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 A tentative blog to test the temperature. |
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Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end. So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.     |
| Motor Racing Musing I canāt help it - much of my thinking time is (and always has been) taken up with pondering on the form of motor sport known as F1. I try to keep this fact out of my utterings in other areas as I have no desire to bore readers to death. But, occasionally, thereās an excuse for a sort of crossover. And this is my latest: Much has been said and argued about the matter of overtaking in F1. Thereās not enough of it, or thereās too much, and should we use artificial means (for the initiated, here Iām talking about DRS) of encouraging it, these are the eternal debates. My take on it is skewed by my writing persona. I canāt help looking at that word āovertaking.ā And that means I see other ways of interpreting it. It could, for instance be read as āovert-aking.ā How appropriate in this day when so many of the driverās comments to the pit crew over that radio connection are broadcast. That may seen incomprehensible until one considers the character so many of the drivers reveal in these utterances. Far too many of them sound like spoilt teenagers with their complaints and excuses. My misconception of the overtaking word is indeed appropriate, especially if I make it a bit easier by spelling it āovert-aching.ā But I donāt want to leave you with the wrong impression of F1 drivers through this. There are also the grown-up ones like Valtteri (probably the Finnish for āWalterā) Bottas. In a race in which heād performed wonders by getting from last to second place, he responded to instructions to let his team mate past with these words: āCopy.ā Not a moan or a protest, just that one word meaning message received and order will be carried out. No wonder they call the Finns icemen. Word count: 305 |
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