It's a struggle sometimes.

Formula 1 eh?  The pinnacle of motorsport.  Awesome stuff.  In an absolutely mind-numbing sort of way.  I get that Mr pointy-finger Vettel is a very good driver, and a likeable bloke, in the best car, but there comes a time when people just stop sitting down to watch it.  The engineering in the car is so good that it's borderline cheating, and it's incredibly reliable - except with his teammate whose relative number of car failures and pit-lane stuff ups is moderately statistically mysterious.  I think the wisest course is just to ignore the wunderkind completely and pretend that the championship and each race is just for 2nd.  Right, that whinge is out of the way.

 

There's two races to go in this F1 season, and they are both wee hours local time events.  I may or may not arise at the required pre-dawn times.  Kimi is out until 2014 out after a well timed back operation and is replaced by Heikki - for who the alarm clock may well be obeyed.  Mr Webber is down to his last two races before heading to Le Mans-land - it will be sad to see him go.  The intricacies, subtleties and rumor that is the F1 costume-drama circus have become rather more distracting this year:  there has been Pastor vs Williams, Sergio vs McLaren, Kimi vs Lotus, Felipe vs Ferrari, and probably Mark vs RBR.  There's also the complete lack of any wet races, and the stewards' penchant towards pathetically over-spanking all minor misdemeanors.  Whatever happened to racing?  Bring on the next turbo era!

Now the other motorsport that graces our TV is the one without two too many wheels.  No, not MotoGP, but the SBK Tom Sykes show!  OK, so Motos 1-3 did get watched and Marc the genuine niño prodigio kicked butt.  I'm not sure who we were wanting to win the title - with the exit of Mr Stoner, I don't think we cared.  But the racing quality was always there - with any of the three Spaniards capable of winning any race.  The aging Mr Rossi still appears to enjoy riding around, but his presence does rob us of a real 4th title contender.   New rules and new bikes might bring it alive again next year.  Hopefully.

Mr Sykes on his Ninja.  For the first time in twenty years, Kawasaki did it!  Way cool.  It made 2013 all worthwhile.  This means I will definitely buy that ZX10.