Grand Prix Rejects

I get the feeling that it will be Fisichella. If the reports that Mallya owes Ferrari money for last year's engines are true, then he's bluffing to try and see if he can get them to waive that in exchange for Fisi. If he doesn't, he's probably fishing for some funding by way of a buyout. After the l...

shinji wrote:Mine would be KEV - sounds violent.

Mine's more violent. It would be KIL.

I suddenly remembered Paolo Barilla the other day. Can't remember him doing anything remotely interesting, just that he turned up in a Minardi for a year. His pasta's very good though apparently. On that note... Olivier Beretta. Did a decent enough job for a pay driver and went on to become one of ...

Waris wrote:I would embrace it! I'd love to have more characters like Villeneuve in the sport.

If it's characters you want, someone should try to lure Irvine back. Now that would be interesting...

fjackdaw wrote:Pedro Diniz is a very dramatic one, a lovely deep shade of blue

Didn't Carlos Pace use the same design when he was in F1 back in the 70s?

Life w12 wrote:Before it got littered with sponsors, the Lambo-Modena look good

It does look good, but you're also more or less able to tell that it was slow just by looking at it.

I can also see Kovi being something of a forgotten figure in time... at least, relative to other race winners. By that I mean he'd be more Jean-Pierre Beltoise and less Jean Alesi.

I hadn't even heard about Ricardo Rosset until last year. Sure he made some funny stuff while in the car, especially in Tyrrell, but he is as anonymous as a driver can be. The fact that I've heard the 107% rule referred to as the "Rossett Rule" somewhat frequently disqualifies him from be...

How about Karl, as in Karl Wendlinger? I know, I know, he's Austrian and not German, but he wasn't exactly the fastest driver out there and Sauber did use Mercedes engines when he drove for them.

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I always thought that the 2000 Minardi was so ugly that it was actually good. Like, you know it's horrible, but in a way you can't help but admire the horror. The 1994 Minardi, however, was just a case of "rip off a beautiful car and do everything you can to ruin it aesthetically." Also, w...

While not necessarily the worst livery I've seen, I remember the Gitanes livery Ligier adopted for the last two races in 1993 I loved that car. I really wish another team would do that for a race or two. Red Bull, maybe? They seem like they'd be more open to something like that than most other team...

You have to look at the positives... at least they can't DNQ this year like they did in 1980.

Favorite reject team? Super Aguri, no contest. They were like an even more lovable Minardi once they apparently figured out what they were doing. I didn't care for them at first and wrote them off as a joke of a team simply out there to make up numbers (Yuji Ide's exploits didn't exactly help with t...

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Goa wrote:Brno (simply because you need one in Eastern Europe..)

You do?

Why not? If the Middle East can have two (three if you count Turkey), then Eastern Europe could still have one even if you ditch Hungary. Besides, I always thought Brno was a good track.

Might as well have a crack at this. Also, hi, first post and all that... 1. Australia - Adelaide 2. Malaysia - Sepang 3. Japan - Suzuka 4. Turkey - Istanbul 5. San Marino - Imola 6. Monaco 7. Spain - Valencia (the MotoGP track, not the street circuit) 8. France - Paul Ricard 9. Britain - alternating...