Grand Prix Rejects

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Take your pick:

Mercedes were performance dire

Alfa Romeo were reliability dire

One out of two Ferraris was reliability dire the other was dire-adjacent

I would pick Mercedes.

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The 2023 Brazilian F1 Grand Prix Rejects 404 Page not Found S1: Verstappen S2: Norris S3: Hamilton S4: Perez S5: Sainz S6: Leclerc S7: Russell S8: Ocon 1. Hamilton 2. Norris 3. Verstappen 4. Leclerc 5. Russell 6. Sainz 7. Piastri 8. Ricciardo 9. Albon 10. Gasly PP: Norris FL: Verstappen First Retire...

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Norris and Ricciardo. One from the back of the grid, the other from almost the back of his career. Norris' drive was brilliant and really showed how far ahead he is of the excellent Piastri. Put him in a Red bull and lets see how dominant Max is. Ricciardo just because he is a top bloke doing what h...

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(1) Team - Aston Martin: struggled all the way through the weekend with an overambitious hero of yesteryear and the son of teh team's owner. They really do have a problem with lack of race-winning drivers now. For all the good and bad reasons for the results oday, they showed that they are not champ...

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The 2023 "Checo Perez contract review and extension assessment" Mexican F1 Grand Prix 1. Verstappen 2. Norris 3. Perez 4. Leclerc 5. Hamilton 6. Sainz 7. Piastri 8. Russell 9. Albon 10. Bottas PP: Verstappen FL: Ricciardo First Retirement: Alonso ROTR: Aston Martin IIDOTR: No-one DBTMOTR: ...

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(1) Checo whining on and trying to get Russell penalised

(2) The Aston Martin upgrade package - what has really happened there?

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(1) yeah, Tsunoda - did not expect that

(2) also Stroll - he ran he new package, which Alonso rejected as not an improvement, and scored points

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It occurred to me that the format should be: Friday: - Practise - Sprint Qualy Saturday: - Race Qualy - Sprint Sunday: - Race so that the less important qualy happens whilst most people are at work (Friday) and that the jeopardy of trying hard for the race qualy could impact on the sprint. Also, par...

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The 2023 “Pictures of unknown American sportsmen, rappers and their squeezes” interrupted by the United States of America F1 Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas S1: Verstappen S2: Norris S3: Russell S4: Perez S5: Hamilton S6: Leclerc S7: Sainz S8: Alonso 1: Verstappen 2: Norris 3: Hamilton 4: ...

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Terrible race for Perez, Stroll and Sargeant. Perez has still not settled into "take second and enjoy it" mode, making many mistakes and being in the wrong place all the time. Surely his time at Red Bull is limited to a maximum of one more season. Stroll was terrible all weekend. With his ...

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1= The circuit - totally inappropriate for F1 in its current and previous forms

1= The tyres - well at least it was better than Indy 2005

3 All the drivers who managed to get track limits penalties, especially Perez, Gasly and Stroll

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(1) Alfa Romeo - totally unexpected but excellent results

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We will probably find out the result next Thursday after all the reviews and appeals. Rather got the impression that track limits are not being enforced. Sacre Bleu! Deux points dans la poubelle! ...or whatever they say in Monaco. The penalties were announced at 21:08 local time, so one or two hour...

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Rather got the impression that track limits are not being enforced. Maybe because it was a short race. Or perhaps because, as Hamilton said, there is no advantage by running over the line so just let the show go on.

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Well looks like RoTR is self-selecting. The track is eating tyres. The tyres are self-destructing so we have stupidly high front pressures and mandated limited life. Throw in random cross-winds and a surface more suited to the Paris-Dakar. The qualy sessions were both farces. Lord knows what the rac...

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The 2023 Qatar "The sand people are back, and in greater numbers" F1 Grand Prix S1: Verstappen S2: Norris S3: Leclerc S4: Russell S5: Sainz S6: Alonso S7: Hamilton S8: Piastri 1: Verstappen 2: Norris 3: Piastri 4: Leclerc 5: Hamilton 6: Russell 7: Sainz 8: Alonso 9: Stroll 10: Hulkenberg P...

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What is the point of another team? To improve the show? To increase the revenue for F1? To give long term stability of a team goes under? Allowing teams to run a third race car, but then making the team select which two cars will count for the WDC and/or WCC before the race start, might be a solutio...

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I wonder what the justification is for limiting it to the top 10? Its to stop teams from doing what RBR did with Perez this past weekend, but get FL instead of serving a penalty. Checo had a purple sector time for awhile during his out-in-out return. But he could have got the fastest lap and denied...

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It occurs to me that the IIDOTR is the DBTOTR trophy which is shared between Russell in 7th and Sainz in 6th so both two places behind their team-mates.

Everyone else was two-by-two or had their team-mate retire!

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(1) Perez - for that bumper car pass on top of everything else

(2) Sargeant - at this rate De Vries will outscore him

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Nothing unexpected or improbable

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2023 Japanese Formula 1 - the tyres are cooked the fish is raw - Grand Prix 1: Verstappen 2: Norris 3: Leclerc 4: Sainz 5: Russell 6: Perez 7: Hamilton 8: Piastri 9: Albon 10: Alonso Pole: Verstappen Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Tsunoda ROTR: Haas IIDOTR: Lawson DBTMOTR: Stroll LP: Sarg...

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(1) Has to be Russell I am afraid - binned it from a certain 3rd place

(2) For balance - Alonso is better than that

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(1) Sainz for driving not only his own car but also the three world-class cars behind him - brilliant execution (with a little help from Lando and Russell)

(2) Lawson for being very good

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Looks like Stroll will be watching from the pit wall.

Both he and the residual kit of parts to make an Aston Martin are best advised not to participate.

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Stroll looked like he was going to crash for several corners before he actually did. I actually shouted at the TV "Don't crash now!" on the corner before he binned it. Looks like he was desparately trying to get a good time in and over-driving the car as a result. Earlier, Sky showed an in...

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The 2023 Singapore "Who's caught out Red Bull's flexi DRS wing then?" F1 Grand Prix 1: Leclerc 2: Hamilton 3: Sainz 4: Russell 5: Alonso 6: Verstappen 7: Norris 8: Perez 9: Tsunoda 10: Gasly Pole: Leclerc Fastest Lap: Hamilton First Retirement: Zhou ROTR: Haas IIDOTR: Lawson DBTMOTR: Strol...

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Not so hard...

Alpine for showing that firing their management and engineering team is not a good idea

Both Mercedes drivers for their 5 second penalties - just what?

I will go for the Mercedes drivers since I forecast Alpine for this in the predicament predictions.

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Hard one this. Driver: Sainz for his brilliant defence and for third place? Verstappen (why not?) for 10 wins in a row? Albon for keeping ahead of the Mclarens for so long? I will go for Sainz. Team Red Bull (why not?) for 15 wins on the trot? Ferrari for actually not messing up and for letting Sain...

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The 2023 Italian "Not Parabolica but Hyperparabolica" F1 Grand Prix 1. Max Verstappen 2. Charles Leclerc 3. Fernando Alonso 4. Carlos Sainz 5. Alex Albon 6. Lando Norris 7. Sergio Perez 8. Lewis Hamilton 9. George Russell 10. Oscar Piastri PP: Max Verstappen FL: Max Verstappen FR: Zhou Gua...

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Freeze-O-Kimi wrote: ↑28 Aug 2023, 17:30 Logan Sargeant: Had the pace as proved by his reaching Q3 but undid it all by driving like a hyperactive kitten resulting in 2 crashes

I saw a report on Reddit that Sargeant's race crash was caused by an hydraulic failure so he lost the power steering. But still...

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Driver - Leclerc was off the boil all weekend, whilst Sargeant looked like he knew his career was over as he sat by the side of the race

Team - Ferrari seemed to not really turn up this weekend. Monza should be fun!

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(1) Driver - a difficult choice between Albon's superb performance on the soft tyres in the rain or Gasly's third place (2) Team - Alpine for demonstrating that firing one's highly experienced and respected senior management and design team is the way to get better results (cue Horner, Newey and Wol...

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2023 Dutch "Muad'Dib - mouster of the sand dunes" F1 Grand Prix Are we still doing double points, 'cos if so this is my double points round 1) Verstappen 2) Norris 3) Hamilton 4) Alonso 5) Perez 6) Russell 7) Leclerc 8) Albon 9) Piastri 10) Stroll Pole: Verstappen Fastest Lap: Verstappen F...

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In the case of the Hungarian GP, is there not also the complexity that the early history of that race saw it being perceived in very much the opposite light? As the first race in the Soviet Union... "Soviet bloc" or "Soviet sphere" would be more accurate - sorry to be picky. Eve...

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Anyway, that post however very much highlights the reason why moral discussions about the countries hosting F1 among fans are a joke. ... If Sochi was considered a GOAT track, most Formula One fans would perform world championship-level mental gymnastics why racing in a country which has actively s...

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Engaging rant mode: Or perhaps, just perhaps, the FIA (and many other sports administrative bodies) could go with the spirit of the sanctions and just not allow competitors who retain their Russian/Belorussian nationalities to compete. I understand the argument that individuals may be opposed to the...

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Andretti has the money but has the American car racing handicaps of (i) not understanding the European roots and culture of F1 and (ii) not (yet) understanding the need for a European factory to attract experienced talent... So you are suggesting that he has not learnt from his 1993 season as a McL...

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Perez has another rival for that Red Bull seat it seems /s https://www.gpfans.com/en/f1-news/1001032/nikita-mazepin-f1-return-eu-court-ruling-banned/ It would be great if anyone here is a lawyer and can translate the explanatory word-salad in the story. The greater concern is that Mazepin may now be...

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Renault/Alpine have only ever won the Constructors title twice and that was with Alonso driving in 2005/6. He walked out at the end of last year when he realised he was wasting his time. The constant lack of focus and changes of management, strategy and purpose (as directed by corporate Renault) is ...

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