Grand Prix Rejects

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Charles Leclerc: All Ferrari needed to mirror this 2018-esque implosion was a mistake from it’s lead driver. Well done mate. Ferrari and their customers: Every race the Scuderia find new ways to trip over themselves. Today it was Sainz’s strategy. The fact their only 44 points ahead of Mercedes in t...

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2022 crazy car park GP 1: Verstappen 2: Leclerc 3: Hamilton 4: Perez 5: Sainz 6: Russell 7: Ocon 8: Alonso 9: Norris 10: Schumacher Pole: Leclerc Fastest Lap: Leclerc First Retirement: Bottas ROTR: Tsunoda IIDOTR: Albon (finishes 11th) DBTMOTR: Latifi Last place: Latifi How far back: 1 minute 20 sec...

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Ferrari reliability: How many times do we need to mention this? Their lucky that Red Bull have had similar issues and Mercedes aren’t quick enough to be in the title race Pierre Gasly: AlphaTauri were rubbish but he was way worse on his own. Collisions, multiple penalties, refusal to serve penalties...

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Haas: They’ve always gone well around Austria and did so once again. Mick a 1/3 towards unrejectification and K-Mag up there too. Roberto Mehri: A super sub performance that another Roberto we all know and love would have been proud of. HM: McLaren: Purely for salvaging a good result after a dire Fr...

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1: Leclerc 2: Verstappen 3: Perez 4: Hamilton 5: Alonso 6: Russell 7: Ocon 8: Bottas 9: Norris 10: Vettel S1: Leclerc S2: Verstappen S3: Hamilton Fastest Lap: Russell First Retirement: Sainz ROTR: Sainz (Hero to zero colliding with Russell) IIDOTR: Alpine DBTMOTR: Stroll Last place: Latifi Distance:...

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This really annoyed me after the race. https://the-race.com/formula-1/f1-ceo-slams-stupid-protesters-but-hamilton-vettel-sympathise/ Of course it was these two who came out and sympathised with them 🙄. I know Hamilton clarified things afterwards in an Instagram post saying he didn’t agree with how i...

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With Hamilton not winning in Silverstone, he has now extended his longest ever streak without winning a race. It is now 11 races. It’s also the deepest he’s ever gone into a season without winning. Previously it was 9 in 2009 and 2013. For the 2nd race running a driver celebrating his 150th start q...

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You’d love to be a fly on the wall in the Andretti debrief tonight. What an absolute disasterclass that was. Not pitting Colton Herta under a caution when literally everyone else did, team-mates at war with Alexander Rossi driving like a man who’s moving teams next year. Not to mention being shown u...

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Again a lot of candidates Racing Extinction: Echo pretty much what the rest of you have said. Neil Horan and the Mercedes employee put you to shame. And to do it when the concern should have been on the condition of a racing driver was very distasteful Ferrari strategists: Ferrari may have won today...

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For once there’s a lot of contenders for this Mick Schumacher: Obviously for the maiden points (even though he tried everything to throw them away on the last lap). He had genuine pace in the short amount of dry running and he deserves it after a compromised qualy. Nicolas Latifi: Easily the best we...

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2022 Revenge of Max Verstappen GP 1: Verstappen 2: Leclerc 3: Sainz 4: Hamilton 5: Perez 6: Russell 7: Norris 8: Alonso 9: Bottas 10: Ocon Pole: Verstappen Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Vettel ROTR: Aston Martin IIDOTR: Hamilton by beating Perez on merit DBTMOTR: Latifi Last place: Latif...

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F1 would gladly hold a race in North Korea if it had the chance. Sadly this is the way it’s gone in all sports. The days of traditional values have long since been over and that’s why more venues get held in these countries with chequered pasts. The thing that scares me the most about Sportswashing ...

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I wonder if there’ll come a point where professional sports teams (not just F1) will start writing it into contracts that the athlete is barred from taking part in online gaming streams. He’s not the first to get done for something he shouldn’t have done (Daniel Abt and Kyle Larson to name but two).

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HM- HRH Lord Lewis Hamilton- Took the worst car he has ever had in Canada ( so not the 2009 Mclaren then) to third place. Okay he did alright F1 never actually raced at Canada that year (can’t remember why) so we’ll never know. That said given it would have been held pre-Germany (when McLaren sorte...

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Alfa Romeo: A double points finish having not quite looked comfortable with the circuit. Has Zhou made a breakthrough with his best weekend of the season? Bottas made amazing tyre life and may have snatched 7th with an extra lap. Lance Stroll: Another great tyre saving performance from Stroll and no...

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Haas: I didn’t expect them to stay too high up after Saturday’s heroics but that was a dreadful collapse. What does Mick have to do to score points? K-Mag put on a horrific strategy. A day to forget and for a team who started so brightly to now being ahead of only Williams in the WCC is quite dammin...

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2022 Revenge of the Groundhogs GP 1: Verstappen 2: Perez 3: Leclerc 4: Sainz 5: Alonso 6: Russell 7: Hamilton 8: Vettel 9: Gasly 10: Norris Pole: Leclerc Fastest Lap: Verstappen First Retirement: Magnussen ROTR: Canada: Both Canadians out IIDOTR: Alonso DBTMOTR: Ocon Last Place: Albon How far back: ...

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Just when I thought Will Power had become more mature this season I’m sure he’s gone and used his car as a weapon on the slow down lap. Can’t believe the coverage hasn’t spoken about that a little more. Anyway Newgarden was excellent on a course he’s one of the masters of. It seems to be win or bust...

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Ferrari: 4 of the 6 cars not finishing with mechanical failure. What more can you say? May as well crown Red Bull champions now. AlphaTauri’s DRS fix: Great speed, not so great method to fix an issue which I thought should have warranted retirement. HM’s Lance Stroll: Obliterated by Vettel all weeke...

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Vettel: 6th in an Aston Martin which still isn’t optimal despite messing up an overtake and losing time. Scored more points in one race than the team have all season Zhou Guanyu: Destroyed Bottas all weekend and may have taken some points until he became another victim of the Ferrari power train HM:...

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2022 King of the Baku Castle GP

1: Verstappen
2: Leclerc
3: Perez
4: Sainz
5: Russell
6: Alonso
7: Norris
8: Hamilton
9: Tsunoda
10: Ocon

Pole: Leclerc
Fastest Lap: Verstappen
First Retirement: Schumacher
ROTR: Gasly
IIDOTR: Alonso
DBTMOTR: Ricciardo
Last Place: Latifi
How far back: 2 laps

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Ferrari: This was their race to lose. The nature of the circuit and strengths of their car meant they had Red Bull’s number. And then they did that with Leclerc. It’s starting to feel like 2017/2018 all over again. The next 2 races look like Red Bull tracks so this was a wasted opportunity Daniel Ri...

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Perez: Soaked up relentless pressure in the final minutes to take a brilliant win

Gasly: Provided most of the entertainment

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Norris: Battled through the physical illness to score 8th

Alonso: Last to 9th always makes a mention here

Russell: While Verstappen had no DRS and the Merc has improved it’s still not in the same league as Red Bull so for George to deliver like that was very impressive

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Albon: What happened to him today? Clear last and thrashed by Latifi Magnussen: I can’t stand Hamilton but that was a racing incident at best and he cost himself more. Gasly: Anonymous and outperformed by Tsunoda. He was one of the drivers of the year in 2021 and I’m getting concerned now. Sainz: Th...

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The whole post race: A new low for American spectacle. A ridiculously long and policed route to the podium and NFL helmets on the podium? Honestly can’t wait until we’re back in the normal European stretch Alonso: Ruined Gasly’s race, Hit Hamilton on the first lap and May still lose those points for...

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Albon: Another Excellent drive. Kept his head while others lost theirs

Ocon: Last to 8th

HM to Mick Schumacher who put in the best weekend of his career so far for 50 laps.

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Everyone at Mercedes bar Russell: A team looking like Ferrari 2005 and a lead driver looking like Vettel 2014. That was a shocking weekend. No car in Q3 since Japan 2012 and I’m willing to bet if Russell hadn’t taken advantage of the start they wouldn’t have got so much as 4 points. Hamilton getting...

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1: Aston Martin: After the Australia omnishambles I wasn’t expecting them to do this. When everyone switched to dries I thought “Ok the Green tortoises will fall away now” but instead there was barely any stage where either car looked like falling out of the points. 2: Yuki Tsunoda: Similarly when h...

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Red Bull unreliability: 6 starts between the 2 drivers and 3 DNF’s already. Max must feel like he’s in 2017 again. Lewis Hamilton: Please just zip it Haas: After 2 really competitive outings they were invisible here Reject of the weekend (ROTW) Aston Martin: The only Aston Martin’s that had a clean ...

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Albon: Dragged arguably the worst car on the grid to a points finish

McLaren: That’s more like the team that performed well last year

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Saudi Arabia weekend: Let this hopefully be the last time we ever go near this place. The track and it’s surroundings are the biggest death traps since the Life L190 Alfa Romeo: Haven’t entirely stamped out the operational errors of last year. Just how do you neglect to serve a penalty? Bottas retir...

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Norris: Just 0.107 off a top 6 finish in that wagon is a great effort

The quality of the race: I thought this’d just be a demo derby but most of the retirements were mechanical

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K-Mag: No explanation necessary

Alfa Romeo/Haas: The 2 biggest laughing stocks of last year have shown why they were right to look ahead to 2022

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Red Bull: Just how is that possible? McLaren/Aston Martin: Both as rank as each other. Danny Ric’s probably wishing he hadn’t bothered coming back and Seb Vettel’s probably relieved he got the enforced lay off Pierre Gasly’s engine: How ironic that the B-Team’s engine combusting prolonged the race a...

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“Oh Jean you may well look a bit worried, you’ve got a major problem sunshine”

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On the whole Max deserved to be world champion. Without the tire explosion in Baku and the accidents in Silverstone and Hungary I don’t think this title fight would ever have reached Abu Dhabi. With a 8 point margin at least that means TeamLH can’t cry about the 5 points Max gained from the farce of...

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Perez: Did everything that people were hyping and predicting Bottas to do. Deserved a podium Sainz: that’s 4 podiums to Leclerc’s 1 and he beat him in the championship. Put some respect on his name Tsunoda: unrejectification always qualifies here. Hopefully we’ll see more of this next year Hamilton:...

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I think Michael Masi’s just upgraded himself from potential ROTY to favourite for ROTY Mercedes strategists: why on earth did they not pit under that final safety car? They’d already had the warning from the VSC and it’s certainly been one factor as to why they’ve lost the drivers title. Alfa Romeo/...

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Saudi Arabia GP: What an utter crapfest that was. It was just one incident after another and no one comes out smelling of roses The FIA and race control: Say what you will about them in the Schumacher era but they would never have plumbed the depths that they did tonight. Todt needs to take Masi wit...

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