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We Own McLaren!

We, as in the “Royal” We, as in the Kingdom of Bahrain, as in Mumtalakat Holdings, the totally Bahraini government owned company which is supposed to also own all of the government companies and companies which the government has a better than 50% stake in, nows owns 30% of McLarren! How sweet is that? Here’s …

Congrats Fernando!

Suzy with Fernando Alonso, originally uploaded by malyousif. “Schumacher who?” was printed on a Renault’s mechanic’s T-shirt celebrating the youngest ever Formula One champion: Fernando Alonso at 24 years and 58 days. Well done Fernando, and well done indeed Renault, you wiped the floor with everyone else: Ferrari, McLaren Mercedes, etc, etc. Fernando drove a …