Grand Prix Rejects

LellaLombardi

1.World Drivers Champion: Rosberg - I hope 2.World Constructors Champion: Mercedes 3.Scandal of the season: Something involving Bernie, no doubt. 4.Who will get replaced before the end of the season: Verstappen, when they find that it's too much too young for him. Let's hope it doesn't wreck his ca...

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Congrats to them, but the idea of Kimi pulling faces and singing nursery rhymes to his son really makes the mind boggle!

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Using that logic, Oscar Pistorius should have been let off (even more than he was...) for killing Reeva Steenkamp. Playing the "please don't sue me because I'm disabled" card really doesn't improve my opinion of him, unless he has a genuine mental disorder that's making him talk twaddle, i...

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That "well aware of my health problems" line in his apology is bizarre. I thought he was only a paraplegic, not that he was delusional.

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I thought he was a good source on the Schumi story until his management said there'd been no contact. Now this. Very strange behaviour.

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Can't believe it's a year since I was desperately looking for updates and dreading going to bed in case he passed away in the night. Keep fighting Michael. I am also starting to wonder if Streiff is being a bit of a troll. I can't see him being allowed to continue visiting - if he ever did - if he's...

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I usually end up watching the flyaway races at Mini Lella's gym club, which has wi-fi, or in the gym on a Sunday morning. The gym telly has subtitles on and what the speech recognition software comes up with for the driver's names is usually more entertaining than the race.

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I only had a passing interest in things this year, and I think this will be the case next year. I find drivers like Magnussen, Perez, Hulkenberg, Kvyat, Grosjean and Bottas are still worth watching - the second tier is more interesting than the top tier at the moment where one team is completely dom...

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I can see Palmer's point, but at the same time you simply cannot talk yourself up like that before you've even sat in a car. Anyhow to the job in hand: 1. Ferrari. This is a front running team? Looked stale and tired. Both drivers should go. 2. Sauber. Last chance to salvage anything from this seaso...

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Given the cloud that Alonso left McLaren under last time, plus the fact that he's only wanting to go there to keep driving until a Mercedes seat comes up, I don't think he will have much influence (or not as much as he would maybe like) over Ron Dennis anymore. So I don't think Ron cares whether or ...

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Streiff got into a bit of trouble with Kehm not long after the accident for saying that Schumi was out of danger. This was at the time when the family were being very militant about what news came out. I would be inclined to say that he isn't making things up though, unless he's a very unpleasant in...

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I'm not a particular fan of Button but I do think it is disrespectful of McLaren to make him potentially be going into his last F1 race without being able to mark it or do a proper farewell. I've said it before, but it would be wrong to get rid of Magnussen. Dropping two second drivers - neither of ...

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McLaren have delayed their announcement of Alonso's signing their driver line-up until next month: m EDIT: Ninja'd Something must have gone wrong then. I can't see why they wouldn't announce it now otherwise. Either Alonso is dragging his heels, or they are having trouble extricating either But...

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Motorsport has probably the weakest development program of any major sport. The BBC has an initiative called "Get Inspired" where you can visit a website and get information on how to take up a sport after watching it on TV. Gymnastics has signed up to this in a big way. But if you click o...

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The fatal flaw in Bernie's argument is that the rich 70 year old fans he is so keen on will also remember a time when F1 was much better than this.

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This really is just facepalm to the power of facepalm.

I think he's playing a game of "If I can't run this, then no-one will" and is making sure he kills it off or leaves it in too desperate a state to continue, then retires.

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Very sad to hear. Marussia were why we love Reject teams - real tryers and showed a lot of spirit in the face of adversity. Very like Simtek back in the day.

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Ed24 wrote:As for the Perez saving Marussia argument, at the same time it could significantly hurt Sauber so I don't support that at all.

On balance, I'd say Sauber hurt themselves and I'd rather Perez saved Marussia. And this is coming from a Sauber fan.

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The update from his dad on BBC today is just heartbreaking to read. He is in a very bad way indeed. Whether he returns to racing is not important now - it's whether he can even wake up at the moment.

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Terrible news. As others have said, outcomes from this type of brain injury are rarely good. Hoping he is the one who can buck the trend. To add to Hammond, he has also mentioned having short term memory problems and part of the reason we see him on TV so much at the moment is that he does not know ...

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I saw this too, and unless he's been mistranslated then I'd say it's accurate. Todt is very much part of the family's inner circle. This is more than I had dared hope for actually. The most recent indicators were that he was still only minimally conscious, and I had basically accepted that we would ...

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It's testament to the quality of helmets nowadays that he wasn't killed outright. Hard to say whether it was an aquaplane or something else given the speed that he goes into into it but it appears to be full racing speed

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I had expected McLaren to confirm Alonso today but they haven't. Either they're waiting for the dust to settle on poor Bianchi, or Ron Dennis is about to get the best revenge ever.

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Forza Jules indeed. As I said on the other thread, waiting for news like this is awful and reminiscent of the waiting of news on Schumacher, and indeed other injured drivers in the past.

And as I said with Schumacher, meaningful quality of life is the outcome we must hope for.

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Very upsetting and I don't pray, but I am hoping for a positive outcome. It sounds eerily similar to Di Villota's accident though. This waiting brings back memories of waiting for good news on Schumi and none being forthcoming. Rant alert: I really hope this will shut up the stupid minority of peopl...

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As Alonso is saying in the BBC interview that he "has not ruled out leaving Ferrari" at the end of the year then it's a done deal if you ask me. Hardly anyone has said that and then stayed. Both McLaren and Alonso need each other right now.

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I think Coops wins the internet today!

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I can see McLaren going for Alonso or Vettel, but not both. It's at odds with Ron Dennis' comments to Kevin Magnussen about not letting his penalties change the way he drives. While I don't believe it will happen, Alonso and Vettel is a far more marketable line up than Alonso and Magnussen or Vette...

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Verstappen is driving in Friday practice. Is it just me that feels really scared for him? This is way too much too soon.

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So... no pressure and no high expectations being placed on the young lad then. Oh you do know how to look after your drivers, don't you Dr Marko? This is slowly turning into something that won't end good... Oh god, he's going to get dropped if he has a crap season. That is what I found strange in D...

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Funny how much he looks like Ralf. It's a testament to how well Michael protected his family's privacy, that the press could not find any photos of the kids to use in their accident coverage. I think the last time they let a journalist photograph Gina she was about two. Best of luck to him, I look f...

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My votes for today... 1. Jean-Éric Vergne 2. Sergio Pérez Hmm, I even bothered with getting the accents right, what's wrong with me? Same here, only I quoted your post so I wouldn't have to do the accents Checo will keep on enhancing his reputation with drives like these, and JEV should definitely ...

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I think JEV is the new Nick Heidfeld.

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I think the radio has it's place but it's overused now. If you watch footage from the early to mid 90's the radio was there but the quality was so poor and it took so much concentration to listen to it - especially for the drivers - that it was largely used for essential communication only, and that...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/29067962

Probably Benson doing his usual stirring but if this does come to pass then who's leaving?

In spite of the criticism Rosberg got from the team in the last race, I think it would be Hamilton getting the door shown.

They'd never afford him, but I'd love to see him beside Bottas at Williams.

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Speaking of Ron Dennis, I saved a quote by him from an interview earlier this year (March 6th); I'm not easy to be around, but at the end of the day, if you travel through life with me, it's normally a lot more fun than people think. I realise the majority dislikes Ron but I have always thought of ...

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After this article, I fully expect a Sauber resurgence... I certainly hope so. When Peter Sauber re-acquired the team, he said at the time that he was doing it to save the jobs at the factory and the surrounding area which rely on Sauber. BMW were willing to give it back to him cheap, and he felt t...

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Enoch's writing this on a Crosswinds-hosted website that will be seen by a relative handful of people, while Andrew Benson gets to continue drivelling on the BBC. Is this justice? This piece should go viral. Someone send it to Bernie and Jean Todt as well. Completely agree with this. It is a top qu...

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I wouldn't wish this outcome on anyone but I do wonder what was going through his mind when he thought that selling them might be a good idea. He must have considered that they would be difficult to sell (even the least scrupulous press would be aware that publishing stolen records would cause a bac...

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Sauber: Is this really the same team where, two short years ago, they had arguably the strongest driver line up (Perez and Kobayashi), one of the top three cars on a good day and three podiums? They look like a reject team. I have an enormous amount of respect and admiration for Monisha Kalternborn,...

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