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Dario Back Where He Belongs

Scot Dario Franchitti won the Grand Prix of Long Beach on Sunday, his first street course victory in the Indy Racing League. The man who gave Juan Pablo Montoya a hard time in his run to the Champ Car title in 1999 is returning to the IRL this year after a disasterous season in NASCAR [...]

Senna in NSX

Ayrton Senna driving a Honda NSX at Suzuka. The in-car camera clearly showing his unusual technique of being very aggressive with the throttle  early in the corner.
Senna First Test Drive Honda NSX – Watch the best video clips here

Dumb Donington

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 [...]

Mirage

In a year where it seems that anything is possible in motor sport as a result of the opening two rounds of the Formula 1 World Championship I was not at all surprised that the first round of MotoGP was postponed due to rain……………………………… in the desert. Casey Stoner won followed by Valentino Rossi making [...]

Vendetta

 
vendetta

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

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

There she goes

For those of you that didn’t know that Jarri Matti Latvala was the crasher of the World Rally Championship, here is a good explanation.

Button Rides The Crest Of A Wave.

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 [...]

Hamilton’s Howler

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. [...]