Grand Prix Rejects

If only they could get Clive James back ...

Ralf Schumacher.

Hell, I'll nominate any US Grand Prix since Long Beach: Caesars Palace was run in a car park; Detroit looks really finky and narrow; Dallas was a joke; Phoenix wasn't much better; and the infield at Indy was just really bland.

A1 won't happen any time soon: it's currently in no state to hold a race. That's a real shame. Both the original and remade versions of that circuit had amazing character and always guaranteed a good race. Red Bull purchased the facility after it ws dropped from the calendar and commissioned Herman...

A1 won't happen any time soon: it's currently in no state to hold a race. As for Imola, there are far too many chicanes to make it worth having a race again, even if they are ironing out the one just before the Start/Finish Line.

Revelo, I suspect Bourdais was given the nod over Sato for the sake of keeping a little continuty within Toro Rosso with all the changes that came into effect for this year.

Maybe ... but I think the ban on in-season testing is going to hurt them more than anyone else (except maybe Red Bull if they have to design a Brawn-esque diffuser). If they do become competitive, it's going to be too late to mount a title challenge. The other teams that have been competitive have a...

What about the two races at Las Vegas in 1981 and 82? I heard about the conditions the drivers had to endure and apparently was not popular with drivers and crowds. Well, to start with, they were racing around the casino car park. It was a gimmick, something designed to rope in more gamblers and pu...

Okay, so with Jenson Button's win in Hungary and Rubens Barrichello's podium at Silverstone, Honda are safe from being nominated as a reject team. But the 'Earth Dreams' concept certainly does deserve to be included. Let's wind the clock back to August 6th, 2006. The place is a four-kilometre ribbon...

Andrea Moda. They're like North Korea, the Funniest Evil Dictatorship. I actually do fancy myself as a bit of a writer, and I've always wanted to see a proper story about racing, but it's hard to write something where the cars are doing laps on end. Instead, I figure the best way to do it would be t...

Every single race at Hungaroring. Funny you should say that, because while the track may be pretty bland, seven different drivers have won it in the past seven years: Kovalainen, Hamilton, Button, Raikkonen, Schumacher, Alonso and Barrichello. I don't think any other circuit on the calendar has tha...

It's likely, becaue they would have been included in the protest by Red Bull and Renault. I gather that this entire episode is a charge being led by the Red Bulls, with the other teams agreeing that tey think the parts are illegal.

The thing about Valencia is that it's not an actual street circuit. It's a permanent raceway built in and around a city. Its main problem is that some of the run-off areas stretch for several city blocks, and the streets are so wide that there's none of the claustrphobic appeal of Monaco.

Like I said, Barrichello claims that Kovalainen took out his diffuser when he played dominoes with everyone else at the first corner, so I don't think it's going to be a case of Brawn, Williams and Toyota going from dominating the field in practice and qualifying to it being a case of the six driver...

I'm holding out hope that the 2009 regulations will make Valencia a lot different this year. You kind of have to give it the benefit of the doubt given that it's virgin territory. And even if it's a boring rae, at least it's pretty to look at. Anyway, my nomination is the 1999 Spanish Grand Prix , w...

Do I rate him?

Kind of hard to tell, actually.

He progressively got better last year, but over the winter he seemed to forget it all. But then, we've only had the one race ...

I just hope the FIA will make the right decision. They were consistently inconsistent last year, so my hopes aren't high, but now that we have a season where several teams who are not the Usual Suspects are competitive, I kind of want it to stay that way. Brawn might hve the advantage now, but as th...

To stop the discussions about the diffusers from dominating threads on the actual races, I thought it might be sensible to create a thread to openly discuss the matter. I'm not going to go through the expositionary phase and explain the issue, because chances are that if you know F1 Rejects, you kno...

Legard was certainly better than James Allen. There was no brown-nosing going on; sure, he did talk a little more about Button than I would have liked, and that's coming from a Button fan. But I don't think Legard is going to make everyone universally despise a particular driver the way Allen did wi...