Grand Prix Rejects

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Aside from the usual mention for this race just because it exists, my picks are: Gabriel Bortoleto: Nearly sent his own manager torpedoing into the turn 1 wall, pretty stupid move which could have had appalling consequences Lewis Hamilton: I’m gonna say it now, China Sprint aside he’s basically pick...

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Williams: Double points finish and Carlos Sainz bringing back his Singapore 2023 tactics with style

Charles Leclerc: Ferrari weren’t on the pace and yet he claimed a fine first Grand Prix podium of the season all while stomping a 30 second hole into his more illustrious teammate

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The timing glitches and technical errors: Russell constantly disappearing off the tower was the standout. Then you had the technical issues which messed up 2 Red Bull pitstops. Bit of a shambles for the pinnacle of Motorsport Liam Lawson: At this rate I won’t be surprised if even RB get rid before t...

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Pierre Gasly: In Japan many believed that the Alpine was a good chassis being let down by the Renault engine. Gasly proved that with a fine 4th on the grid and coming within a lap of a top 6 finish. I’m predicting he’ll cause a big surprise in Monaco if he can nail that weekend Haas: The troubles of...

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Mikko Hirvonen at Subaru in the 2004 WRC. Finished only 7th in the championship with just 29 points and was the only full time works driver not to score a single podium while Petter Solberg finished runner up on 82 points with 7 podiums 5 of which were wins. He finished only one point ahead of Harr...

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Mikko Hirvonen at Subaru in the 2004 WRC. Finished only 7th in the championship with just 29 points and was the only full time works driver not to score a single podium while Petter Solberg finished runner up on 82 points with 7 podiums 5 of which were wins. He finished only one point ahead of Harri...

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Isack Hadjaar: Very good performance all weekend. Comfortably the best after McLaren, Mercedes, Ferrari and Max Verstappen Racing. Ollie Bearman: Another point and absolutely destroyed his more experienced teammate HM: Max Verstappen: No one expected him to make the podium after Friday never mind wi...

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Lance Stroll: Qualified last, finished last and was the only driver to be lapped. God help the amount of results he wastes if next year’s Aston Martin is a Newey rocketship McLaren: Proving once again that they don’t have the killer instinct or ruthlessness of 2000-2004 Ferrari or 2010-2013 Red Bull...

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Ferrari have just powered themselves into ROTR contention with a double DSQ for separate reasons. Leclerc for an underweight car and Hamilton for too much wear on the plank underneath the car. 2 races in and can we already kiss Ferrari’s hopes of winning either championship goodbye?

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Liam Lawson: I’m sorry but qualifying last for both races would be unacceptable if he was in the Aston Martin never mind the Red Bull. I’m starting to think Perez getting 6th, 7th and 8th place finishes last year doesn’t look so bad now. Red Bull Management: Red Bull have gone down the same route th...

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I think Haas are clear winners for the award this week. From being comfortably the slowest car all weekend in Australia to a fine double points finish with one car beating a Mercedes on merit in China Albon: Williams didn’t think China would suit them but Albon got into Q3 and scored more points whi...

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Lots of candidates so I’ll just list them Alex Albon: The arrival of Sainz has seemingly spurred Albon to up his game this year, qualifying a fine 6th and finishing a stunning 4th was just reward for their performance in testing. Discounting George Russell’s 2nd place from Belgium 2021 (the race tha...

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Isack Hadjar: I know he’s a rookie but sorry mate, crashing out before the race even starts is an automatic ROTR in my book Ferrari Strategists: Get used to this Lewis. The team in general could also merit this as their performance was average even before the strategic bumbling and not justifying th...

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As much as Hamilton and Leclerc’s performances were really impressive, neither of them should have been that low on the grid in the first place, One got really unlucky with hitting a bollard and the other compounded his grid penalty with exceeding track limits. Plus with clear top 4 cars you would h...

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Bottas for me as well sadly. I was so hoping that a 9th place on the grid achieved on merit in a Sauber was going to yield one final brilliant performance that resulted in points. Instead those hopes went up in smoke after hitting Perez on the first lap and then god knows what he was thinking when h...

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Race Control: It took the loose wing mirror being destroyed and two cars getting punctures from the debris for a decision to actually be made. The new guy seemed absolutely petrified to make that decision. A VSC would have dealt with that perfectly but of course this Race Control and common sense is...

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Sauber: This was one of their best weekends last year when they finished 8th and 9th and it was easily their best this year too (albeit that’s a very low bar). Let’s not forget that both cars got out of Q1 and qualified very well so it’s not like they didn’t deserve it and the way Zhou looked so com...

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Gotta be Ocon for the calamitous error of pitting when no one was expecting him hasn’t it?

Pretty tired of mentioning Perez and Aston Martin at this point as they’ve both been awful for months now

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I’m actually going to give it to Mercedes (gasp), since the summer break ended they’ve been largely nowhere, just 1 podium in the 7 races before today and even that was Russell’s extremely lucky 3rd in Azerbaijan. Yet they turned up to Vegas and smashed it out of the park all weekend with only Hamil...

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Gianni Morbidelli at Volvo in the 1998 British Touring Car Championship. No podiums and finished nearly 200 points behind his team-mate Rickard Rydell who WON the title! To think he was a candidate for the all-conquering Renault team the previous year! I’ll also throw Peter Kox into the mix from th...

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Joel Esteban in Moto3 this year. Team Mate David Alonso romped to the title winning 14 of the 20 races. Esteban meanwhile finished down in 17th overall on 45 points with just a 4th place in France as his only meaningful result, on an Aspar bike which is usually one of if not the best team in that ca...

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Plenty of candidates Dishonorable Mentions: Sauber: By far the most chaotic race of the season and yet the only team without a point were still nowhere near the top 10 come the end Sergio Perez: His team-mate puts in a drive for the ages while he can’t even pass the sister team cars or finish in the...

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Londoner wrote: ↑03 Nov 2024, 18:06 1. Alpine. Perhaps the most astonishing and unexpected double podium since Stewart at the 1999 European GP?

2. Yuki Tsunoda. His race deserved a better result than P7 in the end, man was on it all day.

Basically what he said

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K-Mag: He’s not going quietly into the night is he? Only 4 seconds off Verstappen at the flag and kept Piastri behind him on better tires. Haas as a whole were pretty good too on a track where they are usually dismal at and they’ve taken a huge step towards 6th overall today. Sainz: It’s an absolute...

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The whole Red Bull stable: All 4 drivers caught up in incidents and accidents. Verstappen copping a 20s penalty to throw away needless points, Perez was diabolical yet again and had a clash with Lawson, Tsunoda had 2 big crashes over the weekend and continues to prove why Red Bull aren’t considering...

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Liam Lawson: Showing exactly why he should have been in that car from Race 1 this year. The fact that sites like The Race are STILL rambling on about Daniel Ricciardo who stayed 2 years past his use by date is nauseating. Lawson deserves the full 2025 season. Franco Colapinto: All of a sudden Alex A...

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Reject of the Race: Aston Martin: The Adrian Newey era can’t come quick enough. Alonso started 7th yet faded to a lapped 13th while Stroll just Strolled around all race near the bottom of the midfield. Also what was that feuding between Alonso and Lawson? Yuki Tsunoda: Started 9 places higher than L...

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This could literally be anything from a driver change to a car model or even a change of personnel. I’ll start with the example that came to mind the most when I think of massive downgrades: BTCC 2010, WSR replaced Colin Turkington who’d just won the 2009 title with everyone’s favorite punching bag ...

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Hey everyone, you’ve probably been wondering where I’ve been recently, Well I had a job go wrong which didn’t train me properly and kicked me out when I couldn’t cope, it broke me mentally and I spiraled into depression and self harm. So I decided to take a break from the forum while I recovered thr...

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2024 British GP

1: Norris
2: Verstappen
3: Piastri
4: Hamilton
5: Russell
6: Leclerc
7: Sainz
8: Perez
9: Gasly
10: Alonso

Pole: Verstappen
Fastest Lap: Hamilton
First Retirement: Albon
ROTR: Haas
IIDOTR: Nobody
DBTMOTR: Perez
LP: Sargeant
FTP: Ricciardo
YF: Albon
Worst Team: Sauber

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Red Bull’s slow pitstop: Just like Monza 2021 the normally masterful Red Bull pit crew turning out a Sauber-esque pitstop was the catalyst for a collision between Verstappen and his biggest rival Max Verstappen/Lando Norris: Max had another Senna and Schumacher moment where he just can’t stand to lo...

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Haas: Austria is their lucky charm circuit isn’t it? 4th and 5th in 2018 and today they repeated the 6th and 8th they got in 2022. Another great day in a pleasantly surprising season

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Alpine: Their step forward shown in Monaco and Canada is real. At least one car deserved to beat Perez

Hamilton: A little bit of life in his season at last, incredible to think it’s his first podium of the year

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Perez: Feels like we’re going back to the bad old days of Gasly and Albon with each passing weekend Aston Martin: Early 2023 aside they continue to be Jaguar 2.0 each passing weekend HM: Williams: They’ve always struggled at Barcelona with their aerodynamic inefficiency and that’s reflected in the f...

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2024 A1-Ring GP Sprint 1: Norris 2: Verstappen 3: Hamilton 4: Leclerc 5: Russell 6: Sainz 7: Piastri 8: Perez Sprint Pole: Norris First Retirement: None GP 1: Verstappen 2: Norris 3: Leclerc 4: Perez 5: Hamilton 6: Sainz 7: Russell 8: Piastri 9: Tsunoda 10: Gasly Pole: Leclerc Fastest Lap: Hamilton ...

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Har1MAS1415 wrote: ↑23 Jun 2024, 12:21
Nessafox wrote: ↑16 Jun 2024, 20:59 Senna signs for Prost GP in 1998
What if Ayrton Senna had lived long enough to see his nephew reach F1?

I’ll let the great mobile chicane explain that one

https://youtu.be/_nDyI_YWqUc?si=Hc_JeUXgaT_S5Wol

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2024 Spanish GP

1: Verstappen
2: Hamilton
3: Norris
4: Leclerc
5: Russell
6: Sainz
7: Perez
8: Piastri
9: Alonso
10: Tsunoda

Pole: Verstappen
Fastest Lap: Hamilton
First Retirement: Stroll
ROTR: Sauber
IIDOTR: Hamilton
DBTMOTR: Perez
LP: Zhou
FTP: Alonso
YF: Stroll
Worst Team: Sauber

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Ferrari: As soon as the words “Ferrari” and “Championship Challenge” started being mentioned in the same sentence after Monaco I knew a poor weekend was just around the corner but I didn’t think it’d come just one race later or be that bad, they were just slow and lacking grip all weekend. Both cars...

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Alex Albon: That double pass was just the icing on the cake. Should have made it back to back points finishes only to be unfortunately collected by his potential team mate for next year Mercedes Team: Finally some life in the Silver Arrow this year beyond the practice sessions. For the first time in...

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2024 Maple Leaf GP

1: Verstappen
2: Norris
3: Hamilton
4: Russell
5: Piastri
6: Leclerc
7: Sainz
8: Perez
9: Alonso
10: Stroll

Pole: Verstappen
Fastest Lap: Verstappen
First Retirement: Magnussen
ROTR: Zhou
IIDOTR: Hamilton
DBTMOTR: Perez
LP: Sargeant
YF: Zhou
FTP: Ocon
Worst Team: Sauber

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