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2nd Test for Taku !
Written by Mark Talbot   
Friday, 07 November 2008

Torro Rosso has asked Taku to present himself at Barcelona later this month for a second test drive as they try and decide who will take the empty 2009 seat.

There are other drivers vying for the seat, including of course the current driver Bourdais. Following Honda's announcement this week, the likely-to-be-dumped Barrichello is also likely to be knocking on the door.

Fans around the world will now be praying for good weather so that Taku can get a full programme of testing completed this time. This is probably the last chance for a driver's seat for 2009, and so everyone will be holding their breath to hear the outcome.

Taku has throughout his F1 career made friends up and down the pitlane with his ability to communicate twitches and blips to engineering teams, and to tease out every bit of performance.

Being at Barcelona would be a dream, unfortunately I can't make it - but I hope to have some route into timings as I slave away at work.

Comeon, Taku - make F1 worth watching again Laughing

 
Congratulations!
Written by Mark Talbot   
Wednesday, 01 October 2008

“Takuma Sato is delighted to announce the birth of a baby girl at Princes Grace Hospital Centre in Monaco at 15:50 on 30 September 2008. The baby weighed 2740g (6lb), and both baby and mother are in good health.”  -  TS Management.

 Amongst news stories of economic meltdown, FIA nonsense, and waring factions, we have some great happy news! 

Takuma and his lovely wife have a new daughter and must be the proudest of parents.

From all of us  at saf1.org our heartfelt congratulations and very best wishes ... and to Baby Sato "Welcome".

 
Olympic Mistake
Written by Mark Talbot   
Wednesday, 24 September 2008

During the recent 2008 Olympics an amazing thing happened. Natural justice was seen to work in sport.

In the last few moments of  a rather uneventful bout of Tae Kwon Do a competitor hit the home crowd’s favourite in the face – a winning blow. As the world watched the replays it was clear – but the rules demand that three of four floor judges see it and respond to it within a second of each other, and they hadn’t.

The referee calls the judges to a huddle – no, the kick was missed by at least two judges, no points, no win.

The rules are clear, and there is no appeal.

But then the world changed. The Olympic spirit of fair contestants and fair judges was exercised. Against the flow of rules and regulations, justice was applied to top-flight sport. An appeal was heard and the mistake was corrected. The result was overturned.

Maybe that’s why we use the term “Olympic” when we describe the best. This was an Olympic decision to the benefit of sport and natural justice.

The FIA have just been made to look like complete amateurs again.

As the world watched on, they showed themselves as small-minded minnows  incapable of seeing justice as a better principle than badly written rules.  If you have to change a rule because it is badly written, you should not then rely on another badly thought out rule to prevent a challenge.

Next to the judges of Tae Kwon Do in Beijing this year, the FIA look like jobsworth wheel clampers.

Formula 1 should look at taking itself away from such incompetent amateurs if it wants to impress the people that pay for its existence.

 
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