Petrov replaces Trulli at Caterham

Caterham F1 announced last Friday what I’d previously scribbled ‘bout in Father Time; that veteran Italian Grand Prix driver Jarno Trulli has been pushed aside to make way for the upstart ‘Rooskie Formula 1 piloto Vitaly Petrov, who’ll make his Caterham debut at this week’s Barcelona winter test, having already had a seat fitting for the CT01.

Also, apparently of note comes the ‘lil trinket that Mike Gascoyne has been appointed Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Caterham Group, which opens the door for Mark Smith to assume this role for the Formula One operation, and perhaps, a glimpse into Gascoyne’s future role with the company? As I thought I’d read that Gascoyne would retire there...

NO word on whether or not thee Scrumptious ‘Juan will attempt following ‘Rubino and possibly Adrian “Bubbly” Sutil Across-the-Pond?

Why are there No Italian drivers in F1

Knaus caught Cheating - again; Stewart ‘Smokes ‘em; now all we need is a DannaCar update, right?

So I could only chuckle to myself over the announcement of Chad Knaus and Jimmie “Vanilla” Johnson being caught CHEATING for this year’s upcoming DayToner 500, when Tech Inspectors discovered that the No. 48’s C-post pillars didn’t quite conform to current COT regulations, having sent the offending sheet metal back to its R&D labs in Charlotte for further examination while letting the Hendrick team repair their chassis prior to this weekend’s upcoming Daytona.

Meanwhile apparently Tony “Smoke” Stewart decided racin’ really is rubbin’ when he decided to give Kurt “GFYS!” Busch a ‘LUV-tap and sent the elder Busch’s No. 51 spinning into the wall and causing a six-car pile-up during practice; with both Busch’s, i.e.; Kurt & Kyle, both Penske’s of Brad Keselowski and A.J. Allmendinger and Jeff “PrettyBoy” Gordon along with Stewart being involved, with Gordon’s car the only ‘Juan not incurring major damage, as the others will most likely be forced into backup’s for the Bud Shootout...

Now all we need is for an update on Queen DannaCar, as I’ve read that Princess Perma-pout cannot even find solitude in the bathroom, as some frenzied onlooker stalked her into the ladies room and patiently waited for her Highness to extricate herself from the commode before garnering her John Hancock...

And has anyone seen Mikey “Aw Shucks” Waltrip? As I think we needz Somme ‘Juan to hawk us some Ageless Male Sugar-pills, right? Oh Never Mind!

INDYCAR: Why does SFHR still NOT have an Engine?

DAMN YOU ‘DAWG!

As ‘Juan ‘O my countless stories under construction was to scribble my rendition of the Sarah Fisher story. You know the little team that could!

Thus instead of re-hashing what’s already been sniffed out by Pressdog, I’ll just leave you, me & Randy Bernard ponderin’ thee $64k question: Why DOESN”T Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing have a FREAKIN’ Engine signed, sealed ‘N delivered???

I mean really Chevrolet? You’re gonna supply FAST EDDIE but leave Sarah Fisher, arguably the antithesis ‘O red, white ‘N blue; baseball, wieners, IndyCar & Apple pie... With its American driver high ‘N dry on the sidelines... ro-ro, I see that the Mr. CandyMann negativity meter is startin’ to peg in the red here!

Sarah Fisher in Limboland

No Fenders Skate on thee State of the State of ‘IndyCarz...

So I couldn’t have planned it better if I’d tried, having been on ‘Holiday once again, this time in thee Valley ‘O the Sun, partaking in some R&R with thee FamDAMNil-lee... And hence I magically MISSED this year’s riveting State of the IndyCar Nation speech; HURRAH!

Thus I suppose I shouldn’t say much towards Mr. CandyMann’s feverish pitch he apparently laid on upon ‘Ye Faithful flock ‘O IndyCar devotees... ‘Uze know, those still remaining from the 15-20 MILLION LOST during that ‘lil thingy known as The Split!

Yet there’s ‘Juan thing that’s been sticking in my craw lately, that being Mr. Bernard’s pointed remarks towards us here in bloggerLand, when Randy recently told us to STOP being so NEGATIVE towards IndyCar and the general state of Open Wheel Racing; WTF? As my Pop’s has just reminded me of having a problema towards “Athortive” figures, especially including Bosses; YIKES! And thus Y’all may see my dilemma - especially since I DON’T like somebody telling me what to do; ‘nor how or what to poond aways upons my trusty keyboard for my ‘lil racing ‘BLOB thingy... Can you hear me now Mr. Bernard? As I find this almost as insulting as John Barnes ridiculous taunts towards us 40 ‘Somme-thuns with Cornfuzers, which I prattled on ‘bout in;

BarneSpeak: Fanbase Building 101

Now I have nothing against Mr. CandyMann, especially having lived thru the majority of the Championship Auto Racing Teams era, the IRL, albeit a firm & loyal devotee of CART and then Champ Car, with such dubious leaders as John Frasco, John Caponigro, who were both, removed in 1989. John Capels, William Stokkan - previously Playboy Enterprises head of Marketing & Licensing, followed by Andrew Craig who was also subsequently fired before interim leader “Booby Ruble,” aka Bobby Rahal watched CART ultimately flounder.

Then there were the Four Mouseketeers, nee Kevin “Smiley Face” Kalkoven, Gerald WWHAAAA!” Forsythe, Paul “Goofy” Gentilozzi and Dan Petitt, not to mention proposed CCWS savior Chris Pook, who managed to quickly burn thru Champ Cars $100 million “War Chest!” Whilst on the opposite side of the field we had such luminaries as ‘Ronnie (TG) George, BillyBob Brazenheartz (Brian Barnhart) Terry “Where’s duh Beef?” Angstadt and a host of others...

Thus ‘Juan can see that the Open wheel Racing leadership is littered with YES men who managed to run the sport into the ground and hence create a lasting air of negativity, which I believe is justly deserved and henceforth I’ll not shy away from continuing to throw out my two bits worth upon thee ‘Weave-uh-Sphere, got I-T Mr. Bernard? But I digress...

As I cannot say that I truly found anything massively riveting revealed during this Dog & Pony show, ‘cept Halleluiah! Princess Perma-pout wasn’t in the building for once; Hya! As it seems the biggest controversy’s surrounded the dumping of ‘LyndieCar by NBCSN along with the new & improved

Leader Card Circle

-program handout formulae... Hey Mr. Bernard, where’s my cheque? Hee-hee-hee...

As for Lindy Thackston’s dismissal from Pitlane reporting duties in favour of Townsend Bell, I cannot say too much ‘bout that - as I’m a Townsend Bell fan and unfortunately have always viewed female sideline reporters as well, uhm, you know... token appeasements to male and female TV viewers... Although I do have to agree it seems kinda twisted that the head Peacocks would be so contrite to dismiss a likeable female persona in a totally male dominated domain which could only have helped improved its sagging television ratings whilst new female racing drivers continue invading the Indy Car driver ranks; as I’ll leave it to that fine ‘KuhNaidiun lass Meesh to expound upon this. Although it seems to me that this gender divide won’t truly be broken until a woman ascends to the broadcast booth proper...

Dear NBC Sports: It wasn’t broke, so why did yuhs fix it?

As for the new & improved racing Stewards, you haveda wonder if there’s some clause stating that at least one Unser must be present at all times? Although I have absolutely nothing against Johnny Unser’s announcement, as he was overly pleasant towards Mwah when taking the time to give me his John Hancock after the world’s largest autograph session was over last May, also having nabbed The Flying Dutchman’s signature there too; OOPS! Am I name dropping here? And I guess I should have known who Gary Barnard is, since I’ve just learned he was an ex-CART/CCWS Steward; yet I guess he did his job summarily as well as Wally Dallenbach, (Sr.) Tony Cotman and Chris Kneifel - since I don’t recollect Barnard’s name from the past.

Yet all I really wanna know is what’ll happen when the other ‘BB, nee Beaux Barfield tells Arie Luyendyk to instant message ‘Ol ‘SuperTex to inform him Mike Conway’s being penalized; Hmm? What does Yuhs think Barfield will do if A.J. attempts another punch-up with Luyendyk, eh?

As for the potential Standing Starts, all I can say is - been there, done that! As once again whilst IndyCar continues shirking the Pacific Northwest, having once again given Portland’s past traditional Father’s Day weekend date to Milwaukee, its kinda funny to think I witnessed the first ever IndyCar standing start five years ago at Portland International Raceway’s Champ Car event with the Panoz DP-01...

Hey IndyCar - I think Portland’s still Available

Thus, I’m really NOT sure what if any? Overly important news came out of Randy Bernard’s speech, as I won’t be suitably impressed with the Indy Car Series until it returns to Portland, has REAL multiple chassis suppliers, i.e.; Eagle, Lola, Penske, Reynard and Swift propelled by a quartet of engine manufacturers racing on a balanced schedule of Ovals, Permanent Road Courses and Temporary Street Circuits with truly the best International drivers competing, which sounds like a past racing series; Oh Never Mind!

Swedish Speed Merchants (Con’t)

“Stevie Johnson,” aka Stefan Johansson

Continuing on with my past hunt for Swedish Open Wheel Racing standouts, I came up with a total of ten characters fitting this description, as we definitely “Brack” into the characters in this final portion of Icelandic ‘lore...

(6) Tommy “Slim” Borgudd

Series: F1

Teams: ATS; Tyrrell

Years: 1981-82

Wins: 0

Karl Edward Tommy Borgudd, better known as “Slim,” made his name originally as a Jazz/Rock Drummer - reputedly playing for the Bands Made in Sweden & Solar Plexus before garnering Fortune ‘N Fame as a Session Drummer for the ‘Mega Pop rock group ABBA...

Yet Borgudd also began dabbling in motor racing in the early 1960’s behind the wheel of a Lotus Formula ford before moving onto Swedish Touring Cars between 1972-75 - whilst claiming the Scandinavian Formula Ford series title in 1973. Slim than set about moving up the ladder and ultimately won the 1979 Swedish F3 Championship for his own concern behind the wheel of a Ralt-Toyota.

Unable to land a ride in F2 the following season, Borgudd made his Formula 1 debut for the Minnowesqe ATS F1 Team at the 1981 San Marino Grand Prix - having affixed ABBA logos to his chassis flanks in hopes of luring other sponsorships, albeit ABBA didn’t contribute any financial backing to the Percussionist turned Grand Prix racer...

Slim ultimately made ten Formula one race starts with his high point coming with a sixth-place finish at the 1981 British Grand Prix for ATS, where multiple drivers dropped out due to a plethora of mechanical maladies.

For the 1982 season “Uncle Chopper” (Ken Tyrrell) hired the ‘Swede as Eddie “The Great” Cheever’s replacement; upon Slim reputedly having “shined On;” Err shone up an Italian driver by the name of Michele Alboreto the year prior during qualifying, now his teammate at Tyrrell. Yet Borgudd didn’t exactly set the F1 world alight and was impolitely jettisoned from Ken’s team after that year’s USGP WEST race at Long Beach, the third of the season, as Slim’s money had run out! Subsequently being replaced by a British ‘Chap named Brian Henton...

Afterwards, Borgudd made a career out of Tin tops, most notably in Trucks, where he won three Championships, along with Saloon racing in the British and Swedish Touring Car Championships,  also participating in a “one-off” at the ’87 24 Heurs du Mans before ultimately retiring from Professional Motorsports in the mid-1990’s.

Having settled down in Coventry, ironically Messer Borgudd just celebrated his 65^th birthday this past November 25^th - now joining full Senior Citizenry status - while there’s NO word on whether or not he broke out the Drum kit and played “Will you still Need Me; Will you still Feed Me, when I’m 64?” Hoohah!

(7) Kenny Brack

Series: Indy Racing League; CART; IndyCar.

Teams: Galles Racing; A.J. Foyt Enterprises; Team Rahal; Target Chip Ganassi Racing; Rahal Letterman Racing.

Years: 1997-2003, 2005

Wins: 10

The ‘Brackster will always hold a special place in my memory banks – for two main reasons; as first he’s the only Big Name Indy Racing League driver I can think of who made the reverse switch, from the IRL to CART, when everyone else was going the opposite direction, albeit it may have not been his wisest career move?

Secondly, with my lucky choice of Kenny to my Chump Carz Fantasy Racing league, I ended up losing the title by a very scant 4-points in the final race at Fontana, as my success as runner-up was based largely upon Brack’s fantastic sophomore season (2001) for Team Owner   Bobby Rahal in that sharp lookin’ yellow & white Shell IndyCar...

But don’t forget that Kenny actually began his ‘Big Carz baptism under fire as a rookie for the faltering Galles Racing team in 1997 before moving onwards & upwards to A.J. Foyt’s team the following season - where he promptly won the Indy Racing League title.

Brack followed this up the next year by winning the B-I-G show, a.k.a. the Indy 500 - ‘Ol SuperTex’s (AJ Foyt) last time in Victory lane at the Speedway, albeit as a Team Owner in ’99. (As I seriously doubt that Foyt will ever win again at Indianapolis...)

And then Kenny made the most unusual move to CART the following season; Hmm? Perhaps he was getting’ fed-up with having to eat Chicken Fried steak, which is some of AJ’s favourite grub - Yuhs Hear? Hya!

Brack’s debut Championship Auto Racing Teams season driving for Meesh’s favourite Booby Ray-X; Err Bobby Rahal, saw the likeable ‘Swede paired with “MAD MAX” Papis.

In his sophomore season with Team Rahal, Brack had a breakout season by winning four races and finishing runner-up to eventual Champion Gil De Feran; taking his second consecutive Drivers crown for The Captain, nee Roger Penske. Kenny then moved onto TCGR and thee ‘Cheepster, a.k.a. Chip Ganassi; who’s got a very high level of expectation regarding his racing drivers... And hence, as apparently ‘Cheep didn’t think Brack was cutting the mustard, the ‘Swede’s CART career ultimately floundered, albeit winning the season finale for Ganassi in Mexico City before parting ways...

For ’03, Kenny returned to his old haunt, although now being known as Rahal Letterman Racing and residing in the rival IRL, where Bobby amongst other CART owners had defected too - where things didn’t go exactly Swimmingly... As Kenny was injured in a ‘Mega fence climbing accident at Texas World Speedway which recorded the highest ever G-Forces since the IRL began recording these. Spiking at a MASSIVE 214 G’s!!! As it would take Kenny 18-months to recover from his multiple injuries, with Brack’s RLR-seat being taken over by Buddy “HotRod” Rice, who’d go onto win the 2004 Indy 500.

Yet in another twist ‘O fate, or synchronicity; it would be none other then Brack who’d substitute for the defending Indy 500 winner the following May, as ironically Rice suffered major back injuries at you guessed IT! Texas World Speedway... Therefore it was a Cinderella story in the making when Kenny claimed that year’s fastest qualifying speed with a 4-lap average of 227.598mph. With Kenny’s run beating the Pole position speed set by TK “Follow-your-Schnoz” Kanaan’s 4-lap average of 227.566mph for the ’05 Indy 500, having qualified after Pole Day.

Yet it wasn’t to be thee ‘Brackster’s year - as the affable ‘Swede would retire from mechanical woes on Lap-92; and then retire from Open Wheel Racing. As his rookie female teammate named Danica Patrick stole ALL of that year’s Headlines, while Oh Yeah; somebody named Dan Wheldon actually WON the race!

Yet Kenny was lured out of retirement four year’s later to compete in Rally-X Games where he’d win a Gold medal and subsequently has dabbled in other Rally’s and Vintage Racing, including having co-driven a narly 427 Cobra recently at Goodwood with “Mr. LeMans,” aka Tom Kristensen...  

(8) Stefan Johansson

Series: F1 (CART & Sports Cars)

Teams: Shadow; Spirit; Toleman; Tyrrell; Ferrari; McLaren; Ligier; Onyx; AGS; Footwork.

Years: 1980, 1983-91

Wins: 0

Poor Stefan will forever be known to me as “Stevie Johnson,” courtesy of Randall – The Moniker King, who came up with this clever adaptation of the ‘Swede’s name during ‘Juan of  our yearly treks to Portland International Raceway.

Yet it’s kinda funny how I seemed to know just ‘Kibbles ‘N Bitz; Err bits & pieces of ‘SJ’s career, albeit having learned he’d filled in for some Hot-schue named Ayrton at Toleman, when the Brazilian was “Sat-down” for one race for breaking his contract to jump to Team Lotus - before Toleman ran into contractual dispute over its tyre supply in ‘85, leaving the Swede High ‘N Dry.

Stefan then substituted at Tyrrell for Stefan Bellof who’d fallen out of favour with “Uncle Chopper” (Ken Tyrrell) for the season opener at Brazil - before replacing Rene Arnoux at la Scuderia when the Frenchman was sacked by Scuderia Ferrari prior to the Portugal Grand Prix.

After two frustrating seasons of driving for il Commendatore, nee Enzo Ferrari - Johansson moved onto McLaren to partner “The Professor,” aka Alain Prost for 1987 where I first noticed Stefan’s name, although Stefan simply was Prost’s ‘Wingman keeping the seat warm for Senna...

And as I’ve previously mentioned, I first really took notice of Stevie-J’ aboard one of my favourites from the 1989 Iceberg GP at Phoenix, a very neatly penned Alan Jenkins chassis, the Onyx ORE 1-Ford/Cosworth DFR V-8... Yet I must admit I lost track of Stevie when he departed Onyx and didn’t take notice again ‘til his resurgence Across-thee-Pond in CART driving for Tony Bettenhausen’s Penske “B-Team” squad, i.e.; AMAX sponsored Penske/Chevrolet  racecars, in which Johansson won Rookie Of the Year (R.O.Y.) honours in ’92. As the Swede won his first CART Pole-position appropriately at Portland the following year, before eventually leaving CART after the 1996 season...

Yet Stevie-J’ did go onto a successful Sports Car career, winning le 24 Heurs du Mans in ’97 with ex-Ferrari teammate Michele Alboreto and “Mr. LeMans,” aka Tom Kristensen aboard the TWR “Open-top” Joest-Porsche, along with having won the 12-hours of Sebring earlier that year aboard a Ferrari 333SP.

Stefan has also previously ventured into Open Wheel Team Ownership roles twice, with a successful Indy Lights team, with somebody named Scott Dixon driving for him. Plus a one year Champ Car squad with Jimmy Vasser and rookie Ryan Hunter-Reay who took an opportunistic win for Stevie’s American Spirit Team Johansson at Surfers Paradise in the wet.

And I had the pleasure of briefly meeting Johansson at the 2011 Indy 500 World’s largest autograph session, whilst when not busy signing his John Hancock for admirers, manages IndyCar driver Scott Dixon along with designing his boutique watches.

As I’m certain he’s not too bummed over ‘Quick Nick (Heidfeld) breaking his record for F1 podiums without a victory, which was previously eleven before the German recorded his twelfth last year before being dumped by Lotus-Renault XP ‘Calladrocious...

(9) Bjorn Wirdheim

Series: F1, (Friday/Third Driver) Champ Car & Japanese Super GT

Teams: Jaguar & HVM Racing

Years: 2004-2005

Wins: 0

Bjorn began by racing Go-karts for five years, culminating with his winning of the Southern Sweden Championship at the age of 15. He then transitioned to single seaters, moving into the Formula Ford 1600 Junior series in ’96 – before winning the Championship in ’97 with a ‘Mega 17-victories...

For the 1998-99 seasons, Bjorn contested the Formula Palmer/Audi series before moving onto German Formula 3. Then in 2002 he switched once again, this time into International Formula 3000, the predecessor to today’s GP2 series. In his rookie campaign, he finished fourth overall + Rookie of the year with Arden International. The following year he was so dominating enroute to the Championship – that he broke Justin Wilson’s record points tally while becoming the series only ‘Swede to win the title, before signing as Jaguar Racing  F1’s third (Friday) driver, when the team was still owned by Ford.

For 2005 Wirdheim joined Keith Wiggin’s struggling HVM Racing Minnowesqe Champ Car Team and slogged his way thru 11-races before deciding to part company. Next he switched to Japan’s formula Nippon for 2-years and has most recently been competing in the Super GT series for Toyota...

And before Y’all say where’s No. 9, Number Nine, Number Nein? Uhm, I meant Bloody No. 10! As in Marcus ericsson, who I first became aware of in 2009; I’ve left the promising ‘Swede out as I’ve chronicled his pursuits in another riveting tale depicting my Young Guns of 2009 selections, YIKES!

Which if you’re still reading this elongated No Fenders tome? I’ll spin off Messer Ericsson and other current promising Swedes’ into another riveting No Fenders story on a further day…

 

(This Story was updated on: February 15, 2022)

Ode to DannaCar...

Toe to toe
Dancing very slow
Barely breathing
Almost comatose…

(pressdog!)

Wall to wall
People hypnotized
And they're stepping lightly
Hanging on her every move each night in Rapture

Back to back
Sacrailiac
Spineless movement
And a wild attack

Face to face
Sadly solitude
And it's finger popping

Twenty-four hour shopping

In ‘DannaCar Land!

“Flavour Flav HMS Monogram told me everybody's high
DJ's spinning' are saving' my mind
Flash is Fast, Flash is cool
Jacke Vanilla sez fast, Flashe' no do

And you try to stop

((Watching’ MAC Montoya, Sam Hornish & ALL those Open Wheel DEFECTORS!)

SURE SHIT!

Just go out to the parking lot
Get in your car and you drive real far

Away from the track!

After you drive all night, you see a bright flashing light

And it comes right down and lands on the ground
And out pops a Girl in a shiny sequin bathing suit from RASSCAR!

And you try to run but She's got a gun
And She shoots you dead and “She eats your head
And then you're in the Girl from RASSCAR!

You go out at night, eatin' Racecars

 You eat Marches, Reynard’s, Swift’s and Panoz’s too…

And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' Single Seaters
Then, when there's no more Racecars left
You go out at night and eat up Open Wheel Racing series instead

Like Champ Car and the IRL

While ‘Ol timers desperately cling to fantasies of a renaissance…

Face to face, dance cheek to cheek

One to one, man to man
Dance toe to toe
Don't move to slow, 'cause the Girl from RASSCAR is cutting thru

(Excuse me HULIO!)

But Mrs. Hospenthal is through with the competition

‘cause She's been eatin' a ton ‘O snicker bars
Yeah, wall to wall, door to door, hall to hall
She's gonna eat 'em all
Rapture…

Be pure
Take a tour; through the sewer
Don't strain your brain

Just check out that Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue instead!

And then say it real fast

Boog-itee- Boog-itee- Boog-itee!

Paint a train, cause you’ll be singing' in the rain

If dare ain’t some ‘Tin Tops on real soon
I say stop throwin those mountain dew cans at Pretty Boy Floyd

Junior Nation!

Just be good ‘ol boyzs and cheer for ‘dannaCar instead!

Well now you see what you want to be

Just like Mike, who’s trying to pump up ‘Dem Spin-Car ratings on TV
'Cause the Girl from RASSCAR won't eat Candy bars when She’s PEAK-ing

In the bright lights…

As now She's gone back up to MARS Where She won't have a hassle with the human race ‘cause now its ‘DannaLand!

And you hip-hop, and you don't stop
Just blast off, sure shot
'Cause the Girl from RASSCAR stopped eatin' Racecars
And now She only devours IndyCar

get up; ‘Cause She’s gone HOLLYWOOD!

(Original lyrics: Blondie; Rapture)

Balderdash?

So, if the Weathermen were correct... Cymbal crash please! As what’s that saying ‘bout the Weather-people being correct 50% of the time, eh? Thus, on Wednesday, there were early predictions of rain turning to SNOW forecasted for Sunday, which then was pushed forward to Saturday afternoon instead - when those upstart San Francisco 49ers were en route to defeating the Nawlin’s Saints Pre-Souper Dooper bowl XL VI...

Which if Y’all aren’t familiar with, when it snows in Seattle, we become not only Sleepless; BUTT! Totally unable to drive in the white stuff, i.e.; SNOW; as our city comes to a virtual standstill; CRIKEYS! As after all, how can you expect Ye Mayor “McSchwinn” to ride his bicycle in the snow, right?

And although the buses are theoretically safer due to their metal canopies; they certainly DON’T slide nearly as well as sleds or toboggans! As I inadvertently titled my riveting weather story Snow-Muh-Getton; Hya!

Thus, what better way for me to craftily weave my long neglected Swedish Speed Merchants stories into my ‘lil “BLOB” thingy - according to the great ‘Aunty Harriet, eh?

Since while being “Snowed IN” for ‘Juan-week, I flashed back to my most amusing adventure of going to Sweden for the very first time, when some ‘lil Volcano activity made life exhilarating for thousands of Air travelers! And since it was even cold when I went there in May, therefore this just re-enforced my typical thoughts towards Sweden; as in gobs ‘O white stuff, i.e.; snow, snow and more snow: Ya Sure Yuh Betcha!

Not to mention “Proper” World Rally Cars pinballin’ therez ways off of endless Snow banks while induced in ‘Mega four wheel drifts... Of which I’ll be most interested to read about how Nasser Al-Attiyah does this weekend in the Swedish Rally, his debutant WRC outing - which seems pretty amusing since I DON’T think they ever get SNOW in Qatar, eh?

So there’s the set-up; Err wind-up and here’s duh pitch... Or is that Snowball, eh? As let it SNOW in Sweden - but NOT in Seattle; Hya! As I’d better go play in the snow before it melts; since Seattle just recorded its WARMEST day of the year with an unseasonably balmy 58deg-f on Feb 4^th; Oh-Oh, I’M MELTING...

NOTE

This riveting story about Seattle’s Snow Blindness was obviously scribbled before your humble No Fenders scribe read about the sub ZERO Arctic weather currently causing havoc, death & mayhem in Russia and Europe...