Your Reject of the Year!

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 30 Sep 2010, 17:33

eagleash wrote:Dunno, I had a Honda Accord with two 3rds 2 5ths & 2 reverses once

I was a well-known fault in TVR's of old that they would sometimes engage 3rd and 5th at the same time, since those gears used the same actuator. TVR: in the forefront of quantum mechanics.

lostpin · Post by **lostpin** » 30 Sep 2010, 23:14

USF1? Nah, you can't really nominate someone that hasn't actually done anything for the outcome of the season. They didn't do anything notorious, except for not actually showing. Yet, there are certain German drivers that should be considered carefully...

coops · Post by **coops** » 01 Oct 2010, 06:59

lostpin wrote:Yet, there are certain German drivers that should be considered carefully...

Timo Glock?

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 01 Oct 2010, 08:57

coops wrote:
lostpin wrote:Yet, there are certain German drivers that should be considered carefully...

Timo Glock?

Tim O'Glock is Irish.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 01 Oct 2010, 09:33

CarlosFerreira wrote:
coops wrote:
CarlosFerreira wrote:Serious, you English is very good.

Was that intentional?

No, that was me being a poor speller, soon to incur in thehemogolin's wrath. And Wizzie, Vaya con Dios.

Damn you Calos.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 01 Oct 2010, 09:39

thehemogoblin wrote:Damn you Calos.

Was that intentional?

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 01 Oct 2010, 09:47

Wizzie wrote:
thehemogoblin wrote:Damn you Calos.

Was that intentional?

Look at what he did to my name.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 01 Oct 2010, 10:00

thehemogoblin wrote:
Wizzie wrote:
thehemogoblin wrote:Damn you Calos.

Was that intentional?

Look at what he did to my name.

You got a point there

coops · Post by **coops** » 01 Oct 2010, 10:01

Wizzie wrote:Was that intentional?

I think you'll find its spelt 'International'.

Anytime.

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 01 Oct 2010, 10:28

Jebus, is this the Year of the Poor Spelling or something?

lostpin · Post by **lostpin** » 01 Oct 2010, 12:52

CarlosFerreira wrote:
coops wrote:
lostpin wrote:Yet, there are certain German drivers that should be considered carefully...

Timo Glock?

Tim O'Glock is Irish.

Well actually... I meant Boring-Man-Heidfeld. I mean... how rejectful can it be? The most boring man in F1 history gets a drive in a team with the most boring livery... it's rejectdom written all over the place...

coops · Post by **coops** » 01 Oct 2010, 13:09

lostpin wrote:Well actually... I meant Boring-Man-Heidfeld. I mean... how rejectful can it be? The most boring man in F1 history gets a drive in a team with the most boring livery... it's rejectdom written all over the place...

Id forgotten about Heidfeld, which says it all. He'd be better off joining Kraftwerk.

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 01 Oct 2010, 15:25

coops wrote:
lostpin wrote:Well actually... I meant Boring-Man-Heidfeld. I mean... how rejectful can it be? The most boring man in F1 history gets a drive in a team with the most boring livery... it's rejectdom written all over the place...

Id forgotten about Heidfeld, which says it all. He'd be better off joining Kraftwerk.

He's got the hair, but does he pack the talent?

Jordan192 · Post by **Jordan192** » 01 Oct 2010, 15:45

redbulljack14 wrote:That could really backfire, BMW 2009 for example. Kubica could have won the 2008 championship but decided to work on 2009, which was their worst season. We were all expecting Heidfeld and Kubica to challenge for the championship in 2009 and they couldn't. So don't assume that 2011 is going to be a great year either for Mercedes. It might be, but don't assume.

Hell, it was basically the team's signature trick in the Post-Richards, Pre-Brawn period - Design dog of a car, give up on it halfway through season to focus on next year's car, repeat until Honda sell the team for a quid.

coops · Post by **coops** » 01 Oct 2010, 15:46

CarlosFerreira wrote:
coops wrote:
lostpin wrote:Well actually... I meant Boring-Man-Heidfeld. I mean... how rejectful can it be? The most boring man in F1 history gets a drive in a team with the most boring livery... it's rejectdom written all over the place...

Id forgotten about Heidfeld, which says it all. He'd be better off joining Kraftwerk.

He's got the hair, but does he pack the talent?

Ive seen Kraftwerk live and if you stuck Nick on the end with a laptop nobody would notice.

LukeB · Post by **LukeB** » 02 Oct 2010, 01:20

I find it very hard to dislike Heidfeld. I find it very hard to form an opinion about him at all in fact...

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 02 Oct 2010, 17:38

LukeB wrote:I find it very hard to dislike Heidfeld. I find it very hard to form an opinion about him at all in fact...

Well, you can at least say he's reliable...

P_Friesacher · Post by **P_Friesacher** » 03 Oct 2010, 01:19

You can also say that he certainly has a beard.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 03 Oct 2010, 20:09

P_Friesacher wrote:You can also say that he certainly has a beard.

And a lot of hair.

FullMetalJack · Post by **FullMetalJack** » 03 Oct 2010, 20:56

Phoenix wrote:
P_Friesacher wrote:You can also say that he certainly has a beard.

And a lot of hair.

And can dance. Note Massa doing the Pharaoh. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRfCCYIv3EA
As well as singing when drunk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSeKlCirw7w&feature=related

lostpin · Post by **lostpin** » 04 Oct 2010, 02:38

redbulljack14 wrote:
Phoenix wrote:
P_Friesacher wrote:You can also say that he certainly has a beard.

And a lot of hair.

And can dance. Note Massa doing the Pharaoh. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRfCCYIv3EA
As well as singing when drunk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSeKlCirw7w&feature=related

Nice try, Nick. You're still boring.

coops · Post by **coops** » 04 Oct 2010, 06:28

Phoenix wrote:
LukeB wrote:I find it very hard to dislike Heidfeld. I find it very hard to form an opinion about him at all in fact...

Well, you can at least say he's reliable...

So are washing machines.

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 04 Oct 2010, 06:33

Unconfirmed reports are coming in that Nick Heidfeld may be German.

Guzuky · Post by **Guzuky** » 05 Oct 2010, 00:41

CarlosFerreira wrote:
coops wrote:
CarlosFerreira wrote:Serious, you English is very good.

Was that intentional?

No, that was me being a poor speller, soon to incur in thehemogolin's wrath. And Wizzie, Vaya con Dios.

Ok...

RA107 · Post by **RA107** » 14 Nov 2010, 15:30

3rd - Mercedes - what a fall down for the regining world champions
2nd - Felipe Massa - almost lost 6th in WDC to Nico Rosberg in a way inferior car
1st - Vitantonio Luizzi - awful year, consistently out paced by Sutil and involved in way too many crashes.

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 14 Nov 2010, 15:36

3rd: Pedro de la Rosa was thoroughly thrashed.
2nd: Force India seemed lost in the second half of the season
1st: Toro Rosso: boring, obstructive, could never make the F-Duct work. Time to rethink, lads.

FullMetalJack · Post by **FullMetalJack** » 14 Nov 2010, 16:09

Scuderia Toro Rosso - 13 points all season is crap guys. Made their 2009 season look good.

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 14 Nov 2010, 16:12

Liuzzi. I even wrote it in my predictions before this race at Abu Dhabi!

Ferrim · Post by **Ferrim** » 14 Nov 2010, 16:19

3rd)
2nd)
1st) Liuzzi

I'll edit later to post the other two.

Henrique · Post by **Henrique** » 14 Nov 2010, 16:28

Here's my podium.

3rd - Pedro de la Rosa - not only was he outclassed by rookie Kobayashi, but he also scored in 14 races exactly as many points as substitute Heidfeld scored in... five races.

2nd - Michael Schumacher - so much was expected, and such a disappointment. Often criticized by Brundle, Eddie Jordan and many others. For 2011, Mercedes should just focus on their true first driver, Nico Rosberg, and let Schumacher support him. Future "Hang Up the Keys" award!

1st - HRT - here at F1 Rejects, many of us missed teams like Forti, Simtek and Pacific. Not anymore, because we have HRT! Barely managed to make it into the first race; not exactly polite towards Dallara, as if beggars could be choosers; brought back the most boring driver ever, Sakon Yamamoto; couldn't even bring proper wings to Italy, which was just pathetic. We'll most likely have more of the same in 2011, while Lotus will probably be competing for points.

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 14 Nov 2010, 16:34

Don't forget USF1! All other new teams managed to enter every race.

Schumacher had his first winless season.

And the most competitive season ever did not end in the smallest winning margin. :cry:

Ross Prawn · Post by **Ross Prawn** » 14 Nov 2010, 16:37

All of those, including me, who thought McClaren would implode with Jenson and Lewis this year. Mind you, if they had built a faster car we might have seen some more tension.

Vettel's pointy finger thing.

Michael Schumacher, for not justifying the hype, and for frequent dangerous driving.

resir014 · Post by **resir014** » 14 Nov 2010, 16:38

Ferrari. For cocking up in the last race

LucaPacchiarini · Post by **LucaPacchiarini** » 14 Nov 2010, 16:44

1 Vitantonio Liuzzi, for having been beaten all the year by Adrian Sutil, who as we know, is no Tazio Nuvolari.
And more importantly for being the chavviest driver in the history of motor racing.

2 Bernie Ecclestone For spending the whole year talking shite and proposing idiotic suggestions for the future of Formaula One. Time to retire?

3 Abu Dhabi Hosting the final, decisive race of the year in a deserted flat piece of land surrounded by Gundam-like architecture is not an ideal way to finish this rather-good season.

Ferrim · Post by **Ferrim** » 14 Nov 2010, 16:46

Henrique wrote:Here's my podium.

3rd - Pedro de la Rosa - not only was he outclassed by rookie Kobayashi, but he also scored in 14 races exactly as many points as substitute Heidfeld scored in... five races.

If you take into account that DLR's car let him down at Bahrain, Malaysia, China -while running 5th!- and Monaco and that he was taken out by other guys through no fault of his own at Spain, Montreal, Germany and -possibly- Great Britain, and the fact that the Sauber was a much slower car in the early part of the season, it's not that bad.

What really amazes me is that Heidfeld has managed to finish the season without changing any engine; DLR took a 10-place penalty for using a 9th engine as far back as Spa.

jackanderton · Post by **jackanderton** » 14 Nov 2010, 16:48

My list of drivers starting from least impressive to most impressive at the bottom on the balance of everything:

Senna
Yamamoto
De La Rosa
Di Grassi
Trulli
Klien
Buemi
Glock
Liuzzi
Petrov
Hulkenburg
Massa
Schumacher
Heidfeld
Alguersuari
Barrichello
Kovalainen
Chandhok
Button
Sutil
Kobayashi
Hamilton
Rosberg
Kubica
Webber
Alonso
Vettel

So, Massa and Schumacher would be my two picks.

Myrvold · Post by **Myrvold** » 14 Nov 2010, 17:01

I just wonder, what did you think Senna would manage?

jackanderton · Post by **jackanderton** » 14 Nov 2010, 17:02

To be more impressive than one of Yamamoto, Chandhok or Klien?

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 14 Nov 2010, 17:04

Myrvold wrote:I just wonder, what did you think Senna would manage?

Respect?

Ed24 · Post by **Ed24** » 14 Nov 2010, 17:12

Worst 5 drivers (in no particular order):

Liuzzi
Di Grassi
Senna
de la Rosa
Buemi

Reject of the year:

3. Xtrac

2. Toro Rosso

1. HRT - driver swaps, embarrassing mistakes, slow speed, no money, crazy team boss - all the hallmarks of a classic reject team.