F1 - My Sport.

The only sport I follow is Grand Prix, I enjoy the glitz and the glamour a bit, but mostly it's about the cars and the drivers, it's a sport us Brits actually do best (for a change).

I have followed the sport since I was a kid, the days of James Hunt, John Watson and Niki Lauda.

A while back I was given a 'pit pass' from the Beneton team following a sales pitch from one of their sponsors (thanks Cisco), everyone turned up with the biggest set of cameras I'd ever seen, sooo interested in the sales pitch, not.
It was when Fisichella and Wurtz were in the team, we were able to go right by them in the pits where they were testing the cars, one engineer lifted the engine hood and proceeded to make an adjustment with a pair of pliers, I couldn't believe it - how primitive!!

I do miss Murray Walker though, here's a man who could make comparisons to an incident by dropping back into his memory upto 50 years (I suppose he reminded me of when I was a kid), he had such love of the sport, but I suppose he knew it was time to hang up his microphone.

There was a blip for about five tortuous years, this is know as the Schumacher/Ferrari era, it was boring, boring, boring, but I still never missed a race, painful as it was, to this day I never support Ferrari even if Jack Dee was driving for them.

Well onto this season, it's looking good, hopefully Schuey will enjoy fighting it out in the middle of the pack (tee hee!), and we see Hamilton and Button fighting it out at the front, though it may well be Vettle's year this year, but no matter because it's always entertaining.

This weekend it's the Malaysian GP!!