Welcome to
Hungary; you’re just in time for this year’s Formula 1 Pirelli Hungarian Grand Prix! This event is held close to the heart
within the Timko household, seeing that we are a Hungarian-American family.
However, the celebratory mood for this weekend’s Grand Prix does not end there.
The setting for the event, the Hungaroring, is much-lauded for being overly
satisfying from a driver’s perspective. In fact, Red Bull Racing’s Daniel
Ricciardo has recently compared driving the venue to racing ‘like Monaco
without the walls.’ The tight and twisty 14-cornered circuit nestled in the
hills surrounding the Hungarian capitol of Budapest, has hosted the Hungarian
Grand Prix in each of the previous 28 Formula 1 campaigns. And in speaking for
the 9.88 million Magyars of Hungary and for Hungarian ex-pats wherever you may
be, it’s time to go racing!
To continue reading my post previewing the 2014 Pirelli Hungarian Grand Prix, please click here.
Here we go
folks; it’s time for the Formula 1 Santander
German Grand Prix! Sticking to recently scheduled form, this year’s event
takes center stage at the Circuit Hockenheimring. Because of that form, the
Hockenheimring and Nurburgring have alternated hosting the German Grand Prix
since 2007; before then, the Hockenheimring had hosted each German Grand Prix
since the 1986 campaign. The last time we paid homage to the circuit in 2012,
Fernando Alonso took his “prancing horse” to the lead position in parc fermé,
and did so in both dominant and controversial form.
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Houston,
it appears the world’s most-watched annual sports series has a problem (…or
two). The sport of Formula 1 has the ability to bring-in nearly $32 million in
hotel room purchases over a single three-day period in the middle of November,
as it did for the inaugural United States Grand Prix hosted by Austin, Texas,
in 2012. But the series’ modern business machine that has been created by
one-Bernie Ecclestone and private equity firm CVC Capital Partners, is now
quickly realizing that it’s not all that invincible. In fact, some of the same
underlying issues that hit the American motorsport scene head-on within in the
past decade are now quickly surfacing for members of the Formula 1 management
team. From the head-honcho worrying about the noise of F1’s new power units as
opposed to the financially-inept members of the sport, to “losing the audience”
in the words of Niki Lauda, and the rules that will soon be enacted as a
counter-punch. Let’s examine the sport’s latest batch of struggles just a bit closer…
To continue reading my post regarding today's "Formula struggles," please click here.
