Grand Prix Rejects

ryangregg12345's Predictions
2013 Malaysian Grand Prix:
1. Vettel
2. Webber
3. Alonso
4. Raikkonen
5. Perez
6. Button
7. Hamilton
8. Grosjean
9. Gutierrez
10. Hulkenberg

Pole: Vettel
Fastest lap: Vettel
First Retirement: Rosberg
ROTR: van der Garde (collides with Bottas and Maldonado, ruining Williams' chance of points)
IIDOTR: Perez (zooms up to fifth from 20th on the grid)
DBTMOTR: Massa
Minor League Premiership: Gutierrez
Non-Qualifiers: None

Rusujuur wrote:

dr-baker wrote:

UgncreativeUsergname wrote:[Wouldn't they just delay it instead of cancelling it entirely?

Until Monday morning perhaps? That would be the logical conclusion from what is being implied, but that would be unprecedented in recent decades in F1...

Running the race on Monday would be a logistical nightmare. The teams have organized transport back to home base, the marshals and other track-side personnel are not full-time employees and have to return to their day jobs, the viewers would also have to reorganize their hotels and travel itinerary etc. Maybe they would try to swim behind the safety car for a few laps and call it a race... But cost-wise I am not sure which would be more expensive - running on Monday or nut running at all.

PS: F1.com weather forecast is promising, "storm" for Sunday.

There was a 2003 CART race that got cancelled because of wildfires, IIRC. Anyone expecting situation like that?

UgncreativeUsergname wrote:

Meatwad wrote:The title [Hujan sama bendera merah] is Malay for "Rain equals red flag", courtesy of Google Translate

It translates back to English as "Same rain red flag". Silly online translators.

Which is a reason why you should never completely trust machine translators. (Oh, and in Indonesian - a language quite similar to Malay - "rain equals red flag" returns "Hujan sama dengan bendera merah" - when translated back it returns "Rain with a red flag" )

GwilymJJames' predictions
2013 Sepang Rainwear Exhibition and maybe a race,

1. Vettel
2. Massa
3. Webber
4. Raikkonen
5. Hamilton
6. Rosberg
7. Hulkenberg
8. Button
9. Grosjean
10. Perez

P: Vettel
FL: Vettel
Retirement: Alonso
ROTR: Race control
IIDOTR: Massa
DBTMOTR: Alonso
Minor League: Bottas
Non-Qualify: nil.

FantometteBR's Predictions
2013 Southeast Asian Wet Melee GP

1. Webber
2. Massa
3. Raikkonen
4. Vettel
5. Rosberg
6. Ricciardo
7. Sutil
8. Raikkonen
9. Di Resta
10. Hamilton

Pole position: Rosberg
Fastest lap: Massa
First retirement: Vergne
ROTR: Alonso (constantly spinning in the wet leads to a DNF)
IIDOTR: Ricciardo (drags Toro Rosso to a top 10)/Bottas (beats El Pastor fair and square)
DBTMOTR: Grosjean
MLP: Bottas
DNQs: None

(sorry, forgot to take it off)

^^ you may want to edit your prediction

QuickYoda41's predictions
2013 Malaysian Grand Prix

1. Alonso
2. Vettel
3. Räikkönen
4. Hülkenberg
5. Webber
6. Hamilton
7. Perez
8. Sutil
9. Rosberg
10. Button

Pole position: Vettel
Fastest lap: Sutil
First retirement: Van der Garde
ROTR: Massa
IIDOTR: Hülkenberg
DBTMOTR: Chilton
MLP: Bottas
DNQs: None

Ferrarist's predictions,
2013 Malaysian Grand Prix

1. Vettel
2. Raikkonen
3. Webber
4. Alonso
5. Hamilton
6. Massa
7. Sutil
8. Grosjean
9. di Resta
10. Button

Pole position: Vettel
Fastest lap: Vettel
First retirement: Maldonado
ROTR: Maldonado
IIDOTR: Bianchi
DBTMOTR: Gutierrez
MLP: Bianchi
DNQs: None

Hound55 wrote:^^ you may want to edit your prediction

Thanks! (just forgot to erase it... before I erase the whole entries)

2013 Alex Yoong Grand Prix

1. Vettel
2. Alonso
3. Webber
4. Raikkonen
5. Hamilton
6. Massa
7. Rosberg
8. Button
9. Perez
10. Sutil

Pole: Vettel
Fastest Lap: Hamilton
First Retirement: Van Der Garde
ROTR: Van Der Garde
IIDOTR: Marussia
DBTMOTR: Di Resta
MLP: Gutierrez
107%: None

tommykl's predictions,
2013 Literally Sunway Lagoon Grand Prix

1. Alonso
2. Raikkonen
3. Vettel
4. Webber
5. Hamilton
6. Massa
7. Button
8. Grosjean
9. Sutil
10. Hülkenberg

Pole position: Vettel
Fastest lap: Hamilton
First retirement: van der Garde
ROTR: Gutierrez
IIDOTR: Pic
DBTMOTR: Pérez
MLP: Bottas
DNQs: None

Paul's predictions,
2013 Malaysian Grand Prix:

1. Vettel
2. Raikkonen
3. Alonso
4. Hamilton
5. Massa
6. Rosberg
7. Grosjean
8. Button
9. Sutil
10. Perez

Pole position: Vettel
Fastest lap: Vettel
First retirement: Grosjean
ROTR: Di Resta
IIDOTR: Perez
DBTMOTR: Webber
MLP: Bottas
DNQs: None

1. Raikkonen
2. Hamilton
3. Massa
4. Vettel
5. Rosberg
6. Webber
7. Sutil
8. Hulkenberg
9. Grosjean
10. Di Resta

Pole: Vettel
Fastest lap: Hamilton
First retirement: Alonso
ROTR: Alonso (overdriving too much)
IIDOTR: Hulkenberg
DBTMOTR: Alonso
MLP: Gutierrez
DNQs: None

Coloni's Predictions
2013 Fairuz Fauzy Comeback Grand Prix

1. Vettel
2. Raikkonen
3. Alonso
4. Massa
5. Hamilton
6. Webber
7. Grosjean
8. Button
9.Sutil
10. Hulkenberg

Pole: Vettel
Fastest lap: Massa
First retirement: Maldonado
ROTR: Maldonado (caps a pathetic weekend with second DNF in a row)
IIDOTR: Button (the car is rubbish!)
DBTMOTR: Chilton
MLP: Bottas
DNQs: None, obviously (also VDG will do his best)

Ed24's Predictions,
2013 Who has the biggest portable gazebo? GP

1. Raikkonen
2. Alonso
3. Massa
4. Vettel
5. Webber
6. Hamilton
7. Grosjean
8. Button
9. Rosberg
10. Sutil

Pole position: Webber
Fastest lap: Raikkonen
First retirement: Van der Garde
ROTR: Di Resta
IIDOTR: Bottas
DBTMOTR: Perez
MLP: Bottas
DNQs: None

KalleVRTN's predictions
2013 Malaysian Grand Prix

1. Räikkönen
2. Grosjean
3. Webber
4. Vettel
5. Alonso
6. Sutil
7. Hamilton
8. di Resta
9. Button
10. Massa

Pole position: Vettel
Fastest lap: Vettel
First retirement: van der Garde
ROTR: Rosberg
IIDOTR: Grosjean (recovers from 8th at Turn 1 to 2nd)
DBTMOTR: Rosberg
MLP: Bottas (but still no points for the new guys)
DNQs: None

2013 Proton Ocean Race

1. Vettel
2. Sutil
3. Räikkönen
4. Alonso
5. Webber
6. Grosjean
7. Hülkenberg
8. Button
9. Rosberg
10. Bottas

Pole position: Vettel
Fastest lap: Räikkönen
First retirement: Hamilton and Massa, after Massa shows off his most excellent wet weather skills again...
ROTR: Massa
IIDOTR: Sutil (great drive in the wet)
DBTMOTR: di Resta (finishes 15th, then finds another excuse to why he was so off the pace)
MLP: Bottas
DNQs: None

Minardi Man's 2013 Malaysian gp predictions
1. Raikkonen
2. Alonso
3. Vettel
4. Rosberg
5. Webber
6. Sutil
7. Button
8. Perez
9. Hulkenburg
10. Di Resta

Pole: Raikonen
Fastest lap: Raikonen
First retirement: Maldonado
ROTR: Grosjean
IIDOTR: Sutil
DBTMOTR: Grosjean
MLP: Gutierrez
DNQs: None

DanielPT's
2013 Malaysian GP predictions:

1. Raikkonen
2. Vettel
3. Alonso
4. Webber
5. Massa
6. Hamilton
7. Rosberg
8. Sutil
9. Grosjean
10. Button

Pole: Vettel
Fastest lap: Raikkonen
First retirement: Di Resta
ROTR: Di Resta
IIDOTR: Sutil
DBTMOTR: Grosjean
MLP: Bottas
DNQs: None

Ben Purse's Predictions
2013 Malaysian Grand Prix:
1. DIRESTAWINSLOL
2. Vettel
3. Alonso
4. Raikkonen
5. Wibbah
6. DolanBerg
7. Massa
8. Button
9. Sutil
10. Bottas

Pole position: Vettel
Fastest lap: Vettel
First retirement: Maldolan
ROTR: Mclaren (another bad race)
IIDOTR: Di Resta
DBTMOTR: Bianchi
MLP: Bottas
DNQs: None

FloProAct's predictions,
2013 I Dunno, Something About Rain Grand Prix

1: Raikkonen
2: Vettel
3: Webber
4: Alonso
5: Massa
6: Rosberg
7: Grosjean
8: Di Resta
9: Hamilton
10: Sutil

Pole position: Raikkonen
Fastest lap: Webber
First retirement: Chilton
ROTR: Chilton
IIDOTR: Rosberg
DBTMOTR: Chilton
MLP: Gutierrez
DNQs: None

Tristan1117's Predictions
2013 Malaysian Grand Prix

1. Webber
2. Grosjean
3. Raikkonen
4. Vettel
5. Hamilton
6. Hulk
7. Perez
8. Sutil
9. Di Resta
10. Massa

Pole: Alonso
Fl: Wibbah
First Retirement: Pic
RoTR: Maldonado
IIDOTR: Grosjean
DBTMOTR: guitterez
MLP: Guitterez
DNQ: None

2013 Safety Car Grand Prix

0 Bernd Maylander
1 Kimi Raikkonen
2 Sebastian Vettel
3 Fernando Alonso
4 Felipe Massa
5 Romain Grosjean
6 Mark Webber
7 Lewis Hamilton
8 Nico Rosberg
9 Paul di Rezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
10 Adrian Suzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Pole: Raikkonen
Fastest lap: Vettel
First Retirement: Chilton
RoTR: van der Garde
IIDOTR: Bianchi
DBTMOTR: Chilton
MLP: I can never remember what this stands for. Jean-Eric Vergne.
DNQ: None

UgncreativeUsergname wrote:

Meatwad wrote:The title is Malay for "Rain equals red flag", courtesy of Google Translate

It translates back to English as "Same rain red flag". Silly online translators.

I would be angry at Meatwad for trusting online translators, but I know people doing so instead of actually talking to people who can speak the required language will be damned to eternally suffer in the sixth circle of hell which I find incredibly calming.

Dartanian's Predictions
2013 Malaysian Grand Prix

1. Alonso
2. Vettel
3. Raikkonen
4. Webber
5. Button
6. Massa
7. Sutil
8. Hamilton
9. Perez
10. Hulkenberg

Pole: Vettel
Fastest Lap: Alonso
First Retirement: Pic
RoTR: Grosjean
IIDOTR: Bianchi
DBTMOTR: Grosjean
MLP: Guitterez
DNQ: None

Backmarker wrote:MLP: I can never remember what this stands for. Jean-Eric Vergne.

Best rookie isn't it? So someone in their first year.
I may be wrong, I forget a lot as well, but it stands for minor league premiership.

Edit: I have too much time on my hands: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1408

Johnny Carwash's predictions,
2013 Tropical Ice Cream Race

1. Alonso
2. Raikkonen
3. Massa
4. Grosjean
5. Hamilton
6. Button
7. Perez
8. Hulkenberg
9. Webber
10. Sutil

Pole position: Vettel
Fastest lap: Alonso
First retirement: Vettel
ROTR: Van der Garde
IIDOTR: Bianchi, almost gets a point
DBTMOTR: Gutierrez
MLP: Bottas
DNQs: None

Copersucar's Predictions
2013 Malaysian Grand Prix

1. Vettel
2. Massa
3. Raikkonen
4. Webber
5. Rosberg
6. Alonso
7. Hamilton
8. Hulkenburg
9. Grosjean
10. Di Resta

Pole: Vettel
Fastest Lap: Vettel
First Retirement: van der Garde
ROTR: McLaren
IIDOTR: Hulkenburg
DBTMOTR: Gutierrez
MLP: Bianchi
DNQ: None

Klon wrote:

UgncreativeUsergname wrote:

Meatwad wrote:The title is Malay for "Rain equals red flag", courtesy of Google Translate

It translates back to English as "Same rain red flag". Silly online translators.

I would be angry at Meatwad for trusting online translators, but I know people doing so instead of actually talking to people who can speak the required language will be damned to eternally suffer in the sixth circle of hell which I find incredibly calming.

Well, actually I am aware of the problems with online translators (that's why I put the "courtesy of Google Translate" there). Blame my lack of creativity as I couldn't come up with anything clever in English. Too bad HWNSNBM doesn't know Malaysian. If he did, I would have all the papaya I want.

And just to make you happy, I will do at least one more Google translated title this season.

Pasta's Predictions
2013 Get the brollies out Grand Prix

1. Hamilton
2. Alonso
3. Raikkonen
4. Vettel
5. Rosberg
6. Grosjean
7. Massa
8. Hulkenberg
9. Button
10. di Resta

Pole: Rosberg
Fastest Lap: Raikkonen
First Retirement: Ricciardo
ROTR: Webber (Poor start from 4th, poor day ends in 12th place finish)
IIDOTR: Hamilton
DBTMOTR: Webber
MLP: Gutierrez
DNQ: van der Garde

NAM's Predictions
2013 Half-Points (?) Grand Prix

1. Alonso
2. Räikkönen
3. Massa
4. Vettel
5. Hamilton
6. Rosberg
7. Webber
8. Button
9. Sutil
10. Ricciardo

Pole: Vettel
Fastest lap: Räikkönen
First retirement: Pérez
ROTR: Grosjean
IIDOTR: Bianchi
DBTMOTR: Chilton
MLP: Gutiérrez
DNQs: None

The Misspelled Onyx's Predictions for the Melee in Malaysia Grand Prix
Now with 100% chance of Rain in Malaysia and below average temperatures in Michigan

1. Kimi Rally Raikkonen
2. Grow a Fern-ando Alonso
3. Vettel Podium LOL
4. Massa-ive Impact
5. Green Eggs and Ham-ilton
6. Spider Webber
7. Niko Bellic Rosberg
8. Press the Red Button
9. Oppa Grosjean Style
10. And Sutil-ly Last Summer

Pole position:
Fastest lap: Alonso
First retirement: Whoever is in front of van der Garde
ROTR: van Derp Garde, rain and him don't mix
IIDOTR: Bianchi, will be in front of the Williams cars.
DBTMOTR: Grosjean, for not wrecking his car and producing another mid-pack finish while Raikkonen contends
MLP: Mr. Gutierrez Gutierrez
DNQs: None

1. Raikkonen
2. Vettel
3. Alonso
4. Massa
5. Webber
6. Hamilton
7. Grosjean
8. Rosberg
9. Sutil
10. Hulkenberg

Pole: Vettel
Fastest lap: Raikkonen
First Retirement: van der Garde
ROTR: van der Garde
IIDOTR: Grosjean (manages to overcome a lack of upgrades to get into the points)
DBTMOTR: di Resta
Minor League Premiership: Gutierrez
Non-Qualifiers: None

DGs predictions
Wet, wet, wet GP 2013

1. Raikkonen
2. Alonso
3. Vettel
4. Rosberg
5. Grosjean
6. di Resta
7. Sutil
8. Button
9. Massa
10. Grosjean

Pole position: Raikkonen
Fastest lap: Raikkonen
First retirement: Webber
ROTR: Webber (tries to outbrake Vettel for the lead in turn 1 and loses it)
IIDOTR: Bianchi (Makes it into Q2)
DBTMOTR: Perez
MLP: Bianchi
DNQs: None

DG

MinardiFan's predictions
Malaysian Grand Prix

1. Alonso
2. Vettel
3. Webber
4. Raikkonen
5. Button
6. Sutil
7. Massa
8. Grosjean
9. Hulkenberg
10. Perez

Pole position: Vettel
Fastest lap: Raikkonen
First retirement: van de Garde
ROTR: Di Resta
IIDOTR: Button
DBTMOTR: di Resta
MLP: Bottas
DNQs: None

1. Raikkonen
2. Vettel
3. Alonso
4. Rosberg
5. Webber
6. Hamilton
7. Grosjean
8. Massa
9. Sutil
10. Di Resta

Pole: Vettel
Fastest lap: Raikkonen
First Retirement: Chilton
ROTR: Maldonado
IIDOTR: Rosberg
DBTMOTR: di Resta
Minor League Premiership: Bottas
Non-Qualifiers: None

RRR's predictions,
The Day After Tomorrow Grand Prix

1. Alonso
2. Hamilton
3. Raikkonen
4. Sutil
5. Vettel
6. Massa
7. Button
8. Grosjean
9. Di Resta
10. Vernge

Pole position: Vettel
Fastest lap: Massa
First retirement: Ricciardo
ROTR: Williams
IIDOTR: Bianchi
DBTMOTR: Rosberg
MLP: Gutierrez
DNQs: None

So that's two out of two races where I've correctly predicted the winner. I could get a medal for this.

Preliminary Results:
2013 Malaysian GP
1. Vettel
2. Webber
3. Hamilton
4. Rosberg
5. Massa
6. Grosjean
7. Raikkonen
8. Hulkenberg
9. Perez
10. Vergne

Pole: Vettel
Fastest Lap: Perez
First DNF: Alonso
ROTR: Red Bull, Ferrari, Hamilton, Raikkonen
IIDOTR: Bianchi
DBTMOTR: Alonso
MLP: Bottas
DNQ: None

Provisional scores, depending on who the overlord selects as DBTMOTR and MLP/

1. Benetton - 19 points
2= Wizzie - 18 points
2= Shizuka - 18 points
2= F1 Adam - 18 points
5. DeCrasheris - 17 points
6= Pablo H - 16 points
6= Takagi FTW - 16 points
6= Ryangregg12345 - 16 points
6= GwilymJJames - 16 points
6= Ferrarist - 16 points
6= Paul Hayes - 16 points
6= Copersucar - 16 points
13= Pi314159 - 15 points
13= Rachel1990 - 15 points
13= Klon - 15 points
13= RAK - 15 points
13= FullMetalJack - 15 points
18= JeremyMcClean - 14 points
18= Coloni Subaru - 14 points
18= Nuppiz - 14 points
18= Dartanian - 14 points
18= JohnnyCarwash - 14 points
23= Shadaz - 13 points
23= UgncreativeUsergname - 13 points
23= FMecha - 13 points
23= Dr Baker - 13 points
23= DJ Bereta - 13 points
23= RealRacingRoots - 13 points
29= Eurobrun - 12 points
29= The Masked Lapwing - 12 points
29= Aerond - 12 points
29= NAM - 12 points
33= Ataxia - 11 points
33= DidNotQualify - 11 points
33= Rocks With Salt - 11 points
33= TheBigJ - 11 points
33= Meatwad - 11 points
33= QuickYoda41 - 11 points
33= DanielPT - 11 points
33= Backmarker - 11 points
33= Onxy Wrecked - 11 points
33= Mario - 11 points
33= Boomstick - 11 points
44= Matt121 - 10 points
44= DOSBoot - 10 points
44= Tommykl - 10 points
44= Divina Galica - 10 points
44= MinardiFan95 - 10 points
49= East Londoner - 9 points
49= Hound55 - 9 points
49= Bleu - 9 points
49= KalleVRTN - 9 points
49= FloProAct - 9 points
49= Tristan1117 - 9 points
49= Pasta - 9 points
56= Wafflecat - 8 points
56= Daxam Stark - 8 points
56= Ed24 - 8 points
56= Minardi Man - 8 points
56= Ben Purse - 8 points
61. Fantomette BR - 7 points
62. Rusujuur - 0 points

The Overlord has deemed that Valtteri Bottas is worthy of the MLP, while teammate Pastor Maldonado walks away with DBTMOTR.