The 2009 Formula One season is over and the final standings are in and once again things aren’t the way predicted by the experts. Englishman Jenson Button jumped out to an early start and put the other drivers in his rear view mirror early in the campaign, by winning six of the first seven 2009 Formula one races and the race for the 2009 FIA Formula One title was almost over before it was half over. Lewis Hamilton was racing from behind from the opening race in Australia in his bid to repeat as FIA Formula One World Champion in …read more

Injuries are a common thing in Formula One and events such as these have often been the chance for many a future Formula One champion to step into the limelight and grab their chance at glory, fame and history. You might only get one good chance to show that you have the right stuff to be a Formula One driver if you’re given a chance – a feat that requires skills that are far beyond the driving skills displayed on the roads around the world every day – and move into the seat left vacant by an injury to another …read more

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

The Formula One Grand Prix World Championship makes a stop in Spain next week, after four international races away from the friendly confines of Europe and for the next Formula One stop on the venue, Barcelona Spain. The first four contests haven’t been the predictable events that we were expecting and they don’t seem to have any perceptible patterns, so the results at the Spanish Grand Prix and the Circuit de Catelunya are anybody’s guess. There are only a few short days to go and the drivers are gripping their steering wheels in anticipation of competing on a track with …read more