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CIRCUIT WHEELS ON FIRE : “THE BEST RACE-MEET EVER!”

May 31st, 2019

Words I was greeted with when I visited popular auto-electrician ‘Pampi’ recently. For myriad reasons, reasons which would validate his exclamation, I searched for no basis upon which disagreement could be advanced. The circuit racing season-opener in April, held at Dover Raceway, lit an exciting fuse. Doug Gore’s expected challenge did not materialize, but we [...]

FORMULA 1 : CAN ANYONE STOP MERCEDES AMG ?

May 29th, 2019

Charles Leclerc was at home. We were hoping that the comfort that being at home provided would have stimulated a clinical performance. But, Ferrari being Ferrari, they had to manufacture their own demise – before the race began! Can anyone explain succinctly what happened re Charles Leclerc during qualifying? Several inexplicable decisions made thus far, [...]

FORMULA 1 : WILL HOME ADVANTAGE HELP LECLERC?

May 24th, 2019

At the tightest track of the season – the streets of Monaco – the world’s best drivers will be engaged in a bare-knuckle brawl. Monaco has a habit of revealing the best drivers and in 2019 nothing less is expected. The restrictive, Mount Rosser-like layout of the track and the immediate proximity of the intimidating, [...]

CIRCUIT WHEELS ON FIRE – ALAN GORDON IS READY!

May 22nd, 2019

So Raheem Sterling’s new deal at Manchester City will see him earning up to 300,000 British pounds per week! Where was parental career guidance when I needed it? Lol! The drivers who will be wrestling at Jamwest Speedway, this Sunday, at the Circuit Wheels on Fire event will be earning nothing similar to Raheem’s bounty, [...]

MOTOGP : MARC MARQUEZ – STILL THE KING OF TWO WHEELS!

May 20th, 2019

So, when I was leaving my humble abode, BET was ripping a popular hip hob/R&B ‘chune’. When I returned, hours later, the same hip hop/R&B ‘chune’ was flirting – again – with the atmosphere. Here is the icing on the cake though – one of the first lines in the ‘chune’ – Fat Joe says [...]

FERRARI WILL WIN IN SPAIN!

May 10th, 2019

Two defeat-defying miracles in two days in UEFA Champions League, prove that even when hope is absent, it is not entirely lost. No one who understands the beautiful game and the concept of total football would have predicted that Liverpool could silence Barcelona fans, by overturning a 3 goal deficit to a squad which is [...]

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