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Web Launch in March!!!
To those aficionados of the F1 Red Bulletin, the new site will launch a week prior to the Melbourne Grand Prix. You will be able to upload photos and comments regarding the Grand Prix weekend.
The new site's URL will remain www.redbulletinf1.com
New features such as Fantasy F1, F1 Top Trumps and weekly quizzes will allow subscribers and F1 fans alike to get the most out of the 2008 F1 season.
We look forward to hearing your comments about the site once it has launched.
Best regards.
Web Team London
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The Never-ending Season
Current mood:
Officially the season ended on October 21. But even as the Paddock was packing up, clearing away or visiting Sao Paulo hospital, there were rumours of a McLaren protest and the faint possibility of Hamilton achieving the impossible. Yesterday, as the FIA deliberated on that appeal the elder of the retired Schumachers was running rings around drivers several years his junior and getting 'back into the groove' like he hadn't missed a week's driving let a lone a season. It seems the season just never wants to end. We're still awaiting Alonso's decision, the Force India team have more people wanting to test and drive for them than is good for them and no-one has been chosen to drive alongside Hamilton. Critics of the political and in-team fighting are missing the point. Formula One is about racing, it is about sport but it's much, much more than that. It is about technological excellence, about the embarrassment of rich and famous followers, about the perceived glamour and aspiration. And politics. It thrives on the plotting, scheming and yep, even the cheating. This is what makes it more intriguing than any other sport, let alone motorsport. And long may it continue. The only fear is that 2008 won't live up to this season in terms of off-track tales. But then with a night race, another team caught in the spy scandal spotlight and both Schumachers making the headlines without even having a drive that fear is most likely unfounded. Roll on March 16 2008
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And we need a break, too - Matt, GP Brazil, Sunday
Well crikey, that was exciting wasn't it? Kimi! Who'd have thought it? Today was a good day to be in the paddock. Interlagos is tiny, seriously, the total amount of space for 11 teams here is about the same as what each team has individually in Turkey, at the other end of the scale. It makes for a hot, jostling crowd and – given the various rumours doing the rounds at the moment – the proverbial hotbed of gossip. The atmosphere this morning was superb.
It carried over on to the grid. If you've ever wondered what all those people do when they're milling around the cars in the half hour before the start, they fall into two groups: people working on the cars and people getting in the way of people working on the cars. Of the latter, these are further divided into the grid girls, the working media, F1's movers and shakers and everyone else trying to get on television. At least that's the case with two reporters known to this blogger, who wanted to be seen loitering in the back of a TV report, prominently displaying the T–shirt one was wearing, complete with logo of a guitar tuition course he's currently taking. Being on TV at a flyaway can be an expensive business. Everyone at home seems to feel the need to send a text message saying: 'You're on telly.' You realise this isn't cheap when your mobile phone bill arrives.
But enough of this. Kimi is finally world champion. Even taking away today's victory, which was carefully contrived by a team which understands the concept of teamwork, Kimi still won more races than anyone else and so is a worthy champion. And it would be a pretty poor sport if it didn't create circumstances for someone like Kimi to win.
There's a big party tonight, and then everyone will go their separate ways. After eight months on the road, F1 takes the next two weeks off. 2008 testing begins mid-November.