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After 12 years we have a British Formula 1 World Champion. Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton, but by god did he do things the hard way!
I am an F1 fan and I have been for years, I remember being in work amnd slinking away to the staff room to catch glimpses of Jenson Button's first win, I smiled when David Coulthard gave Schumacher the finger at the French Grand Prix, I gawped at Mika Hakkienen going around the outside of both Schumacher and Ricardo Zonta in a do-or-die move at Spa, I listened to Murray Walker's final commentary, I was a train to London receiving texts form a friend about the farcical US GP a few years back and I saw THAT crash in 1998 in the rain in Beligum.
But what I cannot remember is an uninterrupted race. The BBC has F1 back from next year and I am looking forward to it. Ever since I have followed the sport ITV has had coverage and on an all far to common occurance has been for the network to go to adverts just as Fisichella is sliding off the track or as a Williams puts in the wall.
I missed one of the most stupid directing moments of all time. Fernando Alonso is holding off Schumacher at the 2004 San Marino GP for the closing laps, the best bit of racing all year and ITV go for a break. To add insult to injury they showed the laps that had been missed by advert after the race once people knew the result!
I missed the race because I was in the woods with a hangover asking my mates not to cover me in paintballs whilst looking for a nice ditch to sleep in. I was lucky I missed the result and caught the uninterrupted highlights.
Its not just the adverts im not going to miss, the biggest cheer for the Beeb getting the sport back will be to see the back of James Allen's commentary. Don't get me wrong, the guy is a great journalist and knows his sport really well and I would quite happily read some of his written work but he just can't put that knowledge into words when the action is folding out in front of him. Murray Walker made some famous 'Murray-isms' (my favorite was when he mentioned the famous yellow of Ferrari whilst the camera followed a Jordan) but Allen doesn't have the popularity to get away with some of the fundamental errors he makes.
Also just because Lewis Hamillton has a yellow helemet doesn't mean you have to compare him with Senna with every breath. Anyway enough with the Allen bashing, I do feel sorry for him as there's a credit crunch on and he's unemployed.
Back to the point in question really. Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton and in atypical British wat, he left it until the last possible moment to win the World Championship. Lewis can hold his head up high after putting himself in great company of Mike Hawthorn, John Surtees, Graham and Damon Hill, Nigel Mansell, James Hunt, Jackie Stewart and Jim Clark.
As great as it to finally have a World Champion again I ask for one thing and one thing only... Jenson Button please get yourself to a front running team. How great would it be to have Lewis and Jenson fighting for the title this time next year in Dubai? It could happen! I can imagine it now Honda put a great car together and Jenson wins on the final corner... Then I'll turn off the PlayStation and go down the pub.
Mornings. I'm not the best in dealing with them, but because I have to drive for an hour each day to get to work they have become something of an occupational hazard. Getting up when it's still ask black as night doesn't set me up in the best of moods anyway, in fact the only way I've been getting through it recently is relying on my caffinee addiction an forcing two cups of tea down my neck in a hope they kick in and perk me up.
They don't. It October and it's bloody cold and wet. Every mirror and window in my car needs wiping before I can even turn the key and sit there waiting for the heater to demist the windscreen (in practice it rarely finishes the job as I get bored and end up using a sponge to wipe the thing).
Half way to work, I've only just started to feel warm and I'm now moaning about the fact the sponge left water marks on my windscreen, but on the whole I'm starting to feel awake and im nearing the zone when it's safe for other people to be around me. I'm now in a good mood!
Doesn't last long. Two words guarnteed to send my blood pressure rising and it's all they are talking about on the radio... Russell Brand!
God that man does my head in! He was on the Chris Moyles show this morning and I wish I had counted the number of seconds it took for him to brag about yet another woman who had slept with him. Im not sure but it must have been less than 30.
I wouldn't mind, there is something warming about a guy but the guy looks like a male Amy Winehouse! If you can image Marge Simpson's hair losing its strength and imploding in on itself... it's not a hairstyle just an advertisment to the fact he doesn't wash. Add to that he was saying how he's grown a beard! He may as well say that he only uses the bathroom when he needs the toilet (and lets be honest who else thinks he may use a empty cola bottle as it saves time or effort?). The guy is supposedly in a Shakespeare play, what is he doing? Method acting? (There was no public health at the time!). I heard he once had a mouse live in his hair for a year... I'm not suprised by that one bit.
My car has had its fair share of problems recently, but I was so glad one thing was still working, the off button on my radio! Still it's amazing how much driving without an iritating cockney talking about the latest girl to suffer from 'Brand Blindness' can calm you down, I've been pleasant all day and that's with a caffine intake lower than normal. Just don't mention Russell Brand, I'd rather deal with the love child of Joe Brand and Russell Grant. Ok now I need more caffine!
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