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HOW TO BUILD A LOW BUDGET RACE-CAR . Part 3

August 29th, 2020

Now that you have ignored the protests from your significant other and you have decided that the race-car-plunge must be made at this time, meticulous thought must be given to the decisions which must be taken, if unbridled joy is to be realized when the machine hits the track. We have discussed two Steps thus [...]

HOW TO BUILD A LOW BUDGET RACE CAR. Part 2

August 27th, 2020

If it was not clear before, it should be now – you have more time than you need to give undivided attention to things you always wanted to pursue but you were simply too busy and as such what pleases you most was ignored. We are aware that Covid-19 introduces its own financial constraints, therefore [...]

HOW TO BUILD A LOW BUDGET RACE-CAR. Part 1

August 25th, 2020

Dark clouds are usually accompanied by silver linings. Covid-19 is the darkest of clouds. The silver lining is obscured, but, the optimist in me is adept at excavation. So, dig, I will and the treasures will revealed. Curfews, lock-down status and a host of restrictions, generate seconds, minutes and hours of barren time that would [...]

MOTOGP BETTER WITHOUT MARQUEZ ?

August 20th, 2020

We reside in an unprecedented era and for that reason, normalcy, in all quarters, boarded at Gate 10 long ago and departed. The unfamiliar is definitely commonplace now and moments of gleeful, surprise, threatening pre-existing dominance, is a theme which is refreshingly infecting truncated seasons in various motor sports disciplines. Marc Marquez is already a [...]

FORMULA 1 : WE SHOULD REJOICE WHEN LEWIS HAMILTON LOSES !

August 9th, 2020

If you were offered the following two choices which describe the type/character/substance of the motor racing events you would spend your weekend watching : i) Snails crossing an unused footpath or ii) Colin McRae in a 555-liveried Subaru WRC, attacking Rally Corsica’s tarmac stages. Which would you chose? The rhetorical nature of the question is [...]

FORMULA 1 : COVID-19 PUTS THE BRAKES ON FORMULA 1 ?

July 31st, 2020

MICHAEL ‘MIKEY SPICE’ SAMUELS The Jamaican motor-racing fraternity is in mourning at present, having lost one of its most avid, dedicated and well-traveled motorsports photographer, Michael Samuels a.k.a. Mikey Spice. Hoodlums silenced his camera, but, the images he captured, including a dramatic encounter, involving yours truly, will, like eternity, exist forever. In an earlier F1-related [...]

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