Renault’s Cyril Abiteboul says F1’s current level of spending isn’t sustainable, insisting that future expenditures will have to come down for the manufacturer to remain committed to the sport. Liberty Media, F1’s commercial rights owner, is still in the process of devising a budget cap and a more equitable prize money distribution scheme for the…
Read moreMallya hails renewed momentum at Force India
After a problematic start to the 2018 season for Force India, team principal Vijay Mallya is happy to see the squad finally appear to pick up some momentum ahead of the halfway point in the current campaign. Force India has taken fourth place in the constructors championship in the past two seasons. However this year…
Read more‘One of our better Fridays’, says Sebastian Vettel
Click:light novel Sebastian Vettel felt that today had been one of the team’s better Friday performances of the 2018 season to date. Click Here: Germany Football Shop The team has had a habit of being quite reserved on the first day of a race weekend before kicking into gear on Saturday in time for qualifying….
Read moreHulkenberg sees ‘only positives’ in having Ricciardo at Renault
Daniel Ricciardo’s move to Renault will be a benefit both to the team and to himself says the Aussie’s future team mate Nico Hulkenberg. Formula 1 was rocked last Friday by the news of Ricciardo’s switch from Red Bull Racing to the works French outfit in a bold two-year deal starting in 2019. For Hulkenberg,…
Read moreRival bidder for Force India criticises takeover process
An unsuccessful rival bidder for the Force India F1 team has raised doubts about how the administrators handled negotiations that resulted in the squad being taken over by a consortium led by Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll. Stroll is the father of Williams driver Lance, who is expected to move teams over the winter – if…
Read moreGreece for Sale: First Wave of Privatization Begins with Airport Buyout
Germany’s approval of Greece’s third bailout of €86 billion on Wednesday marked what critics of austerity warn is a new phase in the ongoing economic crisis: the privatization of the country’s most valuable assets. Under the terms of this latest agreement, Greece’s Syriza government—backtracking on some of its key campaign promises—agreed to sell-off €50 billion…
Read moreFree, Safe, Legal: Thousands Demand Ireland Bring Abortion 'Out of the Shadows'
Thousands marched through the Irish capital of Dublin on Saturday demanding that lawmakers make abortion “free, safe, and legal” by immediately repealing the constitution’s eighth amendment—which bans the medical procedure. Organized by the Abortion Rights Alliance and Amnesty International Ireland, the March for Choice will be the last such mass mobilization before Ireland’s next general…
Read moreStrong Words, But Little Action at Arctic Summit
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – After a one-day summit in the U.S. Arctic’s biggest city, leaders from the world’s northern countries acknowledged that climate change is seriously disrupting the Arctic ecosystem, yet left without committing themselves to serious action to fight the negative impacts of global warming. The Aug. 31 summit on ‘Global Leadership in the Arctic…
Read moreLet the Peace Games Begin
The contrast between the two games couldn’t be starker. On the one hand, the world’s most technologically advanced militaries and weapons systems are deployed to practice combat. On the other, despite tremendous nationalist pressure to beat the other, athletes from North Korea and South Korea competed with each other peacefully, even gracefully, in the 2016…
Read moreProtests in the global south: Ecuador and Chile facing an uncertain economic order
The Latin American south cone countries have been international analysed for what is being called social protests in the face of rising prices, elimination of subsidies, sale of ancestral lands to mining companies and other anti-social measures taken by governments. However, if you look at the recent history of Ecuador and Chile, nations where these…
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