Grand Prix Rejects

Just a quick one - our 2009 Season Review is now up! Enoch has done a great job (in my opinion) as site author on this and it's fitting that we put it up on his birthday! (Jan 2nd).

So please join me in wishing eytl a Happy Birthday, and join me in flaming him with your disagreements about the rankings awarded, opinions displayed, and analysis proffered in our 2009 Season Review!

http://www.f1rejects.com/centrale/2009/ ... index.html

Happy Birthday Enoch!!!

Another excellent review of the year Enoch, happy birthday!*

*Breithlá shona duit.

I liked it. Very comprehensive and well written although Piquet deserved a zero.

Concise and comprehensive, something hard to achieve. Thank you. I would argue, however, how much of an error KERS was, and what could have been done to make it work.

Great review, I enjoyed reading it, I knew Nelson Piquet Jr. was going to get ROTY. The rankings were also quite accurate as I agree with the ROTY podium, although I would have swapped Bourdais and Nakajima around. Can't wait for the 2010 season preview, keep up the good work.

Nice work and happy birthday Enoch! (Another year older, another year wiser!)

Well written and I agree with most of it, although I would have put Sutil higher up and Alonso lower down.

Happy birthday Enoch!

The two of you seem to have birthdays in close succession, which I think is interesting because it happens in my family a lot. XD

watka wrote:Nice work and happy birthday Enoch! (Another year older, another year wiser!)

And another year closer to that all important retirement! Happy birthday to our Senior Grand Prix Analyst.

I'd agree with the rankings. I would have put Kovalainen further down but as was written, he did drive decently in the early season to merit his ranking.

Thank you very much for the season review. It was great to read.

Also, happy belated birthday to etyl and let's hope for many happy returns

A Belated Happy Birthday!

The season review is good. Certainly, there was nowhere where I was going "I disagree"

I don't think this post really fits here, but I didn't think it was important enough to merit a thread of its own. When thinking up statistics about the last decade that has just finished, it occurred to me that it's been the first and as of yet only decade without fatal accidents in F1. There were a couple near misses (Burti 2001, Massa 2009) which were horrible. Let's hope for another fatal accident-less decade.

Waris wrote:I don't think this post really fits here, but I didn't think it was important enough to merit a thread of its own. When thinking up statistics about the last decade that has just finished, it occurred to me that it's been the first and as of yet only decade without fatal accidents in F1. There were a couple near misses (Burti 2001, Massa 2009) which were horrible. Let's hope for another fatal accident-less decade.

We may have had drivers survive, I'm sure 2 or more marshalls have suffered the "law of averages", people who are just as important in an F1 race.

The last fatality in Formula 1 was at the 2001 Australian GP. Hopefully it will stay this way for a long time to come.

FloProAct wrote:The last fatality in Formula 1 was at the 2001 Australian GP. Hopefully it will stay this way for a long time to come.

Here here.

Though I'm sure people have died at F1 races since then, I can't imagine they haven't.

Someone has to have had a heart attack or something.

But obviously that's got nothing to do with the sport, would have happened anyway probably.

shinji wrote:

FloProAct wrote:The last fatality in Formula 1 was at the 2001 Australian GP. Hopefully it will stay this way for a long time to come.

Here here.

Though I'm sure people have died at F1 races since then, I can't imagine they haven't.

Someone has to have had a heart attack or something.

But obviously that's got nothing to do with the sport, would have happened anyway probably.

Perhaps someone died of Trulli Train Indigestion...

Will you all join me in celebrating the fact that F1 has become much more safe for drivers, marshals and public alike - and that these days it is very nearlt only possible to be bored to death. A great legacy of the Mosley time on the FIA, I'd reckon.

CarlosFerreira wrote:Will you all join me in celebrating the fact that F1 has become much more safe for drivers, marshals and public alike - and that these days it is very nearlt only possible to be bored to death. A great legacy of the Mosley time on the FIA, I'd reckon.

Absolutely! Just about the only good thing Mosley seemed to do in F1 was make it safer but it's very important that it is as safe as possible. Hopefully in time other categories of Motorsport will catch up to F1 levels of safety and we can enjoy a less life-threatening sport.