KIMI Raikkonen won the 2013 Australian GP that most fans expected either a Sebastian Vettel or Fernando Alonso to win. His drive to the top step of the podium was a result of tyre management, tyre strategy and of course race pace. Stats indicate that the winner of the Australian GP usually goes on to win the Drivers’ Championship that year, however, basis a survey conducted by…
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MS DHONI has perfected the fine art of making his detractors seek alternative occupations. And after the first two tests against Australia, where he overcame question marks on both his test batting ability, and his captaincy skills in that form of the game; MSD is once again riding the euphoric wave.
There are many endearing facets to the Dhoni saga.…
WHILE any analysis on sports sponsorships usually begins with cricket or along those lines, in recent months there has been a trend that has little to do with cricket, and more to do with core business practices. Today, there are lessons that corporations dabbling in sports sponsorship or ownership models have learnt, and not all of them are mutually exclusive to corporations’…
HAPPY New Season! That’s the best way to start my first column of the 2013 season on SportzPower. This column started way back in mid-2010 and I am happy that I am entering my fourth F1 season for all SportzPower readers and subscribers.
Pre-season testing commenced in early February, however, it wasn’t before the sad news of HRT shutting shop…
IN WHAT has shaped up into the Grand Canyon of falls from grace, the once legendary Lance Armstrong is grasping for a semblance of credibility as his legacy turns to dust around him. On a tell-all with Oprah Winfrey, Armstrong confessed to being a performance-enhancing drugs (“PED”) user during his unprecedented run of seven Tour-de-France victories.
An erstwhile tale of courage and superhuman will-power, Armstrong is now confirmed as the single biggest ‘Brand-Kill’ in the…
THE NEW year opened with Lionel Messi bagging the Ballon D’or-the trophy celebrating the best soccer player in the world, for a record fourth time. In beating off stiff competition from the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Andres Iniesta, Messi has blazed a trail of footballing excellence, which will unequivocally illuminate the game for years to come. The ‘atomic flea…
THE INGLORIOUS sacking of the Chelsea manager Roberto De Matteo, and the abject capitulation of the Indian batting lineup in the second test at Mumbai; had all of three words in common. Somewhere both these seemingly disparate events, illustrated a ‘lack of patience’, as regards some of the key personnel involved. And as a new era begins to demand lightning quick…
THERE'S a new show in town, and from the looks of it, Mixed Martial Arts (“MMA”) now has enough going for it to become a serious player in the sports & entertainment segment on television and event property parameters. The rise of MMA in India might be similar in many ways to the rise in popularity of professional wrestling promotions (WWE, WCW and TNA to name a few), with one…
THE CACHE memory in my head tells me that Interlagos and Suzuka are the two circuits that have hosted more title deciding races in the recent past than most other circuits on the calendar. The same was true Sunday when the title challengers Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso went head to head to lay their hands on the most coveted trophy for drivers in Formula1 – the Drivers…
‘FORMULA1 returns to the USA’ was probably the most over-used phrase in the last couple of weeks as the sport actually re-entered the United States of America. While I wasn’t around in the early years of the 70s and 80s when Formula1 was followed religiously at the Watkins Glen and Phoenix, I certainly was around when the 2005 United States Grand Prix held at the Indianapolis…