Dear Mohammed Ben Sulayem today i saw your comment on my feeds. At first I believed I miss read it. Nope, that was not the case. You were quoted that you don’t understand that a single driver and team principal earn more money than the whole FIA does. Maybe you forgot, the FIA is a […]
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Around 2009/2010 I started my first research into the Phoenix Grand Prix project. At that time, I recalled that the Phoenix tried to rise from it’s Prost Grand Prix ashes and failed. It’s about that time that I saw the name Jon Hilton for the first time. My second research back in 2012/2013 brought me […]
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Back in 2011, i had a brief contact with Charles Nickerson after I found his email address while going through some documents. Charles was a close friend from late Tom Walkinshaw, both raced together where Charles had a decent career in rally racing. Under the pseudonym Chuck Nicholson. He and Tom where the two behind […]
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It has been eight years when i “finished” my research for Phoenix Grand Prix. For those who don’t recall or are new with this. Phoenix Grand Prix was rose from the ashes of Prost Grand Prix in early 2002. Late Tom Walkinshaw and Charles Nickerson were behind this project. Where TWR would help out to […]
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Auto Polo was een sport die vooral in de eerste kwart van de 20e eeuw populair was bij vele over de hele wereld. In plaats van paarden werden er automobielen gebruikt om de bal te slaan. Algemeen wordt aangenomen dat Auto Polo als sport in 1911/1912 werd geïntroduceerd door Ralph Hankinson. Het promoten van de […]
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The roaring twenties an era of economic prosperity the years when the sky was the limit. People started dancing on Jazz music, the fashion become more exciting and modern. People started enjoying life in a modern way, as we have today. The era that evolved motorsport to a new standard, professional and serious. Car manufacturers […]
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Randomly it hit me; I saw Pedro Diniz in the Forti FG01.. We are turning into old Formula One souls! I would rather say old Formula One 90babies. However, that would not cover the whole story. What is a fact is that 2050 is closer by then 1990. Which does hurt a bit. I’m not […]
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Het is nog vroeg in de morgen op 4 November 1899 wanneer de eerste automobielen worden gestart in Den Haag. Het is koud, er staat veel wind, en vele wegen zijn veranderd in modder paden. De perfecte dag voor de eerste Trial, en zo geschreven automobiel wedstrijd, wordt gehouden in Nederland door de Nederlandsche Automobiel […]
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There is no undertone in the statement; all I would like to see is Maurizio Arrivabene to replace Mohammed Ben Sulayem as president of the FIA. Most of all, because Sulayem just ruined it with his current state of ruling the FIA. Sure, his announcement of the return of the V10 engines in the F1 […]
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The title might not cover the whole story in this one. The original purpose of this article was to dedicate an article regarding Bernie Madoff’s pyramid scheme that destroyed the financials in 2008 and changed the Formula One. However, this might still be a sensitive subject for some. Therefore, I shifted to the start of […]
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