Grand Prix Rejects

Waris

I'd like to see Support races at selected events with 2010-2013 cars driven by Test/Development drivers and some GP2 drivers these could take the form of say a 20 to 25 lap sprint race on sunday morning Hmm, perhaps a good idea for Auto GP? Since they allow old F1 cars now, maybe the teams could po...

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I'm a little bit torn about this whole qualifying format shakeup. Normally I'm of the opinion that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" and the qualifying format was definitely one of very few things in F1 that most people (including me) agreed didn't need fixing. On the other hand, this form...

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I really like the Manor's colours! They also remind me a little bit of this Toleman from 1984 (with two rear wings):

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Wallio wrote:Now a Formula Libre race is a-ok, (the last NC F1 race in South Africa was officially a Libre race). But good luck getting teams to run it.

And there is technically BOSS GP as well, which is pretty close.

I think you'll find that Auto GP now with the new rules is practically Formula Libre as well.

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Call me a sourpuss, but I can't say anything other than I'm extremely disappointed with the Haas livery (the car itself is alright I think). On Autosport it says that the livery colours are the same as Haas CNC's corporate colours, which may be the case, but I think it's rather commercially convenie...

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It seems that the big benefit to Manor for taking Peewee is not free/reduced cost engines, but access to Mercedes' wind tunnel. If Manor have the ability to pay for Mercedes engines anyway, then access to the wind tunnel is probably far more valuable to them going forward, as the chassis has always...

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tumbano wrote:And the other driver will probably be 33% Haryanto, 33% Rossi and 33% Stevens

That sounded like they are going to do some weird genetic experiment!

tumbano wrote:(7 races each).

...oh, nevermind.

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I suspect it might be Alex Wurz again behind the whole thing.

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Wow, this is weirder to me than I thought. It's almost like the whole Lotus saga was just a very strange dream now.

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Am I the only one who thinks that literally nobody cares about this MRT chassis name stuff, and everybody is just going to call the cars Manors, same as back in the day with Midland?

Might as well call it the A-Team...

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Ah, but will the team's nationality be Canadian, Hong Kong, or yet something else?

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I was on board with Haas bringing back yellow, but now that Renault are a constructor again it seems they'll probably also go with yellow and black. In that case I hope either Renault put some more black on it, or Manor paint their car (mostly) black again, because otherwise it would reduce the vari...

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Recently I dreamed that it was 2004 and Giorgio Pantano won a race in the Jordan. Trulli was 2nd. I don't remember who was 3rd. After that, Pantano was touted as a great talent for the future, but he was dropped at the end of the season and from 2005 onwards everything was exactly the same as in rea...

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http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/17581/10063917/american-businessman-tavo-hellmund-interested-in-buying-manor Nope nope nope nope nope. Does Dale Earnhardt Jr even have any open-wheel experience? Earnhardt Jr doesn't want to race open-wheelers. Regardless, there's no actual quote to suggest anythin...

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http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/10057890/gene-haas-reckons-his-new-teams-2016-chassis-design-is-better-than-ferraris This Haas guy is really claiming that his team will go strong, very strong, or later he will claim that they will claim title in the first year. That sounded either over-confi...

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This makes me so, so sad and mad. I have very little hope of it not (eventually) ruining the team, but let me wait and hope that I may be proved wrong. This shows the double-edged sword of letting someone with money buy into your team: they needed Fitzpatrick's money in the first instance to survive...

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Ataxia wrote:Thing is, this one leaves Lotus engineless; Manor have assumed the Mercedes supply that Lotus had previously, and they won't supply ANOTHER team.

That makes two, possibly three teams with a shaky engine supply for next year.

Cos-worth! Cos-worth! Cos-worth!

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I keep telling you, if Rubens hadn't had that puncture in Interlagos 2009... *sad trumpet music plays*

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Why is the Force India overall so devoid of sponsor logos? I'm pretty sure there used to be more logos on it earlier this year. The car has still got all the logos on it as far as I can see, so what's up with that?

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1. Pérez - no contest.
2. Massa - I thought it was impressive how he worked his way back all the way up to fourth, even if he got lucky with the Räikkönen/Bottas collision.

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Would be so cool if they popped one of those aircraft engines in the back of a racing car, though... Watch it going nowhere!

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I guess that means soon enough we'll see an engine deal announced, maybe with a bit of help from Bernie, in which they get a one-year supply of new (2016) Ferrari engines, during which year they have to find a solution for 2017 onward, either by luring an engine manufacturer (Cosworth, AVL, Judd...)...

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Gotta love the BBC commentaty at the start. Ben: 'And in the background going off is Maldona...' DC: 'It's a Force India!' Although to be fair, I can imagine most people thought the same. And that's why it's bad for all the cars to be greyscale. Well, now that Renault is closer than ever to taking ...

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A new news article on their website announcing a limit of 2 driver changes per team per season, and no changes during the final three races (not rounds, I notice), and with each change requiring 2 weeks' notice. Only exceptions would be in case of force majeure... Ah NO, that is the worst news. It ...

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It's times like these that make you wish they had equalized that "World Engine" sooner, so that you could just pop an engine out of WEC and stick it in an F1 car, isn't it.

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Well, this is only tangentially related to F1, but the other night I dreamed that my friend whom I've known since early childhood had died, and that a new hotel was being opened next to my mother's house by these two guys, one of whom was gay and apparently thought André Lotterer was hot. (I have th...

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So, does that mean we can look forward to a Lotterer/Verstappen line-up in 2018? I'd be in favour of that.

(What if the engine is a dud though?

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It's all relative, in The Mechanic's Tale, Steve Matchett talks about how in 1993, the top 4 teams (Ferrari, McLaren, Williams, and Bennetton) were spending an ungodly sum (I believe he lists $40,000,000) on their "active cars" and dominating F1. So the FIA banned drivers aids to close th...

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What about that car Perrinn wanted to build for testing, though? If that ever comes to fruition, maybe they can flog it off to a customer team who then update it a little bit and race it?

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In that interview Steiner is quoted as saying "we build our own car". I thought Dallara were building the car? Or are they merely supplying the design whereas Haas assemble it in their own factory?

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This stuff about AVL someone posted earlier got me thinking, when I read that AVL apparently design electric engines in addition to combustion-powered ones.

Red Bull to jump ship and reemerge as Red Bull-AVL in Formula E 2016/17. You heard it here first.

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1. Mercedes
2. Lotus

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I facepalmed hard when I read about the reason they want to move Malaysia. These track owners are soooooo selfish. They think that if they are "too close together" on the calendar, it will cost them income because people choose to only go to one of them instead of both? Implying people who...

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I wonder if Piquetinho is on that Haas shortlist? Being the Formula E champion, that should qualify him for a superlicence...

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I'm going to laugh out loud if the Renault deal doesn't go through because of PDVSA.

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https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10603757_10208005124512862_5387922166636600538_n.jpg?oh=24dc7dffe2f91cca7fa63855a22c7a10&oe=56758B0E just whipped this thing up in ms paint. measured the layout on google earth, approx. 1.6 miles in length. the start/finish would be alo...

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While we're on the subject of circuits... I'm wondering if perhaps the Port Imperial Street Circuit that was designed for the Grand Prix of America that will seemingly never come to fruition, could perhaps be used in Formula E? They're still looking for a circuit in the USA now that Miami isn't retu...

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So... I feel like I'm the only one mired out somewhere in a swamp going "Hello? Hello? Auto GP? Hello...?" The season was supposed to resume this weekend with a round at Brno, but when I go to the Brno website all it says is "ETCC, BOSS GP and Superkart", no mention of Auto GP at...

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What about just having a very large windscreen, one that goes above the driver's head, but not so far as to make the driver inextricable from the car?

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Wallio wrote:I was just about to post this.

I do hope we see "Renault-Mercedes" if only for one year, that would be almost as good as BMW-Sauber-Ferrari!

I would go so far as to say it'd be reminiscent of Ferrari-Jaguar!

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