Grand Prix Rejects

James1978

While that is unfortunate for both Vettel and Aston Martin, it's more of a relief that Williams aren't losing nearly half their points - which would have put them more within striking distance for Alfa Romeo too.

James1978

I know nobody's mentioned him yet as there are more glaring errors, but how about a DHM for Danny Ric? With a Red Bull and Mercedes out, plus a Ferrari and his teammate, and the two remaining cars from the top 2 teams compromised, you'd expect him to be on or around the podium, but didn't even score...

James1978

1. Alpine
2. Latifi (think he deserves it more than Williams as a whole as I was expecting him to plunge down the order and even behind Russell. None of it).

James1978

Plenty of candidates here (most noticeably Bottas) but for most costly it probably does have to be Alfa Romeo. That 7 point gap to Williams might be too much to bridge if there isn't another freak race.

James1978

Leclerc then Alonso. Norris you kind of expect that now.

James1978

As far as I can see the first lap was just two racers giving 100% fighting for the championship; one wanted to get past, the other wanted to prevent that. Even people outside the two teams said racing incident. But of the fallout, my biggest mention goes to Helmut Marko. He had never had anything go...

James1978

One interesting one for me is if Alonso had gone to Red Bull for 2008 (Christian Horner did confirm he was in talks). He'd have looked like a genius given what happened to them in the next few years. Though it would have been in place of Webber (who would have gone to Renault instead of Alonso), so ...

James1978

Now that France is already gone I can totally see Keke dominating the series for the next 3 seasons. Assuming Johansson wins 1985 in the Ferrari and thus eliminates Sweden, 1986 could be very interesting An Arrows shootout - Boutsen v Danner I THINK. Rosberg could struggle to win 1984 as he hardly ...

James1978

Given Autosport's marks out of 10, it should really be Kimi lol

James1978

1. Norris
2. Sainz

James1978

I'm going for Tsunoda as yes the stewards were terrible but making that mistake twice is reject gold.

James1978

You haven't included the points table tBone! But I did call it about 1979 - though what a ludicrous points system that was. It's the closest thing to the medal system Bernie wanted to introduce! Anyway now Villeneuve Jr can't win 1998 I did take a sneak preview of it (looked at the full table on Wik...

James1978

Ferrari's race pace after their disaster last week. Even hope they might have had a nibble at Bottas/Perez if they'd qualified well in Sainz's case, and not been delayed in Leclerc's case.

James1978

I'm going to say

1. F1.5 - all of them LAPPED
2. The rain for coming too late.

James1978

I'm going for Russell. Beat an Alpine, an Alpha Tauri, a Ferrari and both Alfas.

James1978

Ferrari for definite. I get why people are saying Mercedes but they haven't had competition like this for a while (and when they did you knew Ferrari in 2017/18 wouldn't be as sharp as Red Bull are now), plus also most of 2019 and 2020 Red Bull only had one car in the mix - having Perez in the mix i...

James1978

God, Gijs Van Lennep has scored 2 podiums. The world is coming to an end!!

(And is that a very early first win for Williams I see there?)

James1978

Montoya might even struggle to win 2001 as he finishes so few races (6 I think) meaning he could be vulnerable to a slower but more reliable car (Verstappen Snr maybe), so he could still be in for 2004. Whatever way it's either him or Alonso (1 point between them in real life so hard to predict). I ...

James1978

There is actually a chance Japan gets out before 1998 too (they could well win 3 between 1987 and 1991 by my reckoning). So if Villeneuve Snr does win 1979 we're left literally with that shared Stewart drive!

James1978

1974 was the one I really couldn't predict as I knew it would be really close between Fittipaldi and Regazzoni. Rindt has already won 1 title for Austria, so that probably means Scheckter wins 1977 (though as there haven't been any significant South African drivers since, it won't affect later years...

James1978

Scratch what I said above about Perez after what happened yesterday! But I have one here that will definitely be deemed unpopular by some anyway - every time I hear of a 2021 race been cancelled/postponed due to Covid, such as recent examples Canada, Turkey and now Singapore - I keep thinking they s...

James1978

Think Bottas deserves it just above his teammate and Pirelli.

James1978

All 3 podium finishers plus the veteran pair Alonso and Kimi.

James1978

The biggest shock I can see there from 2020 is Stroll ahead of Checo. I'm guessing a lot of that would have been the early part of the season.

Anyway this whole thing has been ultimately fascinating!

James1978

To me, Heikki Kovalainen is an anonymous winner. Just lucky that Massa and Hamilton both hit trouble (and Kimi was trapped in slower traffic at a circuit you can't pass on too).

James1978

Damn you Alonso!! (Stopping Kobayashi winning......)

James1978

So according to the Williams and Mercedes stats - Maldonado beats Bottas by more than Hamilton beat Rosberg. Then Bottas later became Hamilton's teammate. So that means to me if Maldonado had been in a Mercedes those last 7 years he might have won a few WDCs.

James1978

Merzario wins a race!!!!

James1978

Didn't a similar wheel nut incident happen with Force India once? (Can't remember the race but they had Sutil and Di Resta driving for them).

Anyway I vote for Hamilton. Seeing him get overcut twice was quite funny

James1978

Was struggling to decide so I'll go on the Autosport marks awarded - Vettel was the only 10 so I'll say him.

James1978

Massively surprised that Hamilton was further ahead of Button than Alonso was ahead of Massa!

James1978

God, I was really wrong to think Webber only had a chance in 2008 as I thought Rosberg was much better than that even in his debut season.

James1978

I think Webber might get one more chance to make it 4 (2008 with Coulthard in wind-down to retirement mode). Certainly he won't win any more once Vettel joins him at red Bull!

James1978

I have an inkling Ickx might cause an upset and beat Rindt in 1970 as he has much more to gain from eliminations.

James1978

If we were looking at a past equivalent, it's like Pierluigi Martini getting fired from Minardi where he was loved, and the only option he had was to take something like the 2nd Benetton alongside Schumacher or the 2nd McLaren alongside Senna and obviously being nowhere near either of them! ...Or M...

James1978

Got another one which could possibly be deemed "unpopular". Perez in the Red Bull just feels totally wrong to me. I miss him being attached to a midfield team where he was seen as one of the family and always punched above his weight. I know Aston Martin are struggling right now but he'd h...

James1978

I said Webber in my original predictions for 2003 but think Kimi has a good chance - DC was often trying to make progress from poor grid positions. It was probably Barrichello's best year in comparison to Schumacher too.

James1978

It was Siffert who I was referring to above.

James1978

If Gene hadn't had that cameo with Williams I reckon he'd be seen as some sort of reject legend now

James1978

Just had a quick peek at the 1965 championship in real life - it is anyone's in this! The driver I had winning in my mental notes is not the highest-placed driver in the championship but someone who finishes more races - though the best 6 scores rule could also scupper him due to dropping points. It...

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