Australians are a narrow-minded parochial bunch of muppets.
Yesterday Renault driver (and Oxforshire resident) Fernando Alonso became the youngest ever double-world champion in the history of the Formula One World Championship.
Renault also retained the constructors' trophy, becoming only the 7th team in history to win successive constructors' titles, and only the 5th team in history to achieve the 'double double', successive driver's AND constructors' titles.
They managed to beat the might of Ferrari and Michael Schumacher, despite that fact that Ferrari's budget is 2-3 times larger than Renault's, the FIA is fully behind the Ferrari team and dished out several dubious judgements and penalities to Renault over the course of the season, and the fact that Michael Schumacher is a dirty cheating mongrel (at least on the track.. in private life and at work I've heard he's quite nice).
You would think after this monumentous, history-breaking achievement that my inbox and phone would have been bombarded with congratulations and best wishes.
But no... I received one email (thanks Marc) and one SMS (thanks Nicole). Thank you to the both of you.
To the rest of you myopic narrow-minded kangaroo shaggers, you were probably too busy watching Big Brother, voting for John Howard, or watching cane-toad racing or AFL footy or whatever quaint local customs that manage to keep your interest these days.
Shame Australia shame.
I'll have you know that the leading story on BBC Radio Oxfordshire (yes.. regional radio in England) was 'Oxfordshire has a new world champion today... Fernando Alonso ..etc.' In fact, our head of operations was interviewed on radio, and employees at Enstone were invited to phone-in/SMS to let them know what the spirit at the factory was like.
Of course, we aren't allowed to do this, that's why Renault F1 has a press/PR department.. but the thought was nice.
It's quite galling when my local newspaper, the 'Banbury Cake' has more F1/motorsport news in it that an Australian national broadsheet.
It's nice to be living in a country where my achievements are widely reported and clearly are of interest to some people.
Renault also retained the constructors' trophy, becoming only the 7th team in history to win successive constructors' titles, and only the 5th team in history to achieve the 'double double', successive driver's AND constructors' titles.
They managed to beat the might of Ferrari and Michael Schumacher, despite that fact that Ferrari's budget is 2-3 times larger than Renault's, the FIA is fully behind the Ferrari team and dished out several dubious judgements and penalities to Renault over the course of the season, and the fact that Michael Schumacher is a dirty cheating mongrel (at least on the track.. in private life and at work I've heard he's quite nice).
You would think after this monumentous, history-breaking achievement that my inbox and phone would have been bombarded with congratulations and best wishes.
But no... I received one email (thanks Marc) and one SMS (thanks Nicole). Thank you to the both of you.
To the rest of you myopic narrow-minded kangaroo shaggers, you were probably too busy watching Big Brother, voting for John Howard, or watching cane-toad racing or AFL footy or whatever quaint local customs that manage to keep your interest these days.
Shame Australia shame.
I'll have you know that the leading story on BBC Radio Oxfordshire (yes.. regional radio in England) was 'Oxfordshire has a new world champion today... Fernando Alonso ..etc.' In fact, our head of operations was interviewed on radio, and employees at Enstone were invited to phone-in/SMS to let them know what the spirit at the factory was like.
Of course, we aren't allowed to do this, that's why Renault F1 has a press/PR department.. but the thought was nice.
It's quite galling when my local newspaper, the 'Banbury Cake' has more F1/motorsport news in it that an Australian national broadsheet.
It's nice to be living in a country where my achievements are widely reported and clearly are of interest to some people.
posted by PG at 11:23 AM
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