Stewart’s conditions “nothing serious”

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Jackie Stewart says “everything has now been rectified” following his recent health scare.

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Jonathan Legard on Twitter

“This from Jackie Stewart – ‘My condition was nothing serious. It was to do with a muscle out of place, causing pressure on the heart and the lung. Very painful but not at all serious and everything has now been rectified.’ Great news from a much needed voice of F1 reason.”

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Mario Andretti: Marco should be given a shot at F1 (Crash)

“I was there at Jerez, and I remember on the second day it was wet and Honda weren’t going to send him out. but Marco is very good in those conditions – he’s had a reputation right from the moment he first started racing that he is fantastic in the rain. Eventually they decided to send him out, and [at one point] he found himself behind Alonso as he was also beginning a serious run in the McLaren. For about six laps they were together and during those laps, Fernando never pulled away from Marco – and they were both going at a strong rate of pace. Marco stayed right with him, and I think that showed a moment of brilliance to some degree for someone so new to the cars and also because of the conditions.”

‘I’m not racing to make friends’ – Alonso (ESPN)

“I’m not racing to make friends but to achieve many titles. Let’s see if I win enough to be remembered. If not, I will also retire very happy, proud of the experience.”

“Senna” (film review) (ABC)

“Like all good sports documentaries, the film is more than just men in fast cars. Instead, Kapadia frames the rivalry between Alain Prost and the up-and-coming new boy Senna like a Shakespearean tragedy.”

Mark Webber on Twitter

“Just watched about five and a half minutes of Eastenders for the first time. Think I’ll give the box set a miss…”

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The Friday Documentary – The Changing Worlds Of Formula One (BBC iPlayer)

“David Goldblatt explores the changing worlds of Formula One, traveling to the traditional circuit of Monza in Italy and a brand new track under construction in the outskirts of Delhi.”

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Comment of the day

Gabal has some insight into the prospect of racing in Croatia:

As a Croat I must say I would be surprised if this track ever gets built.

There is an interest for Formula 1 in Croatia but apparently it isn’t big enough as national television has decided to drop F1 coverage after 20 years of continuous broadcast.

Croatia had a great shot of scoring a Grand Prix when Bernie was eager to run a race behind the iron curtain. His ex-wife Slavica is Croatian and there were talks held about modifying already Grobnik track so F1 could run there. Basically, if they built the track Yugoslav Grand Prix would have happened. They didn’t and Hungary grabbed the spot of a “communist” Grand Prix. Grobnik hosted Moto GP races until the war and now it is still used as a race track.

Fast forward to present – Bernie has divorced Slavica but he still loves to vacation in Croatia so every once in a while rumours about Formula 1 race in Croatia resurfaces. The director of HAKS (Croatian auto and carting alliance) broke ground on a hilly terrain and spun some fairy tales about a foreign investor who will build a track there and because Bernie loves Croatia so much we will get a F1 race.

A few questions arise – what idiot will invest into building a track in foreign country when as recent examples show there is no way he will ever profit from such action and how is a race in a country whose broadcasters apparently can’t find a commercial interest to show Formula 1 possible.
Gabal

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33 comments on “Stewart’s conditions “nothing serious””

  1. Keith, will u or the woman from the last test be at Barcelona. The coverage of testing on this site has been great. :)

  2. All well and good Mario but I can think of a number of drivers that deserve an F1 drive based purely on merit, probably more so than your grandson.

    Not because of nationality, and not because of their surname, not because of how much funding they bring to the team – purely because they can get from point A to point B quicker than some of the current F1 drivers.

    Rather funny to call it a sport when talent isn’t the sole determining factor in progression.

    1. Rather funny to call it a sport when talent isn’t the sole determining factor in progression.

      Hear hear.

      1. Actually, sponsors are more likely to attach themselves to talented people than the untalented. A talented person will get them more coverage, which is why they’re sponsoring a driver in the first place. After all, money alone will not get your into Formula 1 – you need a Superlicence, and to get a Superlicence, you have to win a recognised championship like GP2 or Formula 3.

        Some drivers, like Nico Hulkenberg, might be talented enough to be in the sport, but do not have sponsors – but why should a sponsor back someone like Hulkenberg when he comes out and says that he won’t bring any sponsors to a team? The direct implication is that he won’t do anything for the sponsors. Plus, his attitude is all wrong: older, more experienced and faster drivers than he regularly attract sponsors to a team. To suggest that sponsors are beneath him is pretty damn arrogant, especially for someone who has only raced for a year and hasn’t shown anything to suggest he could be good enough to get by without sponsors the way the Hamiltons and Webbers of the grid do. If I were a sponsor looking to get into Formula 1, I know I wouldn’t be considering Nico Hulkenberg when he says stuff like that.

        1. he won’t bring any sponsors to a team

          Will not or can’t?
          Are you sure he wasn’t saying he won’t bring any (because he has none)?

          1. My exact thought.

        2. Sush Meerkat
          5th March 2011, 8:10

          Some drivers, like Nico Hulkenberg, might be talented enough to be in the sport, but do not have sponsors – but why should a sponsor back someone like Hulkenberg when he comes out and says that he won’t bring any sponsors to a team?

          Part of the reason The Hulk hasn’t got sponsors is due to the market saturation of German Drivers in F1.

          Do they go for the proven and Sponsor friendly Rosberg?, or the 7 time world champion? or the giggly guy that is The Hulk?.

          Also why do you and Hamish go at each others throats?, your both well versed but you two always seem to argue!

          Make love not war.

          Peace out rabbits!

          1. We are the best of mates. I’m still to hear back about my coffee date offer.

        3. To suggest that sponsors are beneath him is pretty damn arrogant

          No, it’s called having a backbone and principles. Not fawning over sponsors may not be rational given current F1 structures and conditions, but rather than being arrogant it’s a statement that not everyone has to to live as if market forces were absolute rules for life. It’s called making a conscious choice. Arrogance is something else entirely.

    2. Not to mention the other Indy drivers that Marco hasn’t been able to get the upper hand over. Who knows, maybe he really is all that, but that would mean that the top Indy drivers are every bit as quick as the top F1 drivers, and I’m not sure if I believe that. Haven’t most drivers that made the move from F1 to Indy been more successful in Indy than they were in F1? Michael Andretti springs to mind, and Emerson Fittipaldi managed to win the CART championship 15 years after his last F1 championship, when he likely would no longer have been competitive in F1. The fact Marco was able to hang with Alonso in a test means nothing. Alonso could’ve been running heavy fuel and Marco on vapors for all we know.

      1. Bourdais?
        Dominant in CART, disappointing in F1.

        Marco Andretti isn’t the best driver in his team, let alone on the IndyCar grid.

        Since the results aren’t good enough, he has to be marketable. If F1 was going to bring a driver of his calibre over purely on marketing potential, Danica Patrick would be a better choice.

      2. Or maybe that means nothing. Indycar is a different bread of animal to Formula 1, maybe a mid field runner in Indycar could be a contender in Formula 1, and vice versa.

        1. But that would mean top drivers in Indycar would be even better contenders in F1. And that has proven many times wrong.

          1. That’s not what I said. I said there might be a mid field runner in Indycar, that could be a real star in Formula 1, not that if a mid field runner in Indycar could be good in Formula 1 that the guys better than him in Indycar will also be good at Formula 1. There might be a guy who isn’t really suited to oval racing, or the american culture or whatever, who might get to F1 and just feel like he is at home.

            What I am saying is just because the guy might not be the best at Indycar, it doesn’t automatically mean he cannot be a good at Formula 1.

        2. The biggest problem with sponsors Hulkenberg has is that his major backers in GP2 were all former Schumacher sponsors (Dekra and Deutcher Vermigensberatung) so they switched their sponsorship from Hulkenberg to Schumacher when he announced his return to F1.

  3. Happy Birthday IDR & TommyB and Jarred Walmsley!! :) Hope you enjoy your day and may all your wishes come true! :)

    1. Many happy returns of the day!

    2. Happy Birthday!

      1. Thanks people. Happy Birthday to IDR & Jarred Walmsley

    3. jsw11984 (@jarred-walmsley)
      5th March 2011, 11:43

      Thanks all, and Happy Birthday to IDR & TommyB

    4. Make it a special day, all of you!

    5. Thanks all.

      It’s my 50th anniversary so not quite happy at all!!!

      And happy birthday to TommyB and Jarred Walmsley.

      Congratulations! You’ve born the same day great people did!!

    6. Yes, happy birthday to all three of you!

  4. Webber’s comment is epic XD

  5. …a foreign investor who will build a track there and because Bernie loves Croatia so much we will get a F1 race.

    Bernie should keep personal interests out of his job.

  6. My first ever comment of the day :)
    I would have double-checked for typos if I knew…

  7. I want to read full article of Alonso’s interview. it seems like very interesting. Is there anyone who knows english full translate?

  8. Wow, 34 years since the Tom Pryce incident. I’ve seen the, rather grainy, footage of that. Pretty bone chilling stuff.

  9. The last line of that ABC Senna review is right. I felt like I was gonna cry for half the movie. So sad considering we all know how it ends.

    Personally the movie didn’t quite stand up to my expectations, after months and months of waiting and anticipation. It was still a fantastic movie that I definitely recommend to any racing fan, even non racing fans (I took my parents and girlfriend along and they all really enjoyed it). It just wasn’t quite the masterpiece I had hoped for. This is most likely due to the fact that it felt like it just glossed over his life, which I suppose is all you could expect from a normal length film. I think I would have preferred it as a series of episodes, with each episode covering an important event or period in his life, which would have allowed a different level of depth that wasn’t possible to achieve in an hour and 45 minutes. Nevertheless, it was a fantastic film and I recommend everyone to see it as soon as it is possible to in your respective countries.

  10. Seems that BBC documentary is available internationally. Great to listen to.

  11. Happy Birthday everyone!

  12. Mark Webber!! I’m so with on that.. can’t stand that social blight trash

  13. I’m on my PS3 right now with my G27 setup and i can use the gas pedal to scroll up the page and the brake pedal to scroll down the page, this is proper internet navigation! By the way, cant wait for the Senna movie, June in the UK?

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