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Slow news year? Perhaps we need Max Mosley back…

Since we watch far too much television nowadays, many of us tend to forget that real life doesn’t always coalesce into the kind of neat three-act narrative we’re used to seeing on the goggle box. It has long periods where not much happens, and the few things that do occur tend not to come to [ READ MORE ]

Short cuts

Bernie Ecclestone raised a hell of a kerfuffle the other week when he jokingly mooted the possibility of F1 drivers being allowed to take short cuts during races. As I was bumping in to London on the train this morning I suddenly remembered: it’s been done. At the 1959 US GP, Harry Schell managed to persuade [ READ MORE ]

Bernie’s bargain hunt

The danger of being perceived to be super-rich is that it becomes increasingly difficult to pick up a bargain. This must be very galling for Bernie Ecclestone, who like any entrepreneur likes to buy low and sell high. In the case of his offer to take the moribund Saab off GM’s hands, in partnership with [ READ MORE ]

Quiet around here…

Apologies for the absence of updates recently. No, I haven’t got bored with blogging already. It’s a great way of doing something when I ought to be doing something else (as Owen Paul might have said). Paid work is intervening in the form of an all-month 9am-5pm stint in London, which entails a hideously early [ READ MORE ]

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