Excited much? If I was female, I would need some Tena Lady by the end of the day!
By the end of today, Lady Luck will shine on the chosen one. But, what omens are there from fate itself, what signs show that its going in a particular direction. Let's have a look.....
BIRTHDAYS
Dave Luscombe (642) started this off at Skegness in 1987. An earlier world final (22nd August) meant Dave strolled away with his cake and the gold roof too. He shares his birthday with multi snooker world champion Steve Davis... so theres an omen too.
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| Barford celebrated its recent resurfacing with 1:1 scale cake |
Then in 2009, Buxton Raceway made a big play of making sure that Micky Brennan celebrated his 21st birthday in style. On the parade lap his peers were presented with the usual momento, Micky got a cake, and all his family were there. If the big man upstairs was watching, which he was as the field opened for the cheery northerner. That cake was the least of his worries.
NUMBERPLATES
This method of picking a winner has kind of become defunct now, with the advocacy of the ridicolous new numberplates. En route to the world final, wherever it would be - we would read the number plate so for instance if we saw for example E658HUL come towards us, ding, Dean Mason, its yours! However this game didn't often produce a winner unless it was GFD218Y that we spotted. It did work for Chris Burgyone at Cowdenbeath, as we followed the car from near Bristol to Thelwall Viaduct! SWEET METHOD
This is a new method for 2011. Fruitella have brought a new range of real fruit based sweets. One of the packs have numbers, and it answered the burning question, as a 2, a 1 and an 8 came out. Long before a 7 did. In fact it was at the very back of the pack, perhaps an omen. Or perhaps there weren't many 7's in the pack. Odds of a 7 coming out first is 1 and 10, so the odds are stacked in Moodie's favour, considering that odds of a 2 a 1 and an 8 is 1 in 30.I'll try it again before the meeting and see!
SWEEPSTAKE
I remember Honest Rob Farrell, running a sweep at Swindon, where all the non qualifying Westcountry folk gathered to watch the World. I remember drawing John Mickel (4) and our mechanic drew Dave Luscombe (642). It added a bit of extra spice to the watching, especially as he set to win £30 for a £1 stake.
OMENS
Not that little brat called Damien. Missus got a phonecall from someone called Jack at 9:21.....
The peak number of hits on the website on Thursday was 324....
I woke up this morning for a pee at 4:01
Clutching at straws but....whoever you pick as your choice, and however you do it, fate and destiny will gather to conspire for it, or against it. I bet Brennan and Fortune didn't think they would be waking the following day as World Champion, they were in the right place in the right time and got the break.
If you think all this method is a bit random - the race is. Those who expect to win, should expect to be disappointed. It takes skill to get in, but a fair amount of luck to win.
So enough of the build up - it's time for those engines to be started, gentlemen.
Good luck.
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