Grand Prix Rejects

Wizzie wrote: Sauber test driver Daniel Melrose was given the nod at Minardi alongside HWNSNBM. Rumour has it he was put there by Ferrari with the promise of Minardi getting quite large sums of payments from the Maranello squad.

That's better.

Damon Cannon wrote:What a wretched weekend that was for me. If only I hadn't taken a knock from someone in the first corner, I might well have made the points, considering the attrition. A BIG well done to my teamate for bringing Arrows its first win in nearly 20 years of competing in F1.

Damon Cannon wrote: Dreadful. Absolutly dreadful performance from my car today. Bloody Yamaha piece of rubbish. And yet Darren has put the exact same car into 2nd. How can that be? In for a tough race tomorrow if I want points.

Damon Cannon wrote:Well, after such a promising qualifying, that was a disaster of a race for the Arrows team. I have no idea what went wrong for me, and poor Darren, he could have taken 3rd, had his wing held out. There is always next race, I suppose, where things should be better. They must be better, surely...

Interestingly, they appear to be re-introducing ground effect floors 30 years after they were banned. A return to mid-80s F1? I would like that.

I fancy being the Pedro Diniz of the series. I'd like the second Arrows seat, as Damon Cannon.

I've really enjoyed reading this as a guest, and now I'd like to take part. Could I have the second CR Motorsport seat if possible for next season. The name is Damon Cannon (not my real name). Age 20 from Great Britain. I am from the upper class from a very wealthy family in merry old England, which...

Well done Simtek! If only this had happened for real in 1995, who knows what might have been had they the money to continue.

Found this on Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_637

Mr Melrose, do you think that your chance of becoming the Driver Champion in your first season has gone or been dealt a severe blow due to this crash, and what are your thoughts on your teamate, seeing as he has only one podium place to his name this season. Do you get on with him?

Coulthard for Lotus, simply because Hakkinen drove for them and thus it would be ironic when they become teamates at Mclaren (if they do). Deletraz for Simtek, to see how slow he would drive on the long back straight at Montreal and provoke more 'And what is Deletraz doing?' moments from Murray Walk...

Nice to see Zanardi unrejectifying himself.

I say ' The Man Who Crashes at Every Grand Prix', Philippe Alliot should get Wendlinger's seat, to see him undulge in reject antics again such as this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl6w2OHOwkk

I do miss willing Minardi on to an unlikely points finish most races. F1 isn't the same without them.

Wizzie wrote:Could you please put Zanardi in the Williams for the next 3 races?

Or Deletraz?

This is great stuff! I wonder if Deletraz is going to make an appearance towards the end of the season. Hope so.

Reading the profile of Life Racing Engines, I cannot get my head around the fact that the car's quickest lap at Imola pre-qualifying was 7 minutes and 16 seconds. I know the car and engine were pathetic pieces of rubbish, but how on earth did Bruno Giacomelli clock a lap THAT slow. He must have gone...

1997 Monaco Grand Prix. Williams making an amateur mistake with tyres at the start, running on dries instead of intermediates. Both Mclarens and Arrows out after two laps Gerhard Berger finishing 9th out of 10 finishers Both Stewarts actually finishing the race, extremely unusual in 1997! Last point...

Am I right in saying that Pacific couldn't afford a better engine than the time-expired Ilmor units. They could, but Reynard was close to colapse and did the PR01 the cheapest they could do and the monocoque was weak. After the first day of practice at Sao Paulo both cars had ripped of the bottom wi...

Just realised, 3 years ago today was the mad first 4 laps of the 2007 European GP. Two words: WINKELHOCK LEADS! Who knows how far in front he could have got had they not red-flagged it.

I forgot about the 1999 European Grand Prix. I can't watch the last laps of it because I feel so sorry for poor Badoer. It choked me at the time, although I was chuffed for Herbert. I dont think I've ever seen a better example of just how much it meant to a driver to get a point (and a possible dri...

I forgot about the 1999 European Grand Prix. I can't watch the last laps of it because I feel so sorry for poor Badoer.

I'm trying to decide what the craziest, rejectful race is. By that I mean non-stop action I.E passing, crashing, rejects doing well, weather conditions, numptys at the FIA etc. I believe it is a tie between the 1998 Belgian Grand Prix, and the 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix. What are your views.

Either they managed to keep Diniz and use his money to develop the promising FG03, or the partnership with Shannon had actually worked. I think they may have done a Stewart and become a point scorer

Nah he would have beaten Diniz to the Ligier seat and taken his millions there instead of Diniz's Parmalat money! Plus being Francophone and all that... Diniz wasn't that bad he was a avarage f1 driver, and if he got a car at that time like the jordan we would finish deffenly once on the podium. Bu...

This is a great read. I can't wait for the next part.

I wonder what other acts he may have done to cement his pay-driver legend had he either got the Pacific seat for all of 1995 and somehow managed to get a drive for 1996.

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