The Summer break

Greetings Internet

While the folk in the F1 paddock are on their enforced holiday with factories shutting down. Everyone heading off home to enjoy the torrential rains of the British summer. But here in this little corner of the internet I have three weeks to fill while there are no cars on track until Belgium at the end of the month. During this downtime I have a plan, a plan that was dreamt up several race weekends ago but only set in motion over the past couple of days. You see I have several cars that I have used for the various videos across the season, and this gap gives me the opportunity to find out - very scientifically which one is best via a series of challenges. Alas this series really only contains one challenge but there are several vehicles to get through.

So here we have another video, to float in the sea of emptiness that is the summer break. Where I took a convertible Panoz and painted it yellow - for continuity purposes only, well and it looked better in yellow and went for a virtual drive in Italy on a 72km route. Pretty much made the blog's virtual vacation about 50 minutes long before it was back to filming something a little more productive. And to let the testing begin - the things you can do with a virtual recreation of the Top Gear track and a series of race cars.

I''ll introduce now the first video of the summer break - featuring a Panoz Esperante Cabriolet (now in yellow), and the first blogmobile to turn a wheel for the Malaysian GP, the 2010 Indycar chassis. With others yet to come ideally.