Don't look up


Sometimes all life is rosy. Everything is going along smoothly, the sun is shining and the birds are singing. Unfortunately, look up at the wrong moment and those same birds are likely to deposit something unpleasant in your eye. And so it was this past weekend. There I was at the Goodwood Festival of Speed showing off the Ford IosisMAX concept car and chatting to, on the whole, some lovely members of the public. Over in the paddocks sat the one of the vehicles I'm responsible for. The car won the 1995 London to Mexico race and has had several outings since, all with barely a scratch. So it was with no concern at all I sent it to Goodwood to be driven the relatively safe, 1.16 mile, uncluttered hill climb course that is the spectacle of the weekend. You can probably guess what happened next. Thankfully, it was the car's last run of the weekend but suffice to say those birds were circling overhead - http://tinyurl.com/nunz6t
I guess I really should be upset but the crash gained more publicity for the car than if it had completed the run. And the driver???? Well he's a motoring journalist at ........no that would be telling too much.

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