Grand Prix Rejects

Barbazza

Wow, this is truly amazing. The best comeback since I showed up at Minardi and scored a couple of points FOR SURE!

Barbazza

I really enjoyed that, mainly for the 0 points accrued by Red Bull, isn't karma marvellous...

The unreliability was the best thing, I don't suppose that will last for long but it was nice to have a race that was more like the old days of random breakages.

Barbazza

I guess they just wanted to go to a country with a safe attitude to coronavirus (so that's the UK out straight away...) where they could be based in one place with - I assume - good facilities nearby. At least they can reconfigure the track, though I'm not sure why they want to get all 6 races done ...

Barbazza

I think Silverstone will get the 'European GP' designation for the 2nd race.

Styria's only border with another country is with....Slovenia, so there's your designation for the second race in Austria!!!

Barbazza

Another thought - maybe they have Vettel lined up? Stranger things have happened, and they could always get someone else in to see the season out in the meantime (Heidfeld maybe?)

Barbazza

Mostly because the nepotism is fairly open. Abt is arguably one of the weakest drivers in the field, if he wasn't part of his family, he would've lost his job quite some time ago. In fact, it makes you wonder whether Audi are glad to have a chance to get rid of him without causing unnecessary frict...

Barbazza

This seems like a massive over-reaction. Fine and slap on the wrist, yes. But, honestly, does anyone REALLY care enough about this?!

Barbazza

Can't disagree with most of the Top 10 list, though I also think Zolder may have found its way into the 'also rans' section, if only for the 2 disastrous consecutive races, the sheer processional nature of many of the races, and (unless I've misremembered this) that drivers and journos had about as ...

Barbazza

Even more mystifying that Sky were bothering with the European GP 99 at all given that it's now on the F1TV Youtube channel too! I still have that and the Japanese GP 94 to rewatch, having tackled the 2 96 races (Monaco is always fun, though not much happens in the Spanish one tbh) and the 'You hit ...

Barbazza

Raymond Baxter was certainly the BBC's regular F1 commentator until the late 70s - it should be his voice you hear on commentaries (admittedly mainly the British GP at the time) but I have heard Murray on some pieces of old footage that he wouldn't have done live at the time. It has to be said that ...

Barbazza

Legend. Gentleman. Sportsman in every sense of the word. Possibly the last man allowed to use the word 'crumpet' without censure. RIP Sir.

Barbazza

In the absence of live motorsport, what are we watching at the moment? Aside from F1TV, which still has a disappointingly low number of pre-2000s races in full, I've been building up a little library of DVD content, including the 'Lauda' film, a charity shop purchase of a History of the BTCC + Best ...

Barbazza

I've always said that Marko's a nasty piece of work, finally here's irrefutable evidence.

Barbazza

dr-baker wrote:Which is bigger, the budget he brings or his crash repair bill?

I think the length of his last stint with Team Dynamics gives us a fairly accurate idea.....

Barbazza

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the wonderful news that Andy Neate is making yet another BTCC comeback. Motorbase are the team stupid enough to take his cash this time.

Barbazza

1982 had 11! Certainly no season has come close to that since.

Barbazza

JEV is out of Free Practice due to 'illness'. Let's hope he hasn't been to China or North Italy recently.....

Barbazza

Obviously I heartily approve of the 1991 AGS style livery on the Alpha Tauri car.

Barbazza

Rob Dylan wrote:If the car's not pink and green, I'm going to be very upset.

Tony Gilham says "Hi there!"

Barbazza

Wikipedia says the following: "There also was a 2.281 km (1.417 mi) warm-up loop called Zielschleife ("Finish Loop") or Betonschleife ("Concrete Loop"), around the pit area" This would make sense as I'm pretty sure that in the WTCR race at the Nordschleife, they do some...

Barbazza

IceG wrote:And Kubica as reserve at Alfa Romeo - quite a surprise that...

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/alfa ... e/4617950/

Looking forward to an embarassment of Badoer / Fisi proportions when Kimi has a snowboard / tennis / ice cream (delete as applicable) related injury this season.

Barbazza

I got pretty lucky too with -

Russian Orbital Segment
Russia
Russian Grand Prix
Force India
Super Aguri

Barbazza

The commentary on the 1982 video in particular, especially regarding the deaths of Villeneuve and Paletti (in the days when nasty footage wasn't shied away from) is brilliant, but all his contributions on F1 and other topics were rarely less than entertaining.

Barbazza

Well, there's some good news at least. Is that their first podium since the double one (half of which was also inherited of course) in Australia what feels like years ago?

Barbazza

Does Lazenby have to wear those stupid lederhosen shorts every time Red Bull win now?! Damon gloating over Ferrari misfortune, what a massive surprise - I'm glad he hasn't been on Sky's coverage much this year.

Barbazza

Man in fastest car and on pole wins the race and gets driver of the day.

Erm....Carlos Sainz? (or even Gasly, much as I hate him)

Barbazza

Spoke too soon. Is this end of season madness? So Gasly gets an undeserved podium then. Equally annoying,

Barbazza

Safety Car benefits Red Bull yet again. And however silly it was for Ferrari to make a total mess of that, how fragile are those tyres now?

Any Red Bull 1-2 is a race I'd rather forget.

Barbazza

Weren't they just a couple of seconds off each other on track? So I doubt there were yellow flags shown for him since he was probably almost past Bottas' car by the time it had come to a complete stop - thus Hamilton not really having the time to react to the accident. I think that's correct - I re...

Barbazza

And what a surprise that Sky F1 instantly leapt to Max's defence saying that he may have gone fast enough in the rest of the sector and still slowed down even though that was clearly utter nonsense. It's also all very well saying 'yes, but it doesn't matter as he was fastest anyway' because he now h...

Barbazza

I just don't get this penalty. The collision was accidental as he lost downforce under braking, and if the front wing was dangerous, why didn't they throw the black and orange flag? Yet more nonsense from F1. How many times in Touring Cars do you see a driver whose pace isn't massively affected by s...

Barbazza

What a shame that Sky F1's coverage has been as terrible as ever today. On Max hitting Kimi: "Oh, that's Max's fault"....30 seconds later after seeing replays and realising that they have offended wonderboy and their friend Horner..."Oh, Kimi should have given him more room". Dam...

Barbazza

Shame about Max winning, but what a race that was! Seb did brilliantly to keep his head, Toro Rosso got everything right and Racing Point made a brilliant call. 2 drivers need to get the sack now - Gasly and Magnussen. The former is as useless in a decent car as I expected him to be and Magnussen co...

Barbazza

Barbazza wrote:That was very funny indeed - typical that Lewis had a similar accident to Charles but got away with it though.

Obviously Hulkenberg has my total support now, that'll stop the Dutch fans cheering.

That's it, I give up....

Barbazza

That was very funny indeed - typical that Lewis had a similar accident to Charles but got away with it though.

Obviously Hulkenberg has my total support now, that'll stop the Dutch fans cheering.

Barbazza

Oh balls, just when it looked like Ferrari were getting some overdue luck. Here comes another Mercedes or Max win then, great.

Barbazza

There's being safe and mollycoddling and F1 is definitely the latter these days - those formation laps were a complete waste of time, they should have just started. And given that Perez was right by an escape road, why not throw a virtual safety car?!

Barbazza

The Williams looks like a FW13B with a different air intake slapped on. No idea what the McLaren is, but I'm willing to bet it's something crap from circa 1987/88 with a few bodywork amendments. Maybe it's just the air intake and engine cover that looks like a Lola then - that's what made me think ...

Barbazza

That Williams looks suspiciously like a 1993 Lola to me - if I'm right then it really is a supreme reject in disguise!

Barbazza

Faustus wrote:Bollocks, I couldn’t make it to the cinema. I’m having heart problems again. I had no choice but to watch qualifying.

I'm really sorry to hear about this troublesome pain. And the heart problems. (I'm here all week, etc.)

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