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There is something very unfair about practice sessions in Formula One.  Here we are Thursday afternoon with tens of thousands of people in the grand stands and there isn’t one car on the track for 40 minutes. The reason – the track was a little bit wet.  Now I can understand that the teams don’t wish to risk their precious race cars unnecessarily but what about the paying public?  If you go to the circus and nothing happens for 40 minutes you demand your money back.  Here you just sit and wait.  Pathetic.  Finally team Toro Rosso decided to brave the elements, with 45 minutes to go we were still waiting for the rest. This is the first time this year that I’ve been able to hear the engines first hand and I am afraid they do sound absolutely awful. Lawn mowers make a better sound!  Still, I can only report on what is happening and not on what I would like to happen.  50 minutes into the afternoon session there are now five cars going around which seems logical to me because the race might be held under wet conditions and then this would be useful to the drivers and the mechanics.

Last night was a lot more interesting, had dinner at a place called Pulcinella. Interesting crowd, Keke Rosberg was at the next table with his wife, cool as a cucumber. Two tables from him sat Herbie Blash, someone you would all know – he is the grey haired gentlemen who ushers the drivers from their cars to the weighing machine. 

Stay tuned for more.

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