Having a long weekend doesn’t do much for a guy when you’re stuck at home with a cold. I’m feeling better today which is nice. Now, more news you don’t care about…

The F1 season wrapped up today at Interlagos in Brazil. With the Canucks not playing that means there’s nothing sporting on until March. I considered watching baseball tonight but I snapped out of that in short order. What on earth was I thinking?

I hate to say it but Jacques Villeneuve’s return with Renault was disappointing though this weekend was his best of the three. Formula1.com has live timing for all the races and his sector times were pretty competitive but he was turning those laps midpack. I hope Sauber isn’t reconsidering…

It was also Jaguar’s last race after Ford decided they couldn’t afford to play anymore. Thankfully there are no shortage of suitors and actually we can look forward to a couple of new teams in 2006. One out of the Middle East, Team Dubai F1 and the Canadian, Midland F1 headed by a Russian guy which I still am suspect of.

Midland is based in Toronto and is working on the Trump Tower among other things though the race team would be based in Europe. He seems to have a view that starting a new team from scratch would be easy though at least he says $100 million a year is no problem.

I really hope this guy doesn’t make Canada look stupid.

RLD