Cav's Place

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 […]

Been watching the Africa Cup of Nations matches and I yet again have to wonder why doesn’t somebody do something to make this competition less of a chore for the important players and their clubs and more interesting for everyone as a result? I mean, there are more than enough highly skilled players that do […]

Since today’s race can be said to have been particularly uneventful, there were no opportunities to see whether any procedures were changed as a result of some hasty decision meant to further reduce risks that are already shockingly low. However, over this past week I did see various articles mentioning that both closed cockpits and […]

As anyone who has any interest in racing, and probably plenty who don’t as well, undoubtedly already knows, Jules Bianchi crashed heavily into a recovery vehicle during today’s Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix, the race eventually being stopped on lap 46 of 53 a result. The recovery vehicle was there because Adrian Sutil had crashed […]