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The Dream is Dead.
September 3rd, 2010 
Russell 
Last weekend I took part in what should have really been an epic South African roadtrip. I was driving a nice car, with a bunch of petrolheads with the same family of vehicle and boundless enthusiasm for the product, all the way down to Durban for a weekend of sun, fun, and some high-octane thrills. [...]
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Tags: dumbing-down, excitement, fun, legislation, passion, road trip, society 
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March 18th, 2010 Kyle Stone Hero to Zero The 2010 F1 season, a couple of weeks ago it was one of if the most anticipated seasons ever, now not so much. More champions on the grid than you can shake a stick at, three new teams, a smattering of new drivers, Schumacher returns, a whole raft of new rules, the [...]
Posted in Drive columns Tags: Bahrain, F1, Formula 1, Mercedes-Benz, Red Bull, Renault No Comments »Animal mechanicals.
March 12th, 2010 Russell Driving the very pleasant Citroen C5 home last night, I got to thinking about the importance of the instrument binnacle, my thoughts directed that way by the unusual manner in which the Citroens needles are displayed. The pointer actually appears to be affixed to the outer edge of the instruments, so there’s no central point [...]
Kyle's F1 Blog
March 10th, 2010 Kyle Stone Bahrain Predictions We are now painfully close to the opening round of the 2010 F1 season, the wait has been long and anticipation sky high. I’ve so been looking forward to this one, and now that we’re this close I think it’s safe to make some predictions for the Bahrain GP. In truth it’s always [...]
Posted in Drive columns, Motorsport Blogs Tags: Alonso, Bahrain GP, Button, F1, Ferrari F1, Hamilton, McLaren, Mercedes GP, Red Bull, Ross Brawn, Vettel No Comments »Trampling the constitution
February 17th, 2010 Russell Yes, today our government, quite ironically, flipped the one-fingered salute to our vaunted Constitution, and simultaneously the collective citizenry of our nation. A key tenet of our Bill of Rights, the right to Freedom of Speech and Expression, apparently doesn’t mean anything to our highest officials.
Fuelling contempt.
February 3rd, 2010 Russell Well, we did it. We spent the entire day yesterday avoiding posting anything about the damn fuel price hike, and we made it. So if you didn’t dash madly out to fill up yesterday, you’ve well and truly bloody missed it already! Twit. We did it to make a point though. It’s about not regurgitating [...]
Kyle's F1 Blog: Valencia test
February 3rd, 2010 Kyle Stone The first day of testing at Valencia was in some ways very interesting but then again wasn’t. The problem is that absolutely no valuable information on any of the cars present could be gleaned off the times. Just as with any practice session, we don’t know who was running what fuel loads, we don’t know [...]
Posted in Drive columns Tags: Barrichello, F1, Ferrari, Massa, Mercedes GP, Michael Schumacher, Nico Rosberg, Ross Brawn, Valencia 1 Comment »Gauteng, smacked.
January 22nd, 2010 Russell Wow. It’s Friday night, been a hard week, weekend has finally arrived. Just the traffic left to deal with, and you’re there. The toughest week of 2010 in the bag. But you’ve forgotten something important. Unbeknownst to the residents of Jo’Burg, to Gauteng on the whole in fact, national energy provider Eskom is preparing a [...]
AARTO comes into effect – in its entirety on 1 April 2010
January 11th, 2010 Kyle Stone What you should know about Traffic Law (but few will tell you). A perspective provided by Justice Project South Africa It has been officially announced that AARTO, in its entirety and including the demerit-points system will be implemented nationwide on 1 April 2010. Whether this is an early April fool’s joke or not remains to [...]
Roads. What roads?
December 9th, 2009 Steve I had scheduled Monday afternoon for a track session on the Triumph Speed Triple. I would have been a great day but I fell off – not on the track but on the road on my to Kyalami. It was particularly embarrassing since it was the first time that I have ever damaged a press [...]
