Grand Prix Rejects

Warren Hughes

Late to the party here, and asking a question that I could probably find the answer to elsewhere, but has it been explained why the race was re-started with a rolling start after the red flag rather than a grid start like Monza and Mugello last year?

Warren Hughes

Mazepin, on the basis of the evidence currently available, is a throwback to the glory days of reject-dom gone by. Qualifying dead last, having spun twice in Q1, before spinning himself into retirement at turn 3 on the first lap? That sort of performance is the reason this website exists. I love him...

Warren Hughes

What I don't understand is why Mercedes didn't order Hamilton in front of Bottas to open up enough of a gap to keep him in 2nd. The only thing I can think of is the optics of the first car over the line not winning the race, being seen to be manipulating the result, stuff like that, but since when h...

Warren Hughes

Has to be Max Verstappen IMO, first he blew his chance of the race win with his impatient, one in a million attempt on Hamilton that was never going to end well, then he blew Red Bull's chance of a 1-2 with a crazy lunge on Vettel. After the incident in Bahrain which led to his retirement, a theme s...

Warren Hughes

I've been meaning to do this for days, and was going to post a whole big analysis of each track, but to allow the game to move on let me state here that I'd give 1st place to The Flying Caterham - although personally I think it would be even better run clockwise!

Warren Hughes

Red Bull, this has not gone well

Warren Hughes

Huzzah! I guess I have to set a challenge now, so let's go for quite a simple one: Capital Gains: Design a street circuit in the capital city of any country not hosting a Formula 1 race in 2018. I'll allow up to 1km of new construction, and I'd like the total length to be at least 4km (2.5 miles). S...

Warren Hughes

For my first entry in this thread in literally years, I present the Chobe River International Circuit ! The track is partly purpose-built and partly makes use of public roads - some of which will have to be widened and tarmacked in order to create the circuit. The pit straight begins almost on the r...

Warren Hughes

Apparently it's over two years since I last logged into the forums, and it delights me to see that everyone is basically the same. Although my signature's a little out of date. Welcome back! Not a permanent return, I don't suppose, but it's nice to check in - especially seeing so many things that h...

Warren Hughes

Ataxia wrote:I can, at last, make this official. After a year of freelancing for Autosport et al, I'm now going off to be the junior press officer for Formula 2 and GP3. Which is kinda cool.

Get you! Congratulations!

Warren Hughes

Apparently it's over two years since I last logged into the forums, and it delights me to see that everyone is basically the same. Although my signature's a little out of date.

Warren Hughes

As mentioned, a lot of candidates for ROTR but I personally would give it to Mercedes drivers - it's as if they've got so used to just driving away from the rest of the field that they've forgotten how to drive in the pack and go wheel to wheel. There was a sign of this at Silverstone too, when Hami...

Warren Hughes

List of entries: Benetton: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6623517 Simtek: http://www.mappedometer.com/?maproute=429668 UgncreativeUsergname: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6623944 Bleu: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6623986 tBone: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6624019 AdrianBelmonte_: http...

Warren Hughes

Just to say, I'm away this weekend so you'll have until Sunday to post entries (it's usually 7 days Ugncreative, is that right?) It's two days after the last entry, so tomorrow morning, officially. Ah, OK, I'd better get my thinking cap on then. (As previously noted, the last time I won this thing ...

Warren Hughes

Just to say, I'm away this weekend so you'll have until Sunday to post entries (it's usually 7 days Ugncreative, is that right?)

Warren Hughes

Now Manor have signed an official reserve driver, and a former GP2 champion no less, in the shape of Fabio Leimer

Warren Hughes

CoopsII wrote:

"Damn, I should have known better than to agree to an evening at Max's"

Warren Hughes

peteroli, I'm afraid your entry doesn't count because it hasn't used the kart track at all - or even the land it's built on - but only the land next to it. It shouldn't take too much modification to make it legal though.

Warren Hughes

Existing track can be widened, straightened, bypassed etc. Really I just meant use the location of a kart track as a basis for a brand new creation.

Warren Hughes

Get in! I was quite proud of this one when designing it, but I didn't want to say so in my original post for fear of appearing arrogant... I think 2012 was the last time I won a challenge in this thread, so happy days indeed! Anyway, I am now the challenge setter, so let's have a go at this: Extend ...

Warren Hughes

I still think - and I believe I've said this on the forums before, albeit some years ago - that it was Hockenheim 2010 rather than Hungary 2009 that finished Massa off as a top line driver. I'm sure he could have lived with and probably beaten Raikkonen in the second half of 2009 had he not had the ...

Warren Hughes

Meanwhile, the news from Germany keeps getting worse. It looks like it's gonna be the next country to lose free-to-air F1 coverage . The amount of countries that have the entire season live and free-to-air has shrunk considerably now. Only Azerbaijan, China, Israel, Macedonia, Russia, Slovenia, Spa...

Warren Hughes

What's the point in golf courses? They're just big, privately owned patches of land occupied by badly-dressed men hitting balls with sticks. Wait a minute... big, privately owned patches of land? Sounds like the perfect place for a racetrack! So, in my parallel universe I've bought out Boldon Golf C...

Warren Hughes

Slightly bored by Nick Heidfeld (and his long hashtags)?

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Not really a stint, but I just found out that along with his DTM drive, Jean Alesi actually tested for McLaren in 2002. http://www.correiodopovo.com.br/blogs/pitlane/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/000_APP2002030569226.jpg Unlike Olivier Panis two years earlier, which I absolutely do know, and also it w...

Warren Hughes

Missed all the BTCC today but somehow managed to catch both the Ginetta Juniors races. Found myself cheering Sophia Floersch over the line both times, what a terrific effort!

Warren Hughes

I designed this track around the Champs Elysees several years ago; I might as well make it my entry here. http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6601859 Looking at it again it's pretty point-and-squirt; but hey, maximum speeds will be high and some of the biggest stops are in the widest parts of the track...

Warren Hughes

It's going to look like a 2013 Sauber. What a load of ludicrous blather.

Warren Hughes

RonDenisDeletraz wrote:Calling it now, you British won't win a single Ashes test. Anyone up for an avatar bet?

Avatar bet on that? No chance! At least Trott won't be playing after today's announcement, that might improve our chances a little.

Warren Hughes

At the other end, the northeast clubs need to get their act together. Sunderland beat 10 men Southampton, but we need at least another win to help us achive safety. We have Leicester home, then Everton, Chelsea, and Arsenal away. We may be f***ed gefore we know it. Unless we win a match, then Newca...

Warren Hughes

Fans of legendary Life Grand Prix Series supersub Apostolos Alianopoulos, I have GOOD NEWS! His 18-year-old son, Apostolos Alianopoulos Jr. , is ready to take his first steps in international motorsport after some success in local and regional kart championships. The youngest of four siblings, but t...

Warren Hughes

Fair enough, cheers for your answer.

Warren Hughes

To clarify - I mean the defunct(?) F1RSTC not ARST...

Warren Hughes

I have a couple of canon-related questions:

1) Where does the Life GP Series stand in the canon?
2) Is the F1 Rejects Super Touring Cup considered canon?

Kudos to anyone who can work out why I'm asking these two particular questions

Warren Hughes

Schiller open to offers F1RWRS race winner Jean-Luc Schiller has revealed that he is willing to consider any offers of a permanent race drive for the 2018 season in the rebranded AutoReject World Series. The Swiss driver, who finished on the podium five times in 2017 in addition to his second caree...

Warren Hughes

Unpopular opinion #782:

Sergio Perez is grossly overrated.

Warren Hughes

Here's my entry: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6593470 Almost certainly the shortest entry of anybody's, no additional tarmac needs laying or buildings knocked down although some sections might need to be widened a little, and a fence dismantled around the hairpin at turn 10. Not designed as an F...

Warren Hughes

I came across a chap at the weekend who has built a replica samurai dagger/blade ornament for none other than Ukyo Katayama. It's cost them something like £4000 if I remember our conversation correctly. It has Ukyo's family silk in it. This is my favourite post since coming back to the forums. Abso...

Warren Hughes

1. Kimi Raikkonen
2. Felipe Nasr - I feel I have to explain this one; not for his result but for a couple of overtakes which were the only things to get me off my seat during the race.

Warren Hughes

Every broken component on Button's car (many of them!). Honourable mention to Toro Rosso for breaking down in a race where no-one else broke down.

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