They only care about Jenson Button and Nick Heidfeld's fucking stupid beards...

Ok... Button & Heidfeld's stupid shit beards and poor old Tom Pryce's viscous demise. Those three things are what drive traffic to this fine, proud, and often times humorous Formula One blog. I will go down in the annals of Formula One history as the guy that analyzed the facial hair trends of F1. I'm not even finished yet. For the past year or two I've been wanting to put together a somewhat definitive piece on facial hair through out F1's years I just have not had the time to compile it the way I would like.

It is unfortunate that as soon as the season ends I have time to write about the sport. I don't quite get it other than the fact that my life as a whole quiets down during the late fall and that as soon as Formula One is over and done with I start to pine for it and feel the need to speak about it in an effort to quench my thirst for F1 action.

I sit here with my autographed picture of the late Ronnie Peterson's beautiful Lotus looking down upon me proud of the fact that I may never find the means and the way to become a "proper" Formula One journalist but at least I can amuse people from time to time and that they know where to go when curious about Jenson Button or Nick Heidfeld's facial hair.

Tom Pryce: A Welshman who drove like a Welshman!

I just read an interesting little bit on grandprix.com about a memorial being built to the dearly departed Welshman Tom Pryce who died in a horrific accident at the age of 27 during the 1977 South African Grand Prix. I remember the first time I saw the footage of Tom Pryce's death. It was rough.

Pryce hit a 19 year old track marshal running across the track at approximately 170mph, throwing the marshal high up into the air and more or less tearing the body apart in the mean time in a diagonal fashion in the torso area. It is seriously a foul foul site. The track marshal was carrying a big assed 40 pound fire extinguisher which hit Pryce in the helmet, pushing the helmet as a whole upwards and ultimately partially decapitating the poor Welshman.

The accident is so horrid that it had ended up on "Faces of Death" videos and crap like that over the years. I showed a friend the accident once on youtube (where you can see Tom Pryce & a track marshal die and Budd Dywer blow his fucking head off, but you can't see a bare titty) because he was curious and he told me upon seeing it "They showed that accident over and over and over again on a huge screen at a Slayer concert I was at back in the 1990's"

Never thought I'd be able to find a way for F1 and heavy metal to become friends.

Check out the Tom Pryce memorial thingy as well!