Grand Prix Rejects

watka

Easy for me, and for once I won't take the opportunity to nominate Palmer (at least he had a bit of an excuse) 1. Kevin Magnussen - absolutely no reason for him to have been so far off of the pace of Grosjean (who admittedly was fantastic), he had all of the same chances as him. Look who he outquali...

watka

Lots of great drives, really difficult to decide between them. But I gotta. 1. Romain Grosjean - I think he was the driver who outperformed his car the most. So unfortunate that he had to retire. 2. Antonio Giovinazzi - Purely for jumping into one of the two slowest teams on the grid at the last min...

watka

Should be alright with me!

watka

A DNQ or a DNP?

watka

It wasn't a stellar race but it did feature something we haven't seen for a while, a battle (albeit in the pit-lane) for the win between 2 cars from different constructors . What's exciting about this is there will be tracks where the Mercedes is better than the Ferrari and vice versa. It also means...

watka

Pretty hopeful for the race, first time in a while that we might have a championship battle between 2 different constructors. Still expect Hamilton to take the win but hopefully Vettel and Bottas can have a good scrap. And anyway, we know from last year that anything can happen off of the start line...

watka

1955 Scoring system: 8-6-4-3-2, fastest lap 1pt Drivers Championship 1/ JUAN MANUEL FANGIO - 49pts [7] - 5 wins, 3 FLs https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/55/e3/fe/55e3fec5b7212d2872cb8676ffc39dbf.jpg 2/ Stirling Moss - 47pts [13] - 2 wins, 5 FLs 3/ Roy Salvadori - 44.5pts [10] - 3 wins,...

watka

Nice to see you here again!

watka

http://i.imgur.com/oOISc0Il.jpg OK, Sauber, this is getting ridiculous. If only. I think the Netherlands is way overdue a fine Dutch talent to support in F1...oh wait. Anyway, some of you might consider this non-news but the dangerous driving penalty procedure has been reviewed: m Bit of a misleadi...

watka

Watka's 'Str'li'n GP predictions 1. Hamilton 2. Vettel 3. Bottas 4. Raikkonen 5. Ricciardo 6. Massa 7. Sainz Jr. 8. Perez 9. Hulkenberg 10. Ericsson Pole: Hamilton Fastest Lap: Hamilton First retirement: Verstappen Reject of the Race: McLaren Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Sainz Jr Deadb...

watka

RIP... regarding knighthoods iirc he may have turned it down as it is possible to do so.... It is also the case that comparatively few people in the world of motorsport have ever been awarded that honour, possibly because there is the technicality that it depends on whether or not the person who is...

watka

Admittedly I don't know very much about Liberty Media, but this is the kind of attitude I can get behind. And hopefully now that Bernie has gone, the extent of quick-buck money-extraction races popping up around the world will stop. "I think it's our job to do far more to help the promoters to...

watka

IceG wrote:
CoopsII wrote:I'm hoping that it does happen and that the spurned Honda decide to buy the remnants of Manor because awesome.

would be better.

I hope for Aguri Suzuki to come back and resurrect the Super Aguri, kicking McLaren's arse in the process!

watka

1954 Scoring system: 8-6-4-3-2, fastest lap 1pt Drivers Championship 1/ MAURICE TRINTIGNANT - 66pts [16] - 3 wins, 1 FL https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/bc/62/18/bc6218eb75cfacaa1b71e843d3da51f9.jpg 2/ Juan Manuel Fangio - 64.14pts [10] - 6 wins, 3.14 FLs 3/ José Froilan González - 54.64pt...

watka

The problem at McLaren is clearly the engines, so at what point does McLaren run out of patience with Honda? I understand the need to buddy up with a manufacturer to essentially be a works team, but what benefit do McLaren get out of being Honda's team over being a customer Mercedes team right now? ...

watka

So here are the results! 10. This Could Be You - Nagano Olympic Circuit This is a monstrosity! 40 corners, really? Corners 34 and 35 sum it up, how sharp are they? The stadium section has way too much going on too. There is a least one decent straight and a few overtaking spots but this is just too ...

watka

Haha, yes I did see that there was also a South African series. No, I will not be adding either of these.

Just calculated 1954, but not got time tonight to do a post. Will put it up in the next few days though.

watka

OK, so its been over 48 hours since the last entry. I hope to get the results up soon!

watka

I'm quite enjoying this. When you the to the '70s, will you include the AFX series? I don't intend to, as I don't think these were ever considered to be Grand Prix, although I do respect that these were Formula 1 races. This series is only likely to alter the championships in the 50s and early 60s ...

watka

Searched for a list of drivers' superlicence points and surprisingly found exactly what I was looking for! Thanks F1 Fanatic! http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2017/01/23/superlicence-points-2017-full-list-of-all-314-points-scoring-drivers/ Oh my goodness, thank you! Amazing that Lando Norris is already o...

watka

Oh, I'm late. Might as well post my entry for this anyways because I can. m For the record, I quite like this, would be nice to see racing at Roskilde. Only criticism is there's no clear cut overtaking point. For my challenge, I want you to design a circuit around a former Winter Olympics host city...

watka

I take it the bold means I win?

I'll post my idea for a competition later tonight, or tomorrow.

watka

To be honest, we've heard Mercedes having plenty of problems mid-race for the last 2 seasons over the team radio and yet they still blitzed everyone.

watka

Mercedes look a long way ahead of the pack at the moment, in my opinion. Ferrari might be keeping them honest right now but they have everything to prove after last year whereas Mercedes have no reason to go full throttle in testing, I can't help but feel they have something in reserve. On that basi...

watka

Searched for a list of drivers' superlicence points and surprisingly found exactly what I was looking for! Thanks F1 Fanatic!

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2017/01/23/superlicence-points-2017-full-list-of-all-314-points-scoring-drivers/

watka

https://img.championat.com/i/news/89/33/1488128933.jpg Finally, our prayers for the changing of the Toro Rosso design concept were heard. This is awesome ! shame the driver's overalls haven't changed much ..... Noticed that too! Hope this doesn't mean it's just a testing livery, but I don't see why...

watka

Sort of a hill climb/circuit hybrid in London, plenty of green space for grandstands: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7029953

watka

Being in that close proximity to HWNSNBM tends to tamper with your existence some what.

watka

This'll be the first season where half the entries in every race score points. Even in ten-team 2009, you had worse chances. Even at Imola in 1982, you had worse chances. I know the 2010 teams basically didn't exist, so in a sense it's been like that for a while, and I know Haas are more competitio...

watka

Gosh, I really hate that bump on the nosecone of the Force India. I thought we had got rid of the stepped noses in 2014...

On the flip side, those sidepod air intakes on the Ferrari are monstrous!

watka

Yes - as Watka says - Monaco was impossible to drive nicely as the steering was rubbish . F1 98 was a big step backwards from 97. And if I recall, F1 99 brought a safety car and AI who would let you have a 10 second lead, and then upped their pace to prevent you from extending that by any great amo...

watka

Formula 1 '98 was the first Formula 1 game I bought on PS1 and it put me off F1 games for a long time. As you say, the understeer made the cars absolute dogs, I'd have to go for a high downforce set up everywhere.

watka

1953 Scoring system: 8-6-4-3-2, fastest lap 1pt Drivers Championship 1/ ALBERTO ASCARI - 67.5pts [14] - 7 wins, 6.5 FLs https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/be/f9/56/bef956f4045bb7361bb45df7dc05b3d2.jpg 2/ Mike Hawthorn - 61.5pts [14] - 3 wins, 2.5 FLs 3/ Nino Farina - 57pts [15] - 4 wins, 1 F...

watka

The Chicane wrote:Let me just leave this here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cAsouky1Nc

Sato's always been a great team player.

watka

It is interesting in that fingers are immediately being pointed at Pirelli. The test was for their new wet tyres and this doesn't exactly suggest improvement. The Brazilian GP last year was basically a farce as a result of their tyres and fans & teams alike are bemoaning the lack of wet racing. ...

watka

1952 Scoring system: 8-6-4-3-2, fastest lap 1pt Drivers Championship 1/ ALBERTO ASCARI - 99.5pts [17] - 11 wins (1 shared win), 9.5 FLs https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b9/9c/9b/b99c9bdeb657dd91415e3dd6925c307c.jpg 2/ Nino Farina - 69pts [18] - 2 wins, 4 FLs 3/ Piero Taruffi - 58pts [11] -...

watka

OK, so I'm jumping back on this horse after a little while. Given the feedback I've been given I've gone back over 1950 and 1951 to take out the races that aren't listed as non-championship GPs for STATS F1. For 1950, these were the Nottingham Trophy and the Sheffield Telegraph Trophy and for 1951, ...

watka

MCL32 sounds like a Maserati to me, due to the MC12.

watka

Are you cheering because of the reject possibilities? As my recollection is that he was utterly awful most of the time. The one time I went to see BTCC in 2008 I spent a lot of time laughing at his terrible driving. To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised to see Jelley have a few wobbles in the early...

watka

What are they going to call GP3? They can't call it F3, or if they did F3 would need to be called F4...then F4 would need to be called F5...

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