Renault drivers blame ‘out of sync’ runs for poor FP2

Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo and Nico Hulkenberg ended Friday’s second practice near the bottom of the timesheet, with both drivers blaming out of sequence runs for their underperformance. Ricciardo and Hulkenberg clocked in at the end of FP2 respectively P17 and P18, outpacing only their Williams counterparts. With FP2 classification set to form Sunday’s starting grid …

Bulls Verstappen and Albon ‘maximized it’ at Sochi

Max Verstappen and Alex Albon believed they both made the most of their Russian Grand Prix on Sunday, the Aston Martin Red Bull Racing drivers concluding their day respectively fourth and fifth at Sochi. Verstappen launched his race from P9 following his five-spot grid penalty, but lost no time moving up through the field in …

Brazilian GP: Thursday’s build-up in pictures

Formula 1 moves on to the penultimate round of the 2019 world championship which takes place at the Autodromo Carlos Pace in Sao Paulo. Check out our first gallery of the weekend and the pictures from Thursday’s media day at Interlagos. 46 You may also like GALLERY: Mercedes celebrates titles at Brackley and Brixworth US …

F1 – 2019 BRAZILIAN GP SCHEDULE OF PRESS CONFERENCES

THURSDAY, 14 NOVEMBER, 1100 HOURS LOCAL TIME Romain Grosjean (Haas)Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes)Sergio Pérez (Racing Point)Daniel Ricciardo (Renault)Robert Kubica (Williams) FRIDAY, 15 NOVEMBER, 1300 HOURS LOCAL TIME Frédéric Vasseur (Alfa Romeo)Toyoharu Tanabe (Honda)Mario Isola (Pirelli)Otmar Szafnauer (Racing Point)Christian Horner (Red Bull) SATURDAY, 16 NOVEMBER, POST-QUALIFYING Three fastest drivers from Qualifying SUNDAY, 17 NOVEMBER, POST-RACE First three finishing drivers Click …

Bringing the Troika to Paris

I have argued for years, and in my last post on this blog, that a big part of the story we have seen in Europe over the past eight years is a result of social engineering. This has involved a major offensive by the European authorities, taking advantage of an economic crisis, to transform Europe …

Thousands of Teachers Across England Go on Strike Against Austerity

Decrying widespread funding cuts, ballooning class sizes, lengthening workdays, and the Conservative government’s emphasis on austerity in public education, thousands of teachers across England walked out of classes on Tuesday for a 24-hour nationwide strike. Tweets about #investdontcut OR #nutstrike “I’m striking because the education system is terrible,” a teacher named Lisa told the Guardian. “I …

Why Don’t We Feel as Burned by the Panama Papers as We Do by Donald Trump?

The internet is exploding with conversations about the Panama Papers  — the largest data dump in history of secret files about rich people hiding and hoarding money. And yet the biggest story of all is hardly getting any attention. That story, of course, is how this widespread systemic corruption has been able to grow its tendrils …

It’s Not A New Word Shashi Tharoor Is Teaching Us But A Strong Life Lesson Instead

Rodomontade.  Esurient.  Floccinaucinihilipilification.  No, we did not fall asleep on the keyboard. These are actual English words that we have learned from Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram. It is a well-known fact that his vocabulary is good. And that’s not it, the former diplomat stuns us constantly with his razor sharp wit when …

Google Is Letting You Use AI To Test If You Sound As Good As Freddie Mercury

If you’re a true Freddie Mercury fan you’d know that this is the month 44 years ago when he performed Bohemian Rhapsody (which is also the first pre-1990 song to reach a billion views on YouTube) live, for the first time. AP And now, Google has partnered with Queen to create the ‘FreddieMeter’ app that uses …