Bernie is the Speedworks of F1 tbh

Find something upon which everyone agrees (except maybe Eric Lux jajajajajajaja) then say the opposite to get in the papers.

Classic Bernie formula.

No gays and women should be in the kitchen cooking dinner not racing cars.
Anything else?

It just occurs to me, we have the driver combo we have all been waiting for! Nasr and Massa are at the same team, WOO!

Bernie Ecclestone's reputation is dragged through the mud by a QC and he has been stripped of pretty much all of his powers, thus potentially destabilising the sport he has ruled for 40 years and leaving the future unclear.

Bernie Ecclestone agrees with Putin over gay rights.

It's classic Bernie politics, because which story gets the most attention?

hum, why?

Just because both are from the same country and named Felipe?! surely it can't be that

Btw, Nasr name is Luis Felipe. I don't know why he picked the second name. It is as if we would call Kimi by Matias or Button by Alexander.

Didn't necessarily work, though, did it? His comments didn't make the BBC website at the very least...

Raikkonen's crash caught on tape.

[youtubeidiot]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5l6sP8FHFA[/youtubeidiot]

The interesting thing I find with this is that very few news outlets have picked up on this and run with it, whereas it was headline news when it concerning the Olympics.

Because their first names are the same, their last names sound similar and I am easily amused by things like this. Nothing to be shocked about, I'm just being a bit silly.
We often see Brazilian footballers using a middle name, or one of when they have a lot of names. Maybe it's more common there? Can someone help with that?

Yes it is well common around here for people to prefer to be known by their middle names rather their first names, and it's clear the same happens in Brazil where the culture is similar-ish. Same goes for surnames, see Ayrton Senna da Silva.

Senna's case was that "Silva" is just too common, bit like Smith in Britain, whereas Senna is much rarer, a more striking name. Re first/middle names, some people just like the sound of their middle name better than their first. Sometimes it's a case of mom picking 1st name, dad the 2nd (or the opposite) then different parts of the family prefer to call the kid by either name, and said kid ends up growing more of a like for one name over the other.

Portuguese and Brazilian names almost always are composed by 2 first names and 2 surnames, not like British and Northern/Central European names where typically you'd have first and last. So you get these particularities that sound odd over there but seem perfectly normal over here.

Because their first names are the same, their last names sound similar and I am easily amused by things like this. Nothing to be shocked about, I'm just being a bit silly.

Portuguese and Brazilian names almost always are composed by 2 first names and 2 surnames, not like British and Northern/Central European names where typically you'd have first and last.

Alonso as well is Fernando Alonso Diaz - Diaz being one of the most common surnames in mainland Spain.

However, the last name in Spanish is very rarely used anyway. Every hispanic name has 2 surnames, but only the first one is commonly used.