Hobden Hex
When Kimi Raikkonen speared off into the barriers in the opening minutes of Saturday morning’s free practice session at Monza, the expression ‘You cannot be serious’ crossed my mind! It was a big accident and I was originally concerned that he wouldn’t be able to start the race.
At our diecast warehouse sale a few weeks ago some Raikkonen fans came up to me and jovially (at least I think it was jovially!) asked me to stop going to races because of the ‘Hobden Hex’ I always seem to put on him!
Having only qualified fifth I wasn’t expecting too much from him in the race, but he made a brave effort on a one-stop strategy to ultimately finish third. I was sat at the first chicane, and thought it a great race, with plenty of overtaking (although could have done without the Hamilton/Raikkonen move!) and a particularly exciting battle between Rosberg and Button. Even the most optimistic Raikkonen/Massa/Ferrari fan would have to concede that it’s an all-McLaren fight for the drivers’ crown now though.
We received the latest Minichamps Hamilton replica today, the 1:43 2006 McLaren MP4/21 testcar (DC26484). It is limited to 2,736 pieces and comes complete with wet tyres, which is a nice touch. The inlay describes it as a ‘1st roll out’ model, from 19th September 2006.
Mattel provided us with some images of their 2007 1:18 Formula One Renaults, of Fisichella (Product code - DC2703) and Kovalainen (Product code - DC2704). We should receive their first delivery of 2007 F1 cars this week, which is something everyone in the office is looking forward to seeing.
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