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manipulating results in F1

Posted on August 23, 2013 by driverjohn

Not so long ago a German in a red car was winning just about everything in F1 and some people thought that it had become a bore. The German chap was kind enough to retire (for a while), to let some other blokes have a go, but along the way there had been a couple of occasions when the team had ordered the driver of their other car to let this serial winner through and there had been much uproar about this practice. So much so that they banned it and said that manipulating race results was naughty and anyone caught doing it would be smacked and sent to stand in the corner. Continue reading →

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stop nagging; we know!

Posted on July 1, 2013 by truckertoggle

Yes, we know that we need to get on with writing some more of our Setting the Record Straight series, and we will try to dust off the research on the James Hunt v David Morgan story and also the 1966-69 story of Fords at Le Mans so that we can get those stories on here. Continue reading →

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2012 in review

Posted on December 31, 2012 by thatconsultantbloke

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,200 times in 2012. If it were a Dreamliner, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

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on the eve of a new USGP, where have all the US drivers and teams gone?

Posted on November 17, 2012 by truckertoggle

Here we are on the eve of a new American Grand Prix which is good to see, even if the circuit design is another bit of a nonsense and there is a dearth of US involvement in F1 these days to drive support for the race. So where have they all gone? Continue reading →

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the #F1 silly season winds down, but we still have three good drives available

Posted on November 1, 2012 by driverjohn

The last few days have seen Renault confirm the Iceman and Sauber confirm the Hulk and then Torro Rosso elect to keep their existing line up, so 2013 is looking a bit clearer, but we still have some decent seats open. Continue reading →

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