I am sat in a hotel room in Tokyo and I have a flight back home tomorrow. This gives me chance to update this blog. At Suzuka we celebrated 200 races in the WTCC and I have been working at 70% of them. I can,t even calculate how many hours and kilometres that we have driven the trucks and how many times we have loaded and unloaded our cars and equipment in the containers. The WTCC has changed over the years, including a single season
in 1987, a World Touring Car Cup held between 1993 and 1995 and recently as a world championship that started in 2005. You can watch a great little video on the WTCC website of the races since 2005. Please click on the link below.http://www.fiawtcc.com/videogallery/detail/id/1035/
It is also my 100th blog post so it is a double celebration. I hope you have taken time to read them all.
The paddock in Suzuka was as busy as ever on the Sunday evening. Thankfully, the Truckies and the teams only had to load the cars and equipment into the containers at the back of each garage.
NO AIR FREIGHT.... Makes everybody HAPPY.
It was interesting watching some of the Chinese teams load their containers as they seemed to be watching how the regular teams were doing it and they tried to do the same. They obviously felt that they could learn something from us and I hope that it made their work a little bit easier.
With only 2 more races before the season finishes in Macau, we are still very busy when we are not racing. The sporting regulations for 2014 mean that new cars have been built or they presently under construction. As well as this, there has also been the tyre testing for the new 18 inch wheels. We may even be going to some different circuits next year as Citroen would like a race close to France. Maybe we will go to Le Castellet or even Spa Franchorchamps. It would be nice if we could use the full length Suzuka GP circuit in 2014 but this would mean that the television company has to find alot of extra money for all the additional tv cameras. As with everything in the world of motorsport, we will have to wait and see.
It was good to see so many race fans in Japan. They reckon over 30000 people came to watch. Brilliant.
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GET WELL SOON.