Fresh Leaks

Jim Casey

13/12/2013

The silly season used to apply to driver movements. According to Jim Casey, allegedly with the help of Nigel Snowden, the silly season is about to get a whole new meaning.

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The Eternal Question

Jim Casey

20/11/2013

"The question has been asked every time a driver/car pairing has dominated for more than one season," writes Jim Casey. "Is it the driver or the car?"

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Thank you for smoking... the tyres

Jim Casey

22/10/2013

Having finally got to see the movie Rush, Jim Casey recalls a time when it wasn't easy to follow F1 closely in the US, what with limited TV coverage, no cable, no web, not even Twitter!

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It Was Twenty Years Ago Today...

Jim Casey

05/04/2013

The most advanced Formula One cars ever built are not running today. They ran 20 years ago, in 1993, when designers and engineers had relatively free reign to use technology to make the cars go faster.

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The View From Over Here - Formula One in the U.S.A.

Jim Casey

06/11/2012

With Formula One about to return to the U.S.A. for the first time in 5 years, Jim Casey reviews Formula One's varied history in his country.

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The View From Over Here - The History of F1 in the US (Part One)

Jim Casey

07/05/2012

"The first time I ever heard the words "Formula One" or "Grand Prix" was in the sports section of the Washington Post," writes Jim Casey, "in the build up to the first 'Race of Two Worlds' held at Monza in 1957."

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The View From Over Here - Season Preview/Prediction

Jim Casey

14/03/2012

"This weekend brings the first race of the 2012 season in Melbourne, where many questions will hopefully be answered," writes Jim Casey. Looking ahead to the new season he also refelcts on his trip to Amelia Island for the annual Concours event.

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The View From Over Here - And The Winner Is...

Jim Casey

24/01/2012

"The time has come to assess what we saw in 2011, and award all of the pertinent awards," writes Jim Casey.

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The View From Over Here - Still Born in the USA?

Jim Casey

29/11/2011

"Last week's news that next year's race in Austin is off is not a huge surprise," admits Jim Casey. "The idea of Bernie Ecclestone with a briefcase bulging with £25m of Texas taxpayer's cash was untenable."

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The View From Over Here - Tainted Legacies

Jim Casey

16/11/2011

"This season has been a disaster for Williams and Cosworth, with the cars usually only faster than the three rearguard teams," writes Jim Casey.

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BIOGRAPHY

Jim Casey grew up in the 50's in Washington DC, where his father was a plate printer at the Bureau of Engraving, churning out 3.5 million dollars in 5-dollar bills each 8 hour shift on a press that ran 24 hours a day.

As a child, he played baseball, football, and basketball, and was only mildly aware of motor racing, occasionally reading newspaper coverage of the Indy 500, which was known as much for tragedy as speed in those years.

Then came ABC's Wide World of Sports, showing events such as Le Mans, the Monaco Grand Prix, and other racing events. He was immediately hooked, and began to follow sports car racing and Formula One as much as was possible in the early 60's.

He became a passionate fan of Jim Hall's Chaparrals and listened to the entire 1965 12 Hours of Sebring on the radio, happily cheering home the unexpected Chaparral victory. Wide World of Sports covered the Ford invasion at Le Mans thoroughly through 1967, when Foyt and Gurney led a dominant Ford team to its second of 4 consecutive victories, and he watched all of the race coverage happily.

Shortly after getting his driver's license in late 1967, he attended his first race, an SCCA event at Marlboro Raceway in Maryland.

The turmoil of the times, 4 years in college, and getting started with jobs after college kept him away for a while, but in 1977 he attended his first Grand Prix, in Long Beach, California, where he got to see a dramatic win by one of his all-time heroes, Mario Andretti. Since then he has attended the Daytona 24 Hour race several times in the 80's, the Sebring 12 Hour in 1982, 2009, and 2011, Formula One at Watkins Glen in 1980, Montreal in 1981, and Detroit in 1983.

He follows Formula One, ALMS, and the Le Mans series passionately. He is also a serious baseball fan, having seen games in over 40 different stadia, and played in adult amateur baseball leagues for 17 years.

He is also proud of having seen Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters, Miles Davis, and Howlin' Wolf perform in person, and retains a great love of blues, jazz, and rock.

He currently teaches writing at Savannah State University, in Savannah GA.

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