Narrow operating window of RB15 challenging Red Bull drivers
By Red Bull’s Christian Horner says the Bahrain Grand Prix weekend highlighted the “narrow” operating window of the team’s RB15 and the challenge it poses to its drivers. Max Verstappen qualified fifth at Sakhir and concluded the race fourth while Pierre Gasly struggled to approach his team mate’s performance. According to Horner however, neither driver currently […]
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Tost: ‘No crisis’ with Red Bull’s junior driver programme
Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost has denied suggestions that Red Bull’s famous driver development programme has run out of steam. “It is nonsense that the Red Bull Young Driver Programme is in crisis,” Tost told Motorsport.com this week. “Dr Helmut Marko does a fantastic job and we have good drivers.” The system has been hugely […]
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Step Aside, Gentlemen.
A two-step solution to climate change: Fire all the men. Replace them with women. If you think this proposal is hyperbolic, just look at the data. Women invest more in health, security, and our children’s future than men do. When American women got the vote in 1920—a time when the vast majority of babies were […]
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Humanitarian Groups Refuse to Partake in 'Mass Expulsion' of Refugees
In a stinging rebuke to Europe’s political leaders, four prominent humanitarian groups are ceasing operations in refugee camps on several Greek islands this week because of what they characterize as human rights violations in the wake of the controversial EU-Turkey refugee deal. “We will not allow our assistance to be instrumentalized for a mass expulsion […]
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Grosjean expects Haas to be fast again in Bahrain
Romain Grosjean says that he expects the Haas F1 Team to continue to be at the front of the mid-field pack next week in Bahrain. “Absolutely,” he replied when asked if he expected more success in the second race of the season. “Our car showed that it was fast in Barcelona and in Australia, so […]
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Ricciardo held up by ‘strange’ seatbelt issue in FP2
Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo suffered a delayed start to his FP2 session because of a “strange” issue involving the seatbelts of his R.S.19. While the track action gained momentum in Friday’s afternoon session, the local hero was stranded in his garage, his Renault mechanics frantically pouring over the cockpit of his car. “We were a bit […]
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The Trans-Pacific Trade Scam
Last spring, President Barack Obama got downright crabby about people criticizing the mammoth Trans-Pacific Partnership he’s trying to sell to Congress and the public. More and more Americans are learning that the TPP would undermine America’s very sovereignty, giving multinational corporations direct access to secretive tribunals that could roll back any consumer, labor, or environmental […]
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Vettel: Intense few weeks have led to ‘some answers’ for Ferrari
Click:customised couple bobblehead Sebastian Vettel believes Ferrari has uncovered “some answers’ to the team’s under-performance in the opening round of the F1 world championship. The Scuderia was hyped as the class of the field heading to Melbourne but the Italian squad failed to live up to pre-season expectations with both Vettel and Charles Leclerc comfortably […]
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New Report Confirms: World's Wealthy Fueling Carbon Pollution as Poor Suffer
As politicians, diplomats, and corporate representatives gather in Paris for the COP21 talks, a new report released Wednesday by Oxfam International confirms what civil society groups have long charged: while the richest people and countries are disproportionately driving climate change, the poor—particularly in the global south—bear the brunt of the droughts, mega-storms, and rising seas. […]
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Groups to Obama: Declare Climate Emergency, Ban Crude Oil Exports
Hundreds of organizations on Wednesday filed a legal petition (pdf) calling on the Obama administration to declare a “national climate emergency” and end all U.S. crude oil exports, which they say would keep millions of tons of greenhouse gas pollution from entering the atmosphere. The petition comes as the U.S. nears a signing date for […]
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