Grand Prix Rejects

2012 Tour de France: Davide Vigano for causing a very big crash by doing some stuff in his bag on a descent at around 70 km an hour.
2011 Tour de France: French tv car-driver (for hitting two riders in the escape group)
2010 Tour de France: Andy Schleck's chain.
2009 Tour de France: Kenny van Hummel (Climbing like a brick)
2008 Tour de France: Team Saunier Duval
2007 Tour de France: Vinokourov & Kashechkin (using each others bloodsack)/ Michael Rasmussen
2006 Tour de France: cycling in general with all these doping scandals.

I forti sopravivono wrote:2012 Tour de France: Davide Vigano for causing a very big crash by doing some stuff in his bag on a descent at around 70 km an hour.
2011 Tour de France: French tv car-driver (for hitting two riders in the escape group)
2010 Tour de France: Andy Schleck's chain.
2009 Tour de France: Kenny van Hummel (Climbing like a brick)
2008 Tour de France: Team Saunier Duval
2007 Tour de France: Vinokourov & Kashechkin (using each others bloodsack)/ Michael Rasmussen
2006 Tour de France: cycling in general with all these doping scandals.

With the TDF, It si pretty much a safe bet to give IIDOTR to Voeckler every time

2012 Federated Auto Parts 400 (Richmond): Juan Pablo Montoya for cutting down Clint Bowyer's tire, forcing Bowyer to pit and refuel one last time, and Bowyer ran a fuel conservation strategy to win the race.
2008 Aaron's 312 (Talladega): Kevin Lepage for entering the track in front of the leaders after exiting the pits.

eurobrun wrote:

I forti sopravivono wrote:2012 Tour de France: Davide Vigano for causing a very big crash by doing some stuff in his bag on a descent at around 70 km an hour.
2011 Tour de France: French tv car-driver (for hitting two riders in the escape group)
2010 Tour de France: Andy Schleck's chain.
2009 Tour de France: Kenny van Hummel (Climbing like a brick)
2008 Tour de France: Team Saunier Duval
2007 Tour de France: Vinokourov & Kashechkin (using each others bloodsack)/ Michael Rasmussen
2006 Tour de France: cycling in general with all these doping scandals.

With the TDF, It si pretty much a safe bet to give IIDOTR to Voeckler every time

Indeed

But 2006 it was Oscar Pereiro, crazy plot-twist that was

Thinking some earlier Tours which I remember watching

2001 Spectators @ 2:03
2002 Jakob Piil - dropped his foot from the pedal while starting to sprint for stage win
2003 Joseba Beloki - crashed badly when he seemed on his best, effectively ending his career
2004 Cipollini and Petacchi - no stage wins for two Italian sprinters, both packed up early
2005 First TT by so-called challengers for Armstrong - everyone was minute or so behind in 19 km?

1992 Indianapolis 500: Not Roberto Guerrero (although a close contender), but everyone who has crashed in that race. I mean, by the 102nd lap, they had an equal amount of green and yellow laps! Dishonourable mention goes to the Mears/Crawford/Fittipaldi (Although the latter crashed out on his own) crash.

Ferrarist wrote:1992 Indianapolis 500: Not Roberto Guerrero (although a close contender), but everyone that has crashed in this race. I mean, by the 102nd lap, they had an equal amount of green and yellow laps! Dishonourable mention goes to the Mears/Crawford/Fittipaldi (Although the latter crashed out on his own) crash.

The biggest reject was Tom Sneva who DNF'd for the 8th consecutive time after his win in 1983 and didn't make it past lap 11.

2003 F3000 Round of Monaco: Björn Wirdheim for this.
He won the championship anyway, but this is just a severe brain fade

Pointrox wrote:2003 F3000 Round of Monaco: Björn Wirdheim for this.
He won the championship anyway, but this is just a severe brain fade

And ironically, the driver that overtakes him is Kiesa, who did make it into F1, only to become one of the drivers the people cared the least about in history.

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Pointrox wrote:2003 F3000 Round of Monaco: Björn Wirdheim for this.
He won the championship anyway, but this is just a severe brain fade

And ironically, the driver that overtakes him is Kiesa, who did make it into F1, only to become one of the drivers the people cared the least about in history.

I believe this loss of victory cost Wirdheim dearly. Now he's in Super GT, I think.

1995 Indianapolis 500 - Team Penske: They brought out five separate cars for Little Al and Emmo... and not one of them got them into the field.

Wizzie wrote:1995 Indianapolis 500 - Team Penske: They brought out five separate cars for Little Al and Emmo... and not one of them got them into the field.

Then CART and Indy Car split and the Al in Little Al stood more for alcoholic than for Alfred and by the time Penske returned to Indianapolis, Helio Castroneves and Gil de Ferran were the drivers.

Wizzie wrote:1995 Indianapolis 500 - Team Penske: They brought out five separate cars for Little Al and Emmo... and not one of them got them into the field.

As Onyx has pointed out, the ROTR with the most severe personal consequences.

2006 Bathurst 1000 - Holden Racing Team: They had the car to beat all weekend at the hands of Tander and Skaife... and both cars were planted heavily against the barrier within the first hour of the race.

1982 Indianapolis 500 - Kevin Cogan

darkapprentice77 wrote:1982 Indianapolis 500 - Kevin Cogan

He also was ROTR in 1986 for a botched restart costing him the Indy 500 win with three laps to go which could have redeemed all the bad from the 1982 race although Poncho Carter and Scott Brayton with their Buick engines failing both by lap 20 was very rejectful. However, the GM stock block engines of the 1980s and 90s were mostly rejectful right from Mike Mosley's 1981 Indy 500 where the Chevy's cooling system expired only 5 laps into the race until the Buick disappeared after the 1996 season.

1999 World Superbike Championship Germany Round 1 - The Race Marshals: For this farce.

2012 24 Hours of Le Mans: Either Kazuki Nakajima for ramming the DeltaWing off the track or the Judd engines for ruining Pescarolo's race.

pi314159 wrote:2012 24 Hours of Le Mans: Either Kazuki Nakajima for ramming the DeltaWing off the track or the Judd engines for ruining Pescarolo's race.

Unpopular opinion: I was actually quite pleased when Nakajima rammed the DeltaWing off the track.

pasta_maldonado wrote:Unpopular opinion: I was actually quite pleased when Nakajima rammed the DeltaWing off the track.

Why?...

darkapprentice77 wrote:

pasta_maldonado wrote:Unpopular opinion: I was actually quite pleased when Nakajima rammed the DeltaWing off the track.

Why?...

He's secretly homophobic?

Stramala [kostas22] wrote:

darkapprentice77 wrote:

pasta_maldonado wrote:Unpopular opinion: I was actually quite pleased when Nakajima rammed the DeltaWing off the track.

Why?...

He's secretly homophobic?

Errrr......no

I don't like the DeltaWing. It's an interesting concept, but not something I'd like to see a lot of people adopting

2013 Dakar - Qatar Red Bull: Despite being competitve out of the box, both cars suffer engine problems that takes both contenders Carlos Sainz, and Nasser Al-Attia out of the race.

Onxy Wrecked wrote:

Ferrarist wrote:1992 Indianapolis 500: Not Roberto Guerrero (although a close contender), but everyone that has crashed in this race. I mean, by the 102nd lap, they had an equal amount of green and yellow laps! Dishonourable mention goes to the Mears/Crawford/Fittipaldi (Although the latter crashed out on his own) crash.

The biggest reject was Tom Sneva who DNF'd for the 8th consecutive time after his win in 1983 and didn't make it past lap 11.

Uh. How about the entire rookie class barring St. James (who drove very well) and Ted Prappas (ditto)?


1991 Indy 500 - Coogin'
1993 Indy 500 - Gary Bettenhausen
1994 Indy 500 - Dennis Vitolo
1995 Indy 500 - Scott Goodyear
1996 Indy 500 - Everything.
1997 Indy 500 - Either USAC or Steve Kinser
1998 Indy 500 - The Cheever Doubters
2001 Indy 500 - Scott Sharp
2002 Indy 500 - The Officials

2005 Indy 500 - Todd Harris
2006 Indy 500 - Rusty Wallace (as much as that PAINS me to say that)
2007 Indy 500 - Marco Andretti
2008 Indy 500 - ...
2009 Indy 500 - ...I know one of these two was the race where Mario Moraes caused a really stupid wreck on lap 1.
2010 Indy 500 - Fuel Mileage Gamblers
2011 Indy 500 - J.R. Hildebrand

Let's go through the entire 2012 IndyCar ROTRs...

St. Pete - Lotus
Barber - Anyone who underestimated Seabass!
Long Beach - Bourdais
Sao Paolo - ...don't remember this race too well ATM...
Indy - Lotus
Belle Isle - The track
Texas - Graham Rahal
Milwaukee - Dario Franchitti
Iowa - Dario Franchitti's Engine (it blew up on the grid -- and he was on pole)
Toronto - Mike Conway
Edmonton - Charlie Kimball
Mid Ohio - E.J. Viso (one for lack of pace rather than anything else)
Sonoma - Rahal Letterman Racing (Gridded 26th, out on lap 2!)
Baltimore - Ed Carpenter
Fontana - Will Power

Every BTCC race since 2010 - Andy Neate

darkapprentice77 wrote:Every BTCC race since 2009 - Andy Neate

Neate wasn't even racing in BTCC until 2010. I would say that the Twitter troll Chris James might deserve a couple as well

eurobrun wrote:

darkapprentice77 wrote:Every BTCC race since 2009 - Andy Neate

Neate wasn't even racing in BTCC until 2010. I would say that the Twitter troll Chris James might deserve a couple as well

As does Jason Plato.

1999 24 Hours of Le Mans: Mercedes-Benz. That is all.

eurobrun wrote:

darkapprentice77 wrote:Every BTCC race since 2009 - Andy Neate

Neate wasn't even racing in BTCC until 2010. I would say that the Twitter troll Chris James might deserve a couple as well

He had been actually. I remember he drove a ex-VXR Vauxhall Astra Coupe in 2005 for Team Nuts (how apt) before David Pinkney took their sponsorship to Motorbase. He was rubbish back then too.

Also, he was about to sign for WSR in 2009 but his Britcar accident meant he had to withdraw.

1998 British Rally - Sainz's Toyota's Engine: Blew up less than half a mile to the finish. Depriving Carlos of a 3rd drivers chamionship.

2013 Daytona 500:

1. Joe Gibbs Racing: Having two engines blown within a couple of laps is pretty bad.
2. Tony Stewart: Seemingly anonymous race, which was followed by retirement in the first half of the race.
3. FOX: I know commercial TV runs on...well, commercials, but FOX's coverage was really like: commercial-short update-commercial. And DW's boggity-thingy really sound ridiculous.

Ferrarist wrote:2013 Daytona 500:

1. Joe Gibbs Racing: Having two engines blown within a couple of laps is pretty bad.
2. Tony Stewart: Seemingly anonymous race, which was followed by retirement in the first half of the race.
3. FOX: I know commercial TV runs on...well, commercials, but FOX's coverage was really like: commercial-short update-commercial. And DW's boggity-thingy really sound ridiculous.

1. TRD, the engine of Martin Truex Jr. failed shortly afterwards with the same issue. Yes, TRD makes the Joe Gibbs Engines.

Onxy Wrecked wrote:1. TRD, the engine of Martin Truex Jr. failed shortly afterwards with the same issue. Yes, TRD makes the Joe Gibbs Engines.

You're right. Still, pretty embarrassing for TRD.

Ferrarist wrote:2013 Daytona 500:

1. Joe Gibbs Racing: Having two engines blown within a couple of laps is pretty bad.
2. Tony Stewart: Seemingly anonymous race, which was followed by retirement in the first half of the race.
3. FOX: I know commercial TV runs on...well, commercials, but FOX's coverage was really like: commercial-short update-commercial. And DW's boggity-thingy really sound ridiculous.

I'd give the #1 spot to "Danicamainia". Even when that major accident occured, they were metioning her way to often.

2000 Queensland 500 - Stone Brothers Racing - HRT may have checkmated the entire field out of the equation by lap 110, but SBR deserve special mention by pitting the Pirtek car just as the SC came in for the final time, while they did a driver change in the Havoline car during the SC WITHOUT checking whether Besnard had done enough laps or not

Reject of the Race for 2012 Indy 500 is Takuma Sato. Over aggression leads to crashing while fighting for the lead on the last lap.

Hey, Barrichello finished 11th. An F1 veteran better than Sato.

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:

As does Jason Plato.[/quote]

1972 Indy 500: Jerry Grant for overshooting his pit area and taking fuel from Bobby Unser's fuel supply making USAC not count laps Grant ran after lap 188.
Dishonorable Mentions: Wally Dallenbach's pit crew... how do you get 3 pit fires in one race is beyond me.

WTCC Monza 2013 - Aleksei Dudukalo for smashing into his team-mate James Thompson's car so badly that both Ladas were withdrawn from the race weekend and led to him being fired from the team.

GP3 Monaco 2012 - Dmitry Suranovich for causing Conor Daly's horrific crash and getting him penalized for the next race.