Grand Prix Rejects

Alextrax52

Horner (and indeed Marko) are two of the most dislikeable people in the whole sport. I don't feel the relatively small punishment is a big deterrent for the other teams not to do the same next year! I don’t think Horner and Marko have ever cared about being disliked. If anything the last 2 years in...

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2022 Mexican Siesta GP 1: Perez 2: Verstappen 3: Hamilton 4: Leclerc 5: Alonso 6: Norris 7: Vettel 8: Ocon 9: Gasly 10: Stroll Pole: Leclerc Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Russell ROTR: Russell (Hits Sainz again) IIDOTR: Aston Martin DBTMOTR: Ricciardo Last Place: Latifi How far back: 1 lap

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There’s still a possibility to end this but if none of Hamilton,Russell,Norris,McLaren,Aston Martin and Williams win 1 of the remaining races it’ll be the first time since 1952!!! that Great Britain would not have a driver or constructor win a race all season.

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Horner (and indeed Marko) are two of the most dislikeable people in the whole sport. I don't feel the relatively small punishment is a big deterrent for the other teams not to do the same next year! I don’t think Horner and Marko have ever cared about being disliked. If anything the last 2 years in...

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I don’t know if anyone actually noticed this or whether it was made official but apparently Andy Neate retired from racing at the end of last year to support his son Aiden in British F4. Truly the end of an era.

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Lance Stroll: Anyone who watched the Moto3 race last year will tell you about the appalling consequences when 2 machines make contact on the long straight at COTA. In that one ridiculous move he threw his best weekend of the season in the garbage and got his card marked by Alonso before they even sh...

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1: Alonso. I’m amazed he survived serious injury from that crash let alone carried on and finished 7th so Alpine only lost 2 points to McLaren 2: Magnussen: Made a 1 stop strategy work and netted some points for Haas on their home track HM: Vettel: would have taken 6th at a canter until Aston Martin...

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2022 Texaco Texas GP 1: Verstappen 2: Hamilton 3: Russell 4: Perez 5: Leclerc 6: Sainz 7: Norris 8: Alonso 9: Ocon 10: Vettel Pole: Verstappen Fastest Lap: Hamilton First Retirement: Magnussen ROTR: Haas (K-Mag out on lap 1 and Mick last) IIDOTR: Nobody DBTMOTR: Ricciardo Last place: Schumacher How ...

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Har1MAS1415 wrote:
Does the table have to be the same as portrayed in the Schumacher Disqualification article?

Didn’t see this line. Yes exactly like that if you can.

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Clear Winner: Nicolas Latifi When you think about it Latifi has been strong in the wet all season peaking with topping FP3 at Hungary. But it’s one thing to do a one off lap and quite another to do it in race trim and an early pit stop meant he did. All 20 full timers have now scored. HM: Aston Mart...

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The FIA: We don’t even need a vote for this one. Blaming Gasly when practically every driver was disgusted at the recovery truck being thrown was the final straw for me. All this on the circuit where we lost Bianchi in similar circumstances. The cherry on the cake was the “is he or isn’t he?” champi...

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Don’t think we even need a ROTR thread today. Race Control are going to slam dunk it: No adaptability to try and hold the race earlier because TV A standing start on Intermediates Inevitable big crash happens A crane is sent out when cars are on track. This on the circuit where a similar situation c...

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2022 Japanese GP 1: Verstappen 2: Hamilton 3: Perez 4: Russell 5: Leclerc 6: Sainz 7: Alonso 8: Norris 9: Ocon 10: Tsunoda Pole: Leclerc Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Schumacher ROTR: Schumacher (Another crash pushing him further out of Haas) IIDOTR: Tsunoda: First point since Spain on h...

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While not entirely along the title of this thread, I think this video should be mentioned here: 10 times a driver split with a team before their contract ended

https://youtu.be/mGDQbuqFhFA

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Lewis Hamilton has had a few contenders this year. He has. I’d put Imola first because he was atrocious all weekend. 13th in Qualifying, 14th in the Sprint and 13th in the Race. Couldn’t overtake anyone and being lapped by Verstappen while Russell finished 4th was the cherry on the cake. Jeddah is ...

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https://www.racefans.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ferr-f14t-raik-jere-2014-3.jpg Pardon the resurrection. Only saving grace for the Ferrari F14T is it didn't have a dick for a nose! Mercedes got it right and Ferrari failed miserably. No it didn’t have a p-word nose. Instead it looked like an aard...

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Mercedes: Utter garbage. Russell with probably the worst weekend of his young career with no pace and a clumsy collision with Schumacher while Hamilton threw away a potential podium with a simple mistake, did nothing about the Aston Martin’s and his attempt to pass Vettel? 😂😂😂 Alpine: What a horribl...

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McLaren and Aston Martin: 2 midfield teams who showed exactly how to take advantage of chaos like this. Both climbing big time in the constructors table. Ricciardo and Stroll: extra emphasis on these 2 for delivering truly unexpected results HM to Ferrari: If there was one race you’d expect Ferrari ...

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Pardon the resurrection. Just been compiling the 2007 Driver's and Constructor's points as they would have been if the McLaren drivers' points redistributed. The results are as follows: Drivers 1. Kimi Raikkonen 130 2. Felipe Massa 113 3. Nick Heidfeld 86 4. Robert Kubica 61 5. Heikki Kovalainen 54...

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2022 Singapore Sauna GP

1: Verstappen
2: Hamilton
3: Leclerc
4: Russell
5: Perez
6: Sainz
7: Alonso
8: Gasly
9: Norris
10: Ocon

Pole: Verstappen
Fastest Lap: Hamilton
First Retirement: Stroll
ROTR: Aston Martin
IIDOTR: Nobody
DBTMOTR: Ricciardo
Last Place: Latifi
How far back: 1 lap

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Sooooo. Who's missing the Russian GP today? IMO I don’t think the teams themselves will have been too disappointed that it wasn’t replaced. It’s given them an extra week to fine tune any last major updates for the year they’ve got before they switch to 2023. As for fans I don’t think many will have...

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How on earth is Jeddah still on the calendar? I hope all 20 drivers just flat out refuse to go there after what happened this year. China will be a pretty grim event too given they’re hell bent on achieving the impossible of zero COVID. Also for a series wanting to be carbon neutral by 2030, having ...

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I miss how harsh penalties for multiple infringements used to be. Speeding in the pitlane, jump starts and mechanics on the grid too long used to be a 10 second stop go penalty and crossing the white line at pit exit and unsafe releases used to cop a drive through penalty. They really used to punish...

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De Vries: No explanation needed

Zhou: Scored Alfa’s first point since Canada and destroyed so called team leader Bottas

HM: Ricciardo: Best performance since Australia and desperately unlucky not to score.

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Latifi: If his F1 career prospects were only slim before today they’ll have been killed stone dead after this weekend. Beaten by a man who was apparently expecting to be a co-host on F1 Official’s pre-qualifying show on Saturday morning. In a car that was just as quick as Spa he finished 2nd last As...

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2022 Red Bull are actually favourites at Monza GP 1: Verstappen 2: Perez 3: Hamilton 4: Russell 5: Alonso 6: Gasly 7: Ocon 8: Vettel 9: Stroll 10: Norris Pole: Verstappen Fastest lap: Verstappen First retirement: Sainz ROTR: Ferrari (A repeat of Baku) IIDOTR: Gasly DBTMOTR: Ricciardo Last place: Lat...

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IMO I think Rob should do what he did in Canada and award a slam dunk without votes for this one. I could watch that whole situation with Tsunoda/AlphaTauri on repeat and I’d still have no idea what they were trying to achieve. The worst bit is they’ve triggered a load of race fixing cries from the ...

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Stroll is the clear winner for me. While his teammate did his best Hill 1999 impression Stroll reached Q3 on merit and was desperately unlucky not to be able to compete with technical issues. Raced strongly and another deserved point in normal circumstances. HM to Russell’s quick thinking on strateg...

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2022 It’s going Dutch GP 1: Verstappen 2: Sainz 3: Hamilton 4: Perez 5: Alonso 6: Ocon 7: Vettel 8: Norris 9: Magnussen 10: Bottas Pole: Leclerc Fastest lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Leclerc ROTR: Russell (Punts Leclerc off before engine blows) IIDOTR: Magnussen DBTMOTR: Stroll Last place: Latif...

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Lewis Hamilton: Well who didn’t see that coming? It’s like he forgot Alonso was still there. A completely self-inflicted way to end his 100% finish record. Bonus points for refusing to attend the medical centre on his own accord Charles Leclerc/Ferrari’s FL push: Another race and another way for Fer...

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1: Albon: Clear winner for me. 9th in qualifying on merit, a genuine contender for points all day and achieved one. I can’t wait to see what he does on the similar high speeds at Monza 2: Pierre Gasly: From a pit lane start to finishing 9th. When Tsunoda passed Ricciardo I was looking for where the ...

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2022 Belgian Waffles GP 1: Sainz 2: Verstappen 3: Leclerc 4: Hamilton 5: Perez 6: Russell 7: Norris 8: Alonso 9: Vettel 10: Stroll Pole: Sainz Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Ricciardo ROTR: Ferrari customers IIDOTR: Aston Martin DBTMOTR: Perez Last Place: Latifi How far back: 1m 35s

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This type of drama is stuff Drive to Survive could only dream of creating. From what I’ve read it appeared as though Piastri was speaking to McLaren about joining next year with rumours that even a pre-contract was already on the table. I hope his management know what they doing after his very publi...

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Ferrari: Of all the capitulations and missed opportunities this year, that has to go down as the biggest. What were they thinking even touching those hard tires? They don’t deserve either of those two drivers who must be sick to the back teeth of Ferrari’s incompetence. Alpine: Yes they scored doubl...

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Hamilton and Verstappen: 7th and 10th on the grid yet both charged through to 2nd and 1st. Max overcame a spin and Lewis came out of nowhere on a clever strategy

George Russell’s pole lap: What a mighty lap it was. That’s the first real “Mr Saturday” surprise I’ve seen from him.

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2022 Mighty Magyars GP

1: Leclerc
2: Sainz
3: Verstappen
4: Hamilton
5: Norris
6: Perez
7: Alonso
8: Ocon
9: Ricciardo
10: Vettel

Pole: Leclerc
Fastest lap: Leclerc
First Retirement: Russell
ROTR: Haas
IIDOTR: Norris
DBTMOTR: Perez
Last place: Latifi
How far back: 1 lap

Alextrax52

I agree with Enforcer. I don’t think anyone did anything worthy of this award today. The closest I could think of is Stroll getting a point for 10th because we don’t expect him to be there these days.

47 year old Jimmie Johnson in Indycar though….

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Charles Leclerc: All Ferrari needed to mirror this 2018-esque implosion was a mistake from it’s lead driver. Well done mate. Ferrari and their customers: Every race the Scuderia find new ways to trip over themselves. Today it was Sainz’s strategy. The fact their only 44 points ahead of Mercedes in t...

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2022 crazy car park GP 1: Verstappen 2: Leclerc 3: Hamilton 4: Perez 5: Sainz 6: Russell 7: Ocon 8: Alonso 9: Norris 10: Schumacher Pole: Leclerc Fastest Lap: Leclerc First Retirement: Bottas ROTR: Tsunoda IIDOTR: Albon (finishes 11th) DBTMOTR: Latifi Last place: Latifi How far back: 1 minute 20 sec...

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Ferrari reliability: How many times do we need to mention this? Their lucky that Red Bull have had similar issues and Mercedes aren’t quick enough to be in the title race Pierre Gasly: AlphaTauri were rubbish but he was way worse on his own. Collisions, multiple penalties, refusal to serve penalties...

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