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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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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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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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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My Italian is probably terrible so apologies for that, but the first batch of the new Fiat 500s due to arrive in Canada is already spoken for, as they sold out in less than 12 hours since midnight yesterday. The car is staggeringly popular in Europe but it remains to be seen whether it will [...]

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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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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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So far I’d not been that impressed with Singapore as a circuit. It’s ridiculously narrow, there are few overtaking spots so it’s more prone to static processions than good racing, and the whole “night race” thing strikes me as a rather unnecessary gimmick. None of this makes for an exciting race. Even when something interesting [...]

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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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