Grand Prix Rejects

Row Man Gross-Gene

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....

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To that end, it creates a scenario where it can be advantageous for the attacking driver to go into a corner at very high speed - perhaps even at a speed where they would not normally make the corner, or could only do so on a very compromised line - to then claim that they were ahead at the apex an...

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The telemetry data seems to suggest it was more of a case of Max coming off the brakes early to try and make it look like he was ahead at the apex and that he was cutting the track because he was forced off, rather than because of the speed he was carrying into the corner. Regardless, Piastri barel...

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I’ll echo Williams and Leclerc. HM to Sainz for finally getting on top of the car.

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I’ll nominate Saudi Arabia and the track. Drivers and teams did a pretty good job today. Even the ones who crashed.

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1) Norris 2) Piastri 3) Leclerc 4) Hamilton 5) Verstappen 6) Russell 7) Antonelli 8) Hadjar 9) Gasly 10) Tsunoda Pole: Norris Fastest Lap: Leclerc First Retirement: Lawson ROTR: Race Control/Stewards IIDOTR: Hadjar DBTMOTR: Stroll F2P: Ocon Yellow Flag: Lawson Worst Team: Sauber Rookie of the Race: ...

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Insane in the Bahrain GP 1) Norris 2) Piastri 3) Leclerc 4) Verstappen 5) Hamilton 6) Russell 7) Antonelli 8) Hadjar 9) Alonso 10) Tsunoda Pole: Norris Fastest Lap: Bearman First Retirement: Hulkenberg ROTR: Race Control IIDOTR: Racing Bulls DBTMOTR: Stroll F2P: Ocon Yellow Flag: Albon Worst Team: S...

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

Pole: Norris
Fastest Lap: Hamilton
First Retirement: Sainz
ROTR: Albon
IIDOTR: Lawson
DBTMOTR: Tsunoda
F2P: Gasly
Yellow Flag: Ocon
Worst Team: Sauber
Rookie of the Race: Hadjar

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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 ...

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Yeah, Lawson never felt like the right choice after what happened with Gasly and Albon. So very predictable.

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This does kind of feel like Red Bull's "jump the shark" moment. Doesn't bode well.

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Tough to beat many of those mentioned. Doohan and Ferrari for the Double DQ. I will say that I had no problem with Ferrari's strategy. Hamilton was set to be overtaken by Verstappen, in which case he'd have finished 6th, or they put on new tires, and worst case he drops back and can't catch Max, in ...

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

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RIP Eddie.

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Every time wet/dry conditions make a race interesting I'm drawn to Bernie's sprinkler idea... I get it, but I think if it happened every other race meeting it would get old before the season was out. I am curious what you think would be the right frequency for wet races? It would have to be very ra...

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Spectoremg wrote: ↑18 Mar 2025, 18:37 Every time wet/dry conditions make a race interesting I'm drawn to Bernie's sprinkler idea...

I get it, but I think if it happened every other race meeting it would get old before the season was out. I am curious what you think would be the right frequency for wet races?

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Isack and Liam

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Had to copy someone to get it in before p3 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:...

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Nessafox wrote: ↑07 Mar 2025, 18:55 I was yelling Boo-urns.

That made me giggle!

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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 n...

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Pro never had a Multiviewer like they are currently advertising, at least not without hacks (they got shamed into it because several teams were actually using outside apps on their pitwall last year.) Native 4k is a bit murkier. Some races had it (Japan most famously), some were shot in 4k and down...

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FITV has today launched their new "Premium Tier" which includes 4k streaming and the ability to create your own version of a Multiviewer. While they don't say exactly what you can pick from, if it is the way their old "Pit Lane Channel" used to be (one screen is the world feed, ...

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https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/formula-1-and-motorsport-network-launch-2025-global-f1-fan-survey/10697304/ There is another F1/Autosport/Motorsport Network Global Fan Survey available. I have just completed it. Looking forward to seeing the results. I thought the last question was interesting, a...

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BTW had anybody here seen this? https://youtu.be/LT7h6sUeUhU?si=96PHAPPlOAsSw_Qz I made the mistake of seeing a clip of how they did the visual effects for that. It literally involved a young woman crouched behind the mocked-up tub holding up the rear wing (her hands and body easily visible) as the...

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REALLY don't like the team formerly known as Minardi's car (I never know what to call them!), and the rest look just like last year! That even seemed to be the gist of their video intro at the live event, what they should be called... Would have be known at one time on this forum as The Team Former...

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dr-baker wrote: ↑13 Feb 2025, 19:45 Gulf of Mexico is known to Donald Trump as Gulf of America. Just surprised he didn't get a sponsorship deal and call it Gulf Air of America.

It's (the Gulf stuff) so far from the worst thing, but it is so early aughts Saturday Night Live that it makes me mad at the lack of creativity.

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Thumbs up doc! Thank you. Although if I were to actually meet any of them, I would probably be like :oops: . To be honest, one thing I liked about the list is that the characters I'm familiar with, seem to be the type to be an equal partner, not some baby puppydog that some guys seem to prefer. I t...

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Thumbs up doc!

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Fernando Alonso remains the oldest driver on the grid this year, being 43 going on 44. The youngest driver will be Antonelli, 18 going on 19. That's an age difference of 25 years. I did a check on Schumacher, when he was in his 40s, and he was 21 years older than Jaime Alguersuari, the youngest, in...

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Don't inspire Elon to send a prove to Uranus, will you. If Elon includes himself on the passenger list, I'm cool with it! You seem to ignore the innuendo here. I feel so dumb. Reminder to self to not try to be funny! On a more serious note, Trump and his cronies are just spamming us with garbage ri...

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It goes on and on doc. One very funny one was declaring that everyone is legally the sex they were at “conception”, which would literally mean everyone is female. If you put it all in a work of fiction, you’d be criticized for how unrealistic it was. Yeah, I saw that on social media too. The intere...

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Just been reading a thread on Threads. I wanted to make a note of the following: SCROTUS: So called ruler of the US. FOTUS: Felon/fuhrer of the US Also, I loved the recent speech that Bishop Mariann Budde gave with Trump. Shame it won't ever have penetrated that thick skull. And trying to end the w...

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Wow, nothing out-of-date in the AI response!

All I'll say is I think Hamilton and Leclerc will be fairly close in points. I don't think it will be a huge Leclerc walkover.

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Additional research has shown that Zakspeed nearly made the list. Their F1 efforts are well known, but they ran the C100 prototype program for Ford (eventually turning it into the C1/4 and C1/8) but were credited only with a DNS at Le Mans 81, before racing pretty much every continental sports car ...

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Thought I'd compile an alphabet of the most successful drivers beginning with each letter of the alphabet (surnames), some of this might be subjective but I'm going on championships first, then race wins, then placings. Nobody begins with X :-) Fernando Alonso (could argue for Ascari with also cham...

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1. Norris 2. Hamilton 3. Sainz 4. Russell 5. Max 6. Piastri 7. Leclerc 8. Bottas 9. Hulkenberg 10. Alonso Race Pole: Norris FL: Piastri First Retirement: Magnussen ROTR: Max IIDOTR: Bottas DBTMOTR: Stroll LP: Zhou F2P: Albon Yellow Flag: Stroll Worst Team: Williams RE the ROTR, IIDOTR, I'm fine doin...

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/articles/cn4x21xwp8go This is getting VERY heated between Max and George. Oh dear. The plot thickens! I'll say it's super easy to pigeonhole George as the head-boy type, but I'm glad to get his side of this story. Max has been getting away with tons of shite on ...

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I repeat my previous suggestion of either Bernie Ecclestone or Daniel Ricciardo :vergne: I could live with Daniel, but I wonder if he has any aspirations in endurance racing or anywhere else the FIA has tendrils? Whilst he's not announced what he intends to do next, Ricciardo does seem to have cons...

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almost by definition they need to be a bit old and out of touch in order to be beyond the reach of sanction by Sulayem if they should lose. I repeat my previous suggestion of either Bernie Ecclestone or Daniel Ricciardo :vergne: I could live with Daniel, but I wonder if he has any aspirations in en...

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Added to that, it seems there are many who are fearful of the potential backlash if they were to run against him and the potential revenge that he might take once back in power. This is an interesting conundrum. But I think it can be beaten. We just need someone popular who is outside the sport cur...

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