![]() Super Rugby enters its 21st season this week, but there is no reason to party as expansion has made the competition woefully lopsided, Greg Growden writes.Įddie Jones - Behind the iron mask of England's coachĮddie Jones is set to shake up England, but how did an Aussie youngster who grew up loving cricket morph into the hardened leader the rugby world knows today? Greg Growden: Expanded Super Rugby a convoluted mess Punters rushing to back Jaguares for Super Rugby titleĬlear outsiders before naming their squad, the Jaguares sat at $251 to take the title but with the naming of 23 Pumas stars in their squad, they are now one of the most favoured teams. The Blues have the talent and an excellent coach in Tana Umaga, but they'll need strong leadership if they're to succeed in Super Rugby - Craig Dowd writes. Leadership key if young Blues are to succeed in Super Rugby Jerry Wong is one of three players with at least 10 million chips going into Day 6 of the 2016 WSOP main event, but it's a tight race up top. WSOP: Jerry Wong holds lead with 80 left after Day 5 of main event Players near the bottom of the chip counts on Day 6 of the WSOP main event have a paradox - they're still in, but their chances of advancing are slim. WSOP: On the brink on Day 6 of the main event Vojtech Ruzicka leads with 27 players left in the 2016 WSOP main event, with 50-year-old and two-time bracelet-winner Cliff Josephy just behind him. Vojtech Ruzicka takes top stack into Day 7 of 2016 WSOP main event Two-time World Series of Poker bracelet-winner Cliff Josephy is the chip leader of the 2016 WSOP main event, which reached its final table Monday. WSOP: 50-year-old Cliff Josephy highlights 2016 November Nine But those days are gone now that he's in the November Nine. Michael Ruane has lived most of his life in poker obscurity, exactly how he wanted it. Michael Ruane's anonymity was nice while it lasted Heikki Kovalainen was a similar margin behind Charles Pic at Caterham, while Rodolfo Gonzalez was comfortably slowest in the Marussia 1.6s off than Max Chilton.Ĭhris Medland is assistant editor at ESPNF1 © ESPN Sports Media Ltd. ![]() Calado fared well, ending the session just 0.4s slower than team-mate Paul di Resta after 24 laps. Three teams ran replacement drivers during FP1 with James Calado getting his first outing for Force India in his new role as third driver. Pastor Maldonado was ninth quickest but endured a trip through the gravel at the Ascari chicane mid-way through the session having lost the rear under braking, with team-mate Valtteri Bottas then following suit a few seconds later.īoth Mercedes and Sauber spent time testing their versions of a drag reduction device (DRD) during the first part of the morning, with Rosberg running the DRD on his car before switching to a low-downforce wing while Gutierrez completed seven laps testing Sauber's device. Then, when Hulkenberg tried to return to the track his car stopped in the pit lane and his Sauber mechanics had to run down to push it back to the garage. It was a tough session for Nico Hulkenberg as he suffered a gearbox issue which left him to coast back to the pits in third gear. Massa locked up his brakes trying to stop before the end of the pit lane after the light changed and was forced to leave his car to be recovered from the pit exit and walk back to the Ferrari garage. The session oddly with Alonso waiting to perform a practice start just beyond the pit lane exit and Felipe Massa coming to join him as the pit lane light turned red. Sergio Perez and Jenson Button were sixth and seventh respectively, but 45 minutes in to the session Button was under investigation for an 'unauthorised use of DRS', with the stewards yet to announce if any action will be taken for the apparent infringement. Mercedes - running a tweaked low-downforce aerodynamic package having been uncompetitive in race trim at Spa - delivered a strong showing with Hamilton quickest by 0.035s from Fernando Alonso, and Nico Rosberg just 0.1s further back in third place.Ĭhampionship leader Sebastian Vettel was fourth quickest on a 1:25.753 ahead of Kimi Raikkonen as the five race-winners in 2013 filled the top five places during the first session. Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time of a close first practice session for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
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