2020 Reject of the Year Awards

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2020 Reject of the Year Awards

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(Reposted from post on 30th December 2020)

For those of you new to the Grand Prix Rejects community, since the year 2000 we have a long-standing tradition, decided originally by our former overlords Jamie and Enoch to decide the Reject of the Race for every race weekend. As a result, it is only natural that the Reject of the Year – the absolute most rejectful thing you can think of about the current Formula 1 season, remains the most important and defining moment of the year for the community (I don't know, because I said so and I'm hosting lol).

My old job on our website, and hopefully again on our future website, was to organise polls and get our community’s official vote for ROTR, IIDOTR, as well as our Predicament Predictions competition. And so, regardless of our current situation, marooned on Discord temporarily, we shall still have our vote, damn it!

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BUT FIRST

Our dishonourable mentions. These are the candidates who got shout-outs for their rejectivity in 2020. Let us take a moment of disrespect as we look back on the year as it ends:

- Valtteri “Buttass” Bottas for his worst season in two years. Won at the start but then did his worst at giving any competition to Hamilton yet again. Nico Rosberg he ain't.
- The debacle that was the Australian GP. Even with one of the teams having COVID, it still took them until like 30 seconds before FP1 to cancel the weekend.
- Michael Masi and the stewards, starting races with machinery still on track, free pitstops for world champions, doing everything wrong.
- Ferrari facemasks, because even here we will mention Ferrari.
- Kimi Räikkönen for a very unconvincing season. “Retire, old man.”
- Antonio “Anonymous” Giovinazzi.
- Helmut Marko’s chickenpox experiment. Infecting your drivers and team personnel leading up to the debut race was a great idea, I don't know why nobody ended up doing it. [/s]
- The Turkish Grand Prix selling 100,000 tickets then immediately banning fans from attending.

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The candidates for this year’s Reject of the Year 2020 are:

Ferrari; Sebastian Vettel; #weraceasone; Haas; Alex Albon

- Ferrari for the outrageous number of shenanigans they have been up to this year. Worst year in 40 years for the team (see above)
- Sebastian Vettel for being one of the key worst drivers of 2020, attempting most of the time to emulate Damon Hill in 1999.
- #weraceasone for being an attempt at an inclusive PR stunt so poorly executed and cringeworthy even Bernie Ecclestone is shivering somewhere.
- Haas for going from disaster to disaster all year, overshadowed only by their Ferrari suppliers on occasion.
- Alex Albon for basically being worse than Pierre Gasly was last year, and Gasly was so bad last year they fired him mid-season. Albon got three times as long to get gud, and did not get gud.

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A few days of voting later

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And the winner of the 2020 Formula 1 Reject of the Year iiiiiiiiissss

Ferrari!

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Our official Reject of the Year podium is as follows:

1. Ferrari
2. #weraceasone
3. Haas

In spite of all their shenanigans over the years, this does in fact mark the first time that Ferrari have received Reject of the Year officially
Murray Walker at the 1997 Austrian Grand Prix wrote:The other [Stewart] driver, who nobody's been paying attention to, because he's disappointing, is Jan Magnussen.
Felipe Nasr - the least forgettable F1 driver!
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Re: 2020 Reject of the Year Awards

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An update on our Reject of the Year Awards by year.

Reject of the Year:
2000. Alexander Wurz
2001. Jenson Button
2002. Alex Yoong
2003. Antonio Pizzonia
2004. Giorgio Pantano
2005. Takuma Sato
2006. Yuji Ide
2007. Honda
2008. Jenson Button (2)
2009. Nelson Piquet Jr.
2010. Vitantonio Liuzzi
2011. Jarno Trulli
2012. Narain Karthikeyan
2013. Esteban Gutiérrez
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2014. Formula 1
2015. McLaren-Honda
2016. Esteban Gutiérrez (2)
2017. Jolyon Palmer
2018. McLaren (2)
2019. Haas
2020. Ferrari
Murray Walker at the 1997 Austrian Grand Prix wrote:The other [Stewart] driver, who nobody's been paying attention to, because he's disappointing, is Jan Magnussen.
Felipe Nasr - the least forgettable F1 driver!
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