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    This evening, it was announced that Alexander Albon would race the Australian Grand Prix in Logan Sargeant's car as Albon had crashed his own car at the exit of turn 6. Mounting a kerb and veering off into a wall, causing damage to his chassis that is beyond repair or at least beyond repairing on time.    Though this decision makes some sense from a team standpoint, with them wanting to race their faster driver who has proven to be capable of delivering good results to the team, shoved aside is a hungry driver who is willing to prove himself and shoving him aside could prove to be a mistake for Williams.   Before we get to that, we have to get a clearer view of both of the Williams drivers.   On one side of the garage, you have Alexander Albon. The Thai driver is undoubtedly talented, rising through the ranks via the Red Bull junior programme, he amassed 2 podiums while driving for the senior Red Bull team. Though he would be dropped to make way for Ser...

    Codemasters have held the Formula 1 video game license from 2009 all the way to the present day.    An F1 fan's equivalent of the FIFA or NBA 2K games, Codemasters and now EA are expected to deliver a good Formula 1 game year in and year out. The standard for that being immersive and useful features, a good handling model that will mimic how the real life drivers feel when they drive the car while at the same time not driving casual players away, as well as a fun experience to race with friends or alone in single player modes like career.  Codies have had some F1 games which have hit the mark, while some have been catastrophic and were met with negativity from players.   Here are the F1 games released from Codemasters, and EA, ranked from worst to best: 16. F1 2009   This game was Codies' first go at making an F1 game, and it shows. Very blatantly.    Only released on the Nintendo Wii and Playstation Portable, the graphics of this game fe...

    The 2024 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was an interesting race. Despite the same obvious winner, there were a few surprises including a rookie who had to fill in for a sick driver last minute. Penalties galore and turn 1 battles were prevalent, with a large train by a driver making the race a good one to watch.   Here are the driver ratings for the Saudi Arabian GP (out of 10): Pierre Gasly -  N/A Qualified: 18th Finished: DNF  Pierre Gasly's race was over before it even begun. With a gearbox failure on the formation lap, Alpine were forced to toss in the towel on lap 1 and deepen their woes that Bahrain brought. Lance Stroll -  3 Qualified: 10th   Finished: DNF   Getting outqualified by an RB of Yuki Tsunoda while team-mate Alonso lined up on 4th place on the grid, Lance Stroll had ground to make up.    However, the only thing Lance Stroll made was one position and difficulties with his tyres. Leading a train with the rest of the field,...

    Ritomo Miyata is a 24 year-old Japanese driver who's competing in the Formula 2 championship with Rodin Motorsports this year.    His road to Formula 2 is unlike many others who share the grid with him, as Ritomo has already proven more than enough that he has the abilities of a top level racing driver as shown by his amazing feat of winning both the Super Formula and Super GT world championships. Beating the likes of Kamui Kobayashi and rising star Liam Lawson.  However, Ritomo did not have it easy. When he was young, he was diagnosed with autism and as a result of that, he struggled to adapt to normal schools like kindergarten and elementary school and was bullied by his schoolmates. Moreover, Miyata spent most of his childhood attending counselling at national children's hospitals.  This all changed when his parents, who were motorsports fans, took him for a test drive at the Nakai Intercircuit where he met his trainer. His trainer had a calm manneri...

    Taylor Swift is one of, if not the most popular artist in the world right now. The American singer has a net worth of $1.1 billion and has made numerous hits throughout the years and has garnered herself a large, almost cult-like, following that is felt worldwide.   Swift is currently embarking on 'The Eras Tour', which is a tour centered around all her past music with different parts of her careers being played at specific parts of her shows. The tour has since become the highest grossing tour of all-time, surpassing Sir Elton John's 'Farewell Yellow Brick Road' tour and became the first tour to surpass a gross of a billion dollars.   One of her stops for The Eras Tour, and the only one in Southeast Asia, is in Singapore. Swift would perform for six days in March 2024, and this is where Mothership comes in.   Mothership is a news outlet in Singapore that is mostly run by youths. They are heavily known for being quick with their news, posting and publishing ...