#F1 - 2024 F1 Brazilian GP SPRINT race by Peter Windsor

2 November 2024

McLaren-Mercedes duly dominated the Brazilian GP sprint race and - as predicted - instructed Oscar Piastri to give the win to Lando Norris.

Thanks to some edgy decision-making on the pit wall, however, it was a close-run thing: instead of telling their drivers to swap positions early in the race, when Ferrari's Charles Leclerc was under pressure from Red Bull's Max Verstappen, McLaren left the instruction to the bitter end, at which point a VSC seemed likely.

They got away with it but it was a close-run thing, as Peter Windsor points out in this video. Verstappen found a way past Leclerc but then lost the position again when he was handed a five-second penalty for being below the minimum time behind the Safety Car when the track turned green.

Ferrari thus sandwiched Verstappen, as they had in qualifying, with Carlos Sainz P5; George Russell was sixth for Mercedes but Sir Lewis Hamilton, after losing ground at the start, could only finish a dismal P11.

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#Spain #floods: Volunteers help rescue attempts as government announce largest peacetime mobilisation: Sky News

2 November 2024

Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, announces the largest army deployment in peacetime, with 10,000 more police and soldiers being sent to help people recover from the deadly flooding. The death toll in the Valencia region has risen to 211 people. But local have criticized the authorities for being poorly prepared, saying they feel "abandoned by the government". Hundreds of volunteers have now taken it upon themselves to help, as police fear more bodies are hidden in the wreckage of the floods. Sky's Europe correspondent Adam Parsons talks to some of those affected in town of Paiporta.

#spain #spainfloods #valencia

#russia #ukraine - What are North Korean troops doing in Russia, and how will the world respond? | BBC News

2 November 2024

The US election is just days away with Democrat candidate Kamala Harris and Republican candidate Donald Trump remaining neck-and-neck in the polls.

The result will have major implications across the globe - including for the war in Ukraine.

November 19th will mark 1000 days since Russian troops invaded Ukraine, and now North Korea is directly involved. It has deployed 10,000 troops to Russia, with many of them understood to be in Russia’s Kursk Oblast region.

 

In this week’s Security Brief, former senior British officer and assault helicopter pilot Mikey Kay tells us how a Trump presidency would change the US approach to Ukraine, and how The West might respond to North Korea joining forces with Russia. 

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#motorsport - WALTER HAYES TROPHY 2024 - DAY 1 Saturday November 2 from Silverstone Circuit

2 November 2024

Day 1 features a frantic day of qualifying races. Over 100 cars begin the event, driven by both professional and amateur racers as they battle through a series of heats and pre finals to reach Sunday’s all-important knockout phase.

Sunday video Providing a weekend of unpredictable racing, first held in 2001, the Walter Hayes Trophy has seen six different winners in the last six years! 2018 Michael Moyers (GB) 2019 Jordan Dempsey (IRL) 2020 Oliver White (GB) 2021 Max Esterson (USA) 2022 Joey Foster (GB) 2023 Chris Middlehurst (GB) #WALTERHAYESTROPHY #HSCC

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#F1 - 2024 São Paulo Grand Prix - Friday "A challenging Sprint Qualifying session on the bumps of Interlagos" Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team

Press Information 1 November 2024

 
F1: Session Report
 
2024 São Paulo Grand Prix - Friday

 
A challenging Sprint Qualifying session on the bumps of Interlagos

• George Russell will start Saturday's F1 Sprint in Sao Paulo from P6 with team-mate Lewis Hamilton in P11.
• This weekend, both drivers are once again running the updated configuration of the W15 that was first introduced in Austin.
• George finished FP1 in a strong P2 while Lewis was further down the timesheets only because he was the sole driver not to run the Soft tyre in the session.
• During the break between the sessions, small set-up changes were made to the set-up, including raising the car's ride height to cope with the bumpy track surface.
• Both drivers struggled for confidence with the car during the session; in spite of a significant improvement on his second run of Q2, Lewis fell just short of the top 10 and will start P11.
• George was able to complete a late run on the Soft tyre in Q3, taking P6 with a half-second gap to pole sitter Oscar Piastri.

Driver	FP1	SQ1		SQ2		SQ3
George Russell	P2	6 Laps 1:10.479	P10 Medium	6 Laps 1:09.683	P8 Medium	3 Laps 1:09.443	P6 Soft
Lewis Hamilton	P16	6 Laps 1:10.625	P13 Medium	7 Laps 1:09.941	P11 Medium

George Russell
That was a challenging session as the track cooled through Sprint Qualifying. Finishing P6 is reflective of where we are right now, at the back of the front pack of teams, and with a pace delta to the next group behind us. I enjoy the challenge of Sprint weekends, getting straight into the action, and of course today has also brought the slightly unexpected challenge of a very bumpy track - which obviously is the same for everyone. For tomorrow, I will be looking to move forward and using the Sprint to work out where we can improve the car for qualifying and the Grand Prix on Sunday.
 
Lewis Hamilton
It has been a difficult day for me - notwithstanding the incredible support from the amazing fans here in Brazil. I think the ride on the bumpy surface has been pretty bad for everyone, and it made FP1 very challenging inside the cockpit. We lifted the car during the break and improved the situation, but the pace simply wasn't there when it came to the timed laps - the balance is on a knife edge, and the car just so tricky to drive and I couldn't attack any of the corners as I wanted to. I hope we can move forward from P11 during the Sprint and keep working to figure out how to find the sweet spot of the balance in qualifying tomorrow afternoon.
 
Andrew Shovlin, Trackside Engineering Director
It has been a challenging day for us in Interlagos. Running in very warm conditions in FP1, it quickly became clear that the resurfaced track was as bumpy as ever, and that this would provide us with a set-up challenge for the weekend. Both drivers completed decent long runs, and we made relatively small changes going into Sprint Qualifying. Once we began running, it became clear that neither George nor Lewis were completely happy with the balance, suffering with snaps at the rear. This cost Lewis confidence and lap time, and saw him knocked out of SQ2 by less than 0.1s. George was able to reach SQ3, eventually taking P6 but with a substantial gap to Piastri on pole. The Sprint tomorrow is going to be useful to learn about the long run balance ahead of qualifying in the afternoon. It's normally a good circuit for overtaking so if we have pace, there's every opportunity for both drivers to move forward.

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Middle East Eye - The birth of #Israel and the death of #Zionism | Ilan Pappé | The Big Picture

1 November 2024

Israeli historian Ilan Pappé believes it can’t. In fact, he argues that the liberation of Palestine is an inevitability. Pappé is the author of 24 books on the Israel-Palestine conflict, and most recently published two books: ‘Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic’ and ‘A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict’. This week on The Big Picture Podcast, we sit down with Ilan Pappé to talk about where the Zionist project originates, why it embraced settler colonialism and why he believes it will ultimately fail to achieve its goals.

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1 November 2024

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#usa - How violent could the US election get? Times Radio

1 November 2024

As polling day approaches, fears are growing that the result will not be accepted by the losing side. The potential consequences range from election denialism to violence, and even civil war. This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times.

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