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AE86 Race Car – The Build: Part 2

January 22nd, 2011

Slippery Wen Wett Slippery Wen Wett intends to splash and slide into Junction, St. Elizabeth and by this time tomorrow, fans will be staggering helplessly like patrons after a drink inclusive party. Trying to understand the sentence? Well think of it as my way of introducing you to what fans will experience after witnessing machines [...]

Slippery Wen Wett -Pines Plaza this Sunday

January 21st, 2011

‘Making it rain’ is a good thing in hip hop circles (the act of throwing money in the air so it falls like rain) but, as Badda Badda Raceway found out last weekend, rainfall in continuous amounts, may put the brakes on an event quicker than the air brakes on a Mack truck! One man’s [...]

Legends clash at Goodwood Revival

January 16th, 2011

JMMC Dexterity The phrase – Rain no play – is usually linked to cricket. Motorsports is rarely, terminally affected by rain, except for example, NASCAR, but when a shower multiplies and becomes a deluge, it may do a bit more than dampen the proceedings! The JMMC dexterity that was scheduled to be staged at Badda [...]

Dexterity series hits the dirt this Sunday

January 13th, 2011

Every now and then Dean Corrodus sends me an e-mail re a motorsport event. I am always grateful because at times I am made aware of an event I heard nothing about. When I opened the e-mail, I was met by a poster. At the top of the poster I saw – PUGU ENT. and [...]

Real Racing!

January 7th, 2011

You need to think you are the best but do not believe it. It is said that the words above were spoken by Juan Manuel Fangio. If I did not know better I would think that he was Shakespeare’s brainstorming colleague! Who said race car drivers are brainless? What insolence! SPEEDTV I have an unwilling [...]

Person of the Year

December 31st, 2010

The 2010 Formula 1 season had 19 thrilling rounds. One driver started from pole 10 times, from 2nd , 4 times, from 3rd, 3 times, from 4th,once and in Italy he started from p6. Statistics can be manipulated to mislead an audience, but in this case, it was abundantly clear that on F1’s qualifying day, [...]

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