Category: Racing

Formula One: McLaren, Ferrari Set To Reveal New Cars Ahead Of 2012 Season

| January 31, 2012 | 0 Comments
Formula One: McLaren, Ferrari Set To Reveal New Cars Ahead Of 2012 Season

The 2012 Formula One season is due to begin on March 18, 2012, but this week has some excitement in store for F-One fans, as McLaren and Ferrari are set to reveal their new cars for the season ahead. McLaren’s launch at Woking, Surrey is set to happen before Ferrari unveil their new car, in [...]

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Horse Racing: Glorious Goodwood Preview

| July 26, 2011 | 0 Comments

Seven competitive races will mark the first day of Glorious Goodwood that gets underway on Tuesday, July 26, 2011. The event should help us forget the tragic events of Saturday when runner Rewilding broke a leg in Ascot’s King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, and jockey Dettori was hurled to the ground. Here’s a [...]

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Horse Racing: Sahpresa Favourite To Win Falmouth Stakes At Newmarket

| July 8, 2011 | 1 Comment

The Falmouth Stakes, at Newmarket, on Friday, will feature 11 runners. Sahpresa is one of the favourites in the one-mile race, with the six-year-old having won October’s Sun Chariot stakes at Newmarket, apart from a Group three race at Newchamp, at the start of her season. If Sahpresa won on Friday, it would be her [...]

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Formula One: Can Mark Webber Retain The British Grand Prix?

| July 6, 2011 | 0 Comments

Red Bull’s Mark Webber won the British Grand Prix, in 2010, giving his club successive wins, in the event, with Sebastian Vettel having won in 2009. Webber returns to Silverstone this weekend in a bid to retain his title. The last Brit to win the event was Lewis Hamilton with McLaren, in 2008, Hamilton was [...]

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British GP: Horner’s Bull Makes Webber See Red

| July 15, 2010 | 0 Comments

His victory in the British Grand Prix was in Mark Webber’s words, “an appointment with karma”.  The Australian was earlier incensed with the “favouritism” shown by Red Bull to Webber’s colleague Sebastian Vettel who was given a new front wing taken off Webber’s car.  Team manager Christian Horner wants to do away with any misunderstanding [...]

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MotoGP: Jorge Lorenzo Wins At Catalunya

| July 8, 2010 | 0 Comments

The Catalunya MotoGP win, his third consecutive race won, helped Jorge Lorenzo extend his lead in the World Championship. Pedrosa trails Lorenzo, his Spanish compatriot, by 52 points in the World standings. Dani Pedrosa finished second ahead of Casey Stoner, with both men recovering from early errors, and making up lost ground. Chasing Lorenzo, Andrea [...]

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Formula One: Turkey Grand Prix Preview

| May 27, 2010 | 0 Comments

The Turkey Grand Prix is scheduled to run from May 28 to 30. This is one of the toughest Formula One races with a maximum ambient temperature of 55 degrees Celsius, and an anti-clockwise track; there are only three other anti-clockwise tracks on the F1 calendar — at Singapore, Brazil and Abu Dhabi. The favorites [...]

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F1: The Canadian Grand Prix Beckons

| May 20, 2010 | 0 Comments

Come June 13, and the centre of attraction for F1 fans will be Montreal’s Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. The 2010 Canadian Grand Prix, which will complete its golden jubilee next year, has been on the F1 calendar from 1967. Montreal’s Île Notre-Dame has hosted the event for the last 42 years, and given that the event [...]

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