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kiroquai

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My best mate who I've known since 1990, went to school with and then lived next door to has worked there for the past eight seasons. Really proud of the stuff they've achieved, especially given how it was looking over the winter of 2008. As soon as I saw the Autosport report about Honda pulling out I flicked onto Facebook and his status was 'the dream's over'. Has been a long and exciting road back since :).

Was lucky enough to be invited to the factory race screening for Brazil 2009. Was there when Jenson crossed the line and was the first and only time I've ever seen aforementioned chum shed tears. Then we went and got so drunk people forgot I didn't work there and kept shaking my hand and congratulating me :lol:

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kiroquai

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:)

An amazing year, and was really fortunate to be able to experience various little parts of it by proxy. Apart from the above two other bits stand out. We'd bought some beers to toast the team getting onto the grid at Melbourne; as it turned out as soon as my mate got back from the factory we were drinking those beers in the car park of our block of flats to celebrate a 1-2. It was about 8am and it was pretty bloody cold, but we didn't give a damn it was great moment.

And then also the end of the season, too. Standing in the factory car park at the end of the Brazil race hearing drivers going past on the A43 sounding their car horns to acknowledge what had just happened (either that or there was a serious case of road rage in Brackley that night). I'd been an F1 fan since I'd known my mate anyway and there we were, some twenty years after we had met, having gone through school together, stayed in contact while he went to Uni and then ended up living next door to each other some 100 miles north of where we grew up. There we were standing in the car park of the 2009 World Champions, me not quite believing where I was and that I had been allowed to be there at all and him having come from almost losing his dream job after two dreadful years to being able to say that he was part of a championship winning Formula One team.

We'd played loads of co-op seasons on Grand Prix 2, 3 and 4 growing up and imagined how awesome it'd be if one day we'd be team mates in F1 winning races and stuff. That didn't happen - he had the talent but not the money to even get started, I probably didn't have the talent, definitely didn't have the money and I was far too tall anyway. Still, in a way we'd kind of made it as close as we were ever going to get to matching what we'd dreamt about as kids.

Still very vivid memories, and will no doubt remain so.

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^^ I'm sure they won't complain if it's really "first".

Can I just point out I said that the Caterham in testing had mysteriously cleared some space that was previously occupied by Air Asia and that I wondered if it meant they had another sponsor to announce.

I will now be slightly smug.

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Excellent move by Caterham there. I do believe it was smart to have Trulli in the team whilst they were starting up, but he's never really been amazing on the circuit. Admittedly neither is Petrov, but he's shown a bit more fight about him than Trulli has.

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