Grand Prix Rejects

Guide to successful driving in torrential rain - by Felipe Massa
Turning successful minor formula career into success in F1 - by Jan Magnussen
Guide to driving in pit lane - by Lewis Hamilton
Guide to waving chequered flag - by Pele

"My lucky moments in F1" by Chris Amon

I think Fittipaldi/Martini partnership was the best, this was between British and Portuguese GPs in 1993. Barbazza wasn't that good although he scored points twice.

If we look careers drivers had best partnership was Martini&Alboreto but Alboreto (RIP) was past his best already.

Well, between 1990-1994 all new teams ( Life, Jordan, Andrea Moda, Sauber, Simtek, Pacific ) always got biggest numbers, unlike in few years earlier, like Rial (single car team) got 22 when they started, Onyx got 36/37 ahead of Rial and AGS. Forti got 21/22 when they started and break the tradition ...

Other reason was Ferrari struggle -

Ferrari had V12 => V12 needs more fuel than others => Ferrari needed more fuel at the start => Ferrari cars were heavier than others.

Monteiro and Karthikeyan could be fitting here:
http://www.f1rejects.com/hall/lucky/index.html

We should put more legendary Reject sponsors in: MTV, Jägermeister, MasterCard, Ursus for example. Also don't forget that Rial Wheels is still operating.

There's a pic of 2001 Arrows in Monaco practice.



Jordan had a bit similar plans:

Even the hapless 2 year old Brabham would have scored a point ?!? Who was at the wheel and where? Damon Hill in Silverstone? Hill in Hungary. Real results here - top three, Brundle and Capelli then removed. Even better to see who is 4th: Paul Belmondo! 1 1 Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda 77 1:46:19.216 ...

Kubica, Heidfeld, Massa and Nakajima for the points today.

I decided that causing another driver to retire would give you triple points. So it's three points for normal situation and six points with your second nosecone. I think that deciding factor is on which car you destroy your front wing. So if car A (A loses front wing) hits car B and car B hits then ...

Racing Engineering's GP2 livery (here driven by Giorgio Pantano) is also quite similar.

I wish any series could use the old Hockenheim section but the tarmac was broken up and trees were planted to appease the environmentalists. Another legend killed... oh man u serious??? thoes bloody hippies should b charged with murder! That was a result of negotiations between organizers and envir...

To be honest on Magnussen, McLaren's 1995 car was quite awful. In his first and only race that year he finished 2.5 seconds behind regular driver Blundell which was not too bad for a debutant, although Blundell wasn't top driver either. His 1997 season was awful (would have been obvious candidate fo...

I miss some of the photos where all team-mates are not next to each other like in this

Eight rejects here: Belmondo, Gachot, Brabham, Schiattarella, Lagorce, Noda, Deletraz and Zanardi.

Barrichello had his front wing damaged in collision with Räikkönen around lap 8 in Melbourne, so he doesn't deserve bonus. But it's good idea to give bonus points if other driver retires.

Well, I have collected the damaged front wings this year. Here's what I have caught so far this year. Only ones where driver pits and continues are counted, so if you retire from the crash, that doesn't count. I think bonus must be awarded if driver destroys two front wings in same race. So second o...

Canadian GP 1989 needs mention (wasn't following F1 at that time but what I have read/seen from highlights) - Johnny Herbert in a Benetton didn't qualify - A total of 18 teams had cars in the race, so only eight teams had two - Mansell and Nannini starting from pit lane before race had started - Ste...

Fisico got two last year even he had worst car on the grid (Sutil had one too), so it's not doen to machinery every time. But in all those cases they made errors. If top driver has bad race then he's quite often given RotR. Without checking I think Michael got ones: Malaysia 2003 Monaco 2004 China 2...

With those diffusers declared legal, most teams will build them so this will not make sense after that.

I think race-wise it may be difficult. But season-wise it could be funny. "Top 10 Reject moments", perhaps you could put a list of options during the final race podcast and then reveal results in season review.

I was sometimes thinking old races and who would got RotR. I may post a list in a few days. Myself, I have followed all races since 1993 (or late 1992).

Salo would take easily at least one: Hungarian GP 1999.

Speaking about drivers, Yuji Ide seems to have highest RotR rate with 25%. Of those who have received one, Nick Heidfeld has smallest I think (1 in about 140 races, taking account the races where RotR was not chosen which means mostly races of early 2000) Meanwhile, Liuzzi has the record of getting ...

Renault entered three cars in Portuguese GP 1984 (Philippe Streiff) and German GP 1985 (Francois Hesnault) and in those races the grid was expanded, I think they didn't want any regular driver to miss the race because of additional entry.

Waris wrote:That has got to be the first time a Reject of the Race award went to someone who wasn't actually in the race, doesn't it?

Jacques Villeneuve got one in Japanese GP 2003. And then there's lot of some obscure choices, including one for Jamie and Enoch themselves.

I think it's quite interesting that of the 18 drivers who recieved RoTR in Canada, Anthony Davidson is only one who hasn't got award for other races.

Wasn't that Bervid mentioned when you put replacements for each driver, regarding the rumoured driver's strike last year?

Alonso admitted that his great start was helped by KERS in Malaysia. He used all of it in the start, so didn't have anything left for the remainder of first lap.

The decision to push the start later on the day takes the win in my books. Other strong canditates are Ferrari and Kovalainen.

I have read those profiles but I would like to choose those who I remember in action. Team: Simtek . I liked their colours. They had huge amount of bad luck and while they started to show promise with Verstappen, they were gone. Driver: Not necessarily my favourite, but I want to choose driver I hav...

Great to hear that you were able to get interview with HWNSNBM. I agree with most things you talked there, and great choice for ROTR!