On the road again

I am travelling today so things may be a little slow. I expect there to be an announcement from Renault this morning about the ownership of its team. I will do the best to report that with the iPhone. Hopefully that will work. If not you may have to wait until this evening.

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Mosley tells his story

Former FIA President Max Mosley has been talking to the Daily Telegraph in London, giving his own version of his time in charge of the sport. And, as one would expect, he comes out of the story in a very good light, although of course any extraneous facts that do not fit into the story [...]

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An idea to mull over

Yesterday, when I was surrounded by the babes of Disney World (sadly all of them under 18) I sent out a forlorn message from the departure lounge in Orlando International Airport, saying that I might have to spend the evening in the less-than-glamourous parts of New Jersey – known to me from previous flying nightmares [...]

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Sleigh-rided out

Groan. One forgets so quickly the joys of travelling. So here I am surrounded by squalling brats going home from Disney World. Overtired, having had too much sugar and so on. The plane is delayed two hours 15 and that means that the chances are that the connection to Paris will be blown and I [...]

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Travelling

I apologise for the lack of posts in recent days. As I mentioned previously there are other things in life than Formula 1 and, just occasionally, F1 journalists are forced to remember this.
Today, I am travelling to the US for the Business Forum in Orlando so it will be another slow day on the blog.
Sorry [...]

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Half-full or half-empty?

There are two kinds of people in the world, so they say: those who see a glass that is half-empty; and those who see a glass that is half-full. The optimists and the pessimists. The dreamers and the realists.
One can argue that these are difficult times for the sport. It has been a lousy year, [...]

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Typical…

So today I set off at the crack of dawn to drive home to France. I was working on the principle that a Friday in November would be a good day to be travelling and out of contact with the F1 world. I mean, who in their right minds announces anything on a Friday, unless [...]

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The birds of Cologne

The other day I was merrily telling someone that we have already reached the shortest day of the year – the winter solstice – but I have just realised that I was a month ahead of myself and that it is not until December 21 that this occurs. Great news, another month of days that [...]

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Doing the travelling, meeting and family thing

Formula 1 is an all-consuming business but every now and then one has to take a step back and find out what happened to one’s real life…
So I am on the road this week in England, seeing family and friends, having meetings for future work and so on. This means that the regular flow of [...]

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Thieving from the thieves

I had to laugh today. I saw that one of the Formula 1 websites is complaining that someone has made an unauthorised copy of the entire website, using what was described as “grabbing” technology, and is stealing all of its precious information.
“Needless to say, the hard work of those who contribute is being utilised to [...]

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