JACTA ALEA EST. Lee Bryant has a new blog, jacta alea est. In this post, he makes the difficult choice of a new favorite Formula 1 driver, required because the great Michael Schumacher has retired. I am the kind of sports fan that has to have a rooting interest in a game. That’s been true at least since I was six years old. It was 1948, and all the men in the neighborhood were invited to the home with the first TV set on the block. It was a Northwestern-Notre Dame football game. My brother and I knew we had to choose a team. We chose Northwestern because the Northwestern Railroad (actually the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad) went right through our town.
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While my blog offers nowhere near the intellectual stimulation this one does, I thank you for the plug. I’ve discovered that F1 without a driver to root for is a pretty boring affair. I still love Ferrari, but I just can’t get as excited about them as I did when Michael was there. He really turned that team around. That’s one of the reasons I think he was worth his astronomical salary.
Back in the golden days characters like Enzo Ferrari and Colin Chapman ran racing teams. Nowadays you have Ron Dennis (who is a very keen businessman—I guess that trumps personality) running McLaren, who I hear organizes his suits by their shades of grayness.