Grand Prix Rejects

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Valtteri Bottas is back at Mercedes and Toto Wolff has made it clear that the Finn's naked calendars need to stop despite the reserve driver raising funds for charity in the past. https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/formula-1/valtteri-bottas-mercedes-naked-calendar-34598154 Nice to know Mercedes has the...

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Jackfruit Doohan
Gabriel Borlotti bean
Isack Had a jar of something

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On a more serious note, Trump and his cronies are just spamming us with garbage right now. Dozens of ridiculous executive orders and rules and dumb laws in state legislatures and even being introduced in congress. It's literally impossible to keep up with, to say nothing of the people in foreign la...

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Har1MAS1415 wrote: ↑29 Jan 2025, 10:38
dr-baker wrote: ↑29 Jan 2025, 06:58
Nessafox wrote: ↑28 Jan 2025, 22:09 But, all those liveries are... good?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Or to use a more modern phrase, YMMV...
Those liveries just didn't impress me.

I don't think they impress Shania Twain much either.
https://youtu.be/mqFLXayD6e8?si=VGV_iwb-hmhLWq0m

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Nessafox wrote: ↑28 Jan 2025, 22:09 But, all those liveries are... good?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Or to use a more modern phrase, YMMV...

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It goes on and on doc. One very funny one was declaring that everyone is legally the sex they were at “conception”, which would literally mean everyone is female. If you put it all in a work of fiction, you’d be criticized for how unrealistic it was. Yeah, I saw that on social media too. The intere...

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Just been reading a thread on Threads. I wanted to make a note of the following: SCROTUS: So called ruler of the US. FOTUS: Felon/fuhrer of the US Also, I loved the recent speech that Bishop Mariann Budde gave with Trump. Shame it won't ever have penetrated that thick skull. And trying to end the wa...

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If this had happened, the 1997 Hungarian GP wouldn't have been nearly as memorable. Unless somebody else was able to do the same in that Arrows. Which Diniz didn't.

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What is the progress status of this series please? Things have been a bit delayed since the wiki isn't working reliably and without it, creating the carset is a bit troublesome. For the most part, things are looking good. I will try to wing it should no process have been made on the wiki by mid-Feb...

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What is the progress status of this series please?

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From what I've been able to find out, Buemi and Mortara each got a 10 second penalty for not finishing their second attack mode, while DiGrassi got a drive through (converted to 27 seconds) for not even starting his second. I'm guessing Buemi was over 5 seconds ahead of Bird (who also had a 5 secon...

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I've just been reading through the first page of posts on this thread, and I seem to have said something rejectful there... If it comes to London, I'll go to watch it. If it features in Autosport, I'll read about it. But unless drivers use it as a stepping stone in their career, in the same way that...

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There's a lovely article on Autosport about the legendary Murray Walker, written by James Allen: https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/end-of-an-era-murray-walkers-final-commentary/10686887/ Once the race was over, we all gathered for a final drink in the TV compound. It was brief. Murray normally didn’...

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Wallio wrote: ↑04 Jan 2025, 18:04 For what its worth, I have heard Finland mentioned as a "crown jewel" more than once. Although like Dakar and Safari, it has been changed quite a bit over the years.

The 1000 Lakes i believe?

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Going off topic a bit, is there a rallying equivalent to the Triple Crown? I would imagine that it would be some something like Rally Monte Carlo, the Safari and the Dakar. I might be mistaken, but it seems that there isn't an equivalent in rallying - most of the series that have an equivalent trip...

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Going off topic a bit, is there a rallying equivalent to the Triple Crown? I would imagine that it would be some something like Rally Monte Carlo, the Safari and the Dakar.

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Jocke1 wrote: ↑29 Dec 2024, 23:43
dr-baker wrote: ↑25 Dec 2024, 01:23 Father Christmas a.k.a. Santa Claus
Don't you mean Santa Claes

Have a great 2025, everyone.

Well done. I like that.

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Let's revive a thread because why not. Merry Christmas everybody. Hope it's a good one and that Father Christmas a.k.a. Santa Claus (which my autocorrect corrected to Santander Claus

), a.k.a. St Nicholas, brings what you want and/or need.

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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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Sorry, how exactly will this work? I'm guessing we just pick the next closest track to Melbourne as the next 'stop', but is it only for tracks that were on the 2024 calendar, or can we pick any GP track from any previous calendar? What about rumoured or cancelled GP tracks? Assuming we can pick his...

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Autosport have listed their top women drivers of the year. https://www.autosport.com/general/news/autosports-10-brightest-female-stars-of-2024/10683735/ It includes some drivers i have heard of, like Jamie Chadwick, Abbi Pulling and Doriane Pin, but some others that I haven't. Noticeable how more th...

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....and for good measure.... https://cdn-1.motorsport.com/static/img/amp/600000/660000/668000/668500/668557/s6_960363/formula-e-punta-del-este-eprix-2015-jacques-villeneuve-venturi-formula-e-team.jpg ...his brief Formula E stint in the 2015-16 Season. Oh, that reminds me, Jarno Trulli had a FE team...

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Mornington Crescent is a well-known game played on the BBC Radio 4 panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue , where players try to navigate around the London Underground to get to the titular tube station. This version will be called Montreal Crescent, with the aim of getting to Montreal for the Canad...

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I often forget that Jacques Villeneuve had an F1 career beyond Willams and BAR. I never associate him with either Renault or Sauber, or even BMW Sauber.

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Sebastian Loeb in absolutely anything other than a Citroen World Rally Car is strange to me. Except perhaps an Extreme E machine? ...or a Toyota Corolla? https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRUUTcIViRsOHZMI8IH1ajsXsbCeqkKeGRjkQ&s Did two outings in the 2000 WRC in this car. 9th...

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takagi_for_the_win wrote: ↑20 Dec 2024, 23:24
CoopsII wrote: ↑27 Nov 2024, 19:54 Is it still a faux pas to mention F1 Rejects?
Off to the gulag with you.

Is this where people get sent for a papaya attack nowadays?

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Sebastian Loeb in absolutely anything other than a Citroen World Rally Car is strange to me. Except perhaps an Extreme E machine?

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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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Doesn't Alex Zanardi beat Zonta? Afraid not! Zanardi only had 1 6th place, Zonta had 3 (hence unrejectified himself, Zanardi didn't). I'm not looking at other forms of motorsport, just F1. I still find it strange that Zanardi scored his single point for a Lotus team that was in its final few season...

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I don't think we have a thread on this team that never made it. You can't have a fascination with MasterCard Lola without also knowing about this guy lurking in the background afterwards. I plan to add to this thread over time, I already have some stuff in the MasterCard Lola thread but not a lot fr...

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I meant 3 champions called Hill missed out, I wasn't referring to the total number of championships. Hakkinen is included in that list too and also has 2, my point was because of Hamilton's 7, an awful lot of champions miss out on having the chance to be included on the list! And I was also just wa...

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Lewis Hamilton (the most successful letter. world champs Hawthorn, Hill x 3, Hulme, Hunt and Hakkinen all miss out!) How did you calculate Hill as having 3 titles? Phil Hill won once in 1961, Graham Hill won twice in 1962 and 1968, and Damon Hill won once in 1996. Building on this further, how woul...

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Yannick wrote: ↑15 Dec 2024, 10:48 https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/the-r ... /10682170/

It's a good read.

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Nessafox wrote: ↑12 Dec 2024, 09:45 Which leads us to the next questions: who are the triple rejects?

Is there a list of people who have actually tried all three and been rejectful at all three? Especially if it is Triple DNQs!

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If you need the distraction again, a tyre manufacturer version might be interesting. Unfortunately, it's not very exciting. Very interesting though! Michelin The French marque has the strangest path to the Triple Crown. They won the second Indy 500 ever, (then never won it again) and won the first ...

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First day of Sainz testing in a Williams...

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So there were no driver changes from the last race of 2023 to the first race of 2024, the first off season for that to happen. But then we had Oliver Bearman stand in at both Ferrari and Haas, and opportunities for Lawson, Colapinto and Doohan. That's more driver changes than usual in recent years a...

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This is great work. People so often talk about the Triple Crown from a driver's angle, but i hadn't ever considered it from a manufacturer perspective. If you need the distraction again, a tyre manufacturer version might be interesting. I may do that! Michelin and Goodyear I know for sure. And Fire...

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