Grand Prix Rejects

girry

True - Australia, too, had a steady supply of F1 drivers until Alan Jones, but suddenly after him, the Aussies really seemed to begin to struggle to make it to F1. One could argue neither of the younger Brabhams, nor Skaife, Ingall etc. got a fair shot in Europe and therefore got directed back to ho...

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Within the last 40 years there has been only one Formula 1 driver from New Zealand; and even that one - Mike Thackwell - did his last F1 race over 30 years ago. Yet, the Kiwis currently have a "top 10" list of racing drivers pretty much every other country would be envious of, just in cate...

girry

The test was around the Franciacorta track which doesn't get used much, so I doubt you could tell from the laptimes how fast Kubica was going

girry

Doubtful since Jenson called Indycar "too dangerous" just a year or so ago - and I wouldn't blame him, given that he's lost two friends in Indycar accidents.

girry

1. McLaren Honda - normally I don't do this because it's so common for them, but today they damn well deserve the nomination.
2. Carlos Sainz jr - that was just dumb, but his comments about the accident were even dumber.

girry

Istanbul is an amazing track in a terrible location. Much like Yeongam.

girry

1. Giovinazzi - rookie or not, wet or dry - but crashing at the same spot in quali AND the race warrants a ROTR nomination by default
2. Bottas - spinning under the safety car is almost equally reject-worthy

girry

Whilst I think Alonso is pretty special in difficult cars in general, especially this year's McLaren - I don't think anyone could beat him in that car in the form he is in, really - on the other hand, I don't think he would be that dominant in a dominant car. For example someone like Vettel tends to...

girry

A great piece on a driver I always was curious to know more about, well done.

girry

Technically, Troy is an F1 World Championship race winner , as you have stated. Unless you dismiss the 1950-1960 Indy 500s as so many people do... But those races are in the F1 history books... Technically, he isn't. The F1 World Championship didn't exist until 1981. Anyway, all going well, Rubens ...

girry

It's striking to think not only of all the lost talents who spent what should have been the prime of their careers waiting out (or serving in) the war (Lang, Farina, Muller, Pietsch, Villoresi), but even the ones who died before the world championship was ever run, yet could have with success had t...

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Imagine he might have beaten Farina and Fangio for the first World Championship - depending on luck really, the Alfa was so dominant -, but after that Ascari and Fangio started to become irresistible forces, and Achille himself would have been near his fifties.

girry

Pitstops of some sort were there since the start of racing due to the cars' fragility and the need to fix them once ina while. Even the "modern" style pre planned refueling/tyre change strategies were common in the 1930's already.

girry

Can you imagine Wee Jackie at Indy, though? "Och, it isnae safe racing against these walls..." Easily. He almost won in 1966.. --- As for the drivers who started out young, surely Troy Ruttman warrants a mention. Troy began midget racing at age 15 in the forties and peaked in the early fi...

girry

Wasnt it only 1995 or so when blue flags started to mean "must yield"? Not sure when exactly, but it certainly was after the early nineties and the hey-days of Grouillard and Arnoux. The system Indycar uses re blue flags works imo - backmarkers are allowed to race to stay on the lead lap, ...

girry

I was thinking after qualifying that Ricciardo is one of the least accident-prone drivers. I can't even remember the last time he had to retire in a race or quali due to an unforced error. Can anyone think of other times? I remember he binned it at Baku last year but that was in practice. Which oth...

girry

So you're giving up after a bit of a dull race on a street track where it is often difficult to pass and before we get to China which can often deliver some exciting races? Well that makes all kind of sense. It's not impossible to overtake at Albert Park, we've seen a fair bit of it over the last 6...

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10 Romain
6 Giovinazzi
HM Massa

girry

I'm just glad I eventually didn't publish my prediction about Joe Palmer being the surprise package of the season anywhere on the internet

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I can't remember where I saw a stat about the wet races per season but 1981 had plenty

girry

In FR3.5, and an almost-F1-reject-team-related news, for this year Durango have been renamed Il Barone Rampante - you do remember, after that early 1990's F3000 team with a purple-yellow livery, who also had ill-fated plans to enter F1. It's not just a tribute either since there's an actual connecti...

girry

Bernie was a tough bastard - but even he eventually had to succumb under the massive weight of my Avatar Curse Narain in 2012 --> out of F1 in 2013 Giedo in 2013 --> out of F1 in 2014 GutiGuti in 2014 --> out of F1 in 2015 JEV since he debuted in FE --> didn't win a single race despite multiple pol...

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Bernie was a tough bastard - but even he eventually had to succumb under the massive weight of my Avatar Curse Narain in 2012 --> out of F1 in 2013 Giedo in 2013 --> out of F1 in 2014 GutiGuti in 2014 --> out of F1 in 2015 JEV since he debuted in FE --> didn't win a single race despite multiple pole...

girry

Shortest gap between GP that a driver said would be his last and the first GP following a comeback 0 Felipe Massa I think Damon Hill said a lot of time that a GP would be his last, down there in 1999. Didn't Mansell promptly announce his total retirement from F1 after his DNF in 1990 Silverstone? P...

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Come on now, they're not going to get this right first time. For a first real competitive eRace, I think it worked out incredibly well. I'm not into the whole simracing scene or whatever, but I found it all enjoyable to watch. Could things be improved? Er, yeah, nothing's going to be perfect on the...

girry

The eRace could've been done better. No showing of the practices or qualifying, an unsatisfyingly low amount of racing for a one-off event, and the direction missed a lot of action. The podium ceremony was delightfully awkward as well. The apathetic crowd, Pahkala having to make two trips, Huis not...

girry

re the above: agree partly. As (hopefully!) constructive criticism I'd say that you all - Simtek in particular - produce amazing stuff on everybody and everything from the centuries past, digging up unimaginable quantities of valuable and intriguing tidbits - but I admit to skimming some of the Buem...

girry

Really? That's disappointing to learn. For all of the WRC, F1 and motoGP events you had hosted, historically in front of passionate crowds to boot, I had had Portugal down as a relatively enthusiastic motorsport nation merely lacking a real home crowd hero. For all the ignorance our media have for a...

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Great work Miguel & Simtek. The notion about Pedro scoring Portugal's first (but not last - although I consider Pedro's career better than Tiago Monteiro's, or any other Portuguese racing driver's) Formula One point at Adelaide made me think about just how significant a man to the once so great ...

girry

Piquet won the '82 Canadian GP after a DNQ at Detroit.

girry

Yeah I would be up to race any mod with four wheels or more - be it F1, F2, TCL, GT, Group C (although for some reason I have never enjoyed prototypes that much personally), or even the LADA mod... A more important question than the mod chosen though, should the idea go forward, would be the timing ...

girry

If people were up for some casual PC racing I would vouch for rFactor; yes it's outdated, but the upside is that it will run on even terrible PC's, it functions reliably online, and most importantly it's got a wide variety of tracks and different historical mods that would work as an equalizer. On a...

girry

Finally can we count the Theodore TR-1 which Rosberg won the 1978 International Trophy at Silverstone. It wasn't a F1 championship round, however IIRC the competition was strong, and Keke won on merit. Aside from that win the car qualified for only one GP in South Africa and was abandoned by mid-se...

girry

I wouldn't call it March blue. The colour entered F1 with the March Engineering team in 1987, but it was the colour of their sponsor Leyton House whose cars in sportscars & Japanese Formula Two ran the same shade even before that. March had never used it before, although they kept running light ...

girry

Bah. They should buy it together and name it Ronale Racing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondel_Racing

girry

For me it's not gonna be as bad as in many of the years previous, as WRC is set out to be more interesting than in ages with the VW steamroller having left the sport to the disappointment of no one, and there will be three rallies before Albert Park. Not to forget about the Daytona 24 in late Januar...

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Full List of Champions & Notes Below 1950 Juan Manuel Fangio 1951 Juan Manuel Fangio 1952 Alberto Ascari 1953 Alberto Ascari 1954 Juan Manuel Fangio 1955 Juan Manuel Fangio 1956 Juan Manuel Fangio 1957 Juan Manuel Fangio 1958 Mike Hawthorn 1959 Stirling Moss 1960 Jack Brabham 1961 Phil Hill 196...

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2010-2016 2010 140 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 115 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 67 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 64 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 29 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 27 Felipe Massa Ferrari 19 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 16 Robert Kubica Renault 12 Nico Hülkenberg Williams-Cosworth 3 Adri...

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2000-2009 2000 124 Michael Schumacher Ferrari 99 Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes 88 David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 56 Rubens Barrichello Ferrari 20 Jarno Trulli Jordan-Mugen Honda 15 Heinz-Harald Frentzen Jordan-Mugen Honda 13 Ralf Schumacher Williams-BMW 8 Jenson Button Williams-BMW 6 Jacques Vil...

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1990 123 Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda 84 Gerhard Berger McLaren-Honda 59 Nigel Mansell Ferrari 52 Alain Prost Ferrari 31 Thierry Boutsen Williams-Renault 29 Riccardo Patrese Williams-Renault 17 Jean Alesi Tyrrell-Ford 6 Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Ford 6 Alessandro Nannini Benetton-Ford 5 Nelson Piquet...

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