British F1 fans were delighted today when they saw the layout for the US Grand Prix track due to be built soon in Austin,Texas.
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Indian F1 team to come to Chandhok’s rescue?
Distraught at seeing his fellow countryman, Karun Chandhok, booted out of F1 (albeit temporarily) by Horrid Racing Team, an Indian design student, Nikhil Talal has decided to step in and help Karun out.
Nikhil has constructed a revolutionary F1 car made… entirely out of cardboard boxes and sellotape. Provided he can rustle up the €16 million deposit, Talal, 31, hopes to pip Jacques Villeneuve to the coveted thirteenth team slot for 2011, with Chandhok as number one driver.
The car has already been tested outside Nikhil’s house in Bangalore and while initial results were at first encourging, detailed analysis of the telemetry sadly showed that it had no rigidity to speak of, so was a real handful in the corners, it went all soft in the rain and dodgy build quality meant that every time the wind got up something would fall off.
Still, after what Karun has had to drive so far this year this thing should only be an improvement…
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Argentine driver to be auctioned to help pay USF1 debts
If you have a penchant for office furniture, printers, shelving and more than a few sets of spanners, then get yourself over to the online auctioneer who is flogging off the ‘assets’ of the USF1 team.
Apart from what appears to… be enough stock to fill a mid-sized IKEA store, you could go for Lot 27, a Weber barbeque (left), Lot 400, a Dyson vacuum cleaner or maybe Lot 426, a bottle of champagne – all seemingly unused.
However, it is Lot 497, Argentine racer, Jose Maria Lopez, that has caught the eye of many, with the ex-GP2 pedaller listed in the catalogue as being ‘in good condition’ and ‘ready to race in any national one-make saloon series’.
Lopez, who parted with $1 million for the pleasure of becoming a non-F1 driver, has a reserve price of just $500 though if he fails to reach this figure the auctioneers are prepared to throw in the Dyson as a sweetener.
Yours for just $500. Jose Maria Lopez (right)
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The most anticipated meal in F1 history?
Following one of the most bizarre competitions in Formula 1 history, Timo Glock, ably assisted by the lovely Isabell, cooked a meal chosen by one of our readers, Kathryn Bird.
Kathryn’s meal, a marinated chicken dish, was documented by Timo from… buying the ingredients to finishing the meal (pictures). Kathryn won some nice goodies from Virgin Racing and to top it all her meal will be served in the Virgin motorhome at a forthcoming Grand Prix.
However, Timo has turned the tables and next week the Grand Prix Diary editor will cook a meal of Glock’s choosing.
We are really praying he does not go for something too Germanic, the Germans may be good at a lot of things but enjoyable recipes is not one of them..
Timo buys some rare upside down chilli's...
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American Grand Prix plans hit an early snag
In an audacious plan to create a challenging Grand Prix track in Austin, US Grand Prix organisers bought, or so they thought, the Donington Park circuit and had it shipped, bit by bit, to Texas to have it rebuilt there.
However… when they put the track back together, they discovered they had in fact bought the less impressive Midlands venue, Mallory Park, by mistake.
Mallory Park may be all well and good for a bit of motorcycle racing or at a push rally cross but there is no way it could hold an F1 event.
The mistake, which has an uncanny likeness to the time a US businessman bought London Bridge and had it shipped to Arizona in the belief he had bought the far more impressive Tower Bridge, is believed to have occurred when an employee made a simple mistake when searching for a race track for sale on eBay.
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Texas ready for F1 bad boys
Organisers of the United States Grand Prix, due to be held in Austin in 2012, have warned drivers that they had better be on their best behaviour or else they can expect some ‘Good ole Texas justice.’
A spokesman for the… planned circuit, Jefferson T Bufford the third, said today, “We ain’t gonna have none of your high fallutin European ways here when you come for the Grand Prix, ya’ll be on your best behaviour or ya’ll know what breakin rocks 12 hours a day feels like”
Apparently a list of punishments is in the process of being drawn up and will include a 5-10 mandatory stretch in a local super max joint for speeding in the pitlane, passing under yellow flags will earn life without parole while anything deemed more serious by the stewards will see the offender on a one way visit to ‘Old Sparky’ (pictured)
Bufford insisted the punishments were in the Texas tradition of tolerance and fairness but said they would be dished out if need be: “Hell, we got one boy still up at the Jerry H Hodge Unit who crossed the pit entry line in NASCAR in 1953, he don’t go doin that again.”
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