Archive for March, 2007

Reflections on the Australian Grand Prix

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Overall

Overall, a pretty dull race. Sure, it was great to see Lewis Hamilton score a great result on debut – but once Kimi Raikkonen started to stride away from the field, the result was pretty obvious barring accidents or technical issues.

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A nice old lady

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

Some readers would know that in recent months I have been made an ‘Air Experience Instructor’ at our gliding club. This is the bottom rung of the instructor ranking system—I’m not authorised to teach people to fly gliders, but I am authorised to take people on ‘Air Experience Flights’ (similar to a joyflight – but [...]

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Formula 1 now televised in widescreen!

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

And it’s about time, too!

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New Apple product announced: iRack!

Monday, March 12th, 2007

An innovative new offering from Apple?

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Bahrain testing over - Red Bull still lags

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Nothing new to report. Red Bull Racing still lags McLaren and Renault by between 1% and 2% at the conclusion of pre-season testing in Bahrain. (Some teams will return to Jerez in Spain for testing this week – but I haven’t been able to find out whether RBR will be amongst them.)

The hard data is [...]

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