Grand Prix Rejects

DanielPT

Unfortunately, this has been some 10 years in the making and the writing was on the wall for quite some time, perhaps quite as much as said decade. My Williams fan heart hurts quite a lot today, more so than in recent times as privateer owned teams haven't had an easy life in this manufacturer/big s...

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So far it seems karma is hitting McLaren with such strength that I fear they are already in pieces before the start of the season...

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Liberty have just announced the use of "Grid Kids", I don't want to see those brats on my TV. (jk) I guess some people will be complaining about child labour now. You might mean the comment in jest, but there are already people who are genuinely making hyperbolic complaints that the sport...

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More inclusive would be to also have grid boys, Usually in equal number to grid girls. But since it is probably easier to get rid of the job altogether, as it isn't really essential, I guess it is all good.

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Well, both cars could have had internal suspension damage that could have caused an allmighty crash at the end of the straight, with (possibly) catastrophic consequences, only because of that touch... It didn't happened, but it could have happened with ease It's possible and a good point but so man...

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And going by that logic, they may as well award points to championship contenders when their engines go up in smoke... The decision of a 10 second stop/go on its own is one I can live with whether or not I personally agree with it, but this kind of reasoning has to stop. Holding front runners to a ...

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I guess the real question I'm pondering is this; Does it make any difference when a two horse race is contested by competitors from different stables? The most fondly remembered contests for me are the ones with three (or more) major players - even if two are from the same team - rather than the he...

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Who else could McLaren credibly put in the car? This from Joe Sawards blog... There are only about 40 drivers who are qualified for superlicences in 2017 and most of them are not at all suitable for F1. Twenty-one of them are F1 drivers (if one includes Pascal Wehrlein and Antonio Giovinazzi). Ther...

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Yes, you read it right! Alonso will drive the 500 this year with a McLaren entry! https://twitter.com/McLarenF1/status/852101929136271362 Great Scott! Fantastic news for racing fans! And for Alonso, since to be one race away from that Formula 1 car in order to drive a more competitive one must feel...

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It seems as if these new regs have really shown who the best drivers are: all of Hamilton, Vettel, Verstappen, Ricciardo, Sainz and Alonso have been outstanding at both Grands Prix Must say that I'm surprised these new regs haven't suited Raikkonen more. He cut his teeth in the high-octane V10 days...

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Meanwhile, Hamilton's come out and said that the 2017 mule Pirelli tyre test was a "waste of his time" A sore foot indeed, Lewis. Maybe this was why Vettel and Ferrari dealt with the tyres better in Melbourne? I think that, given that the test was made using 2015 machinery, the amount of ...

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Also, I hoe this finally proves Rosberg was a damn good driver - Bottas seems much far off Lewis than Nico ever was. Or that Bottas isn't as fast as everyone thought (including me) that he would be in F1. He found himself barely beating Maldonado and being a bit ahead of Massa, who was never the sa...

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Their time might be better spent working on the car rather than coming up with that rubbish. Yes, they could have been working on upgrades for Australia instead of doing that rubbish, but since the engine apparently has a short Life expectancy, someone must be busy keeping the fans entertained in o...

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This sends shivers down my spine. There is so much right in this, so much "let's put the sport back in the right track" that I feel the chaotic universe as we know and love it is about to collapse into a newly created Briatore-like black hole. Make F1 Great Again? There is generally a sma...

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Admittedly I don't know very much about Liberty Media, but this is the kind of attitude I can get behind. And hopefully now that Bernie has gone, the extent of quick-buck money-extraction races popping up around the world will stop. "I think it's our job to do far more to help the promoters to...

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I wonder if there'd ever be a situation where the track has cleared up to the point that changing to inters/slicks and taking the stop/go penalty would be quicker than remaining out on wets for the the start? Let's hope this brings plenty of opportunity for rejectdom! It will be difficult given tha...

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Fernando is not happy m Can he really spend another season sitting in a deckchair by the side of the track? I rarely feel sorry for multi-millionaire F1 drivers and I don't with Alonso but I do think it's a shame a driver of his talent has run out of time to win another championship, because I thin...

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Frentzen127 wrote:Ferrari have Fiat to lean on. What would McLaren lean on?

Maybe I am wrong, but I think Ferrari is, despite being owned by FIAT, a completely independent entity financially.

EDIT: Just checked the info and Ferrari has split from FIAT becoming a fully independent team early last year.

DanielPT

The question then is, where does the team go from here? How can they avoid the fate of Brabham? Try with another manufacturer? Go to Sports Cars instead? They go the Ferrari way. Sell cars to support competition (albeit they are a few years away from the ideal timing) and then start building their ...

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I don't really expect McHonda to have a year off but this doesn't really do much to advertise their brands in a positive manner, does it? Extracting themselves from Honda would seem like a short-term solution but it couldn't be done quickly nor could another engine manufacturer simply bolt their pr...

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Aguaman wrote:The McLaren looks a tad like Spyker

And I was thinking about Arrows. Orange and black liveries have awesome reject history. It bodes well for McLaren RoTY award hopes.

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Aislabie wrote:A dude on Reddit replaced some of the black bits with blue and it looks gorgeous.

That would probably be too much mild seven territory for them.

Anyway, I am glad they still like bees back in Enstone.

DanielPT

I quite like this Sauber. Too bad that, given the financial plight last year, they will end up at the back. It also looks cooler and meaner than the Williams.

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http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/128046/f1-should-freeze-mercedes-engine--tost So F1 finally gets rid of the whole "engine development tokens" nonsense so that the engine developers can be free to develop as fast as they want, and now Tost wants Mercedes' development to be froz...

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I think it is a missed chance. They should have taken the opportunity to pay tribute to important McLaren people of yesteryear. People like, you know, Ron Dennis. They could even start with RD-17. Or is that too soon? Because if it is, I would suggest LW-44 instead.

DanielPT

RIP Manor. Thanks for all the joys you gave us.

DanielPT

As novitopoli notes though, I think that so many people are swept up in the moment in their relief to see him gone that they haven't yet asked too many questions about what will come next. Many celebrated Mosely's demise and thought that Todt would be a better figurehead, but we saw how the initial...

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So, after acquiring the F1 rights to Portugal, Eurosport - with another year in their contract - have decided to cancel the contract and instead focus on their new Olympics contract. Yes, they have elacted to cancel F1 to focus on the 2018 Olympics (Winter) and beyond. And with how close to the sta...

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Prediction for the race: Rosberg to choke the championship away.

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Licor Beirão Portugal Racing ceased to exist at the end of 2018 and thus will not carry on for 2019.

DanielPT

I'm not a fan of Rosberg, I personally find him dull, dull, dull. When he gives interviews to the Italian tv he is always joking, being genuine and natural, especially when he is correcting the interviewer on her Italian language. I think to be honest me moaning about a modern F1 driver being dull ...

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Reading up on the F1 sale - can someone explain this to me? I'm feeling a bit thick at the moment The statement also confirmed "the transaction price represents an enterprise value for Formula 1 of $8.0billion and an equity value of $4.4 billion". What is the enterprise value? What is the...

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I knew we should have toppled Biscione when we had the chance, and installed the eternal leader Captain Hammer. This is a violation of GPR's strict lese-majeste laws, and a team from Central Services has been dispatched to facilitate your extraction and termination. See? I can do this authoritarian...

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For the first time, I really felt disconnected from F1. I was watching that damp start behind Safety Car. It felt weird. A minutes later, after a few laps of real racing, my wife said she needed the laptop to do some work. I gladly gave it to her and that was the race for me. I still check out the p...

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Miguel98 wrote:Cried like a small baby. Incredible feeling. Aleluia!

A truly unbelievable feeling! Now, it's party time!

DanielPT

For me it was a racing incident too. Rosberg tried gives no room for Lewis but he turned into Rosberg too. Also, the Rosberg hate bandwagon around the internet is disgusting. People calling him a dirt driver and not thinking in the team while had give his position to Hamilton in Monaco. I can under...

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I will first nominate Wehrlein for the obvious and then Button for a very fine GP.

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I will go with Rosberg for an incident which was clearly his fault ("forgot" to turn in at a corner) and Nico Hulkenberg which started in very a promising position and made 0 from it.

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Aguaman wrote:https://twitter.com/MBrundleF1/status/747174528363671552

Awww the Paul di Resta era ends.

Maybe he was too unbiased for Sky nationalistic tastes...

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Even after a day you can feel the painful heartbreak when seeing the replays of that moment.

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