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Archive for February, 2009

Honda saved: Nobody cares

Honda saved: Nobody cares

Brackley, Saturday: News breaking in the last couple of days to suggest that the floundering Honda Formula One team has finally been saved and will compete in F1 in 2009 has been met with widespread apathy from fans of the sport, with most having “stopped caring” about the fate of the team. “Well-connected” F1-related [Read More]

McLaren fans shunned for “Spygate denial”

McLaren fans shunned for “Spygate denial”

Woking, Friday: Some fans of Formula One team McLaren have reported being increasingly shunned and marginalised by society in response to their controversial belief of “Spygate denial,” which holds that the espionage scandal for which McLaren were punished in 2007 never happened, or at least not to the extent that is widely [Read More]

GPDA consider superlicence action

GPDA consider superlicence action

Paris, Thursday: The Grand Prix Drivers’ Association will meet over the next few days to plan a course of action over the FIA’s recent hike of superlicence prices, with a range of potential activities ranging from “quietly paying up and pretending the whole thing never happened” to “full-blown revolution.” GPDA [Read More]

New Force India goes “too far”

New Force India goes “too far”

Silverstone, Tuesday: The 2009 car produced by the Force India Formula One team has already been slammed by critics as “patriotism gone too far,” days before the challenger is even officially launched at the team’s Northamptonshire base this weekend. Early leaks from the team factory suggest that, in a radical new interpretation [Read More]

Branson insists on pun ban

Branson insists on pun ban

Brackley, Sunday: With rumours continually surfacing over a bid by Virgin boss Richard Branson to buy out The Team Formerly Known As Honda in time for March’s Australian Grand Prix, the bearded entrepreneur has dropped the first hints that he has no interest in participating in Formula One until the sport makes several changes. Branson, [Read More]

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