Grand Prix Rejects

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Some new diecast models I purchases in the last months: https://i.ibb.co/0rq45ck/20191216-201136.jpg This 1:43 Moneytron Onyx ORE-1 is the Holy Graal of my collection. I took some years to find this one in an eBay auction (I found the auction while watching this year's Indy 500 race). It was a hard ...

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Another Rial, this one driven (and crashed out) by Andrea de Cesaris in the 1988 Japanese Grand Prix: https://serving.photos.photobox.com/90133264b766c1aa96082b014eb5ee5c584da67e9e1867f108d0ff8e5c551028411c9664.jpg One of the most hated liveries ever, the pink-and-blue 1992 Brabham also features the...

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Christian Danner's 1989 Rial ARC02 using the 1988 livery: https://serving.photos.photobox.com/36968203ff063395e64c3421f99183ece4d89b1a0b4ed843bc8c76978a366c4689f649b9.jpg Jacques Villeneuve's awkward and controversial (but lovely) 1999 BAR 001: https://serving.photos.photobox.com/2733175447ff12a4300...

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I was able to gather quite a nice collection of diecast models of reject (or at least less successful) cars over the last years. It was a long, expensive and sometimes frustrating journey, as some models were pretty much impossible to find with a decent price and others were simply impossible to fin...

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(Unpopular non-F1 opinion) Formula Renault 3.5 sucks. It sucks a lot. It sucks like hell. Nothing in this universe can be worse than a FR3.5 race. Also, the qualify of the field is far from remarkable. Carlos Sainz Jr. winning the championship so easily and Roberto Merhi, in spite of driving for the...

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2014- Caterham: It's quite hard to develop an ugly or lacklustre green livery. And they got it! 2013- Williams: Another challenge: create a blue and white livery that doesn't suit that well. Checked! 2012- Sauber: In a year of good level of liveries, this one stands out because it doesn't stand out....

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Sorry for the double post, but I thought that this might warrent a separate post. Just been through the photos above and thought I would list all the various sponsor names/names that could be found on the car. Some of them towards the bottom of the list are obviously just parts suppliers (like OZ W...

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Waiting patiently for a Codemasters F1 1989 game and a career mode where I can start off with an awful Eurobrun.

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Tomas Kaiser , the overweight swedish drummer, James Hunt's bloke, F-2 and F-3000 journeyman. He was very close to a Brabham seat in 1987, but FISA didn't grant him the Super Licence. Paulo Carcasci , a very talented Brazilian driver that put up most of his career in Japan. Refused an invitation to...

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I have ALWAYS to tell myself than once we had a guy called Michael Bartels in Formula One. And the same goes to Toshio Suzuki.

And then I realize how important is for a reject driver to show up in F1 Rejects. Otherwise, he will be bypassed and thrown in a trash can by our fond memories.

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Even though we don't appreciate very much all these lacklustre newcomers from GP2, there is no comparison between them and, say, a driver that spends three years in Formula 3000 to score only two points (Mazzacane) or a driver that simply had no relevant career prior to his F1 outing (Yoong). All in...

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Scorpion Racing, the next unborn team? Hope not.

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At that moment, I noticed that: last Scuderia Italia driver to race in Formula 1 was Luca Badoer in 2009, 16 years after the end of the team!

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madmark1974 wrote:
Verde wrote:Webber and Alonso, the two remaining F-3000 kids.

And Christian Horner ...

Who would imagine that that lacklustre ginger chap who used to drive a hopeless wholly red Lola T96/50 would be one of the most important people in Formula One?

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Webber and Alonso, the two remaining F-3000 kids.

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FOM are greedy bastards. There's more than enough TV money to go around so that each team gets some. I've never understood why the team that finishes in last place in the championship is not entitled to TV money. It's bloody stupid. I may be entirely wrong, but I think the reason is someone in FOM ...

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I may be entirely wrong, but I think the reason is someone in FOM has decided some time ago that the optimum size for the F1 grid is 20 cars. That way there's money enough to go around, the series is competitive, and there is very little in the way of 1970s-80s-90s rejectfulness. A shame, really. T...

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Just wondering... It's not nonsense imagine that Timo Glock would have been retained had Marussia achieved that 10th place in the Constructors championship, given the fact the team would have earned that welcome sum of money ensured to the teams within Top 10. Marussia was running 11th with Charles ...

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Glock was also the last ChampCar driver to attend a Formula One race.

Hope to see him back in 2014 though.

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Anhtony Davidson in BAR, somebody? Yes. He only raced at the 2005 Malaysian GP subbing in for Takuma Sato, and his engine blew after a few laps. Mind you, this was in the wake of BAR withdrawing from the Australian GP in the dying stages of the race to preserve their engines I didn't remember it. W...

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I never heared aboutt he female formula 1 team. Do you have more information ? This information was released in Brazilian newspaper "O Estado de São Paulo" at the end of 1993, in a moment when the project was already all but folded up. I trust on this because there were Brazilian investor...

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This story is interesting and I just came across it: there was a bizarre project of a wholly female Formula 1 team for the 1994 season. This team would have two female drivers, Cesare Fiorio as the technical director, Forti-Corse F-3000 team as a partner and Johnson & Johnson (through O.B. tampo...

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A driver has to set out the race because he is injured during a benefit football match. I'm quite sure this really never happened. Senna injured a hand finger while playing football (not soccer, heh) with friends days before 1988 Australian Grand Prix. The pain was so much that his participation in...

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Anhtony Davidson in BAR, somebody?

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In fact, Mansell became a majority shareholder of Madgwick Motorsport in Formula 3000 after having purchased 51% of its stocks in 1990. But I haven't heard anything about a F1 outfit.

On the other hand, there were some rumours about Nelson Piquet becoming a team owner in 1990.

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Does anyone know something about the team Alain Prost was rumoured to put up for the 1990 season? These rumours began in June or July 1989, when everybody knew Alain was fed up of McLaren and wanted to go elsewhere. I read in an old Brazilian magazine that he wanted to create a team with John Barnar...

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Excellent interview! He seems to be a very nice bloke, I remember having watched a little interview with him after the qualifying session at the 1987 British Grand Prix weekend and he was always smiling in spite of having been disqualified because of a mistake rendered by his team.

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I'm totally interested and if you can count on me if you need some help. I have some stuffs in Portuguese that can help a bit.

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I know a Brazilian journalist that was lucky and smart enough to afford a Pacific wool jacket in 1995. He said the jacket is really itchy, heh.

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Yes, it's real altogether. And the highlights are "this site is optimized for Netscape 1.1" and "Last modified: 1 october 1995".

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I did the same two or three years ago: emailed all the Formula 1 and GP2 teams trying to get some sorts of souvenirs, letters and things alike. Some of them replied, mostly from GP2. I received, among some interesting things, an autograph from Kamui Kobayashi while he was a DAMS driver. As soon as I...

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Fortunately this fleeting second place didn't come to fruition. I just wonder how MUCH would I whine had Badoer retired from second. I mean, I couldn't even stand well Adrian Sutil's retirement during 2008 Monaco Grand Prix... Fate was actually very wise on not making all of us to watch a Minardi re...

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Nicest driver I met in Twitter. Half of the time he is complaining about lack of beer and the other half he is writing some unintelligible stuffs in Japanese (that probably mean he is moaning of lack of beer whatsoever).

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I knew that was an Onyx ORE-2 being exposed on the Monteverdi Museum, in Switzerland. Does this museum still exist?

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I can remember Rubens Barrichello nearly having to sit out a couple of races in 1995 because his cold medicine contained a banned substance? That is the basis for how my fan fiction story gets started, but that's another thread... Barrichello himself told here in Brazilian media that he used Oxymet...

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Enna-Pergusa without chicanes in the early days, albeit the Curvone left-handed banked-corner is typically an american one.

AVUS.

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Buddy Lazier had a more colorful one (below). Did crap in CART, career resurrected by the IRL. http://www.artofmotorsports.com/images/Artcars-1.JPG http://i.ebayimg.com/02/!By7j+iQBWk~$(KGrHqJ,!iIEw5E,nZ,9BMTyr6,j+!~~_1.JPG?set_id=880000500F Guido Daccò drove this (UTTERLY AWESOME) car as well, rig...

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Jon Beekhuis: From Indy Lights trophy to a steady job as a journalist in NBC. Best English coming from a non-native driver I ever heard.

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As far I as understood, he actually asked FIA to use these medicines long time prior to the test. I prefer to wait a bit longer to see if he explains a bit better what is his problem and what medicines does he need to take. I only think, in case of being innocent, that he was naive for not letting e...

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Gregor Foitek: Quitted Indy 500 attempt because was too afraid of hitting the wall. Philippe Gache: I DON'T WANNA RACE IN THIS shite AGAIN, yelled in the Methodist Hospital following his crash in the 1992 Indy 500. Guido Daccò: Italian gentleman that hung around in top motorsport seeking out for fu...

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