Grand Prix Rejects

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Was reading the wiki pages of the Tyrrell cars. Noticed something odd: In 91 Postlethwaite designed the first high nose car, and the team used evolutions of that car until halfway through 93, when Coughlan designed a low nose one. Postlethwaite was back in the team for 94 but, despite the benefits o...

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2) Can we PLEASE make the tyres stronger? OK, that might not have helped Nico much, but I'm sick of tiny little touches on the rear tyre ruining people's races like it did for Bottas. Not sure if making the tyres stronger or regulating the outside of the frontwings. I'm in favour of the latter. The...

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Backmarker wrote:
lgaquino wrote:that footwork reminds me so much of jake dennis' car in F3!

Given chronology, shouldn't it be that the Racing Steps Foundation's livery reminds you of the 1995 Foowork?

technically yes, obviously, but the footwork was posted first...

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that footwork reminds me so much of jake dennis' car in F3!

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Haven't read this thread in a while. came here to catch up and, I must say, what a great discussion this has been! a very good read indeed And yet, Globo still trots out Tema da Vitoria every time a Brazilian wins. Though admittedly that isn't often, having not happened since Rubinho back in 2009 . ...

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I'd go for Massa & Freddie. I had a big laugh when Brundle actually decided to stick with it

... Although he doesn't seem to be calling Nasr 'Freddie' anymore.

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I'm sure this was done behind Ron's back, this seems kinda crazy and not at all the super clean and bland look I came to expect from anything related to him

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Spectoremg wrote:Gangsta Hamilton to Sir Jackie Stewart 'how ya doin' man?' So eloquent.

Must say, I was expecting a bit of deference.. even from hamilton! but alas

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problem is that where can he go to become the leading driver? Or, which top team would hire him to beat whoever is on top after he's been completely defeated by Hamilton?

It's not like the car/tyres doesn't suit him. He's really *not that good*, compared to Hamilton.

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the accident: m watching it again, I can see that grosjean wasn't that much ahead at turn in. however, they were side by side for much of the corner and, by the exit, grosjean was almost fully ahead. Perez didn't have to give up the position coming in, of course, but by that time they came out he ha...

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hehe a racing incident is what you get when neither gives up the place. and yet, a penalty was given.

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Ericsson probably did the most rejectful drive...but since that actually improved the race, I'll go with Perez . Not because I hate his guts. But because once again he battled for position like an idiot on go-karts. (That just happens to be the reason why I hate him) What was he supposed to do, jus...

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I started to watch with 30 laps to go and I gave up after some laps. It's only my impression or the race was very boring? Welcome to Indycar. Street circuit after street circuit with endless caution laps, mindless driving, and brainless commentating. So glad my favorite series to hate-watch is back...

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what happened to "the stewards will be more lenient and stop handing penalties left right and center" ?! Either give a penalty to Nasr or don't give a penalty to Hulk. IMO, no penalties for both Ericsson probably did the most rejectful drive...but since that actually improved the race, I'l...

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what a great race! a rollercoaster of emotions haha hugely disappointed after Q2. Nervous about kimi starting alongside pastor. utterly hopeless after the first lap. then hopeful after the SC. excited during the battles and kimi's charge back up. and slightly emotional with seb's celebration/reactio...

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It's one thing not to have spice girls, or a huge launch event. It's really too much, imo. But the press conference, with the drivers unveiling the car was perfectly nice! Doing that at the track, on the 1st day of tests, whilst not the same, is cool too. And it saves a bit of money Now, merely rele...

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I wonder how refulling would be like with thses pirellis I think the tyres would last longer due to the lower weight the cars would have during stints. But most importantly, in my opinion, it would bring no benefit to the race as everyone would simply and quickly go to the same optimal fuel strateg...

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let's hope they merely extended the pit exit rather than tightening the exit of the corner

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In a way, I'd say he was lucky... I mean, he went really fast for me to have a 100% accurate view, but I *think* the just barely missed the lower part of the tractor. The back-end of the tractor starts to get higher a bit. I got the impression that he went right into that, and that it was high enoug...

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East Londoner wrote:I hope we get more than two laps of cars moving tomorrow morning - just so I can justify getting up at half 6 to watch said procession. What? I'm a student, that time should legally not exist.

you're lucky. The race starts 3am here!

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Talking about suzuka, am I the only one who wants (surely in vain) the old chicane back?

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James1978 wrote:And the other is I think Toro Rosso are making a BIG mistake after Vergne's drive - would a 17-year old really have to stamina to cope with yesterday's race conditions?

perhaps not, but he may well be faster in every other race

[although yeah, I wouldn't have put verstappen jr in either]

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the F1 website is already predictin thunderstorms for the whole weekend.... as usual

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Ataxia wrote:"(...)The team were proper Di Resta-ing it on the radio, but I Raikkonen'd them so they left me be(...)"

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That's got to be good news for Sauber. Being that or nothing, that is.
Wonder if they'll become benetton or andrea moda...

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But wasn't the change only on the entry of Parabolica? I may be wrong, but often the cars run wide and out on their way out of this corner.
So it's bad, but...could be a lot worse..

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Megarace!

not sure it's really really good or really really bad

probably bad !

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Do we actually need commentators... a couple years ago I was in Amsterdam at the time of the Abby Dabby GP and watched this on Dutch tv with the sound turned down and could just about follow what was happening during the race..... That's because nothing really happens there But yeah..I think we nee...

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As for the ignoring team orders part, I would implement power shortage penalties through the ECU-pit box communication whenever that happened. I highly doubt any team would do that - it's too risky penalizing your own car and you risk the team behind you catching up. Stranger things have happened, ...

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I often hear commentators and drivers wishing for a return of refuelling. The argument is that it would open up strategies and spice things up... But, I can't imagine that that would be the case. Precisely the opposite imo, as F1 teams can quickly simulate 1000x different approaches and come up with...

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oops, didn' t get the sarcasm there yeah, he's surely not on the same level as in 2003-2005. At least not in terms of what we can see from the TV. But it's difficult to say even that, as for instance he claims some of his best races were in 2009! it's difficult to properly *know* from the outside. A...

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I honestly think Kimi will retire at the end of this year, It seems like once again his heart isn't in it anymore. I am a bit sad as I was a fan of his in the past, but he seemingly just wants to bathplüg off and drink alcohol Of course. I do wonder though what would he be capable of if he was actu...

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Nelson Piquet Jr is so high up on that list. Better investigate

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Don't really remenber Malaysia, but I'd guess nothing much happened there..
Bahrain was really really great. tons of fights throughout the field. That made expectations for China quite high, and it sooo didn't deliver!

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When the race is about to start, I switch the TV to Globo and put it on mute . No love for Galvão? No. none whatsoever Funny thing though, you watch old races and it is pretty good! He's excited about what's going on and that made the spectator excited too. now, the only thing left is to pick the i...

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maybe he'll even put neon underneath the car on the night races

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We are lucky about ads in Brazil. Even if F1 has always been on FTA (on the same Network for about 40 years), there has never been ad breaks (as long as I know). There are only breaks after the checkered flag. During the races we have moments where the sound is cut and an announcer read a list of s...

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If F1 allowed teams with one car again, how much cheaper would that be for a team? Cheaper enough to maybe encourage new smaller teams?
For some reason that was the first thought I had when I woke up this morning. Instead of having fewer teams with more cars, why not more teams with less cars?

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The trophies sure look weird, but I'd rather have those than the silver plates / dish wares or generic santander logo trophy As for Kimi, while true that he was around half a sec slower than alonso since friday, I think his race was destroyed by another strange strategy. It's not the first time this...

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According to Ted's Notebook, Williams never really tried to fight the mercs for the win, but rather raced their own race to score the biggest point haul they could. That would explain why they didn't counter mercs' pitstops on the 1st stint. ...but then again, that also something very easy to say af...

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