OOPS!!!
The fantastic F1 video that was originally attached here has been ordered down because it apparently infringed on a copyright, or something. So don't click on the video link at the bottom because there's nothing there. Which is too bad.
However, the earlier part of the post remains and the link to the hilarious Kimi Raikkonen video remains, so click away at that one.
As I wrote last week . . .
As it is the Christmas season, and the arrival of Santa Claus is just around the corner, I thought I would borrow something from the jolly old elf to add a sparkle to today’s conversation — his bowl-full-of-jelly laugh.
So, Mark Webber is telling everybody who will listen that he will be given equal treatment with Sebastien Vettel at Red Bull next year.
Ho, ho, ho.
And Ferrari boss Luca di Montezemolo told reporters that Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso will start the 2011 season on equal footing and that team orders will only be used in the second half of the season.
Ho, ho, ho.
Jacques Villeneuve and Kimi Raikkonen are both saying that they haven’t closed the door on Formula One.
Ho, ho, ho.
(Pssst. Somebody tell those guys that Formula One has closed the door on them.)
Usually when people talk about the Silly Season, they’re guessing who’s going where and in what series with which team.
But this is the real Silly Season, when people say things they shouldn’t.
Montezemolo might have had an excuse, though. He said what he said during Ferrari’s annual press dinner and everybody’d been drinking.
But Webber? JV? Kimi?
Oops, maybe Kimi had that Montezemolo excuse, too. Take a look at this.
Okay, so forget this part . . .
Seriously, my friend Johnny Lugnuts sent me a fantastic video review of the 2010 F1 season. It features beautiful women, marvelous music and wonderful action shots. Watch it and you'll see Vettel and Webber jumping — fully clothed in their Red Bull finery — into the harbour at Monte Carlo. Plus that incredible moment in China when Alonso passed Massa while going into the pits. Plus . . .
I guarantee that by the time you get to the end, you’ll have a tear in your eye.
Enjoy!
Lucky he didn't break his shoulder. If had been Mark Webber, well....
Guys like Villeneuve and Kimi don't get it. Even though their time in F1 was not all that long ago, getting a good drive and getting payed was taken for granted. No longer. And with more than a few good young drivers now established in F1, you can see that their bud, Michael Schumacher did not have an easy time getting back into the groove. I doubt JV and Kimi would do well either.
Posted by: allenparkpete | 12/20/2010 at 12:57 PM