Sports is a dangerous activity, it doesn’t matter if you play darts or football, the chance of being injured exists whenever we interact in the physical world and even more so whenever we tempt fate by taking our bodies and minds into realms of physical activity that aren’t natural to us and we have to learn to adapt to existing conditions to succeed. Sitting behind the wheel of a race car is certainly one of these moments in human history when humans attempt to take their bodies and minds into areas that aren’t normal to our senses and experience. A …read more

Pressure has a varying effect on different individuals that often isn’t determined until the person in question has been through the fire and come out the other side without any major burns. The pressure was certainly on for Sebastian Vettel on Sunday, anything less than a victory in the Japanese Grand Prix would have meant he was at least 26 points down with only a maximum of 20 points available to be grabbed, and his chances for the 2009 Formula One drivers championship would have evaporated like a gas.
Vettel seemed to know this as he came out onto the track …read more

The first practice for the 2009 Japanese Formula One Grand Prix being held at Suzuka on Friday was a up and down affair for the Japanese fans who came out to see their hero Kazuki Nakajima. Nakajima had the best time on a wet track in the first practice, until first Heikki Kovalainen went around Suzuka faster in one of the last runs of the day. Certainly Nakajima’s his fans thought he had it wrapped up with a time of 1m 40.648s, until they looked up at the clock at Kovalainen’s 1m 40.356s.
Kovalainen actually had the best time before his …read more

The 2009 Formula One season heads to Suzuka and the Japanese Grand Prix in the next round of the fastest sport on four wheels. Suzuka is a track that puts a premium on down-force and this should give Vettel and Mark Webber a chance to try and grab points to help Red Bull close the gap between them and Brawn in the race for the 2009 constructor’s title.  Webber has no chance to win the 2009 Formula One Drivers Championship, but he can still help his team mate Vettel in his bid to win the drivers championship and I expect …read more