Ambitious But Rubbish

So I was minding my own business on Friday January 28th when I get an ominous email from InternetSeer… my host was down! As I found out later one of the CPUs basically expired so there was nothing to do but to swap out servers and rebuild the content once I’d gotten the old server [...]

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Never let it be said that there’s any situation Bernie Ecclestone can’t make a buck from. Not even a mugging.

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Yes, Lotus (the car manufacturer) is back in F1 in a venture with Renault F1 called Lotus Renault GP (pretty much as was opined in a previous post).  This is not to be confused with Lotus Racing or indeed Team Lotus, which are actually the 1Malaysia team and now no longer sponsored by Proton who [...]

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F1 has a new world champion, and his name is Sebastien Vettel. There, that should put a stop to everyone calling the young German “a future World Champion” as he’s often been touted ever since he won at Monza in a very much unfancied Toro Rosso. He managed this with a flawless if uneventful drive [...]

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Here’s an interesting scenario which could happen next week in Abu Dhabi: Vettel wins, Webber comes second, and Alonso develops car problems and finishes 5th. This is literally the most complicated result that can come out of the next race. What’s interesting about it? With the 2010 points scheme this would result in all three [...]

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For a couple of weeks now there have been rather strange disagreements in the press about the name “Lotus” in F1. Pay attention because this gets complicated. Currently there is a team called “Lotus Racing” in the Championship. This is a Malaysian team which is partly funded, but not owned, by Proton. Proton is the [...]

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After Brazil Red Bull have collected their first World Constructors’ Championship title, but the drivers’ situation is now as complicated as it gets. The weekend gave us a shock pole position for Williams’ Nico Hulkenberg — over a second quicker than the Red Bulls in qualifying, which is pretty much unheard of in 2010 — [...]

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Racing in Brazil… heritage, passion, armored cars, police escorts, carjackings… wait, what?

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Hulkenberg P1, over a second ahead of Vettel and Webber… WTF?

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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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