Grand Prix Rejects

SuzukiSwift

Wallio wrote:Its it too early to nominate Riccardo? What an absolute muppet.

With hindsight, yes!

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Ferrari. Yikes.

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At this point I think it needs to be said, Ferrari are absolutely throwing away this season. So many times they could have achieved, this race included, and every time it's a stupid mistake that costs them. I seriously don't think we can consider them contenders for the championship anymore, and I'...

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Mercedes. Hands down.

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1. McLaren’s performance all weekend. What a joke.
2. Hulkenberg.

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Vandoorne is likely finished at this rate...

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Ok, so Gasly gets the seat while Sainz languishes at McLaren, and JEV gets a minor seat or races Formula E. Brave move by Marko and Horner , I personally wouldn't hire Gasly so soon, but they have a better insight. Will be interesting to see how he goes at the top flight, and compares to Max. Yeah ...

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1. Williams drivers. Sirotkin and Stroll are completely lost, and as of right now don’t look like they can pull the team out of it’s funk. They look awful, and in turn the car looks awful. It’s hard to say where Williams even are because of the two duffers driving it. 2. Verstappen. Idiot maneuver. ...

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Great Article. Thanks.

I have a thing for F1 cars with obnoxiously coloured wheels.

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1. Bottas
2. Haas

HM:
Williams drivers.
People with ridiculous expectations from Toro-Rosso. It's a team with a modest budget, the weakest engine, and two inexperienced drivers.

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I really don't see anything wrong with grid girls to be honest, why take away the job opportunity from them? Plus I don't really agree with this stance that modelling and being proud to display ones beauty is something to be ashamed of. Its all part of the F1 glamour and its being taken away by the...

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This has 0 effect on the racing. I for one liked them but if getting rid of them makes the sport more appealing to women then all power to 'em. The unfortunate side effect of this is now your going to have the "traditional" crowd shrieking about how the SJW/Feminist/Communist/Homosexual/Re...

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This has got to be one of the least talented and experienced Williams pairings ever, IMO. I'd be interested in hearing what you guys have to say though. In terms of skill and experience I seriously think only '77 was worse.

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The Larrousses did carry Chrysler badging from 1990-1993. Are you sure? For staters Laurrousse ran Fords in '91. And a quick search shows them on entry lists as Lola-Lambo, Venturi-Lambo, and Larrousse-Lambo in the other years. Yes you're right about 1991 my apologies. I forgot they (Larrousse) los...

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Ferrari running a team claiming to be Alfa? Its the 1930s! I am looking forward to this, but badge the bloody engine! Sauber did pretty well last time a factory owned them, so as long as they don't hire a washed up retiree and then give up on a legit WCC shot again, they should do well. Haas is now...

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Barbazza wrote:Illustrated on the BBC F1 page (though not the Sport homepage) by....ummm.... an Osella.

I know they had Alfa Romeo engines for a bit, but that's asking a lot of the modern F1 audience.....

From ‘84-‘88, but I think by the end they were called “Osella” V8s.

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1-3.) Honda.

I don't understand why Gasly has been nominated for reject of the year. The man has had 4 races in the car.

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1. Renault Engines. It's exceedingly difficult to make Honda look reliable. You managed to do so.
2. Renault themselves. Double DNF when a double points finish looked very likely.

HM: Haas. I realize KMag came 8th, but god damn, they looked out to lunch for the majority of the event.

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Those sidepods look 640-esque.

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Have fun. I did. It's amazing how little of the 1992 season I remember, other than "oh, there goes Nigel Mansell powering off into the distance again ", Michael Schumacher's first win, and the amazing feat that was Roberto Moreno hauling the Andrea Moda onto the grid at Monaco. This was a...

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Nice feature. Thank you. Enjoyed this a bunch! Never thought of Larrousse as anything other than bland, so you've added some excitement for me! Larrousse would be a candidate for the most average, middling, team in recent F1 history so "bland" is a correct term to describe them. Neither go...

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This is going to sound stupid (like much of my contributions!) but I sort of miss the picture quality being a bit crap on the race coverage. It added to the mystique of such exotic far flung races as Suzuki, Interlagos and the Hungaroring when the images were slightly grainy and fuzzy, it really ma...

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Attrition. Although that's slowly coming back. I miss the days when every race was action packed with side-by-side racing from start to finish. When there were no technological gimmicks making the racing artificial. When the teams and drivers weren't sponsored by here-today-gone tomorrow firms you'v...

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RAK wrote:1) Carlos Sainz, Jr.: Careless crash right at the start of the race.

2) Honda: Oh dear. I mean, it wasn't hard to see coming, but Alonso's not going to stick around forever when their engines keep going before the finish.

Alonso is already gone.

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I remember that in, I think, 1989, AGS run a 1988 car in some tests, modifed to run the MGN W12 engine. The Norma attempted to qualify for Le Mans (1990? 1991?) with the engine. The last AGS was a really nice looking car. It was first seen in Monza 1991 and I remember seeing it run (unsuccessfully)...

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Happily, the AGS racing school still exists. I don't think you can use any of the vintage cars though.

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Well, I suppose you could call Monteverdi an "enthusiast" of racing and cars, and he arguably did an even worse job.

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A list of the drivers of Larrousse-Lola's drivers who scored the 10 mentioned 6th places would have been a worthy addition to the article, especially in case of the respective drivers' eligibility for a profile on the F1Rejects website. For reference, these were Philippe Alliot (x4), Eric Bernard (...

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Excellent article. I think the 1997 T97/30 project also did damage beyond F1; their initial version of Indycar chassis that year was absolutely horrendous (the T97/00) and nearly drove them out of the sport. They did eventually recover when Reynard decided to goof off with BAR and it compromised the...

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I think this is for the best.

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Dartanian wrote:Its not even been a full year and I've already forgotten that Roberto Mehri existed.

Oh yeah...

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For my first F1 event live this was pretty damn good. Will do it next year too.

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1. McLaren - Dreadfully slow, moreso in person.

2. GUT - Ditto. Threw away a good qualifying result.

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Sauber has hired all of them. All the drivers.

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The 80-83 Marlboro-Alfas always looked orange/white to me. Perhaps to differentiate themselves from the McLarens of the time?

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Well he jumped from BT60B into the....BT61 (technically).

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Does Brabham in the latter half of the '92 season count? They scaled back to one car for Hill in Hungary, then collapsed. That would include Manor-Marussia in Russia 2014 as well, then. Also Sauber at the 1994 Spanish GP, Williams at same year's Monaco GP and Simtek at same year's Monaco and Canadi...

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Here's a thought I've recently had So there's Ferrari dreaming big about having a 3rd car Okay, but why not consider a possibility of having the 1-car teams? Manor could afford 1 car _and_ proper development, rather than 2 cars and doubtful development. Also we could see an influx of new ambitious ...

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It's a shame Honda can't really do anything about the engine's fundamental design this year. I would say that they would definitely be 4th best if the power was there.

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It was good while it lasted. Too bad Hasemi never sought to pursue a career in F1. He might have been half decent.

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