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I knew I was getting ill but I pushed it aside until after my driving test. I failed my test Thursday afternoon, 2 am Friday I was a wreck. Shaking, violent cramps in my arms and legs, sweating like crazy while being absolutely freezing cold (fingers, toes and nose turning blue) mirgane, white spots in my vision. This continued all through Friday and then into Saturday. I felt a bit better by Saturday evening but had to go to my Gran’s and have Chinese food with my family. Which inevitably lead to “why don’t you have a boyfriend/job/social life etc” questions. All this while not actually being able to eat anything because I was going to throw the fuck up on everyone and not being able to actually sit at the table because the cramps in my legs made them spasm like crazy. Kicked my aunt’s dog in the face which was the high point of my evening. Unfortunately the doctors aren’t open until tomorrow so I have to get up at half 7 to phone to see if they have any appointments, if they do I will go and they will probably not tell me anything useful, if they don’t have any appointments for tomorrow I have to get up at half 7 on Tuesday and do exactly the same thing.
Today was fucking stunningly brilliantly glorious. Despite all the Health Bullshit oh holy fuck. All the most wonderful heart pounding insanely emotional moments of motor sport. Oh I know you don’t care but we had 8, fucking 8 champions crowned today. In the most wonderful, exciting races.
Formula One Suzuka is my well in my top five circuits of all time and this race is one of those that proves why. I got up for both the qualifying that didn’t happen and the one that did, despite feeling like shit, and I was damn glad I did. The race itself, I didn’t even care about the result that much because it was all such close racing, which despite everything there hasn’t been that much of this year, and Kobayashi was a fucking star. I am so so fucking wound up for the end of the season, I will be totally and utterly crushed when it’s over. But bring it on OH FUCK BRING IT ON.
MotoGP The supporting Moto2 race gave us our first champion of the day in the form of Toni Elias! I haven’t really followed Moto2 this year, only the odd race here and there and although I was too busy watching the F1 to see this race I am dead pleased Elias one it. In the MotoGP itself it was pretty much a done deal the Jorge Lorenzo would take the championship, but what a race to do it in! He’s one of those weird riders I don’t dislike but don’t actually support, but no one else stood a chance against him this year.
BRITISH TOURING CAR CHAMPIONSHIP most of you know about my epic and unending love for this series and its support races. There was not a single dull race. Not one. And there were A LOT of races (3 Touring Car races, 2 Porsche Carrera cup races, 2 Ginetta Junior races, 2 Ginetta G50 races, and 1 Formula Renault race). I won’t go into details about all the supports, each touring car races was good (when are they not) and as much as I dislike him Jason Plato drove two fantastic races to claim only his second title, but that third race, the no holds barred, flat out, end of season race was the fucking highlight of my day. Despite shivering madly, despite being dosed up with coffee despite eating nothing but bacon sandwiches for three days I was insanely insanely happy.
That is a full 13 hours worth of motorsport today, and I twittered nearly non-stop, I suspect everyone was throughly sick of me. I also don't care because wow. Just WOW
And lastly the full list of (and congratulations to) all the champions crowned today. Toni Elias (Moto2), Jorge Lorenzo (MotoGP), Frank Wrathall (Ginetta G50s), Tim Harvey (Porsche Carrera Cup), Tom Blomqvist (Formula Renault), Tom Ingram (Ginetta Juniors), Tom Chilton (British Touring Car Independent Champion) and Jason Plato (overall British Touring Car Champion)