Cav's Place

After the failure of the new Formula 1 qualifying format after only two races and the official announcement that the previous one will be used for the rest of the season, I started thinking of some other format that will add to the excitement while doing without the flaws of this failed new format. In […]

Since the ski jumping season’s last competition took place today and I wrote a post mentioning the records set on Thursday, I just want to quickly follow up with the final numbers. Those are 502 Ski Jumping World Cup competition appearances for Noriaki Kasai and 15 wins, 22 podiums and 2303 points obtained during a […]

For fans of ski jumping who also happen to keep track of records and milestones, this early competition that took place today in Planica, making up for last week’s canceled second competition in Titisee-Neustadt, made for quite a morning. There was no new ski flying record, nor a new hill record, those remaining at 251.5 […]

Yes, I’ve been watching the Women’s World Cup once again and… I’ve actually been meaning to praise even more notable improvements when I decided to write this post, but then I read what I wrote back in 2011 and saw striking similarities. France again impressed but didn’t make it too far while Germany advanced without […]

Considering the sweeping rule changes, most people were expecting Formula 1 to be plagued by reliability issues and mistakes last season, especially in the early part. However, what happened was that the first rounds saw unusually few problems, in fact more being noticed later during the year, and even those were fewer than what most […]