Grand Prix Rejects

Peter

Hello, so good to be back. It's been a long long time. So glad to see new team profiles being published, I really enjoyed this one. I hope to stick around for more of what I've missed for so long.

Peter

Good to see Magnussen making it to P4. He's the kind of aggressive driver McLaren needed. I can see why they didn't want to enter this season with 2 conservative drivers who won't get the absolute best speed out of the car. I expect him to continue to outqualify Button. I'm not looking too much into...

Peter

Is there an elplanation as to why the cars are about 4 seconds slower than last year? Surely they don't have that much less downforce. Not surprised by Red Bull's pace. The car is not aerodynamically flawed, Newey's designs are usually anything but, it's just the underpowered, unreliable unit they h...

Peter

I just found a few comments from Button in the BBC preview. http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/formula1/26407279 "I'm always worried about Red Bull," Button said. "If they can put a few laps together you can see their pace. They're strong. It's a good-looking car; it looks like it should work...

Peter

Meanwhile, I just found this: m I've been wondering for a few weeks now since testing started, is RB technically allowed to either use TR technology, or demand their drivers to move over? I vaugely remember some sort of competition rule saying RB can't technically demand TRs submit to them, but am ...

Peter

Wow, I haven't been around for a while. I hope I haven't been forgotten. I lost a lot of interest in F1 with all of the fingerboy dominance, schoolwork and football, but a new season with new regulations, and most importantly, almost zero possibility of the Red Bull dominance to continue due to the...

Peter

Wow, I haven't been around for a while. I hope I haven't been forgotten. I lost a lot of interest in F1 with all of the fingerboy dominance, schoolwork and football, but a new season with new regulations, and most importantly, almost zero possibility of the Red Bull dominance to continue due to the ...

Peter

In my opinion, di Resta is about as average as it gets. Aside from a F3 title, and some Dario Franchitti buildup, as well as a few flashes of slightly above average-ness, he hasn't done much. He doesn't deserve the seat with a top team both him and the British media so desperately want. He's one of ...

Peter

McLaren - Presumably costing themselves a fast car to make Button more comfortable. Whopping total of 2 points, nothing like the 40 points they netted here a year ago.

Peter

1. Adrian Soohtl - Picking up where he left off. The former midfield champion is back to put to bed everyone that isn't in a Ferrari, Red Bull, Lotus, McLaren or Mercedes, and he begins by continuing the destruction of the English media/Dario Franchitti-built career of di Resta. 2. Mika Hakkinen Jnr...

Peter

How about they make a permanent switch to being a team on its own, please. Tired of having one team with reasonable assets being limited to lackluster talent because of the mother ship.

Peter

Really hoping to find a HRT F112 frontwing on ebay someday I'd prefer the F112 to remain in one piece. They could present it at Goodwood in some 10-20 years, as they did with the Life car. That'd be a bit problematic seeing that some of the parts are already missing - the engines have been returned...

Peter

The drivers should man up about being blocked. Seriously, Perez was miles ahead of Senna. Agreed, at the end of the day it didn't make any difference anyway, Senna's slow as a snail even without any other help. A lot of his qualifying sessions have gone to waste this year due ot being held up. Will...

Peter

At the moment, it probably has to go to Bruno Senna , for being demolished by The Reverend once again. 10 cars seperate them, the largest gap between team mates on this grid. Not as reject worthy as Pirelli, for once again playing it too safe and bringing tyres that are just too hard. Sunday is goi...

Peter

Free practice times are completely meaningless figures, because fuel loads and what programme the driver is on are unknown to us. Granted, it's all we have to compare Bottas to Senna, but when you think about the fact that Bottas only needs to look fast to impress the press, while Senna has to start...

Peter

Ohhh what can I say! HRT have a fundamental issue with cooling the brakes, whether its the brake ducts or the fact the FW isn't helping air flow =[ Also watching Narain on board yesterday the side pods where lifting up, another point to Holzer shoddy workmanship. The problem isn't the brakes itself...

Peter

Is this thing about Honda saying that they "might" return similar to the way Volkswagen has said for about 3 years now that they "might" enter the sport? Or is this actually likely to occur?

Peter

Paul Di Resta's problem has always been sponsorship. I think he missed out because Perez is quite simply, an overrated pay-driver. There's only one over-rated driver mentioned in your post. Want to know who? Just tine into the BBC for a word with him. At any time during their broadcasts, ever. Paul...

Peter

Why so much hate directed to ards Senna? Had it not been for the crash in Q2, he would have surely done well. He looked fast in P3. Plus, his collision with Massa wasn't reckless at all, he was taking the racing line, and Massa put his car in a gap that was going to disappear. Good recovery drive, a...

Peter

Shame about Bruno's crash, looked pretty competitive. The crucial difference between Senna and Maldonado is that Senna crashes in practice or qualifying sessions, while Maldonado crashes in the races. Which would you prefer?

Peter

Why is it always Jamie and Enoch? Why is it never Enoch and Jamie?

Peter

Aaaargh...! once again Fernando has the devil's own luck + team orders + disgusting favouritism from the FIA. Good thing that at least Perez took second place form him. Go Perez! In the championship, it's clear that the battle is now between Alonso , Lewis and Kimi. Now I'm rooting for either one o...

Peter

Tarmac on the exit of the hairpin at Hockenheim is probably unnecessary, but getting rid of tarmac runoff completely is absolutely ridiculous. Tarmac runoff would have arguably saved Ayrton Senna's life, and would have probably saved Schuamcher's legs in 1999. Even Burti, in 2001, would have still ...

Peter

pasta_maldonado wrote:For me, it has to be Red Bull, but the ultimate hatred has to go to FC Barcelona They are utter cheating rule-twisting scumbags and dislike Lionel Messi as well

ftfy.

Peter

He wants back into the team? Isn't this similar to Heidfield's suit against Lotus for booting him? He just wants a settlement, and probably doesn't want to rejoin the team.

Peter

Tarmac on the exit of the hairpin at Hockenheim is probably unnecessary, but getting rid of tarmac runoff completely is absolutely ridiculous. Tarmac runoff would have arguably saved Ayrton Senna's life, and would have probably saved Schuamcher's legs in 1999. Even Burti, in 2001, would have still h...

Peter

I wonder if with all the low downforce they have on the car, if they can take Eau Rouge flat out. It just doesn't seem right if they can't. Wouldn't high downforce make it easier? Yes, but they have that ultra low downforce rear wing, which is going to compromise their cornering speed. I don't get ...

Peter

I wonder if with all the low downforce they have on the car, if they can take Eau Rouge flat out. It just doesn't seem right if they can't.

Peter

The only reason the mid-season tests were ineffective were because of the track. The drivers said it was fun to drive at Mugello, but the layout was hardly suited for testing new aero parts. They really shouldn't drop mid-season testing, they just need to use a better racetrack, such as Imola, which...

Peter

I'm actaully going to throw a bonus mention to everyone who says that Ricciardo and Vergne are doing a crap job. The STR7 is a crapbox, and at most Alguersuari would have scored at Monaco and Europe. Buemi would have not done much better that the current two. It's been starting to get on my nerves....

Peter

It's funny how ever since this article was posted, Webber has been performing poorly. Bad Luck Mark strikes again.

Peter

Gotta say that was duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuull, aside from the Jenson/Vettel scrap on lap 1 literally NOTHING happened. All the passes were in the pits, except for the backmarkers and it's not fair to ask them to provide all the entertainment, why the hell does Nurgburgring go into admins...

Peter

Bottas who? If Senna can keep driving like this, Williams may think twice.

Peter

Since Bottas gets so much praise for doing well in a practice session, how about Senna get a mention for being 3rd today? Not bad considering that some of the other guys were on qualifying runs as well. Maybe this could be the race that turns his season back around?

Peter

I'll be honest, Alonso deserves it the most. A 3rd championship for Alonso has been long overdue, 2007 probably should've been his had he not been in a team which wanted Hamilton to beat him more than anything else, and 2010 too, had Ferrari not gotten strategy critically wrong. Webber is a nice guy...

Peter

I just don't want to see DRS overpowered again. I hated to see Alonso go through all that work and ingeniousness in Canada to jump Vettel and Hamilton, only to have Lewis sail past again like it was nothing. To be fair, by that point in the race Lewis's pace advantage, at more than a second a lap a...

Peter

Whiting needs to use the DRS at a track like this to create an overtaking opportunity, rather than to create overtaking. Meaning, use DRS to try and get the cars closer together, so they can overtake on their own, without DRS. Have the DRS zone on the short straight after turn 1. That will bunch th...

Peter

CoopsII wrote:Anybody else receive their HRT card yet?

I did, a few weeks ago. Looks rather nice.

Peter

What really peeves me about the engine formula, is that the restrictions on what the manufacturers can do to their engines is ridiculous. It's counterproductive, and it's pretty much like telling a few people to make a cake, but telling them it has to be square, white frosting, plain flavor, 2 table...

Peter

Reshuffle the season calendar, then allow more in-season testing. Group races by region. Millions are wasted every year flying to Asia twice at the start of the year, then 3 times more later in the year, for example. Or going from Monaco, to Canada, then back across the pond to Valencia, then back ...

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