Grand Prix Rejects

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I'm seeing a lot of fuss around at the moment about Logan Sargeant's future. Likely as not, he's fluffed his last real chance at getting points this season, and will be considered as another Latifi-grade misfit. "But wait!" scream the defenders. "Rookies aren't allowed time to develop...

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So the worst kept secret since Lance Stroll joining the team owned by his dad is out... Alongside Jake, I’m confident that we have one of the strongest pairings on the Formula E grid. Epic cope. If he was talking about Jake Dennis, and the Sam Bird of the Virgin days who could punch above that car's...

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Anoraks on! Nerd glasses fixed with Sellotape at the ready! Adenoidal voices all round! I think for most of us F1 Rejecters this is THE series. Its not some ropey old racing machines hustled back into life, its brand new state of the (electronic) art gear. And, as mentioned, a brilliant mix of drive...

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Talking of alternative racing licences, and alternative passports: we all know Roy Nissany has an "alternative nationality" (i.e. French) so that he can get into all the Islamic dictatorships in the Middle East to race - but what about Ido Cohen? Apparently, Bahrain and the UAE no longer h...

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With the season done and dusted and hopefully everyone knowing the result by now (and if not, why not?), I'll post that complete list of unrejectifications in FE that I mentioned a few days ago. Any driver shown with a line of asterisks is still a reject; three of them have gone part of the way to g...

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I'll say nothing yet as well - that table of FE rejects will be forthcoming in a few days. As for Merhi... I reckon his problem, other than that he's got the slowest drivetrain on the grid, is that he hasn't worked out that FE requires a lot of energy saving and regeneration, and driving like Keke R...

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Banzai Yuki awesomu powa crashuuuuuuuuuu dewa arimasen!

Honourable mention to Gillian Anderson, who's clearly been giving Jamie Chadwick some helpful advice. Anyone who knows a thing or two about how The X-Files was filmed is well aware what I mean.

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Yet again I have to suggest an outlandish choice that should never have been outlandish: Saubfer Romeo's Kick logos . I've heard several explanations of why big corporations are changing their logos to highly simplified, monochrome versions of what they used to display - it's so that they can be dis...

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https://www.loudersound.com/news/watch-bruce-dickinson-break-gong-mallet-at-iron-maiden-birmingham-gig That's exactly what I'd have done in his situation. In tangentially related news, JayEmm suggests why Jaguar are in a hole and how they got there , while driving a 20-year-old X-Type. "It's n...

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Necromancy alert! I have no idea what happened to the wee Scotsman who used to run this place - real life intervened, I suspect - but I've never forgotten what he called the Italian football team from Turin who aren't Torino and who play in black and white stripes. I even started using the name myse...

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Just to ponder... if George hadn't won Brazil last year, Red Bull would have had 22 consecutive wins... Don't tempt fate. I would say "that's the last thing we need", but if Red Bull gets a clean sweep of wins that even the McLaren MP4/4 couldn't manage (merci, Jean-Louis), that might sna...

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On a recent podcast, Gary Anderson explained that averaged out, the gap from pole to stone dead last in 2023 hovers around 1.7%. It reminds me of 2008 - once Super Aguri had gone to the wall, the gap between first and last in Q1 would be under two seconds. But within that, there was a strict peckin...

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DC avoiding the tighty whities as well was a bonus. I knew that wouldn't last to the race, though.

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IIDOTR is Alice Powell's fashion adviser for both qualifying and the race. Never again will we be subjected to the DC-esque tighty whities in stereo. Right? Right? Honourable mention to The Mobile Chicane for mentioning T'Old Website on his recent deep dive on Kimi's five-year stint at McMerc . A fu...

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An unexpected entry for ROTR here: Lando Norris , for giving us a rejectful moment that Jenoch were always bound to pick up on back in t' old days. Every time The Holy Father HRH Lord Sir Lewis won this race, he'd throw the porcelain trophy in the air... and catch it so flawlessly, he'd make Jonty R...

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I never saw that coming, but it would work. Anyway... seeing as this is Grand Prix REJECTS , and the same concept can be applied to any motorsport series, I thought I'd analyse the FE drivers' almanac and see how we're doing in terms of rejectdom. As FE is considerably less predictable than F1, and ...

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Listening to the interview after today's race, it sounds as if either Sam Bird has already been told he's fired for next season, or that he doesn't believe he's up to the job any more... maybe both. I would say "the curse of the second Jaguar seat strikes again", but he's been the most suc...

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Will Nyck de Vries last until the end of the season? Just throwing it out there. No. Place your bets on who will be the unlucky victim to be sacked after scoring zero points in the remainder of the season, in a car that deserves exactly that. Will Liam Lawson's bright future be torn to shreds in th...

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I just had a random thought, though I've probably had it before, what with that other thread about rejects and never-got-a-chance-in-F1 drivers getting to drive for a hypothetical broke team that needed a driver quickly... With the recent explosion in the Hypercar category in the WEC, and Antonio Gi...

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Well... seeing as we're going by anecdotal evidence now, I'll tell you something. I nearly bought a French car myself. Nearly . While I was playing bass in Cambridge's worst band in 2001, clinging to the vain hope we would somehow get better, I saw a Peugeot 305 estate for sale - a year older than t...

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The safety show car: Just why? There have been suggestions that Liberty Media has been leaning on race control to make heavier use of the safety car to close up the field and "spice up the show", or at the least to use the SC more heavily in preference to the VSC. Either that or the fact ...

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I wonder if the FaceTube channel called The Mobile Chicane is secretly run by a member of this forum. Much like Peter Brook has done on numerous occasions, the channel has a spotlight on the wrong end of the grid. Only the other day I was whiling away painting my hallway with some Mobile Chicane com...

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Nio333 definitely proving they aren't the weakest car in the field this year with Ticktum's 6th following immediately after Sette-Camera's 5th in Hyderabad. It was pretty much obvious from the first race that Abt Cupra were stone dead last, but even so, NIO are punching above their weight at the mo...

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And this time I'm alerted to a death in Non-F1-Reject motorsport... by a caption on the Envision drivers' halo in the Cape Town e-Prix. https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/single-seaters/f1/everyone-wanted-to-be-in-dave-prices-gang-the-man-at-the-core-of-racing-mph/?v=79cba1185463 David Pric...

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https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/obituaries/slim-borgudd-obituary-the-f1-driver-who-drummed-for-abba/?v=79cba1185463 https://cdn-2.latimages.com/images/mgl/OoRO7l/s4/1018907971-SCH-19810830-RS_1981_Borgudd_Dutch_GP_004.jpg Do we need anything to add to Slim's obituary other than the famou...

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I don't know why it is that I take such an interest in what the Grim Reaper has been up to... but I do. Maybe it's what comes with advancing age, when I'm barely two years away from being as old as my mum was when the old git in a robe swung his scythe at her. Either way, the latest target is Jean-P...

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You say "rejects", but what about those who never had a chance in F1 at all? Just looking around the FE grid these days, you've got Sam Bird, Antonio Felix da Costa, Robin Frijns, Jake Dennis and Mitch Evans - 30 wins between them, one championship and all the others have been in the mix a...

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And it still isn't encouraging me to go electric with my road transport... Ooooh, careful now! The Cult of St. Greta will be coming after you! You're right, though, despite their zeal, because... ...as I still don't see an electric car racing for the same duration as an F1 or Indycar race, let alon...

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I keep my eye on the Wikipedia obituaries page, and this one jumped out at me. John Wickham didn't have his own page there, because he wasn't a driver - but he was the co-owner of Spirit Racing, the reject team who are nonetheless significant in a greater success story: Honda used them as a no-press...

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BOOM! Time to wake this thread up again. Round One of the Gen-3 era has happened... and I won't say anything in case those of you who didn't know it was live on Channel 4's ThemTube channel weren't watching it live and will be getting up early on a Sunday morning to watch it on old-school media inst...

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Today, Andretti talked further of trying to enter the sport, as he has done for a while, but with the added news of bringing Cadillac into the series with him, maybe initially by badging another manufacturer's entry. Andretti in F1: it's the dream that we all share, it's the hope for tomorrow . I s...

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Just saw that this morning. Sad, but I can't say I'd have wanted to live his way for 33 minutes, let alone 33 years. Ditto Sir Frank Williams, Prof. Stephen Hawking, Christopher Reeve, that bloke with the Cavalier GSi on the last series of Car SOS... Don't forget he gave AGS their last competitive v...

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"Autosport or it didn't happen", "Motorsport.com or it didn't happen"... it has yet to make it there, so while part of me is still hoping this is Guy Edwards MkII, L'Équipe says Patrick Tambay has died. The article is in French, but even for those of us who took GCSE French 27 ye...

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Now all they need is someone to drive it. Nicholas Latifi, Mick Schumacher and Daniel Ricciardo are all out of a job, although I don't think Red Bull will let Smiler out of his cage to drive a Ferrari in a month of Sundays with a blue moon. Or how about a Schumacher-Giovinazzi-Shwartzmann trio of Fe...

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Maybe this doesn't quite belong in the "Unusual" Stats section, but I don't know where else to put it. I was watching the 1985 season review a few days ago, and the thought occurred to me it was possible that there might be a podium where all three drivers have since died - given that the ...

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The All-Knowing Oracle That Is Never, Ever Wrong About Anything lists George Russell with one win and one pole, with no separate category for sprint wins. Realistically, there needs to be a third category.

As it stands it's Verstappen 3, Bottas 2, Russell 1, everyone else 0.

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BACK ON TOPIC, despite the absurdity of doing so on an 11-year-old thread that was only very recently revived... ...well, sort of back on topic, because this comes under the heading of "things I remember from the past but don't particularly miss ": commentary being delivered down the phone...

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Great info ! But wasn´t the F1-87 primarly designed by Gustav Brunner ? It had the typical Brunner look. I may have been to hasty on that one while trying to bring the news before anyone else did. On closer inspection, Forghieri's last F1 design for Ferrari was the 1984 car, aesthetically hindered ...

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F1 has lost a biggun. For the uninitiated, which should be absolutely nobody, Mauro Forghieri was involved in designing every Ferrari F1 car, and a few endurance racers, from 1960 to 1987. Hence, the first car he'd have been involved with to any extent was the 1961 shark-nosed 156, and the last was...

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https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.flyertalk.com-vbulletin/480x360/applicants_supplicants_3672104e58cb198a85322e13a21af5be8b59794f.gif If Daniel Ricciardo does this then he needs chasing out of F1 with a big stick covered in angry wasps. Tied to one of the wasps is a note that says, in huge letters, ...

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