Grand Prix Rejects

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Future World Champion Max Verstappen, ladies and gentlemen. Utter bell-end who doesn't deserve to be in F1 more like.

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I see Brundle is giving this one a swerve (along with a couple more later in the year) for some reason.

A chance to hear boring Paul 'Mershaydis' Di Resta all weekend then. Yaaaaayyyyyy....

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Oh and now Verstappen is in maximum bathplug mode. Wish I hadn't bothered now. Especially as NZ take the UK feed so there'll be 2 hours of pant wetting after this now inevitable Team Corporate win.

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On behalf of the whole of New Zealand since I'm here, go and **** yourself Gasly!

Even more so if it means that Red Bull get a fluky win out of it.

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I will be flying over Bahrain on Saturday on the way to the home of Brendon Hartley (not literally his house, I'm not a stalker) though I doubt if this will be directly over the circuit and even if it is, not when there will be cars on the track. This anecdote is about as exciting as yer average Bah...

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The biggest problem I had was with the graphics. Assuming it was a human operating the list on the left of the screen, it took them about half an hour to get Gasly and Ericsson listed as retired and even then their race positions stayed on screen for a bit. Did anyone else notice that for the first ...

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If his Mother had been there, would she have told him to wear an old pair inside out? Back to the race, and I was hoping for a bit more of a thriller although Mitch Evans made an exciting dash through the field. And Nico Prost was utterly awful again, surely even Alain's patience must be wearing thin?

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I come from a position of not having seen Eurosport's F1 coverage at the time, although watching it now on Youtube it certainly looks pretty good. What I do know is that their current coverage is poor. Random ad breaks are fired off sometimes in the middle of commentator's sentences, occasionally wi...

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If the BBC want a slice of the Formula E pie, they're a bunch of twonks if they put huge spoilers in the headline like that! I've noticed the radio schedules are doing the same, to the point where I missed two of the New Zealand v England One-Day Internationals and when I went to the Five Live Spor...

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Hmmm highlights on BBC, foreshadowing? m That explains why they spoilered the race for me. I didn't watch the race until today but the BBC helpfully gave away the result when I checked the F1 page (note: not the Motorsport page) on Monday. Delighted for smily Mr. Abt - I had wondered if me and bake...

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As the forum's resident Viola fan, it goes without saying that I was very shocked and upset when I heard the news earlier.

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That commentator on Spike though, jeez.....he's the one who used to do WTCC occasionally when Martin Haven was absent. The fact that he makes Haven sound like Murray Walker gives you an idea how awful he is. If that wasn't bad enough, Mike Conway was simply unbelievably boring. I honestly found myse...

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I think he's got too much pride to want to pootle around in an MG! Maybe he'll see if there are any Porsche seats left, and wait for another BTCC seat to come up mid-season instead? Still a few seats left to be filled in WTCR as well, of course....

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That is very odd. The only explanation I can think of is that either Jackson's sponsors or Jackson himself have some kind of clash with Tordoff that we don't know about.

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I was pretty ambivalent about the grid girls disappearing, but the announcement about the kids has wound me up! F1 is not football, this is cheesier than having pretty ladies. How much more utter nonsense will there be before I give up on this sport for good? Place your bets....

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I remember when I used to play that online racing game that I joined a 'team' named AAR in honour of Dan Gurney. That prompted me to read up about him on the internet - suffice to say that I didn't realise until that point exactly what he'd achieved in F1. He seemed like an amazing guy, may he RIP.

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A very quick quiz, first to get the answer wins a million papayas and a piece of reject-related tat that'll be worth at least 50p on eBay in 30 years' time. Who is "PEHE APHY"? I'm guessing this must be a hilarious error from the early days of on-screen computer graphics, but struggling t...

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Having criticised their coverage repeatedly last year, and now having finally watched both races today, I have to say well done to C5 for ironing out almost everything I hated about their coverage last year. Vernon Kay was fine as a presenter and thankfully was at the track rather than sitting in a ...

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I find it stranger that Bird causes someone to fall over in the pit lane and the penalty allows him to maintain the lead and the win, while an admin error for Abt and Audi means disqualification from a win. Where's the logic? (Although I would like to see success for Bird...) Me too, Abt always see...

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Illustrated on the BBC F1 page (though not the Sport homepage) by....ummm.... an Osella.

I know they had Alfa Romeo engines for a bit, but that's asking a lot of the modern F1 audience.....

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Can't believe no-one has posted on this thread for months. The last time I watched a V8 race I saw the accident mentioned in the previous posts. I just happened to come across the Newcastle race on the FreeSports channel which is on Sky and shows all sorts of random stuff. What an amazing race. McLa...

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A very good read - I sadly never did get round to buying David Tremayne's book 'The Lost Generation' about him, Tom Pryce & Roger Williamson. It's now out of print of course.

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More great news for fans of motor sport broadcasting as Vernon Kay is confirmed as the C5 host for next season. Given how tall he is, maybe they just want to make the shed that they shove their presenters in look a bit bigger. The story on the FE website also confirms the wondrous news that they wil...

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Was that Jackie Stewart trying to upstage Felipe just now? No surprise from that classless little shite.

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Alternatively, maybe none of the other team principals want to be at the beck and call of the commentary tean whilst they're overseeing the race? Although saying that, didn't Otmar Szafnauer do one for Sky a few races back? Ah, I've only just got Sky Sports back so must have missed that if so. You ...

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I look forward to Christian Horner's take on this tomorrow when we get to hear him yet again 'live from the pit wall'. Quite why Sky and C4 are incapable of talking to any of the other team principals occasionally instead of disappearing up that prick's backside is a complete mystery. Lewis's bizarr...

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I'll be quite honest here and say that I couldn't really give a fig about any of this stuff. There always has been tax avoidance, there always will be, and as long as it's not evasion (which is illegal) it doesn't bother me what people do with their money whether that's The Queen or Joe Bloggs down ...

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Did we watch the same race? There were battles throughout the whole field, wheel to wheel racing, and drivers had to work hard for their overtakes. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole affair. Or do you only watch to see who wins? There's no need to be patronising. As Rob says, a great deal of the overta...

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This wrote:I also forget easily Teo Fabi drove for Brabham once. I only remember his Toleman/Benetton days.

His 2nd most successful season, even though he missed a quarter of it! Mind you, I don't remember him driving very spectacularly, his one podium that year was at the home of the lucky, Detroit.

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James1978 wrote:His one-off Brabham appearance was the end of 1984, and when on earth did he drive for Arrows? I only know he drove for ATS in 1982 - 84, and RAM in 1985 but am drawing a blank with Arrows.

He attempted and failed to qualify at Monza in 1980 so very easy to forget, to be honest!

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How on earth nobody saw this win coming? IT'S THE KVYAT STAT, B**CH!! Which dear old Crofty only mentioned about 50 times. It's such a shame that we didn't get an actual race beyond the first lap really, the only fun being 'which Renault engine will go bang next' and since Max's never did, even tha...

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Oh cock. That's all over after one lap then. I KNEW that would happen - Vettel had to go for it and Max was always going to squeeze him at turn 1.

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Very harsh. He was demoted far too quickly - Grosjean did a lot worse for a while and was given time to calm down, after all - and his confidence shattered by the vile corporate Red Bull machine. I hope he comes back some time and sticks 2 fingers up to Obergruppenfuhrer Marko.

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I liked the way that Hartley went about his business - nothing dramatic, picked up places due to more experienced drivers silliness, picked a strategy that also helped. But Kvyat got a point even though the car wasn't particularly quick - what did they expect, a podium?! You can't help but feel sorr...

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Doesn't bother me in the slightest, especially as it has no bearing on either championship. I was more hacked off by Ericsson getting a penalty after Magnussen's latest bout of stupidity!

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Karma - C4's decision to always go to an ad break directly after the race backfired spectacularly there, didn't it? Ha ha ha ha.

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I am SO ****ing bored of commentators getting overexcited every time Verstappen overtakes someone. Ben Edwards nearly came in his pants just now. He was driving a car that was competitive on that circuit with tyres that were much fresher than Kimi's - it would have been more surprising if that DIDN'...

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Eurosport. During WTCC qualifying they go for an ad break in the middle of q2, luckily we didn’t miss any laps. However they really then take the piss when in MAC3 at the start of Hondas run they go for another ad break, during this Tarquini made a mistake gifting the win to Volvo, and to make matt...

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As I left for church yesterday evening, around 5:30, I was confused why there were several MASCARa passing through the small English village of Cobham. Then I realised that it must have been due to that event! Yes, there were a few of those there. Not my sort of thing really, but there were plenty ...

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Coming soon (hopefully - it takes me ages to get round to posting pics) will be some shots I took at Brooklands Motorsport Day yesterday. There may be many, many shots of the Benetton B190!

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