Cav's Place

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 […]

The Beijing ePrix, the first race of the new Formula E, took place yesterday, being won by Lucas di Grassi after Nicolas Prost intentionally ran into Nick Heidfeld, taking them both out of the race as they were heading into the final corner, battling for first place. Thankfully, Heidfeld seems fine despite the spectacular crash […]

As I have done in 2008, actually also on June 15, as well as in 2010, I will once again wonder why aren’t teams allowed to challenge the decisions of the referees by asking them to look at the replays. It won’t be some technology making decisions, in fact that’d be impossible at the moment, […]