29.11.07

musical chairs

dear fernando,

i have made a bet with an old high school classmate as to where you will be racing in 2008. call me daring, but i'd like to think that your hispanic personality might make you want to break free from what everybody is pointing as the obvious choice for you. i wagered that you just might decide to join red bull over the giants renault (the obvious choice, pundits say) and toyota (they've got the bucks to afford a man of your stature).

i can't reveal what's at stake on my end, fernie. just know that i realised what a sucker i am for ayrton senna, because i said that if i win this bet, i want a copy of his famous biography, "Ayrton: The Hero Revealed." if i lose, what embarrassment, what horror, i have to send a very personal item across the atlantic to my classmate with rather bizarre inclinations.

fernando, could you deign to race with either coulthard or webber next season? i'd rather you raced alongside the scotsman than the hotheaded australian, and one of my petty reasons is that coulthard may be somewhat accustomed to sharing the garage with a world champion, as he did with mika hakkinen in the 90s at mclaren.

however, as i finish this letter, i just read "shattering" news in light of my wager, and i guess my only hope now is that you decide NOT to join renault for next year. save me from the embarrassment of having to send....... to washington dc! the US post office might think i'm sending some form of biological warfare to their shores... there goes my ayrton senna bio.

hoping to get it right next time,
sr

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