Grand Prix Rejects

shinji wrote:

Phoenix wrote:Really? Where did you were?

*go

I was up in the north somewhere, pretty touristy but nice. It was an epic hotel and we didn't really leave it

I was meaning where did you stayed, really, but maybe it's wrong anyway...
Alcudia, you mean?

Phoenix wrote:

shinji wrote:

Phoenix wrote:Really? Where did you were?

*go

I was up in the north somewhere, pretty touristy but nice. It was an epic hotel and we didn't really leave it

I was meaning where did you stayed, really, but maybe it's wrong anyway...
Alcudia, you mean?

Yeah, Alcudia sounds right.

shinji wrote:
Yeah, Alcudia sounds right.

Not bad. Seems that many people from England and such countries like to go to Majorca. We could celebrate our gathering next summer

Phoenix wrote:I wasn't correcting him. I was just pointing out Andrea Sassetti was so unworried about team's management that I wouldn't be surprised if he forgot to buy dry tyres.

He had NO money to buy enough tires and he bought at the season start too many wet tires... And it never rained so for not wasting and saving money....

karsten wrote:

Phoenix wrote:I wasn't correcting him. I was just pointing out Andrea Sassetti was so unworried about team's management that I wouldn't be surprised if he forgot to buy dry tyres.

He had NO money to buy enough tires and he bought at the season start too many wet tires... And it never rained so for not wasting and saving money....

Not bad. Reject attitude+bad luck= at his best.

According to ESPN, Chanoch Nissany's sole appearance at a Grand Prix included the following radio message from him to the pits:

"Guys, I'm coming in, I'm having too much grip."

Not a message you hear every race weekend, I'm sure...

Alianora La Canta wrote:According to ESPN, Chanoch Nissany's sole appearance at a Grand Prix included the following radio message from him to the pits:

"Guys, I'm coming in, I'm having too much grip."

Not a message you hear every race weekend, I'm sure...

He was probably beginning to feel his butt stuck at the seat.

Phoenix wrote:

Alianora La Canta wrote:According to ESPN, Chanoch Nissany's sole appearance at a Grand Prix included the following radio message from him to the pits:

"Guys, I'm coming in, I'm having too much grip."

Not a message you hear every race weekend, I'm sure...

He was probably beginning to feel his butt stuck at the seat.

Eeewwwwwww.......

I just came across this article which I though might be of interest to fellow reject fans who haven't yet seen this.

http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/story/8178.html

Contain within it is a textbook reject quote from Martin Brundle about Esteban Tuero.
However, I particularly like the British press's nickname of Look-How-Bad-You-Are to Luca Badoer. That is pure genius!


By the way, does anyone know any good reliable websites where I can download old F1 races from?? I have FINALLY invested in getting the internet at home for the 1st time (as a pose to sneakly using it at work) and since getting it I have been on a downloading spree for old F1 races on www.veoh.com/adultwarning/search/search/videos/q/f1 (hence the reason I haven't been posting here for the last few weeks).

But they only seem to have 2006 - 2008 F1 races (mainly in spainsh commentary). Races particularly from the golden era of rejects (1980's - 1990's) would be wicked.

Thanks in advance.

ibsey wrote:I just came across this article which I though might be of interest to fellow reject fans who haven't yet seen this.

http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/story/8178.html

From that article, this is something I didn't know:

Amati made her Formula One debut testing for Benetton, around the same time she was rumoured to be in a relationship with team principal Flavio Briatore.

Is this widely known? How long did the relationship last? Is this how she got the Brabham drive?

dr-baker wrote:

Amati made her Formula One debut testing for Benetton, around the same time she was rumoured to be in a relationship with team principal Flavio Briatore.

Is this widely known? How long did the relationship last? Is this how she got the Brabham drive?

If Glock or Di Grassi screw up, this would be the possible best way to get the Virgin...

Klon wrote:If Glock or Di Grassi screw up, this would be the possible best way to get the Virgin...

The way you phrased that makes me rofl

Dr John Palmer 1996 about Giovanni Lavaggi holding up the front runners:
" Lavaggi is getting in the way thats lavaggi hes getting even more in the way now he should be moving out of the way.He is desperately slow hes there because of his money" Lol harsh but funny and true

thehemogoblin wrote:(Plus, I thought my little portmanteau of Phoenix and English was crafty.)

Im glad someone did

Klon wrote:

dr-baker wrote:

Amati made her Formula One debut testing for Benetton, around the same time she was rumoured to be in a relationship with team principal Flavio Briatore.

Is this widely known? How long did the relationship last? Is this how she got the Brabham drive?

If Glock or Di Grassi screw up, this would be the possible best way to get the Virgin...

The thing is Amati was replaced by Damon Hill...................

ibsey wrote:Ok, just remembered another gem today. 1983 Austrian GP, James Hunt (and even Murray...who's not usually prone to this sort of thing) starts ripping into J.P. Jarrier for holding up Tambay, and allowing Arnoux to take the lead. The best bits from James Hunt's abuse includes...

"He'll be thanking Jarrier later with a knuckle sandwich...that was completely out of order Jarrier shouldn't be allowed to drive a GP car...he's got the mental age of 10 years old...a knuckle sandwich is the minimal penualty Jarrier should chew on...he's done it at every opportunity which is pretty frequent as he's always seems to be at the back of the grid".

Murray says in reply "that was a crash piece of driving from Jarrier"

later on when the TV shows Jarrier's pit stop...James Hunt states...

"Thats a pretty slow one there, pity they didn't keep him there really"

James Hunt hated Jarier - at one point he referred to him as a 'French Wally.

Oh, and the Clive James reviews are available for 1982, 1984 and 1986. VHS only, though - they never released them on DVD.

"Except for the dogged Tyrells and some teams with names like brands of Orange Juice....." (San Marino 1982, probably referring to Osella).

"All they needed to do was make it there, and they would be rewarded with hot tyres from the oven and fresh fuel from the refrigerator" (Germany 1982, referring to the then-novel idea of a pit stop for fuel)

"Despite the theoretical aid of a sail-plane rear wing, that provided extra something-or-other. Downforce? Upthrust? Advertising space? Nobody knew." (Long Beach 1982, referring to Villeneuves novel-but-illegal rear wing).

jonnyeol wrote:"Despite the theoretical aid of a sail-plane rear wing, that provided extra something-or-other. Downforce? Upthrust? Advertising space? Nobody knew." (Long Beach 1982, referring to Villeneuves novel-but-illegal rear wing).

That rear wing was really unstable, it swayed as hell at brakings, and it didn't seem to provide any aerodynamical benefits, because he spun at one point in the race. Oh yes-he was disqualified.

"Panato having a i think I'll join that accident moment" when crashing out of Spa 2004 (Martin Brundle)

Who's Panato?

It's Jodran driver Gorigio Panato.

P_Friesacher wrote:It's Jodran driver Gorigio Panato.

It's Giorgio Pantano... but you cannot blame P_Friesacher, he's Austrian

Klon wrote:

P_Friesacher wrote:It's Jodran driver Gorigio Panato.

It's Giorgio Pantano... but you cannot blame P_Friesacher, he's Austrian

Are you sure you don't mean Australian?

Klon wrote:

P_Friesacher wrote:It's Jodran driver Gorigio Panato.

It's Giorgio Pantano... but you cannot blame P_Friesacher, he's Austrian

but I think "Gorigio Panato" sounds better in fact

"panato" in italian is a kind of recipe for various kind of food, it's when you put bread crumbs on meat, fish or so on
and Gorigio sounds a classy name

Murray Walker: "There is De La Rosa coming in, and..."
Martin Brundle: "Presumably there is vitamin-C they are putting in that Orange Arrows isn it?
Murray Walker: "Ha ha, yeh, HEH, lap twentyfohour."

Although not a reject:

Clive James on Piquet during one of the reviews: "Piquet was on the pole... he was still on it when everyone else went past"

Or on Giacomelli: "de Cesaris's Alfa team mate Giacomelli got past Lauda by the novel method of declining to brake for the next corner".

MinardiFan95 wrote:If I was Paul Stoddart, I'd be nipping out with the Box Browning right now to take a photo of the timing screens, because Alonso is in third position, ahead of his team-mate Tarso Marques."

I gather this was during a free practice session.
I was only able to watch qualifying and races back in 2001, they didn't broadcast the practice sessions.
So when exactly is this quote from?

Jocke1 wrote:

MinardiFan95 wrote:If I was Paul Stoddart, I'd be nipping out with the Box Browning right now to take a photo of the timing screens, because Alonso is in third position, ahead of his team-mate Tarso Marques."

I gather this was during a free practice session.
I was only able to watch qualifying and races back in 2001, they didn't broadcast the practice sessions.
So when exactly is this quote from?

IIRC dear old Muzza used to say this quite often during the early minutes of quali. After very few cars had posted a laptime, thus the Minardi's (or which ever backmarker) were at the top of the time sheets. Don't know exactly which race it is from though?

EDIT: On a similar note I do remember during the quali at Silverstone 1997 Muzza & Brundle talking about how the Minardi's would go out early in quali just to get the TV exposure. Rather than set a competitive laptime. Now that's the F1 Reject spirit

In 1995 Brundle said something like "I know why they call them Forti. Because in the race you seem to be lapping them so often, its seems there are about forty of them".

Brundle on HRT's debut IIRC at Oz 2012 "What a waste of petrol".

When you go on board with Ide, you can be pretty sure it isn't for anything good. -- Steve Matchett.

Cynon wrote:When you go on board with Ide, you can be pretty sure it isn't for anything good. -- Steve Matchett.

What'd not good about this, it's epic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiyTqpCPYrc

watka wrote:

Cynon wrote:When you go on board with Ide, you can be pretty sure it isn't for anything good. -- Steve Matchett.

What'd not good about this, it's epic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiyTqpCPYrc

I saw a comment in there that made me laugh a little. "This guy was hopeless. Put together a team with him and Alex Yoong, and make Albers the boss of it all. Priceless!"

Despite what some say, I think Alex is good. He's quick, believe me.
He has always qualified - not always easy in a Minardi.

- Jean Alesi on Alex Yoong
March, 2002

Talk about putting a curse on poor Alex. 4 months later on, and he had suffered three DNQ's.

I think in the 1986 Portuguese GP Murray Walker said something like...

"Now we look at the Minardi Moderni, whose engine is not very Moderni." Made me giggle.

Cynon wrote:When you go on board with Ide, you can be pretty sure it isn't for anything good. -- Steve Matchett.

I used to love how Matchett always called Super Aguri "Super Best Friends".

Not from a reject, but when Fisi and Alonso were at Renault, an onboard showed one of them waving at a Minardi, then cut away. David Hobbs, jumped in with "There we see Alonso voicing his displeasure......or is that Fisicella speaking Italian? Ech, either way."

IIRC, some commentator, always said something like this after a Renault crashed:

*sigh* And that's another crash for Vitaly.

...without even recognizing the driver!

EDIT: Okay, he isn't a reject, but still.

1986 British GP, from the official FIA Season review.

Nigel Mansell, in the British Summer, driving Piquet's spare car, having just won the race, a few more degrees celsius away from passing out or becoming possessed by "Dave Syndrome" gets handed the Shell Oils sponsored glass bowl as the winning trophy.

"...they gave Nigel a really nice vase..." Clive James

I wonder who else knows what Dave Syndrome is?

dinizintheoven wrote:I wonder who else knows what Dave Syndrome is?

It's a synonym for Baker's Law. After all, my first name is David...