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shinji wrote:This is a Great Day.

giraurd wrote:this is THE DAY of celebration for F1 Rejects!!


I want to congratulate the Rejects on a hard-fought qualifying performance in Spa-Francorchamps today.

A few weeks ago, no one imagined that they'd have accomplished what they did here today.
For most of this season, they were far behind, and they always knew their climb would be steep.
But in record speeds, they came out and spoke up for change. And with their chassis and their engines, they made it clear that at this moment, in this GP weekend, there is something happening in Belgium.

There is something happening when Reject drivers in Marussia and Caterham come out in Q1 to wait in the lines that stretch the Spa paddock, because they believe in what this weekend can be.

There is something happening when Rejects who are young in age and in spirit, who have never before participated in Q2 (except for GvdG) or the front running positions - turn out in numbers we've never seen, because they know in their hearts that this time must be different.

There is something happening when Reject drivers race, not just for making up the numbers, but they actually belong to the hopes they hold in common - that whether they are rich or poor, black or white, Latino or Asian, whether they hail from The Netherlands or France, U.K. or whereever, they are ready to take their teams in a fundamentally new direction. That is what's happening in F1 right now. Change is what's happening in F1.

They can be the new majority who can lead this series out of a long underdog darkness - Reject drivers, engineers and designers who are tired of the division and distraction that has clouded the grid, who know that they can disagree without being disagreeable, who understand that if they mobilize their voices to challenge the money and influence that's stood in their way, and challenge themselves to reach for something better, there's no problem they can't solve - no destiny they cannot fulfill.

Our new Reject majority lining up in the middle of the starting grid for tomorrow, can end the outrage of unaffordable, unavailable road cars in our time. They can bring WDC's and WCC's; workers and businesses, FOCA and the FIA together; and they can tell Bernie Ecclestone that while he'll get a seat at the table, he won't get to buy every chair. Not this time. Not now.

The new Reject majority can end the tax breaks for corporations that ship F1 jobs overseas and put a middle-class tax cut into the pockets of the working F1 Teams staff who deserve it.

They can stop sending our children to schools with corridors of shame and start putting them on a pathway to success by debuting earlier in gokarts and single-seaters. They can stop talking about how great gokarting teachers are and start rewarding them for their greatness. They can do this with the new Reject majority.

They can harness the ingenuity of designers and engineers; other staff and entrepreneurs to free this series from the tyranny of Ecclestone and save their F1 series from a point of no return.

They will restore their moral standing in the paddock; and they will never use Lie-Gate or Crash-Gate or any other Gates as a way to scare up fans, because it is not a tactic to win a championship, it is a challenge that should unite Formula 1 and the motorsporting world against the common threats of the twenty-first century: terrorism, nuclear weapons, climate change and poverty, genocide and disease. And Bernie Ecclestone.

All of the Rejects in this race tomorrow share these goals. All have good ideas. And all are patriots who serve their teams and the F1 series honorably.

But the reason their campaign has always been different is because it's not just about what they can do as Rejects, it's also about what you, the people who love them, can do to help them and give them support. 'Round the clock support.

That's why tonight, this Saturday belongs to them. It belongs to the organizers and the volunteers and the staff at Marussia and Caterham who believed in their improbable journey and rallied so many others to join.

They know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in their way, nothing can withstand the power of millions of voices calling for change.

They have been told they cannot do this by a chorus of cynics who will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come before the season is over. They've been asked to pause for a reality check. They've been warned against offering the people of this forum false hope.

But in the unlikely story that is F1 Rejects, there has never been anything false about hope. For when the Rejects have faced down impossible odds, when they've been told that they're not ready, or that they shouldn't try, or that they can't, tens and tens of F1 Rejects forumites have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit:

Yes they can.

It was a creed carved into the asphalt at the infield of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway post-2000 race by Gaston Mazzacane:

'Yes we can.'

It was whispered by Lavaggi and Deletraz as they blazed a trail toward WC points for future Rejects, through the darkests of F1 seasons:

'Yes we can.'

It was sung by Americans on the 20th of june 2004 in the stands at Indianapolis as they celebrated the point scored by Zso....HWNSNBM.

'Yes they can.'

It was the call of workers at Arrows in 2002, nearing the folding of the team:

'Yes we can.'

'Yes they can', to leaving the back of the grid and scoring points. Yes they can to opportunity and prosperity. Yes they can heal the F1 series.
Yes they can repair the corrupt paddock. Yes they can.

And so tomorrow, as they take to the circuit at Spa-Francorchamps.
As we learn that the struggles of Max Chilton in his MR02, is not so different than the plight of Yuji Ide in his SA05,
that the hopes of Tarso Marques in his PS01 are the same as the dreams of Ricardo Rosset in his 026.


We here in the forum must remember that there is something happening in F1 at the moment, that the Rejects are not as divided as the grid normally would suggest. That we are one people, we are one forum. Just like the Rejects on the grid tomorrow.

And together, we will begin the next great chapter in Formula 1's story, with three words that will ring from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea, from race track to race track and paddock to paddock:

Yes. We. Can.
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And this is why I want to get to the bottom of what happened on the HWNSNBM forum while I was gone for a couple of days.

Who is, or was, the mysterious "Jocke2" asking "why did you ban me?" And what happened on that "end of the line for the forums" post that was deleted before I had a chance to see what led to its deletion?

Because, for a minute, I thought Jocke1 had been the one to cop the ban, had been forced into a grovelling apology, and been reinstated. And I couldn't get my head round that. Why would someone who regularly comes up with posts this inventive have a sudden blowout and get thrown off only to be told "you can only come back if you promise you'll keep it civil, now and for ever"?

That didn't make sense. It didn't make even the slightest shred of sense. It makes even less sense now, having dug a further hole at the bottom of the well of the absence of sense.

So who was banned, who was, or is Jocke2, and is Alexander Wurz behind all this?
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dinizintheoven wrote:And this is why I want to get to the bottom of what happened on the HWNSNBM forum while I was gone for a couple of days.

Who is, or was, the mysterious "Jocke2" asking "why did you ban me?" And what happened on that "end of the line for the forums" post that was deleted before I had a chance to see what led to its deletion?

Because, for a minute, I thought Jocke1 had been the one to cop the ban, had been forced into a grovelling apology, and been reinstated. And I couldn't get my head round that. Why would someone who regularly comes up with posts this inventive have a sudden blowout and get thrown off only to be told "you can only come back if you promise you'll keep it civil, now and for ever"?

That didn't make sense. It didn't make even the slightest shred of sense. It makes even less sense now, having dug a further hole at the bottom of the well of the absence of sense.

So who was banned, who was, or is Jocke2, and is Alexander Wurz behind all this?


:lol:

Listen, I have absolutely no idea who it was that created the "Jocke2" profile. Must have been little Joey Zyla. He created a profile while you were gone named jzyla_f1 or something similar to that. And I wrote "oh no, he's back!"
Then a mod deleted that zyla profile, and the next morning when I visited the forum before leaving for work, I see someone posting with the newly created username "Jocke2".
It pushed a button and I got aggravated lol, so I wrote "change your f**king username". Short and simple.
Maybe that's just the reaction this "Jocke2" character wanted out of me?
But I was never banned.

And as far as Wurz being involved in this, I don't think so.
The latest on him is that he's busy plotting a scheme in his bunker on Socotra.
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That was a great post.

Inb4 van ger Garde, Chilton and Bianchi collide on Lap 1
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I feel sorry for Pic :(
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watka wrote:I feel sorry for Pic :(

Me too. He has become GvdG's b****.
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andrew2209 wrote:That was a great post.

Inb4 van ger Garde, Chilton and Bianchi collide on Lap 1

I think that most of us are thinking "Please don't screw up" and also hoping that those who would normally be in the midfield pack that are behind them don't pile into the back of them either. The one downside of being where they are is that the chances of being caught in a major first corner accident are fairly high - far up enough to have most of the grid around you, not far back enough to be able to easily react to mistakes and crashes ahead of you.
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A special signature has been readied for this event! Fingers, toes, and everything in between will be crossed in about an hour.
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Ataxia wrote:A special signature has been readied for this event! Fingers, toes, and everything in between will be crossed in about an hour.

Our favourite sons did not disappoint us on Sunday.

A solid 16th place for Giedo van der Garde.
A solid 18th place for Jules Bianchi.
A solid 19th place for Max Chilton.
And a solid 22nd place for Charles Pic.

Where they take it from here, who knows. But we do know that they are all getting closer and closer to their first points of the season.

Sadly, there are forces currently working against the Reject drivers prosperity and points hunting.
The Rejects, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. they enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, thereby those important events of the past usually associated with back-of-the-grid-teams or the end of some awful dominant season by front-runners, a celebration of a nice underdog moment, I thought we could mark this Belgian GP Q1 session, a day where the Rejects stood up, but is sadly and quickly already beginning to be forgotten about, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. Spread the word. First with your family, then friends and co-workers. It will soon become viral, trust me.

There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones at the FIA HQ, and men with guns will soon be on their way.
Sorry, Jamie. But they don't obey you or Enoch anymore ;)
Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this F1 series, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice towards our rejects, intolerance and oppression against Marussia and Caterham. And where once they had the freedom to object, to think and speak as they saw fit, they now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing their conformity and soliciting their submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others (***cough cough*** Bernie Ecclestone), and he will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

Bernie, FIA, FOCA. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense as a fan. Fear got the best of the team Bosses, and in their panic they turned to the now high chancellor, Jean Todt. He promised them order, he promised them peace, and all he demanded in return was their silent, obedient consent. More than ten years ago a great driver wished to embed something forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. His name was Luca Badoer and he participated in the European GP at the Nurburgring in 1999. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of the FIA remain unknown to you then I would suggest you allow that race to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me, Jocke1, one year from last Sunday, next years Belgian GP, outside the gates of La Source, and together we shall give them a Luca Badoer-reminder that shall never, ever be forgot.
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Great post. :)
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I have recently returned from Guernsey, and when I was there, I came across the Todt Organisation (or Organisation Todt in Euro-speak) while in an underground hospital there. Not exactly an organization I would like to be associated with...
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Would this be at the Guernsey War Tunnels? I remember seeing the similar exhibit on the other island...
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dr-baker wrote:I have recently returned from Guernsey, and when I was there, I came across the Todt Organisation (or Organisation Todt in Euro-speak) while in an underground hospital there. Not exactly an organization I would like to be associated with...

I swear you stalk me. You've been to Uni in the town where I live and you've now gone to the place I'm from... :P
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dinizintheoven wrote:Would this be at the Guernsey War Tunnels? I remember seeing the similar exhibit on the other island...

The Underground German Military Hospital. First time I've been somewhere that is strongly associated with the Nazis exclusively. Not many exhibits, but fascinating nonetheless. It did not have a sense of being a therapeutic place to recover, but in wartime... But to have slave-labour dig a hospital out of rock over a 3 1/2 year period is horrendous. Another reason to be thankful the Nazis lost.

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dr-baker wrote:I have recently returned from Guernsey, and when I was there, I came across the Todt Organisation (or Organisation Todt in Euro-speak) while in an underground hospital there. Not exactly an organization I would like to be associated with...

I swear you stalk me. You've been to Uni in the town where I live and you've now gone to the place I'm from... :P

Kingston, right? I studied French there, so I also spent a year at uni in Avignon, and am now in Uxbridge studying again, so strictly I have three uni towns!

And it is a novelty to have one-pound notes - Guernsey one-pound notes are fancier and more intricately designed than the Jersey, Manx and Scottish one-pound notes, aren't they? Not going to say which my favourite pound-notes are , though!
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dr-baker wrote:
dinizintheoven wrote:Would this be at the Guernsey War Tunnels? I remember seeing the similar exhibit on the other island...

The Underground German Military Hospital. First time I've been somewhere that is strongly associated with the Nazis exclusively. Not many exhibits, but fascinating nonetheless. It did not have a sense of being a therapeutic place to recover, but in wartime... But to have slave-labour dig a hospital out of rock over a 3 1/2 year period is horrendous. Another reason to be thankful the Nazis lost.

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dr-baker wrote:I have recently returned from Guernsey, and when I was there, I came across the Todt Organisation (or Organisation Todt in Euro-speak) while in an underground hospital there. Not exactly an organization I would like to be associated with...

I swear you stalk me. You've been to Uni in the town where I live and you've now gone to the place I'm from... :P

Kingston, right? I studied French there, so I also spent a year at uni in Avignon, and am now in Uxbridge studying again, so strictly I have three uni towns!

And it is a novelty to have one-pound notes - Guernsey one-pound notes are fancier and more intricately designed than the Jersey, Manx and Scottish one-pound notes, aren't they? Not going to say which my favourite pound-notes are , though!

Yeah Kingston, and I do quite agree, the Guernsey notes are rather beautiful. For me the scottish notes are rather... they look to much like monopoly money :p
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PT8475 wrote:Yeah Kingston, and I do quite agree, the Guernsey notes are rather beautiful. For me the scottish notes are rather... they look to much like monopoly money :p

That's what someone on Guernsey said about Jersey banknotes... And that's what I think about Euro banknotes!
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Monza Reject Power Drivers Preview
...watch them...


Max Chilton, Marussia
2012 Monza Qualifying - n/a, 2012 Monza Race - n/a
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I'm Max Chilton! Yeah! Monza GP battleizer! Activate Q2 mode! Complete! Yeah!
Now we're talking! Give it all you got! Yaaaaaa !!! Take that! Awesome!! Italy!



Giedo van der Garde, Caterham
2012 Monza Qualifying - n/a, 2012 Monza Race - n/a
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Ik ben Giedo van der Garde! Yeah! Monza missie te beginnen!
Volledige aanval! Ik zal voor je vechten! Ooooh yeah !!!

(I'm Giedo van der Garde! Yeah! Monza mission, begin!
Full attack! I will fight for you! Oh yeah!
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Charles Pic, Caterham
2012 Monza Qualifying - 21st, 2012 Monza Race - 16th
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Je suis Charles Pic! GP d'Italie! Yeah!
Vous allez me craindre! Et je vais marquer un point! Impressionnant! Je suis grand!
Activer! Ouais!

(I'm Charles Pic! Italy GP! Yeah!
You will fear me! And I will score a point! Awesome! I am great!
Activate! Yeah!
)


Jules Bianchi, Marussia
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Je suis Jules Bianchi! Totalement bonne! Réalisation énorme aura lieu à Monza dimanche! Regardez-moi! Ouais! Très bien!
(I'm Jules Bianchi! Totally good! Enormous achievement will occur at Monza on Sunday! Watch me! Yeah! All right!)
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Jocke, I love you.
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Love it!
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I may nominate that for Post of the Year. Brilliant :lol:
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apple2009 wrote:Jocke, I love you.

watka wrote:Love it!

go_Rubens wrote:I may nominate that for Post of the Year. Brilliant

:lol:


I was inspired by this:
http://youtu.be/dB_6o4h6GIs?t=8s :oops:
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Somewhere within this white area, our four heroes just had a conversation moments ago, around a campfire Image probably, and here is the transcript from Ted Kravitz who was there with them: https://twitter.com/tedkravitz
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Giedo, you haven't gotten a 5th place, plus any other top-6 result, or three or more 6th places. Do you feel like you're always going to be a Reject?


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Reject? Well, now let me see. You know, I don't have any idea what that means anymore.


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Well, it means that you aren't one if you finish well a couple of times...


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I know what you think it means, sonny. To me it's just a made up word. An Australian word, so fellas like Jamie & Enoch have something to talk about, and have a forum. What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for not finishing well?


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Well, are you?


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There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm here at Caterham, or because people think I shouldn't be. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who couldn't handle oversteer or change tyres on his 'kart, or win a single race in Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup. I want to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone and this twenty-eight year old F1 driver is all that's left. I got to live with that. Reject? It's just a bull$hit word. So you go on and race for Marussia, Jules, if that is your real name, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a $hit.


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Guys, guys. Look at us. Squabbling. Bickering. Like children. What's happening to us? We never used to be like this.


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Yes we did.


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Yeah he's right, Max. We've always been like this.


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Yes, I know. But that's just exactly my point. Nothing ever changes, nothing ever happens to us.


[silence]


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...................Max, in less than three days, we will once again join up on the track in Suzuka. And we will be launching the largest Reject battle in the history of F1. Rejects, hmph. That word should have new meaning for all of us come Sunday.
We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore.
We must be united in our common interests.
Perhaps its fate that the four of us got contracts for this season, and it's true that we will once again have to fight for our freedom, our Reject freedom. Rejects shouldn't be oppressed, or persecuted. Right?


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Amen to that.


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We're fighting for our right to live, to exist. In the paddock.
And should we score points in Suzuka, all of us, the 2013 season will no longer be known as a season with a lot of Rejects, but as the season when the Rejects declared in one voice:
We will not go quietly into the night!
We will not vanish without a fight!
We're going to live on!
We're going to survive!


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Well put, Charles. Didn't know you were so emotional about all this.


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Jeez, don't be so melodramatic there, french dude!


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Hey!


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I was talking to Charles. Jeez!


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Sorry.



[more silence]


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.............You know, I am happy to be with you guys. I cherish these moments. The race on Sunday will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for Reject freedom in the history of our series.

Nineteen years ago, a great Japanese, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, raced at Suzuka. This momentous decree came as a great beacon of light and hope to millions of Rejects who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their rejectdom. His name was Taki Inoue. He raced in the 1994 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka. And if he hadn't collided on lap 3, he could have finished 14th that day.


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Really, 14th?


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But nineteen years later, the Reject still is not free. Nineteen years later, the life of the Reject is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. Nineteen years later, the Reject lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. Nineteen years later, the Reject is still languished in the corners of Bernie Ecclestone's so called "Formula 1", and finds himself an exile in his own team. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition...


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Talent, are you gonna be long? I have an appointment with our Caterham simulator. Gonna drive a couple hundred times through the esses, yup. Damn straight!


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................................I lost my train of thought..........oh yeah, in a sense we're coming to Suzuka to cash a check. When the architects of the FIA wrote the magnificent words of the 2013 FIA Rulebook, they were signing a promissory note to which every Reject was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all drivers -- yes, drivers, not just front-runners -- would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of qualifying, blue flags, and the pursuit of points.

It is obvious today that F1 has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her drivers of colored cars are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, F1 has given the Rejects a bad check, a check that has come back marked "insufficient funds."

But I refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. I refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this series. And so I will go to Suzuka to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and security of justice. I will also go to that hallowed spot to remind F1 of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy in the paddock. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation in F1 to the sunlit path of Reject justice. Now is the time to lift our series from the quicksands of Reject injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of F1's drivers.



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Max cool it, all right? You always do this, babbling on and on and never getting to the end. We have briefings to go to, don't you know that?


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But I haven't finished.


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Yes, you have!



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References to The Young Ones and Shawshank, amongst others? I APPROVE.
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Post of the Year gets more competitive! 8-)
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What, with himself?
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watka wrote:What, with himself?


dinizintheoven is in contention too, a few of his posts made me laugh hard, man. Check his prediction in the 2013 Predictions Thread (somewhere in the Paul Stoddart forum).
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go_Rubens wrote:
watka wrote:What, with himself?


dinizintheoven is in contention too, a few of his posts made me laugh hard, man. Check his prediction in the 2013 Predictions Thread (somewhere in the Paul Stoddart forum).


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FullMetalJack wrote:That post from dinizintheoven will NEVER, EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Looks like we've got a Moonbase Alpha player over here.
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FullMetalJack wrote:
go_Rubens wrote:
watka wrote:What, with himself?


dinizintheoven is in contention too, a few of his posts made me laugh hard, man. Check his prediction in the 2013 Predictions Thread (somewhere in the Paul Stoddart forum).


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Weirdly, I've completely forgotten it. Now I'm going to have to dig up the thread and have a look!

Good to see I'm not the only one who noticed the Young Ones reference - probably because I watched the whole series recently. To anyone who's not reached university yet and may well do, your assignment is to do the same. Watch this series, start to finish, and remember: NEVER, E(repeat*1000)VERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR become one of them. Especially Rik.
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DOSBoot wrote:
FullMetalJack wrote:That post from dinizintheoven will NEVER, EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Looks like we've got a Moonbase Alpha player over here.


Nope, a Chris Jericho fan.

dinizintheoven wrote:Good to see I'm not the only one who noticed the Young Ones reference - probably because I watched the whole series recently. To anyone who's not reached university yet and may well do, your assignment is to do the same. Watch this series, start to finish, and remember: NEVER, E(repeat*1000)VERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR become one of them. Especially Rik.


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go_Rubens wrote:
watka wrote:What, with himself?


dinizintheoven is in contention too, a few of his posts made me laugh hard, man. Check his prediction in the 2013 Predictions Thread (somewhere in the Paul Stoddart forum).

AND LOOK!! Here it is!!!
dinizintheoven wrote:Doomsday predictions:

Sebastian Vettel wins the first six races of the year, all from pole, with his usual method of pulling out a second-plus gap in the first two laps and then soaring off into the distance. No other driver makes the podium more than twice, including no appearances at all for Mark Webber. Then, finally, at Montreal, he gets his chance. Webber takes pole while Perfect Seb has a less-than-perfect qualifying, starting 11th after a surprise drop-out in Q2. By now even the other drivers are sick of the sight of him on the top step of the podium, and do everything possible to block his path towards the front, knowing that if he does, it'll soon be game over for all of them. But luck again smiles on Perfect Seb and he claws his way back to second with two laps to go - a minute behind Webber. And then the call comes over the Aussie's radio in a Teutonic accent:
"Mark, you vill let Sebastian pass for ze championship!"
The reply comes back to the pits:
"Bathplug off, you flaming gollah!"

Mark Webber wins his first race of the year. It's Red Bull's seventh out of seven, but nobody cares - the Vettel streak has been broken. On the podium, Seb looks like he's lost a 500-euro note and found a Zimbabwe dollar, and Red Bull do not even bother to send a member of the team to collect the constructors' trophy. They use the BBC F1 Forum afterwards to tell Webber, live on air (or at least the red button) that he is immediately sacked, and soon afterwards they promote Jean-Eric Vergne to Webber's former seat as an obedient lackey who will do anything they say, completely forgetting to put anyone in the other Toro Rosso seat, which of course has nothing to do with the fact than an Australian driver is still employed there. Toro Rosso are disqualified from the championship.

Meanwhile, tragedy strikes; on the same weekend, Marcel Fässler is involved in a massive road accident and breaks both his legs. There is no way at all he will recover in time to drive the #1 Audi at Le Mans. Help is at hand for Audi Sport Team Joest, though, as a driver with Le Mans experience has very suddenly been made available. The all-new Lotterer/Tréluyer/Webber combination blitzes the field, in a performance that leaves even Tom Kristensen speechless, and the abrasive Aussie uses his victory speech as a platform to publicly tear Helmut Marko to pieces.

The F1 season, meanwhile, progresses in much the same way as 2004, except that Vettel won't even hand wins to Vergne after he's run away with the championship, because it says so in Vergne's contract. Vergne is so fed up by the end of the year gets his revenge (on everyone else) by taking out half the field at Interlagos on the first lap in a massive pile-up, producing a similar race to that in 2012. Timo Glock passes Giedo van der Garde on the last lap for a point. Guess how many points this leaves Marussia and Caterham with in the final scores - and don't forget, this is for ninth place after Toro Rosso were disqualified. This convinces Mercedes to supply Marussia with engines for 2014 after Cosworth pull out.

Valtteri Bottas unrejectifies himself with a fifth and a sixth before the midpoint of the season, and eurobrun spends the rest of the year with the Finn's face at the side of every post he makes. Consolation for the Adelaide youngster comes via winning the Predicament Predictions championship, though it is the middle of 2015 before all the points are added up.

Paul di Resta scores no points at all, signs for Caterham in 2014 and proclaims himself the 2014 World Champion. Mike Gascoyne punches him in the face.

Bernard Charles Ecclestone proposes new races round the streets of Jerusalem, as well as a purpose-built circuit in the Central African Republic, and one through the rainforests of Indonesia. Of course, rubbish races such as Monza, Silverstone and Spa will have to be canned to make way for these new ventures which cannot possibly fail. He also demands a new team enters F1 in 2014 to make up for the loss of HRT, selects DAMS from a list of two applicants (the other one was from a Chinese consortium that had pots of cash but no idea how to build a racing team, so this decision may have actually been a good one), and then loudly and publicly denounces DAMS for being useless and uncompetitive before they've even built their first attempt at an F1 car since 1995, and it's a total farce that F1 hasn't cut down to eight teams running three cars each. DAMS go on to beat Caterham and the reinstated Toro Rosso in 2014 and Bernie still won't shut up.

Utterly despondent at the way the season progressed earlier, Jamie and Enoch take until the mid-season break to make a new podcast, and call it the Auslaychibahspanimonacanabritagergarian edition, which earns them an award from the Oxford English Dictionary for the most unpronounceable word ever. Meanwhile, the UK branch of the F1 Rejects forum organises an unofficial podcast for September to celebrate Murray Walker's 90th birthday.

Kamui Kobayashi, Jaime Alguersuari, Jérôme d'Ambrosio and Tonio Liuzzi all sign up to compete in Formula E in 2014. Also, Jacques Villeneuve, who's trying to use Formula E as a way to get a drive in F1. But we don't talk about that.

Don Pentecost says that his CLEAN ENERGY SOLUTION which will RID 'MERICUH OF THE NEED FOR MIDDLE LEAST OIL will finance his NEW 'MERICAN FORMULA 1 TEAM which will WIN ITS FIRST RACE AND ITS FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP with DON PENTECOST driving because DON PENTECOST is a TRUE 'MERICAN WORKING-CLASS BLUE-COLLAR HERO who will be looked up to by MILLIONS OF 'MERICANS and also his team is powered by JESUS. Some rich Arabs with more money than sense think he's serious, possibly due to a dodgy translation of his rantings into Arabic, and offer him a starting budget of ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS. He tells them to GO AWAY because they're ARABS and not 'MERICAN and not FROM THE LAND OF JESUS (one of them has a mansion in Bethlehem). Some rich Chinese with more money than sense... run away, after he meets them wielding a shotgun because they are COMMIES and not 'MERICAN. Updates appear every day on forcef1usa.com loudly denouncing the fact that NOBODY WANTS TO GIVE HIM ANY MONEY and it's not fair because he's a TRUE 'MERICAN WORKING CLASS HERO.

Alex Wurz finds the Alex Wurz Conspiracy Thread and is sent into a deep psychological trauma. Antonio Pizzonia is quite amused.

Alice Powell wins a race in GP3. Carmen Jordá doesn't.

Lewis Hamilton launches his own brand of aftershave. It iz a well good idea, innit, because Braun (da big boss man) makes shavers and when you iz shaved you splash me scent on yo' face an' it iz well bling bling an' da honeyz says you iz well fly. At least that's what the advert says. Word for word. Due to the extra attention from da honeyz, Nicole is not amused. They break up, get back together, break up, get back together, break up, and get back together all in the space of three weeks.

Kimi Räikkönen launches his own brand of vodka. The advert consists of him looking at the camera and saying "This is my vodka. It is very good. Drink it."

Taki Inoue's Twitter feed is revealed to have been faked. It is actually the work of Sakon Yamamoto.

Jarno Trulli complains about the power steering on all the tractors in his vineyard, seeing as he has a lot more time to dedicate to it now.

Nico Rosberg grows a huge moustache, just like his dad, in the hope that it might make him win again.

Rrrrrmmmnnn Grrrrjjjjnnn changes his name by deed poll to "Rrrrrmmmnnn Grrrrjjjjnnn".

Pastor Maldonado finally gets the last of his braces removed. Max Chilton gets some put on.

A driver who has been involved with F1 in the last decade publicly announces that he is gay. There is polite applause. The driver in question then reveals that the ultimate object of his affections is... Ukyo Katayama.

Heikki Kovalainen gives up racing, moves to a log cabin in Lapland and writes the bleakest, most despair-inducing sequel to The Moomins. It is based on his 2012 season with Caterham. No, really: three of the Hattifatteners commit suicide on the first page. That's how horrible it is.

Craig Pollock reveals the 2014-spec PURE engine to the world, and that the stories of PURE going bankrupt were all a ruse to throw the major manufacturers off the scent. Dyno tests reveal it is the most powerful F1-legal engine. No teams take it on.

And finally: Eddie Jordan contracts a rare and mysterious throat infection that causes him to lose his voice every weekend.

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Nope, a Chris Jericho fan.


Oh. Been so long since I heard him say that, I didn't get the reference. :?
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Yes, 2013 is long behind us now. And what a year it was.
Since the start of our counting it took two thousand and twelve long years until we got to experience the splendor that was 2013.
Sadly, Mr. Van der Garde is no more ... a Grand Prix race driver. Baritone-voiced Mr. Pic has had to pack up his race property post-haste,
and leave for Lotus.

The 2014 season is almost one third complete at this point. Herr Ericsson has arrived on the scene. Sensei Kobayashi has once again been given the green light in the green car.
It feels special does it not? It is like the wind knows about the growing anticipation that is gathering in North America every passing minute until we reach the start of the Canadian Grand Prix.

I certainly think that this will not be just another run-of-the-mill race. It can't be.
The conditions are just too perfect for us to witness failure.

I contacted some dear friends of mine, eleven to be exact, their aliases are Lord Markett,
Wayne Wayne Wayne jr., John Joey Joe Joe Junior Gunnarson, Jonas Cobbledickson,
Brownie Loser, Kyler Maverick, Gertrude Americus, Casanova Tigerlily, Villiam Venom,
Mowgli and President Haagenti. We sometimes jokingly refer to ourselves as the twelve apostles.

We had a meeting about what we could do before the seventh round of the season, how we could honor the four drivers at the back of the grid,
Kamui Kobayashi, Max Chilton, Jules Bianchi and Marcus Ericsson.

We have already done other things of note, like starting up the 'VAWG movement' in January (Violence Against Women and Girls - a year to make a difference).
We did 'Orange the World in 16 Days' back in late 2012.
We are the creators of the 'International Tea Day', the 'International Tiger Day' and the 'International Hop On One Foot for 77 Minutes, But Only If You Feel Like It Day'.

These are not necessarily Formula One-related issues, so on the Monday post-Monaco GP we set our sights on the four drivers in question.
What could we do?

Villiam suggested we break into the largest zoo in the world, steal four of their dolphins and teach them to sing the four national anthems of each respective driver.
This idea did not go down well with the majority of the gang, and Brownie even put forward we ought to exclude Villiam from the fellowship.
Wayne Wayne Wayne jr. proposed we should wait for Bernie Ecclestone to arrive at his London flat and hit him in the face, while Gertrude would steal his watch.
But apparently this has already been done by others.

So I nominated we all travel to the U.S. of A.
South Dakota to be exact, and Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
My idea was we would sandblast off the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln;
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and replace them with perfect photograph-like sculptures of Marcus Ericsson, Max Chilton, Jules Bianchi and Kamui Kobayashi. And it would have to really look like them, too, we would settle for nothing but exact photographic copies of their faces, carved in excellent detail into the granite rock.

Mount Rushmore attracts nearly three million people annually, so everyone agreed with me that this activist mission was a fair one.
We went on four different planes on four separate dates, so as to not attract any unnecessary attention from authorites.
I flew with Mowgli, President Haagenti and Casanova Tigerlily on June 1st. Wayne Wayne Wayne jr and Brownie Loser arrived seven hours later, Jonas and Lord Markett came on the 2nd and the rest were scheduled for the 3rd but a blizzard prevented them from getting off the ground and so they were forced to wait until the 4th.

When the troupe was assembled again we started hiking on long, winding roads with all our equipment (we couldn't afford vehicles really).
Sandblasters, hammers, TNT, carving tools and very small picks, along with food and tents and other essential things, until eventually reaching road 244 right next to the mountain.

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Here are two photographs of the morning reconnaissance mission I went on, to stake out the location and plan out our next step.

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On the day we started, which was last night June 7th, we waited until sunset which was around 8:30 pm. All the tourists had gone and we had only to sedate three guards until we could set up shop.

We couldn't have asked for better working conditions, we had all clear skies, chance of rain or precip were zero percent, the wind came from the west at 0.5-1 mph, humidity was good, UV index low, pressure 29.98 in, and we had a good visibility of about 7.2 mi.

Since all our blueprints had been finished long before the misson and we had each spent between 50-150 hours in stone-carving simulators, work began immediately.
And it went very well.

Villiam had some trouble with his safety line at one point while creating the hairs of Chilton and Ericsson, but since we carried extras of everything that problem proved to be short-lived.

Villiam had to dig deep into his talent pool, however, in order to get their hairs right. You need a sensitive touch with these things.
At 11 pm we took a well deserved break and had a lovely dinner on top of Jules Bianchi's head. What a view!
You could almost see Suzuka from there.

If you are wondering what we ate, eleven of us had freshly made Nargesi, which is an Iranian Spinach Omelette.
Made with fried onions, spinach and spiced with salt, garlic, and pepper.
With a coke to wash it down, it's quite tasty.

John Joey Joe Joe Junior, being the one who always has to have things differently, ate Spanakopita with Tzatziki, which is a sort of Greek spinach pie with yogurt, cucumber and garlic.

In the silence of the darkness we continued working on the faces, when all others in South Dakota were fast asleep.
It was like we were working inside a dream who called to our spirit.
Far beyond the sun, the only thing across the western sky was the full moon, Orion's belt to the left of the mountain and all the other stars which shined for us.
We reached into the blackness and found a silver line.

In one voice we whispered, "two spotlights in the night will carry all our dreams on special beams of light."
A falling star was lighting our construction site at one time, and it was like it was there in the sky to be the road to all our dreams.
And for Marcus, Kamui, Jules and Max, too.

We obviously could not take a picture in daylight after we were finished since we had to pack up and leave before dawn.
But I'm sure CNN, BBC and all the other news outlets will report on this very soon when it is discovered what we have done.
As is our plan, of course. We want it to be news. In order to spread the word.

You, however, are the exclusive first to see our splendid work.

This photo was taken a few minutes before we departed, at 3:43 am;
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And if you don't hear anything about this before tonight, be sure that the reason for it is because the American government is probably busy covering it up.
Making it an unofficial 'Rushmore-Gate'. Killing anyone and everyone who has knowledge of the event.
But we also have videos that will spread the net and become viral in a matter of hours from now.

The faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln used to represent the founding fathers in a way, and I think it is a beautiful thought to have the Caterham and Marussia drivers now instead represent the new era of Formula One racing.

Their faces will stand the test of time. Or until the authorities find out what we have done last night, at least.
And yes, we are sorry for the Danish-American sculptor Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum, for sandblasting off their work. But we feel this is a better way to go forward in 2014 and beyond.

South Dakota historian Doane Robinson is credited with conceiving the idea of carving the likenesses of famous people into the Black Hills region of South Dakota in order to promote tourism in the region, but it was I who thought of the Marussia and Caterham drivers. :twisted:

Perhaps we should grace more mountains with the faces of ex-Reject F1 drivers.
Hell, we could fit all of them, and then some, onto Mount Everest!
Perry McCarthy on the very beginning of the base of Everest, since he didn't make it very far in real F1 life, and Luca Badoer at the very top!
Since Luca made it the farthest of all without scoring a point.

It is Mount Rushmore no longer. It is now Mount Rejectmore.
It will become an iconic symbol of Reject and not-so-Reject-but-at-least-Japanese drivers,
it will appear in works of fiction, it will be discussed throughout worldwide politics and depicted in art galleries & museeum's.

That is, only if the goverment chooses to accept it, and not go all black-ops with this.

We noticed the flora and fauna of the new Mount Rejectmore are similar to those of the rest of the Black Hills region of South Dakota.
Birds including the turkey vulture, bald eagle, hawk, and meadowlark flew around Mount Rejectmore when we were there, occasionally making nesting spots in the ledges of the mountain. We saw smaller birds, including songbirds, nuthatches, and woodpeckers, inhabit the surrounding pine forests.

We noticed terrestrial mammals like the mouse, least chipmunk, red squirrel, skunk, porcupine, raccoon, beaver, badger, coyote, bighorn sheep, bobcat, elk, mule deer, yellow-bellied marmot, and American bison.

The striped chorus frog, western chorus frog, and northern leopard frog also inhabited the area. In addition, we saw several species of snakes inhabit the region.
Grizzly Bear Brook and Starling Basin Brook, the two streams in the memorial, apparently support fish such as the longnose dace and the brook trout.
Mountain goats are not indigenous to the area but can also apparently be found here. They are descended from goats which were a gift from Canada to Custer State Park in 1924 but later escaped, according to Mowgli.

The race starts in just about 5 hours, can't wait for the FIA to hear about this.
Perhaps they'll even abort the race altogether? By order from the U.S. government. We'll see..
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