Hola amigosss!

I just came back from the test days in Barcelona. Yes, yes, I was in Paul Ricard before as well. Really excited to see the cars running again, hear the powerful engines and smell the gasoline. Not even a month until the season starts – isn’t that cool?
But before that I need to quickly tell you: the tests were really goooood! Dani and Christian set good times, the mechanics and engineers worked hard and everything seems to be on track for the first round in Barcelona.

Well, almost. They were all supposed to be at the workshop this week, but an unpronounceable volcano in Iceland decided to make this impossible. Oh boy, of all the places it has to be an Icelandic (how ironic is that) volcano sending all this ash across Europe. Keeping planes stranded at airports and our drivers and some engineers stuck in their houses. But I hear Thomas and Patricia, the team’s secretary, busily talking on the phone in order to rearrange flight schedules and it seems that everyone will be arriving – only a week later than planned. Oh, well. A bit of extra adrenalin before the start of the season is also good practice.

Two weeks to go, the countdown is on. You can almost feel the tension rising at the workshop! All my friends going through their checklists, verifying this and that, making sure all is packed (don’t forget the truck will be traveling to three race meetings before coming back home!). I also prepared my little room – like every year in the truck. And I am quite busy as well! I mean, can you imagine all the things a fly needs for so much time away! What will the weather be like in Barcelona? In Monaco? And then in Turkey? I still need to prepare the sun protection covers for my wings for Turkey and maybe the others in case it rains in Barcelona or Monaco… oh, oh, my list of things to do is still very, very long…!

Gotta go now and get some things done. Speak to you soon when I will tell you how things went in Cataluña, where the 2010 season finally starts…olé, olé!

Your busy Fly on the Wall!