F1 & #MH370

F1 has started. 2014 season bring big changes in the cars. I mean big as huge!

New models with less aerodynamics. Slower cars. Less power. And of the things that I consider make the the show: the sound of the engines. 

FIA made changes to 'improve' technological systems but that fact doesn't help. Teams that are trying to fix problems with tires, now are proving their cars in the season, because the pre-season wasn't in off to do it. This weekend is Malaysian GP, in Sepang. And I consider that if the circumstances continue as Australian GP, this season will be the stranger in the last years.

Changing the sportive topics, the most of the teams are giving a message during this GP "Pray for #MH370". 2 weeks and that flight is still disappeared.

Not a marketing strategy. A message to all the world. There's not a better place to do it: Malaysia, where the plane were. 

The following pics are taken from the official Twitter accounts of each team.

Moto GP - 2014 is the year!

Moto GP 2014 season has started. After some trainings in the beginning of the year the engines started to made it's fabulous sound (better than F1 ones this year).

First race was in Qatar. A nice circuit, called Losail, located close to one of the most expensive places over the earth.

This new season included many surprises in the machines and in the teams. The most important teams, the ones that represents the factories (Movistar Yamaha, Repsol Honda, and Ducati) with the best chances to win, taking into account that they have the last improvements in all the facts that concerns the good functions of each motorcycle.

Taken from MotoGP - Official Facebook page

A season full of good races will be an excellent scenario to watch and analyze a battle of real warriors. Marc Marquez in Repsol Honda will try to defend his first championship (2013). Dani Pedrosa, his team partner will do the best. In the other side Jorge Lorenzo in Movistar Yamaha will be the direct rival of Marquez. His team partner Valentino Rossi will be the star in the season. Why him and no the others? Just because he won more than 8 championships in Moto GP.

Taken from Movistar Yamaha GP

The battle started in the first race. Marquez and Rossi showed that the best will win. Just watch the following video to summarize that sentence.

Next race, Red Bull Grand Prix of the americas.

Lost Flight #MH370

Two important topics has marked the world juncture during the past two weeks. The ‘referendum’ that marked the separation of Crimea from Ukraine and the lost of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

On march 8 a Boeing777-200 of the mentioned airline lost contact with any satellite (commercial or military). 239 people including passengers and the crew were on board.

There are many theories about the incident with this flight. At the beginning of the investigation a kidnapping were the principal one. Two people that boarded the plane in Kuala Lumpur with false passports (according to authorities), were investigated but nowadays there’s not a conclusion about it. Other theories related with the pilots, with a route change, with a kidnapping onboard are related with the incident.

Authorities of Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, United States, Norway, and other countries are looking for a clue in the ocean. Its difficult know which route the flight took. It’s certain that the original route wasn’t applied.

Two weeks later the only thing that the world knows is that the flight never arrived in Beijing.

The last clue was that the Malaysian Airlines plane never arrive to it’s final destination.  

 

Oscars 2014. No just movies

Last verson of Oscars (Academy Awards) was a nice ceremony. Many good movies to reward, but I consider that the development of the ceremony is an important fact to mention. Two things marked the night.

The comedian Ellen DeGeneres broke up the record of retweets of a picture in Twitter story. In one hour she reached the top tweet that had US President.

@TheEllenShow twitter.com

A selfie is the most retweeted picture in Twitter. Many 'famous' people are trying to break up this record, but I'm sure it will stay for a long time.

Other thing to mention about this Movie Awards is that DeGeneres distributed pizza. She received a delivery of a real pizza dealer inside the theater. It can be a fact without sense. But it wasn't a common pizza brand. Big Mama's & Papa's Pizza is the name of that store that will remembered for a long time. Pictures can describe this.

Taken from Big Mama's & Papa's Pizza Facebook page

Taken from Big Mama's & Papa's Pizza Facebook page

Taken from Big Mama's & Papa's Pizza Facebook page

Taken from Big Mama's & Papa's Pizza Facebook page

More than the Super Bowl

Last SuperBowl (XLVIII), won by Seattle Seahawks, was a good game, with nice results in the sportive and in the background.

Here I want to mention the work of the brands that did a good job during the game. In Social Media and in Advertisements. Here commercials done. Just 30 seconds or 1 minute to do the best.

Toyota.

Budweiser.

GoPro.

Wolkswagen.

Best GRAMMYs

The music is one of the most important things to live. Maybe yes, maybe no. But good music helps to live a good day, that's true. Listen good music is a good thing. Listen good musicians is great.

When the best musicians in the world meet together is a moment to remember and to live, no matter if you're watching it in TV. Last sunday, best musucians now meet in the GRAMMYs 2014, in Staples Center. The best I've watched.
Maybe I'm not the expert to comment it, but I can say that the show I watched was amazing, was nice.

Many things happened and those things should be remembered in the next years.

Ringo Star and  went to stage together. Wothout words.

Pahrrell, Stevie Wonder and Daft Punk gave us a nice show!

And the best show in the night for Imagine Dragons with Kendrick Lamar.

The winners of the night: Lorde with Royals and Daft Punk with Get Lucky.

Some facts: Pharrell's hat -> http://perezhilton.com/2014-01-26-stevie-wonder-daft-punk-pharrell-grammys-2014-performance

Daft Punk dress.

And 30+ pairs celebrate their wedding.

*Pictures from Google

Dakar 2014

Last saturday (january 18th) Rally-Raid Dakar finished it's 2014 edition. In South America as the immediatly past years. During it's 34 years, 6 were developed in South America, in four countries (Argentina, Chile, Peru and Bolivia). This year all countries except Bolivia. And other important fact is that quads start running in South America, not in Africa.

This year's edition was the most difficult since Dakar arrived in South America, according to drivers. Long days (jan 5 - jan 18) marked the routes that cars, bikes, trucks and quads crossed. More than 400 participants and the best machines did a good competence. More than the half of competitors left the race.

In cars, MINI (with Xraidteam) were the leaders during the whole Dakar (the most). Drivers like Peterhansel and Roma (winner) lead all the race. Sometimes Sainz try but MINI were the best. 

In bikes Coma (KTM), Despres (Yamaha) and Barreda Bort (Honda) were the absolutely leaders. Coma won the race with a totally domain.

Finally in Trucks, Karginov (Kamaz) won. Kamaz won the last years, except 2012 (Iveco).

In quads, finally other pilot different of Patronelli Brothers could won. Ignacio Casale from Chile did it.

*Videos by #Dakar @dakar (http://www.youtube.com/dakar)

Taken from www.dakar.com

2014

Looking forward, 2014 will be an important year for many reasons around the world. Starting with politics, many countries celebrate it's presidential elections. Topics like Iran, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, and north Africa will be exposed and will be the center of world's edge.

In sports, Soccer will mark an important point this year. Starting with the FIFA World Cup in June, in Brazil. Also soccer will include all the preparation against the world cup. An interesting UEFA Champions League and important players that will be known during the world cup. Sports will includ World Winter Games that will be developed in Sochi (Rusia). Formula 1 will have an important year (taking into account the changes in the teams) and Moto GP will be exciting (Lorenzo vs Marquez will be a good scenario).

In technology, Smartphones will mark an important year for Apple, Android and Windows. Blackberry will try to stay in the top. So will be amazing to pay attention for it. CES 2014, in Las Vegas, showed the good start of this year.

Many other things will be done this year. So This and more topics will be analyzed in this blog.

Keep connected!

Juan.