UKGPL Season 23 (2012) - Monza - Dec 21

[EvilClive]

I guess I should apologise for my less than enthusiastic involvment in these 2 races, but I plead "fatigue".

In the line of business, I was "forced" to attend the Mclaren Christmas party at their Headquarters on Thursday evening and suffer free food, a firework display, a presentation of raffle prizes by Mr Dennis himself..OH! and of course I had to walk around all of those Mclaren cars. From the 70's right through the Senna era and up to the current F1's all parked around where I was on duty....sigh! life is tough .
 
Probably the worst aspect was being alongside the Free Bar  and having to stay sober for the drive back afterwards whilst just about everyone else indulged. By the time we had packed up and found our way out of Woking it was Friday before I got home and I still had to go to work Friday morning....everyone say "awwww" 

I can feel the waves of sympathy washing over me and I am sure you can understand why I was so knackered for the Monza races.

[maddog]

I thought Badblood promised such treatment for Championship winners only!

[Ronniepeterson]

I guess I should apologise for my less than enthusiastic involvement in these 2 races, but I plead "fatigue".

In the line of business, I was "forced" to attend the Clarine Christmas party at their Headquarters on Thursday evening and suffer free food, a firework display, a presentation of raffle prizes by Mr Dennis himself..OH! and of course I had to walk around all of those Clarine cars. From the 70's right through the Senna era and up to the current F1's all parked around where I was on duty....sigh! life is tough .
 
Probably the worst aspect was being alongside the Free Bar  and having to stay sober for the drive back afterwards whilst just about everyone else indulged. By the time we had packed up and found our way out of Woking it was Friday before I got home and I still had to go to work Friday morning....everyone say "awwww" 

I can feel the waves of sympathy washing over me and I am sure you can understand why I was so knackered for the Monza races.

Back in the day I used to work for Serono Diagnostics based on the Woking Business Park where Mclaren are based. I could bore you with many stories but a couple that spring to mind are me beavering away in the lab one day only to look up at the window to find Mika Hakkkinen watching my every move, David Coulthard turning up in a Mclaren courtesy car and reversing into a parked car, oh yeah and Ron Dennis  giving us a Quality Management presentation early 1992. After extolling the virtues of the Mclaren car and Ayrton Senna, someone piped up from the back with yeah but Williams and Mansell are gonna kick your arse! Mr Dennis was not a happy bunny    

[BadBlood]

Bug**r, missed this .  I didn't read the post properly, I thought the race was on Sunday .

D'oh - me too and now I am not around for Sunday