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Mar 28 2010
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F1 should always start in Melbourne

Button celebrates in Melbourne

Picture the scene. Two weeks ago I was getting pumped about the start of the new Formula 1 season. I was convinced that it was going to the best one yet with rule changes that would dramtically affect the outcome of not only individual races but also the championship. The opening race then happened in Bahrain and…it sucked. Much of that is to do with the track, since it’s terribly boring and doesn’t allow much overtaking to happen, but it felt like a huge anti-climax. Today I decided not to watch the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne because of how dull that race was. My enthusiasm for a season was wiped off the face of the earth in the space of an hour and a half.

I am kicking myself today for missing a brilliant-sounding race, which I should have expected, because Melbourne always produces good races.

So, what’s the thing we’ve learned today? All Formula 1 seasons should start in Melbourne, because then there is a guarantee that you’ll get a cracking start to the season.

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Jun 25 2009
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Goodbye Mosely

Max Mosely

Over the weekend I bemoaned at the state of F1 and said that he needed to go. I had massive delight when I looked in my copy of The Times to see a big double page spread about his departure. What I wasn’t expecting was the paper’s nearly overly-positive take on Mosely’s departure, saying that without him F1 will be a duller place. Really? Is Max Mosely the biggest character in Formula 1? If he is then may God have mercy on us all. There are a lot of people in sport in high positions I don’t like…Richard Scudamore, Sepp Blatter and the like. But Max Mosely had such an autocratic stranglehold on the sport that it was almost impossible to like him. Yes, he made some good changes and no, The Times were not saying that the sport is totally at a loss without him…but I can’t say I’m mourning his removal from his post.

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Jun 21 2009
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The sports that I did not/will not watch

Max Mosely

This weekend was the British GP weekend and then for the next two weeks the country will be struck with Wimbledon fever once more. I did not/will not watch either of these and there are reasons for both sports.

F1 – The whole scandal over the breakaway championship threat, the legal action taken by the FIA, the petty name-calling between both sides…way to ruin a sport. In recent years F1 has become a watchable and exciting sport again. It would be the most popular if we didn’t have cheating allegations, political backstabbing and now this, which is essentially the equivalent of two schoolkids trying to out-boast each other. It’s pretty damn pathetic. I felt sorry for those who went to Silverstone this weekend expecting talk of racing. My opinion on the whole matter? The sooner Max Mosely goes the better since he seems to be the one in the way of any real progress.

Wimbledon – I like Andy Murray as a tennis player as much as the next tennis fan but I just know that all the TV and radio coverage will be so Murray-biased it will almost be farcical. Especially the BBC. Andy Murray this, Andy Murray that…imagine waking up to BBC Breakfast in the morning. It’ll essentially be “Oh hi, did you have Andy Murray for breakfast? If not, here you go! Blah blah blah!” I don’t even think he’ll win the tournament. Roger Federer has to be the outstanding favourite. The fact that he just won a tournament – nay, a Grand slam tournament – on clay will give a player far more confidence than winning a poxy warm up tournament like Queen’s.

In conclusion: sport is brilliant if you get past the ten million walls placed in front of you that block your enjoyment of it.

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