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Mostly motorsport, but occasionally I'll voice my opinion about other stuff. This doesn't always go well
Breaking: President Flump impaled by American flag; overwhelmed by pain but mostly irony
September 26, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Breaking: President Flump impaled by American flag; overwhelmed by pain but mostly irony
Mr Saturday lives up to his name. Not sure if Jolyon Palmer on #c4f1 was deliberately invoking Joyce Grenfell with his "George... don't do that" when Russell brushed the wall at one point; I'm going to assume not since he didn't make any attempt at doing the voice
The 2026 Power Rankings Round 15
Azer by Jove, Missus That’s probably the best Saturday Grand Prix I’ve seen. Admittedly I’ve only got a few to choose from, but maybe we need races on random days. Petit Le Mans s…
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September 26, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Mr Saturday lives up to his name. Not sure if Jolyon Palmer on #c4f1 was deliberately invoking Joyce Grenfell with his "George... don't do that" when Russell brushed the wall at one point; I'm going to assume not since he didn't make any attempt at doing the voice
It's not a Trident, it's a Dallara. It's a Trident Dallara, or simply a Trident car, but Trident have not in any way designed or built the car.
Come on Formula 2, you can do better
Come on Formula 2, you can do better
September 26, 2026 at 7:09 AM
It's not a Trident, it's a Dallara. It's a Trident Dallara, or simply a Trident car, but Trident have not in any way designed or built the car.
Come on Formula 2, you can do better
Come on Formula 2, you can do better
BBC Radio 4 Extra makes its debut in this column, having found no fewer than three programmes with racing drivers talking about themselves or other people (note that only the first three editions of Great Lives feature Jackie Stewart, the rest have people who are considerably slower)
September 25, 2026 at 7:30 PM
BBC Radio 4 Extra makes its debut in this column, having found no fewer than three programmes with racing drivers talking about themselves or other people (note that only the first three editions of Great Lives feature Jackie Stewart, the rest have people who are considerably slower)
I remain deeply sceptical about such things from popular music artists. I still remember buying a copy of The Specials' Free Nelson Mandela only to find it did not come with an incarcerated South African politician gratis as stated
September 24, 2026 at 5:56 PM
I remain deeply sceptical about such things from popular music artists. I still remember buying a copy of The Specials' Free Nelson Mandela only to find it did not come with an incarcerated South African politician gratis as stated
If this isn't a track on the next Half Man Half Biscuit album, I will be disappointed
September 23, 2026 at 4:31 PM
If this isn't a track on the next Half Man Half Biscuit album, I will be disappointed
I always liked the BTCC's system from around the millennium, whereby your two fastest laps from qualifying counted. Whichever was set first was your time for the race 1 grid, the second one for the race 2 grid. Tended to mix things up depending on whether your fastest time was the first or second
September 22, 2026 at 5:31 PM
I always liked the BTCC's system from around the millennium, whereby your two fastest laps from qualifying counted. Whichever was set first was your time for the race 1 grid, the second one for the race 2 grid. Tended to mix things up depending on whether your fastest time was the first or second
My own first five-pointer of this series of #onlyconnect with the one beginning "Angelfish, worm; Flamingo, shrew" (it helped that I'd just been doing the RadioTimes crossword before the show). And here's a nod to the Connecting Walls that fits this account's usual motoring motif
September 21, 2026 at 7:35 PM
My own first five-pointer of this series of #onlyconnect with the one beginning "Angelfish, worm; Flamingo, shrew" (it helped that I'd just been doing the RadioTimes crossword before the show). And here's a nod to the Connecting Walls that fits this account's usual motoring motif
Reassuring to know that the Americans can do sarcasm too, courtesy of Car and Driver
September 21, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Reassuring to know that the Americans can do sarcasm too, courtesy of Car and Driver
Thinking about it, does anyone have Gary Imlach's number? I have no idea if he has any interest in motorsport, or in travelling around the world these days, but his desert-dry humour would deflate a few egos in the sport. Anyway, that's not entirely what this column is about...
The Rally Wild Show
If I were to proffer the subject “rallying on the BBC”, what springs immediately to mind? If you’re of a certain age, it’s probably Rally Report (variously appended to the T…
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September 21, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Thinking about it, does anyone have Gary Imlach's number? I have no idea if he has any interest in motorsport, or in travelling around the world these days, but his desert-dry humour would deflate a few egos in the sport. Anyway, that's not entirely what this column is about...
Too many abbreviations (not acronyms) here, it feels like a Blockbusters Gold Run (one for the teenagers). Unless the French Automobile Association have a sniffer dog called Al who is being deployed at 600 airports, which for some reason has been written in Roman numerals
September 21, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Too many abbreviations (not acronyms) here, it feels like a Blockbusters Gold Run (one for the teenagers). Unless the French Automobile Association have a sniffer dog called Al who is being deployed at 600 airports, which for some reason has been written in Roman numerals
Is there any mileage in adding a race to Mallory Park's Boxing Day meeting?
September 20, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Is there any mileage in adding a race to Mallory Park's Boxing Day meeting?
I don't know much about the NFL, so I get all my information from the UK Game Shows Page
September 20, 2026 at 7:20 AM
I don't know much about the NFL, so I get all my information from the UK Game Shows Page
I momentarily misread Cregger's as Cheggers, which I suspect would have been a somewhat tonally different film
September 18, 2026 at 5:37 PM
I momentarily misread Cregger's as Cheggers, which I suspect would have been a somewhat tonally different film
Apparently Autosport know who finished third in today's MotoGP practice, but for some reason they're not telling us who it was
September 18, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Apparently Autosport know who finished third in today's MotoGP practice, but for some reason they're not telling us who it was
Apologies if the terms "season finale" and "title decider" crop up repetitively in this week's guide, but it is that time of year, so it's only likely to become even more frequent. Lots of endurance racing this week, and live bikes on the tellybox
September 18, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Apologies if the terms "season finale" and "title decider" crop up repetitively in this week's guide, but it is that time of year, so it's only likely to become even more frequent. Lots of endurance racing this week, and live bikes on the tellybox
Of course, it's the phone she's tracking rather than him, so what I would do at this point is get a new phone, and send the old one to the other side of the world, with instructions to forward it on to somewhere equally far-flung, and tell the next person to do the same...
September 18, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Of course, it's the phone she's tracking rather than him, so what I would do at this point is get a new phone, and send the old one to the other side of the world, with instructions to forward it on to somewhere equally far-flung, and tell the next person to do the same...
Too much to ask that they could bring back Propaganda's Jewelled (from the old Top Gear Rally Report) but everything's looking good for the WRC at the moment. Assuming sufficient manufacturers have actually signed up for next year, anyway...
BBC broadcasts FIA World Rally Championship from 2027
The BBC will broadcast the FIA World Rally Championship across the UK from 2027-29.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 18, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Too much to ask that they could bring back Propaganda's Jewelled (from the old Top Gear Rally Report) but everything's looking good for the WRC at the moment. Assuming sufficient manufacturers have actually signed up for next year, anyway...
The only thing I knew about the would-be People's Republic of Piddington previously was that time Jeremy Clarkson drove a Renault Espace through it because reasons
I'm A Bit Of A Piddington | Top Gear
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September 16, 2026 at 7:26 AM
The only thing I knew about the would-be People's Republic of Piddington previously was that time Jeremy Clarkson drove a Renault Espace through it because reasons
Thanks for that, Google Translate
September 15, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Thanks for that, Google Translate
Highlights of tonight's #onlyconnect: a valiant moustache-off between the team captains, Victoria's continued efforts to get the show moved back to a post-watershed slot, and cars made by the same company as the one below (from this angle, it's not obvious, as it's not one of their finer efforts)
September 14, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Highlights of tonight's #onlyconnect: a valiant moustache-off between the team captains, Victoria's continued efforts to get the show moved back to a post-watershed slot, and cars made by the same company as the one below (from this angle, it's not obvious, as it's not one of their finer efforts)
This one just reminds me of the Stewart Lee routine where he says something along the lines of "I wouldn't say my girlfriend's mother's ugly... because that would distract from the fact that she's a horrible, hate-filled, terrible person".
Except it was funnier when he said it, obvs
Except it was funnier when he said it, obvs
September 14, 2026 at 4:17 PM
This one just reminds me of the Stewart Lee routine where he says something along the lines of "I wouldn't say my girlfriend's mother's ugly... because that would distract from the fact that she's a horrible, hate-filled, terrible person".
Except it was funnier when he said it, obvs
Except it was funnier when he said it, obvs
So, no guardrail then
September 14, 2026 at 4:10 PM
So, no guardrail then
Let's see if I have the same trouble posting this on Edge that I've had all weekend - I'll do it on Firefox if not. Not that interesting, but still more exciting than anything that happened in the Grand Prix
The 2026 Power Rankings Round 14
Spain The Madring name was cashing cheques the layout couldn’t cash. But then the Moderatelyinterestring doesn’t really work, even if it automatically ends in “ring” 1 (15) …
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September 14, 2026 at 6:41 AM
Let's see if I have the same trouble posting this on Edge that I've had all weekend - I'll do it on Firefox if not. Not that interesting, but still more exciting than anything that happened in the Grand Prix
This is going to end up like that terrible Simpsons episode, where they all have to keep replaying a baseball game until Bart finally makes the catch
September 12, 2026 at 1:35 PM
This is going to end up like that terrible Simpsons episode, where they all have to keep replaying a baseball game until Bart finally makes the catch