Posts From Chris Hughes
MotoGP back under the spotlight
The 2010 MotoGP World Championship gets underway at the Losail International Circuit this weekend after an agonisingly long off-season period. Chris Hughes look at the season ahead…. will it be Rossi’s year once again?
The View from the Cockpit: Interview with IndyCar driver Ryan Briscoe
Ahead of this weekends IndyCar season opener, the Indy 300 in Sao Paulo. Chris Hughes spoke to driver Ryan Briscoe, 3rd place in the 2009 championship, about fan interaction, Formula 1, Twitter and the 2010 IndyCar season.
The prevalence of Timesheet PR in Formula 1
We are just weeks away from the start of one of Formula 1’s most open and uncertain seasons for years. Teams have been desperate to get mileage on their new cars with just three official pre-season test sessions prior to Bahrain, but even the Spanish weather has been unusually fickle.
What Makes a Sporting Event Memorable?
It was revealed by a Harris Interactive poll that the UK’s most memorable sporting moment was when Torvill and Dean skated their way to Winter Olympics gold in 1984. Bolero-tastic, it may have been, but the nation’s most memorable sporting moment?
The Return of a Champion
There are few people in Formula 1 who can command an audience quite like Michael Schumacher. The ‘launch’ of the Mercedes Grand Prix team in Stuttgart on Monday was proof that the seven-time former world champion can still create a stir amongst the international press corps, not least the British press for whom memories of Damon Hill’s mugging at Adelaide in 1994 still resonate strongly. But the return of Schumi to the F1 fold after a failed three-year attempt at retirement is a much needed boost for the sport after a year dogged by controversy.
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