The Road As A Canvas

1. Sore points? - How much would you pay for an F1 championship point? Cash up front, for the privilege of having it sitting there on your mantelpiece, to impress visitors and so forth. A tenner? A few hundred? How about $28.5 million? That’s how much each of Honda’s 14 champ points garnered in 2008 cost the Japanese team. $28.5 [...]
   
   
   
2. Taking the Piquet - Is it just me, or is it strange that Flavio Briatore has signed Nelson Piquet Jnr at Renault for another year? Or is it not so strange? Maybe it’s not so strange at all. I usually get too deep into figures in these blogs, but don’t panic, this one has only one figure: 0.513. That’s the [...]
   
   
   
3. Brazilian GP: F1.com vid - Check out the Brazil video on Formula1.com, it’s awesome. And the part where the Ferrari mechanic, after telling Massa’s dad that Felipe hasn’t won the world championship, smashes the huge sign in the garage is classic. You can’t beat a bit of Italian passion. Looky here.       
   
   
   
4. Brazilian GP: Coulthard’s off - It was a shame that DC finished his last ever F1 race as disastrously as he did on Sunday - going out on the first corner - but it kind of summed up his career. He always had a lot of promise, but never really delivered. Like when he lead the Oz GP in ‘95 [...]
   
   
   
5. Brazilian GP: in the Glock - I don’t usually agree with reprinting verbatim an F1 team’s press release, but considering all the furor surrounding Timo Glock yesterday, I figure it’s best to get this interview with him up as it is… How did the rain at the end of the race affect your strategy? “In the final laps we saw that we had [...]
   
   
   
6. Brazilian GP: relive it - This is still super tense even the morning after, but it’s well worth another watch (although it won’t be up for long). You’ve got to feel bad for Felipe’s dad: As expected, this has since been taken down, but you can go here to watch highlights and that.       
   
   
   
7. Brazilian GP: thrill in Brazil - I’ve been lucky enough to see a few world championship finales but I’ve never before witnessed one like this. After more than 3,400 miles of racing in 18 Grands Prix, it all came down to the last half mile. Quite incredible. I saw Richard Cregan, the team manager of Toyota, ducking the rain and rushing through [...]
   
   
   
8. Brazilian GP: Lewis is king - Lewis Hamilton takes the world championship title. I’m going to allow myself a little ‘hell yeeeeeeah!’ in there. But crikey it was tense wasn’t it? I can’t think how it could have been anymore edge of the seat than it was. Lewis certainly proved he’s learned a thing or two since last season’s finish, and drove [...]
   
   
   
9. Brazilian GP: pole shot - Not great, but no disaster. That’s the best way to sum up Lewis Hamilton’s final qualifying session of 2009. On a day when Ferrari and McLaren tried to outdo each other in appearing to remain calm under pressure (’We’re treating this like any other grand prix’. Yeah, right) it was Ferrari who won out. While McLaren [...]
   
   
   
10. Brazilian GP: quali - Lewis Hamilton’s left himself with a lot to do for tomorrow’s race after ending today’s qualifying session in fourth spot, right behind Kimi Raikkonen and just in front of Lewis’ teammate Heikki Kovalainen. It’s not the ideal place for the Brit to be, but then again it’s not as bad as the ITV crew seemed to [...]
    
    
    
11. Brazilian GP: practice - Today’s second practice session didn’t go well for either McLaren, and if this is a sign of things to come in Sunday’s race, then Lewis’ title dreams are in trouble. But, stepping back from tabloid like drama creating for a moment, Hamilton left the pits with only minutes to go, hoping to blitz a quick time [...]
    
    
    
12. How it ended in 1994 - This is what’s known as a ‘controversial incident’, although in the old days they didn’t lose points as easily as they do now… Anyway, if you’ve not seen this before, then have a look because it’s a stark reminder of what some people will do to win a world championship: Michael Schumacher got - and still [...]
    
    
    
13. Brazilian GP: warming up - The weekend kicked off with the press conference in a small room - unfortunate as this was the best attended of all 18 Thursday press conferences. The seats were quickly filled with journalists, leaving standing room only, much to the annoyance of photographers herded in at the back. The snappers’ main aim was to have a [...]
    
    
    
14. Brazilian GP: remember last year? - So watch the build up to ITV’s coverage from the end of last season. Similar circumstances to this coming weekend. It was pretty tense wasn’t it?       
    
    
    
15. Schumacher: ‘Lewis could beat my record’ - Michael Schumacher has told the BBC’s Inside Sport that Lewis Hamilton could beat his record of seven F1 world titles. Or maybe Felipe Massa could. Or Sebastian Vettel. Either way, he’s quite prepared for it to happen. ‘Records are there to be broken,’ he says. In the interview he also says that he highly rates Hamilton, [...]
    
    
    

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