What a woose!

Whimps out of Triathlon challenge. Button v Cuckoo Boy with Jenson paying £10k to a charity of the ‘Swiss Miss’ choosing if he loses. So what happens, it will not surprise you that he whimped out. Yet another example that he is a spineless egotist, that can accept that what he really is.

I want to be Martin Brundle! Yet another go in an F1 car, this weekend it was the Red Bull, wow! It also shows how fit he still is, no chocolate middle rim, he even has more hair! 605kg car including the driver, that would be 645kg if it included me! That 8% would cost me over 1 second per lap, it would be like racing a girl around an in door karting track, I might be better, but I would be slower on the straights.

Lantern Jaw to retire

DC has a respectable record, 13 wins, 12 poles 236 races and has been in some good cars. He also has kept his nose clean, being understated and generally a good charging racer. He also has something that the cuckoo will never have, class.

What a contrast, look at the humility in his interview:

‘The best I could do was second to Schumi, that was a good achievement, I am not going to get another chance to challenge for the title and I don’t deserve another chance. I have played my part in F1, and enjoyed it’.

It’s a British GP, but not as we know it

Goodbye Silverstone, Hello Donington, great quote from Andy Warhole, There were lots of people talking about Silverstone, but none could right a cheque, Donington could. Donington is run by business men, Silverstone is not.

So who remembers the last GP at Donington?

Donington Park – European GP 1993

This was not a good race for me. I have always been a driver rather than team fan, true I started with McLaren, and hated the Cheese eater Alan Prost for taking John Watsons drive at McLaren, but as I got older, I wanted to see the best drivers, winning because they were the best, not because their car was so much better. This is hard for some to understand, where they follow an F1 team like you would a football team.

It only took a few races for Alan to get me to change my mind about him, and for me he is still the best driver ever. How can I say then when compared to the likes of Senna and Schumi, well it is to do well class and personality. Now you are really confused, how can I clam that the quiet little professor had a better personality? Well its quite simple, Alan drove fair, he never won a race (or title by taking another car off the road), he never slagged off his opponents in the press. He drove with the best drivers in his team, no 2nd rate, second placer for him. He drove with Lauda, Rosberg and Senna, and beat them in the same car. Maybe it’s the Britsh streak in me, but if you cant win fair, don’t win at all. My wife thinks its sour grapes when I complain about the Aussies cheating, and I am band from mentioning Campese in the Rugby World Cup final, where he took out Underwood with a straight arm, when we would have got a try and won the game, and title. Don’t get me wrong I can appreciate the qualities of a Warne, Langer or Ponting, but I want people with some humility, like Steve Waugh. Is it possible to be the best and have humility, well if its not then its not worth winning. I want to be able to look myself in the mirror, I am not a bad loser, I just not accept it when I do not perform. You should always give everything you have, then what ever the result you know you could have don’t know more. That is my life philosophy, not just sport.

So to a typically English spring, you remember before climate change, when it was wet, then dry, then wet again.

Alan was on his way to a 4th world title, and I was looking forward to anyone clinical display, but Alan had two faults, he could not start, and he was over causious in on damp changing tracks. Senna drove an excellent race, and it was a demonstration of his genius that in a car than was down on power (2 second slower in qualifying) he won, and won comfortably. On the day Alan made an incredible 7 pit stops (this was before fuel changes) to Senna’s 4, and that made all the difference. Each time it looked like he was making a charge, he would pit again, ultimately he finished 3rd, which under the circumstances was a good result, but it was not what I had hoped or expected.

So when we head to Donington Park in 2010 it will make for an interesting race, it is a an undulating track, and may not suit the modern cars, but who knows, time will tell.

And back to the main event.

Qualifying

Flying laps from Weber and the Sober Finn, put the drunk and the cuckoo in the shade. A poor showing from the baby Brazilian, and the polish cleaner, means we are likely to leave this green and pleasant land with a close 4 way.

Race Day

It was wet as we were promised, and I have to admit that Cuckoo boy drove a perfect race, true we will never know what would have happened if Ferrari had got their tactics right, but he was the best on the day, by a mile (actually over a mile by elapsed time). It is amazing that the team with the best car, and the biggest budget make the wrong decisions. They are again under Italian control after the Ross Brawn and Jon Todt years. It was clear that it was the naivety of the Italians that caused them to disappear in the 80’s, and but for Mansell and Prost wringing performance out of a car, with its team staff in disarray, it took a Brit and a cheese eater to show them how it was done. How they missed big Ross today.

For a wet race it was a bit disappointing, we have a few spins, and a few good overtaking moves, the homer in the BMW drove a great race, and pulled off two great double overtaking moves, including an opportunist move past the drunken and sober Finns.

It was also good to see baby nelson overtake ‘Can you hear the drums’ for the second race in a row.

And can you believe that the baby from Brazil, was lapped by the 7th place car, what a joke!

Why oh why are they not changing onto full wets, its like driving our cars on ice!

Just to prove my point on Ross, Rubens is on Super Wets and is flying, if not for a fuel rig error, he could have taken 2nd, still 3rd is very good.

So what does that mean for the championship?

It’s a 3 way tie, going into the 2nd half of the season, between Cuckoo Boy, The Drunken Finn and the Baby Brazilian, with the cleaner just 2 points further back, after the closest finish ever last year could we be on for the first 4 way competitive championship since 1986 when just 17 points separated the Champion Alan Prost from 4th place Senna (remember this was when only your best 9 results counted, you had only 9 points for a win, a calendar of 16 races). This would still be less interesting than 1982 when the original flying Finn Keke Rosberg won the title with just 44 points, only 14 points from 5th place Lauda, and only 16 points (or 2 wins) ahead of 6th Place. Rosberg remains the only drive to win the title with just 1 GP win in the season, in a season with a staggering 11 different race winners. Don’t try to tell me racing is better today, it is not!

And what about the FuseCar League?

With Red Topped One rises to the top.

The Phonenicii – 289 – 1650

All 3 drivers had a flyer, with all finishing in the top 8! Wow, first for the week and first overall!

Baggys – 228 – 1412

Are they on their way back? A good weekend for the Baggys, a good score from Nakajima, and average from Kimi and little Fishi

MtBF – 221 - 1593

Average performances from all was still enough for 3rd for the race, but still 5th overall.

The Tea Cups – 188 – 1628

Great performance from Heidfeld and Nakajima, let down by Lantern Jaw.

Distraction – 185 – 1619

Looks very much like the Baggys team, but with a lower score, oh dear. 4th for the race and 3rd overall.

BloodNoir – 152 - 1243

At the start it looked like a promising race, with the sober Finn and the baggy green qualifying well, but poor races for both left the Noirs at the back of the pack both for the race and overall.

So next race

Will the flamer continue to fly?
Will the baggys and the distractions become one team?
Have the tea cups and MtBF and their luck for the year?
Will the black bloods ever had any luck?