Grand Prix Rejects

https://www.autosport.com/indycar/news/139764/ericsson-secures-indycar-seat-with-schmidt Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, it seems as if we are indeed seeing the end of an era here. Marcus is going on to pastures new, trying to hit the big time in America. We will dearly miss him. This is not ...

Please ban me forthwith. You have hereby been promoted to moderator status. Anyway, it would almost certainly be Gasly in the Red Bull: The reserve driver role has never really meant anything as long as there's been an iota of confidence in one of the Toro Rosso boys, and it would take some unusual...

Well, I personally don't see how anyone can be against the employment of Esteban Gutiérrez: Mercedes driver (not to mention ex-Ferrari driver). This man has led a Grand Prix, he has set the fastest lap of a race, he has raced in IndyCar, and he has taken F1/GP Rejects' most coveted award on two sepa...

East Londoner wrote:
Simtek wrote:Londunce pls

You do that again and I'll hand you a ban.

Not if I ban you first.

Londunce pls

WeirdKerr wrote:will the age gap between Kimi and Max be the biggest age gap between consecutive winners?

Peter Collins. Juan Manuel Fangio. 1956 French Grand Prix. 1956 British Grand Prix.

Don't know if that's the absolute record, but it immediately came to mind...

So, who do you think is the IIDOTR for Mexico and why is it Will Smith?

Kimi Raikkonen now has the longest gap between first and last F1 Grand Prix wins at 15 years and a certain amount of days, surpassing Michael Schumacher's previous record of 14 years and a certain amount of days. In top-line Grand Prix racing as a whole, this even surpasses Felice Nazzaro's record o...

I'm going to say what little life remains in the championship battle. It's still obviously pretty much over, but I don't think anyone expected it to still technically be on after today, especially with Vettel's grid penalty.

I wasn't going to originally but, as I am a registered Autosport Forums user (who steers well clear of Racing Comments), I nominate Sebastian Vettel.

Nuppiz wrote:Come on Verstappen, if there's ever a good time for a bone-headed blocking move this is it...

Not necessary, looks like!

FFS as bad as F1 is at the moment, Virtual SC is probably the worst thing about it, thats another race ruined by it. Why when the advantage of pitting under VSC is so great to the point it breaks races would you not pit under VSC? Thanks Ferrari, not content with Vettel pissing away the championshi...

Starting this now so we don't forget later.

Starting this now so we don't forget later.

Starting this now so we don't forget later.

FP1's over; it rained; Hamilton's looking like he'll win the championship this weekend; Gelael's bringing the KFC money back to Toro Rosso, but more importantly... There is currently a three-way tie for seventh in the championship between Racing Point's new signing Sergio Pérez, Kevin Magnussen of H...

This may not be the right place to post this, but I really miss the podcasts. I seem to remember that even after F1 Rejects ended and was replaced by GP Rejects, Jamie and Enoch were still releasing podcasts under the title "The Rejects Podcast". But all that content appears to have been ...

Autosport and it didn't happen? Well, at least it's for the better...

Congrats to Mick Schumacher on winning the Euro F3, but I wish people would stop hyping/favouring him because of his surname. Just let him be his own person and driver, getting on the hype train is dangerous enough, but to base the bulk of it on his surname is even worse. Let's hype him up as 'the ...

Sean Gelael has been given an FP1 outing by Toro Rosso for Austin. Is there some significance in this? Yes, the fact that they did it last year as well at the same track (and a couple of others around the same time). It's still probably going to be Albon/Wehrlein/de la Rosa/whoever-else-is-in-the-n...

Waris wrote:Apparently, Eitel Cantoni got fired and rehired twice by Escuderia Bandeirantes in 1952... I wonder what's the story behind that.

He must have had a major self-esteem problem, then, given that he was the co-owner of Escuderia Bandeirantes.

Why do people think their opinion is shared by the entire fanbase and they are speaking for everyone?

- Anonymous Reddit comment from yesterday.

That is not a typo. It appears that Ernie Pieterse, another South African privateer of the sixties/seventies era, passed away two years ago outside of the view of the motorsport world. My only source at the moment is the Notalgia Forum , but the poster in question is usually pretty reliable about th...

People might want to rethink their McLaren nominations (or at least withdraw one of their reasons): https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/13927 ... ine-claims

Rob Dylan wrote:I nominate Simtek for getting the threads mixed up

If you read the other thread, you'll see that this was all a bad joke.

There will always be a "dominating" team (which is why it is often more interesting to follow the "reject" teams and the classification positions outside the top 5). This really is the best solution. I've been following a championship in my head based on this system (note: not t...

For newcomers, this is where you nominate the most rejectful performance of the weekend.

For me, there is nothing more rejectful than a Sergio Pérez 7th place. Twenty years ago that would have been worthless, and the sooner he realises that the better.

For newcomers, this is where you make your argument for who put in the best "where did that come from?" performance of the weekend. I feel like Vettel is going to get lots of nominations, so I will instead put forth a case for the invisible car magnet attached to Charles Leclerc's Sauber ,...

Rob Dylan wrote:So yeah, can anyone bring a little hype to this weekend's race?

Got you fam.

I can't say it's made the difference between first and second since 2007, but that's something we can only say in retrospect, which makes this whole question very problematic because, when you're fighting for the championship, you don't have the benefit of hindsight for the battle ahead. Take 1999. ...

I just can't understand why there is so much stigma around team orders. Everyone knows it happens and everyone should acknowledge it is the most sensible thing to do in situations like these, why not talk about it openly and admit that "we will work as a team and sometimes that means that our ...

Now, I can't see where the popular support for this idea is, so I don't buy the argument from Liberty Media that it is "what the fans want". Looking at the way they've been phrasing their "Fan Voice" surveys, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if one of them produced a res...

It's annoying as well when names like Nuvolari or Caracciola are dismissed altogether on the basis of them "not being F1 drivers." That's like discussing the greatest Indycar drivers of all time and ignoring everyone who raced before 1996.

I didn't expect such an extensive list. How many people have been working on this? As many people as there are posts written by you on this forum. Well, sort of. This list was actually copy-pasted from an older one in the Jean-Denis Délétraz forum, then I just added and removed names as necessary t...

Ataxia wrote:Much like Lando Norris, I'm moving "up" from F2...albeit this time, after this weekend at Sochi. In other words, this is my last weekend.

More on this as we have it...

You're finally running for the FIA presidency?

I find the ever-repeating narrative of "Williams/McLaren, the top team that historically ought to be on the top but shock and horror, fell from grace because x, y and z" jading. As if there has never been fluctuation of team form in the history of F1! The longevity of teams and the stabil...

Well, well. Seeing Daytona on the F1 calendar was always a fantasy I had somewhere in the back of my mind, but I'm not sure I see the reasoning for running it in the other direction. Anyway, they're nice, but they're pretty much the same as all the other "futuristic" concepts that have cro...

How much was it for you in the grandstand? just for future reference. Had to dig out the actual ticket - it was €270 (actually thought it was more than that). That was for one of the grandstands halfway up the main straight which, if I'm honest, was pretty terrible for anything after the start, pro...

JUST BRING BACK SCOTT SPEED ALREADY

...If Force India had had their name change, this would have actually been an interesting season. Instead... not so much. Well, in the end they not only had a name change! Does that make them eligible for 2019 after their DSQ? Taking McLaren's 2008 as an example, Force India would be eligible on ac...

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