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Listed below are comments made by FatBoyW between Monday, 11th August 2008 and Tuesday, 26th May 2009.

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Britain and the bike: a bumpy ride 06:56am on 26 May 2009 Matt, two things come to mind on your article and comments:
on coverage, your argument would stand up if we hadn't had to suffer years of wall to wall horse racing from Auntie. If your argument of popularity follows, then if the betting component is ignored how does so much horse jumping and 3 day eventing consistently get covered?

On a more serious note your point about the consequences of bad driving is to me the nub of what could start to shift attitudes. The argument you did not see someone/thing should be automatic 'lack of due care' when flying around in a ton or two of metal and the consequence should be custodial. When eventually this nations legislature/government gets into its head that the punishments for speed are one thing but if you hit someone and it is seen to be avidable you could end up in prison then we may see a shift of driving. My understanding from talk to people from there is that this is the approach elsewhere in europe. It makes sense to me, we should respect other humans and do everything we can not to kill or maim our fellow man, so when we shoot around in cars we should be thinking all the time about the dangers.
I also totally agree, for such a dangerous activity as driving the training should be repeated every 7 - 10 years minimum.
Its a crazy world that worries about a few avoidable deaths per year on public transport whilst we are allowed to slaughter thousands in our private vehicles for which we might get a few points or even lose our right to drive over.
McLaren await FIA verdict 09:24am on 29 Apr 2009 telnolies - Nope they should get the big nose out of it and start looking at how they operate the rules.
1. Stewards need to be trained a bit more to look at all the evidence before making a decision
2. Need to communicate the rules clearly to the teams so they don't need to be chatting to Race Control to worl out what they are during the race
3. Need to be able to draw a line under decisions, same as in footie, once you've been punished by the stewards at a race for an offence thats it, no more action can be taken.

On a different note they should get rid of the fuel rigs, keep the park ferme post practice, then the challenge would be to get the car to work fast with no fuel and fully loaded. I think we could get back to more like to the 70's style fo racing then.
McLaren await FIA verdict 4:01pm on 28 Apr 2009 Frankly don't understand all of this at all. I think the Shuey Monaco incident says it all. Its not up to the teams to decide what happened and what did not, nor in my book should the Stewards expect it. They are supposed to look at the evidence not try and work it out from hearsay from the driver!

Trulli should have been punished anyway - LH did not get off the circuit so Truklli must have broken the rules irrespective of the radio chatter at MM.

All this nonsense, motorsport is a complex sport where teams try and push the rules to the max - this emans they often transgress them. The culture encourages innovation which sometimes slips into blatant cheating (sucking suspension down with pumps which was everyone but Brabham, extra fuel tanks BAR, air restrictors that don't Toyota Rally). This addition of soap opera politics that has been added in teh alst couple of years is poor for me.
On the basis of this saga, surely there is no need for scrutineers, since the teams must ensure the cars are always legal and the punishment for 'lying' would be....

Bah!, I would prefer they left the sanctions to the race stewards and made sure they did their job!!
The end game of this diatribe - sack the rubbish stewards, they couldn't be bothered to gather all the evidence before making a decision.
The problem with winner takes all 2:03pm on 18 Mar 2009 I really can't see there being excitement in watching the last two or three races to see what the minor places are going to be after Ferrari have won the championship as they will consistently win with BMW Brawn et al picking up a few wins and Mclaren coming good too late in the day, adn that is just this season!

It is a bizarre bit of Bernie rubbish, shocking waste of time, the last few seasons had rekindled my interest in the sport. I thought they might make it truly interesting by removing the pit stops hey ho. Back to cycling - far more exciting
Three gold medals - and I'm shattered 09:22am on 20 Aug 2008 Totally Awesome.

Well done Chris and all of the team, completely deserved. Look forward to being able to salute you!
Gold confirms Cooke's cycling talent 12:51pm on 11 Aug 2008 Fantastic by Nicole, Emma and Sharon.
If you could not see it is a team sport look at the way Nicole searches out the others to thank them at the end.

As for the careful corner at the end in no small part I'm sure Nicole wanted the other four to go for it up the hill so they all did not spend too much time looking at each other and get swamped by the chasers. Pretty audacious and confident although she was by far the strongest of the five and the rest knew it, if she had stayed with them at the end then they would have worked collectively to try and stop her using her sprint. By getting them to try early to beat up the hill she outgassed them - very clever.

As for Hugh - he did a great job the tv coverage at the end was pretty awful wasn't it

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