Grand Prix Rejects

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Williams has been punching above where everybody expected them to be multiple times this year, so a well-deserved double-points finish.

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1) The track/race: Aside from the misstep by Verstappen at the start, the rest of the running wasn't exactly mindblowing.

2) Gabriel Bortoleto: Not only slow, but hazardous. Consistently the least impressive of the rookies.

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2025 Sowdee Grand Prox 1) Norris 2) Piastri 3) Leclerc 4) Verstappen 5) Russell 6) Hamilton 7) Gasly 8) Sainz 9) Antonelli 10) Albon Pole: Norris Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Bortoleto ROTR: Stroll IIDOTR: Williams DBTMOTR: Stroll F2P: Ocon Yellow Flag: Doohan Worst Team: Sauber Rookie ...

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1) Haas: Two point scorers, including the best rookie result today.

2) Pierre Gasly: Considering that the Alpine doesn't look like a world-beater by any standards, 7th is a very good end result.

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1) Aston Martin: A poor showing all round for a team that was one of the best of the rest last year.

2) Gabriel Bortoleto: Yeah, sure, Sauber are not expected to perform, but I haven't seen anything from Bortoleto to really impress me so far.

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Since I'm not seeing it already... 2025 At Least It Isn't Saudi Grand Prix 1) Norris 2) Piastri 3) Leclerc 4) Russell 5) Verstappen 6) Hamilton 7) Antonelli 8) Hadjar 9) Alonso 10) Tsunoda Pole: Norris Fastest Lap: Hamilton First Retirement: Bortoleto ROTR: Sauber IIDOTR: Hadjar DBTMOTR: Stroll F2P:...

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In the absence of a better nominee, I'm actually leaning towards Max Verstappen, although the rookies largely impressed today.

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Lance Stroll absolutely living up to his surname.

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2025 Tsu- no -da Grand Prix 1) Norris 2) Piastri 3) Hamilton 4) Russell 5) Verstappen 6) Leclerc 7) Hadjar 8) Antonelli 9) Alonso 10) Lawson Pole: Norris Fastest Lap: Piastri First Retirement: Doohan ROTR: Doohan IIDOTR: Hadjar DBTMOTR: Tsunoda F2P: Hulkenberg Yellow Flag: Bortoleto Worst Team: Saub...

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If it really is true that Red Bull will swap Lawson for Tsunoda in after just TWO races, that is complete madness and on a par with Ferrari's double DQ. I suspect if the next round wasn't Yuki's home race there'd be none of this crap. You can't possibly evaluate someone after 2 races!! "Entry ...

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Oliver Bearman: Got points, spiced up the show with some nice dices, overall impressive.

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1) Liam Lawson: A deeply unimpressive performance which makes Perez's struggles last year look less embarrassing in context. 2) Sauber: Never looked like they were going to get off the back of the grid on pace. EDIT: After the news about Ferrari's double DSQ, they're a slam-dunk contender for ROTR a...

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2025 No More Joe Guanyu Grand Prix Sprint: 1) Hamilton 2) Verstappen 3) Piastri 4) Leclerc 5) Russell 6) Norris 7) Tsunoda 8) Antonelli Race: 1) Norris 2) Hamilton 3) Leclerc 4) Piastri 5) Verstappen 6) Russell 7) Antonelli 8) Albon 9) Tsunoda 10) Alonso SPole: [Too late - will concede points] Pole:...

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We used to wonder why no one ever it made it out of F2, maybe now we know? I've been arguing for a while that aside from Piastri, F2 has been working off a depleted field of talent since 2019 when Russell, Norris and Albon made their way up from the season before, so I'm not surprised that the new ...

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Kimi Antonelli: After what was not an especially fortuitous qualifying, he got a solid finishing position to unrejectify himself when the rest of the rookies were floundering.

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1) Isack Hadjar: Rookie or not, wet race or not, spinning out before the race even starts is a quintessential reject move.

2) Liam Lawson: Not the only driver to go out, but he never looked like threatening his podium-winning teammate anyway.

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2025 "All Aboard At Aussie Autodrome" Grand Prix 1) Leclerc 2) Norris 3) Piastri 4) Hamilton 5) Verstappen 6) Russell 7) Tsunoda 8) Alonso 9) Hadjar 10) Sainz Pole: Leclerc Fastest Lap: Hamilton First Retirement: Bearman ROTR: Haas IIDOTR: Hadjar DBTMOTR: Lawson F2P: Lawson Yellow Flag: Be...

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Fernando Alonso remains the oldest driver on the grid this year, being 43 going on 44. The youngest driver will be Antonelli, 18 going on 19. That's an age difference of 25 years. I did a check on Schumacher, when he was in his 40s, and he was 21 years older than Jaime Alguersuari, the youngest, in...

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Zanardi shares the worst points/GP ratio among those who have scored with Olivier Grouillard. Logan Sargeant would have gone to the top if he had finished the season with no points. This makes Lella Lombardi's achievement all the more impressive. I assume she has the unique career points total of o...

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My ROTR candidates are the final race drivers - none of them had a good performance and of them, only Colapinto really looks like he could be excused with any chance of a decent drive in the future.

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1) Nico Hulkenberg: Haas have had a somewhat mixed turn of fortunes over the season, so a high qualifying ending in points is a pretty good showing for them.

2) Pierre Gasly: Easily Alpine's MVP for the year, with a solid performance to add to Alpine's point total.

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2024 Middle Eastern Dead Rubber No. 2 (a.k.a. the only good race here was under controversial circumstances) Grand Prix 1) Norris 2) Leclerc 3) Hamilton 4) Sainz 5) Verstappen 6) Russell 7) Piastri 8) Gasly 9) Magnussen 10) Lawson Pole: Norris Fastest Lap: Russell First Retirement: Doohan ROTR: Pere...

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Since Gasly has posted some pretty decent performances earlier this year, I think Zhou Guanyu had the most improbable result today.

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The FIA, MBS and race control are an obvious choice. So is the whole Qatar Grand Prix : An awful track, awful location and an awful dead-rubber race as far as the Drivers' Championship is concerned. Aside from that, I suppose Lewis Hamilton was rather more off the boil this weekend than Russell; wh...

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2024 Middle Eastern Dead Rubber No. 1 Grand Prix S1) Norris S2) Russell S3) Piastri S4) Leclerc S5) Sainz S6) Verstappen S7) Hamilton S8) Hulkenberg Sprint Pole: <forfeited; yet another sprint weekend I forget about until it's too late> First Retirement: None 1) Norris 2) Piastri 3) Verstappen 4) Sa...

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2024 M. Bison/Balrog Grand Prix 1) Hamilton 2) Norris 3) Russell 4) Leclerc 5) Sainz 6) Piastri 7) Alonso 8) Gasly 9) Verstappen 10) Hulkenberg Pole: Hamilton Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Colapinto ROTR: Red Bull IIDOTR: None DBTMOTR: Stroll LP: Albon F2P: Ocon Yellow Flag: Perez Worst ...

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1) Alpine: An excellent result in a chaotic race and totally out of the blue.

2) Max Verstappen: Yes, these might be the conditions he thrives in, but he went from near the back to win this against much more favoured competition given the circumstances.

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1) Lance Stroll: Turfing it off at the start of the race is always reject-worthy.

2) McLaren: Ceded a considerable chance to take the Drivers' Championship by the scruff of the neck to Verstappen.

Dishonourable Mentions: Sergio Perez, Race Control.

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2024 "Of course I forgot that this one was a sprint weekend" Grand Prix S1) Piastri S2) Norris S3) Verstappen S4) Leclerc S5) Sainz S6) Russell S7) Lawson S8) Albon Sprint Pole: N/A (too late) First Retirement: Gasly 1) Sainz 2) Piastri 3) Norris 4) Russell 5) Leclerc 6) Verstappen 7) Laws...

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My nomination is the entire Red Bull family: Red Bull Racing lost second in the WCC to Ferrari. Verstappen was deservedly penalized for dangerous and unsporting driving. Pérez had one of his worst weekends ever (as disastrous as he's been lately). Tried heroics with the fastest lap but lost to Lecl...

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2024 Tequila Hangover Grand Prix 1) Sainz 2) Norris 3) Leclerc 4) Verstappen 5) Russell 6) Piastri 7) Hamilton 8) Perez 9) Lawson 10) Hulkenberg Pole: Sainz Fastest Lap: Norris First Retirement: Stroll ROTR: Williams IIDOTR: Lawson DBTMOTR: Magnussen LP: Zhou F2P: Ocon Yellow Flag: Albon Worst Team:...

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1) The Rookies (Lawson and Colapinto): After several years where, Piastri aside, the standards of the lower formulae seemed questionable, we've got two drivers who have come in and looked decidedly better than their predecessors. 2) Ferrari, especially Charles Leclerc: This wasn't a race where I wou...

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1) Lewis Hamilton: He's had some good performances this year, but that was not one of them.

2) Sergio Perez: Perez is going to be the reason why Red Bull don't take the Constructors' Championship this year.

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2024 Stolen Piece of Mexico Grand Prix S1) Piastri S2) Norris S3) Verstappen S4) Sainz S5) Hamilton S6) Leclerc S7) Russell S8) Alonso Sprint Pole: Piastri First Retirement: None 1) Norris 2) Piastri 3) Verstappen 4) Leclerc 5) Sainz 6) Hamilton 7) Russell 8) Tsunoda 9) Alonso 10) Perez Pole: Piastr...

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* In an alternative world, a standardised ICE with manufacturers given a free hand over the electrical elements might be a good thing. Which would make F1 just a Formula E variant? Or is Formula E just Formula 1 without the ICE, given the number of street circuits that the FIA is foisting on us. Fo...

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2024 Singa-poor Grand Prix

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

Pole: Norris
Fastest Lap: Leclerc
First Retirement: Gasly
ROTR: Alpine
IIDOTR: VCARB
DBTMOTR: Colapinto
LP: Zhou
F2P: Bottas
Yellow Flag: Gasly
Worst Team: Sauber

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1) Carlos Sainz: A sloppy mistake which ended his race and Ferrari's chance of a very good haul of points.

2) Max Verstappen: Looked very unimpressive compared to his teammate today.

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2024 Baku Bedlam Grand Prix 1) Verstappen 2) Leclerc 3) Hamilton 4) Perez 5) Norris 6) Sainz 7) Piastri 8) Russell 9) Hulkenberg 10) Alonso Pole: Verstappen Fastest Lap: Hamilton First Retirement: Zhou ROTR: Zhou IIDOTR: Bearman DBTMOTR: Stroll LP: Ocon F2P: Tsunoda Yellow Flag: Zhou Worst Team: Sau...

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Londoner wrote: ↑01 Sep 2024, 14:22 1. Ferrari. Have we just entered an alternate universe where Maranello are...GOOD at strategy?

2. Franco Colapinto. A very solid debut from the lad.

Agree with both of these. In particular, I wouldn't have tipped Charles Leclerc to even make the podium here, let alone win.

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2024 Tifosi Tyranny Grand Prix

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

Pole: Norris
Fastest Lap: Piastri
First Retirement: Zhou
ROTR: Alpine
IIDOTR: None
DBTMOTR: Tsunoda
LP: Ocon
F2P: Albon
Yellow Flag: Zhou
Worst Team: Alpine

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