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It feels like ages since we had a non-race weekend, and thankfully there was some testing, otherwise we would have had no news to discuss. However, we find other quiz-shaped ways of filling our time.

Intro

There’s a significant reason he wants to try doing the show with shoes on his hands.

Good Week / Bad Week

It’s a good week for Heikki Kovalainen as his boss has given him a public pep-talk, and a good week for relationships between teams. It’s been a double bad week for Bernie, as Formula 2 begins to take shape, and Lehmen Brothers bankruptcy complicates things.

News and Views

A catchup with the action from Jerez, Mugello and Fiorano. Young drivers get a go in the car, we see some live KERS action, with scary results, a conspiracy theory forms regarding Bourdais, and Bridgestone choose pink.

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One of my favourite stories for a long time comes courtesy of Mr Ralf Schumacher. No surprises there, he is usually good for a laugh.

He tested for Force India this week, and let’s be honest, he made a bit of a hash of it. He had mechanical problems (admittedly not his fault), he crashed and almost hit a tyre wall (probably his fault) and ended up at the bottom of the time sheets.

So, what do you do if you are going for a job and you have a really bad interview? Or if you want something quite a lot but realise you’ve ruined any chance you ever had? You pretend that you never wanted it in the first place, of course.

“I don’t think I will be driving for Force India. I want to achieve something and I don’t think I can do that with Force India. I am going home now and we will see.”

Bless his heart. We understand Ralf, we really do.

There were a few complaints here at Sidepodcast Towers about there being a picture of Ralf on the site, so in the interest of being fair and unbiased, here’s another Force India tester.

Order is restored once more.