Your Reject of the Year!

[SuperAguri]

My picks

3 - Nick Heidfeld, should have done better, he was completely rubbish especially as this team mate looked better in a lot of races, a sad way to end his career, well he could have driven for Manor/Virgin/Russian car company or Campos Meta/HRT/Hispania and that would have been worse.

2 - Mark Webber - Last year you were so close to winning the championship, this year you were blown in the weed. Face it Mark, your time has passed, Vettel is going to make you look very average next year and you should retire whilst the going is good.

1 - Felippe Massa, was deadbeat of the year and was generally rubbish compared to the talents of Alonso, he should go to a lower team or hang up his helmet.

Teams / Other

3 - KERS - DRS does work well but KERS does not seem to add to the racing and I've not seen any figures that show that it is saving any fuel. They should get rid of it.

2 - Cosworth - The Cosworth engine does seem the slowest engine in the field, I think that they are responsible for most of Williams problems and I hope Williams do go faster next year and that Cosworth can be allowed to develope the engine so it can challenge the Reanault, Ferrari and Mercedes better. We also need more engine makers, I miss Honda, Toyota, Mugen, Judd, Hart, Ford (as their money made the Cosworth better).

1 - Williams - In any old points system they would have scored zero points, the first time in their history they have score nothing. i think Rubens was doing a good job considering the lack of engine power and I hope they keep him for next year when they have Renault power.

[Ferrim]

Don't think Cosworth are to blame for Williams' problems. It's not like Williams had a bad season in 2010, using that same engine.

[Peter]

3 - KERS - DRS does work well but KERS does not seem to add to the racing and I've not seen any figures that show that it is saving any fuel. They should get rid of it.

KERS has played a major part in the racing so far. It has boosted the effectiveness of DRS, as well as helping overtaking wherever the DRS wasn't present. It doesn't increase fuel efficiency, why would it? It's a boost, not a hybrid system. Energy is taken from the brakes, and transferred to the flywheel to increase power by 80hp whenever the driver wants to, but only for 6.6 seconds per lap. It uses no fuel to work, but it doesn't save fuel.

2 - Cosworth - The Cosworth engine does seem the slowest engine in the field, I think that they are responsible for most of Williams problems and I hope Williams do go faster next year and that Cosworth can be allowed to develope the engine so it can challenge the Reanault, Ferrari and Mercedes better. We also need more engine makers, I miss Honda, Toyota, Mugen, Judd, Hart, Ford (as their money made the Cosworth better).

The only thing that is wrong with the Cosworth engine is the fact that Cosworth being years behind other teams in engine electronics, being out of the sport since 2006 up to 2010, means that the exhaust blown diffuser wasn't nearly as effective with the Cosworth engine as it was with the frontrunning engine in that criteria, the Renault. The engine itself is believed to have slightly more power than even the Mercedes engine. Another con about the engine is the amount of power it loses over its lifetime compared to other engines, said to lose up to 10% I believe from start to the end of its life.

[razta]

This has to be up there.. Reject of the Off Season

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG_t3P4448o

Norbert and his Solos- Epically Rejectful

[Captain Hammer]

Who is Ross brawn supposed to be dressed as? Drew Carey?

[Stramala]

Who is Ross brawn supposed to be dressed as? Drew Carey?

Norbert Haug is the spitting image of Drew Carey. Ross Brawn just looks like himself but with a really bad haircut.

[jackanderton]

Driver :

1. Mark Webber
2. Felipe Massa
3. Lewis Hamilton
4. Jarno Trulli
5. Sebastien Buemi

Teams/other :

1. Williams
2. Hermann Tilke for serving up even more badly designed dreck

[Phoenix]

This has to be up there.. Reject of the Off Season

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG_t3P4448o

Norbert and his Solos- Epically Rejectful

Please tell me the guy with the wig and the funny glasses wasn't Britney...

[Wizzie]

This has to be up there.. Reject of the Off Season

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG_t3P4448o

Norbert and his Solos- Epically Rejectful

Please tell me the guy with the wig and the funny glasses wasn't Britney...

Yeah, that was Britney himself. Ross told him it was a dress-up party as a joke and that was the end result

[razta]

Just in case you thought it couldn't get anymore "Rejectful"

Check out Michael
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWMQOOkap_I

the Ending is funny, wonder what Andy Shovlin had to say after that!

[dr-baker]

This has probably been decided by now by Jamie and Enoch, but just wanted to put in a late nomination for the Ford Motor Company for suing Ferrari for copyright infringement. Seriously, who was ever going to confuse a European single-seater with an American truck?

[FMecha]

This has probably been decided by now by Jamie and Enoch, but just wanted to put in a late nomination for the Ford Motor Company for suing Ferrari for copyright infringement. Seriously, who was ever going to confuse a European single-seater with an American truck?

'Concidence shall not be taken seriously' (this is meant to FMC).

[sswishbone]

Revisiting an old thing here, but Toro Rosso for the dumping of their drivers, they managed to do to two drivers what arrows did to Jos the boss, unacceptable.

[Cynon]

This has probably been decided by now by Jamie and Enoch, but just wanted to put in a late nomination for the Ford Motor Company for suing Ferrari for copyright infringement. Seriously, who was ever going to confuse a European single-seater with an American truck?

Judging by his driving, Felipe Massa maybe...

[DanielPT]

This has probably been decided by now by Jamie and Enoch, but just wanted to put in a late nomination for the Ford Motor Company for suing Ferrari for copyright infringement. Seriously, who was ever going to confuse a European single-seater with an American truck?

Judging by his driving, Felipe Massa maybe...

Or Lewis Hamilton, who rammed several people off the road tin-top style!

[Yannick]

Now as the 2012 season is coming to a close, who or what entity's campaign for this website's prestigious year-ending award has been the most impressive?

Is it Felipe Massa who has been oft-maligned due to not performing even close to his teammate Fernando Alonso for almost the whole season?

Is it Dany Bahar for his part in sinking Lotus Cars by throwing around too much money the company didn't have, after which he was fired and the brand's IndyCars were black-flagged for being too slow whilst the F1 team who bears the company's name but apart from that is of no relation to Colin Chapman's outfit, has won its first race of the season long after Bahar parked his own car?

Is it Dr Helmut Marko whose concept of a junior team with Scuderia Toro Rosso just seems to produce more and more backmarker drivers instead of new talents to drive Red Bull Racing's winning cars?

Is it Pastor Maldonado whose over-aggressive driving and voluntary crashes with his favourite opponents have cost his team many, many points in the constructor's championship? His win at Barcelona will probably spare him of the honours, but then again, maybe not.

Is it the Man Without Vowels, RMN GRSJN, whose start crashes are now legendary and who despite having received the rare punishment of a one race ban for them from the FIA, has not stopped from being involved in those, when he has a race winning car underneath him?

Is it Team Caterham who after not closing the gap towards the midfield have now fallen back behind the former Virgin Manor in the constructors championship whereupon their owner Tony Fernandez has given up his role as team boss? Apparently, they have been the only one of the "new teams" (of yesteryear) which has not improved in performance this season.

Or is it Bernie Ecclestone, Mr. F1 himself, for all his wheel-dealing with the Gribkowsky affair? But shouldn't we wait on the outcome of that? He might campaign for ROTD (D standing for decade) with this one.

Or is it a former 7-time champion whose campaign this year has been somewhat below expectations? Has the only reason for him to return to the sport been to finally win this site's prestigious year-ending award, too? One he never thought he could have won before?

Or is there an inanimate object who deserves winning the award?

Jamie and Enoch will decide, and we are patiently awaiting the Xmas holidays for the Awards Show on the podcast.

[pi314159]

At the moments, my candidates are:

Overall:
1.Mercedes: Started the season with a race-winning car and are suck in the lower midfield now.
2.Caterham: That chassis must be just as bad as HRT's. They are only a bit faster than Marussia, who run the Cosworth engine and don't have KERS. And all that after they again talked about scoring points. Disappointing...
3.Romain Grosjean: Just too many crashes... ,but we shouldn't forget that he was close to scoring Lotus' first race win in Valencia.

Drivers:
1.Romain Grosjean: see above
2.Felipe Massa: Terrible first half of the season
3.Narain Karthikeyan: Almost never close to de la Rosa

Teams:
1. Mercedes
2. Caterham
3. Toro Rosso

Other things:
1. Gearbox penalties
-. DRS: still ridiculous, like a power-up in some arcade race game. I can't really get used to it

[DanielPT]

There can be only one and my RoTY is Mercedes. Compared to their expectations, this year was absolutely wasted, not mentioning China GP, which, in my opinion, is not enough to save them from the award. They are on a string of non points finishes and abject finishing rate.

I will mention, for the 2nd place, Felipe Massa. Which brings me to the three most important questions of Mankind:
- What is the meaning of Life?
- Where we came from?
- Why was Felipe Massa given yet another contract by Ferrari?
It's anyone guess...

For the third place I am between the Toro Rossos and the Caterham. But I will go for the last one...

[BlindCaveSalamander]

There can be only one and my RoTY is Mercedes. Compared to their expectations, this year was absolutely wasted, not mentioning China GP, which, in my opinion, is not enough to save them from the award. They are on a string of non points finishes and abject finishing rate.

I wholeheartedly agree with this. They've been thoroughly disappointing since they took over Brawn, and their Chinese GP victory now looks as conspicuous as, if not more, than Williams' win in Spain. Hell, Williams are still scoring points; that's more than Mercedes can say. Wasn't this supposed to be the year where they actually started to be good?

[East Londoner]

I really think we should have a new thread for this.