23-Apr-08: Heidfeld Thanks The Team In Munich
April 23, 2008 by Christine
Filed under Daily F1 News
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Hi everyone, welcome to F1 Minute for the 23rd April.
Nick Heidfeld was at the BMW factory in Munich today to say thank you for the hard work that’s been going on. He didn’t just say thanks and sign autographs, though, he drove the F1 car in a demonstration, did a couple of donuts and brought the factory to a halt for an entire 45 minutes. Heidfeld said: “It is nice to give the workforce something back. I lost track of how many hands I was shaking.”
Patrick Head has finally admitted what we’ve all known for a long time, that Nakajima’s signing to Williams was at the request of engine supplier Toyota. Head said that although Toyota had some influence over Rosberg’s teammate signing, they wouldn’t have picked Kazuki if they didn’t think he was good enough. He does admit though: “It’s true, Kazuki has made some mistakes, but he also has learned from them, and has great potential, and I think that is what really matters.”
Finally, today, we have an early weather forecast for the weekend: showers are predicted for both Saturday and Sunday, but even if it doesn’t rain, temperatures will be much lower than F1 usually finds in Barcelona.
That’s all for today, join me again tomorrow for another F1 Minute.
NONSENSE on Wed, 23rd Apr 2008 20:28
“Workforce”? Is Nicky boy too rich to count himself in? He also works for BMW so he’s one of the working class (heroes)? Honestly, if I had his salary I wouldn’t call ordinary people “workforce”, I’d call them … people, the masses? The grey masses? Not sure, ants? Sheep? Roger Waters did that, it won’t be original. Ok, workforce was not a bad choice. I agree, yeah. Sorry.
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Christine on Thu, 24th Apr 2008 07:23
He’s probably trying to be modest, and assuming that they work really hard whilst he just gets in the car at the end and drives it around.