What's a one year old girl to get for her dad? In return, how does a dad pique his daughters intrest in the motorsport he enjoys so much? The answer came to me a couple of weeks ago, while we were on a beach in western wales, I'm free the following weekend, the Nurburgring is open both saturday and sunday, put it all together, and a few days later, we (me, wifey and baby Misha in the back), are burning across northern Europe, on a mission, 48 hours North Loop raid!
Saturday was looking a bit grim, the weather in the Eiffel region was cold, wet and blowy. Not the place to take a six seater daddy wagon onto a track, regardless we hit the tarmac:
entry to the mini karrussell, i had tip toed round, somewhere in the twenty minute region. Misha remained unimpressed, and slept through the whole thing. Cheers honey.
A quiet night in, the usual ring antics of imbibing vast quantitie of fantastic weiss bier were off the menu. So to Sunday, and amazingly, the sun came out, the air cleared, and during the course of breakfast it only got better. So we wandered up to the main entrance, misha and mum got to try the new F10 M5 on for size
we looked at the track rules
misha obviously thought they did not apply to her
after a mass of cars heading out, we picked a quiet moment, and ventured out
again, she slept through the whole lap, worry was looming large
for the next lap, mum stepped up to the crease
after a bit of nervousness
she started to hit a few lines, carve a few corners
and have a little fun, sure was a lot harder than she initially thought, but i think the bug may have bitten a touch
unfortunately there were no photos of my final lap, but rest assured, looking in the second "baby" mirror, she was definately awake all the way through, leaning forward intently looking at everything i was doing, something she now does everytime i have driven her anywhere
and so we came to the end of our short stay,
we watched a few runners and riders blat out on the start straight, the noise, smell, atmosphere seemed to fascinate her, constantly looking about, waving and smiling at everyone.
perfect end to a perfect fathers day, cheers munchkin! do it again next year?!