![]() ![]() Naturally Phil and I did what any other heroic motor racers would do. Just before we could gently ask them what the problem was, their parents and other parent type persons also started running towards us yelling ‘snake’. Kids screaming at us is nothing new but running towards us is. ![]() We were contemplating what it would be like to wheel the slowest car in the field around a track I had never ever seen before let alone driven on, when three kiddies from the next garage ran towards us screaming. Well Dad (Phil Alexander) and I were just sitting in our garage staring at the MX-3 we’d had to enter because the RX-8 had gone to Mazda heaven two weeks ago, the MX-5 was getting a new paintjob in readiness for today’s MX-5 Cup and the MX-3 was hail damaged but the right price at Pickles Auctions. Remember Brownie in the Adelaide Hills? First appearance here, October 2016. I don’t know what it is about your Weekend Australian Race and Rally Team (WART) but bottom line is we are snake magnets. Off the record Hamo could have said: “Our technical director Mike Elliot, is he a schlemiel or a schlimazel? Whichever, the flick could be in his future”. It’s not where it needs to be and we’ve got to work’”. I think it’s really about accountability It’s about owning up and saying, ‘Yeah, you know what? We didn’t listen to you. Last year, there were things I told them. Speaking exclusively to me on the psychic internet, he said: “Johnny they didn’t listen to me. Hamo reckons he found an asp in the grass and it’s the technical group in his own team. Look the truth is the Red Bulls are fast and every other car is slow.Īnd I was wrong about the snakes. From a bad last to an excellent ninth was extraordinary. But the other driver to watch is Pete Gasly. Lazza hired Red Bull’s senior aerodynamicist Dan Fallows which clearly gave the cars some speed but Ferdy’s drive was one for the ages and to my mind as good as the old masters. That gave Ferdy Alonso a podium in his first drive for Aston Martin and owner Lazza Stroll a $540m jump in his share price. What were the big surprises in the rumble in the desert apart from the Red Bull cars being in another class to every other team? Chucky Leclerc in his Ferrari had third spot tied up till his electrics died and he retired. Mad Max won by nearly twelve seconds from teammate Sergio Perez with Hamo 50 seconds (ie a lifetime) behind Max. We knew Red Bull were sand bagging in the lead up but we couldn’t imagine how good their cars are. Only a minute because we don’t have to wait until Abu Dhabi on November 26 to know who’ll win the drivers’ and constructors’ championships and possibly all the next twenty-three races. (Younger readers who dream of a career in motorsport my advice is: enter a class you can win in or enter a class with no other competitors.)Īnyway, let’s spend a minute on the Middle East event. Phil and I shared the drive to win Class E. The oldest driver at Winton on Sunday was my father, Phil Alexander, of Colo Vale, NSW. Talk about ageism the oldest driver in F1 is Fernando Alonso, 41, of Oviedo, Spain. Not only were there snakes, the temperature was 13 degrees hotter than the desert, the racing was closer but the first round of the NSW Production Touring Cars Championship had more top end of town people in the cars than F1 could dream about. We had one red-bellied black snake at Winton, Victoria. How could Sunday’s F1 race in Sakhir, Bahrain, be exciting when there was not even one snake? ![]()
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