Justin.Hynes
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Justin
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Hynes
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Favourite music:
All the ones no one else likes, anything over 17 minutes long.
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Japanese
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Aeronautics, extreme ironing and the entire ouevre of Bartholomäus Aich.
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God help us...
Content By Justin Hynes
He’s the biggest name in snowboarding, the kid who won Olympic gold at just 19 and spawned a whole new level of hero worship. But for Shaun White the challenge never stops and now he’s aiming to raise the bar even higher...
Australian takes battling third place at the Hungarian Grand Prix to close gap to championship leader.
Ferrari’s Felipe Massa is described as being in a ‘stable’ condition in a Budapest hospital after a freak accident in qualifying at the Hungaroring.
Jaime Alguersuari, aka Devil Child, settles in a little better than his detractors at the Hungaroring
Sebastian Vettel said he blames himself not his RB05 car after qualifying in fourth, behind the Brawns of Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button for his home grand prix.
Mark Webber secured his maiden pole position in claiming the top slot on the Nurburgring grid ahead of tomorrow’s German Grand Prix.
Sebastian Vettel reckons that racing in front of his home crowd might give him an extra power boost at the Nürburgring this weekend.
Sébastien Buemi is hoping that speculation linking his cousin, F2 driver Natacha Gachnang, with the putative Campos F1 team are more than just rumours.
Mark Webber reckons his chance of a maiden victory at Silverstone was taken from him in qualifying but claimed he had done the maximum possible to carve out another one-two.
Sebastian Vettel claimed his second victory of the season with a dominant lights-to-flag display at Silverstone and went on to hail the circuit as “fantastic” and the kind of venue where he has always dreamed of racing.
Red Bull Racing senior personnel dubbed today’s one-two result a “dream result” for the team, whose factory is a stone’s throw from Silverstone at Milton Keynes.
When the flag falls at the end of the British Grand Prix, Formula One will enter one of its brief periods of respite: a three-week gap until the next race, the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring.
After yesterday’s shenanigans, it’s all gone a bit quiet on the political side of the paddock fence today almost as if, in celeb gossip mag style, the rowing couple had gone off to lick their wounds.
Sebastian Vettel has admitted he feels it is his duty to deliver pole position as a thank you to his team for providing him with a race-winning car.
Mark Webber slammed Kimi Raikkonen for ruining a possible pole-winning final qualifying lap at Silverstone this afternoon, wondering whether the Finn had been “drinking some vodka”.
Rising this morning to the news that FOTA have decided that it’s their ball and they’ll play with it elsewhere, a man of a more poetic bent than I might have been struck by the symmetry of the timing of it all.
Sebastian Vettel has denied that he has been unfaithful to the RB5 race car that brought him his first victory for Red Bull in China in April.
Mark Webber can’t wait for the British Grand Prix to arrive, if only to give the Red Bull Racing driver a crowd to race in front of.
Sebastian Vettel admitted that his attempt to close in on championship leader Jenson Button was compromised by a first-lap driving error and a failed strategic decision.
Fifteenth place might not seem a positive result from the Turkish Grand Prix but Toro Rosso’s Sébastien Buemi reckoned it was a better than expected.
After losing time behind the KERS-aided Ferrari of Felipe Massa in Spain, Sebastian Vettel today admitted he was grateful pole position in Turkey would allow him to escape the same fate.
It is with massive relief that I’m able to report today that something happened in Formula One other than people shouting at each other across the garden fence of the 2010 regulations.
Scuderia Toro Rosso’s Sébastian Buemi admitted he is facing a tough task to carve out a good result for his team in Turkey after he complained of tyre trouble in qualifying today.
Sebastian Vettel turned a troubled Friday into a stunning qualifying display to grab his second pole position of the season at the Turkish Grand Prix this afternoon.
There are rumours circulating that Istanbul Park may not host F1 after its contract expires in 2011, with track boss Mumtaz Tahincioglu admitting that "it won't be easy to come to an agreement (with Bernie Ecclestone)”.
There are plenty in Formula One who reckon that the sport has lost its way, that things are out of control, beyond rescue and that only a changing of the guard can rescue us from certain implosion.
Each grand prix weekend has a rhythm that determines how you live your F1 life.
While minding his own business, Justin Hynes stumbled across either an extended metaphor or a rodent doing an impression of a two-times winner of the Monaco Grand Prix...
Monaco, a place steeped in motor racing lore, a shining jewel in F1’s crown, a place where men are men (largely on oxygen tanks) and the women are barely out of their teens.
Spanish GP podium-finisher Mark Webber reckons that thinking like a
golfer is the key to success this season, particular at the upcoming
Monaco Grand Prix, one of the most challenging for F1 drivers.
RBR chief technical officer Adrian Newey says his cars have the edge in raw pace on the season-dominating Brawn GP machines but they’re getting held up by others.
Mark Webber grabbed his second podium finish in Spain on Sunday and claimed Red Bull Racing are now stretching their advantage over other teams.
Sebastian Vettel claimed a front-row start for tomorrow’s Spanish Grand Prix to continue a spectacular run of top three qualifying results at every race so far this year.
Crashes, clashes and massive hissy fits from the driver. Formula One? No chance. We’re talking about something much more competitive – the Bridgestone Media Karting event.
It’s not often that Sebastian Vettel gets treated as an elder statesman in the F1 paddock but this weekend is slightly different.
Shocking though it may seem, this infernal credit crunch thing is hitting not just the Formula One teams but also us humble hacks.
After a long time away, it’s good to be back on terra firma, says Justin Hynes, who notices that Ferrari, for one, have been busy remodelling their safe European home.
Neel Jani’s dream of a second A1GP title slipped out of sight after a mystiftying lack of pace and a cracked exhaust...
After taking second behind the Brawn of Jenson Button in Bahrain, Sebastian Vettel vowed that Red Bull will try to set the pace in Spain in two weeks’ time.
After two great results in Australia and China, it was down to earth with a bump for Sébastien Buemi at his ‘home’ race in Bahrain on Sunday.
RBR's Sebastian Vettel believes that championship leaders Brawn GP can be overhauled.
RBR’s rivals in Bahrain have admitted that the Milton Keynes-based outfit are now the team to beat in Formula One after Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber scored a historic first one-two victory in China last weekend.
Coming to Bahrain, things have changed in F1. Sure, we had all the noise of the Brawns and the McLaren business going on, but still a week or so ago things were a lot quieter. But not any more…
It’s not often one of Formula One’s newer venues can claim to have a local hero regularly scoring points in motorsport’s top echelon.
Sebastian Vettel was an “extremely happy” man after giving Red Bull Racing their first ever victory at the Chinese Grand Prix today.
Red Bull Racing’s victorious team principal thinks “the sky is the limit” after Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber claimed an historic one-two finish for the team at the Chinese Grand Prix today.
Mark Webber admitted that he hopes to go one step further in the near future after claiming the best result of his Formula One career in China today.
Toro Rosso’s Sébastien Buemi admitted he was relieved to have scored a valuable point after what he called “the most difficult race of my life” at the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai today.
Toro Rosso’s Sébastien Buemi reckons there is more to come from the Red Bull-owned outfit, after racing through to qualify in a superb 10th place on the grid in Shanghai yesterday.
Well, well… the Brawn hegemony has been broken at last, and by none other than everyone’s favourite ray of sunshine, Sebastian Vettel.
Sebastian Vettel shocked the field yesterday by blasting Red Bull Racing to their first ever pole position ahead of tomorrow’s Chinese Grand Prix .
Sebastian Vettel wants KERS on his car this weekend, as he believe the controversial system could give his season a real boost.
Sebastian Vettel’s fifth quickest time in this afternoon’s free practice session in Shanghai was followed by further good news when he got back to the garage.
You can't keep up with this Formula One stuff can you? There I was, all
set to have a look at what the Paris diffuser ruling will mean but that's
already yesterday's news, about as relevant to F1 now as HD DVD is to
watching movies.
With storm clouds brewing over Shanghai and Paris, and the global economy still under the weather, F1 needs to build a proper shelter.
You have to feel slightly sorry for McLaren. Yup, these are words that do not come easily to lips of… well, most people in the Formula One paddock...
It’s a perennial problem at the Malaysian Grand Prix. Just how do you cope with searing heat? Sebastian Vettel has a clever solution...
Even with massive budget cuts necessary for survival in the new world economy, old habits die hard around the paddock, but a few unlikely specimens are setting a good example.
Stewards at the Australian Grand Prix leave us in the dark as copy deadlines loomed out of the gloom.
It’s about the only time I’m ever going to say this, but… Jenson, Rubens, Seb: where have you been all my life?
F1 is costly; F1 isn’t green; F1 makes too much noise – with so many critics, everyone in the Formula One paddock needs to pull together, suggests Justin Hynes.
The increasingly ridiculous rumours coming out of the paddock are a sure sign that everyone is glad to be back in the F1 circus…
The start of a new Formula One season brings with it all those things that make sport great – a nervous flutter of anticipation, a slight twinge of anxiety, hope, trepidation…
If ever there was an emphatic statement of intent, Sunday's Norwegian rally win for Sébastien Loeb was it.
Leaving the luxury of the WRC service park, our intrepid correspondent Justin Hynes discovers the 2006 Junior World Rally Champion Patrik Sandell ensconced in a frozen corner of Hamar.
Dear God, Norway's cold. How do human beings live here? What are they thinking?
It's difficult to find anything to talk about after a WRC weekend like the one that just went by in Ireland.
The middle of Saturday afternoon and it's dark, getting darker by the minute...
Now, I know, and probably you do too, that Sébastien Löeb hates being compared with Michael Schumacher. But what does he expect?
Boris Becker once famously said that playing at Wimbledon was like playing in his living room...
With nearly 600 competitors starting the 2009 Dakar, there are plenty of stories to be told in the rest day bivouac.
In Valparaiso, Chile it's a blazing late 20-something degrees, the beaches that fringe the port city are packed, the sky a deep, cerulean blue. What's not to like?
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