| Thursday, October 22, 2009 4:12AM | Behind The Wheel With Brett Smrz |
Today was a fairly long day. We woke up early and went downstairs to get a bite to eat. After we were done eating, we waited for Josef to come and pick us up to head over to iSport.
iSport is a front running GP2 team. GP2 is the feeder series to the Formula 1 series. Seeing the car today was very cool. We were asking Paul all types of questions, and he was telling us exactly how the car worked, and all about its cool features. One very cool feature I found on the car was the hand clutch. I never knew that a Formula 1, and a GP2 car for that matter, had a hand paddle for the clutch. The actual car only had two pedals in it (the brake and the gas). Their shop wasn't very big, and it was in the middle of nowhere, but it still gets the job done. He showed us around the shop, and showed us where they do certain things. They had a room that was dedicated solely to their racing simulator that they are developing. It seems like it will be a very cool setup once everything is all completed.
The drive back to Josef's place was quite long. It is a 3 hour drive from Josef's to iSport. We spent a ton of bonding time in the car today, but we still managed to have a lot of fun doing it. We kept each other occupied by telling stories and jokes.
After we got back, we were very hungry, so we ended up going out to eat at Pizza Express. That was actually very good pizza, like Josef said it would be! Now we are back at Josef's place playing some Call of Duty 4 on his Xbox 360. It is keeping us occupied while we are here!
We are heading over to Autosport tomorrow morning, and I think we are checking out ProDrive/Aston Martin as well. Joel's (my best friend) favorite car is an Aston Martin, so I will be sure to take a bunch of pictures for him!
Brett Smrz
