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Sunday Morning Lunatics

On saturday I popped in on Dave da Guff's get together in South Leam (big up Dave!). And stayed overnight at the Palace like I usually do on Grand Prix weekends. Paul decided that we should watch the Japanese GP at the awful hour of 5.20AM. With just under 4hrs sleep in, I woke up to the noise of Paul bringing up a tray of orange juice, Whittard's coffee and bacon/egg/sausage sandwich which I consumed at 5.25AM Sunday morning. Brekfast in (sofa)bed. Paul has to be the BEST host ever! (My turn next week argh!) And he was right about the race being a good one – worth watching live.

We watched (three-quarters awake) Alonso 16th and Kimi Raikkönën 17th charge through the field, in one of the best races ever. Kimi Raikkönën is the DUDE, he and Alonso ate up everyone (tho Fernando had to overtake Michael Schumacher about 80 times). Kimi, with 17 laps to go and a 20sec margin between himself in 2nd and 1st placed Fisichella, ate up the gap with incredible speed, and passed Fisichella into turn 1 on the last lap. Fairytale stuff, 17th to 1st. Legendary stuff, just like Paul's wakeup calls.

Nathaniel Ho : 09 Oct 2005 18:52 |  Tags: General Motorsports |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem