Now, here in Poland we have 100 professional theatres and every year there are as many as 18 new interpretations of Shakespeare.”In keeping with the revival, the British Council last year supported the staging of A Winter’s Tale at the Maly theatre in St Petersburg. “Shakespeare acts as a bridge between cultures,” said Sally Cowling, head of drama and dance at the British Council. “Audiences in central Europe are very interested in classical texts and how we perform them compared to their own productions.”Perhaps more than any other region outside England, central Europe has always shown a special affinity for Shakespeare. Most believe it is unlikely the aid workers will feel able to work with the Taliban’s attitudes to women and the violence and discrimination which has characterised their regime. That is unlikely to bode well for the long-suffering people of Kabul.. EASTERN EUROPE is finally paying off its debt. Not a financial one to the IMF and World Bank, but a literary one to the world’s best- known playwright.
Nations such as Poland and Hungary, whose citizens translated Shakespeare into their mother tongue as an expression of cultural independence during the revolutions of the 19th century, are finding new relevance in his work as they undergo whirlwind political and economic change. Every day people are coming, desperate to know what is happening There are people who rely on the subsidy. If it goes they may die,” said Mr Ghous, 30.The agencies’ position is now weak. If they come back into Kabul they will have to do so on the Taliban’s terms.
“The aid community have to decide whether they are here to follow a liberal Western agenda and fight for the right of women, ethnic minorities and so on, or whether they are going to swallow hard and try and do what they can without taking on the Taliban,” said one senior aid worker. For large sections of the city the aid workers’ departure has meant shortages of food and drugs as well as a lack of safe water. According to a recent United Nations report, hundreds of thousands of people are now at risk of disease at a time when the availability of medicine and the skilled staff to administer them properly has been drastically cut.The northern suburb of Khair Khana is one of the worst affected areas. Its roads of dusty, dirty streets have had their water piped in by a French aid agency for over a year. Now the agency has gone and the only source of safe water is a single tap at the local mosque.One local resident, Rachmatullah, said he was very worried because his wife was expecting their first child “Water is the first necessity,” he said “We are all using the same tap. It is getting very crowded, and if there is a problem with supply there, then the only place to go will be the wells.”Less than a mile away, in another part of Khair Khana, the wells are already in use According to the UN, many are already badly contaminated.
“The water from our well is pretty bad,” said Mohammed Ghous as he watched a flock of sheep being watered. “But there’s no choice”.Mr Ghous needs hundreds of litres each day to keep his bakery running. He is one of several hundred bakers who are paid by the United Nations and aid agencies to provide cut-price bread. He still receives his subsidy, provided by the UN who have not joined the general pullout, but scores of other bakeries who belong to the scheme have had their funding withdrawn in the past two weeks.
“If they are the enemy of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, then they are our enemies too.”But while victory for the Taliban may soon bring an end to the fighting, its quarrel with the aid agencies is bad news for the people of Kabul. Even some of the Taliban’s bitterest enemies have come over to its side – on the frontline yesterday at Hotkai, 20 miles from Kabul, the platoon occupying the most forward position was made up of Hazaras, whose fellow tribesmen are desperately fighting the Taliban in the north. Their home valleys, to the west of Kabul, were even being bombed by the jets of their own side as we spoke.The enmity between the Taliban, who are largely composed of Sunni Muslim Pathans, and the Hazaras, Shia Muslims of Mongol descent – has historically been vicious and bitter, but the men crouching in the shallow scooped trenches yesterday had a somewhat different view.”Tajik, Pathan, Uzbek or Hazara, Sunni or Shia it doesn’t matter,” said Mohammed Sher, the platoon commander, rapidly listing the major ethnic and religious divisions of Afghanistan. No one is confident of finding a way out of the current impasse. The Taliban, having made huge steps in the past few days towards seizing control of the whole of Afghanistan, is unlikely to be in any mood to compromise.Yesterday the movement, which captured Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan’s second largest city, earlier this month, claimed to have taken control of Aibak, capital of the northern province of Samangan. Their offices have since been locked and sealed, and much of the multi-million pound aid programme in Kabul is collapsing.
For the aid workers it was a frustrating and depressing episode that summed up the difficulties they say they face in dealing with the Taliban.
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It is not often that a horse making his seasonal debut over fences in November is quoted in single figures for the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham the following March, but then, in the hurdling division at least, this promises to be a very unusual season.Alderbrook is injured and may not make it to the Festival, while Relkeel and Danoli have already been ruled out entirely. They will have the effect of changing forever the power relationship between parents and head teachers. But parents will be frustrated if we only provide them with half-choices.The writer is leader of Wandsworth Council.. How easy do we want to make it for new providers to emerge? How protective will we be of existing institutions?Vouchers on their own will not be enough to bring about the real explosion in choice that we are seeking. We must extend the voucher entitlement throughout the school system; and, crucially, we must examine the obstacles that still stand in the way of opening new schools. Equally important will be the fresh spotlight thrown on the 130 or so independent providers already active in the borough.
It will be a vital test of the publicity programme announced yesterday for parents to have access to information about every possible establishment providing nursery education in their area.The voucher, in common with almost every other Conservative education reform, will eventually win the backing of all parties. Once politicians see how popular is this transfer of power to the parent, they will need no encouragement to join the bandwagon. Owning a voucher will be just as natural as owning shares in BT.The next few months will show just how streamlined we can make the process of issuing and redeeming vouchers. But the real test is the test of nerve that is still to come For if we stop here we will have achieved very little. We will be able to ensure that our own schools are fully geared up for the challenge.We have our marketing strategy in place. One of the reasons my council has been keen to be among the pioneers is to have first- hand experience of how it will work in practice. Well, what teacher hasn’t said the same about every new procedure? The same was said about testing, yet every poll shows that this is what parents want.
Meanwhile, the LEA chairmen, it seems, are afraid parents might not choose their schools.Well, that is what choice is about Trusting parents is a risky business They might not act the way we all want them to. That’s what the people who run education in our local authorities now fear.But if LEA schools are offering a high-quality service that is well regarded in the community, they will have little to fear. Indeed, the most successful schools always find the threat of competition invigorating.The scheme is unnecessarily bureaucratic, some cry. Schools set up specifically to meet the needs of a particular sector of the market.The current opposition to the first phase of the nursery education voucher scheme is predictable.
For the Labour Party, it is scarcely surprising that they should be so fearful of putting power in the hands of parents when even the modest Assisted Places Scheme attracts their venom. It would benefit all parents – not just those who can afford to pay now, but those for whom there is no real choice under the present arrangements.The voucher as a symbol of parental choice will be immensely powerful. For many parents, it will be the first time they have been given any degree of control over their children’s schooling.We don’t need to create a new wave of Etons and Harrows. Parents’ new buying power will, if unfettered by excessive controls, unleash new types of school that we have never previously seen in this country. They are now ready to take the next obvious step and receive their funding direct from the customer.The transfer of funds from the state to the parent would be irreversible. Schools are already funded according to precise calculations of pupil numbers.
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Punches were thrown, people were stomped on, helmets were swung, and people were suspended…for one game.Now I am well aware that the University of Oregon handed down the punishment to their running back LeGarrette Blount this afternoon which lands him on the sideline for the remainder of the 2009 season; but, you better believe the NCAA gave Oregon a call today and said “if you don’t do it, we will.”I praise Oregon for stepping up and giving Blount a suspension but part of me thinks if this game was not on national television, the suspension would have been less severe. President Highlights Healthy Vision and Classroom Learning Link as SCHIPLegislation Signed Into LawWASHINGTON, Feb. * Analyze the competitiveness of the market in the country and identifyhotspots. With more than 50 animated,love-themed templates created by leading digital artists, Smilebox offersa wide variety of Valentine styles that can be sent for free (with an ad)or for $2.99 to $3.99 (for premium options such as ad-free andfull-screen playback, personalized music and printing).
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From the first we admired his strength and were unconscious of the difference in age – that he was 30 years younger than Stephen and only five years older than our son, Matthew, to whom he always felt particularly close. Given the cruel deprivation of close contact with his own family, particularly in his father’s last days, his family-feeling with us, and his pleasure, later, that his beautiful young wife, Maria, shared in it, seemed to give some small, shadowy degree of solace. When he joined Matthew and Stephen on their bi-annual holiday starting from Venice, his enjoyment of a sort of family threesome with them was total He didn’t talk about his sadness for his own parents I can’t imagine greater generosity of spirit than that. Perhaps a clue to his grieving for them was in his last words of farewell over Stephen in the church just before the funeral service. “Thank you for everything! Say hello to Wystan and my parents.”His stoicism was all the more remarkable for being casual.
Like Wystan, he often used to express his stern moral values rather playfully. He shared with both poets a passion for the truth and a refusal to engage in worldly tactics and polemics. Lunching with my daughter, Lizzie, the day after his Nobel Prize was announced, he laughed off the worldly accolade completely without vanity. His only concern was the serious responsibility he felt to use it for the good of other writers and his former compatriots. With his stoicism, like Stephen, he had a talent for happiness.That first week,when the bishop’s guest of honour turned out to be not the poet Betjeman but the unpoetic C P Snow, we foresaw a tiresome test of patience ahead for Joseph, who might not know of Snow’s obsession with the corridors of power and relish for his official status.
A few days earlier at a literary gathering, a civil servant had remarked to Stephen, “There’s Lord Snow over there He’s equally welcome in Washington and Moscow. How do you explain that?” Stephen, amused, was silent, and the civil servant continued: “I’ll tell you the answer: absolute integrity” – not quite the answer Stephen would have given.As soon as the ladies had left the dining room, Lord Snow made a rather pompous overture to the modest young visitor from Moscow by praising Mikhail Sholokov as a truthful and very great novelist and a force for good. Snow’s close friend Sholokov, was a yet greater friend of Khrushchev, though even more repressive. He was known for saying that long sentences served in Arctic labour camps were too lenient for dissidents like Sinyavsky and Daniel (and no doubt Joseph himself), that they should have been shot. Stephen said that Joseph’s withering put-down of Snow, and of Sholokov’s support for tyranny was masterful I shall always regret not having heard it. But I did witness the punch-drunk, deflated Lord Snow and the admiration for Joseph of the other gentlemen. Small wonder that as we drove at midnight over Westminster Bridge, Stephen was still enjoying the joke, and the memory of Joseph’s self-possessed moral authority among these establishment strangers.We explained that the light under Big Ben meant that the House was sitting, and asked whether Joseph would like to drop in.
He was amazed that we could stroll into the Mother of Parliaments (as if to the British-style Kremlin). Shown to our gallery seats by a policeman, we heard a debate, as I remember, on housing finance. Some members injected a little righteous protest into the debate while others discussed columns of sums. Suddenly I felt the whole row of otherwise empty seats shaking quite hard, and turned to see the cause: it was Joseph in delighted, help- less laughter. He whispered happily, “It’s so boring,” which I took as praise, meaning innocuous and civilised.My later memory of Joseph’s friendship, more than two decades later, is of our last New York visit in 1994, when Stephen was obliged to spend a month in the Lenox Hill Hospital. Just as in 1972 Joseph had felt “mothered”, as he put it, by the Wystan-Stephen family, now we felt welcomed into an extended, rather bewildering Russian family of Joseph and some of his fellow immigrants.
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In January, Santander said it would give Madoff-hit clientsthe value of their original investments in the form ofpreferred stock paying an annual interest rate of 2 percent. And if anyone is going to hit a home run, the odds say it was going to be Philly.The Phillies lead the league with 130 home runs. Jackson proved last year that he could excel in the system, while this could be a make-or-break year for Wimbley. Jackson, however, may be a bit undersized at 6-0-foot and 240 pounds, but head coach Eric Mangini seems to like Jackson’s aggressiveness and involvement during plays. Mangini and general manager George Kokinis then drafted defensive end David Veikune out of Hawaii and were reportedly impressed by his “motor and ability to get to the quarterback.” They also signed a couple of Mangini’s former New York Jets in Eric Barton and David Bowens. Last season, Barton led the Jets in tackles with 119. Bowens was brought to Cleveland to help guide the younger linebackers such as second-year player Alex Hall and Veikune. Sean Jones is gone, Brodney Pool HAS to prove himself, and Abram Elam is looking to finally have a true starting role.If Pool can be consistent, and Elam lives up to the potential that Mangini, as well as I believe he has, then look out gunslinger QB’s. Pitching coach Dave Eiland apparently helped Burnett fix a mechanical flaw before his last start in Cleveland, and Burnett threw six shutout innings. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The National Hospice andPalliative Care Organization is pleased to announce the recipients of its”Reaching Out” grants. Annual Revenues Grew by 24.9% and Adjusted EBITDA Increased 16.2% Over PriorYearATLANTA–(Business Wire)–Cbeyond, Inc.
$302,000 is from 8 7/8%medium-term notes (“MTN’s”) due 1998 (accrued interest on December 31, 2008was U.S. ) As always, people that follow the NFL will try to grade drafts that we really won’t be able to accurately evaluate for three years. You will also be able to access thepresentation via our website (). LeBron will carry the entire team on his back to win a title if he has to. There are more important things in life than the results of a sporting event.Now, I am just as guilty as the next guy when it comes to taking the game too seriously. Das 1994 in Minas Gerais gegründete Wohnungsbauunternehmen Tenda hat seinenHauptsitz in São Paulo und widmet sich ausschließlich dem Bau von qualitativhochstehendem, aber kostengünstigem Wohnraum für Erstkäufer.
He can’t comeback and lose because then he’ll be a fraud, he has to win; he’s older too, so he’s gotta have some great steroids in the cupboard.This will be great to watch. But for now, you can’t deny his roid credit when he threatened Greg LeMonde for challenging his appearance in a tight yellow shirt.No. I don’t believe he can be the man to face Taker without a push and some more development. Banks are failing, factories are closing, we are beset with doom and gloom. If he’s not careful, Rich Rod may get a swirlie from a Michigan fan who bought the Texas Stadium urinal. Rian Lindell…for giving Buffalo fans recurring nightmaresWide right The two words that make every Bills fan cringe again. Memphis Grizzlies (3-6) (21)After hanging back-to-back 30s, Mayo just announced that ROY is a two-man race between him and Rose Stay tuned for Beasley… 25. Listening to the commentary from Troy Aikman didn’t help matters and made this diehard ‘Skins fan root harder for the Giants. Third stringer Brooks Bollinger’s wobbly interception was, in Troy’s mind, “a ball that slipped out of his hands.” I know he’s a homer, but the game was on national TV. ($1= 2.231 reais) (Editing by Peter Murphy; editing by Jim Marshall) Stocks Global Markets Brazil.
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After scoring on the opening kickoff, the celebrating was over for Ohio State as Florida took control and the game was over by halftime. 2007Preseason #1: USCNational Champion: LSU (Preseason #2)2007 will beremembered as the year no one wanted it. A replay of thecall will be available for 72-hours by dialing 888-568-0043, access code 7461(International callers should dial 203-369-3452.)Full financial text and tables can be found at is the largest telecommunications company in Alaska. The Gators schedule looks more than manageable, with a road trip to LSU looking like the hardest game. There’s lots of other places a man can go in this world to have a social life.Bars are not the place for an overpaid sports figure; a lot of women go there looking for husbands aka cash cows. Yep, the teenager who goes to strip clubs and drinks beer like water. Forthe full year 2008, net revenues grew 40% to $8,810,000, compared to 2007net revenues of $6,307,000.Reflecting continued increases in Wave’s software license activity, Q42008 billings, a non-GAAP measure of demand which reflects shipments andlicense upgrade contracts signed during the period but which may berecognized over future periods, rose 121% to $3,724,000 versus Q4 2007billings of $1,686,000, and rose 62% versus Q3 2008 billings of$2,297,000.
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Gani Lawal, a 6′9″ Sophomore, is projected to be a potential lottery pick in the next draft:With 19 NBA scouts and executives watching him play Saturday, Gani Lawal gave an impressive performance.The sophomore made seven of 10 shots from the field and 11 of 14 from the free-throw line, and he grabbed 10 rebounds and blocked two shots in Georgia Tech’s upset of Wake Forest.What this means for recruiting is that if Lawal goes pro, suddenly a team deep at the post with NBA talent is right back where they started. Brown has done a good job in forcing Michael Jordan to add experience and veteran leadership to a team that hasn’t had an identity since they’re inception.Michael:I have to go with Eric Spolestra because Miami was the worst team in the NBA last season, and they have much better this season. Nick Mangold made his first Pro Bowl in his third season, and he absolutely deserved it. The heroic Johnson personally put the clamp on the Tigers’ high powered offense and led his Crimson Tide to an overtime victory..
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“As long as I understand accidents, then it’s all right for me.”Accidents to other drivers, however, perturb Schumacher. He reveals that he had to be persuaded to get back into his car after Mika Hakkinen’s horrific crash in practice in Adelaide last year, and only did so once he had been convinced it had been caused by mechanical failure. “If I had seen that a driver as good as Mika could make a mistake and the result was so serious, then I would know I could make a mistake as well and have the same risk as Mika.”The book charts Schumacher’s career from childhood to the present day and includes interviews with some of the key figures behind his rapid rise to the top. The best passages, however, are the interviews with Schumacher himself, particularly when he is talking about his fellow drivers.While he has the highest regard for Alain Prost and, particularly, the late Ayrton Senna, there are digs against most of his contemporaries. Interestingly, the team-mate who earned perhaps his greatest respect was Martin Brundle and Schumacher reveals he tried to persuade Ferrari to make the Briton his partner at Maranello.The account of Schumacher’s early years in motor racing is particularly revealing, and the story of how he got his first grand prix drive with Jordan and was then immediately snapped up by Benetton is a fascinating insight into the backstage politics of the sport. It is only a shame that the book is not longer: after the 144th and last page I wanted more of the same.. For the second time in five months, Andrew Golota’s uncontrollable penchant for low blows lost him a fight against Riddick Bowe after twice putting the American on the canvas.
The Pole, who was ahead on on all three judges’ scorecards, was disqualified in the ninth round of Saturday night’s a non-title heavyweight fight full of wild, slugging punches.
Golota had a point deducted for an intentional butt in the second round, lost another point for a low blow in the fourth round and was disqualified two seconds before the end of the ninth after sending the Bowe to the canvas with another low blow. Golota was later taken to hospital with a suspected broken jaw.”He was warned, and I took away a point for a butt earlier and I took another point away for a low blow that was really blatant and then the third low blow, and that’s a disqualification,” Eddie Cotton, the referee, said.The fight was a crowd-pleasing slugging contest as the two heavyweights, often looking exhausted, battled it out. Bowe was knocked down twice and Golota once.Golota, who was disqualified in the seventh round in July after repeated low blows, knocked down Bowe with a right and a left to the head that dropped him to the canvas in the second round. Bowe got up and Golota continued pummelling him around the ring, but Golota had a cut open underneath his left eyebrow.Bowe, who has lost at least 45lbs since last September, improved in the fourth round, catching Golota with a flurry of combinations that knocked the Pole down for the first time in his career.Golota got to his feet quickly and almost immediately started throwing very low blows, for which he was warned. Finally Bowe went down after one of them and the referee took a point away and Bowe took about a minute to recover.
He could have taken up to five minutes.Between the fourth and fifth round, one of Golota’s trainers, Lou Duva, told him to aim higher “I don’t want you to go to the body anymore. Everything goes to the head.”In the fifth round, Bowe seemed exhausted and was throwing lazy, looping punches. Golota caught Bowe with a rash of blows up against the ropes. Bowe came off them but Golota sent him reeling with another combination, ending with a right to the head.It seemed to be all Golota after that, with Bowe at times seeming so tired he was having difficulty standing up.
He seemed only a faded image of his old self but it did not matter as Golota beat himself again.Ray Mercer, who narrowly lost a 10-round decision to Lennox Lewis in May and last won a fight in 1993, outpointed Tim Witherspoon on Saturday night to put himself into the heavyweight picture. The 35-year-old scored with stiff left jabs and sharp rights to the head, to gain a unanimous decision over the former twice heavyweight champion.It was an important victory for Mercer, who lost 10-round decisions in tough fights against Evander Holyfield in 1995 and Lewis. He also had cost himself championship bouts with losses on decisions to Larry Holmes in 1992 and Jesse Ferguson in 1993.”I think I won the fight. I won it clearly,” said a disappointed Witherspoon, who is 39 in two weeks “I conditioned myself for this kind of fight It was easy.”The three judges, however, saw it differently.. “Get back to where you once belonged,” thought some when promoted Derby County started their Premiership campaign this season but Jim Smith’s men are refusing to “go home”, and were impressive when gaining a 2-2 draw against Arsenal at Highbury.
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Accidents like that happen very rarely but you have to be prepared for the worst in this job,” he explained. Sometimes drivers have to be cut free from their seat-belts.”If the driver can’t get out then it’s my job to get in there and pull them out. Spying a huge sheathed knife on his belt, I was a little confused but took him at his word that any ensuing violence would be directed towards himself.After further exchanges, I learnt that, as the “Suicide Man” or “Fire Diver”, Geoff’s job actually entailed rescuing trapped drivers from their stricken cars. While contemplating a possible career change, the lights flashed to green and with lightning- quick reflexes I floored the accelerator – and stalled the car.After proving that my car’s considerable artificial intelligence was no match for my natural stupidity, I watched the rest of the races standing beside a huge man in fireproof overalls named Geoff.”I’m the Suicide Man,” he informed me with a smile.
I won my first race, clocking a pretty respectable time of 20 seconds during my first run.With my car purring on the start line, waiting for the next green starting light, I was completely focused on my next race and next win. It’s the ultimate quick-fix of engines, competition and extreme acceleration, but there is more to it than just raw speed.Vehicles are paired off depending on engine-size and fuel. The cars race within certain time-brackets, meaning that if the specified time for the quarter-mile course is nine seconds, the cars have to run as close to that time as possible without clocking a time over the specified bracket – 8.89 secs is good, 8.95 secs is better, but a car clocked at 9.01 secs will lose the race, regardless of finishing first, if the other car registers any time below 9 secs.With races finishing in the blink of an eye (the Santa Pod course record stands below 5 secs), successful drivers require razor-sharp reactions to beat their opponents.Once my heart-rate had decreased sufficiently, I was given the chance to test my own drag racing-skills (racing brand new Vauxhall Vectras – for our own safety) against other journalists. Forget refuelling, lightning-fast tyre-changes and hairpin corners, drag cars only race in straight lines. and I think I want to do it all over again!Based upon motorsport’s most seductive element – speed – drag-racing is hugely popular in the US and is attracting increasing numbers of British converts to its unique style of racing. Now we’re travelling at around 10mph and turn back towards the pits but, every time we edge a few yards forward, the car’s engine screams loudly as if impatient for more speed and another work out.When we reach the pits, I’m speechless and completely exhausted The whole experience lasted just under nine seconds … There’s not much steering involved in drag-racing, but the car must stay on the straight and narrow as there’s simply nowhere else to go.I’m still exhaling my first desperate shriek when we pass the quarter- mile point and, without warning, start to decelerate.
I’m thrown forward a few centimetres before my belt takes up the strain and now I’m pressing both feet to the floor in desperate sympathy with the car’s braking system. My wail ends in mid-scream but my mouth remains open as I contemplate a braking failure at this velocity.Slowly the car slows down and my body begins to relax as the G-force subsides. We’re accelerating so quickly that I half- expect the front of the car to take off. Now all I can hear is the deafening roar of a straining engine as we accelerate at pant-wetting speeds.An involuntary wail spews from my mouth; part exhilaration, primarily blind fear as the car literally flies across the track. Powerful gravitational forces fling my head and body backwards against the seat and we’re accelerating so fast now that my arms and legs instinctively grasp around for something to grab.There’s a 4ft-high concrete wall a few metres to my right and another a few car-widths on the other side. “Depending on the conditions of the car and track, you’re looking at 0-60mph in about 1.5 seconds and 0-120mph in around five,” Bates had told me.
Smoke and the smell of burning rubber are everywhere and, for the life of me, I can’t remember why I thought that doing this would be a good idea.Suddenly we’re off and I simply don’t have time to worry about my ringing eardrums. I can’t see the wheels moving but I can feel the vibrations as the car drifts a little from side to side. The roar of the engine is so deafening that I want to press my hands to my ears, but with a helmet on, doing so would be a total waste of time. My nostrils fill with the heavy aroma of burning rubber before a cloud of thick smoke surrounds the car.As wisps of smoke drift inside the vehicle and waft across my visor, it occurs to me that smoke is often a precursor of impending doom – not at all like the charming stuff that puffs out of children’s steam engines.
Just when I think I’m ready to go, he returns with a neck-brace. Trussed up like an ancient mummy, I’m not certain whether it’s for prevention or cure but I haven’t too much time to mull over safety precautions as the car inches towards the start line.Chris starts the burn-out. The faster your car burns fuel, the faster the engine will run and the faster we go…”The mechanic secures my arm to my torso with a strap to prevent it from falling out of the window in the event of a crash. At Santa Pod Raceway, I’d been watching vehicles travel from 0-60mph in less time then it takes to fasten a seat belt. The safety of the grandstand seemed a long way off sitting in the car in fireproof overalls.
“The car is 80 per cent fibreglass with 700 horsepower engine,” Bates had explained earlier. “Press the line-lock to hold the front wheels before performing a ‘burn-out’ [a crowd-pleasing manoeuvre that sees the rear wheels spin violently while the car remains stationary in a cloud of smoke] to put much-needed heat into the tyres for extra grip.
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