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As the Formula One season heads to Europe, our Bleacher Report F1 experts are doing their best to predict the key results from the 2014 Monaco Grand Prix. It’s a blue-riband event, with the eyes of the motorsports world trained on the billionaires’ playground. Mercedes have dominated the early-season races and looked as strong as ever in Spain. The street circuit is a different...
Published: May 23, 2014
Jurgen Klinsmann’s USA World Cup squad announcement has been dominated by the news that Landon Donovan didn’t make the cut, but another man to miss out was Brad Evans. Evans, however, took the blow like a champ—and offered a great tweet about it: You got off easy this time @Cristiano — Brad Evans (@brad_evans3) May 23, 2014 On the scale of Twitter reactions to missing a major...
Published: May 20, 2014
Gabriel Batistuta has been retired for almost a decade now, but the former Argentina striker showed he’s still very much got it with this humdinger of a strike in a friendly game. Batigol, now 45, was representing a team of ex-professionals against an Italian team of singers. Bizarre as it sounds, it’s an annual fixture known as “La Partita del Cuore,” and if you speak Italian...
Published: May 19, 2014
Southampton‘s Adam Lallana splashed out £50,000 on a stag week in Miami, but he had to send his friends off to celebrate without him because he was named in England’s 23-man squad for the 2014 World Cup. Lallana’s impressive season has seen him catapulted into the England reckoning, but it has come at a personal cost, according to The Sun (paywall—quotes via...
Published: May 9, 2014
As the Formula One season heads to Europe, our Bleacher Report F1 experts are doing their best to predict the key results from the 2014 Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona. Mercedes have dominated the early-season races, and many are expecting them to stay in front for at least the first half of the season. With a three-week break between races, however, there has been time for the teams to take stock...
Published: May 1, 2014
Tributes to Ayrton Senna have been flooding in on the 20th anniversary of the Formula 1 driver’s shocking death, but one airline has taken it to the next level with their decision to paint the Brazilian’s helmet on its livery. Azul airline, based in Brazil, added the colours to the front of their plane: A Brazilian airline has painted the front of a plane in Senna’s helmet colours...
Published: May 1, 2014
Ayrton Senna’s remarkable qualifying lap at the 1988 Monaco Grand Prix—which some say was the fastest of all time—has been remembered by McLaren as part of the Senna tributes on the 20th anniversary of his death. The Brazilian managed to qualify his car on pole for the street circuit race in 1988 a full 1.427 seconds clear of his nearest rival, Alain Prost. Such margins are almost...
Published: May 1, 2014
Ayrton Senna’s death is now 20 years ago, but the Formula One star is still a legend in his homeland, as this amazing tribute from Corinthians shows. The team lined up for their cup clash against Nacional AM on Wednesday night with replicas of Senna’s iconic helmet in the Brazilian colours under their arms. They then stepped forward to the applause of their home crowd and put them on together. Senna...
Published: April 28, 2014
Lewis Hamilton is flying in Formula One at present, but he’s also doing well off the track after being named Britain’s richest sportsman. The Mercedes driver has an estimated £68 million fortune, according to the Sunday Times Rich List (via the Independent). Hamilton trumps former F1 team-mate Jenson Button, who remains at McLaren. Wayne Rooney’s estimated £60...
Published: April 22, 2014
Lewis Hamilton‘s hat-trick of Grand Prix victories earned the Brit a special reward from Mercedes chief Niki Lauda: a ride home in the Austrian’s private jet. According to German newspaper Bild (via Auto123): “I told him ‘If you win, I’ll fly you back’ (to Europe),” Mercedes’ team chairman told Bild newspaper. Lauda, not only a F1 legend...