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Nicholas Belardo

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Sports Media graduate, raised in Griffith, living in Canberra

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Mate, that’s never coming, the ACT government hates football even more than the QLD government. It was supposed to be finished 6 months ago when first announced, and it hasn’t even broke ground yet.

'Nothing short of a disgrace': Lack of football-specific venues is holding the A-Leagues back

When you need to write an article on aspect of the sport that Australian’s don’t partake in, it’s pretty clear that you do indeed hate the game.

What a dive: why this league fan just cannot commit full-time to soccer

As a referee, just on that last point, I would assume that should always be at least given a foul if the attacker had the ball in playing distance.

I mean, if the ball isn’t in playing distance, then we are looking at violent conduct, rather than a reckless challenge or serious foul play.

Why are goalkeepers allowed to make dangerous challenges?

So just use the virtual safety car for everything?

The race was red flagged and needed some way to be restarted. The pit lane isn’t the length of the whole track, and they can’t form everything back to exactly the way it was once the cars are in the pit lane, can they?

I do get what you mean re: safety car being there for safety, and that’s the difference between a VSC and a full safety car period. Generally, a full safety car period is used when the marshalls need a bigger gap between to clean up debris, and in that instance, again they can’t make everyone re-form to the gaps they were before the safety car because it’s impractical and will take so long to do

F1 must do away with its unfair unlapping rules

Before I go and do the research, why is it only an issue if front runners benefit from these loopholes? It should be an issue if anyone does, which is what proves my point.

Anyone that has been able to unlap themselves under a safety car/red flag and gotten points by this method should be stripped of their points based of this argument.

F1 must do away with its unfair unlapping rules

The reason why it makes sense to do so on a red flag is because now red flagged race restarts are held with a standing start when it is safe to do so (which is why it was a rolling restart, however all other race procedures remain the same, which is why Kimi got his post-race penalty). If, let’s say Giovanazzi is the first lapped driver on the grid, and he does one of his patented starts, he is then going to have to immediately hand the place back to blue flags.

F1 must do away with its unfair unlapping rules

Look, even as someone who used to openly hate on Lewis, I find it very funny that as soon as this rule which has been in place for about a thousand years, is now being questioned because Lewis is the one who benefitted from it.

It’s the way things work, and it’s the easiest way to do it with timing systems. Get over it.

F1 must do away with its unfair unlapping rules

Especially the lookey likeys, and this comes from someone whose brother in law has a database of who everyone in the world looks like

Fighting in Ferrari: Binotto vs Arrivabene

Especially the lookie likeys, and this comes from someone whose (who’s? Grammar brain-fart) brother in law has some sort of database for who everyone in the world looks like

Fighting in Ferrari: Binotto vs Arrivabene

Sorry, but how are they going nowhere?
I love a McLaren bashing as much as any Ferrari fan, but I don’t really see that they’re going nowhere

Welcome back to the grid Fernando!

No worries, it’s always good to see some historical continuity in the category.

I’ll be posting the other parts over the coming weeks

Remembering F1’s 100 greatest Grands Prix Part 1: 1-100

Honourable mentions from the first 100 Grands Prix include:
• 12 – 1951 British Grand Prix
• 17 – 1952 Indianapolis 500
• 19 – 1952 French Grand Prix
• 33 – 1954 Argentine Grand Prix
• 36 – 1954 French Grand Prix
• 37 – 1954 British Grand Prix
• 42 – 1955 Argentine Grand Prix
• 47 – 1955 British Grand Prix
• 50 – 1956 Monaco Grand Prix
• 58 – 1957 Monaco Grand Prix
• 61 – 1957 British Grand Prix
• 65 – 1958 Argentine Grand Prix
• 74 – 1958 Italian Grand Prix
• 75 – 1958 Moroccan Grand Prix

Remembering F1’s 100 greatest Grands Prix Part 1: 1-100

I just remembered another site
Overtakefans.com has all races from 1981

A motorsport lover's guide to surviving isolation

There’s a bug on the iOS app that doesn’t run commentary, so it’s just the race with no commentary. It works on the computer though.

A motorsport lover's guide to surviving isolation

I will once they fix commentary on the iPhone app. Reminds me of the days I used to come home from school, fish out old races my brother had taped through the 90s, and dig into a bowl of Coco Pops
Although fact update I had wrong. The 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix was the 700th GP. The 2008 Singapore GP was the 800th. Somehow, milestone races tend to be exciting, something I learnt on my research. Sucks the 1000th GP wasn’t though

A motorsport lover's guide to surviving isolation

$5 per month, or $42 per year
Something along those lines.
Every race since 1981 has at least a 10-15 minute highlight package

A motorsport lover's guide to surviving isolation

I felt that way live, but then watched a replay and then noticed it was the 900th GP and it sort of put it on my radar

800th GP is a real rip snorter though. Brazil 2003.

There’s a few people who are uploading full BBC / ITV broadcasts of 90s and 00’s races on YouTube and DailyMotion though, worth a look

A motorsport lover's guide to surviving isolation

I have seen NASCAR (highest rated esports even ever), IMSA, I think I heard IndyCar. Plus, F1 with the mix of current, former, and reserve drivers plus a few celebs and online racers.
And the Supercars that Jawad mentioned too

A motorsport lover's guide to surviving isolation

Combo of F1TV and YouTube is great.
I’m trying to put together a list of the 100 definitive world championship GPs, A: since I haven’t contributed in a while and B: I never celebrated the 1000th GP. (plus a couple bonus since we are now 17 more)
I’ve gotten to around 200, so I don’t know how to halve that haha

A motorsport lover's guide to surviving isolation

He only likes it, because he was trained to kick a ball in the NFL.

This is like Barry Hall not knowing what boxing is, and then deciding to be a boxer. Oh wait

When Pat McAfee busted a huge AFL myth

Can the captain not challenge that?

Did this kick from Valentine Holmes actually go through the posts?

Exactly. Even WWE is holding WrestleMania in their training arena

A-League set to unveil revamped East Coast-only draw

Not if no one can attend them. State of Origin would be a big miss without a crowd. Thankfully that’s still a while away.

But there is more important things for governments at the moment than whether sport can go ahead. The only thing I’d even remotely think about government handouts for on anything sporting, is people involved would actually lose their job/an income over it being stopped

'Scaremongering at its absolute best': Veteran AFL journo takes aim at ARLC Chairman

Eh depends. I have taken 2 weeks off work, mainly to protect my wife who was in hospital and the ICU the last two times she got the flu, and because she has the ability to work from home (I don’t)
Sport would be good to watch for me, but there is plenty of other things to do than sport on TV

What’s more important: Public health or footy?

Probably when there is a significant drop in cases. Like back to when it first started

When life’s great distractor can no longer distract

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