Saturday
Hungarian Grand Prix Preview ? The Soap Opera Lands Again
Friday
Denny Hamlin tossed his HANS device at Kevin Harvick after crashing
Denny Hamlin wasn't happy with Kevin Harvick again at Bristol.
Hamlin was leading on lap 162 Saturday night when Harvick was following him on the straightaway. As Harvick's car drifted towards the wall, he wasn't completely behind Hamlin and made contact with Hamlin's bumper, sending him spinning.
After Hamlin's car bounced off the inside wall, he collected Dale Earnhardt Jr., whose car got sheared on the left side like a can opener.
Hamlin emerged from his car unscathed but ticked. He tossed his HANS device at Harvick's car as Harvick drove by.
"Last year he was just not paying attention and he didn't know that I had a cut tire last year and he just thinks he knows everything and probably thought he knew everything again," Hamlin said. "I just wish I had some kind of car left so I could show him the favor back. We're not even halfway, we're racing for the lead -- it's a misjudgment. He's a good driver. He knows better, he just made a mistake."
Harvick apologized on the radio (and on Twitter) afterwards and said the move was not intentional. And yes, Hamlin did follow the new NASCAR protocol that bars drivers from exiting their cars before safety workers arrive in aftermath of Kevin Ward's death on August 9 at a sprint car race in New York.
As you can see from the video above, Hamlin threw his HANS device while near one of the safety trucks around him and did not venture out towards Harvick's car in what could be considered a dangerous manner. Plus, there's nothing in NASCAR's new rule that bans the throwing of equipment at cars. If drivers want to do it like Hamlin did Saturday night, they're going to have to work at long-tossing.
The incident Hamlin references last year is when Hamlin had a cut tire from contact with Brian Vickers. Harvick got into the back of him and a mess of cars were collected. After the crash, Harvick parked his car in Hamlin's pit stall and Hamlin pushed Harvick's car out of it with his own.
Harvick ended up 11th after a late race speeding penalty. Hamlin finished 40th.
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Tuesday
2014 Brno MotoGP Sunday Round Up: Breaking The Streak
The hot-hand fallacy finally caught up with Marc Marquez. His amazing streak of consecutive wins stays at ten, the Spaniard being beaten for the first time this year. In his twenty-ninth race in the MotoGP class, Marquez and his crew finally failed to find a good enough set up to win, or even make it onto the podium. The Repsol Honda man has only missed out on the podium twice before, once at Mugello last year, when he crashed, and once at Phillip Island, when he was disqualified from the tire fiasco race.
Defeat had been waiting in the wings for Marquez for a while now. Look solely at the points table, and his dominance looks complete. But go back and look at his winning margin, and his advantage has not looked quite so large. Of his ten wins, only two were by a considerable margin: one at Austin, where he has always been better than the rest; one at Assen, where rain created large gaps. His advantage at Argentina and Indianapolis was 1.8 seconds, at Jerez, Le Mans and the Sachsenring under a second and a half. Marquez could only eke out victory at Qatar, Mugello and Barcelona, races he won by a half a second or less. At most races, Marquez was winning by a slender margin indeed, lapping on average just five or six hundredths of a second quicker than his rivals. It was enough, but it was really not very much at all.
Marquez' slender advantage over his rivals was a sign of just how close they really were. Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa had all come close to beating Marquez, and in the case of Pedrosa at Barcelona, Marquez had been forced to delve deep into his bag of tricks to beat his teammate. Marquez' talent may have loaded the dice he was rolling, but eventually they would fall another way. "People said winning was easy for me," Marquez told the Spanish media, "but I know how hard it was."
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Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2014/08/20/why-andre-lotterer-is-driving-for-caterham/
Monday
The latest from Germany
Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2014/07/30/the-latest-from-germany/
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Sunday
Live: 2014 Belgium GP3 race two | F1 Fanatic Live
Source: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2014/08/24/live-2014-belgium-gp3-race-two/