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Man out of time - a quick catch-up

There are reasons why nothing has been posted for a little while, all of them rather too mundane to detain you with here.  Time that might otherwise have been spent doing this had to be spent doing something else instead.  There is, of course, a quick and easy fix: match my current salary.

Shall we have [...]

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It’s the done thing at this time of year, isn’t it?

The teams we all expected to challenge were nowhere.  The teams we’d written off in pre-season were somewhere, and a team that barely made it to the first race won the whole show.  The world champion divided opinion, with his supporters matched in size and volume [...]

Slight differences of opinion, part 1

Nico Rosberg says that, "To say it clearly, Williams is a great team…but I am not sure they can win races at the moment."

Rubens Barrichello, on the other hand, feels that, "Everyone would look at a position at Williams, because it is one of the best teams out there – and they are on the [...]

Talking about something else instead: Japanese GP

What you need to know about the Japanese Grand Prix is this: Sebastian Vettel won from Jarno Trulli and Lewis Hamilton, the top three finishing as they’d started.  Trulli had lost his place to Hamilton off the start, but regained it in the last round of stops when Lewis had an issue selecting gears as [...]

Alonso to Ferrari, floodgates to open

Formula One’s worst-kept secret is out, Ferrari confirming Fernando Alonso on a three year deal starting in 2010.

It has since emerged that a deal starting in 2011 was concluded in the summer but has since been brought forward, the recent race fixing scandal and Kimi Raikkonen’s acceptance that he is no longer wanted at Maranello [...]

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 [...]