Not really sure what else to call this blog, to be honest, as my brain isn't firing on all cylinders today.
The morning began with CIX – I was
intending to listen to a couple of their songs while I had a shower, but that
turned into the full 2½ hour playlist – and brilliant to listen
to it was too.
This afternoon was the qualifying session for the first Formula E race of the season in Mexico. Sadly, Sam Bird ended up coming
last in his qualifying heat and started 21st on the grid, his team mate at Jaguar
Racing (my preferred team, mainly because my brother-in-law works there, so
we have to be loyal), Mitch Evans ended up starting 10th.
A K-pop Twitch stream came next, with an
interesting line-up of videos chosen by the reactor’s Patreon Gang. This
happens on two days every month, and always throws up some new stuff I’ve never
heard of before (hence my ever-expanding collection of music). Then, while
waiting for the race to start, I caught up with some videos on Youtube.
Finally, it was onto the race itself. Alas, Sam
was an early exiter, but Mitch made it to 8th place, which isn’t too
shoddy, given that the car is completely new – Generation 3 – and has had a lot
of issues. In fact, almost everything about Formula E is new this year. Fanboost,
the long used but divisive ‘fan’ voting system that gave (generally the same) 5
drivers an extra 2-minute burst of power, has finally been dumped (hurrah!).
Instead, they have changed the ‘attack mode’ feature of the race.
In previous years (Formula E is now in its 9th
season, so why aren’t you watching it if you like motor racing?*),
the drivers each had a set 2 x 2 minute burst of extra power, which is
activated by driving through an activation zone. This year, the ways to use
this power has been changed. Each driver still gets 4 minutes, but they can
split it between 1, 2 and 3 minute intervals a maximum of 3 times. I’m not sure
it did much on the first race, although it possibly helped Mitch to gain a
position and then maintain it, as the driver in front used his first and it
dropped him back a place. We shall see as the season goes on what influence
this has on the race, especially as the drivers get used to it and start
playing tactics.
* The answer to this is that
despite it being more interesting than Formula 1, especially these days, they
still don’t really show it on TV in the UK – you have to watch it on Youtube
on either ABB Formula E or Channel 4 Sport, or
wait for the early morning highlights the day after on Channel 4. I hope
that as the season goes on they will broadcast more races live on C4 – I think they
managed about 3 or 4 last year (which is pretty poor as there are 16 races).
After another very late dinner of cheese and bacon
wrapped chicken with salad (yep, it’s salad again), I finally managed to catch
up with the final 2 episodes of the rather excellent Unlock My Boss.
This was a clever and extremely twisty mystery thriller, that I would
definitely recommend.
However, as I wanted to get it finished first, I was late to writing this entry, so have failed at beating midnight for uploading once more (I managed 2 whole days 😭). This means I’m officially too late to wish Kai (Kim Jongin) from EXO, a happy birthday, but I’m saying it anyway – Happy Birthday, kid 🎂🎁🎉
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