Grand Prix Rejects

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

Yes- Mario Haberfeld ! He was going to BE something....and then got to F3000 and really wasnt Has anyone ever discovered any reason why he sucked so much in F3000, especially in 1999? Obviously all I've seen of the season have been some races and season review some years ago but I don't remember re...

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

Interesting....

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

BTCC 2018 Round 13 at Croft - Jason Plato, qualified 2nd, finished 2nd, still complained even though he hadn't qualified so high all season and hadn't scored a point in 2018 prior to this race.

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

F3000 in 1999 has to be Mario Haberfeld, from F3 Champ to the Dave Walker of F3000.

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

Hill and Price have left as well now.

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

Hungary 1999 - Mika Salo, 18th on the grid, 12th in the race in a Ferrari that he almost won the previous with. Did surrendering the win to Irvine really damage his confidence that badly?

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

The 2007 Spyker

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

It's an alright article. I'd have put Gianfranco Brancatelli in there since he won the last round of the 1988 season in Steve Soper's Eggenberger Sierra.

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

If this is happening, ten drivers wouldn't be anywhere near enough to do anybody any justice, especially for the BSCC era. I'd suggest a top 32 (believe me, it's doable). ...nope, we're having ten and that's final. Don't make me have to threaten you with a ban as well, Simtek. (I've already written...

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

I wonder if it would be possible to do a "Certain-number of the Best Rejects in the BTCC" List? After all, the BTCC is celebrating its 60th Anniversary this year and I can think of a few notable F1 Rejects who were successful in that series. Frank Gardner, Joachim Winkelhock, Gabriele Tarq...

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

F3000 in 2002: 3rd: Tomas Enge for failing that drugs test, costing him the win in Hungary and ultimately the title. 2nd: European Minardi for being the only team not to score and losing their only point of the season to a disqualification. 1st: Nordic Racing, the dominant team of the previous seaso...

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

Max Verstappen!

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

Arturo Merzario briefly abandoning his March to drive for Shadow in 1977.

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

I know, tommykl, I know.

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

pasta_maldonado wrote:
1993DonningtonNo1Mk2 wrote:
dinizintheoven wrote:...and I'd just made a list of the number changes in the 90s as well...

We all make mistakes

Some mistakes only become glaringly obvious with the passage of time...

So true

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

dinizintheoven wrote:...and I'd just made a list of the number changes in the 90s as well...

We all make mistakes

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

dinizintheoven wrote:
This wrote:Hartley is the only one doing it in the same season though.

Hence my latest post in "Unusual F1 Stats"...

That's what I meant.

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

...and we think of the recent "Bernie's gone senile" era of F1 as being the time most associated with the kind of potty rules that wouldn't look out of place in Red Dwarf's Space Corps Directives manual... Would this also explain Alex Zanardi shuffling over from the #11 Lotus to #12 in 19...

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

1. Vettel - What a nutcase he's turning into!
2. Renault - At least Max's luck seems to have turned...

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

Aguvazk wrote:Well, i want to add to this list one guy from my country, José María López, 3x WTCC champion. He has the talent, at least for a reject, lol

If only USF1 had worked out...

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

This wrote:
1993DonningtonNo1Mk2 wrote:The late Manfred Winkelhock at Arrows and Brabham

I also forget easily Teo Fabi drove for Brabham once. I only remember his Toleman/Benetton days.

Rarer still, his brother Corrado drove for Brabham too.

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

1. The race stewards! What could Max do? Kimi was forcing him off! 2. Kevin Magnussen He could also have backed off slightly before he got into that situation. Speaking of Max though, I have to say that my opinion of him has rather dropped given some of the comments that he made after the race, and...

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

If my knowledge of F1 History is correct, this is the time since 2004 that a team is likely to end the season with two different drivers from the ones they started with. Caterham? Caterham were the last team to run 4 drivers in one season in 2014 but Kobayashi was one of the drivers they started th...

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

Brendon Hartley for Ferrari! (Along with Nico Hülkenberg when he's done with Renault). Let's face it, Will Stevens was never going to make that grade. So that makes the 2nd instance of a former F1 driver losing his permanent race number to a current F1 driver, first Kobayashi, now Stevens and isn't...

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

BTCC to actually do something different from the norm next season! Snetterton Race 3 will be double distance with double points. m Should be interesting. Although, what happens about tyre situation? Everyone will surely use harder compound for that race? Daft to use softs then. Plus the reverse gri...

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

, or Lella Lombardi's DNQ in the one race she attempted in 1974, with a privately-entered Brabham resplendent with #208 to promote Radio Luxembourg. I'll bet they were happy with their investment... Wasn't her official starting number 28 and the 0 just put in there for decorative purposes? It could...

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

Richard Lyons and Bas Leinders, both of whom came close to making one-off appearances for Jordan and Minardi in 2004.

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

Rob Dylan wrote:To be honest, I'm starting to class the whole 2015 season as an anonymous stint.

Agreed

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

If my knowledge of F1 History is correct, this is the time since 2004 that a team is likely to end the season with two different drivers from the ones they started with.

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

The late Manfred Winkelhock at Arrows and Brabham

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

1. The race stewards! What could Max do? Kimi was forcing him off!
2. Kevin Magnussen

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

Of course from a reject standpoint I'm most looking forward to seeing 'Donald Thump' in action. Those of you that didn't like Apollo and Carbide being in the same heat last time, well you won't like Heat B as Carbide is in with both Eruption and Aftershock. Also Gabriel, Big Nipper and Crackers n S...

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

The further thought occurs: Brendon Hartley is unlikely to be considered a permanent driver for this season, and should be allocated a temporary number akin to André Lotterer and Will Stevens in 2015 and Stoffel Vandoorne last year. Toro Rosso's testing-and-temporary numbers are 38 and 39, and Sean...

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

The Sky team were debating the "last available seat" at Williams during FP1; they offered up - Kubica - Di Resta - Palmer - Massa What about Kvyat? Since then, Kubica's done a test with Williams' 2014 car, which was apparently "quite successful". There should be the scope for co...

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

Dave Coyne

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

The Chicane wrote:It was Peter Sauber's 74th birthday this past Friday so lets wish a Happy Birthday to the founder of F1's current backmarker.

Belated Happy returns, Peter Sauber.

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

Simtek wrote:
peteroli34 wrote:So Toro Rosso go into the USGP running 2 completely different drivers then they ran in the previous GP. When was the last time that happened in the same season?.

https://gprejects.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 80#p382954

I just read that fact on gpupdate.com.

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

Rumour has it Brendon Hartley is on Toro Rosso's list, not just racing for them in Austin, I think he'd be better off in Indycar Racing with Chip Ganassi Racing.

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

2011 HRT, 2002 Arrows and 1988 Eurobrun with the chequered white and yellow livery from the last 2 races.

1993DonningtonNo1Mk2

I'm doing research for an article on the Osella team.

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