This was maybe the most exciting drivers title chase in a long time, certainly since Senna and Prost traded wins in the late 80’s. Vettel did what he had to do today in Abu Dhabi. He went out, dominated the race and took care of everything he could control. His drive today was fitting a world champion and it would be difficult to argue that…
Zakuani to play for DR Congo
Steve Zakuani has made decided his international future and was called into the Democratic Republic of Congo this week. DRC play a friendly against Mali at Stade Roger Rochard in Paris on Wednesday. A big week for Steve Zakuani, he’s good enough to make a difference at that level, I’m interested in how he does. His brother Gabriel Zakuani plays for Peterbrough United in England…
One more day of perfection needed by Alonso
As the 2010 F1 season has gone on I’ve come to like the current Q3-Q2-Q1 knock out qualifying system more and more. The tension ramps up nicely to the 10-minute shootout in Q3 for the top10 on the grid. Abu Dhabi was a fascinating final qualifying session. There was none of the waiting until the last moment for Vettel, he went out early, set a…
A visit by the narcissistic few
I’ve been on the receiving end of some rather malicious gossip recently and internet trolling. It’s been an experience, interestingly calling the troll out has largely made her go away. The troll not been visiting nearly as much in the last week, but Jeanette did drop by today. I hope she is having a good weekend in Spokane. One thing that’s changed since I called…
The must have album of 1981
A little glance back to the 80’s. Not a time of necessarily great music, but certainly memorable music. In 1981 at Stoughton Middle School “Kings of the Wild Frontier” was the must have album. Looking back Adam and the Ants actually stand the test of time rather well. Their background was the 70’s punk movement, they toured with Siouxsie and the Banshees, and were influenced…
Abu Dhabi: Time to find out who is going to win it all
The 2010 Championship will be decided this weekend and on recent performances and assuming the cars are reliable, it seem likely that at the end of the day the top three will comprise Vettel, Webber and Alonso in some order. While I don’t think you can count out Hamilton, his McLaren has been a little off the pace of the three drivers ahead of him…
The Sounders gave us a great year
Sunday was a disappointing defeat and not the way we hoped the season would. Bottom line is Seattle just were not as good as LA over the two games. Galaxy did a great job of controlling the midfield and forcing Zakuani inside and taking away the speed down the outside that has worked so well over the last couple of months. Seattle were beaten by…
Not quite Tom Seleck yet…
It’s now been a week since Movember started. My upper lip has made it to fluffy caterpillar stage and not started itching yet, but does look strange and required an explanation once or twice. It’s growing in a little slower than usual, but it should get a lot closer to full Magnum PI by the end of the month.
A couple of days in Houston
Houston has a special place in my traveling history. It’s not exactly a place I’ll get teary eyed and nostalgic over, but it’s an interesting city of contrasts. First my history with Houston; It was the first foreign trip I took with work. I came to Houston for a couple of weeks in 1986. I was an innocent 17 year old send over by the…
18 down, 1 to go.
Drivers standings after Brazil Alonso 246 Webber 238 Vettel 231 Hamilton 222 After 18 of the 19 rounds in this years championship there are still four drivers in with a shout of winning everything. I don’t this…