Grand Prix Rejects

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Will Buxton talked to Carlos Ghosn (Renault CEO) on the grid today - IIRC, he said that Renault would still run their team for at least next year, and were in the longer term trying to sell engines to as many teams as possible. Don't know how that affects the whole Lotus/Lotus/Lotus thing...

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Sorry to be the party pooper, but that definitely wasn't an F1 car... others have suggested some sort of WS-Renault car...

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"Before you can race in the (insert the locale) grand prix, YOU MUST QUALIFY." "HE MUST BE ABSOLUTELY FUMING ! matchett's like the american equivalent of legard, only he's not quite as cliche, and tends to be considerably more interesting. i must note, though, that there's not a sing...

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I was going to say something about how the Kamui merchandise was way more expensive than Pedro's, but then I remembered that they fired Pedro... must be a closeout sale... >_>

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- is entrepreneurial, self-motivated, personable;
Well, I think that puts most of us out, then... not the webmasters, of course, but...

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Another great review-but why aren't the RotR picture and caption inside it?

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I'd say it was a racing accident - but if you want to appropriate blame, I believe Mutoh's spotter desrves a bit more of that then Sato's. That restart was a complete disaster all around. If I had to apportion blame, I'd give most of it to de Silvestro (in the orange car, to the right of them both)...

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Are you going to do something like this for the next podcast, too? I might be semi-interested....

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I'm beginning to think putting a driver in with the stewards could end up being one of those practices that sounds far better than it is in reality. Most certainly. For one thing, guys like Wurz probably know a lot of the current drivers-not necessarily saying they're friends, but then again, the o...

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Follow it in one more way: Add an oval. Seriously, is there any possible road course on the Indianapolis grounds that would provide a better race then the oval? The GP would need to be longer than 305 km, though...

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Piquet is in 2nd right now while the rest of the field holds to form and makes fools of themselves... also, nice to see F1 promos during the ARCA race... wonder how much of a "crossover audience" there is

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Am I the only one that remembers (and thinks it's a good idea that) ROTY's are always drivers? I haven't been following F1 long enough to contribute anything else to this topic, but... Williams won a couple years back. Car or team, fine... more then Williams, how could I forget Honda? But awarding ...

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Am I the only one that remembers (and thinks it's a good idea that) ROTY's are always drivers? I haven't been following F1 long enough to contribute anything else to this topic, but...

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Didn't pay attention, but I can tell you Australian gentleman looked anything but pleased. Partly because he was standing under a German flag, whereas for some strange reason Britney Spears has decided to become Australian ... Perhaps I should have stuck around until the podium ceremony, if they ma...

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Hmm... just found something interesting. Shortly before the short of the race, Sauber replaced De la Rosa's front wing, but not Kobayashi's (scroll to page 18: m). Did they fix a problem on one car but not bother with the other? This could certainly elevate them to ROTR status... Of course they're b...

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Sorry, but... Webber-no contest

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kostas22 wrote:
LucaPacchiarini wrote:best livery I've ever seen in Indycar

Are you sure about that?

Not even close...

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Practice results: http://www.indycar.com/var/assets/indyc ... -pcomb.pdf
Sato 18th; fellow rookie Simona de Silvestro 17th. And F1 reject Justin Wilson 4th.

Here's an example of what the front straight was like... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPhJ7jPqqSI

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I think Putin just didn't realize that they canned the "gold medal" proposal, and is trying to make up for the Olympics...

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As much as I would welcome Hyundai, Kia and Daewoo into F1, I would extend a personal invitation to Ssangyong. If they can do this with a car ... http://jalopnik.com/assets/resources/2008/02/2008-SSangyong-Rodius.jpg ... imagine what they could do for F1 design! WIth current trends, I think they'd ...

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Wait... what ever happened to that other "stefangp" account, the one that purported to be from the actual team?

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madcat wrote:http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81651

With this approach from Ferrari towards Stefan, I am now quite sure that they won't be participating in 2010.

Who, Ferrari?

As long as Bernie is fond of them, they're not out of the picture...

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Piquet ends up 6th... it seemed, towards the end, like he simply didn't have the power to run with the leaders without lots of help. Meanwhile his teammate Timothy Peters wins after moving Todd Bodine out of the way on the back straight of the last lap...

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Oh dear-now Nelson dumps Papis into the wall and out of the race...

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Piquet is really doing quite well-up to 2nd more than once, although I don't think he's led. He needs a good result, too-Red Horse Racing is a good team, but if you can't attract a sponsor, they're not interested.

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I went to the NASCAR race at Sears Point, and there was a Toyota F1 car there... pretty random, if you ask me >_> Of course I've never gotten any closer to anything F1-related than that...

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we are seeing a lot of reports talking about USF1 struggling and there is no smoke without fire .... Could be a smoke grenade I think Team Malaysia will be around a second off. I wont be surprised if Trulli gets into Q2 though Virgin: Depends on how the lack of wind tunnel plays. If it makes no dif...

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Nelson Piquet has obviously been taking lessons from Kyle Busch -- he is trying convince people that he is a better driver than he really is. However unlike Kyle Busch, nobody takes Piquet seriously -- not even people as arrogant as he is. Agreed.I can't wait to see the ARCA race at Daytona which h...

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Err... just so you are aware, IMAX and 3D are not the same thing, at all. And considering that there has already been an NASCAR IMAX film, I don't see why they couldn't do the same for F1. Of course, first they have to get HD cameras before they can even think about IMAX cameras...

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*sigh* How many years in a row have well-respected F1 sites fallen for Innocentes pranks? This really shouldn't be a surprise...

http://translate.google.com/translate?j ... l=es&tl=en

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I got in the podcast! Yay! Words cannot possibly express my joy! Well, maybe if I thought about it for a while, but it's winter break and I'm feeling a bit lazy... >_> And the "55555" in my Twitter name came about some time ago, as I discovered (to my shock, given my age at the time) that ...

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I'd love to see anyone from NASCAR try V8 Supercars. I've just discovered V8 Supercars again since SPEED stopped showing it (along with WRC and anything else worth watching) and ít's just like NASCAR except a.) no whining b.) no convenient safety cars c.) passing d.) not utter crap e.) entertaining...

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- Toyota - obvious reasons, and they're quitting now, so it works perfectly! - Bernie Ecclestone (yes, I know you said he's not eligible, but he wasn't nearly as evil as he is now in the 90's AFAIK, so why not?) - McLaren - no championships for the decade! - Jenson Button - until this year, he would...

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Tealy wrote:Firestone were an F1 tyre supplier waaaaaaaaaay back when. Maybe they might take it on.

Bridgestone owns Firestone, so...

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Has no one else realized that only drivers are supposed to get ROTY? Anyway... 1. Nelson Piquet Jr.-probably deserved it more last year, as that's when he actually did the deed, but oh well. The entire affair was reject-worthy... 2. Kazuki Nakajima. No points? Seriously? Yeah, the Williams wasn't gr...

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What was the Full-Course Yellow for during the time that Lewis retired from the race??? ...perhaps it was showing by mistake? If it was meant for Alg., I would have expected it to be "localized." That was for Algeusari... er, Jamie's car stopped on the track, and it was a local yellow. Th...

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As an American: Go back to sleep and regret getting up at 6!

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It has to be Trulli. Also, anyone who says Kamui is completely missing the spirit of this site...
(whatever that is...)

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Eventually, after the engine freeze is listed, Mercedes will put out an unreliable engine... at some point he'll have an air intake failure (i.e. overheating

) and exhaust failure.

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If 14 teams are in the 2010 season it would be fantastic. More teams, more chance of reject drivers. We should be going out and getting pissed at news like this and not whinging about rip offs and the like. More importantly which Engine will the new Sauber team be getting, Sauber Mercedes has a nic...

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