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It’s taken a little while, but finally Nelsinho Piquet appears to be emerging from the shadow of Lewis Hamilton. A second-place finish (behind Hamilton, naturally) at the German Grand Prix was the first podium finish of Piquet’s F1 career, which is ten races old. It’s hardly the headline-making, attention-grabbing impact that Hamilton made in his first season, but still. Piquet’s on his way, and it’ll be fascinating to see how the Renault man hopes in Hungary this weekend.

Piquet has been used to seeing Hamilton ahead of him. In 2006, these two contested the GP2 championship. Piquet impressed many with his ability, which secured him four race victories and two further runner-up spots, but that wasn’t enough to win him the …

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I had a sneaking feeling that the US of A were going to win September’s Ryder Cup but now I´m not so sure following Hunter Mahan´s crazy comments.

Mahan reckons golfers at the bi-annual match between USA and Europe are like "slaves". Shades of Cristiano Ronaldo? Almost, yes.

Bodog currently rate USA as 11/10 shots, with Europe 5/6.

Discussing Ryder week Mahan said: "You’ve got dinners every night - not little dinners, massive ones," he said.

"As players, that’s the last thing we want. We want to prepare ourselves. You’re just a slave that week."

Mercurially talented Mahan, incidentally, is a brilliant match player and is one of the reasons I fancied America to turn over Nick Faldo´s side but it’s hard …

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Guy Ritchie has launched a somewhat amazing attack on one the major menaces of the world, no not Terrorism, not the credit crunch, China in Tibet or flying ants no, he’s leading the revolution against the evil menace of Sugar. No relation to Madge’s album Hard Candy, which Beat finds easier to avoid than the white stuff, but we’re sure it was probably something to do with his sudden turn on all things sweet.

Whilst promoting his new film RocknRolla the mockney Mr Madonna said:"Sugar kills. Think of the calories in sugar. Fat kills more people than anything else. Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths, arguably more than crack cocaine."

Silly us, there we were giving Amy Wino a hard …

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