F1 Fanatic

It’s the weekend. So Hamilton. Fastest in qualifying, best tyre preserver during the race. Also magnanimous with his team’s blunders, commendable in his desire to congratulate Williams after the race. Maldonado […]

No, I’m not talking nonsense, I’m making a valid point about the fact that you can sit in a garage burning no fuel and finish higher than someone who drives in Q3, sets a time, and supposedly hasn’t enough fuel […]

No merit in setting a time? Okay, how about next qualifying everyone stays in the pits because it’s a better bet for the race? Preserving tyres and all that exciting stuff. Picture it. Around the world, all the […]

Why lose Hamilton? Sack the management, they’re responsible.

Good call Keith.

I agree Tim and apologizes for not being more careful, my knowledge of UK current affairs isn’t totally up to scratch, not living there, and I misread a report yesterday.

oops, no position to judge!

It’s probably true that few people commenting here or anywhere else will actually do much for the people of Bahrain afterwards. But the media and internet attention has at least (a) prevented the race from […]

Also not entering this race. (Not that it would make any difference to my hopeless points tally anyway.)

Steph, the rulers are no doubt ‘building bridges’ with all those people in Bahrain no doubt too scared to leave their houses this weekend. As always, those protesting will be classified as ‘isolated extremists’. […]

Ask the people of Bahrain for some advice? They seem to have the same kind of problem.

Sorry if the irony didn’t work very well. The ruling party. You can’t have an undemocratic system that resorts to violence and torture to suppress mostly peaceful pro-democracy activists and then call these […]

Friday afternoon only and already the negative fall-out for Formula 1 is huge. Remind me what the good part was. For Formula 1? No. The teams? No. The drivers? No. The people of Bahrain? Starting on unlikely and […]

I think cancelling the race just empowers extremists.

Interesting opinion. Just I think running the race further empowers unelected dictators, sorry monarchs, not adverse to taking extreme actions to suppress […]

I’ve probably been the most vocal about the Bahrain-China comparisons

A bit inaccurate, you mean you’ve been the most vocal (here anyhow) about making the Bahrain-China comparison the funnel through which any […]

How so? It’s clear that running the race is of benefit to the current (undemocratic) political regime. It is also being opposed by pro-democracy activists and opponents of the regime. So it’s spurious to argue […]

Brilliant article taking a well-thought out and strong ethical stance that doesn’t try to skip the problem with the unfounded argument that sport has to be ‘above’ politics. Congratulations Keith, I hope this […]

Well, maybe it is a knee-jerk reaction, but precisely because of those mistakes you mention, there seemed to be more reluctance from drivers to overtake, despite seeming to be right behind other cars, faster, and […]

I’d give the race a 7 for this reason, the amount of rubber off the line meant that although the drivers were tightly bunched, they had little chance to make use of the circuit’s width. It meant we didn’t really […]

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