Grand Prix Rejects

James1978

Williams for great teamwork and also finishing top of F1.5. My money is on them getting P5 in the constructors. Also great podium by Leclerc.

James1978

I'm going to say something different because I think the 4 green cars are generally struggling a bit compared to the rest of the F1.5's. I'll go for 2 big DHM's for the 2021 title duellers, Max as I don't think he had a leg to stand on with missing the chicane at the first but he has a face like a s...

James1978

Between Gasly and Haas for me again - Gasly must have had some sort of car problem at the end at he was 2 seconds behind Max at the end so can't really blame him.

James1978

I'll go with Aston Martin - 2nd last and 4th last for a supposedly top team!

Actually Lando might be a DHM - messy and giving away crucial impetus to his teammate.

James1978

Antonelli gets it for me - McLaren why didn't you do that strategy with one car at least?

James1978

For something a bit different than McLaren strategy, Stroll and the race being boring - I'll say Tsunoda getting driver of the day (or the whole Red Bull 2nd driver stuff) - nobody is getting near Max and that's that.

James1978

If it really is true that Red Bull will swap Lawson for Tsunoda in after just TWO races, that is complete madness and on a par with Ferrari's double DQ. I suspect if the next round wasn't Yuki's home race there'd be none of this crap. You can't possibly evaluate someone after 2 races!!

James1978

At the moment, I'd say 5th in the constructors looks like a fight between Williams, Haas and Racing Bulls if they didn't keep screwing their strategies. Possibly Aston Martin too if they don't just stick to waiting for Newey to work his magic on the 2026 car. Alpine and especially Sauber look a bit ...

James1978

Haas' best result for 3 years there too!

James1978

Ocon - beating a Merc on merit.

Albon also is showing Sainz the way at the moment which I'll admit I wasn't expecting. Maybe he isn't being flattered by having crap teammates like Latifi and Sargeant after all!

James1978

Ferrari is a slam-dunk to do that with BOTH cars - and they weren't very good in the race anyway, I thought they flattered to deceive after the sprint. Big DHMs to the whole Red Bull squad bar Max - the junior team screwing the strategy for the 2nd week in succession, Yuki's front wing failing and L...

James1978

Only 4 non-"rookies" not eliminated lol (I used the inverted commas as technically Lawson, Bearman and Doohan aren't complete rookies though they're being treated like they are)

James1978

Think that's Williams' best result (now P5 as Kimi has been reinstated in P4) in a full race (obviously not counting Russell in Spa's non-race in 2021) since Stroll at Baku 2017!!!

Also Sauber's best result since early 2022.

James1978

No love for Lando? This time last year I'm sure he would have caved in to Max. I honestly thought Max would walk this when it was wet.

Great results for Albon, Kimi, Stroll and Hulk, and also should have been Yuki before his team did a great Ferrari impression.

James1978

The "rookies" bar Kimi, Ferrari doing Ferrari things and Piastri are all contenders here.

James1978

I suspect 44 and 33 are all the same driver in that list

James1978

Now I've looked at it again I think the shade of red on the Ferrari is too dark and don't like it at all. Think my 2nd favourite after the Sauber is the Aston Martin (think the 1991 Jordan gave me a fetish for green cars or something)

James1978

Bertaggia never qualified for a race though! I'm thinking where's Kimi (Raikkonen, not Antonelli) on here but he was never youngest as he started same time as Alonso who is younger, and even 2002 which Alonso didn't take part had Massa. And Button is younger too which means you can't even have USA 2...

James1978

My favourite is definitely the Sauber. Apart from Ferrari going 1993, another nod to the early 90s is the Alpine reminds me of the 1992 Brabham Damon Hill debuted in!

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!

James1978

Isn't that photo from when Bottas first signed for them in 2017? He looks too young for it to be now!

James1978

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e59NdUEain4 Someone asked when I did the alphabet of most successful drivers, if it was posssible to work out the most successful driver from each country - well here it is! (OK it was done in early 2023 so for instance Max Verstappen only has 2 championships rather t...

James1978

sswishbone wrote: ↑18 Dec 2024, 18:12 Doesn't Alex Zanardi beat Zonta?

Afraid not! Zanardi only had 1 6th place, Zonta had 3 (hence unrejectified himself, Zanardi didn't). I'm not looking at other forms of motorsport, just F1.

James1978

I meant 3 champions called Hill missed out, I wasn't referring to the total number of championships. Hakkinen is included in that list too and also has 2, my point was because of Hamilton's 7, an awful lot of champions miss out on having the chance to be included on the list! And I was also just wan...

James1978

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 champ...

James1978

Sadly as much as I was pleased Red Bull gave him a shot or he was out of F1 4 years ago, I too have to give it to Checo

I kind of wish he'd signed for one of the lower teams much earlier in the season - he'd be absolutely fine if he was in say a Haas or an Alpine.

James1978

Another reason for Gasly which I hadn't realised when originally posting is incurring absolute zero worth of damage for the whole season. That's quite something (especially with his teammate's attempts in Monaco!)

James1978

Even though he's done an amazing job this year (as it's clearly now him and not the car given how much Checo has struggled) I'm saying Max for that first corner move - he was basically reckoning McLaren would jump out of the way for him the constructors to worry about. DHM to Bottas for ruining two ...

James1978

I'll go with Gasly but give HMs to both Leclerc and Hamilton for getting to where they did from lowly grid positions (and it was only right that 12 seasons at Mercedes ended on a high for Hamiton too). Also HM to Norris for delivering under pressure - once Piastri was out of the reckoning he had to ...

James1978

Also the messy situation at Alpine (it would actually make more sense at Mercedes to get Antonelli in there for some experience, let Hamilton get a test with Ferrari as unlike Alpine they're not in a close fight in the constructors!) (Ah actually come to think of it, it's the fact that it's Ocon's n...

James1978

Zhou 1st and Gasly 2nd.

James1978

Pretty terrible ay for Britain all told - Hamilton looking less and less like he wants to be there, Lando for getting that penalty by not lifting and George for making proper enemies of Max which probably isn't too clever (the whole situation was a bit reminiscent of Suzuka 1990 - it was either goin...

James1978

Wow, how far Zhou is off the other regular drivers shows how bad that Sauber really is. Even Sargeant and Colapinto's total is ahead of Zhou despite them having a few crashes!!

James1978

I genuinely don't know where that Mercedes pace came from but I'm going for them. Could easily have been 2014 - 20!

James1978

Alpine as a whole get it for me, you can add in Pierre Gas Leak when he was in a good position! (Back down to earth with a bang after the euphoria of the double podium in Brazil)

Don't see the point of Checo or Stroll or Sauber, they're among the ROTY candidates.

James1978

Hate to say it but Damon Hill in 1999 against Frentzen!

James1978

I was expecting Max to win once it was wet even from a bad grid position - thinking 2016 and also Schumacher-esque like Spain 96 too. So I'm going for Alpine - I expected them to be eaten up by Russell/Leclerc/Norris etc once the rain eased but it never happened! HM to Max and Yuki.

James1978

Yeah Stroll gets it for comedy factor for me!

James1978

None of the Red Bull stable did anything good was Checo was so bad it was laughable. Max probably escapes due to his teammate being so bad! DHM for Piastri - his inconsistency could cost them too. Ferrari of the top teams have the best all-round driver pairing but even that's going to spoiled next y...

James1978

K-Mag gets it for me too - was racing 2 front runners on merit.

James1978

Colapinto is going to end up beating Sargeant with a lot less races!

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