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  Hi, this week I'm talking about 2023 season so far The season so far has been interesting. Drivers' Standings: 21. Daniel Ricciardo #3 Daniel Ricciardo is back and he is racing for Alpha Tauri after replacing Nyck De Vries. 20. Nyck De Vries #21 Nyck De Vries got fired after 10 races for Alpha Tauri. 19. Logan Sargeant #2 Logan Sargeant is doing good in the Williams. 18. Kevin Magnussen #20 Kevin Magnussen has 2 points this season so far. 17. Yuki Tsunoda #22 Yuki Tsunoda has 2 points so far this season. 16. Guanyu Zhou #24 Guanyu Zhou has 4 points so far this season. 15. Valtteri Bottas #77 Valtteri Bottas has 5 points so far this season. 14. Nico Hulkenberg #27 Nico Hulkenberg has 9 points so far this season. 13. Alex Albon #23 Alex Albon has 11 points so far this season. 12. Pierre Gasly #10 Pierre Gasly has 16 points so far this season. 11. Oscar Piastri #81 Oscar Piastri has 27 points so far this season. 10. Esteban Ocon #31 Esteban Ocon has 31 points and 1 podium so far...

  Hi, this week I'm introducing the FISA-FOCA war The FISA–FOCA war was a political battle contested throughout the early 1980s by two now defunct representative organizations in Formula One motor racing, the Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile (FISA) and the Formula One Constructors Association (FOCA). The battle boiled during the late 1970s and early 1980s and came to a head when the racing teams affiliated with FOCA, an equivalent to a racing team union, boycotted the 1982 San Marino Grand Prix. Introduction The battle for control of Formula One was contested between the Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile (FISA), at the time an autonomous subcommittee of the FIA, and the Formula One Constructors' Association The principals in the matter were Jean-Marie Balestre, then FISA president, Bernie Ecclestone, then the leader of FOCA and owner of the Brabham Formula One team, and Max Mosley, later president of the FIA, but then legal advisor to both Ecclestone...

  Hi, this week I'm introducing Mika Hakkinen Mika Pauli Häkkinen (born 28 September 1968), nicknamed "The Flying Finn", is a Finnish former racing driver. He won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1998 and 1999, both times driving for McLaren. Häkkinen is one of three Formula One drivers from Finland that have won the World Drivers' Championship, and the only one to have done so more than once. He currently works in driver management and is a brand ambassador for various companies. Early life and career Häkkinen was born in Helsingin maalaiskunta, Finland, on 28 September 1968 to Harri, a shortwave radio operator and a part-time taxi driver, and Aila Häkkinen, who worked as a secretary. He has one sister, Nina, who ran a fan site for her brother until its closure in 1998. Häkkinen lived in the same street as Mika Salo with the two later becoming friends. As a child, Häkkinen played ice hockey and football. When Häkkinen was five years old, his parents...

  Hi, this week I'm introducing James Hunt James Simon Wallis Hunt (29 August 1947 – 15 June 1993) was a British racing driver who won the Formula One World Championship in 1976. After retiring from racing in 1979, Hunt became a media commentator and businessman. Early life Hunt was born in Belmont, Surrey, the second child of Wallis Glynn Gunthorpe Hunt (1922–2001), a stockbroker, and Susan (Sue) Noel Wentworth (née Davis) Hunt. He had an elder sister, Sally, three younger brothers, Peter, Timothy and David, and one younger sister, Georgina. Wallis Hunt was descended on his mother's side from the industrialist and politician Sir William Jackson, 1st Baronet. Hunt's family lived in a flat in Cheam, Surrey, moved to Sutton when he was 11 and then to a larger home in Belmont. He attended Westerleigh Preparatory School, St Leonards-on-Sea Sussex and later Wellington College. Hunt first learned to drive on a tractor on a farm in Pembrokeshire, Wales, while on a family holiday, ...