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This week’s formal announcement of unification between IRL and Champ Car was badly needed, but everyone knows that the next couple of years will be tough for Indy car racing as it tries to rebuild and regain momentum under the unchallenged control of Tony George and the Indy Racing League.…
Archive for February, 2008
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Feb 29 2008
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Feb 27 2008
Start your engines
What a weekend; annoyingly much of the racing at California Speedway for the NASCAR races was disrupted by the rain but this turned out to be much more entertaining than I could have imagined. Of course, the words ‘rain’ and ‘California’ are rarely mentioned in the same sentence but we…
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Feb 27 2008
Street fighting in downtown Durban
It’s a small world, this motor racing.
Walking through the A1GP paddock in Durban last weekend was like going back in time, being transported back to Grand Prix racing as it was in the 1970s and ’80s.
The drivers are young, yes, some of them familiar from other formulas, but the supporting…
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Feb 25 2008
LA and NASCAR… the perfect weekend?
As this goes live on Monday February 25 I will be 30,000 feet above the Atlantic, returning from the NASCAR race at California Speedway. As you can imagine, I am more exited than a six-year-old child before Christmas.
As someone who has never been to the U.S. of A., let alone…
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Feb 22 2008
Racism in racing
In recent days, the big talking point in Formula 1 has been the racist gestures and insults aimed, by a few Spanish cretins, at Lewis Hamilton during a Barcelona test session. Lewis himself dealt with the situation calmly, saying only that the incident made him ‘sad’.
A colleague, who frequently covers…
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Feb 22 2008
IRL and Champ Car merger is the first of many steps
As NASCAR’s Big Show moves from Daytona to southern California, news broke this week that IRL and Champ Car are on the brink of announcing a formal merger. The great chimera of reunification of American open-wheel racing is at hand after a bitterly debilitating twelve-year civil war.
Will this desperate, eleventh-hour…
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Why are you so anti-Ferrari? And anti-Nigel Mansell?
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In your opinion, do you think that if Patrick Depailler had not had his hand gliding accident in 1979 he would have been World Champion in his Ligier JS11?
Simon Davies
