Grand Prix Rejects

Simtek wrote:

tBone wrote:Can I be added? I was born exactly 159 years after Gottlieb Daimler's birth! So, 17th March 1993 is my date of birth.

It's also the same day that people all over the world pretend to be Irish!

I don't, I just pretend it's my birthday

17 December 1999 for me.

I was apparently born 17 years ago today... shame no Rejects have been born on the same day.

Reject_Dom wrote:I was apparently born 17 years ago today... shame no Rejects have been born on the same day.

It's the anniversary of Eric van de Poele and Modena's heartbreak at Imola, if that's any consolation Anyway, you have been added to my signature, seeing as I am changing it every day for birthdays and death anniversaries.

Reject_Dom wrote:I was apparently born 17 years ago today... shame no Rejects have been born on the same day.

Technically there is one: Indianapolis 500 reject Al Miller. What is unlisted there is that he attempted to qualify for the 1950 race (which was part of the F1 championship).

Simtek wrote:

Reject_Dom wrote:I was apparently born 17 years ago today... shame no Rejects have been born on the same day.

It's the anniversary of Eric van de Poele and Modena's heartbreak at Imola, if that's any consolation

His only race he qualified in that season and he nearly got points.... blimey, what a bathplug-load of bad luck.

Well mine is today, shared with Ralf Schumacher

Any rejects born on 21st August? 19 today and rather than drinking* i'm more interested in finding out who I share my birthday with.

*that's a bit of a lie, I'm already drunk!

Francis23 wrote:Any rejects born on 21st August? 19 today and rather than drinking* i'm more interested in finding out who I share my birthday with.

No F1 Rejects, but amongst those I recognise on the Wikipedia page:

Emiliano Mercado del Toro (1891-2007... look at those dates and realise they're not a typo)
Count Basie (1904-1984)
Princess Margaret (1930-2002)
Barry Norman (1933-present)
Donald Dewar (1937-2000)
Glenn Hughes (1952-present)
Joe Strummer (1952-2002)
Kim Cattrall (1956-present)
Nigel Pearson (1963-present)
Carrie-Ann Moss (1967-present)
Serj Tankian (1967-present)
Liam Howlett (1971-present)
Simon Katich (1975-present)
Usain Bolt (1986-present)

So you've got the Queen's sister, a First Minister of Scotland, a film critic, various musicians, a few actors, a cricketer, a footballer, a lightning-fast sprinter and a man who lived to be 115.

There are a couple of American NASCAR drivers - Burney Lamar and Paul Menard, both born in 1980 and both about as likely ever to have competed in F1 as Champion the Wonder Horse.

I had a quick look through 20th August as well, and that throws up the interesting cases of Bernardo O'Higgins (champion of Chilean independence with an Irish father, hence the name), H.P. Lovecraft, Don King, Ron Paul, Jim Bowen, Isaac Hayes, Robert Plant, Phil Lynott, Dimebag Darrell, David Walliams... and... er... Fred Durst, but we don't talk about him. The only racing personality that jumped out at me was Jo Ramirez.

dinizintheoven wrote:

Francis23 wrote:Any rejects born on 21st August? 19 today and rather than drinking* i'm more interested in finding out who I share my birthday with.

No F1 Rejects...

Actually, Jim, I'm going to have to stop you there as one Ken Richardson from Bourne in Lincolnshire was born on this day in 1911. He was BRM's development driver in their early days testing their V16 engine and was entered by them in the 1951 Italian Grand Prix, qualifying a pretty respectable 10th before it was found that he didn't have the correct racing licence due to his lack of experience. And so ended a stellar F1 career...

Oh yeah, and it's also go_Rubens' birthday. Happy birthday to you both!

Easy one to miss, right? No wonder he didn't show up on the All-Knowing Oracle.

Thanks guys, guess you learn something new every day!:)

Edit- Just realised Felipe Nasr is born on 21st too

Looks like I was born 46 years after the final race of the first Formula 1 World Championship at Monza. (Which means, today is my birthday ) The funny thing is, no other World Championship race has been held on this day ever since.

I also share my birthday with WTCC almost-champions Augusto Farfus and Jorg Muller.

Happy birthday Sir Stirling Moss

golic_2004 wrote:Happy birthday Sir Stirling Moss

Also to Damon Hill

Happy birthday to two late F1 drivers today

Carlos Pace, whom the Interlagos track would be named after in his memory, and Manfred Winkelhock. RIP to you both.

Yesterday's birthdays were mine and Keke Rosberg's, the only Formula One champion to DNPQ in a Grand Prix.

...although, at the time of his last DNPQ (of four), Keke had no idea he would be World Champion four years later.

As for all the other DNQs that lasted all the way until 1981, even Saint Ayrton had one of those on his record...

It's January 1st where HWNSNBM lives and a very Happy Birthday to him!

A bit late now, but happy birthday to our former overlord, eytl, and to FullMetalJack, whose birthdays were on 2nd January.

Happy actual birthday to everyones favourite combat replicant Roy Batty!

I wanna question this why would you guys wanna put your birthdays done here online?

Gonzalez wrote:I wanna question this why would you guys wanna put your birthdays done here online?

That is a good question. But do you really know who I actually am?

Gonzalez wrote:I wanna question this why would you guys wanna put your birthdays done here online?

Man, I've posted my music up here before a birthday isn't all that personal when you think about it.

Gonzalez wrote:I wanna question this why would you guys wanna put your birthdays done here online?

They're days of the week, mate. Ain't like we're asking for everyone's credit card info...

...speaking of which, I'll need that if people are wishing to buy Ataxia+ subscriptions!

It's not like there's nobody else in the world with the same date of birth as me...
Besides, it's not like it takes much effort to find out the majority of most forum members real names. It's not like we're a forum with ideas that are a danger to society or something like that, so your identity being associated with F1Rejects/GPRejects is not that much of a disaster...
It's only our own idiocy that we're asociated with, but if you are an idiot, it will show trough one way or the other.

I was born 19 of March. I suppose no F1 driver was born this day, but it's pretty close to Ayrton Senna's.

solarcold wrote:I was born 19 of March. I suppose no F1 driver was born this day, but it's pretty close to Ayrton Senna's.

On the contrary it's Nicola Larini's birthday

Simtek wrote:

solarcold wrote:I was born 19 of March. I suppose no F1 driver was born this day, but it's pretty close to Ayrton Senna's.

On the contrary it's Nicola Larini's birthday

Not quite a reject. Close though!

dr-baker wrote:

Simtek wrote:

solarcold wrote:I was born 19 of March. I suppose no F1 driver was born this day, but it's pretty close to Ayrton Senna's.

On the contrary it's Nicola Larini's birthday

Not quite a reject. Close though!

Anyone whose CV includes driving the Osella FA1L is worthy of some sort of honorary status

Happy birthday Manfred Winkelhock, turns 31 today!

EuroBrun wrote:Happy birthday Manfred Winkelhock, turns 31 today!

Sadly not. It's 31 years to the day since he died in a championship sportscar race in Canada. RIP.

Last Saturday, 1st of October, was Jean-Denis Délétraz birthday. His son hugged him at the end of the race and posted a picture of it on Facebook.

It's my birthday today, and a friend of mine genuinely gave me raw garlic as a present. #blessed

My birthday is today(November 18th), 14 years ago today.

Dexter249 wrote:My birthday is today(November 18th), 14 years ago today.

...hence, younger than the embryo that is wmetcalf.

Time marches on...

dinizintheoven wrote:

Dexter249 wrote:My birthday is today(November 18th), 14 years ago today.

...hence, younger than the embryo that is wmetcalf.

Time marches on...

Even I feel kinda old now

I'm glad nobody noticed yet how old i really got begin this month....

This wrote:I'm glad nobody noticed yet how old i really got begin this month....

29 years and 12 months old - congratulations!

Huh, I never posted my birthday here. Just happened, December 8, 19 years ago. Celebrated it in an army camp. wohoo