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 A tentative blog to test the temperature. |
| Motor Racing Musing I can’t help it - much of my thinking time is (and always has been) taken up with pondering on the form of motor sport known as F1. I try to keep this fact out of my utterings in other areas as I have no desire to bore readers to death. But, occasionally, there’s an excuse for a sort of crossover. And this is my latest: Much has been said and argued about the matter of overtaking in F1. There’s not enough of it, or there’s too much, and should we use artificial means (for the initiated, here I’m talking about DRS) of encouraging it, these are the eternal debates. My take on it is skewed by my writing persona. I can’t help looking at that word “overtaking.” And that means I see other ways of interpreting it. It could, for instance be read as “overt-aking.” How appropriate in this day when so many of the driver’s comments to the pit crew over that radio connection are broadcast. That may seen incomprehensible until one considers the character so many of the drivers reveal in these utterances. Far too many of them sound like spoilt teenagers with their complaints and excuses. My misconception of the overtaking word is indeed appropriate, especially if I make it a bit easier by spelling it “overt-aching.” But I don’t want to leave you with the wrong impression of F1 drivers through this. There are also the grown-up ones like Valtteri (probably the Finnish for “Walter”) Bottas. In a race in which he’d performed wonders by getting from last to second place, he responded to instructions to let his team mate past with these words: “Copy.” Not a moan or a protest, just that one word meaning message received and order will be carried out. No wonder they call the Finns icemen. Word count: 305 |
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