Essential Reading for January 28th, 2009

Recommended links for January 28th, 2009:

• A Crazy-Fast Ferrari F1 Trike – If you think trikes are for kids and over-the-hill bikers, you may want to talk to the guys at Trike Japan who whipped up this F1 Ferrari-styled Suzuki Hayabusa three-wheeler for the Tokyo Auto Salon.

  This F1-'busa conversion takes trikes to the next level, proving a third wheel isn't necessarily a bad thing, even if plating it with gold is.

• Bernie Ecclestone bucks the trend in drawing up plans to avoid another Honda – "The rejection of my medal system p****es me off. It is not fair that the winner scores only two points more than second place. We changed the points distribution because Eddie Jordan was complaining that it looked bad for sponsors to see a team without points. He never considered how bad it might look for his team to have four points and the championship winners 128."
• Renault F1 announces new technical partnership with Hewlett-Packard – The ING Renault F1 Team is pleased to announce the beginning of a technical partnership with Hewlett-Packard. HP equipment supplied as part of this agreement will range from PCs, printers and workstations to Windows and Linux servers for both the Team's Technical Centre and the Race Team.