Grand Prix Rejects

My nomination goes to Button. This is his second off race in a row and he should start to pick up the pace.

Shadaza wrote: They have a fast car just two 2010 spec Vitaly Petrov's driving it.

There. Fixed.

Grosjean.. Button, and Reverend

Pastor, closely followed by GRSJN.

tzerof1 wrote:It's been about capitalising when others fall by the wayside, going as fast as possible without becoming another casualty, outsmarting the survivors left when it's pit stop time and reaping the reward. Just ask Olivier Panis about that .

I agreed wholeheartedly with your post, but I do have to say ... Panis did put on some awesome passing moves back in 1996 as well.

But anyway, to the official decision, and I really don't have to explain this one. I forgive Jenson Button because, despite the so-so qualifying and the hopeless race, it really was Bernoldi and Coulthard all over again, wasn't it? The Caterham may be the 10th best car on the grid, but I can believe that it's fast enough to keep a McLaren behind at Monaco, especially with some aggressive placement by Kovalainen who's no slouch.

So The Reverend it is, for his third ROTR in 8 races. When you add race-day daftness to two lots of FP3 daftness (not to mention screwing the races of Perez - if indeed Sergio's Q1 shunt was related to the whack he got from Pastor in FP3 - and de la Rosa who was having an excellent weekend), it adds up to a whole lot of ROTR goodness.

madmark1974 wrote:Just a thought - I've already had my say as to who I think ROTR should be, but, if Maldonado gets it, then Williams drivers will have had 3 ROTRs from 6 races (50% rate) - has anyone else
ever had a run like that? Plus if you add ROTY from the end of last year to the list it gets even worse ....

So this did happen then. Shows how much (nearly) rookie driver errors are costing the Williams team when they have the potential to do so much better.

madmark1974 wrote:So this did happen then. Shows how much (nearly) rookie driver errors are costing the Williams team when they have the potential to do so much better.

I will now proceed to delude myself into thinking Williams would lead the WDC if Barrichello were driving for them.

Klon wrote:

madmark1974 wrote:So this did happen then. Shows how much (nearly) rookie driver errors are costing the Williams team when they have the potential to do so much better.

I will now proceed to delude myself into thinking Williams would lead the WDC if Barrichello were driving for them.

That's actually proably not that far from what would actually be happeneing

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:

Klon wrote:

madmark1974 wrote:So this did happen then. Shows how much (nearly) rookie driver errors are costing the Williams team when they have the potential to do so much better.

I will now proceed to delude myself into thinking Williams would lead the WDC if Barrichello were driving for them.

That's actually proably not that far from what would actually be happeneing

According the the ROTR Leaderboard, Rubens achieved 4.56 ROTR awards from 322 race starts, so that's a ratio of 1 ROTR per 70.6 races, i.e. approx 1 per 4 seasons.
Maldonado has 3 ROTRs from 25 races, a ratio of 1 ROTR per 8.33 races ...

Although Rubens' F1 efforts pre-date the ROTR award by a few years, so there might have been a few more ROTR awards that he ~could~ have picked up (though nothing springs to mind).

Pastor, Rubens is less rejectful than you!

Klon wrote:

madmark1974 wrote:So this did happen then. Shows how much (nearly) rookie driver errors are costing the Williams team when they have the potential to do so much better.

I will now proceed to delude myself into thinking Williams would lead the WDC if Barrichello were driving for them.

Your unconditional love for Rubens makes me smile while sitting in a crappy cubicle at work. I can't help that some of that love is rubbing off on me. Go Rubens!

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:

Klon wrote:

madmark1974 wrote:So this did happen then. Shows how much (nearly) rookie driver errors are costing the Williams team when they have the potential to do so much better.

I will now proceed to delude myself into thinking Williams would lead the WDC if Barrichello were driving for them.

That's actually proably not that far from what would actually be happeneing

Give the chaps a chance...things can only get better.

TheBigJ wrote:I'm nominating Wizzie for what's looking like another shocking prediction round.

-Schumacher as reject of the race after, and I qoth, "a lacklustre qualifying".
-Grosjean as DBTMOTR.
-Kimi 1rst
-Maldonado 2nd

Having just reread the thread. I must say the joke's on you as I've won Monaco for the 2nd time in three years

I'll gladly accept RotPPR then.