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Ken Block at Top Gear

July 7th, 2009 Jim No comments

Last Sunday guys from Top Gear team invited (or were invited by) Ken Block to make a piece of car video together.

As Ken Block gets millions of views on the internet, they decided to show him the old fashioned way (on TV) during last Sunday’s episode of Top Gear. Well this way they widened his audience for sure and added even more for themselves (win-win). The footage is as cool as Ken Block’s previous Gymkhana.

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Are the motor sports dying?

June 23rd, 2009 Jim 3 comments
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Last Sunday I watched the Formula 1 Silverstone Grand Prix (Great Britain). I have to admit that it was the first race of the series that I watched this season. Until now I only read some summaries or news. Although I consider myself as a fan, somehow I didn’t really feel like watching the previous races. But this was Silverstone – last year it was the best race of the season (very wet track), so I decided to sit in front of the TV and check what will happen this year.

And this first race… was pretty boring. My expectations were low, after reading all the bitter news from the press… About teams vs FIA conflict. About the double diffuser issue…

Where was the competition? The adrenaline? Where are the duels? Overtaking?

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