Grand Prix Rejects

f1-gast wrote:Probably a few know the story about the Tyrrell Test of Gabrielle Tarquini

wmetcalf68 wrote:

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] wrote:

tommykl wrote:Maria de Villota, none other than the daughter of Emilio

When did she this test?

I'm guessing late 2011.

ibsey wrote:Just wanted to say a massive thank you to all those who have posted these great photo's. I'm loving them especially stuff like the 1986 Osella. To me that looks to be massive (a bit like an F1 verison of an US muscle car) in comparsion to other 1986 F1 cars. The chassis also looks to be quite outdated, as well, in comparsion to most other 1986 F1 cars.

So this got me wondering, does anyone know what is the oldest chassis an F1 team has attempted to qualify in a race was. Off the top of my head I would have thought it to have been the 2006 Super Aguri, which IIRC was just a 2002 Arrows (A23 I think?) with a different paint job.

tommykl wrote:The ERA A-Type was 16 years old in 1950 when Bob Gerard entered it at Monaco...

dinizintheoven wrote:This is about as close as you'll get without hunting down all the reject team gear on eBay, which will probably take years.

ibsey wrote:That kinda reminds me of a story I read in a book called Grand Prix Sabotuers by Joe Saward. At the first motor race held in Paris, after WW2, IIRC all the cars entered were pre WW2 machines that had been hidden during the war in farmyard barns, etc. Anyway, one of the drivers (can't remember who it was off the top of my head), found he couldn't restart his car when he wanted to enter into this race. The reason being, was he found Rat droppings in somewhere like the exhast pipes.

So all the other drivers all jokely nicknamed this particular driver 'Rat Droppings' (or a word with a the same meaning as 'droppings', but sounds very simliar to 'hit'). Thereafter his nickname forever followed him. So much so that when he retired & decided to open up a resturant, he named it after his nickname that he became famous for.

f1-gast wrote:Some more rejected drivers
Katsumi Yamamoto (Father of) Pacific PR02

East Londoner wrote:

f1-gast wrote:Some more rejected drivers
Katsumi Yamamoto (Father of) Pacific PR02

The reject who never was! If only the FIA had granted him a superlicence, who knows what reject goodness he could have produced. Something on the levels of Deletraz?

I don't think he's the father of $akon though...

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] wrote:

East Londoner wrote:

f1-gast wrote:Some more rejected drivers
Katsumi Yamamoto (Father of) Pacific PR02

The reject who never was! If only the FIA had granted him a superlicence, who knows what reject goodness he could have produced. Something on the levels of Deletraz?

I don't think he's the father of $akon though...

According to Driversdb, Katsumi Yamamoto is 37 years old at now, too young to be Sakon's father.
I don't know if they are related, but I think that Yamamoto is a common surname in Japan.

Jamie and Enoch wrote:After the Swiss driver (Deletraz) defaulted on payment, Wiggins wanted Katsumi Yamamoto to drive in the Japanese races, and Oliver Gavin in Australia, but neither were granted a superlicence, so Gachot was forced to resume driving duties.

Pieman wrote:Few may remember that Oliver Gavin has driven in more GPs than many of the rejects on here...

Nuppiz wrote:

Pieman wrote:Few may remember that Oliver Gavin has driven in more GPs than many of the rejects on here...

And has also led quite a few laps in his outings...

AdrianSutil wrote:

Nuppiz wrote:

Pieman wrote:Few may remember that Oliver Gavin has driven in more GPs than many of the rejects on here...

And has also led quite a few laps in his outings...

He's led every lap he's ever done!! Not even the likes of Fangio, Senna or Schumacher can hold a light to that achievement

Faustus wrote:Apologies for not having been around, but I've got another loads of photos to upload. I'll do it this week, I promise.

dinizintheoven wrote:I was wondering what that lump on top of the engine cover was. Cheers for clearing that up!

Faustus wrote:

dinizintheoven wrote:I was wondering what that lump on top of the engine cover was. Cheers for clearing that up!

It's an ugly-arse lump isn't it? The early Hart turbos were well dodgy.

AdrianSutil wrote:It amazes me how so different each car looks in the same year. Minardi to Zakspeed to March, all completely different bodies. Wish they could do that in today's F1.

redbulljack14 wrote:Faustus, these photos are amazing!

Although I don't agree that Tarquini is equally rejectful to Coloni.

Faustus wrote:The reject-by-the-criteria-of-this-site-and-forum-although-not-quite-in-the-same-way-as-his-car-in-this-photo Gabriele Tarquini in the equally reject Coloni FC188: