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well done Lewis Hamilton

Posted on June 2, 2011 by thatconsultantbloke

Tweeting may be a strange way of apologising for old fogies like me who like to do these things face to face, but Lewis Hamilton is a modern man and you can’t get more public in your apology than Tweeting it, so well done that man. We all make mistakes and can do and say things that we are not proud of, but to stand up and say sorry is the right thing to do.

As he said in one of the Tweets, onwards and upwards. Let’s hope the cards fall better for him in Canada.

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Virgin aims to ‘turn corner’ in Turkey

Posted on May 4, 2011 by thatconsultantbloke

Well it would certainly help. Unless, of course, the Turkish event has been swapped for a drag race.

Good luck anyway boys, it’s good to have you on the grid.

Here’s the Autosport article on the John Booth interview that the headline refers to: Autosport.com

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Weekend round up 29 January 2011 #F1 #NASCAR #speedweeks

Posted on January 30, 2011 by thatconsultantbloke

#NASCAR. Not long now before we get the season rolling, but what have they done to the points? Seems a remarkably pointless (pun intended) revision and I can’t really see much in the way of benefit. All it seems destined to do is to make it very crowded with lots of people on the same totals. Oh well, I doubt that it will change the spectacle.

#Speedweeks. Good to get the racing year under way with the Rolex 24 (or Daytona Continental as I still think of it). Sports car racing doesn’t appeal to me that much these days, but news of racing having started up at Daytona always makes it feel like the season has started and we’re back in business. Shame that they’ve spend three hours or so under caution due to fog. Spoils it all a bit.

#F1. Nice to see Paul Di Resta rewarded with an F1 drive and I hope that he does well. I’m always pleased to see talent getting a chace over chequebook. Less impressed with commentary team changes at the BBC though, but I always turn the sound down when I watch anyway. Maybe with all the clever tricks we’ll be able to keep the track sound and lose the commentary one day.

I’ll be a bit sad if F1 loses the Australian GP but, if Melbourne don’t want it anymore, it could go back to Adelaide. The Antipodes have provided motor sport with some great drivers and cars, so I’d like to see them stay in F1.

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Snetterton – what a cracking circuit upgrade

Posted on January 6, 2011 by thatconsultantbloke

Really impressed with the revisions to Snetterton. I remember the circuit in its original long form and always felt that the shortened version didn’t do it justice, even if it did mean that East Anglia still had a major national circuit, but this upgrade really impresses me and I hope that it does allow the track to bring in some more major events. At nearly 3 miles it presents a decent challenge.

Watch a simulation of the circuit here.

Jonathon Palmer and his team are a really good thing for motorsport in the UK and it’s great to see them keeping up the good work.

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More on that mugging! Full marks Bernie Ecclestone

Posted on December 8, 2010 by thatconsultantbloke

I have to hand it to Bernie! I may not like a lot of what he does, but I have to applaud his posing for an advert for Hublot. See it here on Autosport’s Grapevine:

http://www.autosport.com/news/grapevine.php/id/88609