Grand Prix Rejects

Baby Park

Not to push the subject away - though I am desperate to move away from the horses. (Hell, I've barely been on these forums until this year and even I remember the swimming horses!) I was thinking after yesterday where there was a little talk of Button's possible future. Hypothetically, say this is h...

South Korea: the triumphant return nobody asked for. At least replace Monza with Imola or something, not this!

I kinda want Button to stay on for a few more years. It's the stability and the routine of it that I like about the guy: he's always there or thereabouts, and he's a welcome personality with whatever he does. Unfortunately McLaren are being as loud as they can about world champion replacements and a...

Kimi Ricciardo. Daniel Raikkonen
from WTF1

2009 Japan. Glock was ill and so Kobayashi took part in both FP1 and FP2.

I don't see any reason why they wouldn't be allowed to take part in qualifying alone. Practice is meant to be free after all.

Ericsson and Kobayashi look excellent swapped. Mainly because Kamui looks like he belongs in J-Pop, and Marcus because, well, he looks like this

Why was there booing ? I'm honestly confused. Either that or I missed that bit before the race where Rosberg punched a spectator, ran over a marshal and flipped the bird at the audience when on the podium. Caterham are naturally shameless, but Kobayashi and Lotterer have done excellent jobs of makin...

I hope you all join me in paying respects to Kamui Kobayashi, for a great, entertaining career. Likely his last race, it'll be sad to see him go (probably along with the team at the end of the year).

Thanks, Kamui :'(

Perez : Deserves a top race-seat as much as Hulkenberg does. His driving today proved that. Magnussen : He seemed OK at the start of the year, but he's had some really good races recently. It's a shame the stewards have decided to ruin his year as much as they can. Honourable Mention: Massa for a s...

Jocke1 wrote:

"I know all your sweet driving moves, your catchphrases, I'm your number one fan:
IncrediBoy!"

Just rewatched the 2009 Singapore GP and watching the two Toro Rossos come into the pits and retire right next to each other made me laugh quite a lot. Of course what happened to the Arrows in Spain 1998 was even sillier. That's funny, I watched that Singapore race recently too :O Their fuel hose d...

[url=<a class="linkification-ext" href="http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/115689" title="Linkification: m">http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/115689</a>]Apparently[/url], Chilton's seat is now safe for the rest of the season... Pantano said that once...

I saw that article, and most of them just starting politically ranting at each other. IMO the EU doesn't have much to say about cancelling the Russian GP when they are one of the parties involved in the Ukraine situation in the first place. They are causing trouble, same as the Russians are, so what...

*Gets popcorn, brings family around computer, puts video on repeat*

And who could forget Fisichella at Malaysia, twice lining up on the wrong grid slot

di Grassi binning it before lining up on the grid was much worse

I liked it when Martin Brundle and DC were commentating together on the BBC, it felt like having two ex racers with good personalities in your living room. Having a nice jovial chat about their wonder years, and occasionaly talking about the race going on. They felt more relaxed and actually talked...

danfilm007 wrote:Now now gentlemen (and women), Legard was just... "Oh, and there's big problems there!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iEt9SmVLeY

Don't forget all the "Crucial!" moments, as well as the wondering of "What Can He Do?!" as he "Comes Round The Final Corner!"

I personally can't get enough of Coulthard's formula 1-chess comparisons

It puts Rosberg in a safer situation in that scenario, because if the season so far is to be judged, he'll probably have an ok lead going into the final double points farce, making Hamilton the one more likely to make a dangerous move happen.

I'm just sad I have to wait another two weeks to watch the next episode of this soap The post-race antics from all parties have been so entertaining that it's annoying I have to wait two weeks to get the popcorn out in front of the telly waiting for the inevitable. Then again it could be a repeat of...

Why do we see so few driver changes over the course of a year nowadays? 2013 we had one driver change for the last two races of the year, 2012 we had one driver change for one race. We all know who's under-performing, and the last few years there's been some excellent under-performers who've kept t...

Ben Edwards was good for the first half of 2012, but I got quickly fed up with him after that. Every race begins with "Lights out and away we go! There's a good start for [polesitter]" regardless of whether the polesitter had a good start. While it was at first nice to have some enthusiasm...

Why do we see so few driver changes over the course of a year nowadays? 2013 we had one driver change for the last two races of the year, 2012 we had one driver change for one race. We all know who's under-performing, and the last few years there's been some excellent under-performers who've kept th...

Thanks the mention of my Vettel stat, guys, made me feel good

Podcast was gooood as always!

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Looked around for a double-points thread but didn't see one, so I thought I'd start a new one.
So Yas Marina are starting to advertise, putting the first nail in the coffin.

On the good side, it looks like HRT are going to be there

2009 Malaysia is the last time Williams were ahead of both of them (I think).
That's because Rosberg was collecting points like he was Nick Heidfeld while McLaren and Ferrari were unbelievably slow and unreliable, respectively.

Yeah, Tony Martin, soz Nibali's come up quite a bit since two years ago, where I thought he was pretty unpolished and wouldn't (didn't always) pose too much of a threat to Wiggins' race. But he came third and this year is going in with a lot of reserves, but also a lot of intelligence. On Sunday and...

Awesome race today, awesome! So much respect for Dan Martin for doing it all again today, after all his hard work yesterday - second Combative Jersey well deserved. And Rodriguez, what more is there to say about the guy? He just showed that if it wasn't for his massive time deficit (why even was tha...

Had a weird one last night. Or in the case of F1 dreams, an ordinary one? I was in the Spanish Grand Prix driving Mercedes planes around Catalunya against my team-mate Hamilton. Hamilton's car broke down and then I was winning. Coming up to the turn 10 area I got on the team radio that I was breakin...

Raikkonen . I said last race that Raikkonen has been long overdue an award. I was at Silverstone this weekend (my first F1 race attendance!) and saw the difference between him and Alonso firsthand. Not a single problem for Alonso (that I saw) all weekend, whereas looking from the Village Raikkonen ...

Yeah I don't think anyone in F1 wants to have a mid-season change nowadays, but unfortunately it's actually one of the few ways to solve the "Raikkonen problem". The only real option I'd say currently would be to get a Force India driver. They both seem to able to adapt to changes well, as...

...It'll be sad if this is the way he ends his time in F1 after such an illustrious career. The sad thing is that if there's one driver on the grid who would appear to care the least about their legacy, it'd be Raikkonen. The question you have to ask is why he ever came back? His motivation was the...

Red Bull definitely should get it for this race. All the hype of their home race and they have a complete disaster. Their only driver on the podium was Mark Webber who must have had a quiet laugh once again when he reflects at some of his misfortune at the team. At the same time though Kimi Raikkon...

25 races that makes it. 19 last season and the first 6 this year. I'm amazed it lasted that long to be honest. Don't know if any of you guys saw the practice at Spain but he went off multiple times in every session, and twice binned it in the gravel. Takes proper talent to finish the race after that

Bahrain 2010. I was 14 and I remember it being pretty boring. I honestly don't recall the following races until Monaco, which I kept seeing every 5 laps or so because I was working the garden. Barrichello 360ing with just enough space for cars to get around I thought was quite amazing, and is one of...

dr-baker wrote:
Rob Dylan wrote: then there's protests and riots on the streets of Rio de Janeiro because of this! Blown out of proportion much?

Please tell me you made that last bit up? Surely you cannot be serious?

Keeping you on your toes

I get told millions of times not to exaggerate

He's talentless, ungrateful and unpleasant... ...Massa is just an arsehole... ...I don't think Massa will be missed by many when he retires... ...It's not that he's devoid of charisma that makes him so unlikeable, it's that he's a bit of a hack, who likes to think he is a bigshot just because of hi...

Ricciardo's first win came from 6th on the grid. In 39 wins Vettel's never won from lower than 3rd on the grid. And only 3 of those wins were from 3rd. When you look at the fact that since joining RBR, prior to this season, Vettel was on pole 47% of the time, not counting p2 starts, you understand ...

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