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Roy Brindley – Senna The Movie

Roy Brindley – Senna The Movie In making ‘Senna’ Manish Pandy and Asif Kapadia did not only design a faulty jigsaw puzzle, they also built their very own maypole and they are not afraid to dance around it. What a year it has been for the United Kingdom. The Queen’s 60th Jubilee was celebrated [...]

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US Grand Prix Betting Preview

November 14, 2012 Comments Off

US Grand Prix Betting Preview Texan Nightmare Betting Blind In Texas In the introduction to his book, “Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know and Doesn’t,” author Stephen Prothero writes: “Americans are both deeply religious and profoundly ignorant about religion. They are Protestants who can’t name the four Gospels, Catholics who can’t name [...]

Abu Dhabi GP Betting Preview

November 1, 2012 Comments Off

Venezuelans don’t use tea bags but if they did… My morning tea was sabotaged today. Officially it was a rogue teabag but unofficial reports indicate the fatal wound was inflicted by a knife brought into use when it owner realised their supply of clean tea spoons were residing in the dishwasher. The net [...]

Indian GP Betting Preview

October 25, 2012 Comments Off

Indian GP Betting Preview Lap-up The Brilliant 6/1 Alonso Value At the conclusion of the Korean GP Sebastian Vettel had led 145 consecutive laps, that’s the last 145 laps of F1 racing. Here, last year in India, the German led all 60 laps of the race on this ‘speed track’ which Jensen Button compared, [...]

Korean GP

October 11, 2012 Comments Off

Korean GP Arise King Sebastian Apparently Romain Grosjean took personal delivery of a half-dozen charabancs of champagne and a lorry load of lap-dancers Sunday evening. They were a gift from Pastor Maldonado. The Venezuelan driver, Maldonado, was reportedly euphoric that his Lotus driving counterpart was absorbing all that was once rightfully his: negative headlines. Don’t be too [...]

Japanese GP

October 2, 2012 Comments Off

Japanese GP 13/5 Lewis – I think Not A Wonderful Life! These have been the finest ten days of the year, Singapore’s street circuit is the finest racetrack in the world, Sebastian Vettel is the finest F1 driver in living memory, Roy the Boy is the finest judge to have placed a [...]

Singapore GP

September 20, 2012 Comments Off

8/1 Vettel? I Don’t Think So‏ Expect more carnage than the average Ben-Hur chariot race Every day this week I have run to the front door to greet the postman thinking this is the day, the big day when the big letter arrives from the Palace asking me to accept the big role [...]

Italian GP Preview

September 8, 2012 1 Comment

3/1 Hamilton Is HUGE From a spectators viewpoint Pastor Malpractice should be praised for his errant ways instead we give him an ASBO. The great thing with SKY Sports’ dedicated F1 channel is their reviews of seasons gone by. It is a stark reminder that not so very long ago racing was both fun and spectacular. It was not a sterile demonstration of cardboard cut-out drivers [...]

Belgian GP Preview

August 30, 2012 Comments Off

Belgian GP Preview If God really is a racing driver then this, Spa-Francorchamps, might be what heaven looks like. F1’s last appearance, inHungary, was a strange old affair. Unless I’m mistaken it was run under ‘full course yellow’ conditions. Or, to the uninitiated, no overtaking was allowed or occurred anywhere on the [...]

Hungarian GP

July 27, 2012 Comments Off

Hungarian GP Playing the Facts & Figures in Hungary I love Martin Brundle, a superb pundit who talks so much sense and often speaks his mind. That’s a rare quality amongst commentators in a world where diplomacy and politically correctness is a requisite. What’s more, as spending his entire life living in Norfolk demonstrates, he has fantastic [...]