Grand Prix Rejects

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I needed to use large text because it's such a tragedy that Lotterer won't be racing. And I don't even like comic sans. But yet, you've missed the point. We're all a bit annoyed that Lotterer has made the (admittedly, better) choice to not race for Caterham, but that doesn't warrant the size a bill...

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My nominations are the race and also Nico H for being anonymous again.

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Out of interest, why would Caterham ask KK to park up for no reason?

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Biscione wrote:
fjackdaw wrote:I don't read Italian, is there any indication of what happened to him?

He lost control of his motorbike and crashed into a guardrail. he died on impact.

That's really sad.

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I don't read Italian, is there any indication of what happened to him?

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I think it's lucky he went in backwards, as the pictures appear to show. If it'd been a direct front-on impact, he'd have gone under.

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I think now the inevitable has happened, something will be done to change it (the presence of non-specialist construction equipment on a racetrack that is).

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I did wonder why they cut to seemingly pointless footage of the Sauber garage for so long just before the red flag. Stewards used a sheet to cover treatment of Bianchi behind his car in order to block tv from seeing any pictures. Really FIA? Bianchi might be injured. People want to know what happen...

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Whatever the aftermath of all this is, I suspect a lot will be made of the conditions being too poor for the helicopter to fly. No doubt we'll see a rule change to allow FIA to overrule all other parties when considering rescheduling a race. Should have been run earlier in the day. With all that sa...

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I did wonder why they cut to seemingly pointless footage of the Sauber garage for so long just before the red flag.

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Conspiracy theorists. It's getting really boring.

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MadGaz85 wrote:He's been there for years and has never had any other problems with a team-mate in his career.

This is true. It's also interesting that Alonso has otherwise been pretty laid-back throughout his career too, except in 2007.

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I don't know why people are still nominating Massa, when we've already established he had a car problem caused by debris.

The booing is my nomination - that's pretty sucky.

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Maybe Sutil has threatened to glass them?

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I'd say it was a bit of a LotterLottery.

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Shame - why couldn't Simona de Silvestro have replaced Adrian Sutil instead?

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andrew2209 wrote:Well for the first time I'm going to be seeing a Formula 1 driver younger than me. Did expect that a few years later than 2015 though.

Since Schumi retired, they've *all* been younger than me. :/

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Maybe Jos threatened to run Helmut over?

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And meanwhile, according to Autosport, Andre Lotterer may be replacing Kamui Kobaiyashi.

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DonTirri wrote:I'll personally nominate The Stewards for taking a frigging hour to fix the barriers

I don't imagine the stewards went down to fix the barriers themselves, or had anything to do with the fixing process. I would also imagine that the barriers took as long to fix as was required to fix them.

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One thing about the bad TV direction is that this has been a problem for the last 15+ years. Back in the ITV days in the late 90s, Martin Brundle was upbraiding the race direction for cutting to shots of people in the paddock, rather than focusing on the race. Noticeably, he doesn't do that any mor...

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It all happened so fast, I think Massa-Perez was a racing incident. A shame, too, they were both having a great race up till then.

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I'm going to nominate the director, for showing cutaways of people watching the race while exciting things were happening on track.

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WeirdKerr wrote:I'm not saying it was deliberate but I am saying he brought out a yellow flag which has saved his postion...

It doesn't matter. It's not a punishable offense to cause yellow flags, therefore there's no reason he should be penalised for that.

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East Londoner wrote:
People nominating Benedict Cumberbatch - Just because I can.

Same here!

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1. Red Bull - Utterly shameless. Disgusting. What's this in reference to? I didn't notice them doing anything disgusting or shameless. Also, I have no problem with Benedict doing the interviews - he can talk well, and he's not Eddie Jordan. He forgot last year's race wasn't wet, so what? There was ...

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Pretty certain they have to give that penalty for an unsafe release. Unless you'd like to argue that that release wasn't unsafe...? I never said the release was unsafe. I said that they shouldn't have punished Ricciardo for it. Give the team a fine or something. I think the point is that the punish...

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My nomination goes to Sauber.

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SgtPepper wrote:1. Red Bull - Utterly shameless. Disgusting.

What's this in reference to? I didn't notice them doing anything disgusting or shameless.

Also, I have no problem with Benedict doing the interviews - he can talk well, and he's not Eddie Jordan. He forgot last year's race wasn't wet, so what?

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Wow. What bravery, to illegaly gain access to a public social media account and post an homoerotic picture. That'll show those evil Russians. May I be so cynical to suggest it wasn't hacked? It sounds like something Lotus would do but considering they've recently sold 10% of the team to some Russia...

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Can I have a P please, Bob?

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watka wrote:
fjackdaw wrote:My ex-wife once shared an eye-roll with Doornbos in a hotel queue when a woman was taking far too long to check in.

Now there's a brush with F1 celebrity if ever I saw one.

And when I worked at HMV in 1997, I sold Paul Stewart a travel wallet for his CDs.

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My ex-wife once shared an eye-roll with Doornbos in a hotel queue when a woman was taking far too long to check in. Now there's a brush with F1 celebrity if ever I saw one. She would also occasionally spot Sebastian Vettel from the bus window on his way to work with wet hair, stopped at traffic lig...

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I like these noses, I enjoy seeing F1 cars suddenly looking different. It'll be something to look back on in many years.

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My ex-wife once shared an eye-roll with Doornbos in a hotel queue when a woman was taking far too long to check in.

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An F1 Rejects round in the final of Pointless yesterday. The category was Red Bull drivers. The contestants could only think of Coulthard, Vettel and Webber (in fact, they were convinced there had only ever been three). I said Doornbos, Klein and Speed. The three pointless answers were Doornbos, Kle...

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kowalski wrote:Mercedes - Dullest team on the grid keep with the same drivers.

They're a very strong pairing, though, no reason at all to change it.

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Jocke1 wrote:

I'm not too conservative about the shape of Formula 1 cars, I like a bit of change. Aesthetically, I think this looks immense.

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Ataxia wrote:New lid for Mr. Rosberg:

It looks like he made it himself. At least we'll be able to tell him apart from LH this year.

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My hat flew off in the manner of Laurel and Hardy.

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