Grand Prix Rejects

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1. Zhou Guanyu - never saw him scoring a point on his F1 debut.

2. Kevin Magnussen - Haas looks much better based on the small sample size but it was still a great comeback.

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1. Red Bull - two engine-related DNFs in the last three laps of the race. Ugh! They stole ROTR at the line!

2. McLaren - no pace, no nothing. Well, at least they finished. Bwoah!

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McLaren having a good shot at ROTR in Bahrain

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1. Michael Masi.

But hey, "that's called a motor race, Toto!"

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1. Yuki Tsunoda - career-best 4th place and nobody noticed that in the end!

2. Sergio Perez - epic wingman job to cost Hamilton 5 seconds on one lap compared to Max.

3. Nicholas Latifi - if it wasn't for his crash we'd have a different WDC.

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McLaren's pace seems to be off lately and Norris just tried to take advantage of Sainz's poor getaway. First DNF for Ricciardo since the 2020 season opener so it's not that bad, actually this is their first mechanical DNF all season. Anyway, the ROTR winner is Yuki Tsuonda . I'm sorry but he really ...

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1. Sebastian Vettel - I know it was a calculated gamble but that one lap cameo on slicks looked totally amateur. You knew it was a bad call after literally three corners? I can't call Mercedes strategy rejectful, I believe Hamilton really thought track would be dry enough to go for slicks in the la...

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1. Carlos Sainz - if it wasn't for that lousy pitstop he would have been right on Hamilton's tail at the end?

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1. Valtteri Bottas - only for ignoring TO and getting the FL which forced Hamilton to pit in order to regain it. I wish he showed more anger inside that car now that it's clear he's getting axed. 2. Robert Kubica - jumped from the couch to outpace the Haas cars which wasn't a given. I don't know ho...

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1. Haas - a new low of ineptitude after Kubica jumps in from the couch and still beats them in both qualifying and the race. Mazepin mouthing off also suggests there is something clearly wrong behind the scenes. Schumacher was miles off in the race after they pitted him early and he was losing more...

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1. Alan van der Merwe - the only driver who showed some anger around Spa on Sunday. Everyone else is ineligible by default in my book.

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1. FIA - for allowing to outbid the 2005 US GP fiasco, This one takes the cake for worst F1 Grand Prix ever. They should have cancelled it if they deemed the rain was too much. Instead we got a one lap Grand Prix with half-points. Pathetic all around. 2. Michael Masi - this was his Brian Barnhart L...

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1. Valtteri Bottas - it's not even close. This should be a win by default for this race.

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1. Fernando Alonso - for single-handedly preventing Lewis Hamilton from winning this race. Esteban Ocon (and Vettel) would have been a sitting duck if not for Alonso's driving.

And he won Driver of the Day which means even the social media mob knows exactly what happened there.

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1. Lewis Hamiltion - won a race because he wrecked his main rival out of it. Later blamed the crash on Verstappen. A well deserved ROTR. 2. David Croft - for having an orgasm on live air like Hamilton just won WW3. His fanboy commentary is even more evident when you consider Martin Brundle tries to...

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1. Daniel Ricciardo - massive lack of pace on both Saturday & Sunday when his teammate was the best of the rest again. Guess Paul Ricard was a dead cat bounce? Honorable Mention: Esteban Ocon - continues to keep pole position for Mr. Anonymous Award - and that says a lot with Antonio Giovinazzi...

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1. Ferrari - It was a Charles LeClerc driver error and maybe Monaco is the one place where any team gambles with a pole position over a five-place grid drop but they really should have checked the car and avoided that DNS facepalm. That was just stupid. 2. Daniel Ricciardo - lapped by a teammate. I...

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Not many reject-worthy action in this race. 1. Red Bull Racing - got clowned by Mercedes and they knew the set up was on like 10 seconds after Hamilton pitted. You can't give away race wins like that if you want to end the Merc domination. 2. Whomever re-designed Turn 10 - it still brings zero quali...

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1. Daniel Ricciardo - finally made Norris look invisible during a Grand Prix. It took 37 laps for Sky to even mention Norris' name in anger IIRC.

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1. Kimi. It's all been said. 2. Botthas. Someone please give me a good reason why Mercedes keep renewing his contract? DHM. Anyone who believed for a minute that Lewis wasn't gonna cruise to another championship. 2. Botthas. Someone please give me a good reason why Mercedes keep renewing his contra...

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1. Esteban Ocon - just for not being Mr Anonymous for a change. Let's see how long he keeps it up.

2. Mick Schumacher - finished ahead of a Williams! Sound the horns! Well, it was Latifi but still...

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1. Kimi Raikkonen - That's the moment when you think this guy is too old to be in F1 anymore. If this happened to Mazepin, he'd be crushed by everyone. To make matters worst, he actually run into his teammate of all people. 2. George Russell - Talked about scoring points after qual and got used as p...

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1. George Russell - when alleged future boss Toto Wolff calls your explanation 'bullshit' it's a slam dunk. Promptly followed by a social media apology I bet would have never been issued if not for Wolff's negative response to begin with. Three years in that Williams car and GR is still learning? No...

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1. Antonio Giovinazzi - back to his slow & anonymous self. Well on his way to become Mr Anonymous 2019. 2. Valtteri Bottas - used as a pinball on the opening lap which piles more pressure on the 2020 contract. 3. Renault - their least competitive showing of the season even with this being Hulk's...

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Random useless trivia of the day: Hungaroring is Hulkenberg's worst F1 track on his resume (also Sochi but we need more races there to develop a pattern).

Since finishing 6th for Williams in his rookie season, Hulk's results in the following years are: 11th, 11th, DNF, DNF, 10th, DNF, 12th, 12th

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1. Valtteri Bottas - this might be the race (or crash) that cost him the 2020 Mercedes seat. This guy is no title material whatsoever and Mercedes might as well roll with Ocon now. Not to mention he was stuck behind Stroll of all people... with both on slicks! Even overtaking looney Vettel made sho...

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The current F2 season reminds me of 2013 GP2. Too many seasoned vets who are winning by default while they should have done this way early. Latifi or Markelov should like spank the field by now given their experience in the series. Not even gonna mention Sette Camara or de Vries whom I never conside...

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Polish media have run a story that Sergio Sette Camara could take Petrobras money to Williams in 2020

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1. Haas - I thought Grosjean was getting the boot at the end of the season anyway but Magnussen is dragging himself into serious trouble as well. 2. Sebastian Vettel - Pure racecraft meister. What a joke this is. 3. FIA FOM TV coverage - Battle between Leclerc/Gasly and TV switches to show the God ...

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Gunther Steiner flat out called this race the worst in Haas team history but Pierre Gasly takes my vote. He's been underperforming all season but I've run out of patience. I suspect Helmut Marko will soon too.

PS. The Paul Ricard astroturf run-offs is a Hall of Fame Reject-worthy stuff alone.

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Can't give it to LeClerc since he said he's gonna take some risks, besides you have to admit the first 15 laps when he was making moves was the most exciting part of the race. What's the point of driving around for 2 hours in 14th place? Then people would bitch about Monaco being boring as hell agai...

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If this is the final F1 race at Catalunya for a while (maybe ever), the entire track deserves ROTR here. Talk about going out with a whimper, a true homage to one of the most boring venues in the modern era. Both Magny Cours & Catalunya never lived up to any expectations as "next gen" ...

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They should at least bring the Tunnel Oost name back to the unnamed T9?

I have little doubt this will be a boring track for modern F1 but Catalunya was riding on my nerves for a while so the loss is truly minimal. And maybe we get more rain in Holland?

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Renault F1 Team is clearly the big ROTR winner for me. Enough has been said about Ricciardo's bump on Kvyat but Hulkenberg finished non-existent 14th which is actually an upgrade since he crashed out the last two years on this track. Even the balloons were in Renault team colors which sums up their...

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The penalty on Kvyat was harsh, I've seen bigger incidents resulting in 5 secs. slap. Like Davidson said on TV, it was a case of 3-to-1 with Norris outside the racing line already. The camera work in T1 was a joke. Same for the backstretch bridge view of people eating ice cream when there was a pass...

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Get ready for more Will Smith in upcoming years

The "mass appeal of celebrities"? Dis gonna be good

http://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/264 ... e-weekends

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Just to say how ridiculous Dorna was calling out Liberty/F1 on the grid girls

Some cleavage on display during the Qatar MotoGP round of all places

https://www.quotidianomotori.com/motogp ... resh_ce-cp

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Obviously Ferrari as a whole effort. A supposed 1-2 lock-in on a circuit that suits them ends in calamity through both reliability & driver error. A honorable mention to Renault for suffering two mechanical failures in the same spot on the track in a matter of seconds. That's Hollywood like scri...

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1962 was the first time Belgian GP allowed odd-numbered entries. 1968 was the first time Italian GP allowed odd-numbered entries but they promptly went back to even-only numbers the next two seasons. The otherwise unheralded 1973 Argentine GP is the last F1 race where only even-numbered entries appe...

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Fernando Alonso - Yes, the engine sucks but we know that since Melbourne. However bitching about it in public on Honda's home turf is plain dumb. His political approach to holding the paddock hostage over the best seat available has bitten him in the ass and he can't do anything about it anymore. S...

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