Ambitious But Rubbish

I haven’t written much lately, but neither has Shakespeare. Last weekend saw the running of the 70th Monaco Grand Prix, the biggest event in the Formula One calendar. This race is widely celebrated for its glamour and celebrity content; Monaco happens to be home, at least legally speaking, for a lot of the F1 drivers [...]

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As a result of a heavy-handed, false and borderline-libelous copyright enforcement action against me by Youtube earlier today I have removed all my videos from that site. I will also no longer be posting any links to videos hosted there. So if you were looking for videos I (and no one else) made at the [...]

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The FIA has decided to reinstate the Bahrain Grand Prix for 2011. The race will be held on October 30th, displacing the first Indian Grand Prix which will become the new season finale. I don’t know about you, but that’s once race I won’t be watching this year. I guess it won’t be that much of [...]

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Tire changes allowed under a red flag? Are you fucking kidding me?

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If you were following the qualifying session for the Grand Prix of Monaco this morning you’ll know that Sauber driver Sergio “Checo” Perez has had a very big accident in Q3 near the exit of the tunnel. He was taken to hospital where he’s been diagnosed with only a concussion and a thigh sprain, which [...]

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Yes, the 2011 season is finally under way, and Sebastien Vettel started this campaign exactly as he ended the last, by converting pole position into a dominant win over Lewis Hamilton. However, the real sensation of the day was Renault’s Vitaly Petrov, who successfully defended against Fernando Alonso to claim the third step of the [...]

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Quite late (literally on the penultimate testing day of the season) and clearly short of sponsorship the new HRT 111 showed up in Barcelona today. Team boss Colin Kolles insists that this year’s car will be quicker than last year’s, which sets the bar pretty low. At least the team is hiring an experienced driver [...]

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I was checking out the SA F1 thread earlier and I came up with a little insight about Massa that I thought I’d share here as well. A lot of people seem to dislike Massa, which is something I really don’t think the Brazilian deserves. In fact it’s pretty amazing that the guy manages to [...]

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The newest F1 rumor (which @scarbsf1 thought credible enough to re-tweet) involves Red Bull Renault being on the cusp of announcing a name change to Red Bull Infiniti. But what of Team Lotus? and Lotus Renault?

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It’s now official, the 2011 Grand Prix of Bahrain is cancelled.  So now we get a proper season that starts in Australia and ends in Brazil.

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