Grand Prix Rejects

I admittedly know as much as anyone else not connected to him (i.e, nothing), but I remember a while ago didn't his manager say something along the lines of once the recovery phase started then it would become a private family matter and there would be no more updates? Although I suppose if that was...

I think the better question is, what if Group B only banned the Rallye cars. Remember, Group B was also a GT formula that never got off the ground (288 GTO anyone?). I wonder if Group C sportscars would have been at the top for so long if there was a viable alternative. It's a good question, and it...

I'm in the camp that prefers old Hockenheim to new - now don't get me wrong 16 Hockenheim-esque tracks would be dull, but I liked the variety it brought to the calendar, and required different attributes of the machinery to other tracks to be competitive. Also unlike say, Monza, it (as already menti...

Jacky Ickx started three races (all consecutively) in 1978 - the first of these - Monaco, saw Patrick Depailler win his first Grand Prix, so I will guess the 1978 Belgian and Spanish GPs Andretti Peterson Reutemann Laffite Jones Mass Ickx Brambilla Scheckter Depailler Regazzoni Watson Lauda Hunt Fit...

The universally-lauded permanent driver numbers (hence this thread): Hate them. bathplugging hate them. I liked the old semi-permanent team thing they had, I remember first watching the sport as a kid in the early 90s thinking "why have Grouillard and de Cesaris got #3 and #4 when they're rubbi...

I've started building my own private collection using Firefox's Youtube download plugin, soon to be aided by an in-transit DVD recorder to grab any Sky Sports F1 Classic F1/GP Uncovered features they do. Focussing just on championship races for the time being, I've gotten up to but not including Mon...

Stupid question and I admit to not knowing all the details (either of the ZEOD or copyright/IP protection law), but can you really copyright something like a car's layout? It makes as much sense as Lotus suing everyone else in 1979, or Cooper in 1960 (I know Auto Union etc. but the point stands). If...

However dominant one driver may have been, or if there are questions around the overall size/quality of the field, so long as F Ford actually allows constructors, and at least engine builders/tuners if not manufacturers, to compete against each other (even if one may be numerically dominant, same a...

However dominant one driver may have been, or if there are questions around the overall size/quality of the field, so long as F Ford actually allows constructors, and at least engine builders/tuners if not manufacturers, to compete against each other (even if one may be numerically dominant, same as...

tommykl wrote:1) They both drove for McLaren, Ferrari, Lotus and Williams.
2) Kimi Räikkönen.
3) Go to Williams.

In one!

3 part question:

1) What do Nigel Mansell and Jacky Ickx uniquely have in common?
2) What current F1 driver is closest to joining the two aforementioned drivers?
3) What one thing will the driver in 2) have to do before the end of his career in order for this to be the case?

The length of that article most certainly didn't put me off - on the contrary, the great length of that article makes it an excellent read and I am, like quite a few other posters here, surprised at how prodigiously talented Pizzonia appeared in the junior series but failed to deliver once he was o...

My house mate in my second year at Uni went to school with Jenson Button.

I'm not going to nominate Pirelli, I'm going to nominate whoever watched the 2010 Canadian Grand Prix and decided it would be a good idea to artificially engineer this situation race in, race out.

Pirelli take 2nd place for agreeing to said brief.

Perhaps this is a way to make Formula one "greener"? Le Mans Prototypes have already switched to hybrid engines (at least the ones that wish to stay competitive anyway) and they can go longer distances on them. After watching Le Mans this week, one thing it does well is hammer home that t...

I get the feeling Paul Hembery has the most thankless job of anyone currently involved in F1....... He doesn't help himself with some of his quotes though. "We had the most exciting Melbourne in years. Do you want us to make boring races?" It's not your job to "make" the races b...

...So in 2031 we'll have two teams arguing over who is the real Williams? In all seriousness, hope they pull through - as someone who got into the sport at the start of the '90s cheering on Mansell, it's sad to see them reduced to almost backmarkers, and it'd be an even sadder day not to have them o...

Random thought. If you'd said in 1997 that in 16 years time Williams would be a lower midfield outfit with as many wins as Minardi in the past eight years, and that Stewart and Tyrrell will have won the last four championships between them, and that "Lotus" would be grand prix winners agai...

Well isn't this thread making me feel old all of a sudden

John Watson's drive to win from the back of the grid at Long Beach was the last Grand Prix to take place before I was born, Prost winning at Ricard when I was a couple of days old.

About this, I have a question...Was Footwork owning the team from 1994 to 1996, when their cars no longer had Footwork branding in their livery? No, Jackie Oliver bought the team back, but the team and chassis were still technically called Footwork until 1997. I don't know why. I was just a teenage...

One of these days I'd just love to see a driver - any driver, whether I support, loathe or am indifferent to them - completely hook it together and completely destroy the opposition - by which I mean completely checking out and winning by the best part of a lap. The last one that springs to mind im...

One of these days I'd just love to see a driver - any driver, whether I support, loathe or am indifferent to them - completely hook it together and completely destroy the opposition - by which I mean completely checking out and winning by the best part of a lap. The last one that springs to mind imm...

What if Jenson Button had stayed on with Brawn / Mercedes for 2010? Based on the silly season talk before he moved - then Kimi back to McLaren, Schumacher stays retired. Think Rosberg to Merc and Kubica to Renault were already done deals at that point (may be wrong though!) Kimi probably gets the h...

Loads of people getting hormonal over on Autosport boards because Vettel had the bare faced cheek to like, go fastest by a few tenths, and stuff. Apparently the year won't be worth watching now. Would love to drop them in the middle of 1992 and watch their heads explode.

Reading through this thread reminded me of one of my few visualisations of a track as a child, an insane Reims-esque blast around my home town that would also involve shutting off part of the UK's M6 for 3 days Probably doesn't do much to disprove the OP but, its fun in my own mind anyway! http://s7...

The tyre debate is an interesting one and I do see the other side. I do feel Michelin was hung out to dry a bit after Indy '05, I always blamed that on the rules restricting the types of tyre brought to a race rather than the tyre war, as it hadn't happened in the previous four years, or during the ...

I would rather watch a race with no overtaking at all than a DRS show. This. The racing good in F1 untill DRS opens.... then overtaking becomes stupidly easy. I miss propper wheel to wheel battles..... I do feel the impact of DRS is over stated by the fans. I do not have the statistics to hand but ...

One thing I've noticed from watching the GP2 races last year, and watching older ones in YouTube, in the first few years of the series, the cars had Renault branding on the engine covers, but looking at the past couple of years, they don't, even if as far as I'm aware they are still using the same M...

1952:

1 - BRM - their no-shows effectively cancelled "F1" as the main event.
2 - ERA G-Type
3 - Ferrari's Indy 500 attempt

I think it ends with the wife of the creator of Vagisil taking over Vettel's car and beating Cartman to the win with all the other cars out of the race thanks to the latter's antics, or something like that.

What if Montoya had stuck around in F1 for the rest of the 2006 season? Would he have improved, considering how poor his season had been up to the point where he decimated the midfield at the first corner at Indianapolis? I guess the only way would have been up, and it's not a complete stretch to i...

Great read, I'm an unashamed Mansell fan, started watching F1 regularly mid way through 1991, my first ever specific memory of F1 was him passing Alain Prost twice for the win at Magny-Cours, (although I vaguely remember Berger's 1989 accident on the news and other kids saying I couldn't say Mansell...

Not sure if e-cigs will ever replace their more traditional predecessors in terms of motor racing sponsorship. Firstly, it's true what they say that cig advertising wouldn't make anyone get the urge to start smoking (funnily enough I never started until AFTER the advertising ban), but have a big swa...

I miss the tyre war era. I would rather watch a race with no overtaking at all than a DRS show. I hate the "E" naming and three stars on the "Lotus" cars. If you're going to insist on pretending to be Lotus, at the expense of a team that was already (doing a better job of) doing ...