More news from the factory.

The local BBC News in Oxford had a story on Renault the Monday morning after the championship win. As it happened I left the pub in Wootton about five minutes before the press showed up. Nice to see that my local regional network takes Formula One more seriously that Channel 10 does back in Australia. But I suppose things could be worse.. the way things are heading in Australia now with media ownership, the only things you'll ever be able to find out about are if Jessica Rowe is still pregnant and who got turkey slapped on Big Brother this year.

Heaven forfend if a couple of miners get stuck down a mine the same week that Aliens land in downtown Tokyo...you'd only get two seconds of footage before they cut back to Eddie McGuire.

But don't blame me, I voted for the other mob.

Oh well... anyway here is the clip.



Alonso visited the factory today, you can read about it here :

Autosport.com

See if you can spot me in the photo!













So what was it like to come into work after we've won both world championships? Rather bizarre to say the least. The security guard at the gate was very glad to see me and gave me the big thumbs up at 7:15 am.

We had an extra hour off for lunch, where we all went down to the pub. Lunch was free in the canteen.. a roast with free wine. Then we had a couple of rounds of champagne.. I've never drunk so much at work before! But things settled back into the groove quite quickly.. apparently last year it was a lot crazier... I suppose it's just business as usual now. Everyone at the factory is pretty-much flat out getting next year's car ready. Apparently when Honda won their first race earlier this year the whole factory took the day off!