12 posts tagged “f1”

Our Canadian GP tickets have arrived!

Canadian GP tickets - 1

From Autosport:

Mosley has continued to deny that he dislikes Dennis, but does admit to having issues with the McLaren boss' approach to F1.

"I quite like him," he said. "But I do despise - I think that's probably the right word - his attitude to Formula One, when he says, for example, that he's passionate about Formula One. That's not true.

"He's passionate about McLaren finishing first and second in every race, which is his job, but it's not the same thing as being passionate about formula one and it's foolish to pretend that it is."

So Max's version of "passionate about F1" is to "give Ferrari every possible advantage so every other F1 teams have to work extra to win"?

How can Formula One justify blatant double standards? - Times Online

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spor...

AS A RESULT of my Sunday Times column we have received a French writ from Max Mosley and the FIA with regard to comments I made in September about the so-called Ferrari and McLaren spy scandal and the ensuing $100m fine for McLaren. We even appeared on the impressively named World Motor Sport Council’s agenda approving the use of the FIA’s money to pursue us. I had previously debated the energetic manner in which Mosley was apparently pursuing McLaren.

Excellent article from Martin Brundle on Sunday Times. I just cannot believe how arrogant Max Mosely is behaving all these years and no one would stand up to him? I dearly love F1 and have been following it for over 20 years and despite being the most exciting racing last season, I feared the muddling and politicking of Max Mosely had damaged F1's image in the general public beyond repair. 

More photos are on the Flickr album.

Eiron and I will be flying out to Indianapolis this afternoon for the US Grand Prix tomorrow. Will post photos when we get home tomorrow night! We have great seats at Turn 1/2 complex so we should get some fantastic overtakings.

I wasn't surprised the FIA double standard and the British press have finally came out in force after this weekend's Monaco Grand Prix. What I am surprised is it took both of them this long before slamming the winning team that is not Ferrari, and any one who stands in the way of a British driver to win a race even if it benefits the whole British team over the whole season!

I still love F1 as a sport. I am even less hostile to Ferrari nowadays because one certain M. Schumacher is no longer driving for them. But the irrationality and viciousness of the British press will never fail to keep me away from that country.

If money were no object, which five luxury items would you rush right out and buy? 
Submitted by lorilyn.

I'll assume "money were no object" means infinite amount of money. Then I'll just have to buy out the McLaren F1 team. Mind you, I don't want to manage the whole F1 team and its complex operation. I just want to own the team so I can have trackside access and inside information on what's going on.

The other 4 items are just things that keep me occupy when I am not traveling between races or not attending test sessions, so really are of no consequences.

What are 5 things you'd like to accomplish in the next 5 years?

Mmm... I don't normally like to list goals simply because if, for whatever reasons through no fault of my own, I don't achieve them I feel I've failed. But there are always some nebulous goals that I want to achieve in the future and so here they are (in no particular order):

1. Move west to another city (eiron and I are thinking Chicago at the moment)
   
2. Buy my first property (most likely because of #1)
3. Change job to work on more exciting software, perhaps back to my 'root', i.e. real-time, safety critical software.
4. Do more photography and may be go on a photography vacation/tour.
5. Go to more Formula 1 Grand Prix races. Canada next year will be a good start.
   

Congratulation to Jensen Button (is his name weird or what?) for winning his first ever Grand Prix in Hungary. About bloody time too! At least he didn't throw it away like a certain Scottish driver in a race leading Williams down under. Personally I prefer Kimi Raikkonen to win but I can't have what I want all the time. And I think karma was at work today because after Alonso went off the race with a loose wheel nut and second place was a certainty for Schumacher, he retired late in the race through his own doing! I bet Flavio must be laughing his head off in the Renault motorhome when he saw Schumacher retired.

What is your current computer desktop image? Let's see it!

Well, let's see. The laptops at home both have pictures of McLaren. JPM on the PC, Kimi on the PowerBook. At work, both monitors have pictures of a yellow Lotus Elise, each from a different angle.

They are all due for a change, since well, JPM no longer drives for McLaren and Kimi probably will not for next season. And the chance of me owning a Elise in the next few years are as good as me winning the lottery...