Grand Prix Rejects

tzerof1

My vote is going to Grosjean , for obvious reasons. And less obvious reasons, like his need to continue to(metaphorically speaking) shite all over Max Verstappen's lawn throughout the week and race weekend. He really just needs to let the Monaco thing go. Especially after today. Dishonourable mentio...

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I liked the fierce battle in the middlefield. I think Force India maybe had score a point or two without the penalties. Also, I see a lot of people saying Alonso is regretting his move to McLaren-Honda. I disagree. Alonso leaves Ferrari, in my point of view, because he was bored of fighting only fo...

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Predictions: 1. Räikkönen(steady, reliable, ice cool drive allows him to leapfrog into the lead) 2. Hamilton(pit stop mishaps cost him the lead) 3. Vettel(leads some laps, but pits a lap earlier than Kimi, unable to get by Hamilton) 4. Bottas(solid, fairly quick drive for Williams) 5. Ricciardo(unev...

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This makes me so happy. As an avid follower of the site since 2005, I was quite shocked when the old site shut down and was afraid that it would be much longer than it's been for it to come back. Thanks so much Biscione, and anyone/everyone else who has brought at least some of the old site back in ...

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Miguel98 wrote:Talking about Catheram...

https://twitter.com/theJudge13Twts/status/517335416526356480

Is it just me or is the Leafield Technical Centre jinxed? Since every F1 team that has been there has eventually landed in financial ruination, or is alleged to be on the path to financial ruination.

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ROTR: Mercedes management : In my view, the incident itself isn't as huge of a deal as it's being made to be. There was always a chance it would happen, and it could have been a lot worse. As it was, both cars could have finished the race, and Rosberg got on the podium. The atrocious response to the...

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And all I can say to that, is bullshit. But in all seriousness, it's taken Charlie this long to decide that it MIGHT be illegal? He really needs to relinquish the role of head of the F1 Technical Department in favour of someone who can make up their bloody mind about what contravenes the technical ...

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My nomination: the stewards because of Chilton's penalty. To me it looked like the car got a bit loose going into turn 3 and with it being the first lap, contact with another car was inevitable and certainly not avoidable in that instance, seeing as how being sideways in a downhill chicane is diffic...

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With the retirements of Graeme Smith and Arran Brindle, South Africa getting beat by the Aussies, and England winning some, then losing some more, it's now time for the World T20 Championships and the Women's T20 Championships. So far it's only been the group A/B matches so far, the leaders being Ba...

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On Kobayashi's first corner smash: Even without it being a brake failure, I was prepared to not give it to him, because in any event it looked to me like he was completely surprised by the reaction of the brakes when he hit them and locked up, that is to say, they didn't do what he thought they wer...

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good_Ralf wrote:Britain 2008 was wet at the start IMO. And what a race that turned out to be.

Ah yes that's right, I remember Aussie Grit losing his pole position with a spin on the Hangar Straight on the first lap.

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To be honest, I prefer dry races these days. Nowadays, wet races consist of a few laps in a track dry enough for intermediate tyres, and everyone switching to slicks within 10 laps, after an absurdly long SC period that wasn't needed in the first place. Not my cup of tea. I know right! There really...

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I have to say it doesn't look too bad at all. Considering it's Martini, it really was never going to look much different that what it does, though I think instead of having just a "19" on the sidepods, they could have run the Martini stripe along the edge of the sidepods and back instead o...

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Well, if Mitchell Johnson does it again to the Proteas in the the second Test, I think it'll be pretty safe to say that he may very well be in the form of his life, and the Aussies could become something of(to make an F1 related analogy) Ferrari 2004, a juggernaut with a man at the peak of his power...

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I couldn't agree more with you. It was quite shocking when the news broke, it was basically like "Oh, hey, Kevin, thanks for scoring the most runs on one of our most disastrous tours ever, now get the f*ck out of here." Which certainly is not a just reward. Whilst on the point of railing a...

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England women win Test by 61 runs, and are well on the way to winning the battle to retain the Ashes and show up the men. Great job ladies! England's men lose first ODI by 6 wickets, not entirely surprising considering the Aussies were showing great ODI form posting several 300+ scores against India...

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tommykl wrote:
tzerof1 wrote:Year 3- Jacarapagua.

I'm afraid that wouldn't be possible even if the FIA wanted to. The circuit's being torn up to make way for the Olympic Village for 2016...

That's incredibly lame. I guess that is what is called progress, though.

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What I would change about F1: - Introduce a workable budget cap The F1 world has seen before, that unfettered spending has only a limited sustainability, and it is becoming clearer than ever by the precarious financial position of most of the teams that a budget cap needs to be introduced. Somewhere...

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Couldn't agree more. It's easy for people to say that Bairstow was a bad choice for keeper, but it's impossible for him to keep his skills up and improve them, if he wasn't given the opportunity to keep for either country or county, and as a result when he finally was called on he wasn't anywhere ne...

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Murray Walker's thoughts on this tragedy http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/formula1/25554726 I reckon that wherever departed souls end up after they pass, Prof. Sid Watkins, Ayrton Senna, and many others are there willing Schumi on to overcome this because it is far too soon for him to join them. And I am ...

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England fans will be beating themselves over the head with cricket bats after waking up to a 4th consecutive test defeat to Australia. To be fair to the Aussies, they have made England pay for pretty much every mistake. The Baggy Greens have surely got to go for the whitewash now, they are not ones...

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I think for the Melbourne test that Carberry, Cook, Pietersen and Bell should all be dropped. If, (what I suspect is) your intended result, comes to be reality, then this effect shall become known as "The Watka Effect", though Enoch and a few others on here might see it as "The Curse...

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David AGS wrote:with Swann carrying the drinks, leaving Root and perhaps Pietersen to bowl spin.

Even though they might not use his off spin, Swann's too good of a slip to be carrying drinks.

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Thoughts on the last Test: England: -the fact that all of the balls that got them out would have never hit the stumps speaks for itself. -Mitchell Johnson is only one man. While he is good, the top order need to stop acting like he bowls grenades. -If their bowlers don't find some better form as we...

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Excuse the double post but I'm giving Enoch a nomination for (almost) forgetting to hand this award out. BLASPHEMY! Only Jamie or Enoch can nominate Enoch! Do you wish to be assaulted by papayas? Anyhow, ROTR for me goes to Romain Grosjean's engine . To my recollection that's the first Renault engi...

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On another thought...has Pentecost also convinced himself he can escape the ravages of time too? Pretty sure he was 57 when this thread started (7 June 2012). Didn't he make a thing of how he would be the oldest F1 driver or something? So that shouldn't be an issue. I was on his "website"...

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These days, BBC is the best news source that I use. I will look at CNN and MSNBC, only to get the hilarity out of the political crap they talk about, because half of it is nonsense. So I'm not the only one who doesn't feed off of the extremist propaganda of polar opposites(no offence intended to an...

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Shame that Bresnan isn't available as he is tenacious and can bat a bit too. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/25129592 Bresnan makes 57 against Queensland 2nd XI and hopes to prove fitness in time for the 2nd Test. So there may be hope that he is indeed fit, and the selectors make a sensible ch...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/25085025 Jonathan Trott leaves Ashes due to "stress-related illness". According to Andy Flower, Trott has been struggling with it for awhile now, and Trott felt it was really hurting his ability to perform, and he needed to spend some time at home to s...

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tzerof1, I think your points raised are ones that are very good to make for both good and bad. Although, I'd raise one myself and say that Race Stewarding was really not at its best over the course of the season, and maybe the FIA in general. For example, the Hulk/Perez thing in Singapore got them ...

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My thoughts on the 2013 season: Low points: - Pirelli-gate and Mercedes Pirelli test-gate. That was just an ugly saga of political shaftings, scapegoating, and mud-slinging, that ultimately played a large role in the outcome of the back half of the season. - Ferrari again failing to provide Fernando...

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So, we still can't bat for shite, but at least we can bowl. Funny how fortunes change in the blink of an eye, but that's why I love Test cricket, and this will be one of those sessions to show to all the T20 bandwagoners and "Tests are boring", "Tests are dead" folk that they ca...

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A question for the forum's cricket followers, out of curiosity what are your views on the announcements that there will be 2 extra DRS reviews per side and no Hot Spot for the winter Ashes series? I think that giving the extra DRS reviews does nothing to address the issues that caused the controvers...

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RIP Maria De Villota. Was it not already enough that last year, you had lost an eye, ending the pursuit of your dreams of being a Formula 1 driver, that it is the way of the universe to see your life ended prematurely as well? Your recovery seemed to be going so well, and I must say you made the eye...

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dr-baker wrote:I suppose the exception would be if the multinational company was Playboy or Durex...

On that tack, why not bring the Trojan name back to F1, even if not as a constructor

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Now that the Ashes has been decided by the rain (congrats England ), we have 2 Tests with the potential to be quite exciting, now that the pressure is off both sides mostly. In selection news, Graham Onions has been picked to the England side for the Durham test. Good on Alastair Cook for that choic...

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Freeze-O-Kimi wrote:Worst GP2 driver: Johnny Cecotto

Cecotto is the only other driver besides Giovanni Lavaggi that I've heard being called "desperately slow". And that really speaks volumes of his worthiness of the accolade in question.

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dinizintheoven wrote:As long as he doesn't have the same impact on Joe Root's face that he had only a few weeks ago...

That's for sure!

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For example, the fact that Watson has been drawn into three lbw's in the four innings of the first two tests by England, who know that he is prone to making such mistakes (he has more dismissals due to lbw's than any other test level cricketer on record). Speaking of Watson and his propensity of ge...

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