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We Are The Champions

Brawn GP has finally done it. From being on the scrapheap at the beginning of the season, for sale as low as $1, Brawn GP has finally managed to become the first ever team to win the World Constructors Champion on debut. All credit goes to Ross Brawn and his team for reinventing a back-of-the-grid team like Honda F1 to a worthy championship winning team, all in a month or so, without the millions of dollars of research and technology to support them.

I'm sure that in the future many will be studying this as an example of how it doesn't take millions of dollars and bleeding-edge technology to be the best in F1. For now, it is sweet victory to be savoured at Brackley, and after all those months of worrying over whether they were going to have jobs to support their families and send their kids to school, the team thoroughly deserves it.

Lewis Hamilton with The Stig

Fernando to move to Ferrari in 2010

Ferrari has announced that their 2010 driver line-up includes Fernando Alonso. For Alonso, what more could he ask for? Fernando is already 28, competing against much younger drivers in a sport where younger drivers hungry for success keep continuously entering the arena. For Fernando, this could be his last big chance to earn a third Drivers' title and enter the history books for a place alongside the legendary Michael Schumacher, Juan Manuel Fangio, Ayrton Senna, Nelson Piquet Sr., Alain Prost, Jack Brabham, Niki Lauda and Jackie Stewart, all F1 drivers who have achieved the title three times. Two-time title winners like Emerson Fittipaldi or Jim Clark are not really that known or remembered, except for Mika Hakkinen who had the fortune to be rated by Herr Schumacher as the toughest driver he drove against. Alonso too stole the title from right under the King's nose, but the Red Baron didn't grant Alonso the same honours as he did Hakinnen. MS has now revealed that he was part of the decision to sign Alonso on at Ferrari.

Fernando's best chance at a third world title is here and now. Micheal Schumacher is still with Ferrari, albeit in an advisory position. Together, they could work together to get even more titles for Ferrari. The world's best racing drivers are now officially teammates at the most successful team in F1 history. Can't wait to see what 2010 has in store.

2010 : Dream Team at Ferrari?

Marriages are made in heaven, after all

I just attended a friend's wedding the other day. It was held at a quaint little church by the waterside. Sanfred was looking handsome as always, while his bride looked like an angel.

The crowd was just about the right size, with only those who genuinely cared to be there at their wedding being present in attendance, instead of every known person attending. It was far from The Big Fat Indian Wedding that one is normally accustomed to. And it was a very pleasant change.

The food was great, the music was excellent. Everything was just so perfect.

It was a piece of heaven, then and there.

I realised, for the first time, that marriages truly are made in heaven, and for me it wasn't simply an over-used cliche anymore.

To put it in one word, it was beautiful. In the true sense of the word.