Hi Galen, I hope you enjoy the rest of the F1 championship. Perosnally I have been away from F1 since I was 6 or 7 years old, after the arrival in Spain. In Switzerland an Italian friend of my parents was an auto body mechanic, and besides fixing crashed cars to resell them, he raced as an amateur.
In his workshop I spent a lot of time as a child, I think that for a child there is nothing more fun than helping a mechanic stained with grease and paint to turn some metal corpses into luxury cars. And in this mechanic's workshop I learned that there was an exceptional driver who aroused passions: Ragazzoni.
And I was a fan of Ragazzoni out of sympathy for a few years. When I arrived in Spain, tastes were different and F1 was not televised.
Although I am not passionate about it nowadays, I understand very well the passion for this sport. I'm buried, as I started I hope you enjoy this end of the season and I wish success to the Australian drivers.
The sport has a lot of history I guess, so many amazing stores and so many of abject failure. I think that's what I like about it, the complexity and how, for success to come, every element of a F1 team has to come together at the same time. It's a team sport.
Anyway, some like it and some don't...I'm the former.
Sorry to get back to you so late, I am down with a stomach virus and have lost regularity of sleep, I should be asleep now, yet I am awake and have spent the afternoon in bed. I fully understand that you can like Formula 1, to achieve a goal you need many elements to coincide in a positive way: good equipment, technology, design, strategy and driving.
Although I don't live it with the passion of my five or six years. What I keep from those years is my admiration for the design of the cars of the sixties and seventies.
I wish you a great Friday.
Sorry to hear you're not well, I hope you start to feel better quickly.
I am with you on the 60's and 70's but love the development and evolution in race cars since the very early days. What they do now, compared to where it all started, is incredible.
Anyway, feel better soon.
Thanks Galen, I'm getting my strength back. Have a great weekend