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The removal of empty property rate relief
If one is trying to conduct a business, particularly in these difficult economic times, you would like to think the government and local authorities were in touch.
Silverstone Grand Prix
In some ways it was a bittersweet weekend for the British Racing Drivers’ Club. On the one hand, despite the weather, they were safeguarded because of the event having been a sell out and Lewis Hamilton excelled in what were atrocious conditions. But on the other, the Board of Directors and management they had elected had to swallow hard with the announcement that they had lost the Grand Prix from 2010.
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Formula One Excitement Returns
Excitement returned to Grand Prix racing with a superb race in Istanbul.
Ferrari, as has been usual since Australia, was the team to beat and Lewis Hamilton certainly did his best.
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Motor sport giant John Surtees M.B.E., the only man to have won both car and motorcycle world championships, was a crucial prime mover and honoured guest at the launch of China’s first ever purpose-built grand prix machine in Shanghai today.
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I was dismayed at the lack of media interest of the first signs of a resurgence of riders from this country being competitive at the highest world championship level in MotoGP. It is fair to say that British riders at one time dominated the world championships but sadly that became a thing of the past.
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Looking back to 2007 and forward to 2008
2007 must be looked upon as a good one for British motorsport. A British based manufacturer didn’t win the Formula One World Championship, with Renault losing that title to Ferrari.
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Formula One Intrigue
I am amazed that the FIA didn’t take the opportunity, when hearing the Renault case recently, to close the book on the McLaren Ferrari investigation
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BBC Sports Personality of the Year
I went to Birmingham for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year hoping to see both motorsport and motorcycling fully recognised by what it had contributed to the British sporting scene in 2007.
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Alonso and Hamilton must unite to beat Ferrari
13/8/07: Lewis Hamilton would have come away from Hungary with an even greater determination to get the job done in this season’s Formula One World Championship.
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Grand Prix doughnuts provide glimpse of the future
10/07/07: Not all the excitement at the British GP happened on the track - albeit qualifying, with Lewis Hamilton’s superb pole-winning last lap, created a buzz about the place . The other contributory factor was the mixture of young - and not so young - to be found in the BMW Pit Lane Park.
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18/06/2007: McLaren's simulator must be of help to a driver going to a circuit for the first time...but only if that driver can really focus his mind on making the best use of the technology available to him. Hamilton can and does thanks to an all round education.
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13/06/2007: While Hamilton has no preconceptions about the McLaren, Alonso has the experience, says Surtees. What he needs to do now is harness all the little things that experience has given him in order to meet the real challenge that is Hamilton.
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10/06/2007: A shorter road circuit on the island - with all the safety features of a modern track - could facilitate the double header of a MotoGP race with the traditional mountain course TT races, which in my view should be restricted to say 250cc and 600cc.
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