Grand Prix Rejects

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Dinizintheoven, your "seeded" structure or (3) as you put it in the display box is exactly how this competition would be formatted, apologies for that lack of detail, had the idea whilst in work and had to put the basics in. Yes, 1st plays 16th, 2nd plays 15th and 3rd plays 14th...etc. so...

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And according to 2009 as well, systems 2 and 3 are the same. Couldn't see the carbon fibre for all the F1 cars. I suppose there's a system 5 (or should that be 4, now?) as well - the FA Cup system, with a random draw for each round... However, I reckon the seeding system is the one that should be us...

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EDIT: ...if anyone saw those two posts I deleted, I may well have bathplugged up the structure of the competition. ADx_Wales, can you confirm which way this works? (1) The winner of Vettel v Alguersuari plays the winner of Alonso v Heidfeld; the winner of Webber v Buemi plays the winner of Hamilton...

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Håpla!

The temptation to make the Chaves/Chaves video is definitely there...

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He might turn out to be right. When Sato-san shot past Señor Eyebrows at Montreal in 2007, did anyone see that coming?

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I predict that Pastor Maldonado and Kamui Kobayashi will disqualify themselves from ever being given a full profile on this site. For a rather wilder prediction, I will gamble on the Alguersaurus also doing so. I am not going to be betting on this in the relevant thread because my icon is fine as it...

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Why you did not put Rrrooommmainnn~ Grrrosjjjeannn~ in any seat? Good story though. I never considered Rrrrrrrrrmmnnn Grrrrrrrrjjjjjnnnnn to be anywhere near rejectful enough for this series when there were so many drivers that were far more deserving. He's actually being successful again now, anyw...

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As I have written on the Reject birthday thread (even though it's not a birthday), today marks exactly 20 years since Pedro Matos Chaves first drove a Formula 1 car competitively. It was a pathetic Coloni C4, and I think we all know how that turned out. Here's the man himself, many years later, driv...

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This is not a birthday, but there's something else you might have missed. 20 years ago to this day - on the morning of 8th March 1991, the people of Portugal celebrated. They had their first Formula 1 driver since Mário Veloso de Araújo Cabral, way back in 1964. He was Pedro Chaves, and he was going...

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Phoenix wrote:The rollerskates duel: Norbert Haug vs Mario Theissen. Bring 'em on!

I say we send Ernesto Vita out there as well, with three wheels on each axle.

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Well the whole 'when its ready' guff that their currently spouting... Hispania Racing, now sponsored by 3D Realms, the company that almost brought us Duke Nukem Forever, until someone else did it, about 12 years too late! We can now reveal the date of the launch of the F111, and it's March 17th, 20...

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And another obligatory post to say "great job" - especially in showing Moises Solana driving car number 13, which is as rare in F1 as a victory for Jarno Trulli. At least that car was seen in the race; if there's ever a profile of Divina Galica, don't forget to include a picture of her dri...

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Support the Kobayashi meister as he represents the sites morals well and if he fails at this he will be working in a sushi restaurant. Can't get higher stakes than that. And he didn't half come close to that when Toyota withdrew... Maybe one day, when he's done with F1, he can go back to being a su...

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They don't, though; if there are only three short stories to report that day, three is all they'll report - and in the close season, several days can go by without a new gossip page at all. So why did they put that on the end as a ninth story? It defies belief.

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(me being Swiss and there being no pre-qualifying - let's forget about 107%) how about an Eurobrun-Ilmor? but the Ilmor engine would of course have to be prepared by Heini Mader. sponsorship by Landis & Gyr, driven by Délétraz and Foitek. ...and in the mad scramble for Swiss reject drivers, And...

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And yet, Bernie's just said (again) "12 teams is too many, why can't we cut it down to 10?"

Was it him or Max who put forward the idea of having 13 teams in the first place? And why is it only a problem now and not in 1997, the last time we had 12 teams (however briefly)?

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The plot thickens... "In response to F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone's idea to introduce artificial rain to spice up racing, there have been suggestions that snakes, pot-holes and a fleet of Morris Minors could also liven up grands prix." ...surely whoever wrote that on the BBC's F1 Gossip pa...

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Does anyone know of any articles out there that detail Jordan's fall from grace? It would make a fascinating read. Perhaps someone should consider it as a submission to Reject Centrale? Definitely; there's already an article on Brabham's slide into complete oblivion, so I'd like to see one for Jord...

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I've just finished reading the article and they do mention 3 teams... The first is not a front runner, the second is mentioned with that traditional typo and the third isn't there anymore... Now I am ashamed of posting the link . Really? They must have hastily corrected it; I saw Toro Rosso, McLare...

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By the way, David AGS, I would be interested to hear more about Zakspeed if you have any relevant articles - it would help me expand on the history and context of the team, and I'd be interested in new sources. I could also help you out with some bits and pieces on Zakspeed from Pierre Ménard - tho...

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Hey, dinizintheoven, today you've been talking a lot to Bernie! You have to know your enemy. What if he was actually a member of this forum? ...then there wouldn't be a bath that had ever been built big enough to accommodate the size of the bathplug that would drop out the sky and all over us... I ...

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Otto Stuppacher would have turned 64. ... In Canada and the United States, he didn't qualify either in the Tyrrell, with a car bearing the "Austria is beautiful" slogan, finishing 13 and a mammoth 28 seconds off pole. He immediately retired from motorsports. Life Racing Engines, Mastercar...

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I'm just wondering if it's possible to make a hydrogen fuel cell F1 car that won't explode with the force of an atom bomb the first time it crashes. If it works, I'm betting on Honda and Toyota to make a mad scramble back to the grid and actually get it right this time. Tell you what, Bernie, open t...

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Definitely worth celebrating. In fact, I'm off to Sainsbury's to get a cake!

And of all the drivers I ever watched in the last 21 years, when the "forgettable drivers" thread came up, Nicolas Kiesa was the only one I genuinely forgot about.

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Et voilà! Notice the time I wrote that last post, it's not entirely surprising that it's taken until a sensible time of day to post this. When I saw the current generation of Indy racers, I knew they'd attracted some kind of mockery for lagging behind F1 in terms of design and technology. I was wond...

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Or when Nick Heidfeld is leading the race by 2 seconds from the Red Bulls, when suddenly... ...rubberband AI in the other cars automatically kicks in and suddenly two seconds is reduced to two tenths in the space of one corner... But the backmarkers are still backmarkers. Virgin accidentally design...

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For the record, I never played Carmageddon 2, but on the original - after completing the final track (and that was a massive task), getting access to all the other cars was a huge bonus. Driving round the Splat Track or Figure Of Hate (same course, and on the Splat Pack, rather than the original gam...

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...got it! m It might actually be suitable for karts... if the traffic round Clifton Boulevard and University Boulevard could be stopped, and someone dug up the University Boulevard speed cameras. The on-campus section has some marvellously steep hills to tackle, and there is a terrifying drop where...

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news from the 1989 winter testing, including Osella, Arrows and Rial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nuN7rUmXxU ...plus "a top team like Brabham", in the words of Martin Bundle (about six years too late there, me old mucker) and Zakspeed. Aguri Suzuki really didn't know the mire he was a...

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Only one event in F1 today, and what an event. Gabriele Tarquini turns 49... ...and what you'll never find mentioned anywhere, so it seems, is his role as chief test driver for Maserati. (See also: Andrea Montermini for Pagani, PHR for Bugatti... not bad jobs for F1 rejects, are they?) Remembering ...

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Allow me to pull this thread out of the mire... and not just because it's been linked to on the "Beat Hermann Tilke at his own game" thread. I've been linked to this interactive map of the London Underground - drawn geographically accurately - and the first thing that jumps out at me is ho...

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DanielPT wrote:By the way, has Mr. Ecclestone played Mario Kart? We could add to the races "weapons" to slow other cars down.

I'm just waiting for the furore from the tifosi when Fernando Alonso is hit by a red Koopa shell within sight of the finish line at Monza...

...by Felipe Massa.

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I've got a marvellous idea about what to do with the Indy Honda. And here it comes...

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P_Friesacher wrote:Or minefields?

...did you ever play Carmageddon as a youngster?

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I got some older f1 books that are very useful for typing articles. For instance, for AGS, It goes back to 1977 in Junior Formula, and says who was team manager, designers and drivers. Has pics too! I thought you might be able to help. Have you got a scanner? The AGS pages in this book may come in ...

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I've got tapes of it, but sadly no way to convert them into computer-readable format. Get yourself a CnM Click & Convert - I find it works very well straight out of the box. Message me somehow if you get one, and I'll send on a few tips on how to make it do the job properly, because the video e...

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...and if Kimi can get into that race and win it - while also wearing his gorilla suit in the 30-odd-degree heat and entering under the name "James Hunt" - I'll give him another $5M. No idea where I'll find it from, mind... Wonder if we could persuade HWNSNBM or Jean-Denis Délétraz to have...

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Now, if I'm correct, drivers who die at the wheel of an F1 car are unrejectfied, which means Ratzenberger and Senna don't count (for the record, Roland would have been =13th with a fourth at Aida). ...but what is going to happen when we get to 1985? Both Stefan Bellof and Manfred Winkelhock were ki...

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Is GP2 Asia the most rejectful "proper" racing series of them all? Really, what is the point of a "series" that was only three rounds over two venues, which has now been cut to two rounds in two venues, only one of which is in Asia? If it mirrored the Asian rounds of the F1 calen...

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I propose we replace the gravel traps with foot-deep pools of treacle. There'll be no getting out of that!

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