Grand Prix Rejects

Statement from the Bianchi family states that Jules has a diffuse axonal injury to his brain. Devastating news to hear. Forza Jules! This is terrible news. This kind of injury still makes me very scared. About four years ago a then co-worker of mine had a car accident and had DAI. As colleagues we ...

We are lucky about ads in Brazil. Even if F1 has always been on FTA (on the same Network for about 40 years), there has never been ad breaks (as long as I know). There are only breaks after the checkered flag. During the races we have moments where the sound is cut and an announcer read a list of sp...

This is the season of the underperforming teamate! Badoer, Chaves, van de Poele, Asmer, Beretta, Yoong are all being trashed by their teamates. Even Winkelhock and Rustad cannot consistently perform as their equal. If this situation continues till the end of the season, there will be lots of drivers...

Forti sponsor nearly defaulting on payments A unnamed Chinese glass manufacturing company has been reported to default sponsorship to Forti F1RMGP team until last minute. The deal was inked at the Dutch Grand Prix - allegedy in exchange for "Adrian Sutil's weapons" but they did not pay an...

eytl wrote:My difficulty with that is because if the gate was actually open then we'd be praising Kimi for his intuitiveness and quick thinking.

Not so intuitive. He has spoken that he had went off track in the same turn before. But then, the gate was open...
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Close enough to portuguese so I can understand it clearly. Maratoria is when someone declares that he will not pay a debt. In this context it means that FIA will grant the team a week to find somebody to buy the team after it has not payed some debt. Probably the entry fee. The catch is that it was ...

Benetton wrote:What is good about the Bottas-Maldonado pairing is what Valtteri said, they will push each other forward.

Not literally, we hope. Maldonado has pushed other drivers enough already

James1978 wrote: I thought the Brazilians were OK with Massa giving up the win to Kimi in 2007 for team reasons though?

Only because the position change was made on the pit stops. Yes, it sounds silly, but this made a whole lot of difference.

It is just like it was said: most people here in Brazil do not care about F1. They care only about a Brazilian in first, and nothing else. He was in third, and this was not good enough. And worst of all: he let Alonso pass. This is an inexcusable offense. Or so they judge. Massa going better on the ...

Regarding the awful behaviour by the fans, I'm quite shocked at this as I thought Alonso and particularly Massa were well liked in Brazil. There isn't any possibility it could've been directed more at Nelson Piquet, is there? I gather he's hated in Brazil and I'm surprised he has the audacity to sh...

Also I found it hilarious when he was rubbing Massa shoulders when talking to him . If I read Massa body language correctly, it seemed to suggest he wasn't enjoying it. Really? That looked the most awkward thing in the world to me. Thats kinda of what I mean, in that I found it funny just how awkwa...

Did they cheer for Vettel then? When Vettel went to the stands' front? Yes, they cheered. With some shouts of "You are the one that deserve it", obviously aiming at Alonso and Massa... There was some families, and some well behaved people. But there was a significant portion that seemed o...

Nominees: Stewards - The Hulk DT was shameful. If I am not mistaken, there was a similar incident a few laps after that involving KK, without any punishing. Di Resta - Was was that? The only reason he was not anonymous was that he kept spining and going out the track. But the icing of the cake was t...

Hurry, Warren Buffett! This is Don Pentecost's chance!

FIRST to buy Life assets? A unidentified source assured that in the outcome of the spectacular fire that destroyed the fragile FIRST prototype, Lamberto Leoni is in talkings with Ernesto Vita to buy the old Life assets. Life, as it is know, left the series at the end of the 2013 season. According t...

That was a brilliant season! If only more people would say so as the season is going along, as has been the case before... One more coming from the shadows of the guest line, after lurking for a couple of seasons, just to say: great season. Well, better late than never... And a some more speculatio...