Motors and Me

Less than 36 hours now before I’m at Croft Circuit, putting the Mini through its paces. To say I’m starting to crap myself would be... well, it would be an exaggeration, but you get the idea. It’s like a child’s anticipation of Christmas, but multiplied 3 or 4 times. I’ll bet you any money I feel physically ill on the morning of the trackday and can’t even face breakfast. I’m sure that once I’m out on the track, all the nerves will just disappear, replaced by nothing more than a stupid, wide grin. Oh man, I can not wait! :) :)

...are easily parted, or so the saying goes. I think it might be true. After all, I’ve only gone and entered the Be A Racing Driver competition! No, I can’t quite believe it either. :) Now to get my application form in for the Be A Grand Prix Driver competition. Hell, if you're gonna have a go, you may as well try it every which way! :)

I see there’s another competition out there to help you become a racing driver . This one’s a little more expensive, at £200 for each of the first three rounds, but any subsequent rounds and the final prize of a year’s competition would come for free — cars and maintenance thereof included. Life might just prove too short for me to pass this up. I may well be decidedly average, but dreams are there to be chased. What’s £600 for the chance to fulfil a life’s ambition?

Oooh, yes please. :) Looks like Karting North East's indoor circuit is going to be hosting the regional qualifier for Channel 5 and Exchange & Mart's Be A Grand Prix Driver 2004 competition. Just this last weekend, spectating at Rockingham, I wondered to myself what the quickest route into competition racing must be for someone my age (a creaking 28). Maybe this is it. Just maybe.

Ralf Schumacher demoted 10 grid places for next GP [BBC Sport] That's a touch on the harsh side, if you ask me. Amazingly, only Ron Dennis tells it as it is for once, putting it down to nothing more than a racing incident. Wonders may never cease.