Reject of the Race - Belgium 2015

[CoopsII]

Williams - C'mon guys, they're different colours!
Vettel - They're tyres Seb, not Magic Tyres.

[dr-baker]

I nominate my Sky HD box. Because of church, I normally watch the race on a bit of a delay. Yesterday, I started watching the pre-race grid walk at about 1:30 pm, so a fair bit of delay. Anyway, just past half-race distance, the recording just stopped. Nothing else. Very frustrating. No idea what was wrong, because we were also recording the BTCC on ITV4 at the same time (began earlier, finished later), and that recorded fine. Official reason given on the box was something about a recording clash, bu nothing else was recording other than the BTCC... Ended up watching the highlights on BBC3 later in the evening. And that recorded just fine. Grrr.

[Izzyeviel]

Vettel for blaming Pirelli for his puncture and not the fact he was busy cutting corners.

[LeytonHouse]

1) Williams - Throwing valuable points away in such an unnecessary manor. Bottas must be ruing the day Ferrari signed Raikkonen for another year.

2) Honda - Aiming to match Ferrari in engine performance, they seem to have lost all perceptions of reality.

Dishonorable mention - Vettel - Blasting Pirelli after a risky strategy didn’t pay off.

[golic_2004]

Ricciardo's car. I think he could've threatened Grosjean for 3rd on the option tyres had it not died on him.

Agreed. The engine prevented Ricciardo from getting two consecutive podiums.

If not him then "Evil Seb" for acting like a crybaby on Pirelli for his one-stop strategy just not coming to plan.

[Belegur]

I would sugged Maldonaldo is in the running, because he apparently caused the faiure of his car.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/120475

Pastor Maldonado's second-lap retirement with a loss of power in the Belgian Grand Prix was "self-inflicted", according to his Lotus Formula 1 team.

The Venezuelan went off track at Eau Rouge, damaging his clutch control system, and forcing him into retirement for the seventh time in 11 races this season.

The incident came after a crash that Maldonado described as "very unlucky" during Friday practice at Spa and three separate penalties that he incurred at the previous race in Hungary.

"Maldonado's retirement was self-inflicted," said Lotus trackside operations director Alan Permane.

"He had a huge off at Eau Rouge. That damaged the clutch-control system.

"The valves were damaged and that locked his clutch out. That's why he couldn't get back."

[AdrianSutil]

I would sugged Maldonaldo is in the running, because he apparently caused the faiure of his car.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/120475

Pastor Maldonado's second-lap retirement with a loss of power in the Belgian Grand Prix was "self-inflicted", according to his Lotus Formula 1 team.

The Venezuelan went off track at Eau Rouge, damaging his clutch control system, and forcing him into retirement for the seventh time in 11 races this season.

The incident came after a crash that Maldonado described as "very unlucky" during Friday practice at Spa and three separate penalties that he incurred at the previous race in Hungary.

"Maldonado's retirement was self-inflicted," said Lotus trackside operations director Alan Permane.

"He had a huge off at Eau Rouge. That damaged the clutch-control system.

"The valves were damaged and that locked his clutch out. That's why he couldn't get back."

Although that sounds a bit wrong for the team to criticise him, I did notice on the lap he retired that he took an almighty whack of the kerb at the top of Eau Rouge, so I can see how it may have caused the failure.

Still a bit harsh for the team to blame him, it would be like Ferrari blaming the Vettel tyre failure on him continually cutting corners...

Anyway, my ROTR is obviously Williams. Someone mentioned in the chatroom that their rear-wing resembled a barn door, such was it's size.

[go_Rubens]

Williams - Absolutely no contest. Such a pit stop error has been made before (Hockenheim 2010 - Force India), but nevertheless, an inexcusable error.

[Faustus]

Only just finished watching the race this morning on my DVR, ass unfortunately I couldn't watch it on sunday, so I've been watching in drips and drabs since Monday.
Williams, definitely. Piss poor performance.