Grand Prix Rejects

Keirdre

m Former Simtek Formula 1 driver Domenico Schiattarella will complete the Superstars International Series season in a Solaris Chevrolet. The 45-year-old Italian returned to the championship at Zolder in June after a three-year absence, finishing 11th and 10th in the two races. Nice to see him achiev...

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I'm going to be at the Korean grand prix, so if you want some grandstand reporting / live tweeting / live photoblogging / interviews with Korean fans / something else that I might actually be able to do, then I can provide. So I vote Korea!

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Many congratulations.

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1. Petrov (he looked just as confused as I was)
2. Perez (must have brought some GP2 tyres with him)

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I didn't feel annoyed by the commentary team today, so that must mean they did well. Like a good referee is one that you don't notice...

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You can't give DRS RotR - it helped with two passes. Heidfeld did absolutely nothing, and his Russian team mate scored a podium.

Heidfeld for RotR!

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That was a spectacular fail, well done chaps! Some cracking accents on display.

Keirdre

Strangely this seems to be a specifically British problem because the BBC is using the 4:3-safe TV feed. In the rest of Europe (at least i can vouch for Germany and Austria) we have the "real" 16:9 feed in which we only have the top 10 etc - zone in the left of the screen. Still, I also l...

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Apologies if this has already been discussed, but whats happening with the on-screen graphics? Trying to follow the order of qualifying was impossible - no top 10 / drop-out zone was displayed, and it was very unclear. I see Jake Humphrey mentioned it on his Twitter. I hope its not quite so bad in t...

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Sato will be this year's Indy 500 winner. You heard it here first Seriously though good luck to him. He's already come 3rd at Indy before... I had completely forgotten that Sato ever stood on the podium! I remember being so frustrated by the way BAR thew away the race win, that I didn't fully compr...

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This season has all the hallmarks of becoming a Reject classic. What would need to happen for it to go down in history as the most Rejectful year ever? Or can the glory days of the early 90s never be repeated?

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Nah, can't be! Panic not all. Although he it would be jolly amusing.

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AndreaModa wrote:Has anyone else watched the BBC highlights for the practice sessions today? The voice-over guy for that is AWFUL. It's like BBC news' Robert Peston x100! He doesn't need to linger on every word!

Haha, I thought exactly that. Not good at all. Get Ted Kravitz on the case!

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Allen is definitely better in written form. I quite like him when I can't hear him.

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Did he commentate on practice? How was he? Ratings out of 10?

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I think its very clever, and I'm sick of teams not being allowed to innovate!

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Hurrah! *gets watching*

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Schumacher. He's going to run into the back of someone at Turn 1.

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Terrible start for Chandhok...he, and HRT really needed to get as many laps as possible in. How on earth can Chandhok be expected to just qualify tomorrow?

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What a great debut. Apart from the JAPAN ATTACK on Nakajima, he was brilliant. That may well clinch Toyota's entry for next year.

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Sutil all the way. He finished Heidfeld's Boring Man F1 Finishing Record (although that's no big loss). Algersauri a valiant runner-up.

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Sutil or Algersauri for ROTR so far?

I'll go Sutil. Crap overtaking attempt, crap spin and he ended Heidfeld's Most Boring Record of Racing Finishes record.

Keirdre

In Hamilton's 3 year F1 career, he has retired from 4 races. These can be attributed to:

Pit-in crash
Pit-out crash
First-lap crash
Last-lap crash

What would be next? How will Lewis retire from the Singapore Grand Prix that we're currently enduring?

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thehemogoblin wrote:Who was the last (at least somewhat) major driver to die in a race?

Actually in a race? I remember Greg Moore dying in 1999 in Indycar, but don't recall anything since, although there has almost certainly been someone since.

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Very sad indeed. RIP.

Let's hope motorsport learns from this and sorts out stronger wheel tethers.

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Discussion on autosport.com: http://forums.autosport.com/index.php?s ... &start=120

Not looking at all hopeful.

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Still nothing confirmed though, and Twitter isn't exactly reliable... fingers crossed.

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The news on Twitter appears to be indicating that he has now died. Still no websites reporting it. RIP - terrible loss, and quite possibly the beginning of the end of F2.

Keirdre

Suffered a nasty accident in F2, as he was knocked out by a bouncing wheel. No reports from the hospital, but the discussions on Twitter appear to be suggesting he has died. Terrible news if so UPDATE: it has been confirmed that Surtees sadly died, so beware the following video is for a fatal accide...

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Thanks for the answer. Dan Gurney sounds like he might be the king of this then!

Keirdre

Get your history books and fact faces out...I have a question:

Vettel claimed first poles and first wins for two teams in two successive years. How many other drivers have claimed maiden wins for more than one team?

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I know this has been mentioned in the new teams thread, but my word, this team has potential reject stardom all over it. Even the name sounds beautifully Rejectful. Alas, I doubt it'll ever get off the ground...

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/75753

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Top stuff, I'm going to enjoy this.

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This would be AMAZING Reject news!

Another article here: http://www.itv-f1.com/news_article.aspx?id=45774

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http://www.itv-f1.com/news_article.aspx?id=45767

Oh dear oh dear. Things are going pretty badly at BMW - how must Robert be feeling after last year?

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This would be horribly artificial and contrived. But perhaps a little amusing also. A bit like refuelling, KERS, strange tyre compounds, knockout qualifying etc... my point is lots of things could be described like that but over time they become accepted... I agree with the tyre compound rule, less...

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As the FOTA survey recently found: most people do not think that Formula 1 is broken, and therefore we should be careful not to 'over-fix' it.

This would be horribly artificial and contrived. But perhaps a little amusing also.

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Taku must be warming up ready now, surely?

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So we need a 'one eighth of an eye' board? Good plan, I agree.

Keirdre

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 ... Yes, my mistake, of course ...

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