Petrolheads

This week I had my first encounter with Racemax, a motorsports round-up programme shown on Sky Sports. It's one of those shows which are unintentionally thought-provoking, in that you start worrying about the future of mankind.

Sidecar racing (from the Waganui Chronicle Website)

It's hard to know, for example, whether the person who decided that the world needed a Formula 1 for 5.5 tonne trucks deserves a medal or a brain scan. And if you were trying to come up with a new sport and alighted on racing motorbikes and specially crafted sidecars around a cemetery in New Zealand, sorry to break it to you, but someone's done it already. And lastly, if you want to give the impression that someone in the Mercedes F1 team hasn't quite grasped the meaning of irony, stick Nico Rosberg in a rainforest and have him discuss climate change before jetting off halfway across the world to drive really fast for 50 laps.