Grand Prix Rejects

Good evening folks

We thought it was high time to wheel out another GPR driver profile, and this time we've plumped for a modern Reject. He spent his F1 career driving for Williams, Lotus...and HRT, but even the last of those illustrious teams couldn't get him out of the shadow of his uncle. That's right, it's finally time for Bruno Senna Lalli to take centre stage on GPR.

Rob Dylan has constructed a taut and focussed profile of Bruno's time in motorsport - including his cameo appearances in Sky's knock-off version of Top Gear - which can be read right here today!

Driver Profile: Bruno Senna

Londoner wrote:Good evening folks

We thought it was high time to wheel out another GPR driver profile, and this time we've plumped for a modern Reject. He spent his F1 career driving for Williams, Lotus...and HRT, but even the last of those illustrious teams couldn't get him out of the shadow of his uncle. That's right, it's finally time for Bruno Senna Lalli to take centre stage on GPR.

Rob Dylan has constructed a taut and focussed profile of Bruno's time in motorsport - including his cameo appearances in Sky's knock-off version of Top Gear - which can be read right here today!

Driver Profile: Bruno Senna

Every opportunity to mention Sky's knock-off Top Gear and you'll find a way

Hope everyone here enjoys reading it! If you have any titbits of information yourselves that you want to share, let me know. I'm also keen for constructive criticism. I aim to write many more profiles where this came from, so any way of improving I will gladly attempt!

Take care all and enjoy the read

Good article, as always!

Nice to see that some drivers can start later in their careers and find some success. I would call reaching F1 at all a success, even if it was mediocre in performance.

Perhaps that's an article idea, seeing "late bloomer" drivers in F1 and elsewhere find success?

CaptainGetz12 wrote:Good article, as always!

Nice to see that some drivers can start later in their careers and find some success. I would call reaching F1 at all a success, even if it was mediocre in performance.

Perhaps that's an article idea, seeing "late bloomer" drivers in F1 and elsewhere find success?

Ooh, that's indeed a good idea for an article!

I'd especially love to know how many of these "late bloomers" stopped looking back at their mediocre F1 performances with disappointment after finally finding success in other series. Bernd Schneider comes to mind, seeing how he turned himself into a touring car legend with his DTM outings. I wonder what he has to say about his time in F1, if you'd ask him now, because I remember him being quite salty back in the day when Schumi made his big debut at Spa in the Jordan.

That would be fascinating to see also , especially as in the modern era having drivers come into F1 late and then doing well seems nigh-on impossible - the most famous example being Damon Hill who was in his thirties when he started out for Brabham.

If I'm not mistaken I can only think of Andre Lotterer for Caterham who came into F1 on the back of considerable Le Mans success late on - and even he didn't last too long.

Really enjoyed that article - thanks.
Appreciate the analysis compared to team- mates ; very interesting . And of course that background of not having the kind of teenage experience of much of his competition.

Something totally different for you all today One of our users, Matty, has started to use our YouTube platform as a springboard for some new video content. So, to start off with he's worked on making an audio version of our Bruno Senna profile. Narrated by yours truly and edited by Matty, have an audio-visual version of the history of one of our more recent rejects.

You can watch Part 1 here.


Enjoy, and as always we welcome feedback for the next video