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24 hrs ...
Written by Mark Talbot   
Wednesday, 17 September 2008

Torro Rosso. Takuma Sato. A seat for 2009.

In 24 hrs I will have a good idea whether or not my interest in F1 has been rekindled.

Certainly as I spoke to Taku's management team tonight, little hairs on the back of my neck started to tingle again.

Taku spent the day on the wall today talking with the engineers, learning the TR tech talk (every team has a slightly different take on communication) and watching how the team work. His experience is a very valuable commodity to a team and he knows it.

Everything is in place and ready to go. The seat fitting last week went without hitch, a new suit in TR colours awaits him. Taku is at the peak of fitness, and communicating well with the team.

Everything is in the balance.

Taku has got to be good enough to dislodge Bourdais ... that's the feeling. 

We all know he can do that, given the chance. So fingers crossed for a reliable car and a sweet track - because this IS his chance, and they don't come that often.

Come on Taku - you have my (and thousands other fans') best wishes. Go, Go, Go ! 

 
Stuff F1 !
Written by Mark Talbot   
Sunday, 07 September 2008

Well, here we go again ...

The local stewards have decided that the most thrilling race end this year was too good and we all need to be taught a lesson.

After careful deliberation, they gave the win back to the rightful owners, Ferrari. This corrects the horrible mistake where the silver car went over the line first.

Anyone stupid enough to watch the race (after all we have all been given enough hints over the years that the FIA don't want us to watch) would have seen Hamilton cut a corner. Similar to Kimi a couple of times, to avoid a spun Hamilton and running off after getting the speed wrong.

Just because Hamilton let Kimi past again, and just because Kimi could no longer keep his car on the road, and just because Filipe can't go faster than 30mph in the wet, we shouldn't expect the car in front to win on a red car track.

FIA and local stewards have just tipped this writer over the edge.  

Even giving this penalty had the only other car affected by the move had finished, it would have been wrong ... but Kimi hit the wall. Any advantage gained is then null and void. How many times in F1 has a cut corner been ignored because the position was given back? Dozens if not hundreds!

I am sick to the core of the obvious wrong doings in F1 now. How can they do it to the sport I love?

If this decision is not rescinded ... I am out!    STUFF YOUR F1 !

Until Taku gets back into a race seat, THIS pundit is boycotting  F1. You have pushed me over the edge.

 
Test Confirmed !
Written by Mark Talbot   
Saturday, 16 August 2008

As predicted, Takuma Sato will be behind the wheel of a Torro Rosso F1 car for a full-blown try-out for a 2009 driver's seat.

The test has been confirmed here on saf1.org by his management team, and it will take place on September 18th at Jerez.

The Torro Rosso management team are known to be looking at a mature driver to compliment a youinger driver - and both seats could be available. Bourdais is effectively on notice following Gerhard Berger's comments (that Bourdais has six races remaining to convince Berger that he desrves to retain the seat).

On Taku's own site the news breaks with an article in which his race manager Andrew Gilbert-Scott reveals that several teams have shown interest, but the first tangible evidence of progress is this test drive.

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