Grand Prix Rejects

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I watched FP2 and Quali, but missed the race since it was Easter/Wrestlemania/my father-in-law fell again. But honestly, I have no urge to watch it. So I nominate: The Jeddah Corniche Circuit - This track is what everyone complains Monaco is. Qualifying is the race. I would LOVE to see World Time At...

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Since 2021, only one potential career killer in the form of last year's Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber C41 , which had Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu driving it. However, there's plenty of time for Zhou to return, and Bottas has accepted a Mercedes reserve role at the time of writing, so there's defini...

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or even when Vettel was winning? Hot take, but current RBR is still a MUCH better organization than the Vettel years. It's just that they actually have competition now. 2 1/2 of the Vettel title wins were near Merc level curb stomps. The top 4 teams today (possibly even 5) would dominate nearly eve...

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Scott Speed , for whom GP2 was a significant step up from Formula Renault 2000, scored 67.5 of iSport's 69.5 points on his way to P3, conceding only to Heikki Kovalainen and Nico Rosberg. All three graduated to F1 in one capacity or another, only one got punched by Franz Tost on his way out. Meanwh...

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He was good in that car last year, I don't think he's suddenly forgotten how to drive a racecar. It's not like Toro Rosso's goal is to win the WCC or anything. He wasn't bad, but he also knew he was in line for the A-Team, he will have zero motivation now (and honestly who can blame him?). But as M...

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If the Lawson story is true (big if), I don't understand why you would even put him in a VCARB. His confidence is going to be less than zero. Just call Alpine and get Doohan.

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One fun fact: Since sprints don't count (for this stat) with his two DNFs, Alonso is not in fact P20 in the WDC. He is officially listed as "Not Classified". So we all are equal with the elder statesman after 2GPs.

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DOTD vote: Antonelli got DOTD? Sorry did I miss something or watch a different race? How does finishing behind a Haas on merit qualify you to be DOTD? https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/how-antonelli-earned-driver-of-the-day-status-in-f1-chinese-gp/10706488/ A defence of why Antonelli deserved the D...

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It's honestly hard to pick..... Ferrari - They have been in F1 for all 75 seasons, and never had a double DQ, until today. Still, can something historic be rejectful? Liam Lawson - To paraphrase a famous American sports quote: "He is who we thought he was." His performances are embarrassin...

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Very sad. Another piece of F1 from what Liberty and others now call its "more unprofessional era" is gone.

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I think that part of the excitement is, for a multitude of reasons that have been covered to death, we really only have one wet weather compound. The current interest have such a narrow operating band that staying on slicks is worth considering, if not outright preferable, and then if it rains too m...

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To put things in perspective, when McLaren last won the Constructors Championship in 1998, most of the GP Rejects writing roster were toddlers.

This is hyperbole, right.......right? Where's my oatmeal? My back hurts.

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It must be the water - Epic words of wisdom. In The Mechanic's Tale Steve Matchett tells the story of Nelson Piquet coming back to the grid for the restart of the 1991 Aussie GP (still the shortest actual race in F1 history) and complaining that his socks got wet. Matchett says the mechanics explod...

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Rookies - Doonan allegedly only has six races, and makes it just one corner. Hadar didn't even make it that far. Gabriel an eventful day to oblivion. Lawson is....well Lawson so his weekend wasn't unexpected. Bearman had two wrecks and two other spins, and even Kimi failed to make Q2. We used to wo...

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It's what they used to say about the Benettons in the mid-1990s in the days of Michael Schumacher. It is, although a lot of that nowadays comes from the myth of the 1996 car. Michael and Ross both have said that Benetton would have won both titles with the car in '96 if Michael stayed, but there's ...

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No real surprises from FP1 or FP2 Have to disagree there. Hamilton and VCARB are definitely surprises, as is Sainz (we all expected him to be quicker than Albon, but THAT much quicker?) Now if the weather on Sunday is half as bad as they claim (which it won't be) then who knows? Also, F1 in 4k is b...

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Meanwhile, McLaren have also announced that they've extended Piastri's contract "for the long term". Piastri was already under contract with McLaren until the end of the 2026 season - the exact length of his new contract hasn't been confirmed, but the BBC reckons that his contract will no...

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Since it appears it won't go away, I figured I would weigh in on the whole "booing" debate. Good on you Brits. Boo Max! Boo Lewis! Boo MBS! Boo whomever the hell you want! Now, I'm an American. We LOVE booing. We spend money to buy tickets to go places just to boo. I'm old enough that I go...

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So this is something that I have been pondering for a little while: 1. The works Mercedes teams of the 1950s and the one from 2010 onwards can be considered a continuation as they are both essentially the works team of a major manufacturer. 2. Frank Williams Racing Cars (aka Politoys and Iso-Marlbo...

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Restrictive NDAs? Is MBS hanging out with Tony Khan now? (all three other wrestling fans on here will be in hysterics over that one). It really is crazy how when Max was in charge, one common criticism of him was that it was bad to have a "racing first" (much less an "F1 first") ...

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I have appletv and if I get the premium then will I be able to watch the races on appletv on my regular tv? From what I am reading, yes. If you log into to your account, an "upgrade" button will pop up in the top corner. It does have lots of "fine print" to read through, but it ...

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Pro never had a Multiviewer like they are currently advertising, at least not without hacks (they got shamed into it because several teams were actually using outside apps on their pitwall last year.) Native 4k is a bit murkier. Some races had it (Japan most famously), some were shot in 4k and downs...

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FITV has today launched their new "Premium Tier" which includes 4k streaming and the ability to create your own version of a Multiviewer. While they don't say exactly what you can pick from, if it is the way their old "Pit Lane Channel" used to be (one screen is the world feed, o...

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Row Man Gross-Gene wrote: ↑25 Feb 2025, 20:22 That's kind of funny because I love seeing how they did things and it makes me enjoy it more, especially when it's practical effects rather than 100% digital.

I agree 100% when its actually well done. (Oppenheimer being a great example). This was NOT well done.

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Early Reject of Testing to F1TV themselves for forcing us to listen to the Sky crew in the early session. It took exactly 37 minutes only for that muppet Kravitz to go on a long rambling diatribe about Christian Horner that had exactly 0 to do with the car on track and on-screen at the time (Lewis i...

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BTW had anybody here seen this? https://youtu.be/LT7h6sUeUhU?si=96PHAPPlOAsSw_Qz I made the mistake of seeing a clip of how they did the visual effects for that. It literally involved a young woman crouched behind the mocked-up tub holding up the rear wing (her hands and body easily visible) as the...

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The big O2 "not actually car launches car launch" thingy was yesterday, and oof, it was pretty cringe. But as Jonathan Noble said, its not for me (or I imagine 90% of us on here). If you watch the bulk of 24 races already, the FIA isn't after you. That said, the new Sauber livery is very, ...

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There was a handegg match of some import last night where a few of Alpine's celebrity investors got their teeth kicked in.....and they showed a new trailer for the F1 movie. Well not exactly. It didn't air during the Super Bowl itself, but rather during the pregame show. And.....good lord. This movi...

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Was watching the '94 British GP some time ago and noticed a big ol Marlboro sign facing down the hangar straight despite tobacco advertising being a no-no (I assume anyway, all the other cars had their stuff censored), what's the deal? https://i.imgur.com/pRgTcXn.jpeg Perhaps the UK had a similar v...

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Not so much they drove that car, but they OWN that car? A Porsche 917k that was owned by Steve McQueen, raced some and was used in the filming of Le Mans came up for auction in Florida this past Saturday. It is currently owned by Jerry Seinfeld of all people. The bidding reached a staggering $25 mil...

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Additionally, although there was talk of significant backing from Beatrice Foods, I wonder how much of that money did actually end up going to the team in the end. Whilst the company was sold at the very end of 1986 to KKR, Jim Dutt, the CEO who signed the deal with the FORCE F1 team, was forced ou...

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So through various books/podcasts/articles etc. I have accidentally gone down a bit of a rabbit hole on everyone's favorite "What in the actual bathplug do we call this team?" team: Beatrice Team Haas Lola FORCE. And has there ever been a bigger missed opportunity ever? Certainly not just ...

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With regards to Kimi Antonelli, I can see him showing signs of promise in the latter stages of the season, but am doubtful that he will be "be beating George handily by the summer break". Now, it's true that Antonelli has been doing a lot of testing under the "Testing of Previous Car...

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I think Mclaren will take the constructors fairly easily, but I think Max will just edge out the WDC solely for the fact that he will be the undisputed number 1, whereas Oscar and Lando will do the awkward "papaya rules" dance for half a season. Ferrari will slip to third as they redo 1996...

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For what its worth, I have heard Finland mentioned as a "crown jewel" more than once. Although like Dakar and Safari, it has been changed quite a bit over the years. The 1000 Lakes i believe? Correct. The old SPEEDTV shows used to call it "the gravel Grand Prix." Which is a cool...

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For what its worth, I have heard Finland mentioned as a "crown jewel" more than once. Although like Dakar and Safari, it has been changed quite a bit over the years.

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Additional research has shown that Zakspeed nearly made the list. Their F1 efforts are well known, but they ran the C100 prototype program for Ford (eventually turning it into the C1/4 and C1/8) but were credited only with a DNS at Le Mans 81, before racing pretty much every continental sports car r...

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Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah everyone (they were on the same day this year, which is kinda fun) and Happy Boxing Day to all you members of the Commonwealth.

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I was coming here to say that there is now a "They Drove That Car" page on Reddit, but going by the photos and captions, I see that y'all are once again ahead of me.

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The De Tomaso did practice some in 1964, (and is listed in places as having tested some in late 1963), so since it ran on track during May '64 is why I counted it. Indy's rather convoluted qualifying system most years, plus the fact that the track was open for running for an entire month, makes thin...

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