Grand Prix Rejects

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Haas loses court case for copying Whyte Bike's logo:

https://whyte.bike/pages/stag

Can't find this anywhere else at this time.

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The crane driver.

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Balloons!

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In today's thrilling piece of thread necromancy: some urbexers have a look round the factory in Leafield, as once used by Arrows, Super Aguri and Caterham. People called Faustus should probably not watch this. m There are a few of these videos on YouTube exploring the factory. Basically anything th...

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It's too easy to say Williams, so I'll say Kvyat. The penalty was harsh but he was at fault. With Albon having had a great race, Kvyat might find himself without a drive before long.

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Albon. Very impressive race which belied the fact that it was only his 3rd race. If this carries on much longer, Kvyat will lose his drive by mid-season.

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I was informed yesterday by my cardiologist that I have to have more surgery to attempt to control my heart condition. This time it's likely to be major open-heart surgery. I'm happy because the surgery has very high success rates but worried because it is quite risky.

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When I last posted in this thread, my grandfather had just died. Funny thing about that was that it was the day after Marty McFly had visited in 2015 in Back To The Future II, so I felt as though my grandfather had lived to see the future. For someone to have become an adult during WW2, seen man on...

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Frentzen127 wrote:I joined on 1st April by the looks of it, so I guess that also makes me part of the old guard

Noob.

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Ah those were the days...

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Since everyone else has mentioned Leclerc's turbo, Ferrari, Vettel and Renault, It would have been too easy to say Williams, so I'll say Racing Point. Perez squeaked a point in the race but they seemed to have gone back from last year.

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As others have said, Leclerc, Norris and Albon were all very impressive. I'll go with McLaren, who were surprisingly good.

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I'd like to nominate Kvyat. Great job coming from a year out of racing. Bottom of Q2 but did well in the race.

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dinizintheoven wrote:Remember what happened this time in 2001 with some bloke called Kimi Räikkönen...

Wasn't he a rally driver?

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Henrique wrote:
This wrote:No matter how much ferrari and renault underperformed, nothing can exuse Williams being this poor. Nothing.

I think we all need to accept that Williams is the new Minardi.

Williams doesn't have the charisma and appeal of Minardi.

Put me down for Williams as well, please. Appalling performance.

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RonDenisDeletraz wrote:I miss Formula 2 Palmer Audi, home to the one and only Plamen Kralev. All hail the Fire King.

We will never forget the Fire King.

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Williams states the bleedin' obvious:

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/14165 ... of-testing

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UncreativeUsername37 wrote:Williams are probably skipping the next day too!

This is truly pathetic. It's either the result of a crash test failure or incredibly inept planning.

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Williams loved it so much at the back last year that they’ve decided to miss the first day of testing to ensure that they stay there:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/47270111

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Faustus wrote:If I have two beans and then I add two more beans, what do I have?

https://youtu.be/OSlfttDnurw

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The McLaren MCL34 in render form:

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/14149 ... 019-f1-car

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The Alfa Romeo on track in camouflage livery:

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/14149 ... ack-emerge

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Ataxia wrote:
Faustus wrote:Gary Anderson's analysis:

https://www.autosport.com/f1/feature/88 ... is-closing

Gary Anderson AND...?

Some geezah who seems to know his shite.

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The Williams with new Herbie Hancock sponsorhip:

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/14142 ... r-for-2019

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The Toro Rosso has been revealed:

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/14142 ... -f1-design

The livery is the same as last year and the car isn't very different, apart from the changes enforced by new regulations.

Gary Anderson's analysis:

https://www.autosport.com/f1/feature/88 ... is-closing

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I noticed that this thread hadn't been started yet so I took the liberty of doing so.

Today Haas showed off their new livery. It's very black with some gold highlights and lettering, in a very Team Enstone circa 2011 way:

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/14136 ... car-reveal

Or perhaps the Toyota F109 test car that Pirelli used.

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novitopoli wrote:

My then-flatmate had a Nissan Cherry for a while, when I was young and foolish. It was an awful car. Ah the memories...

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Ataxia wrote:For those interested, this week's Autosport magazine has a feature on the 2012 HRT car.

I hear it's pretty good

The feature or the car?

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This is Ferrari reverting back to the pre-Jean Todt practice of finding a scapegoat for a failure, sacking the scapegoat in a very public display of resolve and determination and making big statements about a major change wich will yield great results. I thought Ferrari was over this nonsense.

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dr-baker wrote:Formula 5000 was cool back in the day. Better than F3000.

Very different intent as well. Formula 3000 was a stepping stone formula whereas Formula 5000 was intended as an alternative series to Formula 1.

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I still think that the privilege of being on the grid holding a driver's board should be a lottery among the spectators. Maybe an extra fee on top of the normal ticket price to be entered into the draw.

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The ridiculous amount of immunosuppressants that he is bound to be on will make him very suspectible to infection.

A third of lung transplant recipients develop acute rejection during the first year. Hope it's not that.

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That huge Forix article on the Ilmor is one of the best motorsport I've read on the web. The ones on the Alfa Romeo and Porsche CART projects are also brilliant.

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I've only just found this thread. This is a superb thread and, for me, one of the best we've had on this forum. Great contributions guys.

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UncreativeUsername37 wrote:Ricciardo and Grosjean are admittedly slightly strange cases.

In so many ways...

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How long is it going to be before Williams comes out to say that Kubica didn't get the drive because of the PKN Orlen deal, it was all synergistic and a coincidence and an interesting opportunity and he's not really a pay driver at all and he was always our first choice and and and...

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Stroll to Force India Water is wet Although can something that is liquid in nature be considered “wet”? [/PhilosopherForti] Technically, water is not wet. Water makes things wet, but in itself is not a wet object. The definition of “wet” is “covered or saturated with water or another liquid”. Wetne...

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Williams.

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Frederic Vasseur.

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Do you know the Bishop of Norwich?

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