Posts Tagged ‘arnoux’

The Bored Identity

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Wooo-hooo! You should have been here last year!

I’m sorry, but is the world suffering from a collective bout of amnesia?  ”The Bahrain Grand Prix was boring” they wailed. “It wasn’t exciting” they cried, gnashing their teeth. Boring you say. Boring? Well, fucking news flash, Formula 1 is boring.

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Driving God Spotlight: Gilles Villeneuve

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Traction control se ma se p@#s.

All in all it was a great day for Frenchy. They must have spilled their Pernod and flicked their Gitanes Filters defiantly at passersby as Jean-Pierre Jabouille (a driver as French as shrugging at Americans) won the French Grand Prix at Dijon-Prenois in a French car (a Renault) on French tyres (Michelin) and powered by a French fuel manufacturer. Unfortunately due to archaic alcohol laws in France, ironically it’s the only race where you aren’t allowed to spray Champagne.

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