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Australian
Motorsport: Is Mark Webber F1 Ace A Turkey?, by Greg
Tingle - 30th May 2010
Australian
motorsport sensation, Mark Webber, is (or was) on
fire, following his stunning performances this F1
season. Insiders including Red Bull teammate and pit
crew, and a swag of insiders are now wondering if
a curse stemming from the country he's racing in -
Turkey, has effected his judgement, and are jokingly
(we think) naming Webber 'Turkey Of The Month'. Media
Man and Gambling911 rev up the situation...
Mark
Webber last night secured 3rd place in (country) Turkey
after a controversial collision with teammate Sebastien
Vettel while the Matildas won the Asian Cup. The punters
had not bargained for this and numbers are being crunched
as we go to print.
Hamilton
leading McLaren: 1st - 2nd
ISTANBUL:
Lewis Hamilton led a McLaren 1-2 at the Turkish Grand
Prix following an exciting dust up between teammates
Webber and Sebastian Vettel vetoed Team Red Bull a
double dip.
The
Bull's daily double collided as Vettel attempted a
pass along the Istanbul Park Circuit's fast section,
facilitating the German into a spin, and mental spin
out of sorts.
Aussie
Webber, who was leading the entire 40 laps, some how
recovered for 3rd behind the cunning Jenson Button
as Red Bull's pit-lane team scratched their heads.
The
McLaren team also tensed up near the conclusion as
its drivers exchanged the lead but Hamilton eventually
earned his first win of the season, getting bragging
rights, and the Brit's second top 2 finish this season...
by 2.6 seconds after rain had slipped up the circuit.
Red
Bull was heading for a second straight 1-2 that would
have given them a huge lead in both the drivers' and
constructors' standings. Neither driver was willing
to accept the blame, with Vettel insisting he had
the right of way as he moved up the inside, and Webber
believing his teammate closed too quickly.
Webber
labelled it "a disaster."
Media
Man and Gambling911 labelled it "good fodder
for motorsport write ups"!
Despite
the incident, for the record, Media Man does not think
Webber is a Turkey, despite the country of the clash,
nor do we suspect a sports betting "rat".
When
placing bets, don't be a Turkey, know the odds, get
insider info if you can (without getting caught),
bet with your head, not over it, and have fun.
*Greg
Tingle is a special contributor for Gambling911
Media
Man is primarily a media, publicity and internet portal
development company. Gaming inc sports betting is
just one of a dozen business sectors covered.
News
Australian
Mark Webber Leads Monaco Grand Prix, by Greg Tingle
- 17th May 2010
It's
hard to dispute that in the world of professional
sports (and pseudo sports), there's brands and individuals
that have a tendency to dominate the headlines (and
grab the best sponsorship deals in the process). Some
of the hype is manufactured while some is genuine
and fueled along by the sportsmen and women, and their
worldwide fan base.
Media
Man and Gambling911 has noticed the ever growing
trend of sports, entertainment, gaming (namely poker)
merging, and brands and their stars race to the top,
and do their best to maintain pole position, ready
to pounce for the next championship.
Even
pro wrestling living legend 'The Nature Boy' Ric Flair
(Fliehr) and his son, Richard, are doing the NASCAR
rounds in the U.S.A, and 'Natch' feeling and getting
lucky, also came to biz terms with the North Carolina
and South Carolina Education Lottery. Woooooo! Son
of Hulk Hogan, Nick Hogan, is also showing promise
in professional auto racing circles, in a great comeback
following the highly publicised Hogan Jr car wreck
(in the suburbs) a few years back.
Australia
has certainly been making waves in professional sports
and news media circles of late.
Of
course Aussie Mark Webber has now taken the lead in
the Monaco Grand Prix as of last night. Webber is
the first Australian to accomplish this feat since
the legend Jack Brabham some 51 years ago.
Sports
betting firms have plugged into the action with Betfair
and Paddy Power being most prominent in the F1 sector
and motorsport as a whole.
Interestingly,
the current excitement of the F1 sector has seen some
of the poker and casino world plug right into the
action..
A
few weeks ago Richard Branson's Virgin Racing came
to sponsorship terms with Full Tilt Poker.
As
recently outlined at Gambling911, a number of weeks
before the public Virgin - Full
Tilt Poker deal, PartyGaming's PartyPoker
signed up F1 superstars Jaime Alguersuari and Giancarlo
Fisichella as brand ambassadors. Poker legend and
World
Poker Tour mainstay Mike Sexton remains the global
PartyPoker ambassador. Last month following the sporting
theme, PartyPoker also signed up Italian football
legend Francesco Totti. The financial terms of the
poker sponsorship deals are not currently known, as
all parties appear to want to keep the details under
wraps. PartyGaming, keen to ramp up in Europe, in
line with their global strategy is currently running
some sports cars promotions (sorry, no F1's as the
prize), but here's the specs...
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Meanwhile
Back To The Action...
Webber's
rise has sent bookies and punters into a frenzy, with
50% James Packer owned Betfair taking big money, and
Irish owned Paddy Power also seeing a jump in numbers
and new accounts.
It
is the first time an Australian has led the championship
since Alan Jones in 1981.
Webber
led from his fourth pole to the finish. It was his
second recent win after Spain last weekend.
He
finished unchallenged ahead of Red Bull team-mate
Sebastian Vettel as the Red Bulls delivered their
third successive one-two and fourth in six races this
year, this time ahead of Pole Robert Kubica who was
third for Renault.
Webber,
who has been linked to a move to Ferrari next season,
started on pole position and was never really challenged
around the tight street circuit.
"To
be up there achieving things that Jack Brabham achieved
is special for me and difficult to take in just now,"
Webber said before starting formula one's most iconic
race, which he led from start to finish.
"He
is a legend in the Webber house and if it was not
for Jack Brabham I would not be here now. My dad followed
him closely and was a big fan - he always followed
open-wheeled racing much more than what we call 'taxi-racing'
at home. He has been an inspiration and a friend and
he has done a lot for me."
Webber,
who last week won the Spanish Grand Prix in similar
fashion, shot to the lead at the first turn in his
Red Bull dream machine ahead of teammate Sebastian
Vettel.
Spectators
didn't have to wait long for drama, with Nico Hulkenberg
(Williams) crashing at 270km/h in the tunnel on the
first lap, bringing out the safety car.
Button
was the next casualty, with his McLaren's engine overheating
on lap three. The safety car departed the track on
lap six and the racing resumed. "I think it got
a little bit hot on the way to the grid," Button
told the BBC. "We left a [air intake] bung in
on the left-hand side of the car that obviously you're
meant to take out on the way to the grid. That's cooked
the engine."
Webber,
who could be Ferrari's potential replacement for the
Brazilian Felipe Massa next season, set several fastest
laps before narrowly avoiding disaster on lap 74 of
78 when two back-markers crashed in front of him.
He went to the chequered flag just after the fourth
safety car of the race left the track, with Vettel
pipping Robert Kubica (Renault) for second place.
Vettel
said "I couldn't keep up with him today. He was
gone too far away for me and I had to race to stay
second this time."
Kubica
"I tried to pass Sebastian, but I lost the place
on the first lap and that was it."
Massa
came home fourth for Ferrari ahead of the 2008 champion
Briton Lewis Hamilton in a McLaren with seven-times
champion German Michael Schumacher, 41, taking sixth
for Mercedes after a controversial move behind the
Safety Car to pass Spaniard Fernando Alonso on the
final lap.
Schumacher
was later penalised 20 seconds for the manoeuvre by
stewards and relegated to 12th spot.
Schumacher's
Mercedes team-mate and compatriot Nico Rosberg was
promoted to seventh ahead of another German Adrian
Sutil of Force India. Italian Vitantonio Liuzzi was
ninth th in the second Force India.
Webber
was almost drawn into a late drama when he came into
the Rascasse hairpin to find Italian Jarno Trulli
of Lotus colliding with Indian Karun Chandhok of the
Hispania team in spectacular fashion.
"He
flew in the air and I was just hoping there would
be some room to go through on the inside and I would
have some options," said Webber. "Thankfully
I did."
Chandhok
"Jarno Trulli has just apologised to me - there
was absolutely no way he could get through there.
It's a real shame because I was driving my best race
of the year so far and I was on track to be the best
of the new teams.
"His
car just missed my head. I ducked down and it came
over and hit the roll hoop."
Understandably,
Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali took a dim view of
Schumacher's passing of Alonso behind the safety car.
"That
should be the rule... you can't overtake on the final
lap. Our understanding of the regulations is pretty
clear, but let's just and see what the stewards say."
While
Trulli's crash may have been spectacular, it was no
more horrifying than the two that saw the two Williams
men eliminated earlier when they crashed out - German
rookie Hulkenberg in the tunnel and Brazilian veteran
Rubens Barrichello at Massanet - in separate incidents.
Both
were huge accidents that caused great damage to the
cars, ripping off wheels and wings. "After my
pit stop, the car was not together, the steering wheel
felt numb," said Barrichello. "Something
was not good until the crash. They are analysing what
went on.."
For
Webber, there was no immediate analysis pending. "I
predict a few sore heads in the morning," he
said. "You have to celebrate your wins and they
don't come any better than this."
Meanwhile,
Australia scored a rare double at Monaco, with 20-year-old
Daniel Ricciardo claiming victory in the final support
race.
Ricciardo,
from Perth, earned his first win in the World Series
by Renault with his debut drive at Monaco and has
already been touted a formula one star of the future.
Driving
for French Team Tech 1, Ricciardo never looked back
after claiming pole position.
Media
Man very occasional mentor (but full time inspiration),
Sir Richard Branson, quite the business and sporting
daredevil all-rounder, summed it up beautifully a
few months ago..."We're going to make racing
fun and sexy again". Fun and sexy for your Virgin
Racing - Full Tilt Poker pairing too we note, but
PartyGaming is also in the race. Could be not long
until we see a James Packer' Crown Casino - City Of
Dreams or Betfair F1 car doing laps, and winning?
Don't laugh, stranger things have happened...
Australia
in the lead and online poker rooms sponsoring Branson's
Virgin Racing... anything is indeed possible as the
world of professional motorsport and poker evolves.
As real life superhero Bill Goldberg (and his monster
truck team say), "Whose Next"? Go Aussie
Go!
*Greg
Tingle is a special contributor for Gambling911
*Media
Man http://www.CasinoNewsMedia.com
is primarily a media, publicity and internet portal
development company. They cover over a dozen industry
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*The
writer has conducted b2b with various arms of Betfair,
PartyGaming and Virgin.
*The
writer owns shares in Crown Limited and Virgin
Profile
Red
Bull is the brand name of an energy drink that originated
in Thailand and, in a version adapted to Austrian
tastes, is now popular throughout the world. Sold
by Red Bull GmbH as an energy drink to combat mental
and physical fatigue, it contains, per 250 mL (8.3
U.S. fl. oz.) serving, about 21.5 g sucrose, 5.25
g of glucose, 50 mg of inositol, 1000 mg of taurine,
600 mg of glucuronolactone, vitamin B — 20 mg
of Niacin, 5 mg of Vitamin B6, 5 mg of Pantothenic
Acid and .005 mg of Vitamin B12 — and 80 mg
of caffeine. The caffeine in one serving is similar
to that found in an average cup of brewed coffee (typically
100 mg/250 ml cup, but 72 mg for a U.S. regular 6
fluid ounces cup of coffee) or twice as much as found
in a can of Coke (40 mg/330 ml can). A sugar-free
version has been available since the beginning of
2003. Sugar-free Red Bull is sweetened with aspartame
and acesulfame potassium, as opposed to sucrose and
glucose.
The
drink is intended to taste like mixed berries, and
is commonly used as mixer in alcoholic drinks such
as vodka and is the base ingredient in the now famous
Jägerbomb and Remytini. Almost 1 billion of the
slim 250 ml cans were sold in 2000 in over 100 countries,
260 million of them in the UK. In 2006, more than
3 billion cans were sold in over 130 countries. 3,903
employees generated 2.6 billion euros in turnover.
On
March 24, 2008 Red Bull introduced their first foray
into the cola market with a product named 'Simply
Cola'.
Advertising
Red
Bull has an aggressive, multi-angle, and international
marketing campaign. Red Bull Gmbh sponsors everything
from extreme sports like snowboarding, cliff-diving,
surfing, formula 1 race cars, and break dancing to
art shows, music, and video games. It also hosts events
like the "Red Bull Flugtag" and other such
contests, designed to amuse participants and observers.
By associating the drink's image with these activities,
the company has created a very marketable "cool"
image with tremendous brand power. In addition, the
sleek, thin, sharp packaging creates a sexier image
than some other cola counterparts. Hence, this one
energy drink has created a market for over 150 related
types of merchandise. British institution Advertising
Standards Authority has upheld complaints about claims
made in the publicity of Red Bull in the United Kingdom
since 1997. Even with all of the concerns regarding
Red Bull, in 2000 the corporation earned around $1
billion in worldwide sales and Red Bull held 65% of
the market share.
Red Bull is also extending protection of its trademarked
phrase of 'gives you wings' to cover similar variants.
A charitable Polish organization, Fundacja Gražyny
Malecha, which collects money to provide clothing
and school books for impoverished children, is currently
being sued for trademark infringement for using the
phrase "give children wings" in its slogan,
despite the stark dissimilarity between the companies
making it unlikely that a consumer would be confused.
Origins
The
original Red Bull drink was developed in Thailand
by the company TC Pharmaceutical, where it was sold
under the Thai name 'Krating Daeng'. The recipe was
based on Lipovitan, an earlier energy drink that had
been introduced to Thailand from Japan. Krating Daeng
sales soared across Asia in the 1970s and 1980s, especially
among truck drivers, construction workers and farmers.
Truck drivers used to drink it to stay awake during
the long late night drive. The working class image
was boosted by sponsorship of Thai boxing matches,
where the logo of two red bulls charging each other
was often on display.
The
Thai product was transformed into a global brand by
Dietrich Mateschitz, an Austrian entrepreneur. Mateschitz
was international marketing director for Blendax,
a German toothpaste company, when he visited Thailand
in 1982 and discovered that Krating Daeng helped to
cure his jet lag. Between 1984 and 1987, Mateschitz
worked with TC Pharmaceutical (a Blendax licensee)
to adapt Krating Daeng for European audiences. At
the same time Mateschitz and Chaleo Yoovidhya founded
Red Bull GmbH; each investing $500,000 of savings
and taking a 49% stake in the new company. They gave
the remaining 2% to Chaleo's son Chalerm, but it was
agreed that Mateschitz would run the company. Red
Bull GmbH launched the “Austrian” version
of Red Bull in 1987, which is carbonated and not as
sweet as the original Thai recipe. “Austrian”
Red Bull entered its first foreign market (Hungary)
in 1992, and the United States (via California) in
1997.
It
is the Austrian formula that has taken almost half
of the US market for energy drinks, and up to 80%
of the market in some other countries continue to
market the original formula across Asia. In 2006,
Forbes Magazine listed Chaleo as being the 292nd richest
person in the world with an estimated net worth of
over $2.5 billion while Mateschitz was listed at number
317.
(Credit:
Wikipedia).
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