{"id":2116,"date":"2008-07-27T21:19:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T01:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2008-07-27T21:19:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T01:19:12","slug":"f-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=2116","title":{"rendered":"F-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/ham.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"8\" width=\"93\" height=\"114\" align=\"right\" \/>What do golf, Formula One and US presidential race in common? Come on, you can guess that easily. Black man. Strictly speaking, mix-raced person with dark skin more then the other half. The phenomenon in the Formula One in Europe now\u00a0is\u00a0the\u00a022 years old Lewis Hamilton, an English whose grandfather Davidson was from Grenada in the West Indies, mother Carmen a white.<\/p>\n<p>Formula One is the top level in auto racing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=1838\">Danica Patrick<\/a>\u00a0is the IndyCar racer, the American open wheel racing, as vs the NASCAR, the stock cars. F-1 used to be\u00a0the sports for the titled Europeans. Steffi Graf dated driver Michael Bartels for seven years. He was a F-3 driver, never qualified for F-1. In the US, there are two types of auto racing (in general), Grand prix, open wheel and the stock car. I think the sport is changing too. In the past, the drivers had the air of a gentleman and cultured. Not sure that still applies today, especially when he is only 22. This isn\u2019t to say that the younger ones won\u2019t develop to be sophisticated adults.<\/p>\n<p>Long ago, when Golfer spotted the news that Formula One was going to build a track in Zhuhai in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special_Economic_Zone\">SEZ<\/a>, he said he\u2019ll visit China when it opens. Years late, the track relocated to\u00a0Shanghai.\u00a0 It opened for business for a few years, but Golfer had since lost his appetite for China.<\/p>\n<p>However, he did drag me to a NASCAR race in PA.\u00a0 The Andretti family is from Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Father Mario has all three: F-1, Indy and NASCAR. \u00a0It was a gorgeous day.\u00a0 But each exits were so far apart in the Poconos, we failed to gauge the distance (map quest hasn&#8217;t become popular) correctly and missed the parade and the starting of the race. Once we sat down, I noticed we were the only Asians in a Pacific Ocean of large\u00a0sized\u00a0rednecks.\u00a0 They all well prepared for the race: huge coolers and\u00a0chips.\u00a0 The sound of chip chewing was drown by the nosier, no the ear splitting cars.\u00a0 After the race, the party\u00a0moved from the bleachers to the parking lot.\u00a0 Needless to say, we stranded there for another 2 more hours.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t enjoy it, but I would rather be at some other place .. no telling Golfer, I&#8217;m a supportive,\u00a0mute and obedient wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do golf, Formula One and US presidential race in common? Come on, you can guess that easily. Black man. Strictly speaking, mix-raced person with dark skin more then the other half. The phenomenon in the Formula One in Europe now\u00a0is\u00a0the\u00a022 years old Lewis Hamilton, an English whose grandfather Davidson was from Grenada in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}