Grand Prix Rejects

Qualifying's finished and this thread hasn't been opened up yet. So far there's only one real candidate and his name is Pastor Maldonado

Naming an early candidate in the form of Ross Brawn, for getting showed up by Michael this weekend.

On-track: Pastor Maldonado and Jenson Button
Off-track: LG - the timing was all over the place for part of Q1.

Wizzie wrote:Qualifying's finished and this thread hasn't been opened up yet. So far there's only one real candidate and his name is Pastor Maldonado

True - up until he lost his head in FP3 he was looking like a definite top 10 candidate, and potentially top six, but now he starts in 19th place and with a rather black mark against his name. He'll be lucky to score points from that far back on the grid, whereas if he'd kept his cool and not rammed Perez he might well have had a chance of a decent amount of points, if not a podium, given both his and Williams's recent form. Mind you, Button wasn't exactly covering himself in plaudits either - just like in Spain, he looked reasonably quick and happy in practise but just faded away as time wore on.

Jenson 'Massive Understeer' Button - Just watching him lately is infuriating. You want to grab him by the scruff of the neck and scream "Just put your foot down for bathplug's sake!".

Pastor Maldonado - Even I can miss the inside of a corner/brick wall.

The tunnel exit - It's a thinly disguised ramp. Change it before someone has an acci......before even more people have accidents there.

I'm nominating Wizzie for what's looking like another shocking prediction round.

-Schumacher as reject of the race after, and I qoth, "a lacklustre qualifying".
-Grosjean as DBTMOTR.
-Kimi 1rst
-Maldonado 2nd

Button is back to his usual self, and it's a pity. I enjoyed to see a driver who I genuinely believe is slightly less talented, beating the Alonsos and Hamiltons of the field with the use of brains. But that relied on him driving at his best ever, which he's no longer doing.

I'm gonna nominate Michael Schumacher for driving like a tool in Spain, so much so that his first pole position since 2006 is effectively rendered null and void by his penalty.

Didn't see the Perez/Maldonado incident (I was watching qualifying in Chapefields in Norwich ), so I can't pass much comment on it until I've seen it. Button deserves a mention as well.

Jenson Button so far. Two races in a row outside of Q3.

Pastor Maldonado for throwing away a good qualifying result

Jenson Button for another clumsy qualifying session.

So many early nominations...I thought it was called Reject of the Race for a reason...

BaconLettuceNinja wrote:So many early nominations...I thought it was called Reject of the Race for a reason...

Changing my nomination to BaconLettuceNinja.

Pamphlet wrote:

BaconLettuceNinja wrote:So many early nominations...I thought it was called Reject of the Race for a reason...

Changing my nomination to BaconLettuceNinja.

He has a point, y'know!

dr-baker wrote:

Pamphlet wrote:

BaconLettuceNinja wrote:So many early nominations...I thought it was called Reject of the Race for a reason...

Changing my nomination to BaconLettuceNinja.

He has a point, y'know!

Don't make me change my nomination to you, Baker!

BaconLettuceNinja wrote:So many early nominations...I thought it was called Reject of the Race for a reason...

East Londoner wrote:

dr-baker wrote:

Pamphlet wrote:Changing my nomination to BaconLettuceNinja.

He has a point, y'know!

Don't make me change my nomination to you, Baker!

Go ahead, make my day!

dr-baker wrote:

Pamphlet wrote:

BaconLettuceNinja wrote:So many early nominations...I thought it was called Reject of the Race for a reason...

Changing my nomination to BaconLettuceNinja.

He has a point, y'know!

Michael Schumacher, Monaco 2006 and Formula Elaborate Bluff, Silverstone 2009. Your argument is rendered null and void

Kamui Kobayashi, for hitting the one part of the circuit that nobody has ever hit before (even Martin Brundle was impressed).

Captain Hammer wrote:Kamui Kobayashi, for hitting the one part of the circuit that nobody has ever hit before (even Martin Brundle was impressed).

Wut. He should get IIDotR by sheer virtue of escaping unscathed from that!

Captain Hammer wrote:Kamui Kobayashi, for hitting the one part of the circuit that nobody has ever hit before (even Martin Brundle was impressed).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP56NpNxdn0

Granted, I don't think it was quite as absent-minded an incident as Kamui's, but that barrier is definitely grazed.

And there's the collision at the start of today's GP2 race, but I think that was after qualifying: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCte8-m-Xqg

BaconLettuceNinja wrote:So many early nominations...I thought it was called Reject of the Race for a reason...

They certainly are premature, although given the relative importance of qualifying and improving your track position in Monaco, wrecking your weekend as early as Maldonado has and in such stupid ways certainly puts you right up there even before the race begins.

mario wrote:

BaconLettuceNinja wrote:So many early nominations...I thought it was called Reject of the Race for a reason...

They certainly are premature, although given the relative importance of qualifying and improving your track position in Monaco, wrecking your weekend as early as Maldonado has and in such stupid ways certainly puts you right up there even before the race begins.

I know, but someone might end up in the harbour or do something inherently stupid...you never know.

BaconLettuceNinja wrote:

mario wrote:

BaconLettuceNinja wrote:So many early nominations...I thought it was called Reject of the Race for a reason...

They certainly are premature, although given the relative importance of qualifying and improving your track position in Monaco, wrecking your weekend as early as Maldonado has and in such stupid ways certainly puts you right up there even before the race begins.

I know, but someone might end up in the harbour or do something inherently stupid...you never know.

But what Maldonado did WAS inherently stupid

1 lap in all I'll call it now.

Maldonado: from Hero to Zero to minus 1000000000000

Dishonourable mentions:
Button Getting stuck behind Kovalainen of all people
Vergne Coming back from the back to points... then bathplugged it all up with inters.
Grosjean Channeling his inner Schumi and try to take out Schumi.

I know it's only Lap 1, but Pastor Maldonado is the clear frontrunner after he just drove into De La Rosa at Ste Devote!

Barring something really out of the ordinary, it has to be Maldonado unfortunately.

Jenson Button or Pastor Maldonado.

Most obvious candidates thus far;

Pastor Maldonado
Jenson Button
Kimi Raikkonen's strategist

ROTR: The Monaco Grand Prix.

Bollocks to tradition....it's pants.

(1992 was fun but that's about it)

Ubik wrote:ROTR: The Monaco Grand Prix.

Bollocks to tradition....it's pants.

(1992 was fun but that's about it)

1982! 1996!!

kostas22 wrote:

Ubik wrote:ROTR: The Monaco Grand Prix.

Bollocks to tradition....it's pants.

(1992 was fun but that's about it)

1982! 1996!!

Even if I accept your dates it still means only 3 decent races in 30 bloody years!!

kostas22 wrote:

Ubik wrote:ROTR: The Monaco Grand Prix.

Bollocks to tradition....it's pants.

(1992 was fun but that's about it)

1982! 1996!! 2008!

Fixed

Heikki Kovalainen -- Driving like Schumacher for 13th place.
Jenson Button -- Is it really him or is McLewis back in effect?
Pastor Maldonado -- Hit everything but the safety car this weekend...

Jean-Eric Vergne for blowing a career-best finish thanks to a gamble that was never going to cut it. I mean rain was predicted ever since lap 30 and none of it happened.

The Monaco Grand Prix - *snooze*. If it had been ANY other race, even plugging Abu Dhabi, we would've had a great fight at the end, but nooooo, we need to maintain tradition and cater to the stupid celebrities! REMOVE IT FROM THE CALENDAR ALREADY

Double mention, as not even Jenson deserves to be compared to the complete idiocy that was this race.

Honorable mentions: Romain Grosjean, Pastor Maldonado, Heikki Kovalainen, Jenson Button

Torro Rosso : just thrown away a 7th place finish.
Jenson Button : struggling with a Caterham.
Lotus : Grosjean screwing up. Poor strategy for Raikkonnen.
Maldonado : A weekend that was an abject disaster for him.

Why Kovaleinen?

Pastor Maldonado.
From hero to absolute zero, what a load of bull this weekend!

Jenson Button.
With these performances, you will not be a champion in 2012.

Pastor Maldonado for somehow thinking that he was going banger racing.

Monaco Grand Prix. Bring back unreliable engines!

Jenson Button for being slower than an electric Lada with a Donkey on the roof pulling a caravan with 15 people in it. Driving on ice.

Toro Rosso for quite simply the most stupid strategy call I've ever seen

Maldonado - Maybe Monaco isn't his best track after all...
Toro Rosso Strategists - Vergne was on a good strategy - until he came in for the inters. Ricciardo, on the other hand, stayed out WAY too long, and retired anyway.

But the winner: Jenson Button - Spent the entire race behind Kovalainen, almost caught by very average Toro Rosso and Sauber drivers. Then we add qualifying and another DNF to that...


Actually, preemptive nomination to anyone who protests Red Bull's floor now, after they've had it since Bahrain.