Former Formula 1 team boss Flavio Briatore says that he’s sad Robert Kubica won’t get an opportunity to return to the sport after all. The 32-year-old Polish driver took part in 76 Grand Prix races between 2006 and 2010. He was involved in a big crash during the 2011 Ronde di Andora rally which left…
Read moreNew Williams looks ‘cool and agressive’ – Sirotkin
Williams’ new recruit Sergey Sirotkin got a glimpse of his team’s 2018 contender, describing his future charger as looking “cool and aggressive” . The Grove-based outfit is currently scheduled to be the first team to present its 2018 car, with the FW41’s official unveiling taking place in London on February 15. Sirotkin, the team’s 22-year-old…
Read moreMcLaren’s Boullier: ‘Three-engine limit goes too far!’
McLaren race director Eric Boullier says that next year’s three-engine rule goes too far, insisting it “it isn’t Formula 1 anymore”. As the sport persists with its theoretical cost reduction efforts, teams will be forced to compose with just three complete units for the entire 21-race schedule in 2018, or incur penalties. Red Bull Racing’s…
Read moreWolff and Lauda hail efforts of entire Mercedes team
This week saw the Mercedes workforce at Brackley and Brixworth turn out en masse to celebrate clinching the 2017 drivers’ and constructors’ titles. The entire team came out to celebrate its latest double championship success. Lewis Hamilton admitted that he had been “blown away” to be greeted by a totally unexpected guard of honour But…
Read moreA Kim Comedy
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. —Horace Walpole, Letter to the Countess of Upper Osory It’s too bad that Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg didn’t create a funny and historically accurate movie about Kim Jong-un. It’s not that they lacked material-it’s that they lacked imagination. The…
Read moreBarcelona Speed Trap: who is the fastest of them all?
Two things stand out when looking at Barcelona’s speed trap readings from Saturday’s qualifying session. The first is that – as is often the case – Force India’s VJM11 continues to nicely cut through the air, although Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon’s top speed wasn’t enough to elevate the duo’s position on the grid as…
Read moreBriatore sad to see Kubica denied F1 comeback
Former Formula 1 team boss Flavio Briatore says that he’s sad Robert Kubica won’t get an opportunity to return to the sport after all. The 32-year-old Polish driver took part in 76 Grand Prix races between 2006 and 2010. He was involved in a big crash during the 2011 Ronde di Andora rally which left…
Read moreLeclerc will ‘wait and see’ before setting 2018 targets
Three months before his F1 race début with Alfa Romeo Sauber, Charles Leclerc is reluctant to set expectations for 2018. Leclerc won this year’s Formula 1 championship in his maiden season. The Ferrari Driver Academy driver was duly tapped to take over the Sauber seat from Pascal Wehrlein next season alongside Marcus Ericsson. Leclerc has…
Read moreAlonso convinced a win is in the cards in 2018
Fernando Alonso has “total” confidence that he will return to the winner’s circle this season, although where and when he does not know. The two-time world champion’s last F1 triumph was in Spain in 2013, with Ferrari, while his last podium was in Hungary the following year, also with the Scuderia. “Total. Total,” he said…
Read moreWomen and Biodiversity Feed the World, Not Corporations and GMOs
The two great ecological challenges of our times are biodiversity erosion and climate change. And both are interconnected, in their causes and their solutions. Industrial agiculture is the biggest contributor to biodiversity erosion as well as to climate change. According to the United Nations, 93% of all plant variety has disappeared over the last 80…
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