Remembrance.

Kamui Kobayashi, The Fast And The Furious!

This guy is a racing driver to look out for.
Kamui Kobayashi can only be described as mental! after his awesome F1 debut in the 2009 Brazilian GP. The fast and furious Japanese driver drove his F1 Toyota to 9th place ruthlessly defending against World Champion, Jenson Button, until the blistering Brit dispatched him with a fantastic dummy down the pit straight and into tern one. Kobayashi's fellow Japanese driver, Kazuki Nakajima did not fare so well when, thinking he had the job done passed Kobayashi out of the final tern only to have the place taken back by the new wild-man of F1 at the start of the next lap - and in true death race 2000 style got put in the wall for good measure with a chop that was Senna and Schumacher rolled into one. Fantastic!. This is what we need in F1 : a driver who has some villain like credentials, who is fast out of the box and will not say, 'after you Mord' when challenged. I hope he gets the gig with Toyota full time!

S.

FIA To Investigate Illegal Fan Car From 1978.

As well as investigating a crash involving Nelson Piquet Jn which happened last year and had been forgotten about by just about everyone, the FIA fun police, in an outrageous move are going to re-open an investigation into the 1978 Brabham BT 46 B 'Fan Car' which was designed by Gordon Murray to take on the dangerous 'ground affects' cars that were starting to dominate the F1 scene way back then.
Norman 'jobs worth' Pilkinton who is the (FIA, fun polices) chair person, said today that a complaint had been brought to his attention involving illegal funny business to do with a racing car that hit the track way back in 1978. The, ahem, 'funny business' was uncovered Mr Pettyracerkid-who-has-only-been-watching-F1-for-five-minutes-and-spotted the suspicious 'Fan Car' racing at The 1978 Swedish GP on YouTube. 'I could see that the car had some flat panel heat exchangers on the bodywork of the car to replace conventional water and oil radiators...and it had a big fan on the back. This i thought was underhand and must be reported to the correct authority. I then proceeded to send the data to Mr Pilkinton, blar, blar, blar...' He went on a lot longer than this to our reporter who had started to lose the will to live and had to tell Mr Pettyracerkid to shut-the-f*ck up!.
63 year old 'Fan Car' designer Gordon Murray had the shock of his life when he was woken up in the dead of Sunday night by a phone call from Mr Pilkington informing him, 'that he could be facing anything from a slap on the wrist to being lowered through a meat slicer feet first - whilst being fed live sparrows - until the beaks stick out of his stomach.' Mr Pilkington then hung up the phone.
A spokes-person for Mr Murray said that the F1 designer, 'still has not stopped shaking.'
Bernie Ecclestone was 'The-Fan-Car' teams owner at the time and now he owns F1. This will also get investigated - and this means that the FIA stewards/fun police will be in work for a very, very long time indeed.

S.

Bicester News On The Bicester Blog For a Change...

A Few things that were interesting about Bicester happened today - and both of them arrived in my living room.

First things first. I was reading the front page of The Bicester Review about how great the town centre is, etc, when i noticed a mention about a company called Wirth Research - located on the Telford Road industrial estate. The piece pointed out that this company is partners with Manor Grand Prix Racing (one of the new F1 teams that have signed for 2010) and that the design and building of the new cars would take place here in Bicester, creating 100 new jobs.

As i was reading this i was amazed to then see Bicesters Threshers Off-licence being featured as the Off-licence of choice for the BBC1 Saturday Kitchen cooking show. The Scene was set by one of the shows wine experts standing at the bottom of Sheep Street describing the Town as Beautiful Bicester? (first time i've heard it described as that). She then went on a short journey to the Threshers shop via The Market Square and once inside the shop, recommended some wine for the food that was being cooked on the show. How random i thought. I also though, i've been in that shop...

This was some nice work by the Towns Council for a change...very good for the centre of town businesses.

If you want to watch it for yourself - click on this link which will take you to the BBC iplayer : The feature involving Bicester is about 1hr : 17min and 30 seconds into The Saturday Kitchen Best Bits Program.

Michael Schumacher To Come Out Of Retirement!.

Schumacher is back!

Almost as shocking as his resent appearance on Top Gear - seven times F1 world champion Michael Schumacher has announced that he will return to F1, driving the Ferrari missing mans car of Felipi Massa at the European GP on the 23rd of August 2009.

Read all about it here.

Daniel Schumacher : No Relation To Michael...

After watching and enjoying the German GP from the Nurburgring on Sunday. Today (Monday) i thought i would watch it again. I also watched the pre-race BBC program for a second time and just as i hit the fast forward button to avoid having to see and hear some German X-Factor winner sing the Whole of the German national anthem, i heard the local race track compare announce the singers name, Daniel Schumacher. Now then, the first time round - when i watched the GP 'live' on Sunday, i had the program on delay by about two minutes. To watch and catch back up with real time i have to wait for something uninteresting (in the bad old days of ITV commercials i would hit the stop delay button then) Danial Schumacher gave me this opportunity on the uninterrupted BBC program. Schumacher is not an unusual Sir name in Germany of course, so i don't think all Schumachers are related to the F1 ace, Michael...you will be horrified or maybe pleased to know that i have researched this and can confirm that Danial is not related to Michael...
Anyway, i have found some information about D.Schumacher on Wikipedia and have pinned up a video of his work...see how long you can watch/listen before having to switch off the 'music' and then go for a long walk to forget...sorry.

Michael Schumacher Interview With ITV Team.

Watch : Full twenty minute interview with seven times F1 world champion Michael Schumacher Here