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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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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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Last year Twitter now known as X became a very interesting platform. Not because Musk entered HQ with a badly used sink. No because Heinz-Harald Frentzen the should have been champion of 1999 became active on twitter. Heinz is one of the few people from the Formula One who interact with it’s fans on the […]
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At first I believed I was dreaming, then I believed I was time shifting between alternate realities. Only to realise I wasn’t dreaming nor hopping between alternate realities. What I’m talking about? The fact that the current FIA Formula One Championship as we know it only exists since 1981. The trigger came a few weeks […]
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If you’re from my generation or older you are probably aware of former Formula One driver John Newhouse. In 1997, Jacques Villeneuve won the World Championship for Rothmans Williams Renault. He had a contract for 1998 as well. However, it seemed that Jacques took a sabbatical from Formula One. That’s why Williams hired John Newhouse […]
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Only a few hours left before we enter 2023, it will be our sports 73th birthday. A sport that saw hundreds of drivers crossing the finish flag. Some of them only drove a handful of races in one season, other are still driving in the Formula One for over twenty years. Our beloved sport, there […]
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Earlier this week some rumours appeared to me that a Hong Kong based Billionaire is looking to enter the Formula One. His name is Calvin Lo and, according to Wikipedia, R.E. Lee International, the world’s largest and considered as the most successful life insurance broker company. So far the background. I was triggered today as […]
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Barbara Behlau made it happen that Roland Ratzenberger made his debut in the Formula One in 1994 with Simtek. After Ratzenberger’s horrific dead in Imola, Barbara was impressed how the team kept the spirit for Ratzenberger alive within the team. This was one of the reasons she purchased 30% of the stakes in the team. […]
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It is February 2004 when suddenly in the Dutch media the news appears that Tom Coronel is close to sign a deal with the Minardi Team to be their third driver in 2004. Besides that, Tom would test for the team in the summer probably a Vallelunga or Misano with the Minardi PS04A. As well, […]
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It’s the summer of 2002, the Orange Arrows team from Tom Walkinshaw is on the edge of bankruptcy. It’s the summer Paul Stoddart loves to see Walkinshaw burning and will have the ultimate payback in 2003 when purchasing most of the team’s assets in favour of his Minardi team. Moreover, it is the summer of […]
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