h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

 In the words of Lou Reed 'Oh what a perfect day...'

A beautiful sunny Sunday, 2nd May 1999. My husband went to work early this morning, so I slept until about 1030. My son was watching tv in his bedroom - bliss!

I got up and cooked Nick and I our Sunday treat - thick American style pancakes with syrup for a late breakfast. Just enough time to read the paper before the San Marino Grand Prix started. Nick went out to play with his friends, so i watched the race in peace, doing some of the ironing. I had to make sure that I was taping the race for Adrian to watch later.Excellent race, shame Mika Hakkinen went off, well done DC for getting 2nd, and Damon actually finished a race! Barrichello did really well to finish 3rd, and Schuey finished first again - of course the crowd at Imola went wild, being the home of Ferrari. The race finished and the snooker final had just started. It was too sunny to sit in and watch the snooker, I can catch up with that this evening. I spent the rest of the afternoon sitting in the garden reading the rest of the paper until it was time to cook dinner. I loved every minute of it. Now to catch up with the snooker final....and I don't have to go back to work until Tuesday!

Oh, what a perfect day!

Just to comment on the race on Sunday, I don't know what you're opinion is but I think that someone as arragant on the race track as Shumacher, does not deserve to win races, blameing DC for Shuey's mistake at Hockenhiem wa the hight of arragance.

Is all this anti-Schuey stuff just cos he's German, or is it cos he's miles better than DH could ever dream of being?

To Jen, I have nothing against Germans, one of my favouite F1 drivers is Frentzen, what I don't like about Schuy is that his driving is almost homicidal, he will take someone off the track if he cannot get past then, this is not skill but arrogance. By the way who is DH if you were reffering to David Coulthard (DC) well he ill be world champion before Schumacher takes the title again.

Bond

DH is Damon Hill, who Mouse mentioned. If I had meant David Coulthard, I would have said so. As you mentioned him, I think he's a great driver and have the utmost respect for him. I'm just not a great fan of Damon Hill, cos I think he's a poor driver, and only won the 1995 championship cos he was the top driver for Williams, the best car at that time, and now that the capabilites of the cars are more equal, he has not been able to repeat those performances.

My mistake about DH, however I feel that now that Damon has got the car for the job he can get back into winning races, like last year when he won at Hokenhiem, and his fourth place in Imola on Sunday shows that he is back on form, put this Schumacher bloke in a under performing car and lets see him win races.

fair point

For Hockenheim, read Spa!!

Surely the Jordan can still only win races if Mclaren and Ferrari have big problems, and even then the Stewart could beat it if luck went that way. These things happen once or twice a year, but it can't be the best way to look at a championship?

Schuey has won races in an underperforming car, particularly in his first year at Maranello. Does anyone think that he's not substantially more likely (than any other current driver) to get a result in that situation?

(oh, and DH won the 1996 championship!)

thanks Paully, my memory's not what it was, I got 95 and 96 a bit mixed up.

Smart Arse!