Grand Prix Rejects

Also, it sounded like the announcer was narrating a large-scale terrorist attack in real-time. Jesus.

Klon wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNaifByO3Ko
Well, one of the best findings I have made on YouTube in quite a time, I think. It's a Japanese highlight reel of the last race of the 1996 Formula Nippon season in Fuji. And man, what reject names we have in here. Naoki Hattori in contention for the Championship with a certain German beloved by most and Kazuyoshi Hoshino. Also you will see a young Shinji Nakano and a young Noberto Fontana in action, along with other famous names. Mix this with insane rain and an even more insane announcer and you have gold at hands!

1. This video should be compulsory viewing for anyone wishing to get into motorsport commentary.
2. No, make that: compulsory viewing for anyone wishing to get into sports commentary of any kind.
3. This video will be part of the DVD Box Set which F1 Rejects is giving Kamui Kobayashi (see most recent podcast).
4. Clearly Taki Inoue bombed out in the Race of Rejects because he did not study this video in depth.
5. I want this commentator to make a guest appearance on the next podcast. No, make him a permanent fixture.

eytl wrote:

Klon wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNaifByO3Ko
Well, one of the best findings I have made on YouTube in quite a time, I think. It's a Japanese highlight reel of the last race of the 1996 Formula Nippon season in Fuji. And man, what reject names we have in here. Naoki Hattori in contention for the Championship with a certain German beloved by most and Kazuyoshi Hoshino. Also you will see a young Shinji Nakano and a young Noberto Fontana in action, along with other famous names. Mix this with insane rain and an even more insane announcer and you have gold at hands!

1. This video should be compulsory viewing for anyone wishing to get into motorsport commentary.
2. No, make that: compulsory viewing for anyone wishing to get into sports commentary of any kind.
3. This video will be part of the DVD Box Set which F1 Rejects is giving Kamui Kobayashi (see most recent podcast).
4. Clearly Taki Inoue bombed out in the Race of Rejects because he did not study this video in depth.
5. I want this commentator to make a guest appearance on the next podcast. No, make him a permanent fixture.

This race was like if Kazuki Nakajima had split like amoeba into 20-odd carbon-copies of himself... then created a series out of it...

If I only knew Japanese...I think I'm gonna study some lessons and then watch the video again.

Phoenix wrote:If I only knew Japanese...I think I'm gonna study some lessons and then watch the video again.

I can kind of grasp it despite having no Japanese - when his voice raises in pitch, something interesting has happened, when it is slightly calmer nothing much is going on. What I love is that he makes a pitstop sound like the end of the world.

I also think it's probably not quite as, er, gripping when you understand what he is saying

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KrTPZtOnRA&feature=related Clive James at his witty best as usual.

ADx_Wales wrote:CRRAAASSSHHHUUUUU!!!!!!!

Absolutely epic. Can we trade Legard for him?

Edit: I've changed my signature based on this vid.

whats wrong with the ledge?

ADx_Wales wrote:whats wrong with the ledge?

I'm not quite sure if he's capable of getting as excited as the Japanese guy without having a heart attack.

Thats understandable, I dare anyone to say James Allen was better and attempt to keep a straight face. I cant do it.

Not sure if anybody else posted this - but I just found this on youtube - more footage of the 97 Lola Masterpiece being driven the way it was meant to be driven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUvXU-ARfF4

tastyhouse wrote:Not sure if anybody else posted this - but I just found this on youtube - more footage of the 97 Lola Masterpiece being driven the way it was meant to be driven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUvXU-ARfF4

Wow, it actually went fast enough to break traction!!!

This link is not nessasarily about a Reject, nor is it a Racing driver, but its an actor Matthew Holness, playing a retired British racing driver on the Channel 4 show "Man-To-Man with Dean Lerner"

Look familiar?
The charachter name is one i cannot mention apparently, but it only has 1 S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBLUI6KRnw&feature=PlayList&p=6201E8B03712E538&index=0
Share and enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sihnqy7m44g
at 0.54 Andrea de Cearis tries his best to take out a couple of his mechanics.

The spin-turn to nearly take out the RAM was more entertaining IMO.

I'd like to think that was Alliot in that RAM and that after getting over the shock he thought that De Cesaris's move was actually a great blueprint for the rest of his F1 career in trying to move over on other drivers without looking properly.

Yep I agree the spin turn is better. I missed that 1st time around after laughing too hard at De Cearis's antics. On a simliar note, I quite like the incident where Martini got "manhandled" by Tambay at 2.36.

BTW that Japanese highlight reel of the last race of the 1996 Formula Nippon is quality!!! More of the same please? I watched this recently...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oNj3cLx ... re=related
Japanese commentators are just insane. What ever they are on, I would like some please. Also gotta love the Sega style arcade music when running through the grid order.

ibsey wrote:Yep I agree the spin turn is better. I missed that 1st time around after laughing too hard at De Cearis's antics. On a simliar note, I quite like the incident where Martini got "manhandled" by Tambay at 2.36.

BTW that Japanese highlight reel of the last race of the 1996 Formula Nippon is quality!!! More of the same please? I watched this recently...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oNj3cLx ... re=related
Japanese commentators are just insane. What ever they are on, I would like some please. Also gotta love the Sega style arcade music when running through the grid order.

Is that Eddie Jordan starring in the beer commercial?

Clips from 1994 always make me shudder, all the bad things that either happened or did not yet....

ADx_Wales wrote:This link is not nessasarily about a Reject, nor is it a Racing driver, but its an actor Matthew Holness, playing a retired British racing driver on the Channel 4 show "Man-To-Man with Dean Lerner"

Look familiar?
The charachter name is one i cannot mention apparently, but it only has 1 S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBLUI6KRnw&feature=PlayList&p=6201E8B03712E538&index=0
Share and enjoy.

I take it that you know about Garth Marengi's Darkplace then.

I had the dvd, one of those rare series that was good but should have been on for more than one series, I didnt even know Man to Man was the "follow on"

Having only recently seen these clips, I was pie-zing myself at the time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ9hBtG7dVg

That's more like it, although I don't know why the poster thought it was a Ferrari.

funny F1 video's youtube posting. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQGTR6qbYd0 ) Warned: the vid's music pretty is pretty dodgey.

ibsey wrote:funny F1 video's youtube posting. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQGTR6qbYd0 ) Warned: the vid's music pretty is pretty dodgey.

Did that person set out to make a bad video, or did it just happen that way?

Because that's like the Troll 2 of F1 videos.

You call that a knife?
Er, i mean You call that funny?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNrS9RHMc-I

ARE YOU HAPPY!!!

May contain swearing, but it does contain the presenter of Q.I. and the guy from House before he became Uber-famous in the states. Yes I know theyre called Fry and Laurie.

baddriving50 wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ9hBtG7dVg

That's more like it, although I don't know why the poster thought it was a Ferrari.

Perhaps he thinks all Ferraris run with engines that sound like they've been transplanted from a Citroen 2CV?

This video of Bruce McLaren explaining Mosport will help those of you who have never been to Mosport understand the elevation changes and the herculean effort that it must have taken to lug a car battery through the infield:

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

Nice video, sports cars were awesome around Mosport. Probably belongs in the youtube thread though.

watka wrote:Nice video, sports cars were awesome around Mosport. Probably belongs in the youtube thread though.

Agreed. Thanks.

Another full race footage bundle, on the original San Marino, split up into 10 minute chunks, savour before the FOM get their way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF2oMXh1HhU&feature=related

- BBC Grand Prix intro, followed by a snippet from the Dutch language feed on Eurosport (thanks Mediocre), then into the Live Sunday Grandstand feed, James Hunt and Murray Walker doing the talking, Jonathan Palmer being pit botherer, in the days when they could get away with talking over the FIA intro.

ADx_Wales wrote:followed by a snippet from German Eurosport

[smartass]It's dutch.[/smartass]

I apologise for that, forgive my lack of European differences, it was late and my ears heard German somehow :-S Moving on...

Many F1 drivers have been spotted in movies and television (Jean Alesi in Driven), or indeed had roles in cartoons (Michael Schumacher, Pixar's CARS) but they have all been trumped...

For HERE!!! is none other than JEAN LOUIS SCHLESSER, driving the 1997 Peugeot 306 in the beginning of "TAXI 2" which is the sequel to one of the best films to come out of France (only to be Americaned by Hollywood executives thinking they could do better), the french version may not have award winning values in its production, but it is where Marion Cotillard (Lilly) started out on her road to Oscar success.

In the first scene JLS is competing in some kind of rally (obv.) we are reminded of his presence at this particular event by the announcer who awaits his arrival at the finish line, "driving the #10, like zidane" (the footballer who always wore #10 for les bleus) and also credits him with "98 and 99 world rally champion" (possibly emphasising to the uneducated that "this guy's gurd"), as we flick back and forth the action that JLS provides the camera with, only then to be persued by the main charachter Daniel in his modified 406 taxi, Daniel is trying to take a couple to hospital, with the female in labour, and the 306 rally car is blocking his "shortcut"...

ADx_Wales wrote:I apologise for that, forgive my lack of European differences, it was late and my ears heard German somehow :-S Moving on...

Many F1 drivers have been spotted in movies and television (Jean Alesi in Driven), or indeed had roles in cartoons (Michael Schumacher, Pixar's CARS) but they have all been trumped...

For HERE!!! is none other than JEAN LOUIS SCHLESSER, driving the 1997 Peugeot 306 in the beginning of "TAXI 2" which is the sequel to one of the best films to come out of France (only to be Americaned by Hollywood executives thinking they could do better), the french version may not have award winning values in its production, but it is where Marion Cotillard (Lilly) started out on her road to Oscar success.

In the first scene JLS is competing in some kind of rally (obv.) we are reminded of his presence at this particular event by the announcer who awaits his arrival at the finish line, "driving the #10, like zidane" (the footballer who always wore #10 for les bleus) and also credits him with "98 and 99 world rally champion" (possibly emphasising to the uneducated that "this guy's gurd"), as we flick back and forth the action that JLS provides the camera with, only then to be persued by the main charachter Daniel in his modified 406 taxi, Daniel is trying to take a couple to hospital, with the female in labour, and the 306 rally car is blocking his "shortcut"...

Really enjoyed it! The commentator forgot to mention Schlesser was a F1 legend as well...

Well look what I've just found
The final round of the 1979 Aurora F1 championship. A bevvy of Reject drivers and teams.

Oh and this
David Purely is a superhuman. Describing to Murray Walker the accident he suffered in the LEC two years previous.
I'm suprised LEC weren't in the Reject Teams list.

ADx_Wales wrote:Well look what I've just found
The final round of the 1979 Aurora F1 championship. A bevvy of Reject drivers and teams.

Oh and this
David Purely is a superhuman. Describing to Murray Walker the accident he suffered in the LEC two years previous.
I'm suprised LEC weren't in the Reject Teams list.

Shinji will be disappointed about David Kennedy! It's interesting that they put a chicane in the middle of Woodcote. It's also interesting that Keegan was on pole, but Kennedy was clearly further up the straight than Keegan. Does anyone know who the commentator is by the way? I know he used to do the F3000 commentary on ITV.


Got a Badoer based clip to share: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prnWH9ef7Yw
Also an incident to show that Dalmas didn't always have his way in prototypes either: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46h5egy2 ... re=related

watka wrote:Got a Badoer based clip to share: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prnWH9ef7Yw

FOM read the forums.

This video contains content from Formula One Management, who has decided to block it.

How else could they have blocked it an hour after it was posted here?

The comms on the Auroroa Silverstone race is Simon Taylor, he was also pundit #2 on the first two seasons of F1 upon the ITV, he was also the man who discovered the news that Jaques Villeneuve was going to form his own team (which later turned out to be the BAR entry, ok so he was slightly wrong, but all early news is slightly wrong right?).

Also the race starts of the past have never been perfectly choreographed, not all tracks had car sensors underneath the start lines back in 1979 did they

The woodcote chicane was always there for cars after 1975, some people think that the 1973 grand prix pile up was the reason they put it there, but for the 1975 International Trophy they still used the original chicaneless layout...

It was last used in 1986, but by then the Bridge chicane was a better way to slow the cars down before the pit-lane, I have the 1989 F3 and Touring Car tapes where the woodcote chicane was still used aswell as the bridge chicane. Dont know why, but was it safer for club racing?

I Know its not F1 despite the title... but... is real?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jueSUfEBf18

Bjorn Wirdhiem...

...what...

...a...

...prat.

Monaco F3000.

Notice how the driver who beat him to the finish line got an F1 drive later that season and Wirdheim didn't...
Not that Nicolas Kiesa was any good, but that's what you get for showboating - a ruined career.