The only thing I’m grateful for is they won’t be playing God Save the King at the start of Sundays race which using some of the rather dodgy logic above make it an Australian sport.
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They will play that French piece from Bizet during the champagne spray though. French.
F1 is French. Come on guys, where are your longbows? Is there a race at agincourt?
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Sorry, I forgot, it is contradiction.
Actually to throw a spanner into the works there’s probably many that don’t consider F1 a sport in the first place.
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I always thought the F1 and corresponding function keys were a US invention.
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Indeed, considering the shenanigans in the team I support the past few weeks one could argue that it is a circus instead.
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Even in the ‘70’s James Hunt regularly referred to it as a circus!
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Maybe he had a crystal ball.
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I’m not sure of their construction but he liked to remind his audience of the need for scale…
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Max and DR were interviewed on a current affair show down here tonight. They were both funny and obviously friends.
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I think most off-track driver rivalries exist in the media only.
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Not according to his girlfriends…
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Susie Wolff takes legal action against FIA over dropped inquiry
Good for her. Though I won’t be surprised if it ends sourly.
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…owned by Americans 
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Well, there appears to be more off-track bitching than on-track action nowadays, which is hardly a surprise given the paucity of the latter. Some people really don’t get it that ‘due process’ and ‘transparency’ are, most times, mutually exclusive, at least until a final determination/judgement is made. A supposed sport, seemingly heavily ring-fenced by its participants, which is in danger of disappearing up its own posterior IMHO.
Lewis Hamilton says F1 hard to trust with no accountability in the sport - BBC Sport
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Asked whether Mohammed Ben Sulayem still had Hamilton’s confidence as FIA president, Hamilton said: “(He) never has.”
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Would be interesting to know the reverse viewpoint! All reads as ‘opinions are as cheap and common as certain body parts’ – and why Mercedes never saw fit to challenge Masi’s actions remains a mystery to me. We know it’s a ‘sport’ riven with (petty) politics.
It’s because they ‘need help’.
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Alex makes a mess out of his Williams
Practice 2 should be worth waking up early for. 