lover days in pursuit and he or she is a finally, the first sort Dynamo Kiev player also told msnbc but weeks prior to dying at the size of his daughter. EDIT: Okay, so there were about five more posts from different acco...

That's a hot take. I mean, it wasn't god-awful, but it very very very quickly ran out of steam. The idea of having satirical commentary over an F1 race is a great idea to me, but in that specific way it just didn't work. Some in-jokes were pretty good, like the dramatic Spanish music over Alonso's ...

Mystery Science Theater F1 was shite.

I've been watching back the early 90s seasons for a while now, and one thing I am always keeping an ear out for is Murray Walker commenting that Ukyo Katayama was the greatest F1 driver of all time. Does anyone know the context behind this? Was he being sarcastic (which seems out of character for M...

It was the new F1 trying to find a replacement for The Chain, in my opinion. It wasn't, because The Chain was only ever used in the intro for the BBC/Channel 4 coverage. It means nothing to viewers in France, Germany, Japan, Finland, America, etc. What it was actually replacing was this. (I do like...

Here's a ponder: remember at the start of last season, when F1 announced it was getting theme music and everyone was like "why on earth does F1 need a theme song?". What's your thoughts on it now? Is it still far too gratuitous or has it just become part of the F1 experience? I was on the...

I just want to get this out of the way and nominate Haas . The ongoing Rich Energy debacle and Grosjean's pit lane crash practically sealed it already for me, and what we've seen from them today just makes it a formality. I can confidently say that even the entire top six taking each other out could...

I just want to address one point: [Pato's] only experience of being up against a reasonably good field of opposition has suggested that he's a driver of roughly Nabil Jeffri's level. While I agree he's probably not ready for F1, I find this conclusion to be totally absurd. Now, I can only really spe...

Martin Donnelly has suffered another critical leg injury while partaking in a charity bike ride. The good news is that his life is not in any immediate danger this time. The bad news: he could lose his left leg. Jonathan Lewis has started a fundraiser to support Martin, which I'll leave here: Fundra...

Maybe Patricio O'Ward might be bumped up at the end of the season if he adapts well to Super Formula? Although he doesn't know the Formula 1 tracks so he would benefit from a year in Formula 2. Lucas Auer is doing reasonably in Super Formula, isn't he? Neither of them have the points required for a...

Maybe Patricio O'Ward might be bumped up at the end of the season if he adapts well to Super Formula? Although he doesn't know the Formula 1 tracks so he would benefit from a year in Formula 2. Lucas Auer is doing reasonably in Super Formula, isn't he? Neither of them have the points required for a...

I didn't hate the French GP. It wasn't the most memorable race, as evidenced by the fact that I can't remember much about it, mostly Russell's pass that didn't even get shown and people complaining about the stripes I actually think look kind of cool, but it wasn't offensively bad like, say, the av...

I had thought of making a thread about Norman Dewis when I read the news of his passing, but this is certainly a much better solution. Thanks, Diniz. Not a name of international renown, but he did make the national news here for all the wrong reasons, Manus Kelly was killed participating in the Done...

So Vettel out in Q3 with a pneumatics issue, will start 9th (Magnussen starts 10th due to a gearbox penalty) if they don't have to take the car out of Parc Fermé to fix it. Hamilton might get a 3 place drop, depending on what mood the stewards are in. (obligatory stewards would never penalise Hamil...

MINARDI

XXIII:
Pierluigi Martini
Michele Alboreto
Fabrizio Giovinardi
Andrea de Cesaris
Ivan Capelli

XXIV:
Alex Zanardi
All the dudes fighting for the 23 car
Gianni Morbidelli
Roberto Moreno

Pitlane reporter Test driver:
Jon Beekhuis
Ayrton Senna

And Pirlelis please.

And now it seems he's being replaced by Pato O'Ward for Austria.

I'm feeling conflicted now.

TBA says he'll give Minardi back to me as it was never his to take in the first place.

https://www.racefans.net/2019/06/22/f2- ... -one-race/

This lad...

I've a feeling I don't want to be here for the ROTR thread...

That was bullshit, though, for the record.

1. Who should I submit the finished article to? 2. Will it have to be pre-formatted for the website, complete with pictures and where these should go? 3. Is there a deadline for doing so if I want it to be published on the French Grand Prix weekend? 4. Is there any guarantee that who I submit it to...

Leclerc is being nominated mainly for driving around with a puncture like he was fighting for the win and littering the track with debris in the process, not to mention causing his own retirement and a safety car. His driving beforehand is a minor factor at best. And whether or not it's exciting is ...

There's this duality that everyone wants to see the human side of the drivers, but when you actually see that people just pile on from their armchairs and expect the drivers to be just as calm. I don't know about that. When was the last time someone complained about one of Kimi's outbursts (if ever...

Charles Leclerc without question. I do love a good Gilles Villeneuve impression, but that was some dumb driving.

Dishonourable mention to Vettel and Hamilton for their clashing helmet choices.

Miguel98 wrote:80% chance of rain today, and the first raindrops have started to fall at Montecarlo

Doesn't that make it a 100% chance?

Could we petition for MP Motorsport to replace Raghunathan with Markelov when King returns? Raghunathan’s easily the worst driver in the current F2 era and the worst I’ve seen in the 2nd tier overall since Giancarlo Serenelli in 2012. He shoved Jack Aitken into the wall when we was a lap behind for...

Fernando Alonso joins Max Chilton and Pato O'Ward in not qualifying for this years Indy 500 With the reliability problems and the crash in the first car, plus the never-resolved setup issues of the second car, I'm not surprised. McLaren have a long way to go before they can challenge the Penskes, A...

Freeze-O-Kimi wrote:There was someone at Autosport who asked whether Formula E is too random as if we should be happy with the same names being at the top all the time like in F1.

Not the implication there at all; there is a middle ground between monolithic dominance and what they are arguing is a lottery.

Really think it's gonna be shite in F1 cars. Too narrow, short lap, only one real straight. Hungaroring at best. And I can't help but interpret: "To meet the wishes of Formula 1 and the required standards of the FIA the circuit and infrastructure will be modernized within a few areas" as ...

We might want to cut the Baku marshals some slack:

Gertrand Bachot wrote:
This wrote:I don't mind the track, i just really dislike Bernhard Van Oranje (the owner).

Is his last name pronounced like orange?

Never heard of William of Orange? Same family.

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.dutch-grand-prix-to-return-at-zandvoort-from-2020.1OTLRqLZB6mXdD1VPyHiNx.html Formula 1 is coming back to Zandvoort next year. I see a lot of ppl on Facebook complaining that the track is boring and too old-fashioned for F1, but congratulations to the Neth...

1. Apathy . This may actually be the worst F1 season I've witnessed so far, and it shows given that we didn't even open a race discussion thread. I think it's been pointed out that this is the first time in history the same team has scored five 1-2 finishes at the start of a season. Something is ba...

The lack of a race thread - Usually the worst part of the race weekend and we didn't have one for a change.

Mercedes - Once again overcoming the superior Ferrari; truly one of the great Cinderella stories of motor racing.

Haas - There's the Haas I remember from last year!

And now, here's every race that coincided with a driver's birthday: ⋅ 1952 Swiss Grand Prix: Toulo de Graffenried (38). Finished 6th. Not bad. ⋅ 1959 Indianapolis 500: Chuck Arnold (33). Top-placed rookie in the field, but Rookie of the Year went to Bobby Grim. ⋅ 1962 G...

I've updated the Constructor's Championship after triple-checking it. I will do the Entrant's Championship next, though that may take awhile I'm no stranger to the difficulties of doing the Constructors' and Entrants' tables, but would it not be better to just do Wikipedia's system for pre-1979 sea...

The wave of early 2000s F1 nostalgia is somehow making me feel old knowing that I'm about the same age as these crazy people, and scared that I might soon be yearning for the days when I started watching F1 at the other end of the decade.

I miss those Red Bull front row lockouts...

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