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Well Done Andy Priaulx!

(and about time too!)

The Queens Birthday Honours List came out today – and at long last the achievements of Britains (and Guernseys 😉 ) own Andy Priaulx have finally been recognised with an MBE.

Andy has won the World Touring Car Championship title since it’s return, and also took the final European Touring Car title as well and yet has retained his enthusiasm, charm, humility and great character. Shame it took so long for a British World Champion to be recognised – but we all know that if you aren’t in a mainstream sport (so that’ll be Football, Cricket, Tennis, Rugby and Athletics) it’s a job to get noticed.

Gripe over.

A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO ANDY PRIAULX – WELL DESERVED AND MUCH APPLAUDED BY ALL YOUR FANS AND ALL TRUE MOTORSPORTS FANS.

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F1 – it’s coming home… but is that a good thing???

YAY – F1 is coming back to the BBC [link]

Is it a YAY though? I’m a bit reserved in my enthusiasm here. Yes, I really want to hear the proper theme music again, and no adverts will be a superb thing.

But – and there are several buts here…

  • ITV have improved – Martin is a superb commentator and Steve is the best anchor
  • ITV do decent repeat programmes but also show early races live and in full
  • ITV allow time before and after races (Evening events tend to get shoved to ITV4 but at least you get post-race feedback and press conferences)
  • You don’t get “we’re just going over to see the latest football/tennis/cricket scores” in the middle – which BBC can be dreadful for.

I really want this to be the best news for F1 fans in the UK – but I can’t help but be a tad nervous about it. Look at Beebs MotoGP coverage and how much they rush that at times, and it does get the worries going.

The BBC are saying that they will listen to the fans – and I hope they do, because they really could do a great job… but they have to learn from the lessons that ITV have learnt, and the way ITV have reacted to those lessons.

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A throaty boiling with a dash of sleep

Wowsers – doesn’t 6 months just fly by??? We are still alive – honestly!!!

I know many folks have found us on Facebook now, which is a good way of catching up – but that doesn’t excuse my tardiness here – sorry!!

Well, we’ve just had among the most annoying couple of months. Mrs H managed to crash her car, kids have all been ill with various things (including a really nasty dose of conjunctivitis for our daughter), we’ve both had tonsillitis as well as other bugs and illnesses [along with a serious lack of sleep] and then… to top it all off… our boiler died.

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Thank You ITV!

BLISS! Cool

For the first time this year, other than when we were actually at a circuit (Rockingham) I have managed to see all 3 BTCC races today.Star

ITV have finally clicked that they have 4 channels and they have cameras at the circuits, and commentators, and crews etc… so they showed a *full* replay of Race 1 at Brands Hatch (sadly the Indy and not the GP circuit) followed by some FRenault action followed by all of Race 2 LIVE followed by some FBMW fun all on ITV 4 today… then they went over to ITV1 for the usual recap of races 1 and 2 followed by live coverage of Race 3.

ABOUT BL***Y TIME – it’s always wound me up how much they waste their channels with naff re-runs of trashy soaps when they could instead use it for something innovative and new.Angry

And what a weekend to choose to do it on. The weather at Brands for the start of the races was atrocious earlier but it led to some classic touring car action and all the races were really superb.

I have to admit, I cannot stand Jason Plato but he has a really healthy respect for Fabrizio Giovanardi and Plato drove a really clean, good, race today (credit where it’s due!)

I was totally gutted for Matt Jackson who got penalised for nothing of his doing and really felt sorry for Darren Turner who just seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time today.Crying

But boy, this years championship is really going to the wire. 2 race weekends, 6 races, remain and there is only 4 points between the championship leaders.

It aint over yet! Big Grin

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General Random Rantings

Hey folks…. just felt like jotting down some total randomness as there’s been a few bits running through my brain this week (shocking I know!)

Got a totally brilliant email this week notifying me that this weekends BTCC races are due to be shown on ITV4 and ITV1 with us getting to see more than the usual highlights of race 1&2 followed by rushed coverage of race 3… instead we are getting to see Race 2 live and full highlights of race 1 (although I have heard a rumour it may be a full race replay!) – I was totally peed off when it was announced that BTCC was not going to be on MotorsTV this year and that is was going to that Sinatra sports channel that costs an arm and a leg per month (especially if you aint interested in watching 22 men run after a small leather object every night of the week – I like football, but only in small doses and only specific matches)

 

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