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Ferrari ditch familiar red for blue & white in protest – Mexico GP

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The Mexican Grand Prix was the last round on the 1964 World Championship calendar, and it served up a thrilling battle for the title. Coming into the race 3 drivers stood a chance at winning the title. Graham Hill led the way for BRM, holding a 5 point cushion over Ferrari’s John Surtees, with 9 … Read more

#F1 Daily News and Comment: Wednesday 11th February 2015

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This page will be updated throughout the day. Please if you are on Twitter press the tweet button below. If you re-write and tweet individual story headlines don’t forget to include #F1. You may not realise how hugely important this is and has helped grow our community significantly Previously on TheJudge13: #TJ13 #F1 Courtroom Podcast: … Read more

The #F1 Bar Exam: 30th October 2014

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Welcome to another week of TheJudge13 F1 Bar Exam. Last week’s question(s): Can you name the driver, team, race and track where the photo was taken. Can you also name the car (type) and where the driver finished in the race? The answer(s) I was looking for were: The driver in the photo is British … Read more

On This Day in #F1: 01 January

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Brought to you by TheJudge13 chronicler Carlo Carluccio Firstly, Happy New Year,  may 2014 be a good one! – 1968: Formula One finally gives up its innocence Whilst the world celebrated the dawn of a New Year, the Formula One teams had assembled in South Africa for the opening race of the 1968 season. Who could have … Read more

On this day in #F1: 29 December

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Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Carlo Carluccio – 1962: Hill wrote his name into the history books On this day, fifty one years ago Graham Hill secured his first world title and his win also confirmed BRM as the World Constructors champions. The Formula One World Championship had arrived in East London, South Africa for the … Read more

On this day in #F1: 27th October

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Brought to you by TheJudge13 chronicler Carlo Carluccio. 27/10/63 – Jim Clark equals Fangio’s record. Jim Clark set two records on his way to claiming his first World Championship in 1963. He beat the 6 wins in a season that Fangio had recorded in 1954 and became the first driver in history to win the … Read more

F1 Engine sounds, Force India to have Ferrari engines, Italian top 10 F1 drivers list, Bianchi to Force India, Mansell second hand car dealer

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Engine sounds: A couple of days ago I mentioned the engine sound changes we will hear in 2014. I found this last night. Listen to the sounds of F1 engines in 1967. (LINK) Sorry I can’t embed this video as the embed code they’ve given is wrong.

Italian rationality: For those of you who have been reading thejudge13 for some time, you will know my views on Ferrari – for those of you who don’t – Firstly, I LOVE Italy and Italian culture. I would live there if I could. However, as I often say – Ferrari would rather bask in the glory of being Ferrari than change their beliefs even if it would make them better.

There is an element of this in the Italian psyche I see in my friends of many years. Irrationality is accepted as a rational way of thinking and being and so to Autosprint – One of Italy’s finest Auto magazines. Today they publish a list of the best F1 drivers of all time.

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Marlboro McLaren becomes McLaren Nicorette, COTA business plan highly optimistic, Lewis leaving was all about the money, Austin Council votes to tax COTA, New F1 film for release in Austin

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Vodafone scale down sponsorship:  It has been widely rumoured that Vodafone will be pulling out of its 6 year relationship with McLaren at the end of 2013. This has been considered to be worth as much as $75m a year, which is stratospheric compared to the fee’s most sponsors of F1 teams pay. Joe Seward has done a great article on this today, the link is at the end if this section.

The points worthy of comment are, Glaxo Smith Klien (GSK) has been extending its relationship with McLaren, and in a big announcement in the summer the announced a “ground-breaking collaboration” which will apply McLaren’s winning expertise to the needs of GSK, the aim being to help it to function more efficiently with more efficient planning processes and better modelling tools to drive faster decision-making. This includes the construction of a learning facility called the ‘McLaren GSK Centre for Applied Performance’, which is under construction at McLaren’s Headquarters in Woking.they announcedis setting up.

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