Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Canary Islands Sports Fans Will Love The Formula 1 Season 2006
Microsiervos remind us that the 2006 Formula 1 Season is about to start with the Gran Prix in Bahrain this coming Sunday, March 12th. I know, you are struggling to imagine what possible Canary Islands connection this could have, aren't you?
Nope, there isn't going to be a Canary Islands Gran Prix, though some might say we have that daily on our roads and my dad once suggested we should have one locally for the pivis.
Current F1 Champion, Fernando Alonso (who actually lives in Oxford, England), was, of course, raised to God-like status in all of Spain - including the Canary Islands - when he won the title last year: the youngest ever, the first ever Spaniard to do so.
However, the local link is that, according to the magazine Diez Minutos and reported hither and thither, Alonso is to set to marry his girlfriend, singer, Raquel del Rosario, in October.
She originally hails from Gran Canaria and being the future husband of a canaria must surely qualify him as a "local boy", to be followed and supported with all the relevant fervor.
The reports also note that Alonso is just as fast in love as he is on the track. The couple had only been dating a little more than three months when they became engaged in February.
This year too, the Renault F1 Team has a blog.
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2 Comments:
Pamela wrote (on
March 08, 2006)
To be honest, even though I did not press my nose to the screen to watch every race, I found myself following the results last year and mentally egging Alonso on, which for sport is pretty fanatical behaviour for me.
They are fanatical about F1 here. A while ago they showed the F1 Ferrari at the Sheraton, just around the corner from where I live. Traffic was gridlocked for miles around. And that was just a car! They didn't even turn it on... there wasn't even a driver to sign autographs!