Mmmm Motor sport

Last week a crew of us went to the A1 final. Man have I missed the smell of soft rubber & racing fuel.After shenanigans getting home the night before (Note to self: Don’t fall asleep when on the last train home) I had only had about 3 hours sleep & with Chris & I being our normal disorganised selves we got to Brands Hatch with only 20min for the pit walk. Still we got to see the Kiwi car up close & personal, laugh at the aussies (Why not) & laugh at the Poms as the pushed their car down the pit lane.Then we sat down to watch the best sport in the world – bar West African Tiddlywinks, which is played the same way as normal Tiddlywinks but using cane toads & matches instead of coins.- We had a great seat thanks to Fiona being organised & arriving on time.
If you haven’t been following A1 here’s a quick run down. Germany had run off with the title very early on in the session but New Zealand, Great Britain & France had been fighting for the scraps all season.Going into the final weekend we were sitting on a comfortable 16 point lead over GBR but that all changed after a first corner incident when we lost our front wing, meaning we finished the sprint race in 16^th & out of the points. By comparison GBR won the race easily taking 8 points & also racking up the fastest lap of the weekend giving them another point.
With the point’s difference now reduced to 7 points we had to place no less than 8^th if GBR won the main race to keep second place in the championship. This was going to a hard ask as you start the main race in the position you finish the sprint so while GBR were on pole we were way back in the pack on 16^th.
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The main race was brilliant with South Africa taking out Australia in a 1^st corner altercation. Germany & GBR had a stonking battle up the front with Germany just beating them to take the championship in style. This meant the little battlers from the south Pacific only had to claw our way up to 9^th place…did we? Did we ever!! Up to 8^th in the race meaning the nuclear free bare footed hippies from down below are now the 2^nd best racing team in the world!...Now if only the NZ government would help out motor sport a fraction as much as they help out our yachters we could be “Kings of the World”!

Also Brands Hatch must be one of the most beautiful race tracks I’ve ever been to, with the back forest straight part in particular rocking the caz bar.F1
Well the circus heads back to Europe this week & the season looks like it’s going to be yet another amazing year with 4 drivers vying for the top spot. I’m still holding my breath about Williams, we are looking fast but so is the rest of the very large mid pack. Here are the stats:
Driver ChampionshipConstructors ChampionshipGrid PositionsPlacings