If Only - The Barn Find Of My Dreams

A website I use often called Jalopnik.com does these "Question Of The Day/Weekend" posts every other day and on weekends. Some of them are made into definitive lists, some of them are more open, with weekend ones always being the latter. This weekend it's "What is the barn find of your dreams?". Well, I don't remember having such a dream before, but it set my imagination off. After suggesting the missing one of only two roofless Toyota 2000GTs from...

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Sky F1 - A Calmer View

If you're on the main page, you can scroll down and read my initial reaction to the bad news that despite mention of F1 being "Not for sale" and Bernie Ecclestone saying it would be "disastrous" for F1 not to be on free-to-air TV (although since when was he a trustworthy person?), Sky has got its greedy hands on Formula 1 TV rights. I still stand by a lot of what I said - the presenters will probably be style-over-substance and have an irritating demeanour, the pre-race show will be interrupted with adverts for the million other Sky Sports, er,...

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Formula 1 - Coverage To Get Cancer Next Year

The best F1 broadcast team I've watched. Plus Jonathan Legard.I feel outraged and disgusted when I inform you that the BBC's Formula 1 coverage will be cut in half next year because of BskyB.As you may have read, an 'agreement' has been reached so that in 2012, Sky Sports will be the only channel network to broadcast the entire season of Formula 1, and BBC will only be able to show half the races live [Source: F1Fanatic]. The key problem...

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Formula 1 - German Grand Prix 2011

This is what it's like to be at the back. Is it depressing? I don't know. I guess they're just happy to be in F1.The Nürburgring needs no introduction*. Unless you've never heard of it before, in which case, what the hell have you been doing?! For those of you that haven't, I can tell you it's neither spelt nor pronounced "Nuremberg Ring", which some people get confused about because the town of Nuremberg is much better-known to non-car folk...

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Could The Lotus T125 Save The Supercar?

Also available in green with a yellow stripe, red and white with a gold stripe, black with gold highlights and yellow.Just now I watched TopGear. I actually thought it was actually a pretty good episode, after last week had its ups and downs (while I loved the GT-R's astonishing lap time and Rowan Atkinson's, er, astonishing lap time, I thought the train bit wasn't what it could've been and essentially acted as episode padding). The Jensen...

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Supercar Saturday - Jeremy Clarkson Just Had A Crisis

Do you think the design chief at AMG designs monsters for cartoons as a side project?The tall shouty bloke off TopGear is a big fan of Mercedes-Benz's AMG branch, purveyors of testosterone-fuelled sports/muscle car versions of ordinary saloons and coupés. He owns a CLK63 AMG Black Series, a special edition of the CLK63 AMG made by AMG's even sportier sub-division that's a grizzly, shouty version of the grizzly, shouty version of the CLK coupé. After...

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Formula 1 - British Grand Prix 2011

Naturally the race attracted a few British VIPs, including Damon Hill, Jackie Stewart, Prince Harry and Murray WalkerInteresting Fact: The prestigious Silverstone circuit (which hosted Britain's 66th Grand Prix last weekend) is in-between two counties, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire. Now that the Start/Finish line has been moved to the bottom end of the circuit, the 2011 race is classed as taking place in Buckinghamshire, whereas...

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Goodwood Festival of Speed '11: The Mega Gallery! (Part 2)

Welcome to Part 2 (or Part Deux, if you prefer) of my Goodwood FOS gallery from last weekend. If you missed the first part, follow this here link right here. I didn't take any pictures of the track, I'm afraid, but I did take a few videos. I'm sure other blogs will already have on-track galleries anyway, but I'll remember to buy a programme next year so I know where to be and when. Anyway, feel free to scroll through the second half of my day...

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