Grand Prix Rejects

It's such a shame that these videos get pulled so quickly. Having watched the French GP from 86 earlier with 3 classic reject moments I wish I could share them....

Cynon wrote:Russian Touring Car Championship

Hilarious driving antics, a race track that looks like it's made up of an abandoned airfield and a series of roads, and Ladas.

That's pretty rejectful right there.

Dan B wrote:

Cynon wrote:Russian Touring Car Championship

Hilarious driving antics, a race track that looks like it's made up of an abandoned airfield and a series of roads, and Ladas.

That's pretty rejectful right there.

Well,the race track in question is,believe it or not,sort of purpose built.The reason for all the road markings is because it is in a proving grounds facility.

I even tracked down the layout to here:http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5583467

Dan B wrote:

Cynon wrote:Russian Touring Car Championship

Hilarious driving antics, a race track that looks like it's made up of an abandoned airfield and a series of roads, and Ladas.

That's pretty rejectful right there.

I love the bit where the 2 cars end up in the ditch, particularly the bit where it looks like the driver on the left is going to give the other guy a bit of room, then thinks 'No, sod it, I'm going to drive you off the road after all'.

No truth in the rumours that the driver's name is Pastorov Maldonovsky apparently.

And we bring you back to the most amateurish mistake competition featuring Ralf Schumacher and Jean Alesi.

Wizzie wrote:And we bring you back to the most amateurish mistake competition featuring Ralf Schumacher and Jean Alesi.

Loving Alesi's quali time. I knew the car was crap but that's Life performance

eurobrun wrote:The future of Australian Motorsport.

It's Villeneuve and Arnoux all over again!

Seriously, it's not the first time I've seen a clumsy incident at Aussie Formula Ford
(apologies in advance if somebody else posted this)

eurobrun wrote:The future of Australian Motorsport.

I think this was completely intentional, in which case, it's an absolute disgrace.

As Wizzie would say, I went into the Internet and I found this.

Nuppiz wrote:Reject marshalling in 1996 Argentina.
Twice.

The second one, I think, is where the phrase "Diniz in the Oven" was coined...

JeremyMcClean wrote:The second one, I think, is where the phrase "Diniz in the Oven" was coined...

Yep. But I couldn't help but to slightly smirk at the start where the marshall slips and falls.

As a consolation for not being able to upload the Luca Badoer video from 1995, here's one from 1999 instead.

Phoenix wrote:

eurobrun wrote:The future of Australian Motorsport.

I think this was completely intentional, in which case, it's an absolute disgrace.

A case of the "red mist" coming down and getting the better of both of them - the commentator is right, it was utter lunacy for both of them to continue smashing into each other and something that I hope was dealt with firmly considering the risk they posed to each other and to the other drivers around them.

WaffleCat wrote:

Dan B wrote:

Cynon wrote:Russian Touring Car Championship

Hilarious driving antics, a race track that looks like it's made up of an abandoned airfield and a series of roads, and Ladas.

That's pretty rejectful right there.

Well,the race track in question is,believe it or not,sort of purpose built.The reason for all the road markings is because it is in a proving grounds facility.

I even tracked down the layout to here:http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5583467

We need to get this in the REECS or whatever

[quote="WeirdKerr"][quote"WaffleCat"][quote"Dan B"][quote"Cynon"]Russian Touring Car Championship[quote]
Hilarious driving antics, a race track that looks like it's made up of an abandoned airfield and a series of roads, and Ladas.

That's pretty rejectful right there.[quote]

Well,the race track in question is,believe it or not,sort of purpose built.The reason for all the road markings is because it is in a proving grounds facility.

I even tracked down the layout to here:http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5583467[quote]


We need to get this in the REECS or whatever
I wonder how many cars would survive that hairpin

This wrote:I wonder how many cars would survive that hairpin

None of the Trabants would, that's for sure.

Not about rejects per se, but a reject video. Remember when IndyCar used to put up great highlights videos on it's YouTube account?

They don't anymore!

That said, at least IndyCar do care about the fans concerning YouTube, something that F1 won't do. https://twitter.com/f1fanatic_co_uk/status/235645545266417665

East Londoner wrote:Not about rejects per se, but a reject video. Remember when IndyCar used to put up great highlights videos on it's YouTube account?

They don't anymore!

That said, at least IndyCar do care about the fans concerning YouTube, something that F1 won't do. https://twitter.com/f1fanatic_co_uk/status/235645545266417665

Jeez, that YouTube video is awful - I actually turned it off after 1 minute rather than watch the rest. Looks like the work-experience boy got a new
version of Nerovision and was randomly adding transition effects every 5 seconds ... Either that or reality is imitating 'art' and Indycar is actually
becoming more like the 'Driven' film ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt5nt7IdyPs

The red flags are out for a heavy crash with wreckage strewn across the track. You are Pastor Maldonado. Do you:

A. Slow down to a crawl
B. Stop
C. Power through full speed ahead.

Take a guess which option Pastor took.

East Londoner wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt5nt7IdyPs

The red flags are out for a heavy crash with wreckage strewn across the track. You are Pastor Maldonado. Do you:

A. Slow down to a crawl
B. Stop
C. Power through full speed ahead.

Take a guess which option Pastor took.

It's gotta be A, surely....

East Londoner wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt5nt7IdyPs

The red flags are out for a heavy crash with wreckage strewn across the track. You are Pastor Maldonado. Do you:

A. Slow down to a crawl
B. Stop
C. Power through full speed ahead.

Take a guess which option Pastor took.

Reminds me of a certain 2-time world champion, (albeit under safety car conditions rather than red flags).

It was B, wasn't it?!

dr-baker wrote:

East Londoner wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt5nt7IdyPs

The red flags are out for a heavy crash with wreckage strewn across the track. You are Pastor Maldonado. Do you:

A. Slow down to a crawl
B. Stop
C. Power through full speed ahead.

Take a guess which option Pastor took.

Reminds me of a certain 2-time world champion, (albeit under safety car conditions rather than red flags).

It was B, wasn't it?!

Well, he did come to a stop eventually

Wizzie wrote:

dr-baker wrote:

East Londoner wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt5nt7IdyPs

The red flags are out for a heavy crash with wreckage strewn across the track. You are Pastor Maldonado. Do you:

A. Slow down to a crawl
B. Stop
C. Power through full speed ahead.

Take a guess which option Pastor took.

Reminds me of a certain 2-time world champion, (albeit under safety car conditions rather than red flags).

It was B, wasn't it?!

Well, he did come to a stop eventually

That is true.

It's probably been said before, but the 1982 review commentary is hilarious!

"And Niki Lauda went past De Cesaris, leaving the Italian eith nothing to do except have his trademark crash"
"The San Marino Grand Prix was held in Imola, because their was no room for a Grand Prix in San Marino. Unless it is held on a table top with slot cars"

Possibly 10 of the funniest minutes in V8 Supercars History

Seton's reaction at 1:45 is priceless

Wizzie wrote:Possibly 10 of the funniest minutes in V8 Supercars History

Seton's reaction at 1:45 is priceless

I like the bit where Ambrose is eating his ice cream

Only at Bathurst

If you listen carefully, you can hear Ritter binning it yet again in the background

darkapprentice77 wrote:BTCC Knockhill

I saw that live on TV, complete with yet another Plato whinge. He is really my least liked BTCC driver by some margin.

Pasta, you'll appreciate this then:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ0Hq_WI ... ata_player

takagi_for_the_win wrote:

darkapprentice77 wrote:BTCC Knockhill

I saw that live on TV, complete with yet another Plato whinge. He is really my least liked BTCC driver by some margin.

Join the club. I notice that Lord Plato failed to mention the fairly important fact that he had basically brake-tested Aron Smith all the way to the corner (something he does to drivers quite regularly) and then wondered why Aron nudged him when the only other option open to him was to fly off the outside of the corner instead.

Personally, I laughed my head off, especially as TOCA seem to be doing their best to make that idiot win by constantly handicapping the Hondas at every race by making them turn the boost lower and lower.

AdrianSutil wrote:Pasta, you'll appreciate this then:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ0Hq_WI ... ata_player

Yes, Clive James is a legend

Barbazza wrote:

takagi_for_the_win wrote:

darkapprentice77 wrote:BTCC Knockhill

I saw that live on TV, complete with yet another Plato whinge. He is really my least liked BTCC driver by some margin.

Join the club. I notice that Lord Plato failed to mention the fairly important fact that he had basically brake-tested Aron Smith all the way to the corner (something he does to drivers quite regularly) and then wondered why Aron nudged him when the only other option open to him was to fly off the outside of the corner instead.

Personally, I laughed my head off, especially as TOCA seem to be doing their best to make that idiot win by constantly handicapping the Hondas at every race by making them turn the boost lower and lower.

Yeah, when Smith punted him off, Smith actually held the racing line and Plato tried chopping across him (well thats what it looked like to me). And hes also seemingly whinging about the turbo Hondas all the time, yet I don't think anybody was whinging when a certain Mr Plato had the advantage of a turbo'd Seat Leon. I really do not like him