Category Archives: Motorsports

Reduce Costs Not Test Days

I think it was the Monaco Grand Prix in 1999 that saw Michael Schumacher return to Fiorano on the Friday rest day to practice starts. By the time the race rolled around on Sunday, Schumacher, starting second on the grid alongside Mika Hakkinen, got a brilliant start and took the lead and never looked back, [...]
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Learnings of Motorsport For Make Benefit of Glorious Traffic Conditions

I was thinking about Sebastian Vettel on my way to work this morning. My initial reaction was to complete my journey as soon as possible and wash myself repeatedly with steel wool and bleach, but my attempts to achieve this were thwarted by a traffic jam. ‘Oh’, I chortled to myself, ‘what irony’. Sure, the [...]
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Christmas In July

I could never get to sleep on Christmas Eve. And when I finally did doze off, I would always wake moments later, certain I had slept well past the time set by my parents as an appropriate hour to open presents. Last night, my sleep was similarly disrupted. Sure I dozed here and there, but [...]
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Why Schumacher Is Innocent

Much has been said about Michael Schumacher’s penalty so I decided to sit down and have a look at the rules in a little more detail. The first thing I thought I’d look at is the reason why a safety car is called. According to Rule 40.3;
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473ml of Mark Webber Sweat

Before I begin, please allow me a moment to lose my shit. Mark Webber is a bloody Aussie legend and to quote another Aussie legend, ‘no Aussie should get fired for showing up to work pissed as a skunk today’, or at least I think that’s what was said all those years ago. At least [...]
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Don’t Be Too Hard on the V8 Supercars

If Race 11 today in the V8 Supercar Championship from Winton proved one thing, it’s that the control tyre should be replaced with the sprint tyre because in the space of three races the softer compound has proved that racing can be exciting without relying on race strategy and mandatory pit stops. In fact using [...]
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Motorsport Tweet

On my way home from work today I kept up to date with the F1 first free practice session from Monte Carlo. Almost as soon as a driver crossed the finish line I had the lap time and I also had access to information on set up changes drivers were trying and various photos of [...]
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It’s Complicated

If you’re a member of Facebook, you’ll be familiar with the term ‘It’s Complicated’, a term people use when they’re involved in an unusual relationship and until recently I never fully understood when the time was appropriate to use the ‘complicated’ status. When it comes to sport you have to follow a team, and any [...]
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Don’t save the tyres!

A while ago a man stopped me on the street. He was wearing a t-shirt that read ‘Save the Children’ and underneath there was a photo of a malnourished boy with eyes so deep you could see the back of his head. Sure enough, I stopped and signed up, and now I’m the legal guardian of [...]
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So long Adelaide, and thanks for all the fish

It doesn’t seem all that long ago that I arrived in Adelaide. So for a place where time apparently moves so slow that they’re currently 20 years behind the rest of Australia, I’m surprised at how fast the last three days have passed me by. You could say they passed by V8 Supercar fast, but [...]
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