Sunday, July 22, 2007

 

WTF?

Welcome to the Nurburgring-a-ring-a-roses-we-all-fall-off-the-track.

What an amazing race - for once, I watched most of it (and even on the way to B&Q I was listening to FiveLive guest-commentator Murray getting more and more animated in my car. Not that he was commentating from my car; that would of course be mental...)

So as I understand it:

Lewis hit the tyres and then picked the wrong ones; Kimi gets pole then shot down by hydraulics; Massa thought he had it sussed then Alonso bumps him out of the way; Webber a popular third (is he really tall or is my TV losing its aspect ratio?); and it's all wide open again, as far as theNewbie can tell.

(It's also somewhat gratifying that with all the zillions of euros spent on cars and teams and drivers and tactics and fuel and tyres, the weather had the last laugh.)

Comments:
Absolutely, this F1 lark does occasionaly have its day in the sun (or rain). It's always amusing to see drivers who are paid millions to drive highly-advanced prototype aeroplanes-upside-down looking like babies in prams on an ice rink.

Then again, the best guys do somehow keep it going - I didn't see Alonso put a foot wrong. Hamilton pulled off one of the most amazing moves I've ever seen - floating through the air whilst attached to a crane - but he did make some bad tactical errors, and fall off the track a couple of times.

Incidentally, what are your feelings on the notion that Formula 1 might soon own Arsenal?


 
I think it is, to paraphrase the Dalai Lama, a load of old cock.


 
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