There are those who don’t rate Jenson Button amongst the greats, despite his winning the world championship last year. They cite the fact that he was driving the best car and that his performances dropped off in the second half of the year compared to those of his team-mate Rubens Barrichello. The same people raised their eyebrows when the Englishman left the championship-winning Brawn team at the end of the year to join McLaren, a Read more…

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The DARPA Grand Challenge cars certainly do think for themselves – after all, this is a competition where the competitors are driverless cars… that would certainly be a novel way of getting to work on time while getting an extra half hour’s sleep! DARPA stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is a section of the United States Department of Defense. DARPA were actually given authority by the United States Congress to develop revolutionary Read more…

Weather forecasts are notoriously inaccurate. Doesn’t matter whether they’re long-range or short-range, even a small change in wind speed or air pressure can send a shower of rain or an entire weather system away from its predicted course. Remember last year’s barbecue summer? No, neither do I. Which is why it beggared belief on Saturday in Malaysia when some of the most experienced teams on the grid chose to put their entire faith in a Read more…