Ambitious But Rubbish

Call it hasty, last-minute, far, definitely call it wet, just don’t call it boring. Last weekend the first Formula One Korean Grand Prix took place at the Korean International Circuit and it was exiciting. The results — Alonso 1st, Hamilton 2nd and Massa 3rd — only tell a part of the story. The big contributor [...]

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I think my previous opinion about the lack of accommodations in Yeongam seems to have been borne out by news that F1 team staff have had to shack up in local love hotels for the week. The race promoters are saying they’ve sold 90,000 tickets for the weekend but where are these people going to [...]

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Once again work engagements have kept me busy far too long before I could sit down and produce this, which is why it’s appearing Thursday. I never write one of these before having seen the race twice, just in case I’ve missed something. But there wasn’t really that much to miss in the Japanese Grand [...]

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Looks like I was wrong to think that Heidfeld would be back at Sauber in ’11 — the Swiss team has signed 20-year-old Mexican GP2 star Sergio Perez to drive alongside Kamui Kobayashi for next season. This could be the start of a resurgence of Mexico in Formula 1, as telecom magnate (and world’s richest [...]

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The already-way-late preparations for the Korean Grand Prix have suffered yet another setback on September 28th when a crane collapsed on the grandstand near the start-finish line. Frankly this is a new facility that was supposed to pass inspection a few weeks ago and didn’t, prompting Bernie Ecclestone to publicly express doubt in Singapore as [...]

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