2006 Chiltie Award Winner: MACCA

I can now reveal that after much soul searching, result tallying, coin tossing and bung accepting - Chris Mack is awarded the 2006 Chiltie Award.

Macca, weeks after being hospitalised by a small mammal, was back with the Bryson Boys for the Fifth Annual Le Mans expedition.

Anyone who has ever made the trip to the Circuit de la Sarthe will know that it is tiring enough on foot, on crutches it must have been hell. Of course he had brought a wheelchair to ease the strain on his arms, although after an encouter with a shark at the local Carrefour and a 17 mile treck to watch a soccerball game - the wheels fell off!

On the bright-side he came home strong enough to bench-press an Intercity 125, an event which was to cause sevire delays on the East Coast Mainline.

So well done to Macca for showing us the meaning of indefatigable, or at least pointing us in the direction of the dictionary to look it up for ourselves.

One very tiny certificate is on it's way.

Clay Regazzoni

It is with sadness tonight I have heard of the Death of former GP driver Clay Regazzoni. He had been involved in a car accident on Friday.

Regazzoni scored five Grand Prix victories, including the maiden victory for the Williams team, the 1979 British GP at Silverstone.

Clay took part in 132 Grands Prix for Ferrari, BRM, Ensign, Shadow & Williams. His most successful season was in 1974, when racing for the Scuderia he conquered the mighty Nordschlieffe en route to 2nd place in the Drivers Championship.

Our thoughts will be with his family this Christmas

Champion of Champions

Congratulations to Mattias Eckstrom for clinching the 2006 Race of Champions title at the Stade de France in Paris.

Eckstrom beat rally legend Sebastian Loeb 2-0 in the final, including one race in Loeb's own Citroen Xsara WRC car.

But the most exciting news of the day was that the 2007 festival of motorsport will be crossing the channel to the new Wembley Stadium. Definately one for the diary!

Happy Non-Demominational Annual Winter Festive Time Off Work!!

It's that time of year again. Children are smilling (because they've just happyslapped Santa), The snows are falling (possibly in Norway, but it's pissing down here!), and we offer tidings of peace and goodwill to all man (unless he's about to buy the last robotic dinosaur in the shop in which case it's all fair game!)

I believe that the traditional image of Christmas never existed outside of cheesy cards, cartoons and Charles Dickens novels in which everybody was called Mister Snigglebottom. In reality Christmas for me involves getting drunk and watching telly, usually while attempting to fathom the latest electronic gizmo with which you cannot comprehend how you managed to suvive all those years without.

And of course to make sure that you get yourself down to the shops to purchase these gizmos the Christmas decorations are put up in Mid June, and the Carolers start going door to door long before the clocks go back. Of course all this commercialism means that by the time The Queen makes her annual festive address to the nation, you are one play of "Last Christmas" by Wham! away from complete mental breakdown.

Then after 6 months of Build-up and one Dr Who special - it's all over!

The Tree comes down, your Gizmo is thrown in a drawer to never be seen again, and your Credit Card company break your legs for non-payment.

But still I had a week off work, and it's only six months until it starts all over again!