Nobody is perfect

So I should add some substance to this blog, hopefully people will read it then!

Top Gear Round 1, the track is Lakeside International Raceway, home to the Australian Formula 1 championship in the 60's. Its amazing to say that I have raced around on a track that the likes of Sir Jack Brabham or Jackie Stewart have driven around in anger. Its the equivalent of saying I've raced the Melbourne GP after Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel have been around it. Off the bucket list - yup.

Even more amazing is, not only have I raced a track that a Formula 1 has been around, I have set consistently faster lap times around this very track than a 60's Formula 1 car. Back in the day this 2.41km track would take the best drivers in the world about 1m4sec to race around, as of my first round of the track this year I was completing a lap in about 57seconds, a world of difference in a race.

So racing around this track in my newly acquired Formula Ford (more on what this is later), I am completely over driving the car. In my helmet its rapidly getting tight as my head is expanding thinking I'm Michael Schumacher. Lakeside being the unforgiving yet extremely rewarding track that it is, will spit you up but not throw you out the other side, your car will be a crumpled wreck in some armco. So I'm going around eastern loop (2nd last corner) drop a rear wheel and I'm slingshotted straight into a wall. It all happens so quick the first time you crash; your on the track, then next thing you know your hand is broken, your legs and body are aching, and your being dragged out of the car by the paramedics. I had plenty of time to re-think what happened later.

The car wasn't in a nice way though. Though I kept a momento from this crash, my steering rack, its in my room - I'll frame it one day, it reminds me to keep my cool and a level head in everything I do, racing or otherwise.

Stay Quick.