No. 1 star
I picked up April’s edition of F1 magazine, (B & N seem to be notoriously bad at getting the publication anywhere near it’s intended release date and I am routinely a month behind, reading previews and strategery for races that I watched two weeks ago). As always there was the usual car dissection articles on helping one to understand the finer points of Formula 1 and an interesting comparison between Ferrari’s 248 and the F2007. There were also a few comments that had me laughing, out loud, coffee through the nose type thing, not a pleasant site when I’m in the B & N café, trying to maintain my usual European cool. Take this one from an article on Heikki Kovalainen, “…(Kimi parties - DRINKING in a karaoke bar) shreiks the headline. Inside there’s another photo, of a vodka bottle with Kimi’s autograph on the label. Karaoke? I don’t expect Kimi is a great singer, but I have a surreal vision of him reciting Shakespearean soliloquies to music and in the style of William Shatner.” Somehow the image so fits the Kimster. The other one that had me chuckling was in the ‘Where to hang out in Bahrain’, “...Ritz-Carlton’s Italian eatery, where you’ll definitely find Giancarlo Fisichella of an evening. Fisico last ate something other than pizza or pasta some time in about 1987.” And they say Americans are unadventurous with cuisine…
Anyway, the main reason for bloggage today was to mention Jay’s new found love, inititiated by my purchase of F1 magazine. There was a teeny-tiny reference to a a new TV series coming out in the UK, created by the fine creators of Bob the Builder and narrated by Stirling Moss…yes, narrated by Stirling Moss. The show is called Roary the Racing Car and features a single open wheel race car, Roary, as the main character. Mike the mechanic has a delightfully thick Bolton accent and intersperses his speech with Italian phrases such as “Avanti!” There’s a stock car, read token Nascar, with a suitably Southern accent; an F1 car resplendant in Jordan colours who I think is meant to be Italian but sounds suspiciously German; ‘Drifter’ who is of course, a decked out Japanese ride with monster spoiler and various other characters. I found the website which shows tasters of upcoming shows and some of the most annoying but inevitably-stick-in-your-head-all-day songs. Naturally Jay is now totally obsessed.
Filed under: Formula 1, popculture, famille et amis on April 28th, 2007
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