Monthly Archives: November 2019

Richemont Bets Big on China

According to Business Live, “global luxury goods retailer Richemont continues to bet on a more connected world with a clear strategy to target online Chinese customers.” In fact, the positive results in China helped the group register sales growth by 9% at actual exchange rates to € 7 397 million and by 6% at constant […]

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Verstappen’s spin blamed on floor damage to RB14

Red Bull has confirmed that Max Verstappen suffered damage to the floor of his RB14 early in the Australian Grand Prix. The damage not only compromised his pace and ability to challenge the cars ahead of him, they also contributed to the costly spin he suffered on lap 10. Verstappen’s problems began in the first […]

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Lauda would make Red Bull drivers pay for crash damage!

If he was running Red Bull Racing, Niki Lauda would lower the boom on Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo and force the pair to pay for the accident damage caused by their Baku run-in. Verstappen and Ricciardo were locked in a thrilling but uncompromising wheel-to-wheel battle for almost 40 laps in yesterday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix, […]

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Bullish Renault expecting more mid-field tussles in Bahrain

After a positive start to its 2018 campaign in Mebourne – both as a team and manufacturer – Renault is hopeful of keeping its momentum rolling in Bahrain. The French outfit enjoyed a double-points finish at the opening round of the season, with Nico Hulkenberg coming home seventh and rounding off the top ten. It […]

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My Teacher

I drove to Hamilton, N.Y., last December to take part in the funeral service for the Rev. Coleman Brown. Coleman, who had taught at Colgate University, had the most profound impact of all my teachers on my education. I took seven courses as an undergraduate in religion. He taught six of them. But his teaching […]

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Formula 1 looking for ways to spice up the off-season

Formula 1 CEO Chase Carey says the sport is currently investigating ways to engage with its fans twelve months a year and fill the entertainment void of the winter off-season. The Grand Prix calendar runs from March to the end of November and currently comprises 21 race dates. With the exception of pre-season testing which […]

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The Palestinian Bubble and the Burning of Toddler, Ali Dawabsha

One-and-a-half year old Ali Saad Dawabsha became the latest victim of Israeli violence on July 31. He was burnt to death. Other members of his family were also severely burnt in a Jewish settlers’ attack on their home in the village of Duma, near Nablus, in the West Bank. A spokesman for Rabbis for Human […]

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FP2: Ferrari’s Raikkonen and Vettel shine in the Bahrain night

Ferrari was on top form in the second free practice session for the Bahrain Grand Prix. Kimi Raikkonen pipped his team mate Sebastian Vettel to Friday’s honours by just over a hundredths of a second. The Mercedes pair of Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton were third and fourth fastest in the weekend’s first run under […]

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Bottas predicts strategy will be key in tight race

Click:hidden screws in wood Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas will start tomorrow’s Canadian Grand Prix from the front row alongside polesitter Sebastian Vettel. But the Finn says that it’s the race strategy that could prove the decisive factor. “Qualifying wise, obviously it was close with Ferrari,” Bottas said after qualifying. “It’s always annoying when its so close […]

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Barnard: ‘Changing McLaren like turning around an oil tanker’

Former McLaren designer John Barnard believes the big changes required to turn around the British outfit’s fortunes would be so massive they could put the team’s very existence in jeopardy. The legendary designer was a major contributor to McLaren’s revival when it was taken over by Ron Dennis in 1980, his revolutionary MP4/1 carbon-fibre concept […]

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