Grand Prix Rejects

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Despite the new investor I just don't see how they will get a car on the grid by the 4th race of the season. What assets of Marussia do Manor actually hold? Do they still have a factory or even any staff? How long will Ferrari tolerate being a creditor? Still many big unanswered questions, but I'm ...

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f I didn't know better, I'd say most of the key players were deliberately imploding F1 and that in a few years they will get their wish... - Three teams (Ferrari, Red Bull, Mercedes) get a "golden goodbye" if F1 makes less than a certain amount of profit (I seem to remember it is $750 m pe...

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New designs usually take a while to be accepted by me. This one is already proving pretty acceptable. Well done to the Rejects transfer crew

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My favourite DOS games are Rogue (a role-playing game that was coded before I was born, and I still haven't managed to finish it...), Jazz Jackrabbit (think Sonic with gun-wielding bunnies and turtles), Commander Keen (a fun if occasionally frustrating platformer) and SimCity 2000 (probably doesn't ...

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I'm currently going through a phase of Persian spike fiddle music, in particular Kayhan Kalhor's "I Will Not Stand Alone".

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- Being able to predict the correct tyre strategy over 12 months in advance and seeing nearly everyone else apparently unable to do so. My parents have also figured out the correct strategy, including mum (who can barely remember how many compounds are allowed each weekend), so seeing that neither ...

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But wouldn't stopping technology restrictions favour the bigger teams? They would have more resources to pursue new innovations and that would inevitably mean smaller teams would fall behind. Take a look at 1992-1993, when Williams was obliterating the opposition by means of having the resources to...

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Nuppiz, do not despair - Tuuli Petaja is currently joint 2nd in the women's windsurfing (at the moment she'd get bronze on countback), so she has a strong chance of silver if she beats Israeli competitor Lee-El Korsiz, who is currently equalling her score. However, if the Spanish entrant (Marina Al...

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What is it with Jos and the law?!?

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Cost-cutting is a difficult one. There's no way a mandatory budget cap would work in a FIA-sanctioned sport for legal and technical reasons. So cost-cutting would have to come from some other method. Keeping regulations stable would help (e.g. not changing the engine). Giving teams a year's notice b...

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Pastor needs to learn to respect the track. He frequently fails to do so, which leads to mistakes in itself, but it also means he struggles to understand why his opponents do what they do. When that happens, Pastor gets confused. Then he gets angry. Then he instinctively attempts to remove the sourc...

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Good : - Some people are doing well in some races that normally wouldn't stand a chance in any of them - Close championship battle - Variety in technical designs (I don't mind the resultant bickering because variety is supposed to be the spice of F1) - The "little" teams are catching the ...

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Enge gets 18 Month FIA Ban. (Probably meaning he can't take part in Fia Sanctioned events) https://twitter.com/dsceditor/status/230946862235004928 (Daily Sports Car is reliable source) Too much, or too little? It means exactly that - Tomas is obliged to surrender his licence for 18 months and there...

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Nuppiz, do not despair - Tuuli Petaja is currently joint 2nd in the women's windsurfing (at the moment she'd get bronze on countback), so she has a strong chance of silver if she beats Israeli competitor Lee-El Korsiz, who is currently equalling her score. However, if the Spanish entrant (Marina Ala...

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10 races gone. Fernando Alonso: 154 points, 1st in WDC standings Felipe Massa: 23 points, 14th in WDC standings When's the last time a teammate was so outperformed? Schumacher vs Verstappen perhaps? Alex Zanardi in 1999, facing Ralf Schumacher (35 points to 0)? The Hill/Frentzen ratio from the same...

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I reckon we'll get coverage - on BBC2, squeezed in between various other shows on there (BBC 2 is showing all the key shows for BBC 1 and BBC 2, so won't get time to cover any of them properly). Radio 5 Live, I dare suggest, is a loss.

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I find Pamphlets views on F1 as boring as they are predictable. Pamphlet just likes being controversial for the sake of being controversial. He has contradicted himself many times before. I wonder what people like that did with themselves before the internet emerged? Argued with their neighbours, m...

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The Nurburgring's 90% owned by the German government, so I'd imagine they'd find another operator. If they do it quickly enough, they might even save the Grand Prix there. If not... ...the venue's probably more profitable without the F1, given how many other activities go on there, and perhaps a bet...

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Best wishes to Maria, and hope she makes as good a recovery as possible, as soon as possible. Also, best wishes to her family and to Marussia, who must be feeling terrible. I echo RealRacingRoots' observation that Lord Paul Drayson is a good example of what may still be possible for Maria. Granted, ...

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"Wheeling and Dealing For Your Opponent's Fun and Profit" by Bernie Ecclestone

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darkapprentice77 wrote:
eytl wrote:Since Tiago is not a reject
Apart from Indy 2005 he basically is, just sayin...

That makes Tiago lucky. F1 Rejects has a category for that

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"Making Zippers Look Cool" by BAR
"Making Earth Look Cool" by Honda
"Making Crashing Look Cool" by Nelson Piquet Jr

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Fans who watch only for the crashes or because the driver du jour isn't winning can be a bit annoying, and those who find crashes funny are a lot worse than that. Part of the complaining is because F1 is a big, huge complicated thing. Even if every fan agreed on what made good F1 (and as several peo...

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Wizzie wrote:Thank HWNSNBM I learnt about the concept of Administration last week in Business Studies. Guess it is useful for something afterall

What a coincidence! Of course, there are no coincidences with HWNSNBM

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This isn't as bad as it could be. I understand that Lola has entered voluntary administration. While I have no knowledge of UK corporations law, I do know that voluntary adminstration generally allows a business to continue operating - albeit in a restricted form (though precisely what they can and...

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Paying shouldn't be a problem, since the article states Force India had already posted that amount and more as security before the case started. What does strike me as a problem is that the court appears to have ignored what was established in the case when assessing costs. This would, if anything, ...

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Red Bull , at just under 95% positive, is rather well-liked. McLaren is the opposite, with just over 1% approval rating. Lotus : Over three-quarters are against, which you'd never believe from the amount of coverage it gets these days, but it's not exactly the pantomine villain yet. Ferrari is more...

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////Apologies in advance if any thread of this kind has been created in the past//// A thread of this kind called "Unrecognised Reject Actions" was created back in December 2009... ...and somehow ended up horribly entangled in the "Wonderful World of Shoe Spam" thread . I think ...

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I won't be watching it, since for me to do so would imply that I thought it legitimate for a governing body to ignore its own regulations to play politics (and then speak falsely about it).

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Has anyone brought up the "UniF1ed" ad campaign yet? (I'm struggling to keep track of what's been discussed where this week, for reasons explained below). The organisers of the Bahrain Grand Prix did an ad campaign linking F1 with the unification of their country. Long story short ( my blo...

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I gather the plan is to try to get 25 entries for Donington in July, but ELMS has come a long way down since it was turning down entries last year in its combined LMS/ILMC rounds...

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I found the BBC coverage completely unusuable. After doing a good job in practise and qualifying, James Allen inexplicably decided he needed to double his talking speed in the race - which meant I couldn't pick out any of the words he was saying. Jaime Alguersuari mumbled a lot, with the same effect...

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According to Wikipedia, Martin Brundle was born in June 1959, therefore he is 52! Oops! Where did I get that other decade from? Not my first major blooper of the weekend and probably not my last... So Martin should be a Platinum driver for the next 3 years. Unless the relevant committee has decided...

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GTe-Pro and GTe-Am are essentially what is left of GT2, the Pro and Am statuses of each car are determined by what kind of racing license the drivers of each car have, for example Giancarlo Fisichella is part of the Pro lineup due to his F1 experience in the last x-amount of years, Martin Brundle m...

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i noticed that there is a "GTE" class with Pro and Am. are these cars the same ones that run the Grand-Am series? Not quite. The Grand-Am cars are based on GT3 cars, which is the level below GTE (previously known as GT2) in terms of competitive level. You can't use a European GT3 car in G...

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My favourite racing book is "Overdrive: Formula 1 in the Zone" by Clyde Brolin because it really gives a sense of how racing drivers (and other top-level sportspeople) think. EJ's autobiography is very funny, and the biography of him by Timothy Collings is also interesting. I have read &qu...

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The Karunpaedia is racing for JRM in LMP1 of the World Endurance Championship. It clashes with three rounds of F1 (Australia, Italy and India) but I wouldn't rule out the possibility of him doing some commentary work during other parts of the season.

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Congratulations, Enoch! Timothy and Jeremy look really cute. May they both have long, happy and successful lives

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I'd love to take that bet but I'm not sure I dare...

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Dome's doing Spa and Le Mans 24 from what I can gather. Hopefully in the next couple of hours the entry lists will emerge so that we can see which other rejects will be competing.

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