Month: November 2019

Race stewards have decided that the incident at the start of Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix involving Daniel Ricciardo, Kevin Magnussen and Stoffel Vandoorne was a racing incident. The clash triggered a safety car. The Haas and McLaren were both too badly damaged to continue the race. The stewards heard from Magnussen and Vandoorne after the…

In 2011, students in Chile made headlines when they launched a nationwide strike lasting almost eight months. The trigger was high tuition costs that drove students and their families into debt. There were coordinated marches in all major cities. At some universities students took over buildings. The marches took on almost a carnival atmosphere with…

Red Bull gets a double whammy of grid drops with Daniel Ricciardo in the senior outfit and Brendon Hartley in the junior squad both taking on new engine components. After pondering a tactical change, the Aussie and his team elected to take on a new ICE and two other elements which will equate to 20-place…

McLaren’s Eric Boullier says Fernando Alonso is filled with rage, whether he’s frustrated by defeat or enraptured in victory. The Woking-based outfit’s racing director admits another season of dismal performance with Honda saw the Spaniard boil over at times, referring to his post-race reaction in Singapore this year when Alonso punched a hole in the…

Thousands of people left homeless in Vanuatu last weekend after a deadly cyclone ripped through the cluster of islands in the South Pacific were still waiting for relief on Friday. As the confirmed death toll from the hurricane rose to 13, many survivors were still taking refuge in homeless shelters, while Vanuatu’s government began distributing…

Formula 1’s race calendar could see a couple new additions as soon as 2019, as Miami and Hanoi emerge as likely contenders for a plum spot on the sport’s Grand Prix schedule. According to Germany’s Auto, Motor und Sport, negotiations between FOM and the promoters of the planned street races in Florida and in Vietnam…

Red Bull’s Helmut Marko says Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen are on equal footing although he rates the latter’s performance as superior in 2017. Ricciardo finished fifth and just ahead of his team mate in the championship, but the Dutchman’s trumped the Aussie in terms of race wins, 2 to 1. Verstappen was recently awarded…

Pierre Gasly’s graduation to F1 will likely remain one of the highlights of his career, yet another event remains at the forefront of the Toro Rosso driver’s memories. In the summer of 2016, as he travelled to Silverstone for the GP2 race with his parents, the family was the victim of a very serious road…

As Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is crossing the Atlantic heading to Washington to deliver Tuesday’s controversial speech to Congress on Iran, activists are spending Sunday trying to shut down the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). AIPAC has been called “the most important organization affecting America’s relationship with Israel,” and…

Click Here: Real bape hoodie As President Obama seeks $27.6 billion for federal drug control programs in his new budget, we talk to British journalist Johann Hari about the century-old failed drug war and how much of what we know about addiction is wrong. Over the past four years Hari has traveled to the United…