Grand Prix Rejects

1. Williams. Excellent teamwork to secure a double points finish.

2. Charles Leclerc. Great effort to ensure Ferrari finally get a podium this season.

1. Liam Lawson. Keep this up and he won't be in the sport by the summer break.

2. Gabriel Bortoleto. Nearly caused an aeroplane accident with Alonso.

1. Pierre Gasly. The Alpine is a basketcase, how on earth did he make Q3 and finish 7th?

2. Haas. Another excellent strategy.

1. Liam Lawson. STATE of your career, mate.

2. Timing issues. Did F1 hire the IndyCar crew from the Thermal fiasco for today's race?

Honourable mention to Aston Martin, it's gonna be a long season for them.

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.

1. Jack Doohan. Driving like a man who's already on his way out of Formula 1.

2. Liam Lawson. Dear god almighty.

1. Andrea Antonelli. As much as I believe he should be nowhere near a top seat at this point in his career, he was the only rookie to get it home today, which is plaudits I guess...

2. Alex Albon. P6 in qualifying, P4 in the race, absolutely enormous result for Williams.

1. Liam Lawson. Ominously bad weekend from start to finish.

2. Fernando Alonso. Dipping a wheel in the gravel to restart the "retire, old man" discussions.

Honourable mention to Ferrari strategists, have they rehired Binotto or something?

Evening everyone

In typical Grand Prix Rejects fashion, we're publishing our 2024 Season Review mere hours before the 2025 season really gets going. Find out who beat off stiff competition to be the 2024 Reject of the Year!

2024 Season Review

Evening everyone :deletraz: The long Grand Prix Rejects content drought is finally at an end, with the first Gravel Trap of 2025. Klon has taken a look at Lewis Hamilton's move to Ferrari and its potential context in history, in true Gravel Trap style. Read it here today. Look out next week for the ...

1. Pierre Gasly. At one point he was holding his own in the top 4.

2. Kevin Magnussen. The last ever man to score fastest lap when it actually means something.

1. Valtteri Bottas . A brilliant Saturday effort which was all for nothing by the end of lap 1. Two crashes and confirmation that he will go pointless in 2024 is not the way he should be ending his F1 career. 2. Red Bull drivers . Verstappen tried his usual zero skill move on Piastri and finally got...

1. Sauber. Points at long last!

2. Pierre Gasly. A 5th place out of nowhere!

1. The FIA, MBS and Race Control . An absolute bathplug embarrassment. Rui Marques needs to be handed his P45 immediately for how he handled the mirror incident. Random, extremely harsh penalties littered the second half of the race. 2. Formula 1 . One of those races which actively makes me hate thi...

1. Esteban Ocon. More like LOLcon, amirite?

2. Aston Martin. This team is looking like the bad old days of Jaguar.

1. Alpine. Perhaps the most astonishing and unexpected double podium since Stewart at the 1999 European GP?

2. Yuki Tsunoda. His race deserved a better result than P7 in the end, man was on it all day.

1. Lance Stroll . The spin on the formation lap was already rejectful, but to then drive into a gravel trap by CHOICE?! Just...what the hell man :facepalm: 2. Race Control . Farcical nonsense all day, dangerously late calls in both qualifying and the race, the abandoned start stupidity, Bearman's in...

1. Kevin Magnussen. Easily best of the rest today, only a few seconds off Verstappen in a much inferior car.

2. Carlos Sainz Jr. Absolutely had this weekend on lock and key. Sad that this might be his last ever F1 win unless Williams suddenly turn up with the successor to the FW14B next year

1. Red Bull drivers. Disgracefully dangerous driving from Verstappen, hilariously incompetent driving from Perez.

2. Yuki Tsunoda. Two days, two big crashes, not helping his case to replace Perez at all.

1. Liam Lawson. Somehow made an overcut work and showed the world exactly why Ricciardo had to go.

2. Franco Colapinto. Making Albon look very very mortal with every race.

1. Lewis Hamilton. Qualified 19th on merit, spun off two laps into the race and was the only DNF. Yep, that's a slam dunk ROTR.

2. Sky commentators. For the love of HWNSNBM, pension off Crofty and Brundle already and make Harry Benjamin and Karun Chandhok the new commentary booth.

1. Nico Hulkenberg. Absolutely best of the rest this weekend, two more precious points for Haas.

2. Sauber. Both cars finished ahead of Gasly and Ricciardo on merit, it's improvement I guess.

1. Daniel Ricciardo . An utterly miserable effort for what could potentially be his final weekend as an F1 driver. Get Lawson in there asap. 2. Sky commentators . An embarrassing amount of errors from Crofty, Brundle and Kravit this afternoon. Bin them all off and bring back Harry Benjamin and Karun...

1. Franco Colapinto . In two races he's pretty much nailed the coffin shut on Sargeant's F1 career. 2. Ollie Bearman . Kept it clean and becomes the first driver to score in his first two F1 races with two different teams. Honourable mention to Sergio Perez , for 48 laps he absolutely obliterated Ve...

1. Whoever left the fan on Albon's car during qualifying . This is the sort of mistake which Jenoch would immediately brand ROTR back in the day. :pantano: 2. Alpine . What is the point of this team in the year of our Lord 2024? Honourable mention to Max Verstappen for probably one of his worst perf...

1. Ferrari. Have we just entered an alternate universe where Maranello are...GOOD at strategy?

2. Franco Colapinto. A very solid debut from the lad.

1. Nico Hulkenberg. Destroyed his and Tsunoda's races in just a few laps.

2. Daniel Ricciardo. Retire old man.

Evening everyone :deletraz: Today is a big anniversary in Formula One, for it is 20 years since Michael Schumacher secured the last of his seven world championships. Klon has decided to mark the occasion by reviewing the race in which he set a new record, the 2004 Belgian GP, in a very Gravel Trap s...

1. Harrison Burton. What a way to get the Wood Brothers' 100th win in NASCAR!

2. Kyle Busch. Finally getting some good runs in that RCR crapbox.

1. Sauber . Hopelessly off the pace. This is their worst season ever, even their trainwreck of a 2014 had a few moments of hope (before Guti and Sutil inevitably crashed). With Bottas/Zhou Sauber have an objectively better driver line-up and more money than they had in 2014, which shows just how ter...

With the news breaking that Russell is likely to be disqualified for an underweight car, the ROTR can only be Mercedes, the absolute morons. Way to wreck one of the greatest drives of the 2020s.

1. George Russell's tyres. How on earth did they last 34 laps, bloody hell.

2. Esteban Ocon. Wrung another point out of the shitbox.

Post your choices for Reject of the Race!

Hampshire Racing Alliance will enter the following:

Henry Taylor - Vanwall VW58 chassis 2, Vanwall VE2 engine 6
Peter Ashdown - O.S.C.A. F156A chassis 16, Vanwall VE2 engine 2

We continue to hope Mike Taylor's career fizzles out and he ends up in a South Wales coal mine.

1. 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix. Quite possibly the most hilarious comedy Grand Prix in some time.

2. Lance Stroll. Another race where he was better than Alonso.

1. McLaren. Absolute boneheaded stupidity, a complete driver management failure. If Norris loses the title by seven points, we can point to this nonsense.

2. Max Verstappen. A petulant toddler when he's not 30 seconds up the road from the next driver.

Evening everyone :deletraz: It's time for another occasional tourism-related Gravel Trap, where Klon has very kindly reviewed the Automuseum Prototyp in Hambug, a museum which may have the only surviving example of the rejectful 1991 Porsche F1 engine! Read it right here today! Trip into the Gravel ...

1. Lewis Hamilton. What a way to snap the winless streak. If I were him I'd be reconsidering that Ferrari contract ASAP.

2. Lance Stroll. Outperformed Alonso all weekend.

1. McLaren. Complete strategic incompetence cost the win for both Norris and Piastri.

2. Whoever stopped for inters the first time round. Their races were destroyed within laps.

1. Haas. An excellently executed race plan.

2. The battle for the lead. Yes it ended in tears, but an actual battle for the lead? In Formula 1? I thought that was illegal

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