Archive for the ‘On wheels’ Category
A weekend of what-could-have-beens
If this time last year was about achieving sporting perfection and becoming a national champion in the process, this weekend, 360 odd days on, was a demonstration of the fine line between winning the National Student Korfball Championships and coming fifth. On a weekend in Sheffield that ebbed and flowed almost as much as Burton Albion vs Chesterfield, Pope and Swift learnt that [...]
Pipe down Jenson, concentrate on your own legacy
Just shut up. Yes, you heard. All you pessimistic fools and scared F1 drivers need to stop worrying about Michael Schumacher’s legacy and get on with your own job, whether that is thinking off some way of slagging off the slightly camp looking German or throwing away the driver’s championship.
Michael Schumacher won 7 world championships. [...]
Champions get back in the success saddle
To watch the best endure failure is good but to see the broken rise and claim victory is infinitely better.
How nice then it was this weekend to see several sportsmen putting to bed recent personal torment to succeed where they once stumbled. Lewis Hamilton drove masterfully to win the Hungarian Grand Prix after a lifetime since his last [...]
Ferrari: The spoilt child of Formula 1
Enzo, Ferrari’s founder, is surely turning in his grave. Ferrari may have finally submitted a conditional entry for the 2010 Formula 1 Championships but they have failed to prevent themselves looking like the selfish and spoilt brat of the F1 pit lane.
Never before has the iconic prancing Stallion been shamed as in recent weeks. Ferrari’s response to Max Moseley’s plan to [...]
The real Real McHoy
Sir Chris Hoy’s publicist must be working overdrive because the British Bullet’s bandwagon (a two wheeler of course) has been everywhere recently. Last night, he was busying himself at Pinewood Studios as a guest on BBC2’s comedy panel show Would I Lie to You . Unfortunately, I was there too.
I say unfortunately because, being partial [...]
Don’t cha think it’s time to focus Lewis?
I would hate to be Nicole Scherzinger. Not only does the poor girl have to prance around in skimpy outfits with a bunch of dancers pretending to be in a band, but the lead singer (sorry, member) of the Pussycat Dolls is currently dating Lewis Hamilton. Now to be a supportive other half to an [...]
A new Brawn for Formula 1
Sunday, being the ‘Lord’s day’, is reserved by many for the attending of church services and the offering up of prayers. Today, however, marked the coming of a sporting saviour, a man who looks as if he will rid the sin and gluttony at the heart of Formula One and lead the masses back to watching [...]
Spoilt Pendleton peddling backwards
It is often a tough task to teach children the art of understanding idiom. Yet, thanks to an interview with Victoria Pendleton in yesterday’s Mail on Sunday, literacy conscious parents are now able to demonstrate to their younger ones what it means to ‘call a spade a spade’ and ’shoot oneself in the foot’. In one foul swoop, the [...]