Grand Prix Rejects

MorbidelliObese

1991-92 were my favourite Minardi colour schemes by some distance. The M189 and M190 would beg to differ. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but I didn't like the large white sections separating the black and yellow on the M189 and M190, nor the 2003-esque airbox lines, i'm probably alone on the ...

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A lot have already been mentioned - attrition, grass/gravel, variety in equipment, easily identifiable circuits/corners, racing in the rain. I'd add I used to like the absence of the safety car, e.g. someone with a 30 second lead then they had that lead and it was down to others to catch up or hope ...

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This is not a reject, but this one is beautiful in its simplicity. http://igonta.fc2web.com/1993/photo/Martini.jpg Not a bad look at all but my view (perhaps unfairly) of the M193 livery was always slightly soured by what preceded it - 1991-92 were my favourite Minardi colour schemes by some distan...

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1. The helicopter shots throughout the race weekend showing the faint outline of the old track that no longer exists - just rub it in why don't you?!

2. Erm no real strong feelings apart from that... Williams I suppose...they really seem to be going backwards in the past 6 months.

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What were your misconceptions about Formula One when you started following this sport? Returning to this question, a distant memory has come back to me of my brother telling me about F3000, and me thinking there were 2,998 other racing formulae between F1 and F3000 in existence. Yeah, I was about f...

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If only I was a millionaire I would give that team a facelift but keep the team under the "Sauber" name. Would you guys do the same or would you not bother and save your money? I certainly would. All they need is the Mercedes engines, a black paint job and some lovely TIssot sponsorship a...

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While never a fan when he was driving, I must admit to having more time for Villeneuve in recent years, partly because while he can't keep his mouth shut, when it is open I tend to agree with the majority of what he says. This whole "F1 drivers need to shut up... now listen what I have to say&q...

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RE: misconceptions one of the first formula 1 race I watched was the 1987 Hungarian GP and 2 things from the race I thought were that the circuits were called after the country EG Hungaroring OstereichRing and was confused when Monza came up and the other thing I thought was Pascal Fabre's name was...

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solarcold wrote:
UgncreativeUsergname wrote:Why isn't Car SAFETY's name capitalised properly?

Oh that notorious guy Car SAFETY. Ever noticed how he's involved in pretty much every single accident our there?

He's notched up an impressive number of laps led in recent years though so he can't be all bad.

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I do have Sky, mainly because it's good value for me in terms of also showing the classic F1 stuff plus for my sins I also follow football, likewise my BT Sport package covers off the other half of the football plus IndyCar, and the Sky+ feature is generally good for my life in general, including re...

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For me it's gone way beyond what qualifying system I prefer or my feelings on the new one tried out. This constant flip-flopping, the woe-is-me from all the team bosses interviews in Australia that came across all like "we're trying to change, pleaaaasssseeeeeee like us!!!". I hate to do t...

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Even if the tyres are frozen and the unlapping thing done away with, red flags (much like safety cars) will still always benefit/screw people in one way or another. Unless they go back to the old way of aggregate times. Which I personally would welcome with open arms but I get the feeling i'm in a ...

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I cannot think of another race where a driver has benefited from a safety car period/red flag brought out by his team mates crash..... I see what you did there. And by that I mean I spent approximately 4 or 5 seconds scanning my memory banks for a historical example to bring up so I could be the sm...

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Even if the tyres are frozen and the unlapping thing done away with, red flags (much like safety cars) will still always benefit/screw people in one way or another. Unless they go back to the old way of aggregate times. Which I personally would welcome with open arms but I get the feeling i'm in a s...

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1. Ferrari strategists 2. Qualifying format - You know I'm long past being actively upset at all these sorts of rule changes for the "show", I actually found myself having a laugh at the various team principals squirming in front of camera. Then again if it teaches the "strategy group...

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1. Grosjean
2. New tyre rules - As much as I hate everything about F1's tyre rules since 2007 and even more so since 2011, giving teams a little more freedom of what they run is at least a small step in the right direction.

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Woohoo! Ever since opening the Hungaroring has had a reputation of a tight, twisty circuit, large go-kart track, Monaco without the houses etc. etc. etc., choose your description. It was not originally planned to be so much like this however, what was the reason that it did? Because of underground ...

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Woohoo!

Ever since opening the Hungaroring has had a reputation of a tight, twisty circuit, large go-kart track, Monaco without the houses etc. etc. etc., choose your description.

It was not originally planned to be so much like this however, what was the reason that it did?

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Emerson Fittipaldi in the WEC race recently?

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Did he get a push or something but didnt get disqualified for outside assistance Correct! During the first part of the race, he spun and was push-started, and would eventually work his way up to second place over the course of the two segments of the race to earn six points that might have been cri...

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Some clues for my question: 1) It was largely down to a loophole in the regs that was closed a few years later. After it was closed, Piquet himself was one of the first to fall foul of it. 2) In a race that took place at some unspecified time in the past relative to the '87 Mexican race, Piquet's te...

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Wasn't this race that was divided into two heats? Piquet won the second heat, but he was deemed to finish 2nd because Ol'Nige had a massive lead during the first heat. Every word of this is correct, but wasn't the source of the controversy, as the aggregate time rule was fairly well established by ...

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To be honest it mainly came to mind as I was recently spending time reading/posting a thread on another forum on the subject of whether closed cockpits are part of F1's "DNA" ...cue pictures of Vanwalls, Auto Unions, (F2)Protoses and that Brabham. What was controversial about Nelson Pique...

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Enclosed cockpit?

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Correct, I was playing a bit fast and loose with the "who" pronoun there, but the key point was that a living breathing organism, albeit a non-human, ceased to be as a result of an accident during that unofficial race. Over to you! Dont tell me that my entire awnser is correct? i thought ...

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Correct, I was playing a bit fast and loose with the "who" pronoun there, but the key point was that a living breathing organism, albeit a non-human, ceased to be as a result of an accident during that unofficial race. Over to you!

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In the first ever race held at Silverstone, who lost their life as a result of an accident during the race?

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Grid to be set by random drawing of names?

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An American team run by a bloke called Haas starting out with a customer engine before switching to a works Ford V6 turbo?

Would be cool but as you say, probably needs to be filed under "believe it when we see it"

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To set the grid by numerical or alphabetical order?

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Complete guess but did they propose to run on Friday to make up for lost time?

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Was this the seeding thing where x number of drivers, based on past performance, works status and general reputation were guaranteed a starting spot regardless of qualifying time?

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But are they going to have the swept back front and rear wings? Because that's what's really important.

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Their battle in the early stages of Brazil 1992?

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Agreed on the Manor colour scheme - just goes to show what some basic primary (or even secondary) colours and simple lines can do, the Sauber was my favourite of last year and probably 2nd favourite behind the Manor this. Probably goes back to my childhood drawing GP2 (the Geoff Crammond game, not t...

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Michael May (who drove in the 1961 Monaco GP), didn't he test them on his own Porsche sportscar or something like that?

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Louis Stanley?

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This is correct! I can only assume the regulation came in post-1982 after Piquet and Patrese had swapped between the BMW and Cosworth-powered Brabhams freely, but to get around it he essentially swapped the numbers on the cars as I think it related to the entry rather than the driver sat in it. Acco...

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What was unusual about Tyrrell's entries for the 1985 German Grand Prix, and what was the reason for it? Two cars with different engines because the team had only one turbo engine at the time? You're on the right track but this isn't the exact thing I was looking for, as Tyrrell also were running t...

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What was unusual about Tyrrell's entries for the 1985 German Grand Prix, and what was the reason for it?

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