F1:Hungary - A Day For Lewis

Four times... four times now has Lewis Hamilton won here at the Hungaroring!

This race was incredible and with the sheer twists and turns as the pit-stop strategies played out, it proved that it would be one to remember for Lewis and the Mercedes team.

Last night, he gave himself not a great deal of a chance to bring home the win despite qualifying in pole position, yet here he stands, on the top step winning by a comfortable margin

Elsewhere on the grid, Mark Webber was left to rue the performance of his team in qualifying resulted in a change of gearbox and a busted K.E.R.S. system (again!) leaving him languishing in 10th position and unable to set a time in Q3.

Let's see how things unfolded...

BSB:Brands Hatch GP - Brookes & Shakey, Some Kind of Magic...

Well, what more can I say except a mixed bag of fortunes that was!

Crashes once more there were, along with moments to remember as Josh Brookes finally nailed down his first win this year...

MotoGP:Laguna Seca - On Your Marc, Get Set...

Fantastic stuff!

Though coverage of this race was only 60 minutes long on BBC2, rather than the usual 1h30m plus 30m of MotoGP:Forum action, this by no means was a dull and uneventful race...

A Royal Baby Announcement!! :) :) :)

Well,

No doubt you've all heard about it already folks, it seems that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are now proud parents to a baby boy weighing in at 8lb 6oz's as of 16:24 today!

Whatever your stance on the English Royal family, let's put all hostilities aside for a moment and wish them the very best of health for mother and baby as the line extends once more for our monarchy!

Respect to ya!


S.R. Cook

Life - The SMaRT Strategy...

Whassup my dudes!

What a fantastic week I've had! :D

If I'm honest I could totally see some of this stuff coming because looking back there were signs that my fortunes were changing from the less-than-stellar meeting with a woman I'd met on the internet.

But spit happens, I moved on, didn't let it hold me back and have revolutionised the way I am living my life at the moment. Even though this is the early hours of Saturday morning UK time, I'm still up writing this entry, mainly to get down life and how it's going for me at the moment.

Having my meeting with Daryl, my business advisor, I am evermore confident that this is the direction that I am to be heading in now from here on out, so this should be good!

What else, what else? Oh yeah...

And We Have A Weiner! - My Business Ideology

Well, this is a remarkable slice of good fortune!

Having just finished my research into what fellow competitors are doing for my business idea that you've no doubt heard me mention on a couple of occasions recently, I was pleasantly surprised, no, rockin' to find that the competitors are few because what I am trying to do, no one else has tried before me (well, not in the way I want to do it anyways, bro's!)...

MotoGP:Sachsenring - With the Cats Away...

Well, another crash-fest that one was as people dropped their bikes left, right and centre, all in a bid to seemingly outdo one another!

First you had, of note, Jorge Lorenzo who upon managing to high-side his bike, bent the plate that had been screwed into his shoulder to help with the healing of his collarbone. Now if that plate's made of titanium like they're supposed to be, that's some force, isn't it?!

Then there was the second casualty of the weekend, for with the reigning World Champion at bay, it should have been advantage Dani Pedrosa...

Pushing Life To Its Limits

Whassup peeps!

It's that time where I bring to the table all that has been going on since my last life update, so here goes as I sit down with my second cup of decaf coffee of the evening...

BSB:Snetterton - Lowes & Shakey Do It Again

Whassup peeps!

Well, as I'm closing in one my 1,000th viewer of this blog, it brings me great pleasure to give you yet more insight into the latest round of the British Superbike Championship that took place over the weekend of the 5th to the 7th of July at Snetterton in Norfolk...

Belief - It All Starts At Home

Whassup bro's!

Well, this has certainly been an entertaining six months so far this year, hasn't it? Who'd have thought I'd still be here, writing reviews, or just in general churning out my opinions on all sorts of subjects?!

I can't even say 'not me' anymore, because I totally knew I was onto something when I started this blog. I didn't want it to set me apart at first as something that it's not. I wanted it to be about giving me the chance to make my own voice heard about the subjects that matter to me. As you've guessed by now the chief interest of mine is motor racing of all kinds, from BSB, to MotoGP, to F1... whatever it is, I'm interested however many wheels it runs on!

Whether I'll follow my team in the world of football this year is another matter entirely, because though they did have a £30m bid for Luis Suarez turned down by his club, they do need to spend to get back amongst the big-time or else risk being also-ran's and not-quite's.

I digress...

F1:Germany - Vettel Finally Cracks It!

Well, what an energetic and frenetic race that was!

This review comes a couple of days late given that I listened to this one on 5live on Tuesday having been slow in watching the F1 Forum from the British GP last weekend.

It doesn't matter, because that won't stop me from doing my utmost to bring you as high a quality review as I always do...

Evolving All The Time Now...

Easy now!

Well, y'all know what I thought of Man Of Steel at the weekend so I don't need to repeat myself. What I will say that is at the moment I'm just waiting for, on a completely unrelated topic, the latest episode of The Walking Dead to make it to Freeview any minute now, literally...

Man of Steel - Out of this World!

WARNING: The following presentation contains plot spoilers, so don't read if you don't want your precious plot ruined!

Well,

What can I say about this hotly anticipated reboot of the Superman franchise that hasn't alread been said?

How about I start at the beginning...?

I went to see this film at the AMC Cinema in Manchester, knowing their viewing experience to always, always be pleasurable compared to the sell out that is now the Odeon (or some other such in the Printworks!), but I'm leaving aside my preference for now...

Livin' It Like I Mean It...

Here's a quickie update on the whole personage front...

This weekend I'm off to see the new Superman film; Man of Steel, so in due course afterwards I shall write up my review for this highly anticipated Zack Snyder affair, because I have high hopes for this one, brah! ;)

Other than that, I suppose you are all wondering how I'm doing after another failed attempt at finding love online...

F1:Great Britain - A Blowout or Two...

My goodness, I've not seen blowouts like that since I went on a bender several years ago with some of the boys from IBM!

To say that it's like this whole Tyre fiasco is rearing its ugly head again is an understatement, even if Pirelli are saying that it's the way the teams themselves are using the tyres that's to blame for the constant failures.

Yet they have since announced that they will be making changes to them for this weekend's German GP... make up your mind, bro's, you can't have it both ways!

Before I tackle that though, it's onto qualifying...

An Unfortunate Series of Events - Another Knockback :(

Well, this entry comes on a somewhat sombre note!

I was supposed to bring you a review of the next F1 race in Great Britain, but too much has gone on this past couple of days for me to just get around to watching it, let alone consider reviewing it!

You bro's remember how I said that I was meeting up with an amazing sounding lady at weekend? Well it appears that things are destined to go no further than they have...

MotoGP:Assen - A Vale Good Show!

Whassup bro's!

Well, that certainly was a crash-free race, wasn't it? Not like the previous race last time out at Catalunya!

Though I'm going to appear to contradict myself now because the first thing that I want to talk about is... a crash!

This one took place in free practice and at well in excess of 100mph, you would have thought that for a man to be tossed like a ragdoll head over heels from his machine would certainly have him thinking twice about racing two days later...