Grand Prix Rejects

[Edit] On another note, following Perez's victory in Baku, we have Horner making some comments that seem designed to undermine Perez's confidence, not increase it: “Winning the sprint race yesterday, obviously he got a little bit lucky with the timing of the Safety Car [in the grand prix],” said Ho...

There were a few people wryly noting that Red Bull's mechanics were ignoring the instructions not to do that - however, with the focus very much on the Ocon incident, it seems that the FIA may be quietly ignoring Red Bull's actions. I thought that might kind of happen. Horner is probably happy to p...

Pretty weird to see Verstappen insert himself as the authority on good driving standards, considering his many on-track antics between 2015 and 2021. Effectively, it's now the case that Verstappen is the one with much more to loose by not yielding, whilst other drivers around him now have less to l...

That near miss with Ocon and those people in the pit lane : How did they not realize there was one lap left of the race? :facepalm: Could have ended really badly, thankfully they all had fast reflexes. It's not just that there was one lap left, but the FIA's own officials should have known that Oco...

Not to get too pessimistic as I'm in a good mood today, but I do think, on this subject, that the FIA will at some point "make sprint races count, even in retrospect", as part of a driver's results record. It seems inevitable that in a few years "well of course they're part of the fu...

It would depend where exactly the new team finished, but I'd say that around 6-7 years is about the point where your increased income would outweigh the initial upfront payment under the new prize fund structure. Imagine being on the other end of the table to the potential investors :P "You sh...

Quick question, if a Reject wins a Sprint race are they unrejectified? I wouldn't expect the powers that be to care about such a thing and in the real world, of course, it doesn't really matter but what does matter, I think, is whether a driver who wins a sprint race is counted as a race winner. Wh...

It's Aston Martin's strongest ever! Even better than 1999 when they were Jordan! Strictly speaking, the original entity - Force India Formula One Team Limited - went into administration in 2018, with the entity that is now known as AMR GP Limited (the holding company that runs the Aston Martin F1 T...

S1: Verstappen S2: Perez S3: Alonso S4: Leclerc S5: Hamilton S6: Russell 1. Verstappen 2. Perez 3. Alonso 4. Leclerc 5. Hamilton 6. Russell 7. Stroll 8. Sainz 9. Zhou 10. Bottas PP: Verstappen FL: Perez First Retirement: Sargeant ROTR: The race, for managing to be overly complicated in format and pr...

This is Alonso's strongest start to the season since 2007 :shock: It's Aston Martin's strongest ever! Even better than 1999 when they were Jordan! Strictly speaking, the original entity - Force India Formula One Team Limited - went into administration in 2018, with the entity that is now known as A...

While we're on the subject, just how many teams was Damon Hill linked to for 1997 before he signed for Arrows? I think he was also linked with McLaren and Jordan as well. Obviously the latter move happened a year later but I think he turned McLaren down which he probably regretted come the start of...

There isn't much to say that hasn't already been said, but I'm still confused by the "statute of limitations" rule he seems to be citing here. If them knowing about it before the ceremony extended it, surely it would only be extended until the next ceremony? Which if they didn't do anythi...

Michael Andretti signed a deal to race for Ferrari in 1992, what if this had eventuated? Given how the 1992 Ferrari turned out, probably would have been just as disastrous as his stint at McLaren turned out. But maybe in that case, the car could have been blamed and masked any poor performance by t...

Not sure what became of Jani after Champ Car got absorbed by the Indy Racing League though given how Hartley was later recalled to the Red Bull family, I suppose Jani could have been recalled. Forgot about Takuma Sato and how he came close to replacing Bourdais so I guess he could also have been a ...

As for Schneider, he was so unfortunate to only really drive shitboxes in F1. And when he finally did get to sit in the Arrows, he immediately got yeeted for Alex Caffi, who still bagged a couple of points that should have been Schneider's. By 1991 there were so many open seats too - the second Lot...

Asides from personal motivations to stir trouble, it's also not as if Bernie has had a reputation for being a particularly honest individual - in fact, it's pretty much the polar opposite. As a witness, the reliability of his testimony is rather questionable at best - not to mention that the fraud ...

Michael Masi is laughing over those nonsense. Expect a MASSIVE shitstorm after this clown show. By a peculiar twist, Masi was apparently present in the paddock this weekend as a guest of the FIA. He is involved in the Supercars series which ran at Melbourne as per usual. To a point - whilst he is i...

It's been revealed accoring to Autosport that Massa is looking to challenge the result of the 2008 Singapore GP , as aul' Bernie has stated that he and Max Mosely, FIA president at the time, knew of the events that took place at least before the end of the 2008 season, which was within the time all...

I agree. Some of us may not like the rules, but it appears they played it by the book. People can certainly continue to nominate race control for following the rules, but it’s a little weird. Well, even then, only to some extent - the protest by Haas over the restart procedure was on the grounds th...

following today's race- someone posted a reply to a tweet about the abnormal amount of red flags now in f1 that I made From the beginning of 2000 F1 season to the end of 2019 season, there was 19 red flags. Since the beginning of 2020, there has already been 17 red flags.- race-related red flags. L...

Oh boy. So, the first red flag was completely unnecessary. Gravel on the circuit should be taken seriously of course but there was no reason why they couldn't get the sweepers out once the cars were bunched up - even if cars picked it up in the interim it was very very unlikely to cause a puncture ...

FIA/Race control/Liberty Media : Another race where their decisions were questionable. The first red flag was unnecessary and costly for drivers like Russell and Pérez. The second one felt even more like it was for the show (a pattern lately) and led to a hilariously rejectful restart. Then a reall...

Vassago wrote: ↑02 Apr 2023, 07:17 Michael Masi is laughing over those nonsense. Expect a MASSIVE shitstorm after this clown show.

By a peculiar twist, Masi was apparently present in the paddock this weekend as a guest of the FIA.

In reply to Rob's question... 1981 Belgium Grand Prix- an Osella mechanic fell from the wall in the pits and was hit by Reutemann's car.He sadly died of a fractured skull. That is tragic, but I wonder if there even was a catch fence in 1981 or just wall at that point that didn't require any real cl...

The 2023 "I have a very intelligent joke to make. Because Australia is in the southern hemisphere, let's put our picture upside down to imply that the event is actually happening upside down because they're in the southern hemisphere, and that's on the underside of the Earth. Not only is the j...

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/fia-bans-f1-teams-from-pitwall-fence-celebrations/10450137/ The FIA wants to clamp down on the rule forbidding people from climbing the pitfall, with celebrations at the end of races coming to their minds. Whatever next? As a general rule, I'm in favor of more safe...

It's funny, I wonder how many teams on the current grid would not be able to start now because of the buy-in fee and the huge startup costs? Three or Four? Gotta figure at least two. Also, if I was a multi-multi billionaire, what kind of outlay would I need to get to the grid? $200 mil buy in, prob...

Craig Pollock is going to be heading up a team with the aim of entering in 2026. With backing from an unspecified country in the Gulf region, the team will be called Formula Equal, with the intention that the team's workforce will be 50% male, 50% female, hopefully evenly spread throughout the orga...

I'm sure those tickets will give you exclusive access to the casinos, where you can lose more of your money for no reason! It seems most casinos have decided to create their own exclusive packages - it looks like they're not going after the sort of person who spends $500 on a ticket, they're going ...

I'm sure those tickets will give you exclusive access to the casinos, where you can lose more of your money for no reason! It seems most casinos have decided to create their own exclusive packages - it looks like they're not going after the sort of person who spends $500 on a ticket, they're going ...

So, the organisers of the Las Vegas GP announced recently that they had put 1,800 general admission tickets up for sale at $500, which have now all sold out. With that in mind, the organisers have now announced that they will be making more general admission tickets available, and that those tickets...

The stewards give penalties, not Race Control, so I'll go with the stewards for sheer rejectfulness. I would say there is still an argument that Race Control does deserve to be criticised, because it was the FIA's Remote Operations Centre, which forms part of Race Control, which asked the stewards ...

The safety show car: Just why? A VSC would have been more than enough, it really felt like they wanted to "spice up the show". Thankfully it didn't give us the VERSTAPPENWINSLOL we'll get in the next 20 races anyway. Dishonorable mention to Bottas – Zhou was clearly faster than him all we...

Whilst some have joked about Mercedes and their behaviour, the flip side to that is that they're not engaging in a blame game - unlike Tost, who is currently in the process of throwing his entire team under the bus. In Jeddah, he's been complaining that the engineers told him that they were making g...

This is a fair point in light of the current economy. I always believed that any Andretti F1 team would be more financially secure even before GM due to Gainsbridge. They were supposedly going to pour a ton of money into the project (assuming Herta was part of it). However, the current banking and ...

1. Verstappen 2. Perez 3. Alonso 4. Stroll 5. Russell 6. Hamilton 7. Leclerc 8. Ocon 9. Gasly 10. Tsunoda PP: Verstappen FL: Perez First Retirement: Norris ROTR: The race (although the grid penalties that Ferrari have been racking up before the race has even begun is already putting them into the fr...

I wouldn't mind seeing them sell to Andretti. I'm assuming Andretti would be capable of running a more competitive team, but I don't know. I'm not certain the Andretti operation is any better financed than Haas is, no other racing series they're in comes close to the budget needs of F1. (In fact, I...

Thanks for posting. This has the potential to be bad for Haas (the company). If they're flouting the rules, I hope they are punished for it. Just a couple comments, I know that TV news is a visual medium and so they need pictures, but the existence of training or promotional videos (even recent one...

Dear God , this drivel itself ought to be an early contender for Reject of the Year. Is this some kind of joke? "Oh no! We're not first! Taste my champagne tears!" Utter rubbish. Is it any worse than the repeated promises by Ferrari to move forward after a period of restructuring and cons...

1. Esteban Ocon . An absolute joke of an afternoon, was he trying to break Maldonado's record for most penalties in one race? :facepalm: 2. McLaren . Slow, dubious reliability, questionable existence, it's 2017 all over again. Honourable mentions to Ferrari , different year same garbage and Alpine ...

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