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Football Soccer Formula 1 Rugby Racing Golf Blogs TennisPublished: August 4, 2011
The F1 2011 summer break has arrived and the first half of the season has seen some of the best racing that the sport has witnessed for many years. So which teams have been the winners and losers so far and who is likely to emerge victorious when the season draws to a close in November? Please feel free to comment on any teams which you think might spring a surprise in the second half of the season. Begin...
Published: February 11, 2011
These sides both emerged from the opening weekend with wins, but France were able to do so in a far more convincing fashion. They overcame Scotland with a winning margin of 13 points and never looked in danger of losing the game, whereas Ireland had to snatch victory in the dying minutes in Rome with a Ronan O’Gara drop goal. The French will have been particularly pleased with the way their scrum...
Published: February 11, 2011
Both of these sides lost their opening games, but Scotland will probably have emerged from the first weekend the happier of the two, having scored three tries at the Stade de France. Under coach Andy Robinson, Scotland have been steadily improving over the last few seasons, and they showed this last autumn by beating South Africa. Wales, on the other hand, are moving in completely the other direction,...
Published: February 11, 2011
These teams came into the championship with rather differing expectations, with England hoping for a Grand Slam and Italy hoping to avoid the wooden spoon. Both teams performed well in their opening matches; England will be pleased that they were able to overcome Wales in Cardiff, and Italy will be slightly disappointed that they just failed to beat Ireland in a tight match in Rome. It was the Italian...
Published: September 14, 2010
Sauber announced today that they would be replacing driver Pedro de la Rosa with Nick Heidfeld. It had been widely rumoured around the F1 paddock that de la Rosa’s place in the Sauber team was under threat, given that he had failed to keep pace with his younger teammate, Kamui Kobayashi, who has outscored de la Rosa by 21 points to six this year. The Sauber team have not had the best of seasons...
Published: September 13, 2010
F1 fans who expected to witness a lot of overtaking at the historic Monza circuit this weekend were disappointed. This was because, although Monza appears to be a good circuit for close racing and overtaking, once again, we saw that the loss of downforce caused by following in the turbulent air of another car means that overtaking in normal dry conditions remains very difficult under the current regulations. Hopefully,...