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Race organisers get ready for Loeb debut
With WRC ace Sebastien Loeb preparing for his F1 debut at Abu Dhabi, race organisers have already started to lay down the law…
Badoer to join Bristol Rovers?
On hearing the news that Toro Rosso reject, Sebastien Bourdais, is to drive in the Superleague Formula for Spanish football club FC Sevilla, Luca Badoer is reported to be keen on a seat for himself should things continue to go… tits up at Ferrari.
Superleague, for those unlucky not to have seen it, is where football clubs, including giants such as Liverpool, AC Milan and Rangers, stop kicking lumps out of each other on the pitch and do it on the track instead.
According to a plainly deluded Bourdais, “Superleague is the best alternative to F1, it’s the only other championship in Europe to offer a driver the possibility of racing single seaters at a high, professional level”
So, we’ll ignore GP2 for starters then.
Badoer has allegedly been sounded out by Scunthorpe United and Swansea City though Bristol Rovers are thought to be the Italian drivers first choice.
Buemi has a close shave
Valencia. While Romain Grosjean is about to debut the worst hairstyle in F1 since Minardi mop top, Fabrizio Barbazza, gave us the wild man look in 1993, spare a thought for Toro Rosso star Sebastien Buemi, who due to a… misunderstanding with his barber is now incapable of a hairdo of any sort.
Buemi visited a barbershop near the team factory in Faenza on Tuesday for a quick tidy up, but translation problems with the snipper resulted in a scalping that means that he’ll have to keep his noddle covered all weekend or face breaking out the factor 60.
Could be just the one weekend he does not want to get on the podium…
U R HSTRY Seb - B4N!
While Neslon Piquet jnr continues to vent his anger about his Renault sacking to anybody who will listen, his dole queue companion, Sebastien Bourdais is also continuing to have a moan about his previous employer.
Seb’s main grumble (this week) was… that Toro Rosso sacked him by a text message to his personal mobile ‘phone, which he reckons ‘lacked style’
Too right – any self respecting F1 team would have done it by Blackberry instead..
Bourdais vs Toro Rosso – Court case latest
Following his dismissal from the team, we asked a leading Employment Lawyer to give us the low-down on how the court case of the century may progress as Sebastien Bourdais takes on Toro Rosso..
Sir Horace Pyle (representing Toro Rosso): Monsieur… Bourdais, Despite everybody else in the paddock knowing about it and the fact that it had been reported widely in the press, your sacking by the team was, according to you ’a shock?’
Sebastien Bourdais (representing himself): Mais oui!
SHP: In 27 races, in a car that last year won a Grand Prix in the hands of a vastly less experienced team mate, did you, or did you not, score only 6 points?
SB: Oui.
SHP: Despite knowing you must have been under some sort of pressure, you still managed to qualify in last place by over a second at the German Grand Prix?
SB: Er….oui.
SHP: Is it true, that even for a Frenchman, you have been positively grumpy, accused by your own team of being negative and that you have perfected the ‘Gallic Shrug’ when faced with explaining away bad results?
SB: C’est possible…
SHP: So, is it F1 next year or do you take the redundancy cheque and head back to America to pick up where you left off?
SB: *Gallic Shrug*
SHP: The case for the defence rests M’Lud.
Judge: Monsieur Bourdais, Having considered the evidence, I find you guilty of not being a very good F1 driver and I sentence you to life in the colonies, where you will spend your days competing in poor quality race series, dressed as Ronald McDonald.
Bailiff, take him down.
A note for the real legal people – this is of course made up and we look forward to the real thing kicking off soon….
Alguersuari moves in
When Jaime Alguersuari checks into Sebastien Bourdais’ old room in the Toro Rosso motorhome, he finds the teams motivational posters are not quite as helpful as they might be…
One Sebastien to replace another?
Nurburgring, Saturday. Just as he seems to have perfected his grumpy expression and gallic shrug, Toro Rosso pedaller, Sebastien Bourdais looks like he might be enjoying (enduring?) his final Grand Prix weekend.
While some think that British F3 champion, Jaime… Alguersuari, is set for the drive, the good news is that the far easier to spell, Sebastien Loeb could get the gig.
Desperate to report on anything other than the Tour de France, French daily sports paper L’Equipe, reckons that a debut by a 35 year old rally driver with close to zero F1 experience is going to happen.
Too much wine for the journalist at lunchtime perhaps?
Mind you, with the amount of off-road activity during qualifying. Loeb should feel right at home…
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