Anti-Racing on the NJ Turnpike

Yesterday, was an interesting journey home. Snow, sleet and freezing rain, slowed traffic to 35MPH on one of the more famous roads in America. 35 miles @ 35MPH, one hour at what seemed to be a crawl. Many people however determined that this speed limit was an erroneous downgrade from the normal 65. Many of these folks found themselves spinning and facing the wrong direction or slid off the side into a ditch. Although it would be easy to case all aspersion in the direction of the crazy SUV drivers, there were only a few SUVs in distress. Other cars also found themselves in dire circumstances. As I neared home, after travelling nearly two hours I saw additional cars feverishly spinning their wheels with their cars sitting nose deep in a snowy grassy medial strip. It surprises me at the inability of people to realize that snow and ice change the dynamics of car driving.

Beginning another F1 Season

Finally, the short mild winter has broken and we can at begin to think about racing again. NASCAR started a few weeks ago in Daytona, fun race, what other series can you cross the finish line upside down and on fire. However, now we start the top class. Melbourne, Australia is the start to the season. Qualifying was uneventful but interesting. Kimi put Ferrari back on the pole - perhaps his car will not fail him this year and the iceman can claim the top seat in more than a few races and get what everyone thinks he should be able to accomplish - world championship. Two time world champ Alonso may have something to say about it, he qualified in P2 and it will likely be a good start to the race. As readers of this site will know, I switched personal brands last year, going from BMW to Benz. I've now got torn allegiances, I've been a BMW fan for quite some time. I'm not really into my car as much as I was my BMWs. I do like Alonso, and now that he's at MB, perhaps I should ally myself there. The BMWs are seated well, sitting well at 3 and 5. MB sitting 2 and 4. Should be an exciting start to the first race. The big 3 are still atop the list - Ferrari, MB and BMW. It cerainly seems like Renault's ride atop the standings were dependent on Alonso, and their slide seems imminent. We go green at 11PM Eastern, less than 12 hours from now!!