September 2007
3 posts
Our Embarassing Apathy
Burma is burning. Most of Europe do not seem to care. There are not any reserves of petroleum or prospects of reconstruction in this impoverished land enough to titillate the rowdy crowd across the Atlantic pond. And it was never intended for Putingrad’s influence to reach that far in that sorry direction. Ergo, Burma burns and nobody seems to care. I am not sure I know of a single place on...
F1 Shenanigans
Oh, the games people play. So, about 800 pages of technical information about Ferrari’s F1 effort gets to McLaren’s engineering chief. In a rarefied world where a few tenths of a second separate someone on the fourth row of the grid from the pole-sitter, would you be surprised that Ferrari principals went apoplectic? Come round one of arbitrations and the powers that be deem there is...
Thankyou for the thrills, Colin...
Colin died last Saturday, the 15th of September. The life which scary speeds and spectacular tumbles could not snuff out was finally claimed by a rotary wing aircraft. News has it that just a day later, coming back to England from the Grand Prix at Spa, Prodrive’s boss and Colin’s ex-manager Dave Richards too had a scary moment in one of those abominations. He’s safe and yes,...