The Need For Speed – Formula 1

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The spirit of competition brings out the best in people on most occasions in life. The hunger for winning & building a lasting legacy epitomizes the element of competition ingrained in the human psyche. The need for speed is another element that drives us to push the human limitations to the maximum & break all barriers. Formula 1 is one such arena where speed is worshipped & is the tool for reigning victorious. Formula 1 represents the pinnacle of car racing around the world. It’s the ultimate dream for all car racing drivers & professionally is the highest & most respected level …

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Seven time F1 world champion: Michael Schumacher will retire after the end of this season

Seven time F1 world champion: Michael Schumacher

The man who statistically, is the greatest Formula One driver in the world will yet again retire after the end of this season.With a total of 91 grand prix wins, Schumacher said that he could’ve continued more racing but “didn’t feel like it”. As Lewis Hamilton made the move from McLaren to Mercedes, it did not however mean that Schumacher‘s time was over. He’s perhaps the most known figure from Formula One to even people who have no interest in car let alone motor racing. “If I wanted to stay I had options to stay, but I didn’t really feel …

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The experience of watching F1 live in Abu Dhabi

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Almost everybody has a dream vacation planned in their minds; some of them would like to travel to a beach resort and spend quality time with their loved ones while as some would like to explore a country they’ve never been to. But for a petrol head like me, my dream vacation was to travel to any one of the 15+ countries in which Formula1 is held to catch the racing action live in front of my eyes! Printing Formula1 calendar’s as soon as they were released every season, getting hold of the television remote control before the clock struck …

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Ferrari open doors to its garage for the ultra-rich folks

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Most of us have grown up with a Ferrari or Lamborghini plastered on our bed room’s wall, as toy cars, looked at them with immeasurable passion and envy and always committed to ourselves that we will buy one someday. The current situation of this country doesn’t permit anyone – even if one has the means to buy one, can’t keep one because of the obvious threats one faces of owning a car with such big presence. To give you an example about how popular Ferrari is that most common people won’t recognize a Bugatti Veyron but given the shape of …

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Bahrain monarchy used its monetary influence to bring F1 back, but the world knows better

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Bahrain used it monetary influence over F1 to held the Grand Prix as per schedule. F1’s boss, Bernie Ecclestone did accept the money over people’s freedom and democracy and announced that Bahrain Grand Prix will take place as per schedule. However, F1 teams wary of the public and sponsor’s response over choosing basic human freedom and how Bahrain handled the protests through brutal crackdowns against the protestor, made 11 out of 12 F1 team declined to race in Bahrain. According to article 66 of FIA codes which states that no amendments can be made without the agreement of everyone involved …

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Formula 1 for sale

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Fox news’ parent company, News Corporation and Exor, Italian Investment Company of the Agnelli family who own the FIAT Empire have formed up a consortium to buy out the commercial rights to F1. Formula 1 is owned by a New Jersey based company, Delta Topco, which is owned by a private equity group, CVC. Although CVC’s representative, Bernie Ecclestone, boss of F1 dismissed the plans of selling out Formula 1 however, CVC in its official press release said that while F1 is not for sale but CVC do recognizes the quality and potential of Exor and News Corporation as potential …

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Crazy fan tattooed Michael Schummacher’s entire F1 history on his back

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Fans are crazy, especially those of the champions league. They loose they go rioting and even if they win they riot.  Sometime they just run in the field naked, cricket is no different as well. We all remember how Indian paceman, Zaheer Khan flirted with a girl in the stands during Pakistan vs India match few years ago. But you’ve seen nothing. This guy was spotted at the recent quarter final between Barcelona and Manchester United. He wasn’t wearing his shirt like everyone else for a reason, that reason didn’t had anything to do with soccer instead he is the …

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Did the Government forget Yamaha’s Investment Plan?

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In the beginning of this year 2010, I was pleased to hear that Yamaha was interested to free us of the doodh-wali-bikes. They showed very high interest for their proposal, the interest can be weighed by the frequency of patience they embraced by pursuing the Pakistani Government for the whole damn year before finally giving up, all due to the lack of interest(actions) shown by our  government. We have known Yamahas widely as the transporters of milk to our door steps but there was Yamaha OX99-11 before the McLaren F1. Although Yamaha was not doing well in F1 but they …

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