Grand Prix Rejects

eytl

Post-Bahrain update time! Again two lists: (1) with all 12 original non-DDD, non-McLaren cars eligible for points (2) with Renault and Force India now ineligible for points (i.e. all of the remaining 8 cars scored!!!) After Bahrain, list 1 1. Alonso 23 2. Vettel 21.5 3. Webber 18 4. Bourdais 14.5 5....

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Don't forget that Max and Bernie come from a background of independent team ownership (with March and Brabham respectively) and so they've never been overly keen on the manufacturers. But this is the most overt attempt to deliver the big manufacturers an ultimatum for a while. The emergence of FOTA ...

eytl

Pre-qualifying will never (dis)grace Formula One again. The Concorde Agreement makes it pretty clear that there can only ever be a maximum of twenty-six cars on the grid because twenty-six is considered the maximum allowable for safe racing; any more and prospective teams will not be granted an ent...

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Guys, guys, guys ... Whether this thread is about silly-season rumours, or previously (and continuously) unsubstantiated rumours, neither is about "reverent and respectful discussion" of our beloved reject drivers and teams. It's also not entirely pleasant when the discussion gets taken ov...

eytl

I've refrained from commenting on this thread to date, but I feel like sharing some thoughts ... In terms of when Ten/One, and before them Nine, took ad breaks, length of ad breaks etc., not much has changed. OK we would all like commercial-free F1 here in Oz but it's just not going to happen. I can...

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I already have my comments in mind for the written review and the podcast, but no harm giving everyone an entree here. Even if Toyota decided to switch Glock and Trulli from three-stops to two, the gap over Button at the first stops was, in my view, large enough for either or both Toyotas to stay in...

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I'm going to suggest Toyota for throwing away what had been a golden opportunity and the breakthrough they had been after for years. At the end, Jarno Trulli couldn't even catch Sebastian Vettel despite being on the better tyre. Piquet Jr. He did nothing wrong! Sure, he didn't finish in the points,...

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Naoki Hattori testing the Dome F1 prototype at Suzuka in 1997: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gWXRdXWJcA Fantastic stuff!!! Shame the Dome never made it to the grid. And Hattori too - who, lest we forget, qualifies for this site on the basis of those two glorious DNPQs for Coloni in 1991 ...

eytl

Isn't 4th for Hamilton the best quali result for a KERS car to date? The KERS cars are going just as well here as they have anywhere else - if anything they're doing a bit better. Therefore not the most obvious candidate so far, I must admit. Besides, there's a very good article on autosport.com (fo...

eytl

To answer the question that whether or not Friday TD's should be allowed a reject status, I'd say yes. At least Masami Kuwashima has qualified as a reject, and he only participated in one single Friday practice. Of course, it would be awful to write profile for all of the Friday drivers of the 2000...

eytl

Bertrand Gachot in the Pacific showcases how to not go through a tyre chicane: m Love John Watson's reaction - "surprise surprise!" - GMIF1P material that ... On the topic of Gachot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMgNleZOjpM OK, three questions spring to mind: 1. Why do I get the impress...

eytl

Wow, thanks for that. Actually, despite all the cutesy-style drawings, there's actually quite a lot of detail in them. I'm impressed!

eytl

1. We like Mark Webber (in case readers/listeners haven't worked that out yet). 2. We like Mark Webber dominating his team-mates. 3. We don't like Mark Webber not dominating his team-mates. 4. We don't like team-mates who dominate Mark Webber. BUT 5. One finds it impossible not to like Sebastian Vet...

eytl

Well, I think we need to keep two separate lists from now on. I think the non-diffuser-triopoly, non-McLaren 2009 championship concept still works, consisting of the remaining 12 cars, because Brawn, Toyota and Williams have had a head start on everyone else and McLaren has ... well, you know ... Af...

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Huh Stormwind? I haven't made any comment on this thread as yet ... who says you're on my bad side??? Far from it. And Debaser, no offence taken. I see enough of hypocritical lawyering to be sick of it as well. I actually completely agree with the sentiment that F1 teams (especially the protesting o...

eytl

Oh, why let the facts get in the way of a good story?

eytl

Kuwashima wrote:Conspiracy Theorists... STAND UP.

Who thinks Max blames Ron for being behind ANTSMSW5PG, and hence Max is out to get Ron and won't rest until he's driven him from F1....??

Oh, OK, just me, eh?

C'mon chief, you know I always stand up with you ...

eytl

We did award ROTY for 2000, 2001 and 2002 - although there's no link to the 2000 Season Review in the Reject Centrale section.

2000 ROTY was Alexander Wurz.
2001 ROTY was Jenson Button.
2002 ROTY was Alex Yoong.

eytl

Shouldn't the tyre manufacturer at least bring neighbouring tyres to races, like Supersoft and Soft, Soft and Medium, Medium and Hard, Hard and Superhard, instead of what they brought to Shanghai, Supersoft and Hard? I think it's actually been a great decision to bring two compounds which are not n...

eytl

As listeners will know, Jamie and I did our best to keep everyone pre-informed as to the real post-144 (or post-414), post-diffuser-gate, post-lie-gate, 2009 championship state of play. You know the one ... the championship results excluding Brawn, Williams, Toyota and McLaren. Well, not surprisingl...

eytl

Request to Jamie and Enoch. Can you please continue your "official future" chapionship please ? I am enjoying the scrap at the "top" of the championship between Bourdais and Buemi and if Force India will claw back against STR in the constructors battle. Maybe we should start a t...

eytl

Tyre-Gate: Bridgestone's Bloody Stupid Decision Could well be the BIG news in F1 this weekend. As I'm sure podcast listeners will know, this, along with diffuser-gate, lie-gate and the Chinese GP itself will be mere trivialities compared to the genuine big news in F1 ... But in all seriousness, I t...

eytl

Nuppiz wrote:
Keirdre wrote:90 minutes of Brawn-slagging...sounds like an epic film.

Would be even more epic if Uwe Böll directed it.

Good call!

eytl

I think the correct decision was made by the scrutineers at the races and that decision has been upheld. The idea that every car that is missing the 'double-decker' diffuser is underperforming is a joke. Red Bull seem to manage just fine. It's a sad day for this sport when one team protests another...

eytl

Gentleman - enjoyable podcast as ever. However, I must correct your usage of "KERS system", for the benefit of those anal listeners who might actually be genuinely annoyed. You have slipped into the trap of calling it the Kinetic Energy Recovery System System, it should be simply KERS (sa...

eytl

By the way, here's a list of drivers with most races and no award. * denotes active de la Rosa 46 Kubica 42* Irvine 39 Monteiro 37 Salo 24 Glock 24* Alesi 23 Nakajima 21* Piquet 20* HWNSNBM 20 Pizzonia 19 I would consider those two Brazilians quite surprising on that list Thanks for pointing out th...

eytl

I am a 1/43rd scale model builder and collector. For years now I've been building a collection around small teams from the late 80s to the late 90s (my favourite era of Formula 1). I've got Pacific, Simtek, AGS, Larrousse, Onyx and other small teams that aren't featured on this site (because they w...

eytl

Oh dear ...

Enough said.

eytl

When were Jamie and Enoch ROTR's?? and when was Curva do Sol a ROTR and Why? We proudly gave ourselves ROTR for the 2001 Belgian GP when - ironically given who's leading this illustrious leaderboard - Fisichella came 3rd in the awful Benetton B201 despite us having written him and Benetton off all ...

eytl

Now that IS impressive. Even we haven't been keeping such a thorough list all these years!

eytl

I'd like to see a US street Formula One race around San Francisco. Of course, the track would need to make use of Lombard Street. http://www.maniacworld.com/Skateboarder-vs-Lombard-Street.jpg Would make a nice pit-lane entry ... I for one would love to see a US GP at Elkhart Lake. And as for a USGP...

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Michael Schumacher would then be joining the likes of Ratankul Prutirat and Vanina Ickx as a DTM Reject. @Enoch: the term F1 isn't protected, is it? "Formula 1" is protected, I believe, but I don't think F1 is. I could be wrong, but there are just too many different usages of the term &qu...

eytl

Thanks for your compliments about the website, the podcast and the Alesi article in particular. Of drivers who have been even remotely successful, Alesi is far and away my favourite. Nice article on the 1995 Montreal race and great photos as well. And yes, we particularly appreciate the photos of th...

eytl

I think we may have done permanent damage to Pantano's career by awarding him Reject of the Year in 2004 ...

eytl

Well it is worth noting that this is the first time Ferrari has remained on the big duck-egg (ie 0 points) after the first two races of the season, since 1992 ... the awesome year of Jean Alesi and Ivan Capelli. I think you guys have nailed down the big three candidates for ROTR. It has already been...

eytl

Given that Jamie has just mentioned Mr Bervid (who indeed is one of our all-time favourites), I'm surprised he hasn't also lobbed in Sergey Zlobin and Ananda Mikola!

Where's Mikolamania these days?

eytl

Yes, there are in fact lots of glaring omissions from the team and driver profiles. As the site author, I'm afraid that there's just not enough time to properly research and write more than a few profiles each year (if that) any more. But AGS is definitely one of those heroic little teams especially...

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