Grand Prix Rejects

Fair enough Salamander, it seems what you want is a different set of rules. What Piastri did would have broken the rules as they were at an earlier point in time, but right now, what he did was within the rules. I liked the ruleset described by Maro Engel, I'm not certain why we went away from that...

The one team that has underperformed significantly compared to last year is Aston Martin, and Williams, Haas and Alpine have been the biggest beneficiaries at their expense. Williams probably has the advantage of a slightly more settled situation out of those teams - slightly less disruption within...

Williams for great teamwork and also finishing top of F1.5. My money is on them getting P5 in the constructors. Also great podium by Leclerc. It may be a little difficult, as Vowles mentioned they are already curtailing development of their car this season and will put most of their resources into ...

Do you also have the attitude that Leclerc pushed Antonelli off the track and that he should have been punished for that at the start? I don't remember that incident, to tell you the truth. Regardless, if any driver effectively tuns another off the road like Piastri did (and Verstappen himself has ...

1. The track - Awful, awful, awful. A crime against sport. Breeds racing that is not only terrible, but dangerous too. 2. Oscari Piastri - For pulling the zero-skill manoeuvre (forcing your opponent off track rather than try to complete the move cleanly) at turn 1, lap 1. The telemetry data seems t...

1. The track - Awful, awful, awful. A crime against sport. Breeds racing that is not only terrible, but dangerous too. 2. Oscari Piastri - For pulling the zero-skill manoeuvre (forcing your opponent off track rather than try to complete the move cleanly) at turn 1, lap 1. The telemetry data seems t...

Williams for great teamwork and also finishing top of F1.5. My money is on them getting P5 in the constructors. Also great podium by Leclerc. It may be a little difficult, as Vowles mentioned they are already curtailing development of their car this season and will put most of their resources into ...

Alex Albon in a Williams is still somehow in the top 8 of the driver's championship. How?! :dance: Amazing start to the season for him. I was not expecting him to outperform his new teammate, Carlos Sainz consistently. Given so many were predicting Sainz would start dominating Albon right from the ...

1. Norris
2. Piastri
3. Verstappen
4. Russell
5. Leclerc
6. Hamilton
7. Antonelli
8. Tsunoda
9. Albon
10. Sainz

Pole: Norris
Fastest lap: Piastri
First retirement: Lawson
ROTR: Aston Martin
IIDOTR: Williams
DBTMOTR: Bortoleto
F2P: Gasly
Yellow flag: Lawson
Worst team: Sauber
ROTR: Antonelli

Between Gasly and Haas for me again - Gasly must have had some sort of car problem at the end at he was 2 seconds behind Max at the end so can't really blame him. Gasly's car was working fine - the problem seems to be that the energy recovery systems on the Renault power unit are less efficient tha...

1. Haas double points finish for the first time in....?? 2. Gasly jeezo man. Haas did get a double points finish a couple of races ago in the Chinese GP - still, I do agree that, given where they started (14th and 20th), working their way up to a double points finish is still a notable achievement....

Has anybody any thoughts on what's happening at the FIA? Yet another top-level resignation recently as Ben Suluyem continues to try to keep an iron like grip on the organisation. A bit like every other president of the FIA, really, but let's not ask what the difference is this time :? There has als...

1) Norris
2) Piastri
3) Russell
4) Verstappen
5) Leclerc
6) Antonelli
7) Hamilton
8) Hadjar
9) Sainz
10) Gasly

Pole: Norris
Fastest Lap: Piastri
First Retirement: Stroll
ROTR: Sauber
IIDOTR: Hadjar
DBTMOTR: Stroll
F2P: Ocon
Yellow Flag: Stroll
Worst Team: Sauber
Rookie of the Race: Antonelli

Also Antonelli is as far as I can tell the only teammate who is consistently doing all of the following: scoring close to his teammate, not getting in his teammate's way, and supporting his teammate in the race. So I'll say Kimi too. Very nostalgic, getting to say Kimi in IIDOTR. I suppose it does ...

2. Mclaren. Could have tried to win the race thinking outside the box (they had two cars in the top three) and they couldn't even do that. That said, we have two teams operating with very different mentalities that, in turn, push them towards different strategies. In the case of Red Bull, the prior...

1) Norris
2) Piastri
3) Russell
4) Verstappen
5) Leclerc
6) Hamilton
7) Antonelli
8) Tsunoda
9) Hadjar
10) Albon

Pole: Norris
Fastest Lap: Piastri
First Retirement: Stroll
ROTR: Aston Martin
IIDOTR: Hadjar
DBTMOTR: Doohan
F2P: Gasly
Yellow Flag: Ocon
Worst Team: Sauber
Rookie of the Race: Antonelli

The Lawson situation, to me, sums up Red Bull's lack of management consistency. Perez sat out a season this poorly, Lawson gets axed after two races. Yuki either rises or... err... What exactly? Super track Linblad? Bring Hauger in from the cold? Dangle a very large carrot in front of Vettel? Ultim...

I don't disagree with you Mario and Coops, but remember that jumping the shark isn't hitting bottom, it's just the sign that you are definitely past your peak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark (with some caveats) In a sense, it certainly isn't a lost cause, and more championships may...

This does kind of feel like Red Bull's "jump the shark" moment. Doesn't bode well. I don't know if they have quite got to that point, but it does feel as if the team is in a somewhat precarious situation. The team had already begun to lose a few senior members of staff before the big name...

If the Lawson story is true (big if), I don't understand why you would even put him in a VCARB. His confidence is going to be less than zero. Just call Alpine and get Doohan. He was good in that car last year, I don't think he's suddenly forgotten how to drive a racecar. It's not like Toro Rosso's ...

If it really is true that Red Bull will swap Lawson for Tsunoda in after just TWO races, that is complete madness and on a par with Ferrari's double DQ. I suspect if the next round wasn't Yuki's home race there'd be none of this crap. You can't possibly evaluate someone after 2 races!! The allegati...

A New Zealand grand prix - why don't they have one? (I'm aware of the Oceana series). Would be good to have a Finnish GP too given the number of successful drivers from there. Problem with Finland is lack of a track. Good rally stages though. Mind you, whilst there have been successful drivers from...

I think Haas are clear winners for the award this week. From being comfortably the slowest car all weekend in Australia to a fine double points finish with one car beating a Mercedes on merit in China Albon: Williams didn’t think China would suit them but Albon got into Q3 and scored more points wh...

Doohan must already have 4 or 5 penalty points now after Aus too? Imagine a race ban in his first year 😂 Yes, he's now up to 4 penalty points after the penalty for the incident with Hadjar. Meanwhile, we've got some breaking news - Leclerc and Gasly have both been disqualified for being underweight...

1. Haas . Seven massive points for that absolute tractor of a car, a strategic masterclass from both Ocon and Bearman. 2. Alex Albon . Third time in a row he's outpaced and outclassed his more fancied team mate. I think those are both fair nominations - the team got the strategy right, and their dr...

1. Lewis Hamilton - at one point 20 seconds behind his teammate, who had a broken wing, because he broke his teammate's wing 2. Lance Stroll - was on the right tire at every point in this race and still didn't manage a points finish I'd say that was more of a case of Ferrari's strategies making som...

Seems a bit surprising this thread got resurrected - anyway, there are some interesting potential suggestions though. If one off drives are included, there seems to be several drivers paired with Trintignant - from a quick glance, I've already found Robert Manzon (Gordini for 1950-1951, and one race...

Sprint 1) Norris 2) Piastri 3) Verstappen 4) Leclerc 5) Hamilton 6) Russell 7) Antonelli 8) Tsunoda Race 1) Norris 2) Piastri 3) Verstappen 4) Leclerc 5) Russell 6) Hamilton 7) Antonelli 8) Tsunoda 9) Sainz 10) Albon SPole: Piastri Pole: Norris Fastest Lap: Piastri First Retirement: Doohan ROTR: Law...

No love for Lando? This time last year I'm sure he would have caved in to Max. I honestly thought Max would walk this when it was wet. Great results for Albon, Kimi, Stroll and Hulk, and also should have been Yuki before his team did a great Ferrari impression. I guess that it may be because the ex...

It's what they used to say about the Benettons in the mid-1990s in the days of Michael Schumacher. It is, although a lot of that nowadays comes from the myth of the 1996 car. Michael and Ross both have said that Benetton would have won both titles with the car in '96 if Michael stayed, but there's ...

I think Red Bull have a fundamental problem. They now seem locked in to designing a car which only the genius of Max can control. As a result, every other team mate has under-performed; not because they are over-whelmed or intimidated by Max but because they cannot drive Max's car. Once they leave,...

1) Leclerc
2) Norris
3) Piastri
4) Verstappen
5) Hamilton
6) Russell
7) Sainz
8) Antonelli
9) Hadjar
10) Albon

Pole: Leclerc
Fastest Lap: Norris
First Retirement: Bearman
ROTR: Haas
IIDOTR: Hadjar
DBTMOTR: Lawson
F2P: Lawson
Yellow Flag: Bearman
Worst Team: Haas
Rookie of the Race: Hadjar

BBC 5 Live and BBC Sounds secure exclusive UK radio rights for Formula 1 for the next three seasons. https://i.imgur.com/ovj02Yo.png That is quite a late announcement isn't it, the day before FP1 in Oz? And anyway, which other radio station would be in the running for the rights in the UK? No other...

Meanwhile, McLaren have also announced that they've extended Piastri's contract "for the long term". Piastri was already under contract with McLaren until the end of the 2026 season - the exact length of his new contract hasn't been confirmed, but the BBC reckons that his contract will now...

Good grief, Sulayem attempting to turn the FIA into his own little dictatorship is about the lamest thing I think I've ever heard. Dude, just cash the effing checks from FOM and spend it on safety stuff and your other series. It's not that hard. No NDAs needed, no mass firings needed, no stupidity ...

Whilst some things might change, one thing that seems to be the same is Sulayem's propensity to make himself unpopular - although, this time, instead of antagonising the teams in F1 or FOM, it is the member organisations of the FIA itself that are now being more openly critical of him. Recently, it ...

,I'm actually looking forward to seeing this. I mean, come on, Brad Pitt's sixty years old and he's an F1 driver? Totally believable. That's even older than Stallone was in Driven and look how well remembered that is. It will, of course, make plenty of money, keep F1s profile boosted and spawn a vi...

Here are the drivers who have started a Grand Prix being the youngest driver on the grid and also being the oldest: Andre Pilette Riccardo Patrese Martin Brundle Gerhard Berger Jean Alesi Michael Schumacher Rubens Barrichello Felipe Massa Fernando Alonso Where did this info come from, out of intere...

Three men have been convicted of trying to blackmail Michael Schumacher’s family for millions of pounds. A German court has jailed one individual for three years after he threatened to upload 900 photos, 600 videos, plus medical reports of the seven-time Formula 1 world champion to the dark web unl...

Thanks for all the help. So this is genuinely the biggest age difference in 70 years. That is quite unusual! I think that there may be another pair that can match that age gap of 25 years that is fractionally closer to the modern day, which is Pedro Rodriguez and Trintignant in 1961 (the former bei...

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