Grand Prix Rejects

GerhardTalger

I forgot to say that Massa was absolutely horrible today. With Bottas on 6th position, he was trailing around P13. And when he suddenly emerged on P9 again after the Hulkenberg incident, he was dropping behind once more.

Bottas was just unlucky, but Massa. Geesh, just hang up the keys, man.

GerhardTalger

Maldonado for getting 3 penalties
Lewis Hamilton for being an idiotic whiny bitch who was slow, making mistakes and STILL he took more points than Nico Rosberg because of the collision at the end
Kimi Raikkonens MGU-K for denying a Ferrari 1-2.

GerhardTalger

Well, clearly we have seen some interesting performances and need to be mentioned. I was happy to see Max finally showing off some maturity again to drive to a solid 4th, but that could have been a podium without that dumb DT. Same for Kvyat and Ricciardo, the latter had the edge over the former for...

GerhardTalger

There's absolutely no reason to give Rosberg a penalty in this entire race. The incident with Ricciardo was a clear racing incident.

Maldonado did take a penalty for his part on the Perez incident.

Best race since Canada 2011 for sure, maybe even better than that one.

GerhardTalger

Andretti Racing will go for a Consistency upgrade.

GerhardTalger

Well, that was... not bad, to say the least.

Jean-Cristophe Foyt is showing off here. Finishing second in his first ever race in the series while his experienced teammate was the penultimate qualifier.

GerhardTalger

My my, Michael, I know it is Andretti Racing, but still we don't like it when you bin surefire victories in here...

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Marcus Ericsson - Dead slow, slower that the McLaren, making the wrong call in the rain and causing the first lap accident. Yeah.

DHM to Max Verstappen who finally fueled all the "Just like his dad in the marble trap"-jokes back here in the Netherlands.

GerhardTalger

1. Sebastian Vettel - For making an anonymous race in the dry a solid podium drive in the wet
2. Fernando Alonso - What, points?

GerhardTalger

All American Racing:

Eagle/Ford/Goodyear

GerhardTalger

Can really only be McLaren. Again.

GerhardTalger

1. Hulkenberg
2. Massa - even though it was by default of Vettel, Raikkonen and Bottas failing, I wouldn't have thought he could manage a podium here.

GerhardTalger

The season looks most like 2002 to me. Only a Mercedes-engined team, Williams and Ferrari on the podiums... no real scope for a podium for other teams (maybe a fluke like USA back then), really looking like the championship winner could get podiums on every occasion... Let's hope that doesn't mean R...

GerhardTalger

To be fair I have to agree on that one, I was not clear enough on that subject. Ultrareliability becomes worse when races lack competition and are pretty much in lock order. We didn't have that too much in the early years of ultra-reliability, from 2005-2013 (discounting 2011) we had at least 2 team...

GerhardTalger

1. Force India - Although by virtue of the Mercedes engine, the Force was finally somewhat decent again. Although Hulkenberg scored in Australia as well, there were some retirements there, unlike here. I would have thought Hulkenberg could dice it with the Red Bulls but he finished clearly ahead of ...

GerhardTalger

If you ask me, yesterday did show everything that is wrong with current F1. Fuel saving, DRS, ultra-reliability (although McLaren, pretty rejectul by themselves, did pretty well to have a double DNF on that accord) and the fact that it's so hard for mediocre teams to get outstanding results make tha...

GerhardTalger

- F1 in the 90's are pretty bad to watch. I mean it was not fun. - 2010 was a very underrated season. Had 4 drivers gunning for the title and the racing was so much better than 2007 - Monaco GP is generally one of the most dull races out there. - I miss Valencia, it was a pretty cool track - Ralf S...

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I don't think the Canadian Grand Prix gets anywhere near the recognition it deserves. Particularly after having it rammed down our throats recently at what a significant event Monte Carlo is. Canada is a proper race track the likes of which Tilke could never design in a million squillion years. Per...

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People still talking about Verstappen crash in the beginning of race weekend. Massa lose another opportunity to shut up his mouth. m It was the talk of the last two weeks on the Dutch message boards. There are haters everywhere because having some success isn't appreciated in here and the fans are ...

GerhardTalger

I stared at my screen for five minutes who was number 4, to realise De Cesaris actually competed in 94.

GerhardTalger

Current top drivers are horribly overrated, except Vettel and Alonso. Hamilton is a Berger-quality driver at best, Rosberg and Button around as good as Capelli or Tambay. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1JHfdkhm1xU/VC3aUJ3KD8I/AAAAAAAABCE/LMiDPWFhCVU/s1600/Man%2Bangrily%2Bthrows%2Bdown%2Bcake%2Band%2Bspo...

GerhardTalger

Discounting Indy, Ferrari and Alfa Romeo were the only two teams on the podium for the whole of 1951.

But that's a completely different time. It never happened since 1986 at least, when teams never had more than two entries for a single race.

GerhardTalger

So Verstappen gets a grid penalty. Sensible, I have to say.

GerhardTalger

Max Verstappen. HE'S 17! And was a man pocessed. When I was 17 I thought I was bada$$ running my dad's GTO on Friday nights. Max was blitzing through Monte Carlo and was the best man on track til Roman took him out. I don't see why Grosjean would take Verstappen out - I mean, if that was his intent...

GerhardTalger

Verstappen at least saved us from a total borefest. I don't think that incident was really that much avoidable in the end, although the biggest mistake obviously was Verstappens.

GerhardTalger

1. Kvyat
2. Perez

I somewhat expected McLaren would be half-decent here, while Kvyat had the edge over his teammate all day while Perez just trashed Hulkenberg.

GerhardTalger

Hamilton's engineer or at least the one to make that ludicrous call

HM for Grosjean/Verstappen here.

GerhardTalger

94-95 is definitely Hills, because of Schumachers DSQ and double race ban in which Damon scored 30 points. I can't see Button winning 09-10 either, even with his double victory in 2010 he did not win a single race in the second half of 2009. I'm not sure which one of the Red Bulls wins that year th...

GerhardTalger

Will Pastor finish for the first time in Monaco?

GerhardTalger

Andretti bids:

1. Miller Lite
2. Nextel
3. Motorola
(4. Valvoline
5. Pioneer)

Or do I have to go for Motorola?

GerhardTalger

1. Force India.

Really.

GerhardTalger

1. N. Rosberg - Showing he's not just another number two driver
2. F. Alonso - Running pretty strongly until his retirement, could have been close to a point position actually.

GerhardTalger

Michael is not an F1 reject due to his final podium, but even then I like him more than enough to drive at my/his team.

The only reason to not take that route would be Montermini, but, well.... nope.

GerhardTalger

I have to say I find quite some profiled drivers anonymous. There's a vast difference between a slow and steady guy like Badoer, a smasher like Foitek or Ide, a complete numbskull (paydriver) like Deletraz or a actually decent driver like McNish (although I'm not sure if he was profiled?) The last t...

GerhardTalger

I'll take Andretti M with a Honda-Reynard combination

GerhardTalger

I think that the point is that, at the time, Williams had the choice of either getting rid of Rubens or getting rid of Hulkenberg in order to accommodate Maldonado. It's not that Williams necessarily thought that Maldonado was better than Hulkenberg, rather that Rubens was considered to be of highe...

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Was just thinking about Hulkenberg's time at Williams and how he was replaced by Maldonado, despite the Hulk's potential for flashes of brilliance. That didn't happen without reason, though: Hülkenberg could have stayed at Williams had Barrichello not wiped all of Oxfordshire with him in 2010. So y...

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You can say the same for Martini and JEV. I've never seen Martini drive either, but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate the fact that he was responsible for 16 of their 38 points scored ever (31 if you don't count the 2005 USGP). Even though I do think the guy deserved more than a Minardi seat, he...

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For one unpopular opinion (at least here) I feel more disbelief in HHF losing his championship chances there than Luca losing his 4th place later on in that race. Not unpopular, simply boring. Maybe I wouldn't think that way if it wasn't my favourite driver back in the day. Or if he actually contes...

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Nyck de Vries is a douchebag. Utterly disgraceful driving from him on the restart, stacking up the field massively and creating the potential for an awful pileup, and right at the end, where he realised too late that he'd handed the win to Vaxiviere on a silver platter. Glad that, in the end, the o...

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