NASCAR Bit By Cheating Scandal
Sometimes you just can’t get a break, that must be the feeling is NASCAR’s world headquarters these days. After a season full of odd situations, start and park drivers, and various forms of cheating...
View ArticleEnd Of An Era In Formula One?
As the Formula One season for 2013 runs to it’s end, many are speaking of this as the end of an Era. The V8 engines that have screamed and wailed for the last decade or so are going out, replaced by...
View ArticleAuto Racing On The Brink Of Extinction
For those of you who come to this blog often, you will know that I am both a big lover of auto racing, but also a pessimist when it comes to the future of many of the professional levels of the sport....
View ArticleLotus F1 Owner Thinks Most Teams In Financial Trouble
The financial troubles of Lotus F1 team got revealed late in the 2013 season, when driver Kimi Räikkönen stated without a doubt that he had not been paid at all for that season so far. While he was...
View ArticleWhiners and Wind Ups In the New F1
Anyone who reads this blog knows that I am a fan of auto racing (and to an extent motorcycles as well). I have routinely and regularly called out NASCAR for their sleep inducing, near incestuous...
View ArticleCan F1 Be Saved From Bernie Ecclestone?
Regular visitors to my blog will know I am a big fan of autoracing. NASCAR, F1, LeMans, I enjoy them all. I even follow more obscure forms of motorsport like world rally, Aussie V8 Super Cup, and I...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of Tony Stewart
This past weekend a tragedy occurred Saturday night in the world of racing. No, a driver wasn’t killed in a racing accident or critically injured in a fire, rather a driver was run over under the...
View ArticleStupidity and Greed Combine for F1 Tragedy
Often in hindsight, one can see all the steps that have lead to a tragic event. Marussia F1 drive Jules Bianchi rests in a Japanese hospital, fighting for his life after a tragic and almost entirely...
View ArticleFirst Russian GP Race Shows All That Is Wrong with F1
It’s rare that all of the faults of any sporting series or even business are exposed all in one shot. It’s even rarer when it’s done on an international scale to the point where nobody can deny it....
View ArticleF1 House Of Cards Starts to Collapse, Caterham and Marussia Out For Now
Marussia and Caterham are two Formula 1 teams who have spent the last few years circling around at the back of the grid. Like fellow back markers HRT (who died a painful death last season), these two...
View ArticleF1:14 – The Rapidly Failing Math of Bernie
It’s been a really wild few weeks in the world of Formula 1. Not surprisingly, it has little to do with the action on the track, as the cars have been silent during the three week break from the...
View ArticleAn Open Letter To Bernie Ecclestone
Dear Bernie, I guess before I start I should say I hope that one of your underlings or helper monkeys or whatever it is you use is internet savvy enough to pull up this message and pass it along to...
View ArticleJeff Gordon Says It’s His Final Championship Year in NASCAR
I have to use some careful wording when I say this, because Jeff Gordon was careful as well He’s not retiring. “I don’t want to use the R-work” he said. Rather, after a long career in NASCAR that has...
View ArticleFormula One 2015 Testing Starts With Surprises
Winter is very short in the F1 world, the last race was in November and now, about 90 days after, the teams are already at their first pre-season test session for the 2015 season. The test at Jerez is...
View Articlef1 for 2015 Turns Out Better, You Know What That Means…
Well, the 2015 F1 season has started, and we are 4 races in. The early part of the season is over, with races in Australia, China, Malasia, and Bahrain all done and dusted. While the domination of...
View ArticleMy Ideas For a Revised 2017 F1 Series
Formula 1 is pretty much sucking hard right now, the formula is expensive, the racing is often less than spectacular, and the gap between the haves and have nots has reached a point of stupidity. With...
View ArticleWill F1 Die Off Without a Whimper?
As you can tell, I am a pretty big F1 fan. I have been most of my life. I have seen the series evolve and change over the years, and seen it all go big time. I never thought in my lifetime I would see...
View ArticleF1 in 2016 Still Shooting Itself In the Foot
2016 is very close to being a make or break year in F1 (aren’t they all?), as it’s the third year for the current engine regulations and everyone has been hoping for close competition. Renault has...
View ArticleFormula One Looking Up As Bernie Is Shown The Door
2016 was certainly a year for the record books in F1, but not exactly for all the right reasons. The good news on the racing side is that 2016 saw a first time champion in Nico Rosberg, who beat his...
View ArticleNASCAR and F1 Have More In Common Than They Would Like
Formula 1 (aka F1, Formula One, the house that Bernie Built) is perhaps the highest of the high end of auto racing. Teams have no limit to the amounts of money they can spend, the people they can throw...
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