Grand Prix Rejects

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The way I saw it, from the very intial reaction to the replays was that it was a racing accident and MORE on Webbers shoulder than Vettels. Let's see. A) From Vettels incar, there was no steering movement to the right, atleast not one I picked up, so he didn't intentionally steer right. B) Vettel w...

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Captain Hammer wrote:
noisebox wrote:Yeah, right! And I don't suppose his dad helped him get to the point where he is managing a top line GP2 team either?

He wasn't president of the FIA then. After leaving Ferrari, Todt was the FIA's Makes Roads Safe spokesperson.

Silly me, he was only running the most powerful team in F1...

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It doesn't guarantee him a place on the grid. Jean Todt has already proven he's not Max Mosley. If anything ART will have to work harder than everyone else, and no doubt Todt Jnr. has asked dad to go harder on them than anyone else. Yeah, right! And I don't suppose his dad helped him get to the poi...

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noisebox wrote:With regret (and I say that as a long suffering fan) it has to be Williams - two mechanical issues and two cars in the wall, both thankfully without serious consequences.

I think I'll withdraw that nomination - it seems neither were mechanical failures.

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I have a theory that Mercedes are at the start of a downward spiral similar to that experienced by Honda in 2007 & 2008. The 2009 Brawn car was a freak which was born out of a long gestation period and caught the opposition on the hop. Even then they could not develop at a fast enough pace to ma...

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With regret (and I say that as a long suffering fan) it has to be Williams - two mechanical issues and two cars in the wall, both thankfully without serious consequences.

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Ed24 wrote:Massa did say after the race that it was harder to drive with the broken wing, so he probably just saw the red mist and put in a few good laps.

I hope not! If he can drive quicker with the 'red mist' what the **** is he doing for the rest of the time - cruising?

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Since normally aspirated engines became standard in 1989 (and you can go back to 1986-87 for when the concept first appeared, and its origins in the dorsal-type airboxes of the 1970s - and the 1987 AGS!), the concept of having an airbox above and behind the driver's head has been a given. No one ha...

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eytl wrote:Oops. Accidentally deleted the thread on this topic. Sorry to those who had already posted on it.

Jamie's out the way for a couple of weeks and the censorship has already started...

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Halfway through and so far so good! Thanks to all who put themselves up for this - great effort. If you guys can dedicate them time keep going for the next few races, I'll stick with it!

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Thoughts for 1990 to 95: 1990 - Lotus Lamborghini - chronically slow, unrelaibel and some said dangerous car which put Lotus on a terminal downward spiral and nearly killed Martin Donnelly 1991 - Porsche - this one is by a distance, massively heavy, unreliable V12 which was basically two Tag V6s bol...

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I just noticed that Jenson Button is the only driver to have both an ROTY award and a world championship, is there any hope of another driver completing such a rare double? Other candidates (some that pre date this site): Ayrton Senna in 1990 could've been WDC and ROTY in the same year for taking o...

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The Button-haters Everyone gleefully rubbing their hands at the prospect of Button being ROTY, being trounced by his team-mate, getting shown up for the mid-field struggler he apparently is, and leaving the sport in humiliation before the end of the year; and those who delightedly proclaimed Bahrai...

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Timed spectacularly to coincide with the launch of the FIA's 'Make Roads Safe' campaign in F1 this weekend! This puts a focus on the link between F1 and road safety. How can a sport which encourages young men to drive cars at the absolute limit be a focal point for road safety campaigns? Mixed mess...

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IdeFan wrote:The point is not that BBC got a scoop, but that homerbhoy reported it weeks before anyone else did, and it seems to be true.

That's what I meant too.

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http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/82412

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homerbhoy wrote:I heard from someone that the virgin fuel tank is not big enough to finish the gp. Hope this ain't true

Take a bow! What a scoop - the BBC were reporting it as new news this morning...

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We have an obvious name for our 2011 entry:

Team F1 Rejects Magnum Cosworth (incorporating Stefan GP and USF1)

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And who was McLaren's test driver last year? Seems PDLR has taken some of the family secrets to Sauber.

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Stefangp wrote:
by dr-baker » 25 Mar 2010, 11:35

thehemogoblin wrote:

Are these future sponsers of Virgin?

A family website...?

More a family planning website...

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To get back on topic (ie Raikonnen) a magnum is a 1.5l bottle, usually of champagne. Best served cold.

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A nice comment - however, since Toyota probably has very little use for those parts now, I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't that bothered about getting the parts back again. I wonder if any of the new teams would want the parts, though - since Stefan is a dud, Toyota might as well try to get s...

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How come his son is seventeen? Ach, at what age did Jan's gonads started producing sperm, im Kindergarten? 18-19 years old is quite young to have a kid, but nothing extraordinary. here it's pretty extraordinary, I don't know the situation in other countries ... It's positively ancient in some parts...

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(d) How to factor in the fact that cars are much more reliable in the 2000s than they were in the 1950s? Perhaps you need to work out the number of races where a driver finished or retired due to something self-inflicted (e.g. a crash, a spin, accident damage), so your average points figure is per ...

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(d) How to factor in the fact that cars are much more reliable in the 2000s than they were in the 1950s? Perhaps you need to work out the number of races where a driver finished or retired due to something self-inflicted (e.g. a crash, a spin, accident damage), so your average points figure is per ...

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Schumi has just said at your age you should have a better haircut and not have a double chin!

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Don't give me that blah, blah, blah...

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Well said, best wishes for a speedy recovery.

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Phoenix wrote:The Virgins were really harassing Trulli and Kovalainen yesterday

In fact one of the Virgins made a pass on a Lotus...

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Nope, not kidding. I honestly think Ferrari have lost the essence of what made them Ferrari, and that some time at the back would do them some good to remember where they came from. Why don't we have a seaon where all teams must run to the rules as they were the year they entered the sport? That wo...

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Different circuit this year which has slowed the overage lap speed considerably. Melbourne will be a better yardstick.

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eytl wrote:(3) If the racing is no better, visually it looks worse because the cars look so darn slow on full tanks.

Which is a good reason to watch the new teams - the on board footage of the drivers struggling for grip with relatively less downforce than the established teams makes the look really fast...!

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A dead heat between double diffusers and tyres which are too conservative, both will ruin the racing this year unless changes are made very quickly.

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Well, the outcome of qualifying has put the cat among the pigeons a bit... If the duct system is worth 3-4 tenths a lap, then McLaren really are in trouble.

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I'm not sure how long MS will trundle around half a second behind Rosberg in the midfield. Unless he does something special tomorrow he will be having some serious doubts.

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You don't need to tell us how to think. No, I don't need to. But this year I'm toying with actually couting up the votes after the race, and I'll just dis-count any votes for the new teams on the basis of their lap times. I don't think it's fair to deride them as Rejects simply because the're slow ...

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Was everyone on the same tyre? Massa giving Alonso 4 tenths (great to have Felipe back and in gear after the trouble last year), Merc 1 sec off the pace, Hamilton 4 tenths quicked than Button again, Sutil (I heard) on the hard rubber - makes sense. Oh boy, this looks awesome! With the sole exceptio...

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mario wrote:Now, I'll admit that this is not my area of expertise

& I think you're too modest!

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Clever stuff Bod! Nah really thanks for that Mario, you're a true asset to this forum! My personal view on this whole saga is that if it wasn't something on the McLaren that they pick on, they'd find something to complain on the Mercedes or Red Bull (not the Ferrari, the FIA is Ferrari Internationa...

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Can anyone explain in simple terms what stalling the rear wing means, and how this device does it? I can see that it allows additional when the vent is open, but how does it change things when it is closed? Also, are their any pictures of the slots in the rear wing. Generally I can get my head arou...

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