Gentleman, Start your engines...!
If you are a motor sports fan, this weekend is for you with all forms of auto racing happening and on the air!
We started off today by watching qualifing for the Formula One Grand Prix of Canada, where amazingly my man Ralf Schumacher has won the pole position for Sunday's race. Ralf is the driver I use on our amazingly great PlayStation2 Formula 1 game so I'm glad to see him finally overshadowing his brother Michael. We are glad to see Formula 1 finally get to the Americas. No more getting up at 6 A.M. to watch the race live.
Next we switched to the 24 Hours of LeMans and the sports car scene, my favorite. You have to be a true aficionado of the sport to follow this one. The coverage gets confusing unless you know the car classes and can follow drifting, lilting reports from track and the pits. As I write late Saturday night, two Audi teams were leading. It's always interesting to get up in the morning and see how things have changed in the preceeding hours. Sorry to say, our buddies at Panoz had "abandoned" with gear box failure.
The other races I'm not so excited about, but we'll try and catch some of those too. The Indy Racing League event should be fun, though Indy Car racing has done great injury to their fan base by the division of the series into two seperate leagues. Funny how big money will ruin things. But....since Julie wants to go to racing school at the Texas Motor Speedway next fall, this will give her a chance to size up the track!
Lastly there is NASCAR from Pocono. I know that NASCAR is by far the most popular form of auto racing with the general public, and I do watch, but I was taught proper English and it just galls me listening to the commentators. "Whee doggies, he don't know it but his engine just blowed up". Besides I can't identify with many of the young drivers are more media stars than good ol' boys. Still it's racing and I'm for it.
So Sunday will be a big day. The nice thing about the Formula 1 races are that young Jack and I drive the courses on the PlayStation so we're pro's at knowing the course. Though I'm a little more sophisticated in my cornering and braking points, Jack is coming along just fine.
If you are a motor sports fan, this weekend is for you with all forms of auto racing happening and on the air!
We started off today by watching qualifing for the Formula One Grand Prix of Canada, where amazingly my man Ralf Schumacher has won the pole position for Sunday's race. Ralf is the driver I use on our amazingly great PlayStation2 Formula 1 game so I'm glad to see him finally overshadowing his brother Michael. We are glad to see Formula 1 finally get to the Americas. No more getting up at 6 A.M. to watch the race live.
Next we switched to the 24 Hours of LeMans and the sports car scene, my favorite. You have to be a true aficionado of the sport to follow this one. The coverage gets confusing unless you know the car classes and can follow drifting, lilting reports from track and the pits. As I write late Saturday night, two Audi teams were leading. It's always interesting to get up in the morning and see how things have changed in the preceeding hours. Sorry to say, our buddies at Panoz had "abandoned" with gear box failure.
The other races I'm not so excited about, but we'll try and catch some of those too. The Indy Racing League event should be fun, though Indy Car racing has done great injury to their fan base by the division of the series into two seperate leagues. Funny how big money will ruin things. But....since Julie wants to go to racing school at the Texas Motor Speedway next fall, this will give her a chance to size up the track!
Lastly there is NASCAR from Pocono. I know that NASCAR is by far the most popular form of auto racing with the general public, and I do watch, but I was taught proper English and it just galls me listening to the commentators. "Whee doggies, he don't know it but his engine just blowed up". Besides I can't identify with many of the young drivers are more media stars than good ol' boys. Still it's racing and I'm for it.
So Sunday will be a big day. The nice thing about the Formula 1 races are that young Jack and I drive the courses on the PlayStation so we're pro's at knowing the course. Though I'm a little more sophisticated in my cornering and braking points, Jack is coming along just fine.
