Ambitious But Rubbish

As was reported by The Guardian the UK government is about to phase out mandatory retirement at age 65. This measure is controversial on for many reasons, both in that it is a harbinger of a future time when retirement will be effectively abolished, and because by keeping more older people in a shrinking jobs [...]

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“I think there is not a number one or number two driver.” -Fernando Alonso, with the bombshell that’s sure to have everyone in non-Italian teams in stitches.

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Bernie is starting to suspect that the grid might shrink from its current 24 cars. No doubt assisted by a certain Cpt. Obvious, he doesn’t name names, but I think we all know who is likely to be dropping out *cough*hispania*cough*, the only real question is when that might happen; the thing worth noting is [...]

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No, it’s not a reference to internet fetishes, it’s the regulation in the F1 rule book that says “thou shalt not have team orders”. Not in those exact words, but you see where this is going. It’s not unusual to see race results featured on sports news reports, but Ferrari has managed to put the [...]

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I’m not quite sure how I’d managed to miss this headline before, but I have to say it’s absolutely brilliant. It’s the sort of thing I wish I could come up with most of the time…

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Apparently Jacques Villeneuve may be coming back to Formula 1 in 2011… with his own team. He’s put in an application, and reportedly his entry’s finances have been reviewed by the FIA and found to be in order — then again the same body thought that Campos and USF1 were doing A-OK, so I’m not [...]

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After the events of the weekend there was bound to be clarifications and other developments coming out this week. For one thing, Charlie Whiting revealed that Ferrari had been told to let Kubica pass Alonso back almost immediately after the passing incident. The team was advised to do so twice more, but they failed to [...]

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After his high-flying incident in Valencia Mark Webber dominated the field at Silverstone and moved ahead with his third win of the season (and fifth career win). He cleverly slipped past teammate Vettel at the race start and never looked back, although Hamilton gave him a serious fight for quite a bit of the race, [...]

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It’s seriously hard to believe that Jenson Button ended up qualifying in 14th position at the new Silverstone, missing Q3 altogether and relegating the reigning World Champion to the 7th row of the starting grid in 14th place. That’s behind both Williamses and behind Kobayashi. Rather disturbing for a McLaren driver, really. Interestingly enough there [...]

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Well, I don’t know if hell really has frozen over, but last weekend gave us an exciting race in Valencia, and that’s got to be a sign of something. Look at me, an England fan, rooting for Germany… well they are playing Argentina after all. What a week it’s been. Between the European GP, a [...]

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