#F1 Daily News and Comment: Wednesday 29th April 2015

A Daily Round up of Formula One news, inside whispers, opinion and comment. Today, Pepperidge Farm Remembers Least surprising news ever: Mallya under pressure for ‘irregularities’ Mick Watch: Early success Gary Anderson: How to s@!t on Peter Warr Pepperidge Farm Remembers Many moons ago, when the wild buffalo still roamed the prairie freely, I was … Read more

A Tale of 2 drivers – same team – ex-mates, Mallya Criminal Summons, Ross Brawn goes fishing? Tim Goss McLaren’s new Technical Director

Toro Rosso: Best buddies now not even friends

Sometimes when reporting the news, it’s easy to get a cheap headline by taking out of context things said by those who are at the heart of the story. I read a secondary source reporting on this article from Melbourne based  publication ‘The Age’ and that source was highly selective on the quotes they represented.

The article reveals that prior to joining F1 team Toro Rosso, Daniel Ricciardo and Jean Eric Vergne were the best of friends.

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Ferrari announce… no launch date, Helmut Marko: Alonso too political, Nurburgring still not confirmed, Banks close to seizing Mallya’s assets, F1 car evolution

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2013 F1 calendar: Our favourite subject. At risk of getting reader DwilD started again, I’m afraid there is more to report. Having said that, I don’t remember a season in recent times where the number of issues on the calendar are yet subject to uncertainty.

Yesterday tj13 reported potential unrest in Bahrain. The week before Christmas we had the bizarre scenario of Barcelona claiming they knew nothing of the widely publicised bi-annual sharing arrangement with Valencia (LINK) and Valencia’s surprised response (LINK).

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