Silverstone
We’re back and unpacked from Silverstone now, and what a weekend we had - weather wise if nothing else! Seeing the F1 cars for real is such a different experience from the television and the atmosphere of the crowd makes for an exciting experience. Race day brought it’s dissapointments but ultimately the best driver on the day won which is how it should be - but Lewis Hamilton did a fantastic job of keeping the Ferrari behind him for the first 15 or so laps.
The weather was down, up and then down again over the course of the weekend with us camping in a half waterlogged field on Thursday, being swept away by the wind on Friday, burnt on Saturday and Sunday then drowned Sunday night! It held off for the actual GP though so that was good. The sun was so bright on the Sunday that I bought a hat - thankfully I found the one stall in the whole place that was selling Super Aguri merchandise and so after three days of searching I bought something Super Aguri!
It was a fantastic weekend and being there with Andi, Amy, James and Nat meant that we had an even better time than last year! Charlotte has posted a load of pictures on facebook so shoot over and have a look - Amy has some up too. I’ll have to fix my gallery page before I can post more but they will be from Charlotte’s camera anyway!
When I get a bit more time I’ll post some more about the race!
Good Hunting
Grand Prix, grand prix, grand prix!
Only a couple of days to go until the F1 circus rolls out onto the track at Silverstone, 10.00am on Friday to be precise and while I’m not that excited about it…
…ok, I lied, I’m very excited about it, I can’t wait! The post Schumacher year has so far been like no other in F1, firstly there are two teams that can and have won - with both drivers from both teams. Secondly the majority of the fighting has been between Hamilton and Massa and not Kimi and Alonso. Thirdly even though I was excited about him being in F1 this year and was hoping that he’d do well - I didn’t think that Hamilton would be leading the world championship by 14pts going to his home GP and have a good chance of winning. I bet that Micheal Schumacher is sitting at home (or the Ferrari pit garage) thinking, why isn’t anyone talking about how different F1 is this year.
If Ferrari show that they have the kind of pace they had in France then I think that a Hamilton win will be a challenge but Silverstone is a different circuit, and McLaren will be going hell for leather to try and get a win at their home race. Silverstone does traditionally suit the Ferraris although Alonso won the race last year - the Ferrari of Micheal Schumacher won in Magny Cours. What does this all mean? I have no idea, we won’t know until about lap 5 on Sunday afternoon but the practices times may give us an indication… we’ll see.
And what of the industrial espionage case between Ferrari and McLaren? Well I’ve never been a huge McLaren fan so it’s not going to bother me that much what happens, Hamilton’s driving has been fantastic whatever car he’s been in and they can’t take that away from him!
Good Hunting