Work Talk

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Chihuahua Bananas mmm


Them: Do you have any Chihuahua Bananas?
Me: You mean Chiquita Bananas?
Them: Those are the ones!

Shame we don't carry both kinds, they look downright tasty don't they?


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F1 Weekend!

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For those few of us in the United States that actually pay any attention to F1 racing Sunday was a prime example of why the rest of the country doesn't. The sport has never been able to grab any sort of share in the world's biggest sport market because of a few factors. The most important is that we have a large amount of home brewed motor sports Nascar, CART, etc... F1 to Nascar is somewhat akin to a game of chess to playing cowboys and indians. In oval racing there are constant lead changes, contact, and rednecks that spray beer everywhere when they win. F1 on the other hand, while exciting for the speed and turns, has very few passes and when contact is made usually things fall apart.

A little backing on what happened. Apparently Michelin decided a couple days before race day that the tires it had provided the 7 teams using their make with were unsafe on the speedway. Various different compromises were considered, the most popular of which seemed to be installing a chicane on corner 13 to slow the cars. From looking at this it seems like a fairly easy thing to do, so why not?

Well for the better part of the year the teams running on Bridgestone tires have been consistently behind because their tires just weren't up to the quality of the Michelin teams. Now that the shoe's on the other foot they should modify the track? That's insane. For those of you who need an analogy consider this. New England Patriots vs Philadelphia Eagles in the 2005 Superbowl. Eagles forget to bring their gear. So we can still play, but umm... no tackling. Instead just ask the opposing player to stop politely... but firmly.

A lot of people are blaming Ferrari and the FIA, which quite honestly I consider retarded. Blame Michelin. This is 100% their fault. Their sole responsibility is making a tire that will last the race. They failed and they shuttled the blame in every direction. Blame the other 7 teams. They could have raced with speed restrictions in turn 13 but that wasn't good enough, because they couldn't win like that. Well, bitch at Michelin, not at anyone else. They could have raced for points but instead they pulled a Tyson and refused to even give it a go.

Congrats to all of F1 though, I'm sure this does wonders to the North America battle versus Nascar. I expected a fantastic race and ended up with a feeling that I had been a fan of a really large European go-kart league.

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