Grand Prix Rejects

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The most likeable aspect of either team at the moment are the liveries.

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Vettel really shouldn't have won the last two races, and the Red Bull, while still quick, is vulnerable to McLaren on strategy and with DRS and KERS. Hamilton should have 2 wins and Button should've picked up a win also. That would leave things on 129-92 with Vettel and Hamilton. Oh well. If you loo...

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Why the clamour for Senna? How about the chap who outperformed him last year, Sakhon Yamamoto? Or that other chap who outperformed him- Narun Chandhok? Or that other chap who outperformed him- Christian Klien?

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Hamilton deserves the award, but his eventual position was mainly because of the McLaren letting him down.

He and Di Resta get the "How is that thing still running" award. If we were doing that award.

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1. Kobayashi- a true example of how to get a midfield car to outperform superior teams. What a drive. 2. Vettel's tyres, and Vettel for keeping it on the road under immense pressure Would've been Pastor Maldonado but for the disaster. Kamui now definitely never featuring on this site as a reject has...

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As someone glad to see Pastor ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING, I was crestfallen to see him get taken out like that.

Maybe we'll make an F1 driver out of him yet.

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For the future of CFD as the primary design tool in F1 I am a little sad. I hope in future CFD is used exclusively, to help cut costs and bring new teams into the sport on a more level playing field with the rest. Virgin have proved you can build a safe (eventually), fast (speaking generally) race c...

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I found it infinitely improbable, for a number of reasons. I understand the concept of the thread, and at the end of the day that is my opinion. To be fair I didn't think Heidfeld or Kobayashi's races were pretty surprising, despite the quality of their drives. So I chose Lewis and Seb 'at the end ...

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Sort of, though they were on weird strategies by that position and out of sequence with the pit stops. The end result was one crashed out quite badly and the other one ended up driving very slowly and getting in the way as usual. Which isn't so improbable. But a better suggestion than Vettel and Ham...

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I guess freeing up the regulations in terms of development to have different solutions, many of which may be unreliable, and putting limits on components with finite lifespans would be ways of increasing attrition without making it too obvious that's what they were doing it for. Something that carri...

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You realise this is the 'infinitely improbable' drive of the race? What about Vettel and Hamilton's coming first and second was improbable, let alone infinitely improbable? Why do I have to bring this up every race? What can't people understand about the proposition of this thread? It isn't driver o...

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Are the days of engine blow-ups, mechanical gremlins, hydraulic failures, gearbox failures, brake failures etc long gone? And are the days of drivers taking each other out and having crashes also long gone? Watching some of the old races, the crashes people seemed to get into are amateurish by today...

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1. Heidfeld Coulthard and Brundle once again sneering at the guy at the back for not making instant headway are proved utterly wrong when the strategy played out to the end. Heidfeld ended up one lap from passing Rosberg. An extraordinary drive that embarrassed his teammate whose slide down the fiel...

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The Race: - Massa . The guy just looks like a lost rookie. He locked up almost every time the camera cut to him and then ditched his car haplessly, he also spun the car. One of his very very bad days. Maybe he should quit, he's the worst driver of the top 3 teams. Permanent sulking victim mentality ...

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Where is the Infinite Improbability thread?

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I'd welcome a return to the circuit, the scenery was beautiful and there were some decent races.

Certainly over Bahrain which they ought to be paying us to watch it's so bad.

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I don't like people who are this conceited. Go home, Luca.

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Eric Lux is pressing charges?

Not very Bond villainy is it?

He should invite Adrian into his amphibious spider monolith and then deathtrap him into a shark tank.

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Linked maybe, but a serious contender? I don't know about that. For the Merc seat both Di Resta and Hülkenberg are ahead of him. Specially after Di Resta matching his pace. Renault has Heidfeld, Petrov and Kubica. And then they have Senna and Grosjean waiting in the wings. And Renault usually gives...

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Who is overrating Sutil? No-one's tipping him as a future world champion- he's linked with obvious seats like Merc and Renault as a step up to his good performances for Force India. No-one's gone remotely over the top about him. When he isn't glassing people in the face I have to mention him just so...

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I might remind people that investment can also be a way of escaping debt.

I doubt the Greek people appreciate that after the disaster of the 2004 olympics, but it's still true.

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and here is a prime example why Adrian Sutil is THE most overrated driver on the grid. True, he hasn't been a Has-been, because he never-was anything. Sure, he had one or two good drives... but do I need to remind you it wasn't Sutil who dragged that Force India into the pole and to the podium... i...

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Oh god, that chicane. Every year I forget and then it hits me like a huge dollop of pointlessness.

I think Magny-Cours would be quite exciting under new rules. I'm not sure why but I always seemed to have exciting races on Grand Prix 2 at Magny-Cours, maybe I just have a skewed perspective.

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How can Sutil have been a has-been for the past 2 years?

What had he done in the years preceding that?

They were the most successful period in his career and has it in him to be up at the front, no doubt.

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I look forward to slowly and surely unveiling their dangerous megalomaniacal tendencies.

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I don't think Vettel was really developed and ready to go. I think he had pure speed (perhaps more than Alguersuari) but he did his stupid mistakes too and that led to him being called "crashkid". In his 4th season, when he won the championship, and he nearly could've won the championship...

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If he's so desperate to touch every car on the grid I'd suggest the pitwalk before the race.

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Then again some people like Vettel were developed and ready to go at the same age. If STR do decide to dump one of them I really hope it isn't Buemi. I know he can have his off-days but the pace is there and he will bring home points if the car is quick enough. I'd like to see him break through to t...

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People say Alesi was unlucky for how many podiums he got without winning, but to look at it another way, he never looked to have the cutting edge and consistency to win regularly. He probably was unlucky not to win 4 or 5, but no more than that. Is Alguersuari unlucky for finishing just outside the ...

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I agree with the above. The direction constantly failed to recognise points of excitement, almost as if they were supposed to be routine or uninteresting. There was no sense of narrative to what they chose to focus on and that too left me feeling pretty clueless about anything below the top 8.

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Consistent, or boring, or mediocre, or what? The bloke has now been in 31 races and every finish of his has been between 9th and 16th place. When you think of the possible general variations in a season I find this quite improbable. For instance, Petrov and Heidfeld had podiums then low finishes wit...

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1. Schumacher

But I don't want him to go. He's great entertainment. Funny really as when he was at Ferrari I couldn't wait for him to leave the sport.

2. Maldonado

Just rubbish.

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1. Buemi
2. Kobayashi

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I think he was doing alright and just made a mistake. Could have been in the middle somewhere, he's not genuinely a second off nico

Although if you look at it another way, he is.

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I want to see good racing with cars that look and sound like Formula 1 cars.

Surely this and making F1 less environmentally damaging aren't mutually exclusive.

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Romain Grosjean perhaps?

I thought Burti did quite well personally. These days top ten finishes keep you in the sport, and he did so with worse machinery.

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Speaking of which, where's that thread with all the grand prix highlights?

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When Virgin started, their "we can do it, just watch us go!" PR-spin overhyped everything- especially Branson, and now they're barely even saying anything because they know they're hitting the ceiling in terms of resources. I understand why you need to be positive to keep sponsors onside, ...

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I do find it continually amazing. Usually the ermm... effluent just snowballs. No-one wants to be associated with bad news. USF1 recently just had that written all over it. Now the team are just about set for the season, surely the main aim is getting some investment somewhere. Virgin and Renault ma...

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Haha. 1994 , rather. I was only 7 in 1993 and not much interested in the exploits of Alain Prost, especially not when the old French bloke won 7 of the first ten races. I wanted a British driver to be at the front! Then the following year, one year older I got it, and had to endure perhaps my first ...

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