Grand Prix Rejects

GerhardTalger

The IIDOTR topic is gonna have a tonne of honourable mentions this week but no one can look past Stroll, well done to get third, just a shame that Bottas pulled the tiny bit needed on the last lap! ROTR will be similar: pretty much the whole field deserves it, yet simultaneously there's one obvious...

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If Alonso joins Renault for 2018, he has been at the same team for 3 different periods.

Who have already succeeded in doing this?

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- Driver of the Year Award = Sergio Perez - finally impressed by regularly beating the ever-dull Hulkenberg more than those two times it actually counted - Team of the Year Award = Mercedes. No contest - Race of the Year Award = Probably Spain. - Rookie of the Year Award = Esteban Ocon - Most Improv...

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That was a stunning lap by Wehrlein.

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Perez and Alonso. Both of them, really.

(1 Perez 2 Alonso if I had to choose)

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1. Sauber - Lel
2. Verstappen - Laughable

Kvyat was a complete idiot, Rosberg was very poor all around. Rejectful weekend.

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The other one that really sticks to me is the other performance of our favourite track invader, when he tackled Vanderlei De Lima at the 2004 Olympics. The Brazilian really came out of nowhere holding a 30 second lead with just over 10 kilometres to go and had only won Pan-American marathons in not ...

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We all know our great hero Luca Badoer and I feel that moment is probably the saddest in F1 history where nobody was seriously injured. For the smallest team, the driver who not has taken any points whatsoever, suddenly is right up there and... well, yeah, everything goes wrong. What happened yester...

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1. Verstappen
2. Sainz

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1. Mercedes
2. Ferrari strategists

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Sounds like Jacques Villa-neuve to me.

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1. Red Bull and Kvyat
2. Alonso not really being able to 'have fun'.

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1. KMag
2. Alonso

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1. Red Bull. Ricciardo was very good again, too bad his tyre blew. Kvyat was also pretty solid. Too bad they went a little conservative on tyres opposed to Ferrari.
2. Max Verstappen, for driving right behind Hamilton on lap whatnot, 10? on P20, and driving right behind Hamilton on lap 56 on P8.

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1. Lewis Hamilton - Yeah, he started in last. Yeah, he had wing problems right of the start. But on lap 20 he was, albeit a little out of sync, racing in third position. What the HELL has he been doing in the second half of the race? Appalling. Not getting past Massa was the icing on the cake. 2. Re...

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I'll consider all circuits and specify layouts by a single year: 1. Australian GP - Adelaide (1995) 2. Malaysian GP - Sepang (Current) 3. Monaco GP - Monaco (1997) 4. Austrian GP - Österreichring (1987) 5. Swiss GP - Bremgarten (1952) 6. German GP East - Hockenheimring (1999) 7. German GP West A - N...

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1. Grosjean + Haas
2. New tyre regulations

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Max Verstappen for being a whiny little James Hunt. And moreover my blind compatriots who think the blame is all on Sainz and the team and that he was right in whining. Don't get me wrong, I like it when he does good, feels like the Netherlands is finally on it, but if he behaves this way, no way Jo...

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I doubt he would actually have scored (given he had the same car gremlins as Luca had in Europe), although just maybe he would have been closer to Rubens. Maybe some decent performances would have landed him a 2000 seat, but I'm not sure. He could have beaten Verstappen to the Arrows seat, maybe, bu...

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This has probably been asked at the time, but if Hamilton had decided to stick at McLaren, who would have taken the second Mercedes seat instead? I remember Heidfeld was quite close to a seat, wasn't he? Or was this earlier, before Schumacher's comeback maybe.. It was back in 2009 that Heidfeld was...

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This has probably been asked at the time, but if Hamilton had decided to stick at McLaren, who would have taken the second Mercedes seat instead? Either of the Force India drivers, the longer they would have waited, the more likely Nico would have been over Paul. A Nico/Nico combination would have ...

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For a multiple race winner who drove for both Ferrari and McLaren, I tend to find Patrick Tambay quite forgettable. I don't know what it is. But it just seems like he was pure filler for me.

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I do have to say I think people either underrate or overrate Martini, for all that he has done he should have deserved a sup top drive, but if he, for instance, had taken the Ferrari seat in 92, he would have done as worse as Capelli, I think. In that light, there has been no exceptional Italian dri...

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Back to Fontana, the only thing I can ever remember about him is his pathetic blocking of Jacques Villeneuve in the 1997 championship-decider due to Sauber being Ferrari customers....(I mean even Ralf Schumacher got out the way faster than he did!!) The commentary on that moment was pretty entertai...

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1. Kvyat
2. Nobody

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Ferrari. Clearly.

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If I look at the current drivers, a Rosberg fluke aside, I'd say Ricciardo, Grosjean and Verstappen are the only ones who could make a championship. Hulk is too long at mediocre teams right now and Bottas is not good enough I think. The other ones, just, no. Looking at what's not in F1, Vandoorne lo...

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Rob Dylan wrote:Who could forget that chin, though?

After seeing Dafne Schippers it's actually quite forgettable.

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Raikkonen is the natural choice. But Verstappen was also showing a poor form. Sainz was also doing some strange things after his brake failure... In regards of that, my ROTR is connected to what Sainz did. That marshall, who was almost hit by Vettel after picking up a piece of debris... what an idio...

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1. Perez - Good drive
2. McLaren - 7 cars out and no McLaren. Impossible!

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What if DC won the championship in 1998? Considering what he actually needed to take the crown, he should have been lucky in the early season - meaning no retirement in Canada and a strong performance in Argentina, which would get Schumacher out of the picture as in the first 8 races, he wins just ...

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Red Bull, definitely.

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1. Hulkenberg
2. Alonso

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1. Vettel
2. Ricciardo

HM for the Toro Rosso boys.

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1. Stewards
2. Kvyat's luck with the SC's

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If Hamiltons car let's down on him just once it can get exciting.. but it's not likely, I agree.

Funny how this is the most exciting part of the race.

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If Mercedes will be disqualified, it should be obvious.

Otherwise I guess Lotus will be my choice. The THIRD time.

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1. Ericsson

And honestly, I don't know anybody else to give my vote. Nobody did anything exceptional.

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I can do with Monza being replaced by Imola or Mugello, really. Boring circuit.

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MadGaz85 wrote:Might sound a bit morbid, but is 1995 the earliest F1 season where every driver who participated is still alive today?

3 months later this isn't true... not only for one but for two cases. Pretty harsh days, so to speak.

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