Grand Prix Rejects

8th May 1982, Zolder, Belgium Today we do not remember the passing of Gilles Villeneuve but we commemorate the birth of his Legend. In Fiorano today, Jacques Villeneuve will be driving his father's 1979 Ferrari 312T4 around the circuit in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of his father's passing...

I only have a few heroes in motorsport over the past 30 years: - Gilles Villeneuve - Jean Alesi - Valentino Rossi - Robert Kubica - Sebastian Vettel - Marco Simoncelli I've only met 2 of my heroes; and now 2 I will never meet. Which two did you meet? Had a good chat with Seb Vettel in 2008 before t...

Just seen a piece of news in a Portuguese newspaper relating to Italian sources (it is in Portuguese, only posted the link because of the video) that Marco was treated in a rather shockingly way after crashing, by the track marshals. It's scenes that recall F1 assistance level of, say, 30 years ago...

Lorenzo, Rossi and Simoncelli. The three guys who are in a tier above everyone else, the elite. Super Sic was coming of age, next year he would have been a formidable force. I only have a few heroes in motorsport over the past 30 years: - Gilles Villeneuve - Jean Alesi - Valentino Rossi - Robert Kub...

I was in row N, seat 101... And definitely some clowns! And I was disappointed in not being allowed one of the icecreams from the icecream sellers walking around the grandstand - I'm diabetic. On such a hot day, an ice cream would have been nice... I was row K seat 206 from memory. We only sat ther...

Is this the photographers' stand you were referring to? You can estimate roughly where I was in the grandstand by the angle of this photo. http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz283/dr-baker/DSC03242.jpg Yep that's the stand that was directly in my vision of the big screen! Looks like we weren't too ...

Wow! The second review of Monza based upon this year's GP! It was indeed hot but the passion and enthusiasm made up for it, as it also would have done in the downpour in 2008. And Australia must have been expensive - we paid (well, my dad paid) €14 for two roast pork rolls... And drinks' prices wer...

This is not breaking the rules, this is SMASHING them to pieces!! Alistair Caldwell: "Like other teams, we had been running underweight during qualifying and it had become an open secret. We arrived for the 1981 Argentine GP and the organisers told us that every car would be weighed every time ...

Albert Park – 16 visits, 1996-2011 My home city! Albert Park is a 4 day event despite F1 only taking to the track for 3 days. On Wednesday, there’s a pit-lane walk for grandstand members so you can catch the teams practicing pit-stops and spot the odd driver. Plenty of on-track action with plenty o...

Franck Montagny. Qualifies last at Germany 2006 for Super Aguri, a mere 15.4 seconds off pole before quietly retiring at half distance with hydraulic failure. That's misleading. He was on the pace of Sato throughout Friday practice (between 0.1 to 0.4 seconds off Sato's pace). Saturday morning Mont...

Andrea Montermini
Brought in at the Spanish Grand Prix to replace Roland Ratzenberger at Simtek.

Montermini crashed in practice which broke his left heel and right foot - and ended his season before he even got to compete in a race.

You can add: Andrea de Adamich drove for Ferrari in his debut race at Kyalami in 1968 (first and last race for the Scuderia). In 1970/71 he drove for McLaren. John Surtees drove 3 and a bit seasons with Ferrari, World Champ in 1964 with them, and also drove a McLaren chassis for the first half of 19...

Surprised to see some liveries people consider to be ugly here, like the Ligier JS39, Benetton B186 and Lola T93/30 which at the time was said to be a great looking livery. But I guess it's all subjective! My ugliest liveries would include: Honda RA107 Williams FW20/21 BAR 001 I'd like to add: RB3 @...

Hmm, how about this one - we are routinely told about the exotic materials which are used in Formula 1, and their trickle down effect. One such material is titanium, which is now used in a number of different applications, from aviation to high performance road cars. Don't wish to nit-pick, but tit...

Legge would be the worst decision to poach one from over the pond since Benetton tested Paul Tracey. How exactly is she from over the pond? AFAIK she is British, and has been driving in DTM for the last few years now. I meant former IRL/CART driver. If you can't make it there, you have a snow flake...

Paul Pietsch and Heinz Brendel.

Legge would be the worst decision to poach one from over the pond since Benetton tested Paul Tracey.

Met 'The Bolt' at the 2010 Australian GP, he was running the 2 seater Minardi. He thought he was all that, with a hot chick hanging off his arm. Spoke to one of the engineers as well who said the guy was a nutjob, everytime he left the factory in the UK he'd light up the tyres of his roadcar and fly...

As mentioned above, my lasting memory of Narain was his huge accident in Shanghai - I've never seen a car go off there before or since....after failing almost killing himself there, he almost took out Jacques Villeneuve. Which reminds me of his other infamous moment, at Spa following Villeneuve thro...

I was talking to a friend recently about Narain having a simulator test with FI and i said that he has no chance to race for Force India but he could race for HRT if he has the money. I never expected it to turn out to be true As a fellow Indian i would say good luck to him. I hope HRT dont struggl...

He was woeful in 2005. Monteiro ate him for dinner despite having similar qualifying pace...and Monteiro ain't that great. I'm almost 100% sure Narain has the seat because some big wig somewhere wants an Indian competing in F1 for the inaugural Indian GP. Being Round 18 however, it's gonna be tough ...

Been a while since I've been on here, not sure if I ever posted though. Have been listening to this podcast for quite a while, and the guys gave me a shout out once because I had met and sat in Jean-Denis Deletraz's Larrousse in 1994 Adelaide! So, I'm from Melbourne and have been following F1 since ...

I think the most annoying thing about the new graphics was when it was displaying REPLAY when it clearly was a live feed. Happened a few times in practice, can't remember if it happened in quali or the race.