Grand Prix Rejects

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Wilson - just gave up

Hehehe. I laughed.

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These days the attrition rate can be zero, but not so long ago it was fairly common for 30/40% of cars to not make it to the finish of a Grand Prix. Observe the 1998 season- where only 4 teams didn't suffer chronic reliability issues: m Observe the incredible attrition rate of 1999, which although 1...

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Pamphlet wrote:Edited because jackanderton [...] does not warrant a legitimate answer.

What makes you say that?

Massa hasn't finished above 5th for 24 races.
Meanwhile his teammate (remember Massa said he is no number 2) has managed this SIXTEEN TIMES.

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I really wouldn't rule out Mercedes, or even Ferrari. It sounds silly including Ferrari but it's such a long season. Look at 2010: m Apart from a fairly anomalous Bahrain GP, Alonso only registered 1 podium from the season beginning to the German 2010 GP win that he stole from Felipe Massa. After th...

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True. Although even in the context of the GP, by the end he was the only driver in F1 outside of Caterham/Marussia/HRT to be pointless. Rather rejectful.

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It's not as if Mercedes are even that competitive with it anyway.

Fail.

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They've all been complaining about the potential cost. But does anyone think that they've just this second start to develop their own version? Most of the moneyed teams will have figured their own out by Spain or Monaco surely.

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I think Massa might be a good shout actually- get this:

He's the only driver outside of the new teams to have no points after 3 races. Worse than that, 13th place being his best finishing position so far.

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Senna 6 - if he keeps up like this, this will be a nothing special for him I think Williams will take a 6th and a 7th from 3 races from Senna, after last season. I think 'nothing special' is being beaten by 3 HRT teammates, then having one top 10 finish in 8 races for Renault. This season promises ...

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In a race where we lacked any big rejectful moment, I say Toro Rosso. If this keeps going on STR, I imagine another 2 drivers going into the slaughterhouse. The only thing positive is that this can only do good things for The Saurus and Buemi reputations. It's not a good team to go into, because th...

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...what did you want Lotus to do? Drop a 2nd place for a place out of the points?

That's what they did do. It was always going to happen. It wasn't even close- Raikkonen yielded with 6 laps left.

Grosjean, who was driving slower in a slower car had the right strategy and finished 6th.

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1. Toro Rosso - Anonymous lower midfield running 2. Caterham - Not even close to Toro Rosso's utterly anonymous midfield running. It's tough trying to ice skate uphill. Honourable mentions- Massa/Raikkonen for having a clearly doomed strategy and sticking with the strategy even though 10 cars were d...

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Vettel - 6 - Still got a bad attitude about the car's performance. Raced well but his car was quite quick so he should raced well. Webber - 7 - It seems like Webber is back and capable of matching Seb, and his aggressive approach to overtakes and battling is entertaining viewing Button - 8 - Didn't ...

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Amazed Massa's appalling strategy that failed, that led to him backing up nearly all the runners and then resulted in him slipping down the grid to 13th, and being 5 seconds behind Alonso after Alonso threw his car off the road, was somehow worthy of praise. In 2010 the guy was beating Alonso on rac...

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1. Rosberg for his sheer dominance and not bottling it.

2. Grosjean for his first ever impressive performance in an F1 GP.

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dr-baker wrote:How apt that Nick Heidfeld Syndrome shares an acronym with the National Health Service...

Explain how it's apt.

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Bahrain - What a rubbish place

Fixed.

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Chavez' problem like so many others is that he never understood when to leave, or established a chain of succession that was democractic and didn't involve him. Ego as usual. However, you should remember that he was deposed in a CIA backed right-wing coup, and has otherwise been elected (fairly) on ...

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The 3 weeks have come at a very good time for them. But whatever speed they make up will most likely be nullified by the fact they are behind the development race and with a smaller less able development team. By the last quarter of the season hopefully they'll be giving Marussia a battle. I left Ma...

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Unless Perez is outstanding in the following races and Massa continues to flounder to the point of embarrassment, the move to replace Felipe won't take place until the end of this season of F1. I think the Badoer/Fisichella incident has probably chastened Ferrari and they'd be unlikely to repeat a s...

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Grosjean has every opportunity to unrejectify, but I might opt for Paul Di Resta, who's always been steady and puts himself in a place to score points in nearly every GP. He needs a 5th or two 6ths to do it. Maybe Force India aren't quite as quick this year, but expect the usual attrition in the mid...

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All that is true, but what is also true is that Perez was a few tenths behind and closing at 1.5s a lap, with 5 laps left.

I'm resigned to it being down to driver error but it infuriates me when the win was there for the taking and Alonso again benefits.

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Alonso would never have risked a collision with Perez either as he himself might not be in that position often this season. Perez was 1.5s faster per lap than Alonso, was 6 tenths behind him after reducing a 7 second deficit to Alonso in 6 laps. Without the mistake Perez would've been past and Saube...

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Vettel - 5 - Pretty average day Webber - 6 - Solid but unspectacular Button - 4 - Made a bit of an error when there was a podium for the taking Hamilton - 7 - Steady, but has to be disappointed in his race pace. Alonso - 9 - Once again shite refuses to stick to him. Should've finished behind Maldona...

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Well done Sergio!

Romain Grosjean, we're all looking at you now.

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Easy one!

1. Perez

2. Senna

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Massa

Tempted with Grosjean but the disparity between his and Alonso's performance is embarrassing.

Even if Massa was the number one driver, there's no way Alonso would a)stand for this quality of car b)be that far behind.

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I'm not suggesting it was a conspiracy, I'm just saying there's a lot of coincidences if it wasn't. Anyway, my point stands, Perez was lapping 1.5s a lap quicker and would've breezed past Alonso on the straight, or had 5 laps after that to complete the pass. Alonso wouldn't have done anything stupid...

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Yeah, inexplicable how he didn't actually win that race. First Sauber delay changing his tyres which may have even cost him a pass over Alonso in the pits, then his race engineer starts saying "We need the points, hold track position" or something similar over the radio to him, and then he...

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Red Bull and Ferrari are lucky that Merc and Lotus are shooting themselves in the foot.

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Red Bull and Ferrari are lucky that Merc and Lotus are shooting themselves in the foot.

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and a realistic challenge to the midfield will have to wait until 2013

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All a former Formula One driver needs to do to escape eligibility for this site is to have been successful in F1. Specifically, they must have scored ... • a 4th, 3rd, 2nd or 1st place, or • a 5th place, plus any other top-6 result, or • three or more 6th places How hard can that be? Very! Active 2...

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Massa

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Favoured Drivers Jenson Button (like as a person and as a driver) Kamui Kobayashi (same) Lewis Hamilton (don't like as a person but great to watch on song and British so ..yeah) Adrian Sutil (wah) Paul Di Resta (wallpaper paste personality and touring car driving style but British) Kimi Raikkonen (...

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Vettel - 7.5 - Made a mistake and struggled to get past a few cars, but his race pace was good Webber - 6 - Fairly anonymous racing just like last year, but without the embarrassment of Vettel being so much better Button - 10 - What's to fault? Great qualifying lap, great start, and we hardly saw hi...

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2012 Malaysian Grand Prix: 1. Vettel 2. Button 3. Hamilton 4. Raikkonen 5. Alonso 6. Webber 7. Kobayashi 8. Rosberg 9. Grosjean 10. Schumacher Pole: Button Fastest lap: Button First Retirement: Senna ROTR: Massa (always a safe bet) IIDOTR: Raikkonen DBTMOTR: Massa Minor League Premiership: Kobayashi...

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Kobayashi

nobody thought he would be 6th. This is what the topic is about. I cant see how anyone would suggest otherwise.

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The hype to begin with was due to his phenomenal early success resulting in two title challenges, beating the world champion in his first season and winning one World Driver's Championship. Fair enough, but yes it was over the top due to him being British and the home boy is destined to get the hype...

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