Reports from around the web are stating that the operations of the fledgling USF1 team have ground to a halt. The brainchild of Peter Windsor and Ken Anderson which had the backing of YouTube Founder Chad Hurley apparently has informed their recently signed driver that they are going to miss at least the first 3 [...]
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Flavio Briatore, the alleged mastermind behind the Renault race fixing scandal, has been cleared to return to F1 as his lifetime ban was overturned by a French court. Briatore’s supposed next step is legal action against Nelson Piquet Jr., who ratted out Flavio for ordering Piquet to intentionally crash his Renault at the 2008 Singapore [...]
Monday, November 16, 2009
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In what continues to be an interesting off-season in Formula One, Mercedes announced Monday they are going to purchase a 75.1 percent share of Brawn GP. The team will be operated as a works team starting in 2010. Mercedes went on to say that they will sell their 40 percent stake in McLaren over the [...]
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Word came out of Tokyo on November 4th that confirmed what many were expected. Toyota will be withdrawing from Formula 1 competition. The Toyota news release cited “… the current severe economic realities” as the reason for their exit from the pinnacle of open wheel motorsports.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
USA Today reports that USF1’s Peter Windsor keeps up on what Kyle Bush is doing, “on a daily basis, almost”. The fledging N. Carolina based Formula 1 team has previously expressed intereste with Bush for a possible driver seat some time down the road.
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According to the article USF1 has had conversations with Kyle’s business people [...]
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
After meeting in Paris the FIA has released a new provisional Formula 1 schedule for 2010. Of special note is the move of Monaco from May 23rd to May 16th and that the Abu Dabi and Brazilian GPs will most likely switch dates if it’s cool with the promoters of those events.
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F1 Tentatively to Return [...]
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
I was presented with a dilemma recently. I received my annual renewal for my Nationwide and Sprint Cup tickets for the August Michigan race. My family has had four tickets together for both races and we have attended for at least 10 years now. As time goes by interest wanes with all parties involved; everybody [...]
Friday, October 2, 2009
Indy Car:
Vitor Returns to Indy – After his crash in this year’s 500 Vitor Meira returned to IMS for a test this week.
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Grand Am:Â
Bosch Engineering Octoberfest Preview – Koni Challenge drivers talk about the upcoming race at VIR coming up on Sunday October 4th.
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Formula 1:
Renault Penalty Verdict – So these two guys from Australia Max [...]
Friday, September 25, 2009
It was my favorite livery for the last 2 seasons but alas all good things come to an end. Photo Credit: ph-stop
Amsterdam 9/24/2009 – Late today ING announced that effective immediately they are terminating their Renault F1. Seriously? How come? Why couldn’t these two kids work it out?
Monday, September 21, 2009
My relatively random thoughts on this past race weekend 9/18 – 9/20/2009:
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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