So with just over a month to go, we are gearing up. But one has been somewhat lacking in this closed season is the presence of our oft maligned, never welcomed, but always fun friend.... controversy.
To say this winter has been quiet, is an understatement. I've heard Trappist monasteries louder. Where is the controversy, the scandal, the arguments. The things that is talked about in garages and various net forums across the land.
So the keyboard warriors and gossips have absolutely nothing to talk about. Yup there's a few new cars to have a look about, but there is nothing to get ones teeth into.
In the past two years, those who like verbal jousting have had a veritable feast to clamour over. In 2008/ 2009 we had the fall out of that World Final at Mendips. Whether you thought it was an injustice or whether you thought it was disrepute, everyone had an opinion. Opinons, they say, are like arseholes, everyone has got one. Arseholes, have always got an opinion! Everyone wanted someones head on a stick and it made the sport very split - it wasn't until the "truth" came out some 3/4 months into the season and everyone seemed to forget about it, but battlelines were entrenched. The glowing spectre of the Deane Wood revolution was becoming apparent with his stake in Incarace had also made an appearance, and wild speculation of who's next and whether it would have a dramatic effect.
The winter of 2009/2010 saw the sport split itself in two. All thanks to the great refocus of the formula to come under the ORCi. This upset the current incumbent BSCDA chairman, Red Jeff Lindsay, who was so confident of his support of his comrades, he felt the need to address his masses without the aid of coherency. Or a reasoned argument. Or decorum. Or a spellcheck. What was to follow was one of the most heated and volatile forum wars, whereas the slient majority (i.e the drivers) got on with preparation for the start of the next season.Talk of strikes and protest didn't help the cause. I for one beleived that negioation had broken down because the promoters found Red Jeff to be difficult and agressive. With less of a firebrand of a chairman, the BSCDA would still exist, trump card and dignity still intact!
So this winter, what do we have.
Nothing. Nada. Nowt.
The best I could muster was the fact His Gordyness is off Down Under, giving everyone else a month head start in the quest to be National Points champion for the Umpteenth time. I mean, he almost did it with 6 months head start if it wasn't Polley's ability to clone himself and do every meeting on Earth at the same time!
So the BSCDA debate died with the decision to enter a period of dormancy by the body, and no chairman resignations were offfered it tottered off into oblivion. I don't expect to see a thread about that soon anywhere.
Very much the same old, that cars a copy of that car, why don't we have team meetings, why is the European at Northampton again doesn't really enthuse the mind.
Even the ever faithfull, always reliable, never failing old chestnut about a car being built for Rob Speak's comeback is even a dead duck, as Our Lord who art in Tyldsley is back amongst us mortals once again.
So, in whispered Attenborough-esque tones, take a moment to think about the greater spotted keyboard ninja in this drought, and think about those keyboards which are free from the ferevered finger of a furious F2 fourm fan.
Controversy- we might be happy of its non appearance, but isn't it more fun when it does.....
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