{"id":491310,"date":"2010-05-01T04:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T04:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=41231"},"modified":"2023-12-31T20:22:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T20:22:58","slug":"foibles-can-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/foibles-can-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Foibles Can Be Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Failure is not a friend of many racing drivers, but there is a school of thought that asks: if you can\u2019t laugh at yourself, what good are you? To paraphrase another old saw, it is better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all. So, it is with this warped perspective in mind that we direct you toward a site where you have to be bad to be included.<\/p>\n<p>It would be hard to imagine a more descriptive name for a site than f1rejects.com. Kind of says it all right up front. Still, everyone is treated with due respect, with the careers that got them into F1 appropriately noted and then simply rubbished as necessary. Not everything here is up-to-the-moment, but maybe they\u2019re trying to get on their own list<\/p>\n<p>Names will not be named here, but you\u2019ll have plenty of them to ponder\u2014World Champions included\u2014as you range from page to page within categories such as \u201cReject Central,\u201d and \u201cHall of Shame,\u201d while checking out \u201cReject Interviews\u201d and the wholly appropriate \u201cReject of the Year,\u201d which is current.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t take our word for it, go take a look, go exploring, and hopefully have a laugh for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.f1rejects.com\">www.f1rejects.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Failure is not a friend of many racing drivers, but there is a school of thought that asks: if you can\u2019t laugh at yourself, what good are you? 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