Andrew Murdoch Blog

Well, the weekend in London at the Race of Champions wasn’t a total disaster but it was quite eventful. It all started out badly, we got on the train to London, only to sit there for 2 hours and only manage to travel 5 miles then the train was cancelled. We got back to the station and then found out all trains to london were cancelled. So we headed over to the coach station and managed to get some tickets on a coach to london, just in time because they sold out about half an hour after we got there. Eventually we made it to our hotel but a journey that should have taken 2 hours ended up taking 8 hours.

The Race of Champions was great, and was definitely worth the nightmare journey. My predictions for the wins were way off the mark, Team France was the first team to get knocked out and Team Germany was the eventual winner of the nations cup. Michael Schumacher didn’t even make it to the semi finals of the individual event and worse than that, he was knocked out by Carl Edwards who as a NASCAR driver has probably never even driven a car round a proper corner before. Apart from my bad predictions, everything else was excellent, even Lewis Hamilton didn’t dampen my enthusiasm. They didn’t do the race between him an Cris Hoy in the end, the track was far too slippery and was a bit to dangerous to take a bicycle round there apparently, you can see my photos from the event here.

Race of Champions photos.

There was more problems to come however, during the day Beckie had been developing a cough and looked like she had a cold coming on. Then after a brisk walk from wembely to the tube station, her asthma started giving her some trouble and she was looking very pale, we got on the train but on the journey she started feeling very unwell and once the train stopped we had to get an ambulance. Without going into all the details, she ended up on a drip in A&E. But it wasn’t anything too serious, she had a chest infection which has given her a very high temperature, and we eventually got out of there about 1am. (I have now caught the same chest infection off her, though its not bad enough for me to end up in A&E).