Author of The Art of the Formula 1 Race Car (& others) š and misfiring sprinter for the ABR Discovery e-racing team on @GoZwift š“
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Just bumped into Ryo Hirakawa in the media centre toilets; heās about to film his slot for the F1TV intro sequence.
My US GP hire car reminds me of the dim and distant past, when my parents had an Austin Allegro estate with a āQuarticā steering wheelā¦
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I wrote something. And broke Betteridgeās Law of Headlines. Please address all complaints to the editor.
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Famously, Cilla was quite an unpleasant individual who refused to speak to people she viewed as āthe helpā. Which led to the airline stewardess remarking, āI knew you couldnāt sing, but I didnāt realise you couldnāt effing talk eitherā¦ā
40 years ago this week, John Farnham brought āYouāre the Voiceā into the world. Four years later, Cilla Black administered the last rites
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"The F40's 2.9-litre twin-turbocharged V8 therefore represented the quintessence of technology transfer from F1 in periodā¦"
autosport.com/f1/news/what-mā¦
If I were to ask anyone whether F1 should show car speeds and state-of-charge graphics, it wouldn't be the twit who re-edited Star Wars so Greedo shoots first...
autosport.com/f1/news/the-laā¦
Saw The Odyssey at Chichester IMAX last night. A full house of real people, would you believe?
Hereās hoping Elon Muskās āhistorically accurateā version corrects the grotesque continuity blunder where the puppy has spaniel ears and his older self doesnāt.
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Where did the battery level and speed indication graphics go?
Hereās your exclusive preview of how F1 will be broadcast in North Korea, folksā¦
Itās the longest and most scenic track on the F1 calendar š¤©
Take in every high-speed twist and turn from Kimi Antonelliās sensational pole lap around Spa ā±ļø
#F1 #BelgianGP @pirellisport
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Judging by the number of utterly pointless questions about the ā½ļø World Cup in the Austrian GP FIA press conference, none of which met with responses carrying any editorial value, there are several villages out there missing their idiots.
The stairs to the Red Bull Ringās paddock appear to have been inspired by HP Lovecraftās āThe Dreams In The Witch Houseā, wherein a roomās abstruse non-Euclidean geometries permit the structure to travel between alternate planes of existence.
Saw Dennis Locorriere perform on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury in 2004. He was a last-minute promotion from the Other Stage, IIRC.
rollingstone.co.uk/music/newā¦
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āFormula 1 Secretly Built For Shorter Men, New Study Showsā - in the genre of utterly dumb and pointless press releases, this one (from an online gambling company), has reset the bar.
There have been some great works of speculative fiction in our time. 2001. The Dune sequence. Iain M Banksā Culture series. And now this. āļø
