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Reject Games: Johnny Herbert’s Grand Prix Championship 1998
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The late 1990s was a wild time to be someone interested in Formula One video games. Each year saw the release of multiple titles, some with an official license and some without, and with quality ranging from carefully-crafted masterpieces to rather subpar efforts destined for the bargain bin. Johnny Herbert’s Grand Prix Championship 1998…
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Reject Games: EA’s F1 Manager
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Those who have become inextricably entwined in the Football Manager jungle at some phase in their life understand the all-consuming nature of management sims. Coaxing your team to a string of victories does not simply equate to a series of routine synaptic flickers, but instead an exponentially growing dopamine hit cruelly extinguished by the…
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A Quiet, But Important Point
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Every fan of the underdog knows about the flashy drives where a driver punched well above the weight of his Formula 1 car. Whether those drives went unrewarded (Damon Hill nearly winning the 1997 Hungarian Grand Prix, Luca Badoer’s retirement from P4 at the 1999 European Grand Prix, Markus Winkelhock’s heroics at the 2007…
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To B or Not to B(-Team)
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The 2024 Singapore Grand Prix was a dominant victory for Lando Norris. The British driver easily defended his pole position into T1 and proceeded to lead all 62 laps of the race. Norris’s control of the Grand Prix was so absolute that he needed to scare his fans and team a few times to…
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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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The Great Escape – Tiago Monteiro & Narain Karthikeyan
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While Grand Prix Rejects primarily writes profiles for the official list of Rejects – those with 2 points or less under the classic F1 points system – it is no less important to stress that there are drivers who absolutely befit the spiritual definition of rejectdom, and who but for one race would be…
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Teammate Collision #13: Teammate Collisions!
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Welcome back to the Teammate Collision podcast, where this time we shock the universe by actually talking about Teammate Collisions! After FOM’s recent video detailing their own personal favourites from the vault, we thought it best to take a look at them ourselves and give some arbitrary ratings, because why not! Of course, Lennart…
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Teammate Collision #10.2: Attack of the Klons
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Welcome back to the superest, happiest podcast in the intersphere of website collection: the Teammate Collision podcast! It is time to conclude our opinions and discussions of the 2003 season, from its forgettable drivers and its regrettable familiarity to the modern viewer. Of course, Lennart and Jeremy are very open to feedback, so we…
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Zsolt Baumgartner surprise winner of Driver of the Day for Aussie GP
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After a chaotic first attempt to hand out a brand new trophy – for the most exceptional performer in each race – the official Formula 1 website announced today that highly regarded Hungarian driver Zsolt Baumgartner has clinched the first ever Driver of the Day award. Baumgartner, 35, retired from the race twelve years ago with an electrical failure in a Minardi…
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