Grand Prix Rejects

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And what is Rich Energy doing? Seriously, what on earth is going on? The sponsor's pulling out, but they're not, but the boss says so, but the boss is getting fired, but the car is racing with the Rich livery, but it's not racing with the Rich livery. And now Storey has fired out a response stating...

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The 'Back to normalilty' British GP 1. Hamilton 2. Bottas 3. Gasly (I believe in the Gas Man!) 4. Verstappen 5. Leclerc 5. Sainz 7. Vettel 8. Norris 9. Raikkonen 10. Albon Pole: Hamilton Fastest lap: Bottas First retirement: Ricciardo Reject of the Race: Haas-Rich Energy fun and games Infinite Impro...

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Maybe Williams is not completely idiotic:

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/14472 ... ine-supply

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https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/motorspo ... onsorship/

My deepest apologies for linking to an article in The Sun, but there is a great quote in there:

William Storey wrote:“Haas [are] nice people but the car is going backwards.

“We are a superior product to Red Bull.

“A milkfloat at back of grid a disaster for us. End of.”

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https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/14471 ... british-gp

Haas keeping Rich livery for the British GP.

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https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/14470 ... -haas-deal

Is it finished or not? Can't they make up their minds?

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Looks like Williams dodged a bullet when they lost the Rich Energy deal last year.

This whole business is ridiculous but strangely reminiscent of Formula 1 in the old days.

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I've only just noticed that Jake Hughes in still Formula 3. It's his 4th season at F3 / GP3 level and he's 25. How he is still doing this? He should be looking to get a GT drive because won't be progressing much further in single-seaters at his age.

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Well in other news Williams are rumoured to be ditching the one good component of their car they had going for them by switching to Renault engines. m Such a phenomenally bad idea. Still, it's probably in character with Williams' recent performance. I'm also struggling to see how exactly such a dea...

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https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/144680/kubica-woes-cast-shadow-on-f1-return-achievement Seeing as we're on the topic of Williams, Kubica saying that basically there'll be no mid-season updates for the team, so at this point nothing short of a miracle will get that car into the points. It's a real...

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Samster wrote:Well in other news Williams are rumoured to be ditching the one good component of their car they had going for them by switching to Renault engines.

http://insideracing.com/index.php/formu ... X4BtavJKfQ

Such a phenomenally bad idea. Still, it's probably in character with Williams' recent performance.

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Maybe Patricio O'Ward might be bumped up at the end of the season if he adapts well to Super Formula? Although he doesn't know the Formula 1 tracks so he would benefit from a year in Formula 2.

Lucas Auer is doing reasonably in Super Formula, isn't he?

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I honestly don't think that Gasly is going anywhere.

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Jim, this is fabulous! Thank you so much for your time and efforts writing it!

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Twats.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/kubi ... y/4487457/

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Can't imagine too many people here will be sorry for Ticktum: https://www.motorsport.com/super-formula/news/red-bull-drops-junior-ticktum/4483618/ It certainly doesn't surprise me that it has happened, because his performance seemed to sharply decline in the latter half of last year and he's been r...

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1) Max Verstappen: For finally breaking the Mercedes stronghold on race victories this season. 2) Lando Norris: A great result both for himself and for McLaren; gets him closer to potential unrejectification. Honourable mention: Antonio Giovinazzi - managed to match Kimi Raikkonen rather well both ...

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Bleu wrote:Gasly's situation isn't shocking anymore so my vote goes to Kevin Magnussen. Brilliant qualifying but fluffed the start in two possible ways and ended up losing to Williams.

+1

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Pacific 777 wrote:
Faustus wrote:There is no one else in the Red Bull Junior Team with anywhere near enough superlicence points.Red Bull would have to look outside of their drivers again.

Or give Kvyat another shot at RBR

There is no one to take Kvyat’s place.

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Between Canada and France, Gasly seems to have gone backwards recently - the main thing that might be saving him is the fact that there aren't many decent options for a replacement driver right now. Yes, you're right. Ticktum isn't exactly covering himself in glory in Super Formula and apparently m...

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The bollard. Livened up the race, albeit briefly.

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Between Haas and the broadcast director who on the last lap switched from Norris defending his position to Leclerc who was going on Bottas.

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CoopsII wrote:The old pitlane and garages in Monaco.

I miss working in the so-called pitlane because it really did bring the teams close to the VIPs and whichever fortunate souls managed to get a Paddock Club pass but I don't miss having to haul stuff back and forth across the harbour.

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Ataxia wrote:

Not related to this, but 'taking the form of a terrier's ears sweeping backwards in a strong summer's breeze' made me choke on my lunch.

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The thing is, would you trust Vettel to heed that call even if it did come from the top, such as from Binotto? I have a feeling that Vettel would have ignored any such calls from the team - we have seen how angrily he has reacted in the past when being penalised by the stewards, and I suspect that ...

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Sebastien Vettel for losing it under pressure and causing his own misfortune. A quadruple world champion that regularly cracks under pressure and / or makes stupid decisions (Germany 2018, Azerbaijan 2017, Canada 2011...).

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I'll stick up for Pirro - he's only one of the stewards and it's a tough call. For me; the penalty was harsh, because I personally don't think Vettel was doing anything other than trying to regain control. If he'd fully lost control I think he'd likely have taken Lewis out with himself. But Lewis w...

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Between Renault and Gunther Steiner.

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[*] Haas - Grosjean booted out for an Indycar driver - Fittipaldi or O'Ward. No no no, Louis Delétraz for Grosjean! He's already a development and simulation driver with Haas and we could have a reject family! [*] Williams - Artem Markelov comes in with the support of his dad's laundered money and ...

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Looks like the merger is off:

https://www.ft.com/content/ba034774-87e ... ac2431f453

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... -collapses

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I've had concerns about Renault staying in Formula 1 for a while now. Renault needs a win desperately and I for one am hoping that the stars align and Renault manages to win a race in the near future. I don't think that Formula 1 can afford to lose an OEM, especially since there is no sign that any ...

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Alfa Romeo. Barely noticed that they were there.

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Toro Rosso.

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1. Hamilton
2. Bottas
3. Verstappen
4. Leclerc
5. Vettel
6. Albon
7. Magnussen
8. Grosjean
9. Hulkenberg
10. Raikkonen

Pole: Hamilton
Fastest lap: Verstappen
First retirement: Kubica
ROTR: Ferrari
IIDOTR: Gasly
DBTMOTR: Gasly
MLP: Albon
SCs: 1

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I need to get a good sample of Niki saying 'this is total bullshit' in that inimitable way of his and make a sound board app out of it.

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And to clarify, it looks like Interlagos will indeed stay until 2020 at least, with Rio probably taking over in 2021. Silly question, but why is this happening? Interlagos is a fantastic race track. Probably because Rio has more $$$. It is a good track but the facilities are awful. Security is also...

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https://www.planetf1.com/news/rio-de-ja ... -revealed/

The proposed layout for the Rio de Janeiro track. Looks a bit like the Red Bull Ring and Buenos Aires, with a bit of Estoril and Barcelona thrown in.

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Oh man. No matter how much one can prepare for this, I couldn't help being shocked. One of my 3 heroes, who got me interested in motorsport and Formula 1. My father had (and has) an undying admiration and respect for Niki that got transferred to me. I stood next to him a couple of times but was comp...

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Sky Sports F1 for somehow making the race sound interesting even though I fell asleep watching it.

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Me because I fell asleep after 7 laps and woke up during the podium celebrations.

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