Whilst at the races I phoned a friend to see if he was at Newmarket. He wasn’t because he was in Tenerife on holiday.
When I got home, I felt I ought to send him a text to keep him up-to-date on the situation with the flights. He knows that I used to fly a lot and I’d flown with him several times, so he would have thought I could have a bit more information. So this is what I said.
I wasn’t on the ball this afternoon. You’re in Tenerife and the planes aren’t flying. So I rang an old flying friend at Heathrow Air Traffic and asked him what he thought. He reckons that the weather is stuck and the volcano will get worse and planes are unlikely to fly to the UK for at least 14 days. Phone for more details.
I think he swallowed it. At least he phoned friends at home and told them he’d be back late.
I hope that I didn’t get the 14 days right.
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I’ve just seen rather a spectacular crash during practice for the Shanghai Grand Prix on the BBC.
Sebastien Buemi escaped unhurt after the front wheels flew off his Toro Rosso car in a dramatic crash unhurt during Chinese Grand Prix practice.
The Swiss, 21, careered off the track at the end of the long back straight, where cars are doing about 194mph.
Buemi, clearly shaken, vented his anger at his team on his return to the pits.
Toro Rosso said the crash had been caused by a failure if the front-right upright, which caused an immediate failure of the same part on the left.
The BBC has a video here.
It would appear to be a pretty bad design failure, as the uprights didn’t seem strong enough.
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