Your Reject Of The Race - Great Britain

Post by **Ataxia** » 08 Jul 2012, 13:59

The weather. We needed some rain about 2/3 of the way through because race stagnated around then.

Honourable mentions to:
The FOM TV Man: Missing out all the good stuff.
Perez and Maldonado: Really guys? Really? Maldonado needs to be more clinical in overtaking, Perez needs to calm down.

Ferrim · Post by **Ferrim** » 08 Jul 2012, 14:03

Kobayashi deserves a mention, that's the kind of moment ROTR prizes use to be given for. I'd also like to nominate Maldonado, again, he's really enerving me now.

mediocre · Post by **mediocre** » 08 Jul 2012, 14:04

Nothing obviously rejectworthy happened today...Candidates are:

Jenson Button for being nowhere in the 4th race in succession.
Pastor Maldonado for learning absolutely nothing and crashing pretty much every race. Unless he wins.

tkcom · Post by **tkcom** » 08 Jul 2012, 14:09

So many candidates.

Rosberg No pace. Nowhere near point.
Kobayashi Pit lane bowling!
Perez This.

ROTR
Maldonado Forget race ban, how about a restraining order? Crash magnet.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 08 Jul 2012, 14:09

My nomination:

Kamui Kobayashi

He could have made Sauber's day semi-decent by scoring a few points... and then he throws it all away at a disastrous pitbox entry. I hope none of his mechanics are injured.

Libertango · Post by **Libertango** » 08 Jul 2012, 14:10

Wizzie wrote:I nominate the entire Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team. No, it has absolutely nothing to do with what's going down on track. Yes, it has absolutely everything to do with this

The first episode is here

QuickYoda41 · Post by **QuickYoda41** » 08 Jul 2012, 14:12

Kamui Kobayashi for his pitbox entry - absolute reject staff :cry:

AndreaModa · Post by **AndreaModa** » 08 Jul 2012, 14:39

I'm nominating myself for this woeful prediction on the weather:

AndreaModa wrote:Hard to say. It's dry where I am currently, about 15 minutes to the south west of the circuit, but there's heavy cloud everywhere showing no signs of breaking up. I'd certainly expect rain at some point, though it could only be short light showers, or it could be a massive downpour. One of those days!

But for the on-track action, Rosberg had a terrible race, just completely nowhere.

Aerospeed · Post by **Aerospeed** » 08 Jul 2012, 14:40

I nominate myself as well, but for predicting Kobayashi on the podium. What was I thinking??

SeedStriker · Post by **SeedStriker** » 08 Jul 2012, 14:46

1.-Pastor Maldonado: Another avoidable crash on his tally is making him the new Oliver Grouilard.
2.-Vodafone McLaren Mercedes: Anonymous all weekend, and in home turf!

Honorable mention to Vitaly Petrov's engine for giving up way before even trying

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 08 Jul 2012, 14:56

Nico Rosberg: What the bloody hell was doing? If I hadn't seen him win in China, I'dve never guessed he was a Grand Prix winner.

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 08 Jul 2012, 15:05

A few nominations here:

Nico Rosberg - Totally anonimous. Might have well retired.
McLaren - If I'd have missed the rest of the season, and you told me they dominated quali and race 1, I'd have laughed in your face.
Over-ambitous PR peoples - A London Grand Prix? Santander not down shite creek without a paddle? Rain in qualifying has put the McLarens on the second row? Yeah, right.
Bernie EcclescakeStop slating Silverstone you delusional old fool. Although, I would love F1 to go to Brands Hatch.
Vitaly Petrov's engine A truly 'LOLWUT?' moment :lol:

CoopsII · Post by **CoopsII** » 08 Jul 2012, 15:21

mediocre wrote:Nothing obviously rejectworthy happened today...Candidates are:

Jenson Button for being nowhere in the 4th race in succession.
Pastor Maldonado for learning absolutely nothing and crashing pretty much every race. Unless he wins.

Seconded.

Post by **Nuppiz** » 08 Jul 2012, 15:26

Bunsen Jetton, and McLaren's pace in general - nice home GP for you...not!
TV feed - occasionally going more off-topic than the F1Rejects forums, and at the latter stages of the race also started to go off completely every once in a while.

Henrique · Post by **Henrique** » 08 Jul 2012, 15:58

My nominations:
Pastor Maldonado - For causing another incident. I agree that he deserves a punishment.
Nico Hulkenberg - It's ok to lose a position to Senna at the end of the race. What's not ok is to try too hard to recover that position, lose two positions in the process and end up out of a points finish.
Kamui Kobayashi - My favorite driver, but that pit stop was rubbish and cost him points. I hope the hospitalized mechanics have a quick recovery.

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 08 Jul 2012, 16:17

Let's see...

TV feed - got the errors here in Hungary too, it also cut off one of the commentators' voice when it occured.
McLaren - and THEY were supposed to be the fastest early in the season?!
Rosberg - Schumacher easily had the better of him; Nico was anonymous...

Benetton · Post by **Benetton** » 08 Jul 2012, 16:34

Pastor Maldonado - What a douche of a driver he is proving to be. I'm siding completely with Perez on this one and I loved that Checo laid a verbal beatdown on Maldonado on SKY during the race. Shows that Checo has the "Alonso temper". To quote Checo Maldonado is a "stupid driver". Perez gave him lots of room and it still wasn't enough so on purpose or not Maldonado should not have collided with the Sauber. Silly silly mistake by Maldonado, if it even was one.

Lotus - While they finished both in the top six one has to wonder how much potential can be wasted during a weekend. I felt Kimi's strategy was a bit off (he should have used what Vettel used IMO) and Romain first beached it in Q and then had a unfortunate first lap incident. He could have been in contention for a race win had he started 5th or above and cleared Schumacher fast.

FullMetalJack · Post by **FullMetalJack** » 08 Jul 2012, 16:38

McLaren - Poor showing at their home race.

Dj_bereta · Post by **Dj_bereta** » 08 Jul 2012, 16:45

I change my vote for Maldonado, crashing like de cesaris.

FullMetalJack · Post by **FullMetalJack** » 08 Jul 2012, 16:51

Dj_bereta wrote:I change my vote for Maldonado, crashing like de cesaris.

Maldonado will never be the next De Cesaris.

LellaLombardi · Post by **LellaLombardi** » 08 Jul 2012, 16:52

1. Maldonado. Mr Lella turned to me and said "They should review his superlicence". I agree. Perez's move was quite do-able. In fairness to Maldonado, it was more a case of him losing the car but that doesn't change that he is a douche of a driver who is destroying the Williams name

2. Button. Needs his form back, and fast. Not a good home race for McLaren.

Post by **Londoner** » 08 Jul 2012, 17:27

For me, it has to be the TV Directors. Far, far too many replays of stuff, showing interviews when there was action on track and missing out some battles to show the leaders.

Honourable mentions:
McLaren. No pace, and the only reason Button made the points was because Hulkenberg hit the cliff on the penultimate lap.
Nico Rosberg. Very poor indeed.
Gary Anderson. Everytime I have to watch the BBC coverage, I will nominate this guy. When he was talking about tyre strategies, the way he phrased it made me think of things not suitable for a family forum. :shock:

Priceless · Post by **Priceless** » 08 Jul 2012, 17:52

3rd: McLaren Mercedes - their drop in race pace compared to their rivals is glaring. Both Hamilton and Button struggled.
2nd: Nico Rosberg - Was absolutely nowhere the whole race.
1st: Pastor Maldonado - For his crashy driving antics ONCE AGAIN. He's fast, but he's thrown away a truckload of points that, as it's Williams we're talking about, were of extreme importance.

Dishonorable mention:
Kamui Kobayashi - Not for his on-track performance which was quite OK actually, but for the pit-lane moment, which was rejectful indeed.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 08 Jul 2012, 18:03

East Londoner wrote:McLaren. No pace, and the only reason Button made the points was because Hulkenberg hit the cliff on the penultimate lap.

Hulkenberg didn't hit the cliff, he ran himself off the track trying to recover 9th.

East Londoner wrote:Gary Anderson. Everytime I have to watch the BBC coverage, I will nominate this guy. When he was talking about tyre strategies, the way he phrased it made me think of things not suitable for a family forum.

Also, what?

Post by **Londoner** » 08 Jul 2012, 18:23

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:
East Londoner wrote:Gary Anderson. Everytime I have to watch the BBC coverage, I will nominate this guy. When he was talking about tyre strategies, the way he phrased it made me think of things not suitable for a family forum.

Also, what?

When he was talking about Alonso's and Webber's tyre strategies, he said something along the lines of 'Alonso is going hard, hard, soft' and 'Webber will go soft, soft, hard'. And sadly I possess a very dirty mind at times. Carry on.

The Mobile Chicane · Post by **The Mobile Chicane** » 08 Jul 2012, 18:24

Generally speaking if you have to apologize to your team for hospitalizing some of them, you've guaranteed yourself reject of the race. It has to be Kobayashi.

Honorable Mention for the reverend who's really starting to infuriate me with his inconsistencies

DOSBoot · Post by **DOSBoot** » 08 Jul 2012, 18:29

1. Maldanado: Makes an unexusable error at Perez, costing the dude a possible solid drive.

2. McLaren: Off the pace on their home race.

Post by **mario** » 08 Jul 2012, 18:46

Phoenix wrote:My nomination:

Kamui Kobayashi

He could have made Sauber's day semi-decent by scoring a few points... and then he throws it all away at a disastrous pitbox entry. I hope none of his mechanics are injured.

According to Autosport, there were three mechanics who required medical attention, although thankfully nothing too severe - one mechanic received treatment within the garage for a bruised foot, with the other two being sent to the circuit's medical centre for treatment (a dislocated thumb for one, cuts and bruises for the other). http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/101087
Kobayashi's pit lane incident, therefore, has to rank highly - he was having a very solid race (he was in 5th when he made his stop) and points were on the board, but his error cost the team dearly (literally and figuratively with Kobayashi being fined for good measure).

McLaren, though, were quite poor today - Hamilton started out well enough, and to begin with it looked like his plan for a long first stint could have paid off, but it all went downhill from there on in, whilst Button's race was always going to be one of damage limitation once it became clear that there would not be any rain or safety cars to help him climb through the field (Silverstone has always been a difficult circuit to pass at given that most of the corners are taken flat out). About the only consolation they could take from today was that their pit stops were, mercifully, trouble free, but that is scant comfort in the circumstances.

DonTirri · Post by **DonTirri** » 08 Jul 2012, 19:07

I'll have to nominate the race director. We had WAY too much of Ramilton and Button on the screen thorough the race, especially considering that for the most part, they weren't doin jack shite.

As far as for the racing, I nominate Nico Rosberg because seriously, can you be any more anynomous?
Also an honorable mention to Alonsos race engineer. His usage of italian on the comms is BEYOND FRUSTRATING! Even the commentators in here joke about how ridiculous it is.

Barbazza · Post by **Barbazza** » 08 Jul 2012, 19:19

Kobayashi has to be my Number One, as that's another impetuous error, and there should have been points there.
Maldonado second, as it's getting a bit silly now really.
Hulkenberg third, for trying too hard to stay ahead of Senna and then getting nothing at all. Only one lost point, but could make a difference come season's end.

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 08 Jul 2012, 19:41

My ROTR is Nico Rosberg

Between China and Monaco nobody had score more points then him yet since then he has been nowhere, his championship challenge seems to have stalled completely.

my other nomination is Pastor Maldonado. The boy has pace he just likes to crash, I seem to nominate a Williams driver every race.

AndreaModa · Post by **AndreaModa** » 08 Jul 2012, 19:47

Wow I'm surprised at the amount of people moaning about the TV director focusing on the British drivers too much. If anything I felt it was pretty evenly balanced and covered well. It's hardly surprising that at each race the home drivers are focused on the greatest, so I'm not sure why people feel the need to bemoan it when it's British drivers, especially when you consider which other F1 races pull in 125,000 on the Sunday alone? If the only British driver was trundling around at the back in a Marussia I could understand the complaints, but Button, Hamilton and McLaren are big entities in F1 in their own right, and thus attract a proportionate amount of coverage wherever the location of the race.

stupot94 · Post by **stupot94** » 08 Jul 2012, 20:06

Caterham. But mainly Petrovs engine. A hopeful for a win ruined driving to the Grid.

Warren Hughes · Post by **Warren Hughes** » 08 Jul 2012, 20:16

I nominate Checo Perez for what amounted to, in my opinion, a massive whinge. There's a reason a pass around the outside is often described as 'brave', because you always take the risk that the guy inside you will miss his braking point, or carry too much speed into the corner, or get a bit understeery or sideways in the middle of the turn. You have to accept that risk when you place yourself outside another car and Checo's rant at Maldonado, while done in the heat of the moment admittedly, was disproportionate and out of order in my view.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 08 Jul 2012, 20:58

Warren Hughes wrote:I nominate Checo Perez for what amounted to, in my opinion, a massive whinge. There's a reason a pass around the outside is often described as 'brave', because you always take the risk that the guy inside you will miss his braking point, or carry too much speed into the corner, or get a bit understeery or sideways in the middle of the turn. You have to accept that risk when you place yourself outside another car and Checo's rant at Maldonado, while done in the heat of the moment admittedly, was disproportionate and out of order in my view.

Given that he gave Maldonado plenty of room on the inside, I think Perez was justified in feeling peeved that he still got wiped out by Faildonado. If he was pressuring him and giving him no room at all, I would agree with you. Frankly I'm glad Perez came about against Maldonado. It's about time somebody in the paddock did.

LellaLombardi · Post by **LellaLombardi** » 08 Jul 2012, 21:09

I agree, I think he was in the right to say something and it wasn't an angry rant, he had thought about what he wanted to say.

fjackdaw · Post by **fjackdaw** » 08 Jul 2012, 21:43

No idea why some people are nominating Perez, he did absolutely nothing wrong. Maldonada rammed into him yet again and took him out of the race, of course he's going to be peeved, it's about time people started speaking up about him.

fjackdaw · Post by **fjackdaw** » 08 Jul 2012, 21:44

JeremyMcClean wrote:
I'd nominate him too if Perez wasn't so clumsy on Maldonado... (sadly)

What?! Maldonado ran into Perez!

Pamphlet · Post by **Pamphlet** » 08 Jul 2012, 21:49

Sergio Perez - I know it sounds hypocritical of me to defend Vettel (Malaysia) and bash Perez, but that was just pathetic. Not Maldonado's fault at all. Not this time around at least.
Kamui Kobayashi - Kamikaze Kobacrashi turning on his mechanics, much?

Honorable mention: Nico Rosberg - Very weak performance all around.

fjackdaw wrote:No idea why some people are nominating Perez, he did absolutely nothing wrong. Maldonada rammed into him yet again and took him out of the race, of course he's going to be peeved, it's about time people started speaking up about him.

Racing incident. Perez was way too optimistic, Maldonado had very cold tyres and was pushed onto the kerb, where he lost control. If anything, it looked more like Perez' fault.

Warren Hughes · Post by **Warren Hughes** » 08 Jul 2012, 21:56

I'm not sure I would go so far as to say it was more Perez's fault, but he did take the risk of trying to hang it out around the outside and it didn't come off. If it had not been Maldonado, I'm fairly sure most would have been calling it as a racing incident. Actually, if roles had been reversed, I'm sure Maldonado would have been criticised for making an over-optimistic move.