Grand Prix Rejects

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Has anybody any thoughts on what's happening at the FIA? Yet another top-level resignation recently as Ben Suluyem continues to try to keep an iron like grip on the organisation. A bit like every other president of the FIA, really, but let's not ask what the difference is this time

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I think it's quite interesting how destabilising Horner possibly being a bit of a creepy perv has been to the team. Someone else will know the timeline better than me but the house of cards, to keep the metaphors going, started to collapse around the same time. Didn't Newey decide to jump ship after...

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Row Man Gross-Gene wrote: ↑27 Mar 2025, 12:50 This does kind of feel like Red Bull's "jump the shark" moment. Doesn't bode well.

I guess losing your job but still being an F1 driver in a pretty handy team isn't quite as bad as it could be, though. Lest we forget Ivan Capelli.....

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Genuinely starting to think we're only a season away from Red Bull replacing a driver halfway through a race. "Box, box, box" "What for? Tyres are good, is it a drive-thru?" "Nope, we've just had enough of you. But feel free to get a drive thru on your way home, there's a KF...

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I can't lie, this upset me today. I hope his family know how much we all loved him.

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,I'm actually looking forward to seeing this. I mean, come on, Brad Pitt's sixty years old and he's an F1 driver? Totally believable. That's even older than Stallone was in Driven and look how well remembered that is. It will, of course, make plenty of money, keep F1s profile boosted and spawn a vid...

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I wonder if they will look to have a race in somewhere like Vlodivostosk so they can try to pretend to be putting some distance between the race venue and Moscow. Mate, I wouldn't bet against a street circuit IN Moscow within ten years. If it makes money they'll do it, irrespective of rights and wr...

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I referred to this in another post but, to keep it F1, with the Americans surrendering to Putin to end the war Id expect to see Sochii back on the calendar for 2027, I reckon. And Russia's a big place, we might end up with 2 over there. I'm pretty sure I predicted it because even the stopped clock i...

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I'm surprised there's still this media blackout from the family. Of course, it is private matter and really none of our business, being a fan doesn't give you ownership of anything, but I can't help feeling releasing some kind of image every now and then might stop opportunists trying to make money ...

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/articles/cn4x21xwp8go This is getting VERY heated between Max and George. Oh dear. My interpretation of all this is George is getting into Team Leader mode and I think he's decided that if he's to challenge Verstappen for the championship this issue is going to ...

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Nuppiz wrote: ↑29 Nov 2024, 09:20 I'm not at liberty to mention the exact reason why Jenoch had to hand over control of the site to us. It was a rather unfortunate set of circumstances, I'll give you that.

Wow

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Finished it. There's definitely some parts to the story of 2009 I either forgot about or never knew at the time. Overall I was left with the reminder that at its heart F1 isn't about technology, it's not even about money, it's about people.

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Only watched the first episode so, you know, now spoilers please

but it's a good show, a nice reminder of a really fascinating season.

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Nuppiz wrote: ↑21 Aug 2024, 17:33 However, we're not allowed to make it available publicly.

Are we still not even allowed to discuss what happened? Why we went from F1 Rejects to GP Rejects?

Is it still a faux pas to mention F1 Rejects?

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Row Man Gross-Gene wrote: ↑26 Nov 2024, 22:13 Yeesh, all it took was getting Michael out? Is he really that bad?

He must have upset a lot of people if he was the sticking point in getting the deal over the line, usually money makes everyone get along just fine.

"Don't speak to me like that you loser, I came third at Monza!!"

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On another note, Perez's father has been courting controversy recently after lashing out at some of those who'd criticised Sergio and suggested that he might be fired soon. He's taken aim at Ralf Schumacher now, but laced his criticism of him with homophobic remarks that have created quite a backla...

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I also used to think the good outweighed the bad with people, I've since learned that's very wrong. At best 80/20. Over here, whilst the Brexit vote wasn't as dangerous for minorities as Trump winning over there, it did highlight how things have changed. Despite lots of stuff about trade, the NHS et...

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Only saw some highlights but Verstappens win seemed as unlikely as Vettel in '12 at the same circuit although at least Maxi wasn't pointing in the wrong direction at any point unlike Seb. To be fair, the way Max dealt with the no-swearing nonsense impressed me as much as his driving, particularly wi...

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That Spanish Toro Rosso driver who went on to be a DJ, Jamie Algesuaris?

Edit - Jaime Alguersuari. Also known by his stage name of "Squire" (cue condescending titter).

Wow, Id also forgotten when he debuted he was then the youngest F1 driver since Thackwell. Golly.

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Trump isn't necessarily the problem, irrespective of what an appalling person he is, much of his propaganda he doesn't really care enough about to try to enact. It's the people who voted for him on those issues I'd worry about. Not just because they exist but because they'll now feel empowered becau...

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Fascinating, I didn't know that about the quality of Kimis technical feedback, I guess I'd assumed too much based on the perception of him which, come to think about it, came from the fans anyway.

On Danny Ric, I hope he keeps racing something, he's a great addition to any series.

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Reading Mario's (is that his real name? Can't remember from back in the day actually) thorough analysis on Danny Ric it could've almost been describing Kiki Raikkonen for much of his career, another instinctive driver. Obviously Kimi managed to nick a WDC and twice as many wins as Ricciardo but I th...

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A timely ponder; what went so wrong for Daniel Ricciardo in F1? 8 wins in ten years doesn't really tell the full story about how much potential the lad had.

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I enjoyed Ricciardo doing his "rage, rage against the dying of the light" bit at the end there. Genuinely surprised McLaren haven't complained about that to be honest. Instructing your B team to nick a point off your championship rivals? Don't get me wrong, I really don't care either way ...

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You mean Lance Stroll’s teammate, surely?! Has Lance ever beaten his teammate in the WDC over the course of a season? Unless he gets Logan Sargeant as a teammate? No matey, old Lozza Stroll has been pissing the dollars away for too long to not get the Stroll surname on that trophy. If a championshi...

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Well, big Eddie's got Newey signed up for Aston Martin so, I guess, congrats to Lance Stroll for winning the 2029 F1 Drivers Championship.

See, this is what happens when you feel guilty about not playing with your kids when they're little.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formu ... vnn70veo

Well, I was Today years old when I learned that Adrian Newey, the most famous and successful F1 designer ever, the guy who can see and bend air, had chosen Eddie bloody Jordan as his manager

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"Holy balls, that's the last time I get my info from GPFans!"

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"Look, what do you want me to do? It's in the news so here I am. These are the only other overalls I have"

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"Yeah Hi, could I speak to Bernie please? I just read in the news I'm back in F1 for Mercedes? Is it still the red car?"

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That was a great article, really enjoyed it. And I was so pleased you included Oliver Gavin, I was a fan and really believed he was the next British superstar back in the day. Cheers for writing!

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Row Man Gross-Gene wrote: ↑01 May 2024, 19:42 I'm disappointed too. No other word for it.

Not enough blue or any blue is too much?

Personally I'd go with not enough blue on it as much as the Ferrari purists would disagree. If you're going to announce blue cars then I want to see blue cars.

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I just saw an article about Nigel Stepney online and the photo was two McLaren drivers, Hamilton and.......I knew his face but I genuinely couldn't remember his name for about two minutes.

Kovaleinen

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And as an update to my last post, my mum died yesterday at 1:30 am (Friday 12th). This was 5 years ago now. Life moves on, but the pain of loss doesn't. "What is grief if not love persevering?" Indeed. I think I posted back then about it getting better, which over a distance it perhaps do...

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I'm pretty sure if Russell had simply spun off into the gravel Alonso wouldn't have received such a hefty punishment, if at all. To me, it looks like Alonso got fingered because of where the Mercedes ended up, as if that was down to anything other than bad luck.

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Well it's certainly more interesting than the 'championship fight' so there's that. It reminds me a lot of that whole Max Mosley and the Nazi S&M prostitutes situation. God rest him, he continually argued it wasn't Nazi S&M prostitution it was just nice and normal S&M prostitution Hactua...

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Zakspeed, one of the few names in F1 that actually sounds like an F-Zero team. Respect.

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He’s been cleared, then.

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dinizintheoven wrote: ↑24 Feb 2024, 11:41 the Brabham brother we don't talk about.

On a separate note, I didn't know the full story on that guy either until your post inspired me, ghoulishly perhaps, to do a bit of fact finding.

Really wish I hadn't.

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