Archive for May, 2010
Red Bull deny favoring Sebastien Vettel
After the 2010 season gets over, people will probably look back at the Turkish Grand Prix as the point where the game changed. If you want a more pinpoint moment, how about Lap 40 when Sebastien Vettel and Mark Webber clashed for the lead and ended up gifting 43 points on a platter to the fast-catching McLaren cars. Since then Red Bull Racing has [...]
England win 2010 ICC T20 World Cup
England ended a run of 35 years without winning a global tournament with a seven-wicket victory over their oldest rivals Australia in the final of the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 in Barbados. They did so in fine style, restricting a powerful Australian batting line-up to a score of 147 for six and with Craig Kieswetter hitting 63 and Kevin [...]
Mercedes GP to appeal against Schumacher penalty
Mercedes GP will be appealing the penalty given to former world champion Michael Schumacher for his pass on Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso at the Monaco Grand Prix. The team has forty eight hours to register the appeal and it will be against the decision to penalize their driver and not the penalty itself for that can’t be appealed against. [...]
2010 Monaco GP: Webber takes comfortable win
Red Bull’s Mark Webber took his second win of the season at the 2010 Monaco Grand Prix, on the heels of his victory at Spain last week. This is Webber’s fourth career win and quite definitely the sweetest coming in the unique principality where every driver wants to win. Team mate Sebastien Vettel took second to make it maximum points for the [...]
2010 Monaco GP: Webber on pole again
Mark Webber continued his red hot form as he drove his Red Bull to pole for the Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday. It was his third pole of the season, his fourth overall and comes on the heel of a dominant weekend at Spain last week, underlying the kind of momentum he has with him now. It was also the sixth pole for Red Bull Racing in six races this [...]
Three reasons to be happy about India’s T20 World Cup exit
Hardly four days have passed since India’s painful exit from the T20 World Cup in the Caribbean and we have heard all kinds of sinister stories on TV channels and leading newspapers of the country. Unfit players, fitter coaches, unruly skipper, pub brawls, torn t-shirts and quiet flights back home have some how ironically overshadowed that [...]
2010 Monaco Grand Prix: Alonso leads in free practice
Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso was quickest in practice on Thursday for the 2010 Monaco Grand Prix. The former double world champion set the fastest times in both sessions and was the only driver to post a sub 1:15 time on the Monte Carlo circuit. As is the norm, practice is held at Monaco on Thursdays while Fridays are off. Sebastien Vettel (Red [...]
Suresh Raina to lead India in Zimbabwe
Suresh Raina will lead India on their limited overs tour of Zimbabwe, which is scheduled to begin in June. Raina leads a side without a number of high-profile players who have been rested - regular captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and senior players Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh and Ashish Nehra will not be [...]
2010 Spanish GP: Webber takes dominant win
Mark Webber converted his pole position into victory in the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday. With this win, the Red Bull driver continued a decade long tradition where pole-sitters at Barcelona seem to win no matter what. In his home race, Fernando Alonso took second for Ferrari while Webber’s team mate Sebastien Vettel had to nurse his limping car [...]
2010 Spanish GP Qualifying: Webber takes stunning pole
Red Bull’s Mark Webber took a stunning pole for the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday at the Circuit de Catalunya. It is only his third pole of his career and his second pole of the 2010 season. Team mate Sebastien Vettel finished second locking out the front row again for team Red Bull. But it is the manner in which they dominated proceedings which [...]
