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DRIVE WELL, MARCOS
A sweet gesture from Australian NASCAR competitor Marcos Ambrose:
Truck racer Marcos Ambrose has dedicated today’s race to two of his Australian countrymen, “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin, who was killed Sept. 4 when he was pierced in the chest by a stingray’s barb, and rally driver Peter Brock, who died Sept. 8 when his car crashed into a tree.
Brock was a little more than merely a “rally driver”. In other automotive news, the Wogblogger (an obsessive Brock fan) is currently racing through Rouen in a Maxda MX5. Next stop: some other place in France. Click for quality insights into French road design and British negativity.
casanova—I would recommend driving around France if at all possible, but the Mediterranean and Belgium are in the way.
The beer’s better in Czechoslovakia and the women are prettier. Not to mention the hygiene and attitude.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 09 16 at 03:53 PM • permalinkFunnily enough, a colleague of mine in the UK said to me a week or two ago that he’d heard a famous Australian rally driver died, but he couldn’t remember his name. It must have been reported this way overseas.
Posted by Blithering Bunny on 2006 09 16 at 08:39 PM • permalinkI was a guest of “Team Australia” yesterday at a race near Tokyo. (It was a 4 hour endurance race for auto journalists, with all the teams driving factory-prepped MX-5s). Their car had “In Memory of Peter Brock” painted on the front. Sadly they ran out of fuel a few laps shy of the finish, after running strongly all day.
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Hmmm, could think of worse things to do than drive around France.. Although when we visited Europe a couple of years back I asked Hertz, or some rental company, how much it would cost to hire a car to drive from Paris to Berlin (do a bit of sightseeing along the way etc) and when converting to Aussie dollars it amounted to something like $1,200!!!!
In the US when we visited we were used to rental cars costing a couple of hundred bucks for a week or so!!!