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The F3/GT meeting at Donington on 25th/26th April has been postponed due to the track not having a license permitting it to stage these races. This is due to the alterations caused by putting a tunnel under the circuit. This had made the track very dangerous between McLeans and Coppice. Anyone who has seen the [...]

 
vendetta

Etymology:
Italian, literally, revenge, from Latin vindicta.

1 : blood feud 2 : an often prolonged series [...]

The only thing that was certain about the Malaysian Grand Prix was that Brawn would win the race. After Jenson Button qualified on pole position with Rubens Barrichello in eigth it seemed the honour would fall to JB. But he fluffed the start and had to fight his way back to the front and then [...]

Just what McLaren thought they had to gain by taking this foolhardy action, first by letting Trulli overtake, under the safety car, and then by lying about it is beyond me. There is no doubt that they lied to the stewards and as a result of this deception have been excluded from the Grand Prix. [...]

It seemed after the test at Barcelona that the brains at Brawn had penned a good car. Qualifying in Melbourne confirmed that. And the race proved it beyond any doubt. Although, they did not make the best use of it, probably in order to prevent it’s potential Achilles heel, reliability, from biting it in the [...]

So Sebastien Buemi has signed for Torro Rosso for 2009. Apart from being one of the worst kept secrets of the winter what does this news tell us. While Buemi is clearly competetive, he hasn’t left a blazing trail and there isn’t really anyone who did that in junior formulae in 2008 so why Buemi?