Grand Prix Rejects

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It's more complicated than that. I remember seeing a thread on another forum about precisely this issue. The tether must be weaker than the attachment points on the tub. This may seem odd but if they were stronger then the attachment points would break, resulting in the tub being damaged and weakene...

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(Did anyone notice the letters "BAR" also happen to be the first three letters in "Brawn"?) Actually, it goes WAY deeper than that: - In 1970, two March entries were fielded by Ken Tyrell. - Tyrell then went on to establish his own team. - When Tyrell went bust, they were acquir...

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There's a reason why the FIA dictates the speed at which a driver must be able to take the first corner, and that's it. There's also rules against corners like that hairpin appearing; look at what happened at the A1GP race in Beijing which featured the cars going down one side of a dual-carrigeway ...

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"Nigel Mansell's Wife" by Nelson Piquet

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tristan1117 wrote:"Retiring: Nigel Mansell" by Nigel Mansell foreward by Michael Jordan and Brett Favre for all American Football fans.

That's based on an earlier work by Alan Jones isn't it?

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In addition to what RejectSteve said. So Bordais being a member of Newman/Hass had a little less to do with winning the championship and more to do with the luck of the draw more than anything else, he had a good car was (and is) a good driver he just happened to win a couple more races than his clo...

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Roland's death shook the sport quite a bit for the 24 hours after it happened. Wendlinger's accident was before the safety changes were implememted too. I think those accidents and Senna's concerns would have seem many if not all of the safety changes that were actually introduced that year. It can ...

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tristan1117 wrote:"Parking F1 cars correctly" by Fisi

I thought Michael Schumacher wrote that one.

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Then the race moved to Quebec first to St, Jovite then to Mont Tremblanc both of which were still very successful but it wasn't until the move to cosmopolitan Montreal in the late seventies that the race really took off again, with the arrival of Giles Villeneuve to Ferrari in 1979 national interes...

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Depends if he had won at Imola, come second or simply surived the crash. If he's have won, with Schumacher 2nd, he'd be 16pts behind. If Schumacher had beaten him at Imola (entirely possible, Benetton had great pit stop strategy that year), the gap would have been 24pts. If Senna had still crashed b...

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"Race Car Aerodynamics" by Luigi Colani
"My F1 Career" by Marco Apicella
"Melbourne's Turn One" and "Championship Celebrations" by Felipe Massa

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I did a run through over the years and the only trend that seemed to appear in the old system was that the major reshuffles happened every 5 years, in years ending with 9 and 4. There were lots of gaps in 78 and 83 but then no gaps (apart form 13) in 79 and 84 for example. So when I got to post-1995...

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Gaps in the numbering usually came from teams that were originally entered but then were'nt able to. Larrousse in 1995 as someone said. Even in the current system 2002 had a gap where Prost would have been. When the initial entry list for this year was published it had 18 and 19 with a Honda TBA wit...

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Here's some reject cars that never were raced in anger Lola T95-30 http://forix.autosport.com/8w/test/amcn-silv95-test.jpg ... DAMS GD-01 http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oLnCCHJ-O2Q/SD2zkCXEiBI/AAAAAAAAAxE/AsatzbGG2mk/s400/Comas,+Erik+(Dams,+F3000,+F1,+Estoril,+launch,+unrealeased,+GD-01,+1995,+1996,+Lam...

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I'm glad your approach is this. In a very partisan way (look at the avatar...) I believe Tiago is way beyond rejectdom, and deserves the break. He really was a good driver with bad equipment. See Spa '05 for details. Exactly. Didn't get to the points, but it was classy racing from him. Well remembe...

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Looks like Ferrari are disqualified for, um, being too quick in the 2004 season, so heres what happens with the results! 1.Button 122 points 7 wins (he wishes) Thank you, Michael, thank you, Ferrari, simply for being there in 2004... ^^ I guess simply being there won't prevent a similar result this...

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If the overspender is trailing around at the back then I think it would have been a major success. Finally spending more will get you less. Any team that decides to do that will quickly switch over for 2011.

If the overspender's are at the front it will be a problem.

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To me it sounds like Max is just saying, 'we'd hate to see you leave but if worst comes to worst we'll carry on without you'. Ferrari do have that special something whether you like it or not (not in my case). F1 would survive without Ferrari, but it wouldn't be the same.

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They put a cap of costs yet introduce a ban on refueling, which means that each team will have to completely redesign their cars. Guess what that means. Yep, more money down the drain. I doubt the teams have dropped anything in terms of their aerodynamic design area. In fact I will lay odds that it...

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Faustus wrote:European Grand Prix at Jerez?

Faustus gets 5 points. I would have given 10 but the question was not difficult enough to be 75% of a Grand Prix.

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The return of low fuel qualifying is great news. Qualifying will mean something again. Also, the cars that are best on a full fuel load or have great race pace may not be the ones that are fastest on low fuel, so the race result should be different to the grid.

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If the race is moved to a different country it could always take another name. After all, there were rumours about a month ago that Abu Dhabi might not be ready and Montreal would replace it. Obviously that would be with the Canadian Grand Prix name. The last time a race was moved after the start of...

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1 - Makes sense I guess. I would have preferred making rear tyres larger compared to the fronts to reduce the need to have so much weight so far forward. 2 - No complaints. F1 seemed to work well the previous time refuelling was banned. 3 - Seems like it could work well, as long as the difference be...

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The way people are throwing it about here, I say ban the phrase 'bringing the sport into disrepute' and all its grammatical cousins. It seems like McLaren are being treated fairer now that Ron Dennis is gone, and that the event of the last few years were more a personal thing between Max and Ron tha...

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I hope he can handle it better than that Jaguar F1 car!

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I don't like changing a quote, even if it's to correct a spelling mistake.

In some places I've seen it called the Peralta turn, though I usually call it the Peraltada.

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PRE-qualifying, only used to take place when there were more than 30 entries anyway. Between 26 and 30 entries and you'd just fail to qualify after entering practice. I'm not saying it would still be that way, it depends on how many cars are allowed to Practice, not start the race.

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Nice calendar. 3: Mexican Grand Prix (Hermanos Rodrigues) The Peradalta is still one of the more respect-awakening curves, and the circuit is wholly quite nice. Unfortunately another corner that has been destroyed. Now has two chicanes in it. Would have been used for the A1GP but the race was cancel...

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Count me in with votes for the 1999 Williams (98 wasn't too bad, it looked good but shouldn't have been on a Williams) and the late Lotus's. 94 Larrouse looked great in green but horrible in red/white. I'd say Rosbergs McLaren from '86 with the Marlboro lights livery should go here too. It just look...

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I'm argentinean, a great fan of F1 since 1990, and i haven't heard a word about this neat new circuit (at least nor for F1).. It's a little longer than the standard circuit length thse days, but apparently all it needs is a serious upgrade to its it facilities (which are apparently pretty basic) an...

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RejectSteve wrote: "Them guys with the funny names" is used as an excuse.

I always laugh at that statement. Look at a NASCAR entry list and you have the likes of Brad Keselowski, Reed Sorenson, Joe Nemechek, David Reutimann, AJ Allmendinger et al. Very American eh?

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FIrst of all, a couple of nitpicky facts: Indy cars weigh 725 kg on road courses, 695 kg on ovals, compared to the 605kg of F1 cars. So F1 cars are nowhere near half the weight. The Indy car season has 10 ovals and 7 road/street circuits this year, so the balance is getting closer to 50/50. Of the d...

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Some time ago I created one inspired by the pre-war Grand Prix seasons, particularly 1935. I found it created a varied and sensible calendar with both old and new races. 1 - Australia - Melbourne (14 March) 2 - Singapore - Marina Bay (28 March) Both of these would be in March. Singapore instead of M...

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http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/2531/71218691.jpg I know the landing strip extends out over the water, but if the entire concourse is tarmac, surely you could do more with it than have a pair of drag strips linked by a hairpin? I'm thinking some kind of high-speed jink in the circuit that's quick ...

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Here's an extended version. http://i650.photobucket.com/albums/uu228/krp205/Gib_Circuit-1.jpg The runway is wide enough that I suppose you could race on half of it and turn around at the end. I also did a little extension past Marina Bay. I should point out that by placing the circuit here (even the...

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thehemogoblin wrote:Is there more airport to play with? That might be a good way to get the track up to regulation length.

Unfortunately there isn't much else. I suppose you could make use of the north dispersal and the rest of the runway. I'll have a little play around.

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Hopefully if they do come back they will do it properly. A dedicated racing car manufacturer is always welcome in my book. I doubt we'll see enough teams for pre-qualifying. That was only when there were more than 30 cars. Of course, currently only 24 entries are allowed, so some rule changes would ...

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I'd love to see a Gibraltar Grand Prix. That would be my home GP. The best location I can think of would be something like this: http://i650.photobucket.com/albums/uu228/krp205/Gib_Circuit.jpg Sure, the circuit would be barely 1.5 miles long, but you'd have a half airport/half street circuit, a Euro...

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Vettel is well on his way to becoming my favourite driver. I hope he continues as he is.

My car is named Rachel

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I read your start and was sceptical that Suzuka wasn't near the end, but then I read your final four rounds, and now I think that your fantasy calendar is probably the best. I thank you. Although I just realised Laguna Seca's only 2.2 miles. Wonder would that be a little tight. When Laguna Seca was...

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