Behind the Blue

You may disappoint on current Korean support for Grand Prix especially if you are Korean; even LG and some local people support for F1 but F1 is not well known in Korea and no Korean automobile maker support in any way.

However, you may be impressed if you know that some Korean people supported Grand Prix deeply far away back in head of 2000s. Alonso's Renault car from 2003 with some blue colour is very famous for its championship winning. The front of the helmet of Alonso has mark of 'hanjin' which is one of the biggest shipbuilding company in the world which is Korean. Hanjin continuously supported Renault during Alonso's shining seasons, making best efficience of ads. Also the painting of the car itself is designed by a Korean cartoonist, who later draw the episode which fans never believed until they saw the photo.

So Korea was in the front of the good seasons of F1 and the appearance of winning car, when most people of Korea is never ever interested in F1.

What a disappointing result for Michael

Remind the result of the practice sessions and the qualifying sessions. What a surprise for maybe the new car of Mercedes (Brawn). Summarising the practice sessions, in all sessions, Mercedes, particularly Michael showed impressive performance which tied up to Vettel; eventually the gap between them decreased inside a thousandth in the last session. However, also we saw, in the qualifying, the important other theorems of these Grand Prix seasons; Red Bull does not show everything until the race. As always, the Red Bulls did better than the practice while Michael was worse than the practice. What we have to focus on is rather Nico than Michael, also as always. He showed his own power, again, and definitely he will on the podium next day.

Also, one more thing we can expect in long term is certain; Red Bull wins this season also if the constant rival does not exist like today. McLaren was the most close to the Red Bull, which even seems to beat in one time, but today's session was disappointing for not only Ferrari as always but also McLaren. Unfortunately, the strength of Mercedes makes no rival to Red Bull, cancelling the most rivalry of McLaren.

Some backscenes of Yeongam

You may have seen many scenes of the atheletes so you might think that you are very know well about these people. But, don't you, some time, wonder how they live between session besides the career, which is not so private life so preventing attractions or so well-known? This is how they were during the week in Korea.

Oh, and, you can see the bike. I mean, THE bike, one of which may passed Button during the BBC broadcast. And, you may focus on the woman with green uniform, especially if you are Korean so you have seen the documentary film of KBS. These local women are volunteer for cleaning every place in the circuit even in the garage, who were fishing or gathering seefoods in THE AREA, as the area was seaside before the circuit was built. You may have seen the mountains in the shot of the racing. The mountains were islands, and the field was the mud flat.