Grand Prix Rejects

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That's the first I'd heard of that. He might have done all right - and it'd have been yet another odd twist in the tale if (Paul) Bruce Dickinson had been replaced by the singer of the band that had Bruce (John) Dickinson on guitar... Incidentally, a similar story can be seen across the Atlantic in ...

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I'm not even sure they all thought that Blaze was the right man for the job - it was just Steve Harris acting as judge and jury, because he was in the middle of All Of The Bad Times, going through effectively two divorces at the same time, one with his actual wife and the other with Bruce. Blaze's h...

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Dishobourable mention to Heineken: it's revolting and you all know it.

The award to Heineken 0.0%: the only thing worse than regular Heineken.

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Rrrrrmmmmnnn Grrrrjjjjnn and Kevin Magnussen - for jumping ship when they did, even if in at least one case it was involuntary. The right decisions were made all round. Giedo van der Garde and Robert Doornbos - Dutch Rejects extraordinaire doing the interviews. Sergio Pérez's tyres - had red stripe...

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Orlen wrote:Make Kubica drivings plox.

Saubfer Romeo wrote:Gib Polski oilmoneys plox.

Orlen wrote:Deal.

Nico Hülkenberg wrote:Das ist nicht gut!

Alex Albon wrote:*obscenties in Thai*

Callum Ilott wrote:I should be playing cricket anyway.

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Since I started my new job I've been listening to music on and off at work to help pass the time. Some new albums I've been listening to have included The Coral (thanks to Londoner's recommendation) and Rush. Rush are a band I've always liked but never delved deeply into. So I've listened to a lot ...

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Happy new Iron Maiden album day! I’m listening to it on a well-known streaming platform at the moment but rest assured, I shall be venturing into Bristol to buy a copy of Senjutsu later today! I've had Iron Maiden's 2000s-era albums on heavy rotation these last few months in preparation for it. Bra...

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Enforcer wrote:2021 Orangibong Clog Dyke Windmill (Let's see who gets the reference) Grand Prix

That'll be Oranjeboom Clog Dyke Windmill if you don't mind, Jakob.

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At least he won't be in the slowest car by a country mile this time round...

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Rob Dylan wrote:I came here for the juicy gossip but was tricked!

CoopskiDva wrote:XAXAXAXA I TRICK YUO

Polandball Reddit Moderators wrote:DEPORTED TO SIBERIA!

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Panthera Team Asia announced their intention to join the grid in 2022.[29] The team had planned to enter the championship in 2021, but was forced to delay their plans because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[30] However, lack of news about the team has put their potential entry in 2022 in doubt.[31] This ...

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That probably means I was the first to mention it by name. I found out about it when it was mentioned here - probably involving a link which contains "f1slate.com" rather than "The F1 Slate". I dindu nuffin, at least not where that site is concerned. ALSO: there we all were think...

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Well, Klon, you got what you wanted. I can't say I'm even remotely surprised at the decision, though - if I was Kimi I'd have called it quits as soon as Corona-chan started violating the world. Was it really worth it for these last two seasons? Hey, do any of the older members remember that site whe...

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That must be one of the strangest unrejectifications in modern F1, probably since Monteiro yeah. The "race" "finished" more than five hours ago, but I'm sill slowly processing what on earth happened. At least Baby-Faced George will get a result that justifies unrejectification s...

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At this stage, I'm hoping they have an episode about AGS... I was a bit concerned whether or not Corona-Chan's evil wrath would finish them off 30 years after the F1 team shut its doors, but they're still going strong with plenty of customers flashing their cash for a drive in an old JH24, and they ...

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As a good friend of mine on the other side of the Atlantic said:

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a clown honking a horn at a human face... forever.

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Likely as not, F1 has already raced in Japan for the last time ever. Definitely , F1 has already raced in Australia for the last time ever. And to think that, once upon a time, someone on this forum - I wonder who it was? - made an offhand comment with the implication that Bernie Ecclestone was so d...

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And in the end... fate, or whatever you want to call it, conspired to hand both titles to Mercedes. Haven't we seen this somewhere before?

Enjoy the next eight or nine seasons, and I say that with the utmost sarcasm.

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Officially, I scored 32/40 on that, but in reality it was 33/40 because I knew "the BMW bloke" (won't give away who it is) but couldn't spell his name right. Which isn't usually a problem, but it was today. Bah.

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And think of all the famous Reject teams that have carried the number 31 since that time: LEC (1977), Martini (1978), Rebaque (1979), AGS (1986), Coloni (1988-91) and Simtek (1994) - as well as the not-Rejects-by-the-barest-of-all-margins, Ensign (1975), Osella (1980-83) and ATS (1984). It sticks ou...

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In the same boat as Chris Craft and Keith Greene, Graham McRae wasn't someone I'd previously been aware of - mainly because he was from New Zealand and did most of his racing in Formula 5000. But he had an eventful 1973, competing in the British Grand Prix and the Indy 500 - qualifying for both, but...

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If it was a bit like how it was years ago - back in t'old days when everything was in black and white and F1 cars had V12 engines and no turbos, then right now we'd be talking about the prospects of a really exciting young driver, who was about to make his F1 debut next season, born round about 1996...

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1993DonningtonNo1Mk2 wrote:My mistake but Russell didn't nobble in Sakhir, it was nobbled for him by Merc pit errors and a puncture...

...just like I said, then.

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And of those six, I expect only one to escape Reject Status in the near future - probably the first race of 2022. We all know who that is.

Mick and Yuki - depends on where they go in the future.

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The 2020s is now back up to two... albeit with eight and a half seasons still to run. And if the cards had fallen differently at Sakhir last year, we could have had four at this point. Make that three now Ocon's a race winner. Hang on, what? We had one one one-hit wonder in 2020 (Gasly, Monza), wen...

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Lest we forget:

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Plenty of candidates here (most noticeably Bottas) but for most costly it probably does have to be Alfa Romeo. That 7 point gap to Williams might be too much to bridge if there isn't another freak race. "Might be." Hands up anyone who can see Alfa Romeo making up that deficit, freak race ...

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In 1993, the BBC Grand Prix guide assessed "one-hit wonders" and concluded that the 1980s had been so dominated by Prost, Senna, Piquet and Mansell that there weren't any. They forgot Alessandro Nannini. The 1990s gave us two (Jean Alesi and Olivier Panis), the 2000s gave us three (Jarno T...

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...and there goes Vettel's podium.

That's Alfa Romeo up to one point now... and Williams to ten!

...but which Williams is under investigation?

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One fascinating trivia hole I climbed into while writing this one was the bad habits of drivers over the years. Even in the 90s, Magnussen was an outlier in his unhealthy habits, but research also unearthed that there have been drivers as recently as 2012 who are regular smokers, as Magnussen was. ...

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Speaking of repeat offenders, what absolutely abysmal racecraft by Lotterer in race 2. Again. In any other series, he may have had some serious points on his licence by now. Yes, I should have mentioned that as well - it makes me wonder how he managed to drive for eight hours or there abouts in a 2...

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Am I alone in thinking that someone at Audi has been reading Michael Schumacher's Big Book Of How To Not Quite Cheat But Still Just About Stay Within The Absolute Letter Of The Law (By The Beerest Of All Marguns, As They Say In New Zealand) While Burning The Spirit Of The Law Like Meths? If that's t...

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I am rather surprised there wasn't more mayhem on that very rejectful double-hairpin. I'm not entirely convinced about most of the circuit, for that matter. And it sounded near-silent, as if this was a 2020 race with a crowd of zero, until the last lap. Am I alone in wanting Battersea Park back, and...

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Collin Morikawa - now that, Sir Lewis of Stevenage, is how it's supposed to be done. Learn!

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One thing's still for sure: shake it up as much as you like, but NIO will still be bottom of the teams' standings, and Ma Qing Hua will never score a point no matter how many comebacks he makes. Not that I think he ever will at this stage unless there's another Chinese team in the future who demand ...

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At least it's not the Mercedes kerb-stomp that I feared it would become.

One of those is quite enough!

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Sir Frank Williams, somehow, just goes stomping on (metaphorically speaking) - but one of his former drivers no longer does. Carlos Reutemann has died aged 79 from... a whole list of complications from an intestinal haemorrhage a couple of months ago. And I'm sure I remember reading about that, roun...

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Lest Valtteri forget.

I've had a non-stop weekend so I've only just watched the qualifying and the race back to back. The above incident is what ROTR is supposed to be about, right? Even though it didn't happen in the race itself this time...

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This is going to be potentially unpopular: I want Lewis Hamilton to win the World Championship this year, and get his 100th win. Why? Because these absolutely have to be the two final boxes in his F1 bucket list. With them ticked, he can cruise through the 2022 season, have that one year with the ne...

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