After weeks of speculation, months of frustration and years of regret Jonathon Legard has announced on his twitter feed that…

“Life moves on. Ask Nick Heidfeld or @narainracing. You never know what’s next. To the critical and the complimentary, thanks for the company”

via Jonathan Legard (legardj) on Twitter.

…ding dong, it’s always hard when twtitter reminds you that someone is a real person and not just that cunt off the telly.

But, fuck him, he and James Allen can get on with their blogging together.

Neither me or Kevin has had the call, so it seems like DC will step up, but still hoping for Crofty.

(and you may have noticed our, erm, sympathetic? tweet)

“Life Moves On. Ask Luca Badoer or @markblundellF1. You never know what’s next. To the cunts and the cunts, fuck off”

via anotherf1podcast (a_f1podcast) on Twitter.

HRT has lived up to their appalling name by having a spat, wondering if it’s hot in here and splitting up with FOTA, accusing it of merely fancying the good looking teams.

Although, it might just be because they can’t afford the €100k annual fee.

FOTA has a fee to join? All they do is sit around and have meetings in someone’s (already paid for) motorhome at (already paid for) grands prix to discuss what to moan about (usually money)

HRT confirms FOTA split > autosport.com

India has a population of 1,190,884,00 people, but it seems that in terms of Formula One it’s like a night club after midnight with its one in, one out policy.

Narain Karthikeyan has been given a drive for HRT in 2011, although if last seasons car is anything to go by it’s more of a sit looking at broken hydraulics than actually driving.

But this means that chipper Karun Chandok, so nearly a favourite for the inaugural Anthony Davidson Underdog Award Trophy probably isn’t going to be going anywhere fast this year (again much like last year) as F1 wants to be seen to like India, but apparently, not that much.

We at anotherf1podcast.com can exclusively reveal the revised 2011 F1 entry list, updated as the Lotus-gate saga goes on…

Lotus Red Bull Racing

1. Sebastian “Lotus” Vettel

2. Lotus Mark Webber

Lotus Vodafone  Lotus McLaren Mercedes

3. Jenson Lotus

4. Lotus Hamilton

Lotus Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro

5. Lotus Fernando Alonso

6. Felipe Massa Lotus

Mercedes GP Petronas F1 Team Lotus

7. Michael “Lotus” Schumacher

8. Nico Lotusberg

Lotus Renault F1 Team

9. Robert Kubica

10. Lotus Lotus

AT&T Williams Lotus

11. Lotus Barrichello

12. Lotus Lotus Lotus Lotus Lotus

Force Lotus India Lotus F1 Team

14. Antonio Lotuzzi

15. Lotus

LotusLotusLotus Sauber F1 Team

16. Kamui Kobayashi Lotus

17. Sergio Lotus

Lotus Scuderia Toro Rosso

18. Lotus

19. Lotus

Team Actually Fucking Lotus

20. Team Jarno Trulli Lotus

21. Team Heikki Kovalainen Lotus

HRT Lotus F1 Team

22. Group Lotus

23. Team Lotus

Marussia Lotus Virgin Lotus Racing

24. A Locust

25. Two Locusts

autosport.com > Ferrari threatens to leave F1 in 2010

And so it properly begins, the big guns at ferrari have unzipped their tailored suits and whacked their combined cocks onto the desk and now are waiting for bert and ernie to do the same.

Saying that they will not enter in 2010 if the proposed two tier budget goes ahead (and not at all to do with the fact that they’ve forgotten how to build good cars) the Ferrari management have tried to undo the unity of FOTA in one go.

Bernie, Max… your turn

grandprix.com > McLaren decision

The FIA very sensibly didn’t throw the book, the bell and the candle at McLaren today and took the scapegoating, resigning  and grovelling as victory enough, leaving just a suspended sentence just in case any more blood is found on any more hands.

That penalty is a suspension of the team from three races of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship. This will only be applied if further facts emerge regarding the case or if, in the next 12 months, there is a further breach by the team of article 151c of the International Sporting Code.”

Let’s hope they buy some soap…

No jokes there isn’t time or as Graham Hill once said “Time is of the essence…and I very short of essence” perhaps I should say “Time is money….. and I’m very short of money”.

Watch Graham Hill:Driven on the BBC iPlayer before you run out of money or essence.

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grandprix.com > Diffusers are legal!

And the season can carry on as the FIA  has broken its rule of making silly judgements by declaring diffusers legal.

therefore, Button keeps his wins, BrawnGP stays on top and McLaren, Ferrari et al remain totally fucked.

The other teams all now have to try to sound angry (see kevin’s post) and yet somehow manage to sneak out their own double decker diffusers onto the grid that they’ve been making for the last month without the worlds press noticing and shouting “hypocrites”.

At last we can look forward to a Grand Prix where the result is decided as the cars cross the line. Not since the days of Sir Stirling Moss have fans been able watch a race decided at the track on a Sunday. Speaking last week in Paris as the FIA finally confirmed his 1992 championship Nigel Mansell said “I’m 72 you know”.

The best part of the appeal hearing for me is the fact that Ferrari’s legal attorney Nigel Tozzi (some jokes write themselves) QC seems to have taken it all so badly, perhaps fearing a horses head in his bed he decided to attack Ross Brawn by saying,

“Only a person of supreme arrogance would think he is right, when so many of his esteemed colleagues would disagree. Anyone with a command of English will tell you it is a hole.”

What? If you think you are right but your slower, bitter, wealthier and previously more successful esteemed colleagues disagree you should capitulate or be deemed arrogant .

Arrogance of course is a word that can no longer be associated with Ferrari after they forced the Oxford English Dictionary to change their definition of the word in 2004.

He continues “Do not let someone attempting to be clever with words defeat the express purpose of the rules.”

I have never sworn on the website before but that is about to change. FUCK OFF! You are a fucking wankstick of an attorney your job description is someone attempting to be clever with words to defeat the express purpose of the rules.

As for the holes of which you speak, they are not holes. What you can see next to Massa, Raikkonen and the teams names are in fact zeros.

Numbers can be confusing I know, and seeing as the rest of the team is now very busy re-designing the entire rear end of the car I’m going to help you, so repeat after me, zero, nothing, zip, nada, naught, fuck all, nul point, big fat zero……………

This story is getting stranger and stranger.

Now Lewis has come out with a very painful press conference in which he said that he didn’t do nufink guv, it was them big boys what told me to do it…

“I’d like to say sorry to all my fans who have believed in me and supported me for years. I am not a liar. I am not a dishonest person. I am a team player. Every time I have had to do something I have done it. This time it was a huge mistake. I am learning from it. It has had a huge toll for me. It was a lot to deal with. I was in the wrong and I feel I owe it to my fans to let them know that. Like I said I was misled.

We went straight there and while we were waiting I was instructed what to do. I did not have time to think about what I was going to do. I felt awkward and very uncomfortable and I think the stewards could see that. I am not a liar.

“Dave [Ryan] is a great guy and has worked for the team for many years and he is feeling it just as much as the whole team.

“The situation is the worst thing I have experineced in my life. That is why I am here. It is right for me as a human being and a man to tell you exactly what was going on. I am sorry for the embarrassment I have caused to may family and to the team”

This ain’t going away quickly, McLaren are barely out of the spotlight from spygate and now this liegate (I guessed wrong) has taken one of the major McLaren scalps. Is Martin Whitmarsh using this crisis to reshuffle his cabinet?