My End of Year F1 Rant

So that’s it for another year….Now what am I going to do for the next 138 days 4 hours 55 minutes & 27 seconds. Guess there’s A1 ….Go team New Zealand!!! We’re down in 13^th place but only 2 races gone & 10 to go.
Anyway what a year!! That has got to be one of the best seasons I seen since I really started following F1 8-9 years ago. Well done to Alonso & Renault for their championships. I really have to take my hat off the Renault, they did have the best car over the season, even with some….dubious calls from the FIA & some baffling comments near the end of the session from their ‘lead’ driver.
Well done to Schu for his stellar career, his final race was a master class to all the up & comers (& there is a lot of them) of what a driver of his caliber can do. I hated him from the get go back with Benetton because of his over riding arrogance & at times almost contempt for his fellow drivers but over the last few sessions we’ve seen a much more grounded, relaxed MS (Apart from a couple of times that we don’t need to go into here) & as I’ve said before he is a 7 time world champ for a reason & 3 dodgy incidents can not take away from that.
What a horrid year for Williams, I think the DNFs summed up our session quite well. Renault-4, Ferrari-5, Honda & BMW equal on 8, Super Aguri (A team that is still not 1 year old) 18 & Williams on a massive 20 DNFs, that’s a 45% Finish race…..sad!
Here are the final stats

Drivers Championship
Constructors ChampionshipGrid placings
Placings

And now for next year.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

Sorry, this blog has nothing to do with CD’s ‘Tales of two cites’….Apart from being based in London but it’s all I could think of tonight that mentioned time, & since I went the Greenwich on Sunday I though a title incorporating time was important.
So Greenwich…Cool suburbs, could see myself living there, wicked shops & pubs, bad ass markets & massive outdoor areas to lounge in come summer…yeah I could defiantly do that.
Sunday was really nice & sunny so since we’re heading into winter I thought it wise to get out & about. Plus I had been up since 5am watching Michael fall out of contention in the F1 champs (That’s all I’ve gota say about that (For now)). So I rounded up Craig who's now back in Blighty & off we tootled.First stop the ‘Cutty Sark’. Legand (or the information board) says that it was the fastest ship in her day traveling 360 nautical miles in 24 hours…Not being a sailing man I have no idea if that’s impressive. That’s pretty much how I felt about the ship in general…Looks nice but is just a boat.

Then we wondered through the University of Greenwich (Very cool) checking out the dope old buildings & views over the river to Canary Wharf & the Millennium Dome (Probably the ugliest building I’ve seen) we stumbled upon a musket display. The funny thing was, half way through the display Craig pointed out a doddery old lady happily watching the display….From the sharp end of the firing range. Granted they were only shooting powder but in the land of health & safety managing to put one's self in such danger is quite a feat.
We then started wandering up the hill to the observatory stopping off to ogle the Harrier Jump Jet sitting outside the National Maritime Museum.At the top of the hill we sat & checked out London ….well north east London anyway. The Millennium Dome is just to the right of this picture & London City is a ways to the left.
Then it was off the the pub....s