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[themotorsportblog]

ZHOU ZOOMS TO POLE IN CHAOTIC F2 QUALIFYING

Guanyu Zhou survived a crazy F2 qualifying session to take the first pole of the 2020 F2 season.

The cars queued at the end of the pit lane prior to the first green light of the session, keen to get on track having not taken these cars out on track since pre-season testing in Bahrain back in February.

The session started with a battle of the F1 juniors, with Marcus Armstrong, a Ferrari Junior Driver, seizing the initiative to hit the top of the time sheets first. He was then usurped by Red Bull junior Yuki Tsunoda who snatched provisional pole as Guiliano Alesi  (also a Ferrari junior) made a mess of turn one and brushed the barrier with his front wing as he ventured through the gravel. But it was Zhou who topped the time sheet at the end of the first set of running as the cars headed back to the pit lane for fresh rubber.

Further chaos then ensued with Sean Gelael having his lap time deleted for exceeding track limits, before Jehan Daruvala had to take avoiding action to miss the PREMA of Mick Schumacher who was pulling into the pit lane, ruining his lap. Marino Sato then ran wide at turn four, spinning off into the gravel and beaching his Trident car and bringing out the red flags.

The session promptly restarted with Mick Schumacher leading a queue of cars back onto the track, but he couldn’t make the most of the clean air and could only manage fifth.

But it was Zhou who stayed calm throughout the chaos around him to see of the stiff challenge from his team mate Callum Ilott and fellow Renault junior driver Christian Lundgaard to take the first pole of the year, and the Championship lead.

THE GRID:

ZHOU                   DRUGOVICH ILOTT                   LUNDGAARD SCHUMACHER   DARUVALA GHIOTTO            SHWARTZMAN TICKTUM            DELETRAZ MAZEPIN            TSUNODA ARMSTRONG     AITKEN PIQUET               NISSANY GELAEL              ALESI SAMAIA               MARKELOV MATUSHITA        SATO

[argilligan]

The peace scarf used on yesterdays protest was part of the seven-mile long scarf that was used at the Wool against Weapons protest last August.

Peace scarf “wraps up” MoD at anti-nuke protest

[davidsankey]

The saddest Trike : cancel Trident Build Council Flats & Houses

As a Museum archaeologist I have seen some objects capable of conveying powerful messages - but none as sad as this... 

 ...Shinichi Tetsutani (then 3 years and 11 months) loved to ride this tricycle.  -- On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped the world's first atom bomb over the city of Hiroshima. That morning, he was riding in front of his house when, in a sudden flash, he and his tricycle were badly burned. He died that night. (Learn more about Shinichi and his family here:http://bit.ly/1qWL9qo) Here are resources for teaching outside the textbook about the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, (C/O http://www.zinnedproject.org/ )

2016 Britain is due to "renew" its Trident Nuclear Missile system. Cancelling the renewall would save 100Billion GBP http://www.rethinktrident.org.uk/   

100000000000 British Pound Sterling equals 168330000000.00 US Dollar (Google 6th Aug 2014)

Cancelling trident and redirecting that money to provide council flats (apartments) would go a very long way to sorting out Britain's housing problems....  ...and employ a lot of unemployed people ( 180,000 new jobs )....and start a lot of apprentices in a life of useful work....    ....or would you rather have the means to inflict more  Hiroshimas: 

http://www.cnduk.org/campaigns/no-to-trident

.Each warhead has an explosive power of up to 100 kilotons of conventional high explosive.

This is 8 times the power of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945