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Sandstorm stops testing at Sakhir
by Virgil Ellipse
13th Feb 2009
Testing at Sakhir in Bahrain had to be cancelled on Thursday, when another sandstorm hit the circuit.
The three teams working there had been hindered by the wind and the sand on Wednesday morning but conditions were worse on Thursday and they were unable to work at all.
Who would ever have thought that a track built in the middle of a desert would be subject to the occasional sandstorm? Although, thinking about it for a second, maybe that's why no-one ever had the bright idea of building a circuit there, until
Bernie Ecclescake
ECCLESTONE, BERNIE
Bernie and Slavica Ecclestone: it's hard to say who looks more uncomfortable.
F1 supremo Bernard Charles Ecclestone owns various bits of Formula One and has done since the 1970s, all of which has made him a very rich man. He also co-owns QPR Football Club, which does at least demonstrate that not all his decisions are spot-on.
In his time, Ecclestone has managed drivers, owned teams, sold TV rights he probably didn't have in the first place and married someone 28 years younger and 28cm taller than him. He has also developed a slightly bewildering antipathy towards Silverstone.
TIGRA 16v: The tooltip with lowered suspension and a racing windscreen wiper
discovered that the locals had lots of money they wanted to give him.
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