The Blog of G

It’s been a while since I had an F1 post, but then the off season is never terribly interesting there is always some rumour or other, not a huge amount of news and the odd award. So here’s a quick round up.

First off the pre-season rumours of Silverstone’s demise from the calendar are back, (did they ever go away?) this time in some sort of weird Grand Prix swap with the French??? and shure lets fire in the threat of Donnington for good measure

David Richards is a busy man, what with running prodrive, Aston Martin’s racing program, getting his Formula 1 team on it’s feet and now, apparently, he’s trying to buy Aston Martin? hmmm here’s a thought Aston Martin F1 Vantage 2008.

Over in Ferrari land, well they are not missing Michael or both there drivers would like us to believe. It’s only fair to wonder is the ould fella is maybe over staying his welcome but then who could blame him, it’s Ferrari for gods sake Still it must be nice to know the books are all good, they look good in testing and Massa is picking up the Bandini Trophy in recognition of his impressive performances for Ferrari last season. Well deserved if you ask me. It’s not all perfect though, their recent TV commercial shoot went a bit pear shaped in Australia, hopefully though it’ll be the only bad luck for Ferrari down under in 2007.

Roll on March 18th

Well like the title says, I’ve had a busy week. I’m not sure where all my time went but I know a fair slab of it went into the office As a result I haven’t posted much so I thought I’d do some lightning posts of things that caught my attention this week.

Unfortunatly it’s not possible to do that with out mentioning the tragedies that monopolised the news this week. That said I don’t want to get into the Steve Irwin thing to much, I think plenty has been said online already and all I would like to add is that his family have my deepest sypathies as does the family of another great Australian, Peter Brock, who sadly lost his life in a seperate accident this week.

I hope that this week won’t be remembered as the week that two great human beings, entertainers of the people, Australians, and most of all hero’s lost there lives. I don’t think any man wants to be mourned when they go doing what there best at. I chose to remember their accomplishments and the special way they both had of inspiring and making others smile.

I’ll leave the closing words on this post to the Australian Prime Minister, John Howard who simply said “It’s been a pretty sad week for Australia”