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In defence of Schumi

I had intended to write this piece a few days ago.  Unfortunately, spending a long weekend camping in a field directly under the landing path for the adjacent East Midlands Airport, pausing only to rock and drink a volume of cider you’ll later come to regret, tends to leave you feeling a tiny bit beaten [...]

Slight differences of opinion, part two

For those of you who like your sport to contain the odd bit of handbags at 10 paces, yesterday’s press conference exchange between Jarno Trulli and Adrian Sutil will make wonderful reading.

Jarno is still more than a little upset over their coming together in the Brazilian race a couple of weeks ago, in which Jarno [...]

Escape to victory: Brazilian GP

Time flies when you’re having fun.  Melbourne seemed like only yesterday, yet already we were almost done.  Three men within two races of their first world championship.

One man, Jenson Button, had spent the entire year with one hand on the trophy, but that hand had been slipping since early summer.  Without a win to his name [...]

When is a grid not a grid?

After qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, which will be weighed up in the usual manner later, penalties were issued to Rubens Barrichello, Jenson Button, Adrian Sutil, Sebastien Buemi and, amusingly, the saintly Fernando Alonso.  Four of those men failed to slow down sufficiently for yellow flags, while Buemi dragged a rolling wreck [...]

By 5 o'clock everything's dead: Singapore GP

Del Amitri had the right idea.  If every third car was a cab, there might be a bit of overtaking, though the pit stops for fuel, tyres and a newspaper might not be that compelling.

Then again, if it’s a choice between that and the Singapore Grand Prix, it might be worth taking the Daily Star [...]