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Come to think of it, this will be ITV's final WRC broadcast, and if anything I'd say this was a more implausible outcome than what happened in their final Grand Prix...

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WRC highlights won't be on ITV4 until Tuesday, but I did just have to pop onto the iPlayer to see S4C's coverage of the moment Elfyn Evans became World Champion. I don't speak a word of Welsh, but it's fair to say I could get the gist of what they were saying...

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Funny thing is, despite everything that happened in that Grand Prix, it was probably less strange than the last time Ford won in Formula 1, with a 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix that took a week to officially determine...

The 2026 Power Rankings Round 16

Bah! Rain! A little bit of punctuation was all that was required to make sense of a Grand Prix being held 6000km away from its supposed location. Little else made much sense, as with all the best r…

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For comparison, Knockhill is ~6000km from Bahrain (give or take 500km) and the forecast for Fife today looks OK. So that's what we're potentially missing today

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The funny side of travelling 6000km away from Bahrain to stand about in the torrential rain and potentially not race may well be lost on the F1 fraternity right about now...

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A few general motoring shows are needed to fill in space this week - although Saudi Arabian F4, Formula Trophy Malaysia and McLaren Trophy Europe may well be on YouTube. None of their respective series have put up a link yet though, so I cannot confirm this

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Stoo G @formulastoo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Diesel export ban latest: two tank engines quoted as being quite happy if he doesn't come back

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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

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 · 23/09/2026

Starsigns - Ford Taurus, Isuzu Gemini, Ford Scorpio... and then I wasn't sure if any of the other nine made it onto cars so I threw in a Ford Zodiac 🙂 This week's Connecting Walls featured all 12 starsigns between them (six each), so two apiece were red herrings (including Pisces, appropriately)

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

Incidentally, as a rule of thumb, if you can describe the rule in the space afforded by one of these posts (or even the more limited space in that microblogging site we were on in The Before Times) it's probably a good rule, because it's not overly complicated

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

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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...

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…

The Rally Wild Show

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

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

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Interesting note: I've been watching the Goodwood stream on the main TV and YouTube has been chucking in ads every few minutes like it's going out of business. On the laptop it's fine... I've switched to the Sky Sports F1 stream on the TV and - fingers crossed - no ads so far...

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Apparently it was a returning Ai Ogura. Not sure if someone at Autosport Towers has misunderstood the pushback against AI or if this is some sort of translation error or what

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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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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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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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BBC broadcasts FIA World Rally Championship from 2027

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...

bbc.co.uk

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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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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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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OK, turns out it's working fine now on Edge. No idea why I had to switch browsers to post anything here, or send my inane ramblings to the BBC's "Get invovled" [sic] feature then

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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