Grand Prix Rejects

JDOD

Nice one, mate. I'll have two! Do they come in green?

JDOD

So its only me that thinks the front of the renault looks fat and agly then. I agree that the colour scheme is good though.

JDOD

Wizzie wrote:Tony George must be up there for the ROAT award (Reject of all time).
But then again so is that Brazilian Guy...

Reject of All Time can only be Andrea Sassetti

JDOD

Toyota - Obvious.
Piquets - Obvious.
The Midland/Spyker Debacle
Williams (massive fall from greatness for a team I love)
Contrived rule changes.

JDOD

I've actually been thinking about this problem and I think I've come up with a solution. Why not let the teams choose which compounds they want to each race? They could let Bridgestone know say 2 weeks in advance which 2 compounds they want to bring to each race. It opens the door to infinantly mor...

JDOD

Go back to the beginning of the decade, and most of the dry compounds would spend their time sitting in the garage, never seeing the track - which is an utter waste of money and space. That's 'cos we had refueling. With no refueling it gives the teams an option to do something innovative with tyres...

JDOD

My favourite looking car was the MP4/4 The proposed Lotus livery was pretty vomitous. Those gold Jordans were a bit perculiar too. I also think the Toyotas were always ugly. McLaren generally have nice liveries. They have been obsessive about preserving the brand identity which meant red and white ...

JDOD

My favourite looking car was the MP4/4

The proposed Lotus livery was pretty vomitous.
Those gold Jordans were a bit perculiar too.

I also think the Toyotas were always ugly.

JDOD

Personally I think they are bobbins when coupled with no refueling. I think each team should be able to stick any of the available 4 compounds on for qually and any of the available 4 compounds on for the race. None of this buggering about with two being available and you having to use both of them....

JDOD

KERS might be of further use next year, if they can start using it to improve their relative fuel economy. So will have to carry less fuel that the other cars in the early stages of the race. Obviously towards the end of the race the difference in fuel weights will become negligable.

JDOD

The FIA need Renault more than they need McLaren. That doesn't mean that Renault should be judged more favourably than McLaren Of course it doesn't, but tit also doesn't mean that the politics of the situation cannot be ignored. Personally I think the FIA underestimate how much they need McLaren. O...

JDOD

Captain Hammer wrote:The FIA need Renault more than they need McLaren.

That doesn't mean that Renault should be judged more favourably than McLaren

JDOD

I've done one in PowerPoint. No idea how I am going to convert it into a jpeg and post it though. Might have to label it up a bit first too.

I could email it to someone if you like and if you can think of a good way of posting it.

JDOD

A lot of people are saying that the McLaren penalty was, in retrospect, too severe, but I have to sk this: what would have been more appropriate? I think it was to severe. In the context of what happened to Renault, a punishment similar to the Briatore/Symonds punishment for the individuals involve...

JDOD

What it looks like to me is that the FIA, just take people for whatever they think they can realistically get. They knew McLaren could afford the 100,000,000 Euros so they spanked them with it. If McLaren was a team in a similar situation to Renault, they would have been hit with it. Also notice tha...

JDOD

Well Renault did anyway, gotta say though, a suspended ban makes the FIA look very inconsistent, considering that the "crime" is far more serious than the spying drama. Looks like Briatore isn't allowed any contact with motorsport at all in any respect ever then ha ha ha, 5 years for symonds

JDOD

I've always thought Liuzzi deserved another go. He wasn't really given a fair crack by STR

JDOD

Good result for all concerned.

Badoer is saved further embarrasment (and a lynching by the tifosi)
Fisi achieves a dream
Liuzzi gets a proper chance at F1.
Vijay Mallya gets respect (and despite what was said, Ferrari will be off his back now)

JDOD

So, what's everyone recon? Anyone recon they can keep it going and become a regular points scorer in the last few races of the season or are they going straight back to lower midfield mediocrity? I recon they will get more points but Spa was a freak result, just the perculiarities of the circuit and...

JDOD

Yup, Luca was always rubbish. There are quite a few drivers who were excellent in the lower formulae who couldn't cut it in F1. Luca was one of them. He came relatively close to coming 4th, once in a race with heavy attrition. WOW! On the other hand there are some drivers who were pretty shite in th...

JDOD

For the 2nd race in a row Badoer was ROTR in my opinion. He is, and always was, utterly rubbish.

Was quite funny watching Martin Brundle commentating on one of his qually laps: "Breaked to early, locked up, missed the apex, late on the throttle..." He was not impressed.

JDOD

Yeah, thoroughly enjoyed that one. Martin Brundle (commentating) seemed genuninely really chuffed that the Force India actually had greater race pace than the Ferrari!! Was such a pity that he KERS'd him on the run up to Les Combes. Fisi would have walked away with it if it wasn't for that! Saying t...

JDOD

The FIA are investigating so its being taken seriously anyway.
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns21777.html
Apparently there may actually be some supporting evidence.

JDOD

Well I'm listening to the Friday practice from Spa and Badoer is still totally gash. Making loads of errors and is dead last, well off the ultimate pace. He will be replaced for Monza. Probably by Jules Bianchi, which would be very unusual for Ferrari to give a young driver a shot. Personally I thin...

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Yeah, I'm not sure about Flav. He's never really been associated with any sort of faliure but then that could be 'cos he just buggers off whenever there is a problem... Like someone said above. He is very "fair weather" Frank Williams and Ron Dennis are both excellent team principals and a...

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I can't really be arsed to do a full callendar but there are a few tracks that I would like to see in place of some of the crap ones now.

Jarez (just to get rid of barcelona)
Macau
Le Mans
Indy (oval)

JDOD

I know schuey is always thought of as some Spa specialist but its also the site of Kimi's greatest win... and Schuey's most memorable defeat to hakkinenn

JDOD

Definitely not Magny Cours. Dijon used to be an utter shambles - the number of things that went wrong there due to bad organisation (although some down to bad luck admittedly) is unbelievable, just watch some of the early 80s races! Has to be Paul Ricard if we must go back to France, but I'm quite ...

JDOD

I think, for similar reasons to the Nordschiffe, it would actually be impossible to make Clermont Ferrand safe. Not enough space to make the run-off areas and stuff as its on a hillside!!

JDOD

the Corkscrew does not comply with FIA regulations on circuit safety. The drop is simply too steep; cars would literally be running with one wheel - the right front - in the air, and as soon as part of the car leaves the circuit like that, all downforce and aerodynamic grip is lost. The cars would ...

JDOD

Le Mans wouldn't work because there's a lot of public roads that would have to be closed. It's also nearly twice as long as the regulations dictate for maximum circuit length; Spa only just makes it, so at thirteen kilometres Le Mans is too long. No-one would want to watch a twenty-lap race. As for...

JDOD

So most people think Laguna Seca would be ideal then?

Where exactly is it? Just how remote is it?

Apparently it did nearly get the race in the late 80s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_seca#Formula_One

JDOD

What are the reasons for not having the full circuit at Le Mans? Its length? I've never really seen what that's got to do with it to be honest. Safety? Le Mans has decent run-off areas and medical facilities, just would need to be adequtely marshalled - would cost money I know. High Speed? Since whe...

JDOD

Ferrari should be able to do straight line tests (which I believe they will do) for Schumacher to famiarise himself with the latests controls (i.e. KERS) and moveable wings and to reaquient himself with the speed, breaking and accelaration. Thats it. SHouldn't take more than an hour.

JDOD

Montreal deserves its place on the calenda (if only to see the reply every year on TV of Jaques crashing into the Welcome to Quebec sign), it usually provides great racing and its a-typical nature tends to shuffle the pack a bit (much like Monaco, Melbourne, Hungary and Monza). Other places that we ...

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Right, no one much liked Magne Cours (well except me I suppose) so its not going back there. Where do you lot think it should be? I think this idea of a new circuit outside Paris is bollocks. We don't need another track. We already have a great track in Paul Ricard. Singnes? current F1 cars would be...

JDOD

Personally don't think much of the Indy "road" coarse, I'd actually prefer it if F1 used the oval. How cool would that be for one race a year? My ideal choice for F1 in the USA would be Laguna Seca. I know its in the arse-end of nowhere but its a cool track albeit a little short. What circ...

JDOD

http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns21703.html
I imagine Piquet does have a point. Its probably not quite as one sided as his paranoia has obviously made it out to be, but I recon its a fair point. He is certainly a man who needs another chance I recon.

JDOD

Grosjean is a bit wild isn't he? I think Nico is a better prospect. Not sure what I think of van der garde.

What about Senna (I know he won't be in the Renault) but does anyone know what he is up to these days? He surely must be knocking on lots of door at the moment.

JDOD

Paul Hayes, even if the eye injury is not as bad as first feared (we all hope its not, I'm sure)
He still had a skull fracture, there is no way he would be allowed to race with anything other than a perfectly intact skull.

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