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Sad indictment of how bad the recent Subarus have been - Solberg is closer to the pace in a self-prepared 4 year old Citroen than he was in a works Subaru last year. Makes you wonder what Atkinson...

Glad you liked the blog. The engine was the last work of Franco Rocchi and as far as I know was not based on a previous 1.5 turbo engine - he'd worked for Ferrari until retiring in 1982 and then...

Robert Doornbos didn't start until 17. Bruno Senna didn't race between the age of 10 and 20. It's not impossible, but the odds would be heavily against.

I used to dabble with karts (Honda 4...

Favourite drivers?

I rate Soucek, - it's a real shame he hasn't got a decent drive. I'd love to see Parente do well - he was very quick in British F3 a few years back and won his debut race. ...

Oh, there were positives, not the least his having the courage (or perhaps foolhardiness) to go up against all the major car makers and ban turbos - an expensive dead end which I can't help thinking...

Not convinced. Apart from anything else, in Indycar, the heavy drivers tend not to be fat, but tall. Justin Wilson is one of the heaviest of all, but he doesn't look like a man in need of a diet.
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I'm not convinced, when one tots everything up, that there's a much better case for Balestre than for Ecclestone on that score.

Come to that, in the end it was Balestre who sold out the sport to...

Its actually been pretty good this year. The SEATs and Vauxhalls are pretty evenly matched, and the semi-works Honda Civics aren't far behind.

The privately run BMW of Matt Jackson and Mike...

Who? Who? Who? and Indeed Who?

Chandhok has been confirmed at Durango.

Timo Glock.

And of the new boys, Soucek and Maldonado look like they might be ones to watch.

Not as talented a field as in the last couple of years though, imho.

If you're going to exclude Motorbase, you really ought to exclude GR Asia as well - a much more experienced team.

Distinguishing private entries from works entries is always tricky. I mean, on the...

Stockton already has scored points, so I think he deserves to be on there. Certainly they look the best sorted Lexuses (Lexi?) we've seen in the series so far.

And yes, the BTCC looks in the...

I'll jump on the bandwagon and nominate Mat Jackson too.

Also of note - Plato for two wins from the two opening races - very measured drives. Matt Neal, for winning at the first meeting in a...

It might not have been mature, but I'd have been sorely tempted to do exactly the same in his shoes. And frankly Mat was one of very few drivers who (though I haven't watched race 3 yet) appears to...

Di Resta surely deserves something more than a 2 year old car after beating BMW golden boy Vettel to the Euroseries last year.

And I hope Carroll gets a drive - he's entertaining and I'm sure...

Just as an aside, it must be making the bean counters at SEAT and Vauxhall (and perhaps even BMW) wonder whether they're getting good value for all the money they've thrown into developing S2000...

Most impressive thing is that unlike any of the drivers you mentioned, he wasn't in a works, or even semiworks car, but a family run one. Certainly makes Martyn Bell's efforts last year pale into...

I don't know much about Roth, but what I do know is that she is considerably less competent a race driver than Paul Dana was....and I still wonder whether he should really have been allowed to race....

Oh dear, she is going to be so far out of her depth it is quite frankly frightening.

IRL cars are not toys for amateurs with a budget, and frankly she could get herself, or someone else seriously...

Thought this might be as good a forum to ask as anywhere...

Seems there are several high profile champions from last year whom one would expect to see in GP2 who haven't been able to get a seat.
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Maybe the translation to English confused matters (or did Ramirez write it in English in the first place ?- I don't know)

It was by no means an extended personal attack on Dennis or anything - but...

Ramirez left Mclaren before Raikkonen started driving for the team, iirc.

A cursory read of his autobiography makes quite clear that if Ramirez is bitter towards anyone, its his former employer,...

As if F1 was crying out for more drivers as dreary in a press conference as Raikkonen...

Still, Conway looks pretty quick, and that's what really counts. Amazing how quickly drivers are written...

I wouldn't write him off just because he's proving slow on snow - its as different from gravel as gravel is from tarmac really.

Lets see how he goes on the next few gravel rounds with the C4 first.