Grand Prix Rejects

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My main nomination is [REDACTED] and [REDACTED], because [REDACTED].

George Russell for Honourable Mention, for the same reason everyone else has already given.

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John Crichton-Stuart, the Marquess of Bute wrote:Hoots mon, that Sandown track is pure pish, ye ken?

I have never heard anything like that from inside any form of racing car, ever. It sounds like he was being tortured.

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I am surprised - no, shocked , even - that there's been no word on the Detroit Grand Prix last weekend, or more specifically the first of the two races. The winner: Marcus Ericsson ! If that isn't Reject gold, I don't know what is. Maybe if Max Chilton had won at Indy in 2017 instead of Takuma Sato....

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French driver hitches himself to Les Nouveaux Bleus in a move that will shock nobody ... ...unless you thought that French driver was Pierre Gasly, who will presumably have to wait for a certain two-time World Champion to retire before he can make the same move, by which time he may have gone elsew...

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Time for a few stats, I think - for no discernible reason other than that I wanted to know if the next ePrix was happening this weekend. It isn't, it's next weekend, but now that I've looked for it, I find that Nico Müller will be replaced by Joel Eriksson for the upcoming race weekend and will be t...

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Among all the carnage... Latifi’s engineer: I’m expecting a P45 to be handed out after that. Not saying he would have done but with Russell retiring Williams blew a shot at points with a stupid mistake Has anyone noticed what Latifi's engineer has cost Williams? Because Mick Schumacher finished 13th...

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It is time to re-awake the Jacques Villeneuve music thread. Because, idly browsing that site that begins with "Y", I've amused myself with some automotive, not necessarily F1-related commentary, while doing such mundane things as trying to restore my bathroom door. (Thrilling, I know.) One...

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I never forgot Jarno Trulli was a one-time winner, but I had to be reminded it was Monaco. Then, thinking about it, it was that race where Jenson Button, who also wanted his first win, chased him all the way to the line. Being in 2004, it was probably the only realistic chance either of them was eve...

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Y'know what? For all the arguments about what it could and should have been, I'm going to go with the wheel nut incident . I've been watching F1 for 31 years, longer than some of you have been alive, and in all that time I don't remember seeing that ever happen before. Maybe my memory is fading, may...

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dr-baker wrote:4. Albon

Fastest lap: Albon

Er... what?

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So... anyone remember what we all thought might happen in the first ever FE race?

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R.I.P football. I’ve given up my support of Liverpool FC for selling their soul for money. I never wanted to believe it but the big 6 have officially proved that they do not care about anything other than the money. Good news! City of Liverpool FC are just down the road in Ellesmere Port, and - by ...

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He's a good kid, is Lando.

If he has as long a career in F1 as Kimi Räikkönen, I might not live to see him retire.

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Point 1: it looks like a mangled Interlagos, though presumably flatter.

Point 2: they're thinking of holding the race in "April, May or June". That's right: IN FLORIDA, IN JUNE. (Potentially). What next, moving the Russian Grand Prix to Murmansk in January?

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Firstly welcome back from the rampaging viruses Perhaps someone could unravel this one-I see in the 2021 calendar that Formula 2 is going to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.DAMS have Roy Nissany who is Israeli. Since Saudi Arabia will not let Israeli citizens enter at all, how are they going to work that on...

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One nomination to Sergio Pérez for a storming recovery drive that I'd hope Alex Albon was watching from wherever he might be watching from, and the other to Yuki Tsunoda . I knew this day was coming, but now that there's someone born in 2000 on the F1 grid who's now scored a couple of points at his ...

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Hmmm. Well. You may notice - or maybe you didn't - that I did not join in the cacophonous chorus of virtue-signalling about a certain Russian driver and his social media adventures. I preferred to wait until I saw how he performed on track, on the slim chance he might silence a few of those voices. ...

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What more is there to add? We’ve lost a genuine legend in the motorsport community. I wasn’t lucky to hear Murray live as I started following F1 the year after he retired but having watched tons of the old races he commentated on it was so infectious to listen to him and his Murrayism’s were always...

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The other news also comes from the Williams department, as Joest Capito has started to make moves within the team, by bringing in Francois-Xavier Demaison to the team. Like Capito, he has been associated with VW in the past. Williams-VW confirmed. Or Williams-Audi, Williams-Skoda, Williams-Seat, Wi...

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I've not watched him race (yet) but I'd always heard that he was among those "worst ever" drivers lists, not that they mean very much. I didn't know until this morning that he had won Le Mans! See also: Helmut Marko (1971), Gijs van Lennep (1971, 1976), Vern Schuppan (1983), Paolo Barilla...

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Both a "You Lucky Bastard" on t'old site, and a Le Mans winner, lest we forget. And 62 may be "young" but look at this: John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute: died aged 60 (1933-1993) John Crichton-Stuart, 5th Marquess of Bute: died aged 49 (1907-1956) John Crichton-Stuart, ...

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Here's something none of you know. A year and a half ago, I was assessed for a certain neurological defect a year and a half ago (after a year and a half of waiting for it), and if I said the results were positive I can almost hear the screams of "IMAGINE MY SHOCK!" from all parts of the w...

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The cricket stump quote comes from the 1997 German Grand Prix . Well mown! You've earned yourself a corned beef sandwich, or a Seelachs-Ei-Brötchen or anything else I remember buying at Lübeck Airport back in the days when I went to Wacken by plane. And the date... Date: 27th July 1997 ...I should ...

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WHILE WE'RE HERE... Somebody, somewhere, who's a collector and archivist of all things F1, must have a recording of the Grand Prix in which Murray said "you could cut the atmosphere with a cricket stump". It's been quoted so many times, and yet this is one you'll never find in the YouTube ...

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I think everything that needed to be said already has been, and anything I could add is insignificant... ...except for this: Murray was the co-soundtrack to 180-something of my weekends, between 1990 and 2001. I've counted, and adjusted the figure for a few races I missed and "some" that h...

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So departs another name I hadn't been aware of , mainly because his career was well before I was alive and he wasn't Reject Royalty, like Johnny Claes. But Keith Greene's F1 results over four reasons read: two DNQs, two retirements, one 15th place finish, all entered by his father's Gilby Engineeri...

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The new Williams reminds me of this: https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2F41ab6f9d-a16a-4ea2-81b8-1dd91f128a4f.jpg?fit=scale-down&source=next&width=700 This is our local bus service for the Wirral/Liverpool area....

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"And 17 drivers have scored points after two rounds!" Say what you like about the "reverse grid" races, you'd never see that in F1. Reject Of The Race is still the same as it was for the last two seasons, and will continue to be in the future, and not just in FE, now. It's got to...

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I think this thread needs reviving, for two reasons. Within a week of this website and the forum vanishing off the face of the internet, seemingly forever, Ron Tauranac died, on 17th July 2020, aged 95 . Nobody should need reminding that he was half of the brains behind Brabham, and the "T"...

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Bleu wrote:I could see some kind of special introduction being cool at the first race of the season so moving USGP as the first race wouldn't be bad. I could see Liberty liking that as well.

Just like it was in 1990 and 1991!

Two races I missed at the time, mind...

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So far the only confirmation of the death of Chris Craft is oldracingcars.com where it said he'd "died after a period of ill health". He wasn't someone I knew much about - but he had two entries in the North American races at the end of 1971 in a privately-entered Brabham. He missed the cu...

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Chances are, if you get a GP appointment at the moment, you're quite likely to get a telephone consultation. Which is what happened, and is all that was needed, under the circumstances. Or, if you are still going to physical supermarkets in person... Bwaaaa ha ha ha ha! What a crazy concept! I have...

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Kuwashima wrote:It just seems inconceivable that Formula One could be such a ridiculous melange of idiots.

Someone who has access to the old podcasts, make that into a standalone sound clip.

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How is your health? I seem to remember you saying something about it at some point, but I can't remember the details. One and a half weeks into what I suspect is a trapped nerve in the elbow I wrecked eleven years ago. At this stage that probably rules out something like MS. Probably. If it doesn't...

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Crikey o'blimey, I won a round. I'm getting a slight hint of what it must be like to be Pierre Gasly, or Sergio Pérez, or Vittorio Brambilla, or Alessandro Nannini. Actually, with my current brush with medical trouble, I'm getting a better idea of what it's like to be Alessandro Nannini than I would...

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Clearly none of you are going to get it. Start the video at 12:32 - m Motor Development International, who were trying to build a car that ran on compressed air, were Guy Nègre's chief project after he abandoned the idea of making W12 racing engines. If the MGN W12 hadn't been conclusive proof that ...

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It's rather more obscure than that. But if you want a clue, go back and read my AGS profile - now that it's possible to do so again!

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Now, if someone would like to dig up that post about the life and career of Justin Wilson from this sub-forum and turn it into a proper profile before it's potentially lost forever again ... Is this the post that you are thinking of? https://www.gprejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7557&...

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At least now that GPR has been restored, I can start posting bits and pieces that may be of interest. First of all, "The Tata Nano Story" from Big Car on YouTube, who's been making video-histories of cars he considers interesting for almost two years now, and has been a much-needed source ...

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The temporary forum was certainly a welcome distraction while this site had its six months of downtime. I would hope that there is some kind of explanation as to what happened and why, the likes of which were denied to us when Formula One Rejects went 404 and GPR was created in its place. I would al...

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