Grand Prix Rejects

Bear in mind that there are two distinct roles (traditionally) in the broadcast booth. The "play-by-play" person and the "color" person. The first is almost always a career broadcaster and the second is an expert on the specific sport. It seems like when anyone has any dislike o...

They're no Murray Walker, but surely they couldn't be worse than a theoretical paring of Jonathan Legard with Jonathan Palmer? Never heard Legard, but if he can identify the correct driver per car and not talk over the bloody radio EVERY SINGLE TIME, he's already an improvement. James Allen was bet...

Although I also share your view on the use of team orders being perfectly legitimate, I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that it was never that unpopular considering the entire practice was banned for nearly a decade after the reaction to Ferrari's use of them in 2002. And I've definitely c...

The time penalty I get, the points on licence I don't really as it was dumb but not malicious especially as he probably didn't know the extent of damage on his car. Cynically, I suspect he did: he was multiple seconds per lap slower following the incident with Vettel, which, to uninformed me, would...

Do Stroll and Massa have the largest age gap between two team-mates in the history of the sport? The 1955 Monaco Grand Prix had Louis Chiron (born August 3, 1899), in his final start, and Eugenio Castellotti (born October 10, 1930), making his second start, teaming up at Lancia. Thirty-one years an...

That final lap and corner between Canamasas, Rowland, and Sirotkin. Canamasas is mentioned so I'm guessing an almighty crash? The only thing almighty about it is the strength of Canamasas' refusal to grow up after five seasons in this sport. If he's going to cause a stunningly unnecessary crash by ...

dr-baker wrote:And Wehrlein in the top-10 in Q1! Has this ever happened to Manor (or Fondmetal Team Malaysia or HRT Campos) before?

Not sure if there are any others, but GVDG took his Caterham to third in Q1 at the 2013 Belgian GP.

By gambling on slicks on a drying track, but still.

Everyone engine make currently competing in F1 has been represented by a constructor of the same name (Ferrari, Mercedes and Renault). When else has this happened? The first ever World Championship Grand Prix, for a start. Except for Felice Bonetto's Ferrari-Jaguar monster, the V2 engined Cooper, a...

Max Verstappan win in Spain is the highest postion achieved by a Red Bull driver on their début for the team since Coulthard finished 4th at the 2005 Australian GP. The highest positon achieved for each team with a driver on their debut for said team Redbull - 1st Ferrari - 1st Mercedes - 1st Renau...

The thing is Giovinazzi could still avoided the accident. He had a widening road in the inside of braking zone even if he won't slow down enough for the corner he would slowed down enough to avoid Pic, or back-off from the move to the outside to avoid the accident. With these options he could avoid...

Yes, because this site has always been a bastion of respect for Jarno Trulli, Giancarlo Fisichella and Ralf Schumacher, hasn't it? I know I haven't been around in a while, but from what I remember this site has generally respected drivers who put in effort . Maybe not always rewarded, maybe not alwa...