In 2021, EA Sports purchased Codemasters and re-acquired again the rights to design Formula One games. Indeed, re-acquired because EA Sports is well known by a lot of gamers from the past. In 2000, the company published their first F1 2000. The game was buggy and after a couple of patches they started working on […]
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Back in 2002, the smaller teams on the grid like Minardi, Arrows and Jordan were struggling to gain enough money. Paul Stoddart saved Minardi just weeks before the start of the 2001 season. Prost Grand Prix was bankrupt during the 2001 season. While Arrows was in a strange situation with the Phoenix Grand Prix thingy […]
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Io me la ricordo molto bene quella notte fra il 7 e l’8 ottobre. Credo che molti di noi non dormirono per quanto agitati e tesi. Eravamo in attesa, sperando in un miracolo, di una vittoria che ci avrebbe fatto scoppiare il cuore dalla gioia. Con una vittoria, in terra giapponese, Michael Schumacher, finalmente, poteva […]
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It is a stupid question obviously, because you lost your mind. Max Verstappen has to do community service for saying fuck. Have you forgotten about your former mascot Günther Steiner? People only liked him because he continued swearing on television and in the soap “As the wheels turn” or whatever it’s called. I’m not a […]
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There was a time some Red Bull appeared in the late 80s as Gerhard Berger’s personal sponsor on the grid. During the years, Red Bull went from a major sponsor for the Sauber team and a small sponsor for Orange Arrows to a dominant factor. In 2005, they debuted after purchasing Jaguar Racing. Only months […]
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Een nieuwe eeuw was aangebroken de 19e eeuw was een interessante met de industriële revolutie en de eerste stapjes van de automobielen in de wereld. In Nederland waren de eerste stapjes ook gezet voor automobielen. Maar toch bleven de inwoners van Nederland voorzichtig, eerlijk is eerlijk we bleven toch liever vertrouwen op wat we al […]
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The late 1980s and the early 1990s is filled with stories about investment groups and individuals with money who were keen to appear on the grid with their own team. Some even managed to appear on the grid like Eddie Jordan. Many, obviously, never made it to the grid in these years. Some appeared on […]
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Recently i wrote about the first car that appeared on the Dutch roads in 1896. It was the Daimler from notary Backx. However, it seems this was not the first car. The first cars seems to have appeared in 1895 on the road in Tilburg it was from Jos Bogaers-Swagemakers. Wouldn’t surprise me if the […]
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Onlangs schreef ik in een artikel dat de eerste auto in September 1896 verscheen op de Nederlandse wegen. Dit was een Daimler van Notaris Backx echter bleek dit niet de eerste auto te zijn. Na nog meer onderzoek gedaan te hebben bleek dat er in 1895 al een auto op de Nederlandse wegen was te […]
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For everything there is a first time. While the first automobiles were constructed in the mid-1880s the public’s interest came with the “first” race held in 1894. The announcement for this event was already done the 19th of December 1893 in Le Petit Journal. While it was not the first race, it was the first […]
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