Motorsport 2021

[J.R.R. hartley]

Motors: WRC return to Ireland at risk due to funding doubts

MI has always maintained that hosting rounds of the WRC all hinges on securing the funding, otherwise, it will not go ahead and they will move on.

www.irishexaminer.com

A small bit of realism in that article above. €100mil was obviously picked out of the sky.
Having said that FFG would spend/waste €15mil on quite literally anything else.

Even if it was 100 mil, which it wouldn't be anywhere near, that's spread over the duration of the years in the country.

 

[keamoresouth]

Newey set to leave Red Bull (BBC Sport)

Pretty solid story given that it's Andrew Benson reporting it. He has good sources and is usually not far wrong.

 

[Meridian]

Newey set to leave Red Bull (BBC Sport)

Pretty solid story given that it's Andrew Benson reporting it. He has good sources and is usually not far wrong.

Surely with the knowledge Newey has this will have huge technical issues for Red Bull ?

 

[foitek]

This day 30 years ago. Recall it well.

 

[cactus jack]

was one of the first GPs I saw as we only got in the multi channel not too long before. F1 was still a minority in the school yard but Senna was the talk of the place for ages afterwards

 

[J.R.R. hartley]

This day 30 years ago. Recall it well.

No one ever remembers Roland.

 

[TheOutdoorThreadmill]

No one ever remembers Roland.

You did tbf, even though a day late.

 

[J.R.R. hartley]

a day late.

And a dollar short?

 

[foitek]

No one ever remembers Roland.

I remember a quote by Eddie Irvine about him; he had come into F1 from touring cars I think and was struggling at the tail end of the fields in a poor car. Eddie Irvine said "I was watching him and thinking, what's the point?" Subsequent to that GP, didn't Karl Wendlinger suffer an almost-fatal shunt in Monte Carlo also. Grim times back then.

Back in the earlier days again of F1, Monaco was the one GP RTE always broadcast live, with maybe the occasional British one thrown in too sometimes.

 

[mr.selfDestruct]

was one of the first GPs I saw as we only got in the multi channel not too long before. F1 was still a minority in the school yard but Senna was the talk of the place for ages afterwards

I was only starting to watch it that season, but didn't see the race. I can remember watching some of the funeral, which was live on Eurosport.

The Roland crash was horrific. The comments he made to another member of the team before the session, about throwing the car around, or really pushing it, is haunting. It's in the Senna documentary.