I need a new man

So. Post-Schumacher Formula 1. It’s just not happening for me. I told myself that I love the sport and it’ll do just fine without Schumacher and may even be more exciting since there’s more competition but I’m afraid it just wasn’t happening. Schumacher has been in the sport since I started to watch it roughly fifteen years ago and though his departure last year left me cold, I still had high hopes for the sport; hopes that were dashed on Sunday. Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed the race but without a driver to champion, I couldn’t get into it (the first person to suggest Hamilton gets a swift slap simply coz I’m so damn bored of him).

Even as a Ferrari supporter, I cannot utter the name “Raikkonen” in a tone free of abhorrence. Raikkonen is so charmless he may as well be inanimate. Eventually I decided that Massa was the man but unfortunately I couldn’t really bring myself to give a damn about what happened to him during the course of the race. Supporting Alonso is like sleeping with the enemy... a very rich, young, talented and perhaps-attractive-in-a-craggy-sort-of-way enemy but an enemy nonetheless.

So yes, Massa is my new man. I’ll let you know if I manage to dredge up any sort of real passion for him in Malaysia.