Grand Prix Rejects

Pointrox wrote:Another bad livery. Minardi PS01 - make no mistake, it looked awful, whether it had Magnum logos on it (which actually saved it a bit):


Or those stripes (which made it look fugly):

Part of it might be down to the car basically looking like (and for the most part behaving like) a moving brink. Which makes you wonder how in the hell Alonso managed to get so much out of the wretched thing

Wizzie wrote:

Pointrox wrote:Another bad livery. Minardi PS01 - make no mistake, it looked awful, whether it had Magnum logos on it (which actually saved it a bit):


Or those stripes (which made it look fugly):

Part of it might be down to the car basically looking like (and for the most part behaving like) a moving brink. Which makes you wonder how in the hell Alonso managed to get so much out of the wretched thing

Wasn't it a complete rush-job getting the car designed and built? Not surprising looking at it. Looks like they designed it with a ruler...

dinizintheoven wrote:I've just worked out what the 1991 Tyrrell reminds me of. Here's a clue.



By the way, I do have my asbestos papaya shield at the ready.

I never thought I would see that referenced to on a F1 forum

eurobrun wrote:

dinizintheoven wrote:I've just worked out what the 1991 Tyrrell reminds me of. Here's a clue.


By the way, I do have my asbestos papaya shield at the ready.

I never thought I would see that referenced to on a F1 forum

F1 Deprivation is bad this winter...

dr-baker wrote:F1 Deprivation is bad this winter...

Who said it had anything to do with F1 deprivation? I'd have posted that in April (before we're all completely crushed by another season of Vettel domination) if that'd been the time to think of it.

Had I got as far as the snake it'd have to have been more of a political joke, because I can't think of anyone in the F1 world who fits that description quite so well.

eurobrun wrote:

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] wrote:

PLAYLIFE wrote:RB3 @ British GP (for charity I know but damn it was ugly)

This one in my opinion is the worst one!

It looks a bit like someone was sick on it.

Didn't Mark Webber actually throw up in a Red Bull car one race?

Dan B wrote:

Cynon wrote:;)

Why is it that with all the tin-top/stock car racing series NASCAR somehow gets the ugliest car schemes?

Because NASCAR is so fan-friendly that they can allow to have a little fun on their cars?

dr-baker wrote:This thread reminds me of a former thread. And while on the subject of IndyCars, of a particular example from that thread.

midgrid wrote:

Poor Alex Lloyd...

I remember that because his wife was in the pitbox and she was in active labor!

golic_2004 wrote:

eurobrun wrote:It looks a bit like someone was sick on it.

Didn't Mark Webber actually throw up in a Red Bull car one race?

2007 Japanese GP. He was suffering from food poisoning

stupot94 wrote:

golic_2004 wrote:

eurobrun wrote:It looks a bit like someone was sick on it.

Didn't Mark Webber actually throw up in a Red Bull car one race?

2007 Japanese GP. He was suffering from food poisoning

And looked like a sure bet for a podium until Hamilton ran out of talent - under a safety car, no less - and Vettel smashed into the back of him.

Hispania F110

No explanation needed, as we all know EVERYTHING about the lovely HRT!

golic_2004 wrote:No explanation needed, as we all know EVERYTHING about the lovely HRT!

Yes, except Why? Why are they even bothering?!

stupot94 wrote:

shinji wrote:

stupot94 wrote:

I find the 98 Minardi to cluttered. In one of my books seeing all the great looking 98 cars e.g. McLaren, Arrows, Ferrari. I thought the Minardi looked too......"American" It may also need less silver

Careful now...

I like Minardi, And I like Shinji,Shinji.

However I don't care much for their 98 livery. Or their 2000 "Jordanish" livery.

I find there 2000 livery to be their worst, it reminds me of the Only fools and horses episode where Rodney ends up painting a take-away kitchen in fluorescent paint.
I absolutely love the 1998 livery though, it really suited the shape and style of the cars at the time perfectly.

The worst Minardi livery was the 1993 one. It was slightly boring.

AdrianSutil wrote:

Wizzie wrote:

Pointrox wrote:Another bad livery. Minardi PS01 - make no mistake, it looked awful, whether it had Magnum logos on it (which actually saved it a bit):


Or those stripes (which made it look fugly):

Part of it might be down to the car basically looking like (and for the most part behaving like) a moving brink. Which makes you wonder how in the hell Alonso managed to get so much out of the wretched thing

Wasn't it a complete rush-job getting the car designed and built? Not surprising looking at it. Looks like they designed it with a ruler...

And the only engine they could find in time for it was a four year old Ford Cosworth design, which Minardi had been using since 1998!

Thats rejectful

Much like its namesake, the Midland M16 was extremely boring to look at.

Poor man's McLaren in my books

kostas22 wrote:

Much like its namesake, the Midland M16 was extremely boring to look at.

You're joking, right? Both M16 the F1 car and M16 the weapon are beautiful things to look at, and yet, disgraceful things to use.

The Midland is OK imo

eurobrun wrote:The Midland is OK imo

that's the problem, it's only OK, there's nothing noteworthy about it.

This wrote:

eurobrun wrote:The Midland is OK imo

that's the problem, it's only OK, there's nothing noteworthy about it.

Exactly. It's not OH MY GOD UGLY, it's just really bland. Like a building with an concrete façade.

And when I said namesake, I mean the English Midlands. I should probably clarify that.

kostas22 wrote:

This wrote:

eurobrun wrote:The Midland is OK imo

that's the problem, it's only OK, there's nothing noteworthy about it.

Exactly. It's not OH MY GOD UGLY, it's just really bland. Like a building with an concrete façade.

And when I said namesake, I mean the English Midlands. I should probably clarify that.

I can't understand what's so boring about a car painted in matte gun gray, white and bright orange.

Phoenix wrote:I can't understand what's so boring about a car painted in matte gun gray, white and bright orange.

It just looks... I think there's no other way to describe it... bland!
I don't mean that it should be gaudy (like the fluorescent Minardi M02) but this... it's neither agressive (like Hispania F111) nor elegant (like McLaren with the distinctive chrome paint). It has no artistic values and had it not been a reject, I think I would forget about the existance of M16.

When Spyker put their hands on MF1, it got even worse...

Basically what they did is cover up Midland's colors with Dutch orange.

spyker was worse imo

The Spyker looks like a Ferrari that has been left out in the sun for too long.

The midland is much more kinder on the eyes than the Spyker. And I like it

Pointrox wrote:

Phoenix wrote:I can't understand what's so boring about a car painted in matte gun gray, white and bright orange.

It just looks... I think there's no other way to describe it... bland!
I don't mean that it should be gaudy (like the fluorescent Minardi M02) but this... it's neither agressive (like Hispania F111) nor elegant (like McLaren with the distinctive chrome paint). It has no artistic values and had it not been a reject, I think I would forget about the existance of M16.

When Spyker put their hands on MF1, it got even worse...

Basically what they did is cover up Midland's colors with Dutch orange.

OK, now THIS is bland.

Yeah that Midland/Spyker was drab. But I think it's because Spyker just wanted orange to show who was now in charge. Their 2007 car was actually thought about and is a personal favourite.

The Midland was boring, but the Spyker, like every other car in 2007, looked brilliant.

the Masked Lapwing wrote:The Midland was boring, but the Spyker, like every other car in 2007, looked brilliant.

Even the Honda?!

AdrianSutil wrote:

the Masked Lapwing wrote:The Midland was boring, but the Spyker, like every other car in 2007, looked brilliant.

Even the Honda?!

Yep. The RA108 was awful, I'll give you that, but the RA107 is brilliant.

the Masked Lapwing wrote:

AdrianSutil wrote:

the Masked Lapwing wrote:The Midland was boring, but the Spyker, like every other car in 2007, looked brilliant.

Even the Honda?!

Yep. The RA108 was awful, I'll give you that, but the RA107 is brilliant.

Which is surprising because the cars themselves were really ugly

The 07' cars were alright but the 08' just had way too many silly aero bits stuck on.

So did some (not all) of the 2007 cars

the Masked Lapwing wrote:

AdrianSutil wrote:

the Masked Lapwing wrote:The Midland was boring, but the Spyker, like every other car in 2007, looked brilliant.

Even the Honda?!

Yep. The RA108 was awful, I'll give you that, but the RA107 is brilliant.

I knew there must have been another fan of the RA107 out there, even if it was a rejectful piece of crap! I actually liked the livery they used in 2007, less so in 2008...

East Londoner wrote:

the Masked Lapwing wrote:

AdrianSutil wrote:Even the Honda?!

Yep. The RA108 was awful, I'll give you that, but the RA107 is brilliant.

I knew there must have been another fan of the RA107 out there, even if it was a rejectful piece of crap! I actually liked the livery they used in 2007, less so in 2008...

The 2007 Honda was ok

I thought the 08 Honda was better than the 07. White with green lines. wasn't the worst we've seen in the last 5 years.

AdrianSutil wrote:I thought the 08 Honda was better than the 07. White with green lines. wasn't the worst we've seen in the last 5 years.

Not the worst, that goes to the 2009 Renault. That car was originally white, but they brought a baby along to puke all over it, and that's how you get the R29 livery.

redbulljack14 wrote:

AdrianSutil wrote:I thought the 08 Honda was better than the 07. White with green lines. wasn't the worst we've seen in the last 5 years.

Not the worst, that goes to the 2009 Renault. That car was originally white, but they brought a baby along to puke all over it, and that's how you get the R29 livery.

redbulljack14 wrote:

AdrianSutil wrote:I thought the 08 Honda was better than the 07. White with green lines. wasn't the worst we've seen in the last 5 years.

Not the worst, that goes to the 2009 Renault. That car was originally white, but they brought a baby along to puke all over it, and that's how you get the R29 livery.

Wasn't helped by the fact that the car had the design principles of an anvil. The 2007 and 2008 liveries weren't that much better either.