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Last weekend, I woke early on Sunday morning a bit like a Kid on Christmas day, excited full of anticipation for what the day would bring. As we know at this point It wasn’t the best day for Ferrari in Suzuka. Michael’s championship hopes all but gone, he even said him self he didn’t want to win it like that, meaning Alonso not finishing in the last race. The constructors championship doesn’t look good for them either 9 point’s adrift but as we head into the last race of the season, the last race of an era even, I’m looking forward to what I hope will be a memorable climax of a phenomenal championship and career.

Anyway back to Suzuka, The pre-race coverage on ITV contained something very rare. They managed to grab an interview on race day, no less, with one of the most formidable men in F1, the evil genius behind the Ferrari conspiracy, Mr. Jean Todt. You can read it here.

I thought this was particularly interesting in reference to Felippe Masa. I can’t remember the last time I heard any team principle be so up front about there “second driver” and my hat goes off to him for not only standing up for his driver but also the way he slapped down the implied Ferrari conspiracy that Ted Kravitz was looking for confirmation on.

Congratulations Jean, I hope Felippe always has this much support from you

Before I get into the meat of this post, I wanna take a paragraph to congratulate Cristiano da Matta on his release from hospital, as some of you may be aware Christiano was involved in a nasty accident with a deer while testing a champ car. Good luck with the rest of your recovery.

Anywho, What did we all think of the Chinese Grand Prix? Magnificent, only word that I can think of to come close to describing it and it puts things closer at the top of the championship, than they have been at this stage of the season for more years than I can remember.

I do think some of the Renault tactics did have a strong whiff of team orders about them. Apparently, that’s okay though unless it’s Ferrari. I mean it was okay when Ron Dennis ordered Coulthard to allow Hakkinen through to win the championship and then a year or two later Ferrari do the same thing and the rules are re-written, go figure!

Still it was nice of them to set the precedence, expect to see Schuey/Masa employing similar tactics over the next 2 races which will decide the championship for this year.

So F1, whats been happening since Monza, where as we all know once again the evil FIA ganged up with that evil german and well those guys wot build the evil cars, you know they’re red like the Devil for god’s sake.

Well that’s what some people would have us believe anyway. After all the commotion in Monza, I’m so disappointed in the mainstream F1 press they all wanted to say it but none of them would. You wonder why? I did but then I realised there just trying to make a story where there isn’t one, yup that’s it if enough people start to believe a story then it starts to take on a momentum of it’s own it creates it’s own smoke so there has to be a fire right?

Fair play to Fernando and Flavio they said what was on there mind Flav more than Fernando who just seemed to think F1 isn’t a sport anymore. Then again Flav retracted Fernando didn’t and infact has gone considerably further since.

I know Alonso is the youngest world champion in the history of the sport but what does he hope to achieve by slagging off the most successful driver in the history of the sport? that’s not going to win you the championship only keeping a calm head and scoring points will do that, not driving beyond the limits of your car until the engine explodes or whinging into the radio or sideswiping a friday test driver at high speed before brake testing him.

Schuey has his history too as so many people have been quick to point out since Monaco, but for some reason the media are blinkered to Alonso’s wrong doing’s and very quick to point to Schuey’s past indiscretions at every available opportunity. Yet very quick to forget that schuey has been penalised severely in the past as well, both on and off the track.

Well whatever Alonso and flav had hoped to achieve by there actions at Monza what they did achieve was a clarification of the “blocking” rule in F1 although you can tell by the tone that the FIA aren’t happy about the way these 2 conducted themselves. I really am surprised that neither have been pulled up for bringing the sport into disrepute.

I think there are 2 thing’s Fernando needs to learn from what has happened at and since Monza.

1. You’ll never win an argument with the referee
2. If you wanna have a bitch about a competitor get your manager to do it for you

Still it’s nice to know the fans have more sense than to listen to the media and have made there own minds up by voting Schuey and Ferrari there favourite by a country mile.

Hi all and welcome to the first in what I hope to make a, long running, regular friday article relating specifically to Formula 1 motorsport and the eccentricities that surround it.

For this our first edition, I’ve decided to go with an eccentricity. Not content with hiring Murray Walker (The inventor of the commentators curse) as there own “ambassador, Honda have hired their own Artist. Yup thats right, and what is his role? to come up with new graphics for the car? nope, to make the car itself the art!

Confused? Let me explain, Honda, about 2 Years ago hired Dutch artist Paul Veroude, an artist known for “deconstructing cars”, which kinda explains why they got rid of Sato (Ouch:D)Only Kidding Taku but seriously, this isn’t as you might think another name for a mechanic/grease monkey but Mr. Veroude’s very own Genre of Art.

While it would be very easy to dismiss this as a guy who has far to much time on his hands getting lucky, I find it refreshingly original.

Let me know what you think by commenting after following this link to the full story and pictures

Many thanks to, the ever so slightly camera shy, Bernard McGinley for sending me the original story.

Yes it’s that time, the time to put it all out there on the line and see if I can stick with this plan.

So What’s the plan? Well, simply put I am going to start three regular weekly features, this is what’s scary I’m commiting to doing these weekly and well this blogging thing is a hobby from which I generate no income and not only does it take time but it takes idea’s. So I’m gonna give it a go and see if I can manage this. Who knows maybe it’ll all just flow and I’ll take to it like a duck to water.

Anyway, enough of the nerves, on to more important thing’s. Like what are these weekly features gonna be? The first your going to see, will be available from tomorrow and it’s called (insert trumpet fanfare here) “Wednesday is gadget day” and strangely it’s gonna be all about gadgets and it’ll be available (hopefully) every Wednesdays from then on

The next one will appear on fridays, called “F1 Friday” No surprises here either, for the forseeable future, I’m gonna run articles on Formula 1 although I do reserve the right to post about other forms of motorsport if I so chose.

The final feature, for now, will have the stunningly original title of “Music Mondays” and this feature will have relevance to music. That may take the form of an album review or a rant on why the music industry is shrinking, or even just an esoteric rambling about how certain music makes me “feel”

So there you have it, as you’ve guessed I tend to prefer the “it does wot it says on the tin approach” to all that marketing fluff, some people seem to enjoy these days.

I do of course reserve the right to stop any or all of these regular features should I see fit at any time in the future, but prolly the best way to stop that from happening and maybe even to steer the direction of these is through your comments, I know there are people from all over the world reading The blog of George fairly regularly), much to my surprise (I really don’t think I’m that interesting) and I would love to hear from you. so please feel free to comment below.