Grand Prix Rejects

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Upon seeing Stirling Moss' name in that newspaper clipping, I remember a story from, I think it was Martin Brundle, where Moss entered a race in the 1980s and his name painted on the car was spelt 'Sterling'. As you can imagine, Stirling was pretty animated about it

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Inb4 Ataxia posts his Autosport video explaining the car changes : https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/formel-1/f1-2021-auto-bilder-infos/ The article is in German, but here are some key aims, in addition to some which we are already aware of: ⋅ The proportion of downforce that is lost whe...

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Bottas was completely robbed of that win by the safety car, and only the fact that the entire Sky broadcast team are British at the British Grand Prix meant that the fact Bottas was robbed was only a very minor detail in the race report. Absolutely unfair. Oh well. Seconded, in fact I'm surprised i...

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Haas should sweep all before them for the award, but honorable mentions go to: Vettel : Ouch. Not exactly helping his cause as the guy labelled as the main man to take the fight to Hamilton and Mercedes, what a daft incident. Imagine what he felt when Hamilton lapped him. The timing of the safety c...

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You sure your day's not been made Barbazza?

Well the stewards must be a contender for our ROTY award now.

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Can't imagine too many people here will be sorry for Ticktum: https://www.motorsport.com/super-formula/news/red-bull-drops-junior-ticktum/4483618/

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Simtek wrote:https://www.racefans.net/2019/06/22/f2-driver-banned-after-collecting-nine-penalty-points-in-one-race/

This lad...

I thought his gaffe in Bahrain was a one-off! He has already enough material for us to do a reject profile on him, even though it's fairly certain he'll never make to F1

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Steiner gets my vote, Kevin even apologised once the race was finished.

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It pains me to suggest Bottas as another alternative, his qualifying and race was reminiscent of his performances at the tail of last season in terms of the lack of pace and general anonymity/error-making. I'm wishing he rediscovers his form from earlier in the year quickly, we need him to keep a ti...

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You could say that Leclerc is jinxed at this track. He's never finished a race in four attempts since 2017.

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Has to be the marshalls with leaf blowers during the Safety Car.

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My first choice is the turn 1 cameraman - what was up with all those random, quick pans?! It felt as though there had been an incident of some sort at first, then it became predictable, distracting and just weird overall.

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While you can't blame Liberty/FOM for trying to celebrate a milestone of some sorts in Formula 1, and get us understandably excited, that was a rather processional race, although China is a mixed bag for sure. Shame, hopefully Baku gives us something to genuinely surprise us.

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Why do Formula 1.5 complaints only seem to have cropped up in the Turbo Hybrid era? I'm currently (slowly) making my way through every F1 season from 1989 to present, and what has struck me is that it is a rare thing to have a season where there are more than two teams (and sometimes it's only one ...

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He won't make the shortlist, but I'm throwing a shout-out to F2's Mahaveer Raghunathan . He was lapped by Ghiotto before the finish to the sprint race, but instead of slowing down after crossing the line, proceeded to drive the slow-down lap at racing speed, thinking he was still unlapped and on the...

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Leclerc aside, a vote defo goes to Norris . While I knew Lando would be promising, he's surpassing my expectations for him so far. Albon too, if you ask me, he's more likely to replace Gasly than Kvyat at Red Bull if the occasion were to arise. *And to be fair to Hamilton, while his drive/result wa...

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I do need to find someone who'll love me like Londoner loves the smiley on here Of course, Leclerc's PU is my first choice. It was rather undeserved, and again I wonder how these types of problems never seem to befall Lewis and Seb while their teammates catch them often enough for them to drop out o...

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I calculated an estimate for the race pace of each driver in the race today if anyone's interested. The calculation imagines each driver setting each lap with no fuel onboard, in other words, each lap time is fuel-adjusted.

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I second Bottas . Based on today's drive, he's become a more underrated driver than before, I don't think I saw anyone predict him to take the win, even after he came close to taking pole off Lewis. And although the drivers are still struggling to overtake, it looks as though 1) it is easier to foll...

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I know someone suggested this for the Aussie GP in 2017, and I'm going with it as well - The people suggesting we might as well hand Lewis the title after FP2 and qualifying . I feel some are just being too impatient and are attempting to gauge the entire season's outcome on one weekend, it doesn't ...

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Certainly didn't expect that for the opener! Valtteri wasting a seat at Mercedes, eh? Hearing the line "I want 26 points!", from Bottas before he proceeded to get them, is a really great sign that this might not be a one-sided title fight as some have feared.

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I know the fuel limit has been increased to 110kg, but given the fuel flow limit is the same, how much fuel will drivers realistically carry at the start of the race?

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I know you're not as big on his father as I am Rob, but I'm piqued as to how Giuliano Alesi will do. I suppose he's not a driver expected to fight for a title or reach F1, but here's hoping he won't disappoint! Wishing the best also for Tatiana Calderon, the first woman driver in F2/GP2.

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I'd like to announce my team's title sponsorship with Saudia and Albilad. Because it's 1978 and my legs still work, I'm going to do a merry dance to celebrate. And I'll do it again in a year and a half or so when we've designed a ground-effect car and it wins, because the hardline Wahhabist regime ...

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I know it happened yesterday, but congrats to Qatar on winning the AFC Asian Cup, now they have some more footballing achievements to celebrate, in addition to... three Gulf Cup titles. In any case, I'm pleased for them. Even if they're a questionable and controversial choice as hosts for the next W...

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While a large amount of the criticism over Valtteri Bottas' 2018 has been justified, I'm seeing a number of people tying in his below-par performances in the latter part of the year with him being a nice lad and going along the lines of 'nice guys finish last' etc. Similar things were said in the di...

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Driver Rankings/Ratings (if anyone still remembers this thread ) 20. Stoffel Vandoorne 4-4.5 19. Brendon Hartley 5-5.5 18. Lance Stroll 5.5-6 17. Sergey Sirotkin 6 16. Romain Grosjean 6-6.5 15. Marcus Ericsson 14. Carlos Sainz 6.5-7 13. Sergio Pérez 7-7.5 12. Valtteri Bottas 11. Sebastian Vettel 10...

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And since I'm here, I might as well nominate something: Formula 1.5 being a thing . Having been largely turned off from the sport by the 2017 aero regulations, nothing else did more to keep me turned off than that. The gap between the top 3 teams and everyone else was so utterly titanic, it resembl...

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Bottas , as much as I like him, earns a nomination from me too. But to be fair, I'd argue that he hasn't had a single stroke of genuine luck this year (the timing of the SC in Baku doesn't count, given what happened afterwards). I could still drop my nomination for him, since apparently it was a ty...

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Yeah, it already feels guaranteed that this will be a borefest, indeed the only Abu Dhabi races which have been memorable are the ones where a title is on the line! But if you look at it another way, all the dull AD races were held in odd-numbered years (2009, 11, 13, 15, 17) and every decent AD rac...

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Just used a not-particularly-trustworthy statistical/mathematical model (it's based on the normal distribution if you're curious). Taking into account the number of points Ferrari and Mercedes have scored in each race, the probability of Ferrari scoring the 13 points over Mercedes tonight, to take t...

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What are people's thoughts on Hamilton not getting a penalty for blocking Sirotkin, that could've been a big shunt. I know Sergey was on an outlap so maybe it's understandable that Lewis wasn't punished, but taking a cynical point of view, I do wonder if it would be the same outcome for most other d...

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Is "Accident" the word written on the red button underneath Horner's desk? So Verstappen fastest in both sessions, though an issue in the last few minutes causes him to retire. Looks as though the sensors activated by Horner's button have been fitted to the wrong Red Bull this weekend... ...

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By default, this is the best race of the season since Spielberg

Even if the title race is still as good as dead, Kimi winning leaves me pleased to no end.

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Sean Gelael has been given an FP1 outing by Toro Rosso for Austin. Is there some significance in this?

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Ferrari's new "Mission WinNow" sponsor - The team couldn't be further from doing that at the moment.

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Loving your David Mitchell avatar, Londoner! Another contender for the award would be Renault . They deliberately stayed in the pits in Q2 knowing that in theory, not going into Q3 should give them a tire advantage for the race. But the yellow teapots both end up finishing outside the points, with t...

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Rob Dylan wrote:I hate to beat the dead horse that is team orders, but bathplug team orders

Preach. My excitement for this season, which was sky-high at the start of the summer (it peaked around Austria for reference) is almost gone completely, and that switch by Merc might just have finished it off

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Happy 50th, Mika! Surely one of the best personalities (not to mention drivers) in F1's history? I certainly think so.

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Besides all the current nominations, I'll chuck a mention in for the Driver of the Day voting public . Max Verstappen? Seriously? All he did was get overtaken once and not crash. Sirotkin or Alonso were far better candidates for this. Since when did DOTD become gospel? Everyone knows that the IIDOT...

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