Your Reject of the Race - India!

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 28 Oct 2011, 07:23

Well, what are you waiting for?

I nominate Bruno Senna. Once again, he's behind Petrov. Looks like he piqued too soon.

GwilymJJames · Post by **GwilymJJames** » 28 Oct 2011, 07:39

Whoever's in charge of making sure there aren't any dogs on the track at the same time as there are cars.

Post by **mario** » 28 Oct 2011, 07:51

Captain Hammer wrote:Well, what are you waiting for?

I nominate Bruno Senna. Once again, he's behind Petrov. Looks like he piqued too soon.

He is 0.09s behind Petrov, though, and directly behind him on the time sheets (12th for Petrov and 13th for Bruno), so the gap between both drivers was a good deal closer than most of the midfield runners.

Besides, if that is supposed to be rejectful, then why aren't you commenting on Alguersuari, who finished the session 1.3s behind Buemi in 16th place (whilst Buemi was 9th), and was the only driver to crash his car during that session?

fjackdaw · Post by **fjackdaw** » 28 Oct 2011, 08:40

So far Hamilton for getting YET ANOTHER dangerous driving penalty.

eagleash · Post by **eagleash** » 28 Oct 2011, 08:48

mario wrote:
Captain Hammer wrote:Well, what are you waiting for?

I nominate Bruno Senna. Once again, he's behind Petrov. Looks like he piqued too soon.

He is 0.09s behind Petrov, though, and directly behind him on the time sheets (12th for Petrov and 13th for Bruno), so the gap between both drivers was a good deal closer than most of the midfield runners.

Besides, if that is supposed to be rejectful, then why aren't you commenting on Alguersuari, who finished the session 1.3s behind Buemi in 16th place (whilst Buemi was 9th), and was the only driver to crash his car during that session?

Because that would be logical...

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 28 Oct 2011, 09:24

Based on an earlier post of mine from this week, I keep my word and nominate Tony Fernandes for a distinct lack of Chandhok...

eagleash · Post by **eagleash** » 28 Oct 2011, 09:44

DanielPT wrote:Based on an earlier post of mine from this week, I keep my word and nominate Tony Fernandes for a distinct lack of Chandhok...

I nominate Chandhok for a complete lack of Chandhok; (it's his own fault after being so poor in Germany).

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 28 Oct 2011, 09:55

eagleash wrote:
DanielPT wrote:Based on an earlier post of mine from this week, I keep my word and nominate Tony Fernandes for a distinct lack of Chandhok...

I nominate Chandhok for a complete lack of Chandhok; (it's his own fault after being so poor in Germany).

I know... But Liuzzi has been poor most of his times in F1 and he is still there after 4 years and something. Unfair dude, unfair... The guy deserved a second chance at home. It is not like Trulli will set the world alight. (No one at least foresees that.)

fjackdaw · Post by **fjackdaw** » 28 Oct 2011, 10:01

Captain Hammer wrote:Well, what are you waiting for?

I nominate Bruno Senna. Once again, he's behind Petrov. Looks like he piqued too soon.

I nominate Vitaly Petrov for being behind Senna. Three places behind him in fact.

eagleash · Post by **eagleash** » 28 Oct 2011, 10:09

DanielPT wrote:
eagleash wrote:
DanielPT wrote:Based on an earlier post of mine from this week, I keep my word and nominate Tony Fernandes for a distinct lack of Chandhok...

I nominate Chandhok for a complete lack of Chandhok; (it's his own fault after being so poor in Germany).

I know... But Liuzzi has been poor most of his times in F1 and he is still there after 4 years and something. Unfair dude, unfair... The guy deserved a second chance at home. It is not like Trulli will set the world alight. (No one at least foresees that.)

True but Chandhok ended up 2 laps behind Kova in Germany I believe. It would have been good to see both local drivers in their home GP, but it's an unsentimental World. There's also some speculation that the decision was actually taken by Gascoyne & he went for the safe option with 10th place in the WCC in mind.

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 28 Oct 2011, 10:09

fjackdaw wrote:
Captain Hammer wrote:Well, what are you waiting for?

I nominate Bruno Senna. Once again, he's behind Petrov. Looks like he piqued too soon.

I nominate Vitaly Petrov for being behind Senna. Three places behind him in fact.

Hey! I was going to do that!

I might add that Petrov was behind .4 of a sec. That's heavy!

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 28 Oct 2011, 10:13

eagleash wrote:
DanielPT wrote:
eagleash wrote:
I know... But Liuzzi has been poor most of his times in F1 and he is still there after 4 years and something. Unfair dude, unfair... The guy deserved a second chance at home. It is not like Trulli will set the world alight. (No one at least foresees that.)

True but Chandhok ended up 2 laps behind Kova in Germany I believe. It would have been good to see both local drivers in their home GP, but it's an unsentimental World. There's also some speculation that the decision was actually taken by Gascoyne & he went for the safe option with 10th place in the WCC in mind.

Yeah, I know. I just felt the need to be sentimental this race. And since Trulli will spend the full race trundling along and then afterwards he will be moaning about his power steering, I though that they might as well gone with the fans...

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 28 Oct 2011, 10:28

eagleash wrote:
DanielPT wrote:Based on an earlier post of mine from this week, I keep my word and nominate Tony Fernandes for a distinct lack of Chandhok...

I nominate Chandhok for a complete lack of Chandhok; (it's his own fault after being so poor in Germany).

That would be a first: A driver who isn't attending the race driving a car! :lol:

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 28 Oct 2011, 11:13

A better nominee: people who think the stewards have it in for Hamilton. Yes, Hamilton got a three-place grid penalty in FP1. He got it for setting a fastest lap time when double-waved yellows - meaning a driver should slow down and expect to stop without warning - were shown because marshalls were on the circuit. He deserved it, and both he and the team admit as much. And yet, some people seem to think that Lewis Hamilton is being unfairly persecuted by the stewards (if, heaven forbid, Hamilton hit a marshal in FP1, would that marshal be any less dead than if Hamilton had hit him in the race?). I also noticed that those same people have not said a single word about Sergio Perez receiving the same penalty for a near-identical infraction. So my Reject of the Race - yes, I'm already awarding it - goes to the conspiracy theorists who can't stand the idea that Hamilton is capable of committing a mistake.

eagleash · Post by **eagleash** » 28 Oct 2011, 11:28

Shizuka wrote:
eagleash wrote:
DanielPT wrote:Based on an earlier post of mine from this week, I keep my word and nominate Tony Fernandes for a distinct lack of Chandhok...

I nominate Chandhok for a complete lack of Chandhok; (it's his own fault after being so poor in Germany).

That would be a first: A driver who isn't attending the race driving a car!

Nobody said that he was

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Post by **Londoner** » 28 Oct 2011, 13:24

Looks like Hamilton is up to his old tricks again. I bet he won't be at all happy about the penalty, which will, judging by how this season has gone, make him lose focus for the race. Shall we start placing bets on who we think is the poor driver who gets crashed into this time? My money is on Massa (again).

Post by **tommykl** » 28 Oct 2011, 13:36

The people in charge of trackside advertising.

http://f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4533&start=30#p115704

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 28 Oct 2011, 14:14

East Londoner wrote:Looks like Hamilton is up to his old tricks again. I bet he won't be at all happy about the penalty, which will, judging by how this season has gone, make him lose focus for the race. Shall we start placing bets on who we think is the poor driver who gets crashed into this time? My money is on Massa (again).

If one thing could be said about Hamilton is that he is not boring (in the track at least). This season could've been far worse if not for his antics. Yes, Vettel would've been champion in a similarly massive way without Hamilton's troubles.

Dj_bereta · Post by **Dj_bereta** » 28 Oct 2011, 14:24

I nominate Fernando Alonso, he was completely outpaced by Massa.

Ed24 · Post by **Ed24** » 28 Oct 2011, 15:00

Dj_bereta wrote:I nominate Fernando Alonso, he was completely outpaced by Massa.

Alonso was beaten by 0.224s, a gap behind his team-mate that was less than Webber, Button, Schumacher, Petrov, Di Resta, Alguersuari or Trulli had...

Frentzen127 · Post by **Frentzen127** » 28 Oct 2011, 15:57

DanielPT wrote:Vettel would've been champion in a similarly massive way without Hamilton's troubles.

It's because he still hasn't learnt who he has to crash with.

Ed24 wrote:
Dj_bereta wrote:I nominate Fernando Alonso, he was completely outpaced by Massa.

Alonso was beaten by 0.224s, a gap behind his team-mate that was less than Webber, Button, Schumacher, Petrov, Di Resta, Alguersuari or Trulli had...

True, but when was the last time THAT happened?

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 28 Oct 2011, 16:26

Frentzen127 wrote:
DanielPT wrote:Vettel would've been champion in a similarly massive way without Hamilton's troubles.

It's because he still hasn't learnt who he has to crash with.

My hat's off to you, my friend!

James1978 · Post by **James1978** » 28 Oct 2011, 18:15

If he's going to crash into any Ferrari surely he should be aiming for Alonso rather than Massa.

Ed24 · Post by **Ed24** » 28 Oct 2011, 18:21

My nomination thus far would be for the idiot photographer who decided to jump the fence into the gravel trap to get a closer shot of Maldonado's stricken car. Because of him, they've now banned photographers at Turns 10-11-12 for the weekend.

Frentzen127 wrote:True, but when was the last time THAT happened?

The last time there was such a gap was probably Spa qualifying when Massa was a second ahead. Massa's done a good job to turn around his qualifying pace in the 2nd half of the year though, so I don't think it's a huge surprise he's ahead today.

golic_2004 · Post by **golic_2004** » 28 Oct 2011, 21:17

I nominate the postponement of Metallica for India Rocks

http://www.metallica.com/page.asp?ps_ke ... um=twitter

Cynon · Post by **Cynon** » 28 Oct 2011, 21:52

Why are we nominating a Reject of the Race when the race hasn't happened yet? :?:

Post by **Londoner** » 28 Oct 2011, 21:59

Cynon wrote:Why are we nominating a Reject of the Race when the race hasn't happened yet?

Only Captain Hammer knows why...

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 29 Oct 2011, 00:48

Cynon wrote:Why are we nominating a Reject of the Race when the race hasn't happened yet?

Because people can do Rejectful things in practice and qualifying.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 29 Oct 2011, 03:09

Captain Hammer wrote:
Cynon wrote:Why are we nominating a Reject of the Race when the race hasn't happened yet?

Because people can do Rejectful things in practice and qualifying.

Case of Point: Australia this year where Chandhok put it in the wall in the very first minute of FP1 (i.e. the first official minute of the season :lol:

)

Peter · Post by **Peter** » 29 Oct 2011, 03:43

Captain Hammer wrote:Well, what are you waiting for?

I nominate Bruno Senna. Once again, he's behind Petrov. Looks like he piqued too soon.

Oh look, Bruno's ahead in FP2.

You were saying?

Post by **Londoner** » 29 Oct 2011, 09:44

Have to say, either Virgin or Sauber are the frontrunners at the moment.

lostpin · Post by **lostpin** » 29 Oct 2011, 09:48

Massa's cloud of unluckiness is pouring heavy rain right now...

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 29 Oct 2011, 09:54

Helmet designs - oh HWNSNBM, where do I begin? Let's start with Vettel, while it is nice to include your team and everything, it still looks awful. Hamilton's design is just ... unneeded. And then we got Bruno Senna's, getting another seperate nomination. It's ... just pathetic, really. It's like he knows he can't validate his existence in Formula 1 by doing something meaningful of his own, so he's just going: "I'm related to Ayrton Senna, I ain't got to do s***."

€: I forgot something...

Celebrities - I wanted Otm Shank... :cry:

dinizintheoven · Post by **dinizintheoven** » 29 Oct 2011, 09:57

golic_2004 wrote:I nominate the postponement of Metallica for India Rocks
http://www.metallica.com/page.asp?ps_ke ... um=twitter

I'd be tempted to nominate Metallica for this abomination.

Early ROTR candidates have to be:

Virgin: for Timo's self-destructing gearbox... and Custard has got Formula 1 pie all over his overalls. Beaten by Narain Karthikeyan who had a whole load of nominations in the Predicament Predictions thread as being a dead-cert DNQ? Back t't drawing board for the tykes.

Rowan Atkinson, Eddie Jordan and Jake Humphrey: almost identically distastefully dressed. Three pink shirts in a row is not what I have a 36" screen for!

Post by **tommykl** » 29 Oct 2011, 10:17

dinizintheoven wrote:
golic_2004 wrote:I nominate the postponement of Metallica for India Rocks
http://www.metallica.com/page.asp?ps_ke ... um=twitter

I'd be tempted to nominate Metallica for this abomination.

Prompting this remix of The View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZsp3VMUrcs&feature=related

dhruvkaicker90 · Post by **dhruvkaicker90** » 29 Oct 2011, 10:24

I nominate my fellow Indians who have hardly followed F1 before and are criticizing good ol Narain Karthikeyan for being at the back of the field :evil:

For HWNSNBM's sake he came back in the car after 4 months and has been identical on pace with Riccardo and he is far from being an embarassment. Still all i hear from around me is crap about Narain

dhruvkaicker90 · Post by **dhruvkaicker90** » 29 Oct 2011, 10:28

Another nomination would be that horrendous Ra.One promotion on the nose on the Force India. That is as rejectful as Tyrell's Xena: The warrior princess promotion in the 90s

Post by **mario** » 29 Oct 2011, 10:49

dhruvkaicker90 wrote:I nominate my fellow Indians who have hardly followed F1 before and are criticizing good ol Narain Karthikeyan for being at the back of the field For HWNSNBM's sake he came back in the car after 4 months and has been identical on pace with Riccardo and he is far from being an embarassment. Still all i hear from around me is crap about Narain

To be within 0.02s is pretty impressive, and throughout the practise sessions Narain has been much closer to Ricciardo than I'd wager most would have expected - he's generally within 0.1-0.2s of Ricciardo's times, which is closer than some of the other driver pairings have been during the race weekend.

If anything, though, it makes you wonder whether it bodes well for Karthikeyan, or is more of a concern for Liuzzi given that Karthikeyan has been closer to Ricciardo's pace in the practise sessions more often than Liuzzi has, and that is despite not having spent as much time in the car (and, in the case of Singapore, having never driven the circuit before whereas Liuzzi has).

AndreaModa · Post by **AndreaModa** » 29 Oct 2011, 11:01

dhruvkaicker90 wrote:Another nomination would be that horrendous Ra.One promotion on the nose on the Force India. That is as rejectful as Tyrell's Xena: The warrior princess promotion in the 90s

I thought exactly the same! :lol:

On an only slightly related note, the sheer amount of new sponsors on the cars this weekend bodes well for the future, there's clearly a lot of money in India that is willing to be spent on F1, I counted new logos on the HRTs and Force Indias (obviously), the Saubers, and Williams look like they've got someone new on their front wishbones. There might even be more.

dhruvkaicker90 · Post by **dhruvkaicker90** » 29 Oct 2011, 11:15

Exactly!! Corporates here have realised the potential of growth of F1 in India and its great to see them shelling out money like they do in cricket. I know its unrealistic but I would love to see more backing for Narain which gets him in a slightly better car next year. The mentality of the typical Indian sports fan is "Win or we riot". Our poor cricket team loses one match and everyone wants the great Sachin Tendulkar to retire. I guess the same thing is happening in F1 too. People want to see a star driver from India. If that happens we can have packed grandstands and full corporate support every year otherwise the novelty of the Indian GP will die soon.