Cav's Place

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, […]

Nearly two years ago, I was wondering whether we’ll lose ski jumping to climate change, largely focusing on the lack of snow and the rain that sometimes started falling during the competition, but this year it’s obvious that I need to focus on an issue that I just mentioned in passing in that previous post, […]

I watched the Europa League draw earlier and just have to throw this out here and ask what kind of mockery was that? They used a computer to do something, then set 24 ties by just drawing a few numbers to pair groups of teams in some order that was arrived at in ways that […]

A couple of days ago, I noticed an article about the first official, FIA-sanctioned, racing series reserved for fully electric cars: Formula E. It will debut next year and the first season is set to consist of ten races, all taking place on street circuits. Currently, the confirmed venues are Rio de Janeiro and Rome, […]