50 years ago, Ayrton Senna was born

Saudade.

2010 Bahrain GP – quick review

Quickly, group 3F (Ferrari, Fernando & Felipe) looked great. Reliability won it for them. I am very happy for Stefano Domenicali because he is unimpeachably nice and loved at Ferrari.

I think McLaren will be better at Melbourne, as will a more reliable Red Bull (it was Sebastian Vettel’s race, to be honest).

Star of Race: Sebastian Vettel, nursing home a sick Red Bull to 4th for 20 laps.

I wish I saw Karun Chandhok’s accident. Didn’t get a replay.

Bruno Senna did very well, considering his HRT team hadn’t ever done a pitstop before the race. He is faster than Vitaly Petrov. Measure Bruno to others as if he was in the Renault, somewhere between Petrov and Robert Kubica.

Mark Webber has crappy luck.

Nico Rosberg better not have a “Rubens, move over for Michael” clause in his contract. He is the best internal competition for Michael Schumacher since 1990, and it will make it all the more interesting for us.

If you want to have some fun, go to f1pick6.com to guess the top 10 in each F1 race. It’s totally free and fun. I’ve been doing it for 6 years.

Good luck, @BSenna . You have what it takes for #F1

Luca di Montezemolo has excommunicated Schumacher from La Chiesa Ferrari

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81102

Michael Schumacher gets #3 due to #tetraphobia #F1

Michael Schumacher would have paid Nico Rosberg € 1.000.000 to NOT have number 4. Has more to do with Chinese superstition than a “desire for odd numbers”.

Four = 四 .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia

Let’s hope neither irony nor justification befalls Mercedes. Number 4 still belongs to the team, and we know what fat good it has done Ferrari lately.

http://planetf1.com/story/0,18954,3213_5881772,00.html

Lewis and Nicole have broken up

Thus ends this National Enquirer moment.

Schumi vs Senna – a better comparison to come

Mika Häkkinen and Fernando Alonso were Schumi’s only true nemeses during his reign, and not simultaneously. (An argument can be made for Kimi Raikkönen, but he was helped by the revised points to weaken Schumi.)

Senna had Nelson Piquet, Alain Prost, Keke Rosberg and Nigel Mansell – all former champions – as his competition, and he had to fight on a 33 car grid, compared to today’s 20 cars.

Now Schumi can be measured more accurately to Senna, as he now must contend with Lewis Hamilton, Alonso and Jenson Button (not to mention a Senna) at the same time. Kimi must be regretting leaving but it’s gonna be one helluva ride!

SCHUMI !!!!

This is a great day for the sport. One of my biggest regrets was not seeing Schumacher face Senna through 1994. Now 16 years later we will see a Senna face Schumi.

Ok ok, Bruno is hardly Ayrton. He has said that. But now there is a lot of pressure off him because everyone will be at the Mercedes trailer.

Amazing off-season. Fernando at Ferrari, Jenson & Lewis at McLaren and Kimi gone.

Now THIS.

Merry Christmas, F1!! Schumi’s coming back

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8420601.stm

Thierry Henry’s cheating

Thierry Henry cheated. My quick thoughts:

- the game should stand,

- replay MUST be implemented for the World Cup, and

- Henry should be banned for France’s next 10 FIFA non-friendlies. That means he’s out for South Africa.