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BRAZILIAN GRAND PRIX - CONTRASTING OUTCOMES FOR TEAM MERCEDES AND TEAM RED BULL!

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  A Very Big Congratulations to George Russell, for winning his first Formula 1 Grand Prix  in the penultimate race of an exceptionally bleak season for Team Mercedes and their racers, Hamilton and Russell.   Similarly,  a Very Big Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton, not only for making it to P.2,  but also for any intentional constructive role he has played in facilitating his Team Mate winning the race.  Now, it is the case that I do not know if Hamilton had heard and considered the message Russell posed for Team Mercedes, just prior to the pitting of the Safety Car on the last episode of its intervention.  Namely George asking his Team if he and Hamilton were expected to race each other for the remaining several laps of the race, or whether they should just continue and finish it in their then current placing.   The reply form Team Mercedes was that they were to race. Now, let us imagine that Hamilton was listening to that exchange between his team mate and their team, what might hav

MEXICO GRAND PRIX - MAX THE UNTOUCHABLE AGAIN, AS TEAM MERCEDES' CHALLENGE FADED, AGAIN.

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  A Very Big Congratulations to Max Verstappen and Team Red Bull making it yet another emphatic win at the 2022 Formula 1 Grand Prix.    With Team Mercedes, while enabling Hamilton to achieve a strong P.2, most probably due to adopting the wrong tyre and race strategy, depriving him of the chance of competing for the win. A Big Congratulations to Hamilton and Team Red Bull for making it to P.2, and to Sergio Perez and Team Red Bull for making it to P.3. And so was the stage set for Verstappen and his Team to establish a new Formula 1 record; that of Max having won the most consecutive Formula 1 races.  It has been reported that Team Mercedes' boss, Toto Wolff, was annoyed that neither Hamilton nor Russell were able to win Pole position in Qualifying.  And yet, judging by the rather disappointing, even if not entirely surprising outcome of the race, there cannot have been any evidential reasons to think that either Lewis or George would have had the pace to convert a Pole into a rac

THE UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX - VERSTAPPEN STILL UNSTOPABLE, BUT HAMILTON'S MOVING CLOSER!

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  So, a  Very Big Congratulations to Team Red Bull and the indomitable Max Verstappen, for securing another win at Sunday's United States' Grand Prix.  And a similarly  Big Congratulations to Team Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton, for making it to another P2,  in a season in which achieving a single win, is still proving elusive and beyond their capability.  Yes, this was one which, until the final 6 laps, were looking within their grasp, until Max began to exert what seemed to be Red Bull's inexhaustible pace, and simply rolled over the Mercedes, as the Team has been doing all season. A Big Congratulations to Team Ferrari and the fearless Charles Leclerc, for making it to P.3 , as they failed to make it to the required P.1, if they were to deny Team Red Bull from winning the Constructors' Championship, at this race. Much could be said about the passage of the United State's Grand Prix of 2022.   Such as the fact that it was spectacular, as evidenced from both Russell an

THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR: WHY IS NATO RESOLVED TO LIMIT ITSELF TO BEING UKRAINE'S ARMOURER? FINIS!

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  And the Ukrainians, or most of them, will or might want to fight for as long as Nato is prepared to resource them to fight.  They will continue to provide the blood and make the ultimate sacrifices in lives.  For Nato, the  motivation continuing the war  by supporting Ukraine.   Lies in its commitment to 'punish Russia' for invading Ukraine, by degrading and weakening its military power, and the Russian economy .  Nato's motivation for continuing the war, is premised on what has always been the premise for the United States intervening in and/or instigating conflicts in foreign countries.  Which is that, the inhabitants of targeted country should do the dying and collateral suffering, while the Americans provide the weapons of destruction. So it appears that none of the warring parties currently have any desire or incentive to talk peace.  Although, making deductions about the existing evidence, Russia appears to be struggling much more than Ukraine.  As it is clearly in

THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR: WHY IS NATO RESOLVED TO LIMIT ITSELF TO BEING UKRAINE'S ARMOURER? PART 2.

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  That/this has been the case until Ukraine's successful 'Rommelessque and Montgomeryesque counter-offensive has left the Russians seemingly in disarray.  Until, its seems, the Ukrainian leadership, probably having become too carried away by the military and geographical successes of its Nato-fuelled and funded counter-offensive.  Decided to attack the bridge linking Russia and Crimea.  This attack, probably even more than Ukraine's pre-war insistence on joining Nato.   Might yet transpire to be the  biggest strategic error the Ukrainians have made to date.   And the one which might have done most to bolster Russia's resolve to redouble its incentive to fight a war which it most probably should not be fighting.  And one with is certainly should not be contemplating loosing or ending on conditions which were never part of President Putin's initial plans. Russia and the Russian people are now in a costly, in many ways, war, and one in which probably most people would

THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR: WHY IS NATO RESOLVED TO LIMIT ITSELF TO BEING UKRAINE'S ARMOURER? PART 1.

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  Russia, under the stewardship of  its previously seeming rational and prudent President Vladimir Putin, has launched a massive blitzkrieg attack on its neighbour, Ukraine, in February 2022, calling it a "Special Military Operation.  Of course, such was the intensive and extensive nature of the attack, which is still on-going, that it is noting short of Russia declaring war on Ukraine.  To call it anything else has to be considered as abject  and transparent attempt to deceive people - all the people - about the true nature of the President's objectives, and the means by which he hoped to achieve them. As we can deduce 230 days after this tragic and apparently unnecessary and, on Russia's part, catastrophically planned and prosecuted war began, Russia has failed to achieve and secured its objectives in Ukraine.  While it has, upto the beginning of September, captured enormous areas of Ukraine, having suffered substantial fatalities and other losses amongst its military in

JUST A THOUGHT - ON HUMAN'S GREATNESS IN TAKING TO THE SKIES WITH MAN-MADE WINGS! PART 1.

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  It has, on probably many occasions, that, had 'God' intended humans to fly, he would have made them/us with wings, like the birds and the bees, as it were.  Now, it really is the case that there is no proof or evidence that 'God', for those who still believe in him, made the birds and the bees and, indeed, all or any of the other creatures, both great and small, which are capable of flight. Be that as it may, what is great and ingenuous about our human species.  Is the fact that we did not have to wait or rely on 'God' equipping us with wings, like, some might say, the mythical angels, for us to be able to escape and even confound gravity.  No; with our genius seemingly knowing little or no bounds, over the generations and the centuries, we have invented and develop the means to launch ourselves from the good Earth into and beyond the clouds and the skies.  Not only is our human ingenuity capable of enabling us to somewhat dominate the near- Earth's atmosp