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The Best Knows Best
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Once more, the weather at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps provided controversy in the Formula 1 paddock and the fandom. As had been the case in the infamous 2021 event, rain arrived shortly before the start of the 2025 Belgian Grand Prix and race control decided to abort the start sequence. Thankfully, unlike the 2021…
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2024 Season Review
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What a difference twelve months makes. When Max Verstappen cruised to back-to-back victories to begin the 2024 F1 season, a feeling of déjà vu gripped the fandom of this sport. Lest we forget, F1 was coming off a 2023 season which rewrote the definition of “dominant”, Max Verstappen’s magnum opus making seasons like 2002,…
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Gloria Garantita
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We are a little more than a week away from Sir Lewis Hamilton entering his first Grand Prix as a driver of the famous Scuderia Ferrari. The Italian team signed the seven-time world’s champion to a multi-year contract at the start of 2024, finishing his long run with Mercedes. He becomes the fifth former…
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Schumacher’s Seventh
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On this day 20 years ago, Michael Schumacher accomplished a then unprecedented feat in Formula 1 history by clinching his seventh Driver’s World Championship at the legendary Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. To celebrate this accomplishment, this month’s Gravel Trap will re-watch the ITV coverage of this historic event and take a look at the observations…
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Test Drive Unlimited – the perennial test drivers of F1’s unlimited testing era
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Prior to the 2009 ban on unlimited testing, a lot of drivers carved out long careers in various F1 teams as testers while potentially never actually starting a race. Through hard work, some would eventually make it through as actual race drivers and have a decent career, while some would never get a proper…
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Formula 1.0 – You Can (Not) Have a Championship Battle
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The season finale of the 2023 Stock Car Pro Series advertised itself by proudly announcing that there were no less than seven title contenders battling for the premier Brazilian motorsport title. That sounds intriguing, right? Only one minor issue with the claim: based on the points standings heading into the Super Final, it would…
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2023 Season Review
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Overview Any regular reader of GPRejects’ race and season reviews will have received quite a clear picture of the last few years and how it feels to be a Formula 1 fan. In short, it’s exhausting. For another year, Liberty Media served up the championship’s audience with another 22+6 races in under a nine-month…
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Teammate Collision #15: 2023 Season Review!
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Welcome back to the Teammate Collision podcast, where this time we change the course of history through our discussions of all things the 2023 season, it’s lows and further lows, and by going over our personal Reject of the Year podiums! Of course, Lennart and Jeremy are very open to feedback, so we would…
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GPR Awards – 2023 Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
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The 2023 Formula 1 season finally ended in Abu Dhabi with Max Verstappen easing to his nineteenth win from twenty-two races. Verstappen, one of only three race winners all season, finally put the F1 fanbase out of our misery when the chequered flag fell. Another of this year’s winners was the object of much…
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GPR Awards – 2023 Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix
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With a slight, self-imposed increase in difficulty, Max Verstappen won his eighteenth event of this gripping and exciting 2023 Formula 1 season. Behind and around him, the lights of Las Vegas were switched on to the championship for the first time since the days of Caesar’s Palace, where rejectdom was given plenty of space…
A tribute to the heroic failures of Grand Prix racing