The heat is up and on. The world cup is underway and 32 teams have their sight on the World Cup trophy. As exciting as the prospect of this drooling world cup might have sounded in the past months the start of the world cup has been somewhat of a whimper. Why? Well, it’s been a low scoring affair (barring the Germany-Australia clash), the quality of football in terms of skill and flamboyance has been a bit lacklustre, and there have been too many draw results.
Teams like USA, North Korea and Switzerland, which were considered to be a bit inferior coming into the world cup have shown their metal against class oppositions. Biggies like England, Italy and Spain have massively failed to impress. However, I would hate to get ahead of myself as only the first round of matches have been played so far and who knows, the players and teams might just gel together and find their rhythm. Add to that the constant pestering of players and officials with issues such as the Vuvuzela and the Jabulani match ball have taken the focus away from the main attraction. The game itself. So lets wait and watch. Former world cups have never failed to impress and this one might turn around too!
But the FIFA world cup now is not the only thing on my mind these days. The Canadian Grand Prix just got over and it’s a Mclaren one-two again! If somebody had told me before the Turkish Grand Prix that such would be the scenario, I would have dismissed the idea. But the brilliant work of the Mclaren engineers combined with the aggressive driving of Hamilton and the smart driving of Button is proving to be a match winner. Not to mention that both these drivers are now at the top of the championship table.
One can expect the Red-Bull team to come back with a bang in Valencia, but something tells me that their unwanted collision mishap in Turkey is still playing somewhere around team Red-Bulls minds. But that’s just me. Far worse things have happened in F1 and teams have looked ahead to the future. The one thing that Red-Bull cannot ignore though is the fact that Mclaren have discovered the secret potion of winning in this season and Redbull have to pull up their socks.
Works wonderfully well though for a F1 lover like me who would love to see the championship go down to the wire!
Making it count!
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