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Attention, central Florida!

Friend of petrolheadblog.com Nelson Piquet Jr is making his oval racing debut on an incredibly fast superspeedway near you this coming February 6th.  I’d duck if I were you.

Why, dear readers, do I keep picturing this?

Telling it like it isn't, the Nelsinho Piquet way

Yes, hot from friend of petrolheadblog.com Nelson Piquet Jr’s official website comes news that bugger me, I’ll have to start writing about NASCAR after all.

Nelsinho’s move to NASCAR is not unexpected.  He tested a Camping World Truck Series machine in late summer, and hadn’t a hope of returning to Formula One after that business with [...]

The 2009 petrolheadblog.com Awards

Where does the time go?  Memories of petrolheadblog.com’s blue and white beginning are still fresh.  Just 9 months later, it’s time to bid farewell to 2009.

The intention when petrolheadblog.com started was to cover as many forms of motorsport as possible.  As time has gone on, I’ve found it necessary to become an F1 blogger making [...]

What Renault’s punishment achieves

That punishment, for those who haven’t seen it, is a permanent disqualification from the Formula One world championship, suspended until the end of the 2011 season.  The disqualification will be enforced if, and only if, Renault commit another offence of comparable severity before then.  When you consider that the FIA called this race-fixing offence ‘of [...]

Busted

It seems that Max was right.

Renault will not dispute the Singapore race-fixing allegations made against them, and principal Flavio Briatore has left the team, along with engineering director Pat Symonds.  Symonds has been in Formula One for not far off 30 years, involved with Renault in the team’s original incarnation as Toleman and winning titles with [...]

Getting to the point with Flavio Briatore

It’s all getting a bit messy in the fascinating Piquet vs Renault battle.  Renault have begun criminal proceedings against Nelson Piquet Jr and Sr over an alleged attempt to blackmail the F1 team.  Nelsinho, who has been granted immunity by the FIA, is sticking to his guns with a determination, resolve and fighting spirit that would [...]

How Renault might have gone race-fixing

Might.  For the love of all, remember that their accusers need not be telling the truth.

What we should be discussing is a mouthwatering weekend at Monza, with only five weekends left to settle a championship nobody wants to take ownership of, one in which almost the entire grid suddenly looks capable of causing a disturbance at [...]

Nelsinho: gone, but not forgotten

Friend of petrolheadblog.com Nelson Piquet Jr has been shown the door by Renault, and it’s fair to say that he isn’t overjoyed about it.

Let’s get the mitigating circumstances out of the way first.  Nelsinho cites his manager and team boss Flavio Briatore as his ‘executioner’, and if that’s an accurate description then he wouldn’t be [...]

Worth a thousand etc

There’s more actual content coming soon, really.  A couple of little pieces that were meant to have been done months ago but were sidelined by having to earn a living and all that kind of thing.  In the meantime, try to find a word, phrase or picture that sums up the opening few months of petrolheadblog.com better [...]

The joy of Spam, revisited

“Hello!  Beautiful Kiev woman information there!”

This blog has called Nelson Piquet Jr many things, not many of them complimentary, but a beautiful woman from Kiev?  Must try harder.