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Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 05 Aug 2014, 22:52
by James1978
I think current Mercedes and current Lotus should be different entities from the versions which originated in the 50s. Same with the 50s Alfa Romeo and the 70s/80s version. (And both versions of Renault too for that matter).

So Mercedes would be Malaysia 2010 and Lotus would be Bahrain 2012 I believe.

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 06 Aug 2014, 00:20
by Bobby Doorknobs
James1978 wrote:I think current Mercedes and current Lotus should be different entities from the versions which originated in the 50s. Same with the 50s Alfa Romeo and the 70s/80s version. (And both versions of Renault too for that matter).

So Mercedes would be Malaysia 2010 and Lotus would be Bahrain 2012 I believe.

It is debatable. IIRC '80s Renault and Enstone Renault are considered the same team by the FIA. The same goes for '50s Mercedes and Brackley Mercedes and I think it's the same for Alfa Romeo too. There's also Honda which in its two incarnations is considered the same constructor. And then there's Lola, which had different incarnations in partnership with various teams (Yeoman Credit Racing, BMW, Embassy Racing, Haas-Lola, Larrousse, Scuderia Italia and of course its own Mastercard Lola). Although I think you're right about Lotus. Another example (which I admittedly didn't address) is BMW Sauber as I think the FIA consider them a seperate entity to the team that Peter set up. I will add Enstone Lotus and BMW to the list as their stats are listed seperately and it's probably best that the list reflects this. Worst comes to worst we can ask Enoch if it's not a waste of his time. :)

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 24 May 2015, 14:43
by Bobby Doorknobs
List updated to include Daniil Kvyat's performance today. Once again, Russia has no reject drivers, a distinction it shares (among countries that have had F1 drivers) with Chile, Poland and Thailand. Kvyat is the 36th driver to unrejectify himself in Monaco, which has seen more unrejectifications than any other circuit.

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 26 Jul 2015, 14:49
by Bobby Doorknobs
List updated to include Max Verstappen, the third Dutchman to unrejectify himself after his father Jos and the great Carel Godin de Beaufort before him. He is also the second driver to unrejectify himself driving for Toro Rosso, the first being Sebastian Vettel way back in China 2007. In addition, he is the second driver to unrejectify himself on the Hungaroring, the first being his own father 21 years ago in 1994.

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 26 Jul 2015, 17:49
by FullMetalJack
Is Verstappen the first ever teenage unrejectification?

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 26 Jul 2015, 17:55
by Bobby Doorknobs
FullMetalJack wrote:Is Verstappen the first ever teenage unrejectification?

As a matter of fact, he is. The previous youngest was Vettel, who was 20 years and 3 months old when he unrejectified himself.

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 27 Jul 2015, 17:36
by Peteroli34
Simtek wrote:
FullMetalJack wrote:Is Verstappen the first ever teenage unrejectification?

As a matter of fact, he is. The previous youngest was Vettel, who was 20 years and 3 months old when he unrejectified himself.


By my calculations Vettel wasnt the youngest driver unrejectification who unrejectified himself on the 7th October 2007 96 days after his 20th Birthday. Jenson Button unrejectified himself of the 23 April 2000 95 days after his 20th Birthday

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 27 Jul 2015, 17:40
by Bobby Doorknobs
peteroli34 wrote:
Simtek wrote:
FullMetalJack wrote:Is Verstappen the first ever teenage unrejectification?

As a matter of fact, he is. The previous youngest was Vettel, who was 20 years and 3 months old when he unrejectified himself.


By my calculations Vettel wasnt the youngest driver unrejectification who unrejectified himself on the 7th October 2007 96 days after his 20th Birthday. Jenson Button unrejectified himself of the 23 April 2000 95 days after his 20th Birthday

Damn. I thought Button's birthday was earlier in January than it actually is. Still, that's an insanely small difference! :shock:

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 11 Oct 2015, 14:21
by Bobby Doorknobs
With the news of Raikkonen's time penalty Felipe Nasr has been promoted to 6th place. This, coupled with his excellent 5th place in Melbourne, unrejectifies the Brazilian.

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 12 Oct 2015, 21:23
by WeirdKerr
Simtek wrote:With the news of Raikkonen's time penalty Felipe Nasr has been promoted to 6th place. This, coupled with his excellent 5th place in Melbourne, unrejectifies the Brazilian.

does it still count though if he only got the 6th spot after someone had a time penalty?

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 12 Oct 2015, 21:55
by Bobby Doorknobs
WeirdKerr wrote:
Simtek wrote:With the news of Raikkonen's time penalty Felipe Nasr has been promoted to 6th place. This, coupled with his excellent 5th place in Melbourne, unrejectifies the Brazilian.

does it still count though if he only got the 6th spot after someone had a time penalty?

A 6th place is a 6th place, I suppose. I didn't count Ricciardo's Australia 2014 podium because he got disqualified. Basically, it's simpler not to delve too deeply into the context of people's results :P

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 12 Oct 2015, 22:57
by AustralianStig
Simtek wrote:
WeirdKerr wrote:
Simtek wrote:With the news of Raikkonen's time penalty Felipe Nasr has been promoted to 6th place. This, coupled with his excellent 5th place in Melbourne, unrejectifies the Brazilian.

does it still count though if he only got the 6th spot after someone had a time penalty?

A 6th place is a 6th place, I suppose. I didn't count Ricciardo's Australia 2014 podium because he got disqualified. Basically, it's simpler not to delve too deeply into the context of people's results :P

Agreed, it becomes too subjective if you go by anything other than official results.

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 16 Oct 2015, 17:26
by FullMetalJack
True, it would rejectify and possibly unrejectify several drivers. We'd be opening a can on worms.

For example, I imagine the old site would have had a Ricardo Zonta profile if we did take the context of these points finishes into consideration.

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 13 Nov 2016, 19:21
by Bobby Doorknobs
Carlos Sainz is the first driver to unrejectify himself at Interlagos since Barrichello in 1994. He is also the third to do it in a Toro Rosso and the sixth Spaniard, joining Paco Godia, Alfonso de Portago, Pedro de la Rosa, Fernando Alonso and Marc Gené as someone we can't profile on this site.

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 12 Jun 2017, 02:26
by Bobby Doorknobs
Esteban Ocon is the fourth driver ever to unrejectify himself in Montreal, the fourth to do so in a Force India and ran fourth at one point... he finished sixth.

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 25 Jun 2017, 15:40
by This Could Be You
With Stroll finishing third, I guess that means he's not a reject anymore?

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 25 Jun 2017, 16:01
by Bobby Doorknobs
This Could Be You wrote:With Stroll finishing third, I guess that means he's not a reject anymore?

That is correct. He's the first driver to do so with a podium finish since Magnussen in Australia 2014 (and Ricciardo in that same race until he was disqualified). It's also the first time there have been unrejectifications in back-to-back races since Bahrain and Spain in 2012 (Grosjean and Maldonado respectively).

Allen Berg remains the last Canadian F1 reject.

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 27 Sep 2017, 04:00
by rdmozero
Jolyon Palmer is officially Unrejectificationed

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 27 Sep 2017, 13:33
by Bobby Doorknobs
rdmozero wrote:Jolyon Palmer is officially Unrejectificationed

He isn't.

All a former Formula One driver needs to do to escape eligibility for this site is to have been successful in F1. Specifically, they must have scored ...
  • a 4th, 3rd, 2nd or 1st place, or
  • a 5th place, plus any other top-6 result, or
  • three or more 6th places

Palmer only has one 6th place. His journey has just begun.

Oh, welcome, by the way. :)

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 06 Oct 2017, 03:03
by Aguvazk
I was thinking... in this time of almost no dnf and 3 teams almost locked up all 6 places... maybe for a unrejectification could count 4 o 5 7th places, maybe 6.

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 07 Oct 2017, 04:10
by Butterfox
Aguvazk wrote:I was thinking... in this time of almost no dnf and 3 teams almost locked up all 6 places... maybe for a unrejectification could count 4 o 5 7th places, maybe 6.

This has been discussed quite often, and every time we eventually agreed on keeping the old format used by F1 Rejects.

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 07 Oct 2017, 17:18
by dr-baker
This wrote:
Aguvazk wrote:I was thinking... in this time of almost no dnf and 3 teams almost locked up all 6 places... maybe for a unrejectification could count 4 o 5 7th places, maybe 6.

This has been discussed quite often, and every time we eventually agreed on keeping the old format used by F1 Rejects.

Has anybody made a list of how often unrejectifications have happened, and whether there has been a change in recent years?

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 07 Oct 2017, 18:33
by Bobby Doorknobs
To be honest, I can't think of many drivers with reject status from recent years that have done much to truly deserve an exemption from profile eligibility. The big talents and even some of the more "middling" drivers have had a tendency to rise above their mechanical disadvantage and score top six results, as the likes of Sainz, Verstappen and Ocon have demonstrated, and even drivers like di Resta, Nasr and Petrov have been able to finish within the top six and even the top four enough times to escape reject status.

Even going back to a time when only half the field could be expected to finish you have Gabriele Tarquini putting an AGS on the points table and threatening lap records in a Fondmetal, but on the flipside not getting paid attention by the big teams. That's a textbook reject story.

It's a very strange, even absurd, situation anyway, because in reality you can't objectively quantify "rejectdom". It's just an easy excuse to single out without too much debate which drivers we can and can't profile.

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 08 Oct 2017, 02:15
by WaffleCat
Looking back at the list of unrejectifications, even in this period of 'top three domination', there are still quite a reasonable amount of unrejectifications like Sainz, Ocon, Stroll and so on. I mean, even Felipe Nasr managed to solidly unrejectify himself.

The real oddity in my mind is 1998 and 1999. Like…those two years were insane. You had Williams in their Winfield blunder years yet still competent enough to reach the points. You had Stewart winning a goddamn race with Prost GP nabbing a podium. Benetton were poking their head fairly well above the water. Jordans were right up there battling for the championship. Compared to the Ferrari-Red Bull-Mercedes domination of the past few years, those years were insane, and yet no unrejectifications.

And, just to clarify on team unrejectifications, reject teams are those that score six points or less under the ol-timey six-position points system, is that correct?

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 08 Oct 2017, 20:19
by Butterfox
WaffleCat wrote:Looking back at the list of unrejectifications, even in this period of 'top three domination', there are still quite a reasonable amount of unrejectifications like Sainz, Ocon, Stroll and so on. I mean, even Felipe Nasr managed to solidly unrejectify himself.

The real oddity in my mind is 1998 and 1999. Like…those two years were insane. You had Williams in their Winfield blunder years yet still competent enough to reach the points. You had Stewart winning a goddamn race with Prost GP nabbing a podium. Benetton were poking their head fairly well above the water. Jordans were right up there battling for the championship. Compared to the Ferrari-Red Bull-Mercedes domination of the past few years, those years were insane, and yet no unrejectifications.

And, just to clarify on team unrejectifications, reject teams are those that score six points or less under the ol-timey six-position points system, is that correct?
The amount of positions to get that points. Because Osella scored 5 points in reality, but also a 5th that didn't count for the championship. It's because of the Osella case that it's decided on finishing positions and not points.

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 08 Apr 2018, 17:36
by Bobby Doorknobs
Pierre Gasly joins the list with his first ever points finish, a rare feat these days which was last achieved by Kevin Magnussen on his Grand Prix debut back in 2014. Before the sack-tapping Dane you have to go all the way back to Lewis Hamilton's Grand Prix debut in 2007 before you find another example. Before him it was Robert Kubica in the 2006 Italian Grand Prix, a situation that was a bit closer to Gasly's in that it wasn't the driver's Grand Prix debut.

Gasly is also the first to achieve unrejectification in a Honda-engined car since Sato in the 2003 Japanese Grand Prix.

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 08 Apr 2018, 22:06
by Aguvazk
Today also Is the unrejectification of Haas. I expect this and the Gasly unrejectification (i predicted this in the annual prediction) but no so early in the season. I will take a risk and say: Hartley also will be unrejectificated this season...

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 08 Apr 2018, 22:24
by tommykl
Aguvazk wrote:Today also Is the unrejectification of Haas. I expect this and the Gasly unrejectification (i predicted this in the annual prediction) but no so early in the season. I will take a risk and say: Hartley also will be unrejectificated this season...

Haas are actually not yet unrejectified, as 6 points in the old system is the maximum a team can have while remaining rejects. Any top 6 finish will do the trick, though.

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 09 Apr 2018, 03:18
by Aguvazk
My bad...

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 14 May 2018, 21:25
by Aguvazk
tommykl wrote:
Aguvazk wrote:Today also Is the unrejectification of Haas. I expect this and the Gasly unrejectification (i predicted this in the annual prediction) but no so early in the season. I will take a risk and say: Hartley also will be unrejectificated this season...

Haas are actually not yet unrejectified, as 6 points in the old system is the maximum a team can have while remaining rejects. Any top 6 finish will do the trick, though.





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Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 23 Mar 2019, 09:52
by Rob Dylan
Just for the record, Charles Leclerc's 5th place in Australia, mixed with his 6th place in Azerbaijan in 2018, means he has unrejectified himself!

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 18 May 2019, 21:23
by FullMetalJack
Just the four rookies who are rejects then.

Any of them going to achieve unrejectification this season? Unsure if Norris will in 2019.

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 30 Jul 2019, 08:02
by Stareagle
What was the last team to die a reject?

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 30 Jul 2019, 14:25
by Aislabie
Stareagle wrote:What was the last team to die a reject?

Manor surely?

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 30 Jul 2019, 18:40
by dr-baker
Aislabie wrote:
Stareagle wrote:What was the last team to die a reject?

Manor surely?

When I first read this, I misunderstood it as, "For which team did the last reject driver who died drive for?", but either way, it's Manor.

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 02 Aug 2021, 09:11
by Rob Dylan
Turns out that we have six rejects on the grid.

Antonio Giovinazzi
Yuki Tsunoda
Nikita Mazepin
Mick Schumacher
Nicholas Latifi
George Russell

Of those, Giovinazzi has 2 points under the old system, and with Vettel's DSQ pending, Tsunoda has 1 point.

Unrejectifications since Charles Leclerc in Australia 2019:

- Alex Albon: 2019 Belgian GP
- Lando Norris: 2020 Austrian GP


With only one new full-time driver in 2020, I guess the lack of unrejectifications isn't so surprising. But still, there it is.

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 02 Aug 2021, 13:40
by dinizintheoven
And of those six, I expect only one to escape Reject Status in the near future - probably the first race of 2022. We all know who that is.

Mick and Yuki - depends on where they go in the future.

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 02 Aug 2021, 15:01
by Rob Dylan
dinizintheoven wrote:And of those six, I expect only one to escape Reject Status in the near future - probably the first race of 2022. We all know who that is.
After his 7th place, I agree that it's only a matter of time before Latifi wins for Merc next year :twisted:

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 02 Aug 2021, 16:23
by dr-baker
Rob Dylan wrote:
dinizintheoven wrote:And of those six, I expect only one to escape Reject Status in the near future - probably the first race of 2022. We all know who that is.
After his 7th place, I agree that it's only a matter of time before Latifi wins for Merc next year :twisted:

It's only a matter of time before Tsunoda gets promoted to the senior Red Bull team, finishes 5th and/or 6th multiple times, then gets dumped after 18 months...

Re: Complete list of Driver Unrejectifications

Posted: 30 Aug 2021, 17:44
by Rob Dylan
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George Russell is unrejectified on all counts. Even if we half his points, he has three points under the old system. Unbelievable. :badoer: