Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Hello!

Welcome to my blogthing!

I'm still not sure why I'm doing this or if I'll think of enough to put in here to make it worth reading - we shall see. Maybe I've been too influenced by some other blogs and thought "hey, I can do that". Maybe without so much of the humour but I'll give it a shot. Truth is I have no idea how this will turn out. A decade in newsgroups should hopefully help.

So a little about me:

I'm 28 years old, a menial office worker in a small town in Dorset, a county in southern England. I work in accounts and am about to embark on the 3rd year of a three year part-time accountancy course, so blog posts could be intermittant especially near exam time.

I've been watching F1 since I was a small child. Earliest motorsport memory is the Marlboro McLarens dominating the racing and my constant disappointment that Mansell couldn't always keep up. Later, in the mid-90s, that changed to Hill and the awful reliability of his Williams when he was in the #0 car.

Since 1998 I've been reading Autosport magazine and can therefore be classified as a motorsport nerd. A little later, 2000 I think, I got access to Eurosport and watched my first CART races - and my first oval races. Blown away, been a fan of US open-wheel ever since but haven't always been able to watch due to moving around and not being able to afford the satellite/cable setup.

Then in 2007 I discovered the means to watch not only Champ Car (as it had become) and IRL (despite my opposition to it until that point), but a whole lot of other stuff. BTCC. DTM. Sportscars.

That's when the obsession took over.

That's when I started watching Too Much Racing.

For the record I am a fan of racing more than any particular team or driver.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Welcome to the blogosphere!

signed "other"

hehehe!

Pat W said...

Wow a comment and I haven't even written anything yet!
Thanks.