Grand Prix Rejects

It's that time of the weekend again!

So far, no-one has really made a case for themselves as Reject of the Race. Vitaly Petrov is the only one that springs to mind, but according to Renault, his crash was the result of a rear wing failure. Apparently the Russian's F-duct got stuck in the open position and he lost all downforce going into Ferradura, which you kind of need downforce for. Otherwise, Alonso's engine for not blowing up in the race, Lewis Hamilton for claiming he can catch the Red Bulls this weekend, then admitting they were untouchable in the dry, and I believe Kamui Kobayashi went off at the same place as Petrov did.

Toro Rosso - I know they've been slow all season, bar Buemi leading at Canada, but they've just looked painfully slow so far this weekend.

Michael Schumacher: His guilt was not by accident with Alguersuari itself, but after this he made a brake-test in Jaime and almost caused another collision.

Virgin's new sponser on their rear fin - utterly hideous

Just to add a little correction to Captain Hammer's post, although Kobayashi did go off at the same corner as Petrov in the first practise session, Sauber said that was due to a rear wheel failure (his left rear tyre came off the rim, pitching him into a spin).

So, although there were two crashes, neither driver could really be blamed, as their accidents have been linked to mechanical failures.

senna for being destroyed AGAIn by klien in qually 1. 7 tenths? and yet guess who is still being linked to lotus/air asia/ 1malaysia/ renault

Also... Sutil finishes 17th? In slippery conditions? The qualify's reject has to be Sutil so far.

Senna spun near the end, which would have screwed his tyres when the track and Klien was quickest. In FP3 Klien was only a tenth faster than Bruno.

Edit: @jpm

Everyone except Hulkenburg - u mad, title contenders? :hulkenburgtrollface.jpg:

Force India. 16th & 18th.

Which will become 16th and 23rd after Sutil's penalty.

Pre-nomination for whichever title contender tangles with Hulkenberg off the start - because you know it's going to happen.

Williams if they blow the race.
Force India for being less impressive than Bruno Senna...

I usually wait after the race to select my ROTR, but in this case I'll make an exception. My nomination is the judge who said he would jail Massa if he let Alonso by. Seriously, dude? Why don't you go and jail all the drivers that let faster cars by on highways?

Sutil is tempting, but so far, I'd give it to;

Brazilian drivers

All four drivers well and truly beaten by their team-mates in qualifying.

Also, the career prospects of at least 3 of them aren't looking good for next year.

GwilymJJames wrote:The pit-lane siren.

Valrys wrote:Senna spun near the end, which would have screwed his tyres when the track and Klien was quickest. In FP3 Klien was only a tenth faster than Bruno.

Edit: @jpm

Erhm, he was faster than Klien in FP3

Valrys wrote:Senna spun near the end, which would have screwed his tyres when the track and Klien was quickest. In FP3 Klien was only a tenth faster than Bruno.

Edit: @jpm

Erhm, he was faster than Klien in FP3

Force India: You know you did crap when abmysal doesn't cut the mustard.
Pre nomination for the title contender/twat that decides to take Hulkenberg out at the first corner: Fairly self explanatory really.
EDIT: Channel 10/ONE: Screw you. You made me miss the best qualifying sesson all season

Wizzie wrote:Pre nomination for the title contender/twat that decides to take Hulkenberg out at the first corner: Fairly self explanatory really.

What if the accident is his fault, just like the one in Japan?

Wizzie wrote:EDIT: Channel 10/ONE: Screw you. You made me miss the best qualifying sesson all season

What did you expect? A superb coverage from the third worst channel in Australia?

Klon wrote:

Wizzie wrote:Pre nomination for the title contender/twat that decides to take Hulkenberg out at the first corner: Fairly self explanatory really.

What if the accident is his fault, just like the one in Japan?

Then I'll become biased and still blame the championship contender simply because Hulkenberg got pole

the Masked Lapwing wrote:

Wizzie wrote:EDIT: Channel 10/ONE: Screw you. You made me miss the best qualifying sesson all season

What did you expect? A superb coverage from the third worst channel in Australia?

I wasn't expecting a superb coverage but I was expecting a coverage to being with. Instead ONE wouldn't work and Ten were showing a replay of a rugby union match

Wizzie wrote:

Klon wrote:

Wizzie wrote:Pre nomination for the title contender/twat that decides to take Hulkenberg out at the first corner: Fairly self explanatory really.

What if the accident is his fault, just like the one in Japan?

Then I'll become biased and still blame the championship contender simply because Hulkenberg got pole

That is reasonable, disregard my objection then.

Wizzie wrote:

the Masked Lapwing wrote:

Wizzie wrote:EDIT: Channel 10/ONE: Screw you. You made me miss the best qualifying sesson all season

What did you expect? A superb coverage from the third worst channel in Australia?

I wasn't expecting a superb coverage but I was expecting a coverage to being with. Instead ONE wouldn't work and Ten were showing a replay of a rugby union match

Hey hey hey hey hey, don't knock the rugby union match. I missed qualifying because I was at one.

ROTR to anyone at Williams who is still thinking of dropping Hulkenberg

Fairly self-explanatory really

Pastor Maldonado.

Force India - Slowest of the established teams in qualifying with Sutil not even making it past Q1, even though he is considered quite good in the wet.
Hulkenberg's critics - Pole position should prove them wrong.

LionZoo wrote:Pastor Maldonado.

Me, for finding out what happened in qualifying four hours after the fact via text message from my father. I thought he typoed "HAM" when he said "HUL" was P1.

Would-be Jenson Button carjackers.

Paul Hayes wrote:Would-be Jenson Button carjackers.

The whole "crime around Interlagos" thing makes me want to do a "reject of the location" for each Formula One-hosting racetrack ever.

Wizzie wrote:EDIT: Channel 10/ONE: Screw you. You made me miss the best qualifying sesson all season

Could you elaborate, did you actually have problems getting a signal for One?

Ed24 wrote:

Wizzie wrote:EDIT: Channel 10/ONE: Screw you. You made me miss the best qualifying sesson all season

Could you elaborate, did you actually have problems getting a signal for One?

For once this season yeah.

Wizzie wrote:

Ed24 wrote:

Wizzie wrote:EDIT: Channel 10/ONE: Screw you. You made me miss the best qualifying sesson all season

Could you elaborate, did you actually have problems getting a signal for One?

For once this season yeah.

Surely your RotR should be signal reception problems then, and not ONE? Ten never shows F1 live so I don't know what you expected there, and at least ONE is replaying qualifying (at 8pm).

J Washburn Stoker wrote:

Wizzie wrote:

Ed24 wrote:
Could you elaborate, did you actually have problems getting a signal for One?

For once this season yeah.

Surely your RotR should be signal reception problems then, and not ONE? Ten never shows F1 live so I don't know what you expected there, and at least ONE is replaying qualifying (at 8pm).

Well it was 3am and from previous seasons the Canadia and Brazilian Grand Prix are usually live on 10 because of the early morning start times.

...meanwhile on RugbyRejects.com people are complaining that the Wales v Australia match wasn't shown in HD.

Not that I'm trying to marginalise your complaint, by the way. It sucks you didn't get to see it. But between the two live events, I'm glad they chose to show F1 on HD and not the other way around.

I can understand the rugby fans' complaints considering F1 isn't actually in F1 anyway

Wizzie wrote:Well it was 3am and from previous seasons the Canadia and Brazilian Grand Prix are usually live on 10 because of the early morning start times.

True, but I'm fairly sure that's for the race only - I don't think Montreal qualifying was available on Ten this year.

Phoenix wrote:I usually wait after the race to select my ROTR, but in this case I'll make an exception. My nomination is the judge who said he would jail Massa if he let Alonso by. Seriously, dude? Why don't you go and jail all the drivers that let faster cars by on highways?

Because there is a statute in Brazilian law that protects the rights of spectators to see a fair and equal competition. If Massa were to let Alonso through, he would be manipulating the outcome of the race, thereby denying the spectators that right, and making him guilty of defrauding the crowd.

Captain Hammer wrote:Because there is a statute in Brazilian law that protects the rights of spectators to see a fair and equal competition. If Massa were to let Alonso through, he would be manipulating the outcome of the race, thereby denying the spectators that right, and making him guilty of defrauding the crowd.

But I believe the law states (obviously its a translation so it could be wrong) that altering the result of a sporting event is illegal.

Surely Timo Glock in Brazil 2008 was guilty of this offence, as is every driver in every race.

Also, technically speaking, the 'result' doesn't exist until the race is over anyway.