Be Excellent To Each Other

First > correct.

I've corrected them once or twice in the last few months.

Singapore 1st Practice Results

Barrichello 1st, Button 2nd & Webber 3rd

Brawn vs Red Bull again

Particular congratulations to Grosjean. He made me laugh.

The Renault school of Crashes

What a shock - Alonso to Ferrari.

Man, £23mil (depending on currancy fluctuations). That's soooo much money. People go on about footballers and don't seem to think about F1, but Schumey was the highest-paid athlete of all time, and the second-highest earning athlete of all time (just after Tiger Woods).

Yeah, but there's a lot more danger involved in racing a car very fast. Footballers just kick a ball about.

Won't somebody consider our poor underpaid footballers?

Or cup.

Kimi back to McLaren, Kubica to Renault.

Bloody hell - was he on a bigger contract than Alex Rodriguez at the Yankees?

According to what I've just Googled... yes:

Alex Rodriguez
* Source 1 - Salary: $28,000,000
* Source 2 - Salary: $33,000,000
* Yes - 33 Million Dollars and that is just base pay - not including endorsements....


Michael Schumacher
* Source 1 - (2004) salary was reported to be around US$80 million
* Source 2- Around 36 Million pounds a year and some times if he performs more than expected he will get 5 million per race. his amount at the moment is 124 Million pounds.
* Source 3 Over his career, he earned $650 million in salary and endorsements deals, putting him on par with superstar athletes Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods

A-Rod's on up to $305m over ten years. I don't know how much he earned in his twenties, but that has to add up to a pretty penny.

$650m is a pretty tough number to beat though.

Wasn't that figure for a three year deal from Ferrari - basically equating to $10m pa. I suspect he's also on some whopping sponsorship packages as well which will probably match that.

I know at one point Schumacher was pulling down close to $100m pa with various sponsorship deals - in fact I think he was being paid close to $50m pa by Shell on top of his $30m salary from Ferrari and also had almost complete control over his name for merchandising and his suit sponsors. It was predicted he would be the first dollar billionaire sports man

Forbes says he is a billionaire.

I'm surprised actually, I mean Schumacher's hardly handsome or charismatic or really anything except an exceptionally good driver and apparently an even better businessman.

I never thought I'd be willing Rubens to fall off the track.
Fuck.

Well, that was exciting. I dunno which was funnier, Heikki driving off with the fuel hose attached and setting fire to Kimi, or Trulli's "You shunta my car!" antics.

That Trulli got hit with a fine afterwards.

For crashing or for being a dick about it?

For being a dick about it. The stewards, refreshingly, thought it was a racing incident.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

And yes, that's the best picture I could find. Video schmideo.

Will there still be World Superbikes at Donnington next year?

Contract negotiation rumours ahoy.
Kimi was rumoured to be going to McLaren - this apparently is off now as he wanted too much money and the bare minimum of PR responsibilities.
Looks like it's Toyota or retirement for the iceman.
McLaren have fired a shot across the bows of Button's management, which they haven't denied. This is likely to be cynical manipulation of two facts - Button is unhappy that Brawn haven't snapped him up yet as they're still quibbling over contract details AND McLaren allegedly being unhappy that Mercedes are thinking of buying a large stake in Brawn (no pun intended). Still, two British world champions in one team, eh?

Sounds as miserable as having the whole England team turn out for Man Utd. I want Britons as principal drivers each and every one, no-one really believes any two drivers have parity in this sport. It's because they don't.

Except for the two that recently battled it out for the driver's championship, of course.

Is it just me, or have they designed a huge glowing cock to go over the circuit?

It's either that or the new super-ergonomic Gillette Razor

It looks far more like a rozor to me. If your cock looks like that Dave, you should take it to a doctor.

It doesn't. But it sure looks like the kind of thing you tend to see drawn in school text books.

Your cock constantly has a couple of drips of spunk coming out of the end?

That circuit looked superb.

I like the pit exit.

Did seem a bit Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiidge Raaacer! overall though, at least at Silverstone et al you've basically got the cars on the track to focus on, or some piles of tyres. Still plenty of both in the coming seasons so something for all tastes, which is how the season should be.

What's with the boats? Do the drivers drive into a tiny little house and then come speeding out the other side at the controls of a boat?

During the race on Sunday, Legiard said that tickets were cheap to ensure full attendance. They were cheaper than silverstone, but not that cheap, but it did set me thinking about Bahrain next year. A quick look indicates that the best tickets at the track are £250 for three days with pitlane access on thursday (you'll be lucky to get a seat at silverstone for that) and flights plus hotel for 5 nights (actually on the GP weekend from expedia) can be had for about £500, £600 for a slightly better hotel. Its very tempting is that.

That's very very tempting...

Until you get there and they notice you stepped on some poppy seeds in Heathrow, and cut your hands off.

I should point out that the review for the really cheap Bahrain hotel on Tripadvisor indicates that it is a brothel.

That's very very very VERY tempting...

Crikey, just heard on the radio that Mercedes are taking over Brawn and ending their relationship with McLaren!

Very interesting. Does that mean Hamilton's fucked again?

Don't know - I doubt it - the story on the Beeb's site states that Mercedes will sell their 40% stake back to McLaren but will continue to provide free engines to them until 2015. Button is allegedly joining McLaren as Mercedes want an all German line-up at Brawn which will be rebranded Mercedes as of next year after a 75% buyout of the team. Driver's their looking at are Nico Rosberg (allegedly already signed for them) and Nick Heidfeld.

Rosberg/heidfeld is not exactly the most fearsome lineup I've ever seen, to put it lightly.

Looks like Hamilton/Button at McLaren then.

I'm not convinced they'll have the money.

Isn't that illegal under EU law? It is for football.