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For 25 long years, Parveena Ahangar, has been leading protests and marches with Kashmiris, who have time and again raised the issue “disappearances”.

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She is 50 and known as the “Iron lady of Kashmir” for her untiring and fearless protests against the alleged abduction of her son by the Indian Army in 1990 and thereafter forming the Association of Parents of Disappeared Parents (APDP) in 1994.

Her association, which is backed by the United Nations, has been holding sit-in protests for over two decades against alleged “forced disappearances”.

Nico Rosberg’s advantage in distance over Lewis Hamilton in today’s qualifying session amounts to just 82cm, and while both drivers certainly deserved pole, it is the German who shall be heading the pack tomorrow.

Mercedes locks out the first row for the 10th time this season, and Rosberg, who topped every session, had no particular issues to report except that he was pleased with his achievement.

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“Of course, happy with the result in the end,” said the German.

“It was going well the whole weekend, I had a good balance in the car, feeling comfortable so that’s what allows me to put in a lap like that in the end. So yeah, pleased with that.

The statistics say that starting from second at Suzuka – Hamilton’s spot tomorrow – has been the most beneficial  position, but Rosberg clearly isn’t relying on past track records.

Obviously, the n°6 Mercedes driver isn’t looking at tomorrow’s race as a cut and dried exercise, with the hardest yet to come.

“For sure the start is going to be an important one tomorrow. We’ve seen this weekend that it’s not been too easy because of the downhill and the grips are a little bit lower than usual, so it’ll be an interesting challenge.

“From then on I just need to get the tyre life to do a long enough stint and everything to get the strategy working, so it’s putting everything together.”

Rosberg is also mindful of Mercedes’ rivals given the positive race pace displayed by both Red Bull and Ferrari.

“We always have an eye on the opposition, but we’re feeling good about everything and think we can be quickest tomorrow.”

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Hamilton needs to think F1, not music – Briatore

November 27, 2019 | News | No Comments

Former Formula One team manager Flavio Briatore has said that in his opinion Lewis Hamilton needed to get his head back in the game if he wanted to retain his world championship for a third consecutive season.

Briatore criticised Hamilton for his ‘playboy’ lifestyle, suggesting that the driver was spending too much time on music and his jet set lifestyle, and that he needed to focus more on driving if he wants to hold off Nico Rosberg’s challenge in the world championship standings.

“Rosberg lately seems to have put the head in place,” Briatore told Italy’s La Gazzetta dello Sport magazine. “Hamilton is ‘a bit DJ, a bit rapper’ – he has great talent, but if you want to win you have to concentrate only one thing.

“If I were him, I would work a little less on music and more on F1,” he added.

Briatore’s comments echo those of another Formula One icon Sir Jackie Stewart, who suggested this week that Hamilton now had the sort of “life that distracts you” and that he had lost focus on Formula One due to his busy personal schedule away from racing.

But Briatore’s strongest praise went not to either of the Mercedes drivers but rather to Red Bull prodigy Max Verstappen, whom he said reminded him of Fernando Alonso – the driver that Briatore helped make world champion in 2005 and 2006.

“Verstappen is a phenomenon, a talent – it’s like seeing Alonso at the beginning. It is useless to insist on the old, it takes youngsters such as Verstappen.”

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Sebastian Vettel has defended Ferrari’s decision to delay his final pit stop and put him on the soft tyre at the end of the Japanese Grand Prix, despite ultimately losing out to Lewis Hamilton for third place at Suzuka.

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Lining up sixth on the grid due to the penalty he was carrying over from Malaysia, Vettel enjoyed a strong opening lap, gaining two positions at the start before overtaking Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo on the approach of the fearsome 130R corner.

“We had different plans for the strategy, we obviously had a great start, made good progress in the first couple of laps, gaining a few positions. I think we tried everything to put [second-placed] Max [Verstappen] under pressure.

“He reacted by pitting a bit earlier, all the time, in both stops and we obviously didn’t have the freedom in the second stop, as we would pit into traffic with Ricciardo. Max could, because in the worst case scenario he could pass Daniel very easily.

“It was at that point we decided to go longer in order to come back at the end of the race.”

Despite leading fourth-placed Hamilton by several seconds before his last stop, Vettel re-joined the fray behind the Mercedes.

He still hoped to regain third position thanks to his fresher rubber. But after pressuring Hamilton for a couple of laps, the 29-year-old could no longer keep apace.

“Unfortunately the way it turned out the soft tyre didn’t last very long… But if you look at the position at the end to Lewis, I don’t think there was anything we could have done to hold him because the gap to the podium ultimately too big.

“In the end, with what we tried to do, which I think was the right thing to take the risk and try to make it work.

“That’s how it goes, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, [Hamilton] seemed to always clear the cars on the straights whereas I was pretty often stuck for the majority of the first sector or the middle part of the track and lost quite a bit of time.”

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After going 2-0 down at home, Spurs benefitted from some help from a ballboy as they pulled off a memorable comeback

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New Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho has praised the work of an ‘intelligent ball boy’ that proved key in his side’s 4-2 win over Olympiacos in the Champions League on Tuesday.

Trailing 2-0 after 20 minutes, Spurs pegged one goal back just before half-time through Dele Alli and found their equaliser early in the second half courtesy of some quick thinking on the sidelines. 

As Mourinho’s side charged forward, Serge Aurier was able to take a quick throw-in courtesy of a ball boy, with Lucas Moura receiving the ball, racing into the box and setting up Harry Kane for a routine finish. 

Tottenham wouldn’t look back after the equaliser, scoring twice more to secure their spot in the Champions League knockout stages, with Mourinho heaping praise upon the ball boy that helped decide the game. 

“I love intelligent ball boys like I was, and this kid today was brilliant,” Mourinho told  BT Sport  post-match. “He read the game, understands the game and made an important assist, an important moment for him and he will never forget it.

“The goal before half-time is important. I did not see it, I saw it later on the screen.

“When you are losing 2-0, if you are in control of the other result and you know a draw is enough to qualify then we can go for the draw in the second half and be pragmatic.” 

Mourinho was seen congratulating the ball boy after Kane’s equaliser with former Spurs manager Tim Sherwood also joking that a contract could now be awaiting him. 

“Look at the ball boy, outstanding! The distribution – unbelievable,” Sherwood said on beIN Sports . 

“He will be signed in the morning that kid. That boy is probably from the academy…gets an opportunity and look at the pace of him to get that ball back.

“If I’m the Olympiacos coach, I’m strangling him after.” 

After struggling for form under previous manager Mauricio Pochettino, who was replaced by Mourinho last week, Tottenham have now won two games on the bounce. 

While disappointed to see his side fall behind early on, Mourinho praised the players for remaining calm and securing their progression in the competition. 

“We have qualified for the next round, that is the important thing for all of us at the club and the fans,” he said.

“It was hard, they are a good team, very well organised and they attacked our self esteem and self confidence.

“I did not expert our boys to feel this pressure at home and they have not had the best results in the last few months. It was a tough time, more than the changes or the tactical talk, I told them to keep calm, keep confident and believe in ourselves.” 

Force India unfazed by Williams response

November 26, 2019 | News | No Comments

Force India feels it is in a strong position in the fight for fourth place in the constructors’ championship despite dropping behind Williams at Monza.

A clear improvement since the Spanish Grand Prix has seen Force India close in on Williams and it took over fourth place following the Belgian Grand Prix where it finished fourth and fifth with Nico Hulkenberg and Sergio Perez respectively. However, Williams hit back at Monza as Valtteri Bottas took sixth and Felipe Massa ninth, scoring ten points to Force India’s five.

Williams now holds a three-point advantage in the tight battle but Force India COO Otmar Szafnauer says scoring points with both drivers was a good result on a circuit where the Williams was particularly strong.

“Five points, both cars in the points, very good,” Szafnauer told F1i. “Could we have done better? Maybe a little bit better, maybe Nico could have finished ahead of Massa but in the end Felipe was going pretty quickly. Nico lost most of it at the beginning when he got stuck behind [Fernando] Alonso.

“Anyway, two cars in the points, pretty good. A lot of racing left, we’re only three points behind, so I think that’s good. It’s good for the championship and we’ll push hard to the end.”

Szafnauer’s confidence is based on a belief the majority of the remaining circuits will suit Force India better than Williams.

“Hopefully Singapore will suit us a lot better and there are some other ones that we like, including Austin. Suzuka could be good for us, Abu Dhabi is always good for us, Brazil is often good for us so there’s a few of them!”

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Hamilton beats Rosberg to pole position in Austin

November 26, 2019 | News | No Comments

Lewis Hamilton will start the United States Grand Prix from pole position after beating team-mate Nico Rosberg by 0.216s in Austin.

An impressive final lap of 1:34.999 saw Hamilton secure a potentially crucial pole position as he looks to reduce Rosberg’s 33-point lead in the drivers’ championship. Rosberg provisionally took pole on his final lap but Hamilton excelled in the high-speed first sector to secure the 58th pole position of his career.

  • AS IT HAPPENED: United States Grand Prix – Qualifying

Hamilton struck first in Q3 as he beat Rosberg by 0.072s on the first runs, with Mercedes enjoying an advantage of half a second over the rest of the field. Red Bull posed the biggest threat and Daniel Ricciardo took third on the grid but was just over 0.3s adrift of Rosberg and unable to split the Mercedes pair.

Max Verstappen will start alongside Ricciardo in fourth place ahead of the Ferraris of Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel. The two Ferrari drivers struggled to stay in contention with those ahead, ending the session over a second slower than Hamilton and with Nico Hulkenberg close behind. Valtteri Bottas, Felipe Massa and Carlos Sainz round out the top ten.

Tyre tactics came into play during the second part of qualifying, with the two Mercedes drivers opting to progress on the soft compound tyre in order to start the race on the softs on Sunday. Verstappen matched that choice, while Ricciardo used the supersofts and set the fastest time of the session.

The main fight was for the final few spots in the top ten and Sainz pulled out an excellent lap to set the eighth quickest time ahead of the two Williams drivers. It was a lap which ultimately eliminated Sergio Perez as Massa completed just one run and snuck through ahead of the Force India in tenth place.

Fernando Alonso will start from 12th alongside Perez – who will get the bonus of choosing which tyres he starts on having not qualified in the top ten – while Daniil Kvyat and Esteban Gutierrez also dropped out in Q2 ahead of Jolyon Palmer and Marcus Ericsson.

The end of Q1 saw a lot of traffic causing headaches for some drivers, with Jenson Button in particular struggling. Button encountered a number of cars in the final sector, with Palmer’s Renault right on the racing line as he approached the final corner. In fairness to Palmer, he took to the kerb on the outside of the track to give Button as much space as possible, taking to team radio to complain about not being told the McLaren was approaching.

Button was attempting to improve after a poor first lap and only briefly jumped out of the bottom six before he was bumped down again, with Palmer progressing as Romain Grosjean failed with his final lap and was eliminated in 17th place. Kevin Magnussen split the Haas and McLaren, while Pascal Wehrlein was just 0.2s slower than Button in 20th place, beating Felipe Nasr and Manor team-mate Esteban Ocon.

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Pos Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3

01
Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes
1:36.296
1:36.450
1:34.999

02
Nico Rosberg
Mercedes
1:36.397
1:36.351
1:35.215

03
Daniel Ricciardo
Red Bull
1:36.759
1:36.255
1:35.509

04
Max Verstappen
Red Bull
1:36.613
1:36.857
1:35.747

05
Kimi Raikkonen
Ferrari
1:36.985
1:36.584
1:36.131

06
Sebastian Vettel
Ferrari
1:37.151
1:36.462
1:36.358

07
Nico Hulkenberg
Force India
1:36.950
1:36.626
1:36.628

08
Valtteri Bottas
Williams
1:37.456
1:37.202
1:37.116

09
Felipe Massa
Williams
1:37.402
1:37.214
1:37.269

10
Carlos Sainz
Toro Rosso
1:37.744
1:37.175
1:37.326

11
Sergio Perez
Force India
1:37.345
1:37.353

12
Fernando Alonso
McLaren
1:37.913
1:37.417

13
Daniil Kvyat
Toro Rosso
1:37.844
1:37.480

14
Esteban Gutierrez
Haas
1:38.053
1:37.773

15
Jolyon Palmer
Renault
1:38.084
1:37.935

16
Marcus Ericsson
Sauber
1:38.040
1:39.356

17
Romain Grosjean
Haas
1:38.308

18
Kevin Magnussen
Renault
1:38.317

19
Jenson Button
McLaren
1:38.327

20
Pascal Wehrlein
Manor
1:38.548

21
Felipe Nasr
Sauber
1:38.583

22
Esteban Ocon
Manor
1:38.806

Ricciardo seeking early edge with supersoft choice

November 26, 2019 | News | No Comments

Daniel Ricciardo will be starting his US GP tomorrow on Pirelli’s supersoft tyre in a choice which will see the Aussie be pitted at the outset against  his soft-shod top rivals, including his team mate.

Red Bull’s split strategy came about as a result of each driver’s preference, with Ricciardo obviously expressing a liking for the softest compound available and the edge it may provide him at the start.

“We talked about it before the session and Max was more keen to start on the Soft, and I was happy with the supersoft,” explained Ricciardo.

“I was bit more comfortable on that tyre yesterday on the long runs, that was the reason for that. Hopefully it gives me a bit of a better start and I can really get in the mix with the Mercedes guys.

“Obviously they are going to be fighting each other but hopefully I can be another number to their equation.”

“It’s a good circuit around here where you can do a lot of overtaking, and there are a few corners where you can change the line and do a few little things. It’s not just a one-line circuit, so I’m looking forward to tomorrow.”

Given the pace of both Red Bull cars this morning when they topped FP3, one could have hoped for perhaps a tighter battle in qualifying but Ricciardo believes the end result pretty much reflects everybody’s true level of performance.

“I think the day was pretty good, not really close to Mercedes but we expected them to be very hard to beat.

“We’ve got a good buffer over Ferrari and I think the car was working pretty well, I think we’ve got a good chance tomorrow so we’ll see what we can do.

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Sainz flattered by Renault interest

November 26, 2019 | News | No Comments

Toro Rosso’s Carlos Sainz addressed the rumors of the courting of his services by Renault in Malaysia today, but reaffirmed his commitment to present employer Red Bull.

It is believed that Renault approached Sainz with an offer to join the French squad in 2017, but Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost made clear earlier this week that such a prospect appeared highly unlikely given Red Bull’s vested interest in the Spanish driver.

Sainz, who neither fully denied or confirmed the rumors, said that he was flattered by the interest.

“If there is some discussion going on, then there has been some interest and contacts, which for me is an honour that a manufacturer team is worried about me and wants to know my contractual situation,” Sainz explained.

“As you know, more or less what is going on with Red Bull they guide your career, they paid for 5 years of my junior series, which is millions of euros and I perfectly understand they don’t want to let me go having spent so much money on me and me being in the best moment of my career and then just let me go.

Sainz said his objective in the short term was performing to the best of his ability in the last six races of the season while reiterating his longer term ambition of winning the world championship.

“I don’t want to think about my future when there are 6 important races coming, and because it is not my job to be involved but it is more up to Helmut Marko and my management to sort out that stuff.

“At the moment I have full trust in Toro Rosso that they are going to produce a good chassis for next year because if there was any doubt, Singapore proved Toro Rosso is probably the third or fourth best chassis on the grid.

“As for Renault, I don’t have enough information that they are going to perform next year or if it is going to take 2 years or 3 years.

“My main target and objective is to be fighting for the world championship in 2018 and hopefully that will be with Red Bull.

“That is my main target and I know it is very difficult but the only thing I want is for that to happen and I need to find the shortest way to that point.”

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