"I was dreaming like a Texan girl..."

Watching the late night Indycar coverage (as I would recommend you all do too) and I must say that I found it rather cute that the commentators felt the need to reassure the viewing audience that it's 'okay' when Danica Patrick drops a place or two. I also find it amusing that the gents in the series are generally referred to either by their full name or surname; it seems the commentators are all on first name terms with Ms. Patrick. I would personally really like 'Danica' to do well, I think she's a talented chick, but I'm worried that unless she converts her talents into a win soon the media fuss will die out. I hope she makes the most of this period where everyone in the world seems slightly smitten with her.

As an aside, someone tell me what the merit is in indycar.com providing a 750-odd megabyte file (that I expected to be an hour long full race highlights show) which is simply 4 minutes of ridiculously high quality video. Watching the sparks fly at Texas is lovely in high quality, but seriously, I'd rather see action above visual clarity.

I genuinely hope Codemasters get a decent set of physics stuck to the Indycar component of Race Driver 3, I was a bigger fan of Indycar Series 2005 than most (yes, even on the PS2) and it has that edge of absolute warp-speed insanity that NASCAR lacks. I genuinely fear for Indycar drivers and they command almost as much respect from me as those WRC nutcases.

Currently impressed by: Indycar in general, it's a very underrated series.
Currently non-plussed by: My hair, we're approaching the zero hour where I think I'll shave the bastard stuff off.
Current urge: To become rich enough to be a racing driver in my leisure time. Hell, to become rich enough to have leisure time would be pretty good.