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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ocon leaves Haas, now he just needs to wait for an Audi seat to open up so he can replace Hulkenberg again (see also 2017 at Force India, 2020 at Renault, and 2025 at Haas)

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This doesn't bode well for Ellen Musk's new car's potential UK sales, if it can't cope with a bit of drizzle

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I almost got this answer correct on tonight's #onlyconnect, but it turns out Eminem was right, and I'd forgotten about Drey

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Apparently there are rumours of a caravan heading across the US border. Seems some people are playing it down, but there does seem to be pictorial evidence that they're right to be worried

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tune in again next year, when we can see this headline again, possibly ending in a 9

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I mean, the NHRA can put together a good field of Top Fuel dragsters with blue chip sponsors and TV coverage, but in a way I prefer the random pairings you get in British drag racing

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Breaking: President Flump impaled by American flag; overwhelmed by pain but mostly irony

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mr Saturday lives up to his name. Not sure if Jolyon Palmer on #c4f1 was deliberately invoking Joyce Grenfell with his "George... don't do that" when Russell brushed the wall at one point; I'm going to assume not since he didn't make any attempt at doing the voice

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The 2026 Power Rankings Round 15

Azer by Jove, Missus That’s probably the best Saturday Grand Prix I’ve seen. Admittedly I’ve only got a few to choose from, but maybe we need races on random days. Petit Le Mans s…

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's not a Trident, it's a Dallara. It's a Trident Dallara, or simply a Trident car, but Trident have not in any way designed or built the car. Come on Formula 2, you can do better

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BBC Radio 4 Extra makes its debut in this column, having found no fewer than three programmes with racing drivers talking about themselves or other people (note that only the first three editions of Great Lives feature Jackie Stewart, the rest have people who are considerably slower)

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I remain deeply sceptical about such things from popular music artists. I still remember buying a copy of The Specials' Free Nelson Mandela only to find it did not come with an incarcerated South African politician gratis as stated

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If this isn't a track on the next Half Man Half Biscuit album, I will be disappointed

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I always liked the BTCC's system from around the millennium, whereby your two fastest laps from qualifying counted. Whichever was set first was your time for the race 1 grid, the second one for the race 2 grid. Tended to mix things up depending on whether your fastest time was the first or second

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My own first five-pointer of this series of #onlyconnect with the one beginning "Angelfish, worm; Flamingo, shrew" (it helped that I'd just been doing the RadioTimes crossword before the show). And here's a nod to the Connecting Walls that fits this account's usual motoring motif

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reassuring to know that the Americans can do sarcasm too, courtesy of Car and Driver

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thinking about it, does anyone have Gary Imlach's number? I have no idea if he has any interest in motorsport, or in travelling around the world these days, but his desert-dry humour would deflate a few egos in the sport. Anyway, that's not entirely what this column is about...

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The Rally Wild Show

If I were to proffer the subject “rallying on the BBC”, what springs immediately to mind? If you’re of a certain age, it’s probably Rally Report (variously appended to the T…

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Too many abbreviations (not acronyms) here, it feels like a Blockbusters Gold Run (one for the teenagers). Unless the French Automobile Association have a sniffer dog called Al who is being deployed at 600 airports, which for some reason has been written in Roman numerals

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Is there any mileage in adding a race to Mallory Park's Boxing Day meeting?

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don't know much about the NFL, so I get all my information from the UK Game Shows Page

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I momentarily misread Cregger's as Cheggers, which I suspect would have been a somewhat tonally different film

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Apparently Autosport know who finished third in today's MotoGP practice, but for some reason they're not telling us who it was

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Apologies if the terms "season finale" and "title decider" crop up repetitively in this week's guide, but it is that time of year, so it's only likely to become even more frequent. Lots of endurance racing this week, and live bikes on the tellybox

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Of course, it's the phone she's tracking rather than him, so what I would do at this point is get a new phone, and send the old one to the other side of the world, with instructions to forward it on to somewhere equally far-flung, and tell the next person to do the same...

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Too much to ask that they could bring back Propaganda's Jewelled (from the old Top Gear Rally Report) but everything's looking good for the WRC at the moment. Assuming sufficient manufacturers have actually signed up for next year, anyway...

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BBC broadcasts FIA World Rally Championship from 2027

The BBC will broadcast the FIA World Rally Championship across the UK from 2027-29.

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The only thing I knew about the would-be People's Republic of Piddington previously was that time Jeremy Clarkson drove a Renault Espace through it because reasons

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I'm A Bit Of A Piddington | Top Gear

YouTube video by thecomputerdude24 TV & Movie Clips

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thanks for that, Google Translate

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Highlights of tonight's #onlyconnect: a valiant moustache-off between the team captains, Victoria's continued efforts to get the show moved back to a post-watershed slot, and cars made by the same company as the one below (from this angle, it's not obvious, as it's not one of their finer efforts)

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This one just reminds me of the Stewart Lee routine where he says something along the lines of "I wouldn't say my girlfriend's mother's ugly... because that would distract from the fact that she's a horrible, hate-filled, terrible person". Except it was funnier when he said it, obvs

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Let's see if I have the same trouble posting this on Edge that I've had all weekend - I'll do it on Firefox if not. Not that interesting, but still more exciting than anything that happened in the Grand Prix

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The 2026 Power Rankings Round 14

Spain The Madring name was cashing cheques the layout couldn’t cash. But then the Moderatelyinterestring doesn’t really work, even if it automatically ends in “ring” 1 (15) …

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is going to end up like that terrible Simpsons episode, where they all have to keep replaying a baseball game until Bart finally makes the catch

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

They haven't picked up on the "strange things accidentally left in Formula 1 cockpits" thread they started in FP1 on #bbcf1. Presumably I wasn't the only one who nominated Lance Stroll...

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Two big sportscar races this weekend, at Suzuka and Silverstone, which should provide some entertainment while you're waiting for Channel 4's unusually late Grand Prix highlights (presumably for the reasons outlined below)

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I am so far removed from modern slang that I shall go with my original instinct and assume this is something to do with installing windows

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If you want to know how accurate the description of these ne'er-do-wells as "protestors" is, the fact that Bluesky seems to think Dover is near Birmingham (where the conference is) should clue you in...

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don't seem to be in the top 38 yet, but judging by the bad decisions people have made in elections in the last few years, it can only be a matter of time

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that Bluesky's football correspondent doesn't entirely understand football if they think that (a) 2-0 constitutes a thrashing and (b) Liverpool is the same as Newcastle...

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Napoleon Ill? I thought he was already long dead (because the Roman numeral looks a bit like the word "ill" #dontexplainthejoke) Anyway, very thorough Deform policy on immigration, deporting anyone who's arrived here in the last 150 or so years

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hopefully YouTube's live streams will be a bit more reliable than last weekend, when they weren't starting automatically at all (on computer anyway; TV streaming worked fine). Also no idea where the Ginetta streams are, so expect something from them at Donington Park on GT World

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Oh joy, it appears that Jack Whitehall's F1 Hootenanny is back for 2027

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If Jolyon Palmer is with neither #bbcf1 nor #c4f1 at Monza, I assume it's because he's entered the Historic element of this weekend's Rali Ceredigion (car 114) under a cunning pseudonym...

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Niggle Farriage, complaining

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Can we just take a moment to salute the #onlyconnect question setters for putting the "in the middle" clues *in the middle* of the Connecting Wall

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Any time I can delve into my own photos to come up with a quick blog post, I'll do it... This one was the inspiration of a feature in the latest Motorsport News, which has prompted me to search through my Facebook profile to 10 years ago, thus creating some multi-level nostalgia...

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Tour of Birmingham

Last Tuesday marked 40 years since the inaugural Birmingham Superprix, the culmination of a long-running bid to bring international motor racing to Britain’s second city. For five years the s…

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This picture's on a small gallery on the BBC website today of past Italian Grands Prix. My immediate thought is that those kerbs - proper kerbs - would probably lead to an immediate boycott from the F1 drivers of today...

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Tomorrow from His Supreme Flumpiness, this video purporting to be actual footage of the latest US military actions in whichever country he's mad at that day

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Harrier Attack! - Amstrad CPC - Gameplay 🎮

YouTube video by Retro Games Archive

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Just to confirm what others are saying, Google Maps outside the US is showing Lake Ontario under its proper name in both Canada and Lower Canada

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