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Maldonado Screws Up Weekend In 2 Minutes of Madness

UPDATE: Multiple sources are confirming that Pastor Maldonado has been handed a 10 place grid penalty for the race. All weekend we’ve been going on about how we expect Pastor Maldonado to have a very good Monaco Grand Prix. He’s a noted beast around the circuit, has a race winning car under him and is [...]

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HRT Looking Dangerously Competent

In what is surely a sign that 2012 is the end of times, HRT have begun to look dangerously competent. We all remember the hijinks they used to get up to; swapping drivers at a whim based on who can give them the most money, not turning up at tests, needing to build their cars [...]

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Tracking F1′s Speed

As we all know, F1 really is the ultimate driving experience and has been for quite some time. Nothing can compare to driving an F1 car, and its this reason why many people find it so hard to leave. They are the pinacle of engineering. Or at least in general that’s the theory. F1 isn’t [...]

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Remembering Lola

In light of the sad news that famed chassis manufacturer Lola have entered administration, we decided to take a look back at the company. Not at their strong heritage at Le Mans, god no. Not even at their huge success at history in America, where they provided chassis for CART and IndyCar. Oh no, that [...]

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SITE ANNOUNCEMENT: Back for the Summer!

So, as anyone who ever read this site will have realised, this hasn’t been updated in over a year. The Black Stuff has always been a labour of love rather than a professional venture, and when real life comes calling it tends to get put to the side. However, over the next few months, real [...]

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Virgin Sign Yamamoto For Reasons Clear Only To Themselves

When a back marker team has a bit of a short fall in their budget, Sakon Yamamoto has become the go to guy. He is the poster boy for all the reasons why pay drivers are detrimental to F1 and is only on the grid because of the rather monstrous size of his wallet. Pay drivers are, [...]

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Lotus Naming Row Gets Even Uglier

For those of you who had successfully purged the ins and outs of the Lotus naming row from your minds, allow me to render all those nights of bashing your head with a steel pole while necking whisky moot and remind you. Last year Tony Fernandes entered a team in F1 called Lotus Racing after [...]

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Vettel: Drivers Could Strike Over Rear Wings

Sebastian Vettel is a lot of things; the best hot lap driver in F1 today, the youngest World Champion in history, a German with a sense of humour and somebody who brings in web traffic whenever you mention his name. However, unfortunately Seb hasn’t quite gotten the politics side of F1 down quite yet. In [...]

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Is McLaren’s Driver Line Up Hurting The Team?

Although you can never tell too much from pre-season testing, you can often get an idea of the big things. One such big thing is that McLaren are in serious trouble. Their car looks slow in long runs, has been hampered by reliability issues and – to paraphrase Martin Brundle – handles like a dog. Although [...]

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Vettel Signs Up With Red Bull; Hamilton Signs Up To Be A Pop Star

Two big contracts have been signed in the last few hours in F1. The first sees reigning World Champion Sebastian Vettel ink a deal that will see him stay with Red Bull Racing until at least the end of the 2014 campaign, while the second sees Lewis Hamilton sign up to be a pop star [...]

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