filed in News on Jun.08, 2010
Although the big news from Turkey was obviously the crash between Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel, another set of team mates also came very close to having a falling out: Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button. After the race, you could tell that something was up between the pair. Lewis seemed a bit down trodden, Jenson [...]
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filed in News, Opinion on May.28, 2010
Earlier today in Friday’s practice session, Mark Webber suffered from a case of the exploding engines. Thing is, that is boring – the engine was within 50km of it’s mileage cap and was going to be replaced after the session anyway. You want to see something fun? Check out this video of Webber not having [...]
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filed in The Black Stuff Announcement on May.28, 2010
Houston, we have a problem… As you may have noticed there haven’t been a lot of updates over the last 36 hours, which for a new blog can often be a killer. If you’ve been checking back looking for us, then you’re kind and you can be our friend. We thank you. Anyway, we here [...]
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filed in News, Opinion on May.26, 2010
Great news! After weeks of the rumour mill churning, we finally have an answer about the return of the US Grand Prix! From 2012 onwards, and running for 10 years, it will be held on a custom built circuit in Austin, Texas! Wait…. what the hell? Austin, Texas? Whatever happened to a street race around [...]
filed in News on May.24, 2010
As I’m sure we all remember, back at the Australian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton got himself into a little bit of bother. As he was leaving the paddock area to head back to his hotel room after practice, he decided to spin the wheels on his lovely Mercedes and promptly got in trouble with the [...]
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filed in News, Opinion on May.17, 2010
There are many ways which I think describe Fernando Alonso. Double World Champion is one, and ‘Dude, why do you always have that look on your face like you’re sucking on a sour candy and getting an anal probe at the same time’ is another. One description I don’t usually link to Fernando Alonso, though, [...]
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filed in News on May.17, 2010
I like to think of myself as a pretty forgiving guy, but even I don’t think that I could be as nice as Jenson Button is. I mean, if you do something mind bogglingly stupid or annoy me in some way but say sorry, I’m likely to forgive you. Not always, but usually. I’m not [...]
filed in News, Opinion on May.16, 2010
As we know, Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso and Mercedes’ Michael Schumacher had a little difference of opinion on the finishing line for the Monaco Grand Prix. Under some rather unique safety car conditions, Schumacher dived up Alonso’s inside on the last corner. Mercedes and Schumacher believe this move was legal as the safety car was in, [...]
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filed in News, Opinion on May.08, 2010
As is often the way with teams who don’t have bottomless bank accounts, Williams could only get one set of upgraded parts out to Barcelona for this weekend. As is the way that protocol goes in F1, that set of new bits went to the veteran, in this case Rubens Barrichello, rather than the rookie, [...]
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filed in Race Weekend Coverage, The Black Stuff Announcement on May.06, 2010
Right folks, bad news – after staying up for all sorts of ungodly hours to cover the fly away races on the other side of the globe, I’m falling at the first hurdle for the European season. Although from the Monaco Grand Prix onwards we will be doing live coverage of all the on-track action, [...]
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