Gary wrote:Am I alone in finding Seb's attempt at cool to be, er, corny?
Thing is, he wasn't the one who made it public. This is a private superstition of his (others are he only gets in and out of the car on the left, and has a lucky coin behind the laces of one of his boots).
He called his first RB5, Kate - damaged in Australia. His replacement chassis, for the 2nd round, Kate's Dirty Sister.
It only became publicly known in China (4th round) due to a lucky snap by a photographer and a curious media..
Seb, when asked about the photo in China wrote:It’s important to have a close relationship with a car, like a ship, a car should be named after a girl as it’s sexy. My original car was called Kate, but then my monocoque got smashed in the opening race in Australia. So we called this one Kate’s Dirty Sister because it is more aggressive and faster.”
Virgin Racing are the ones who have been lame by copying it in a very public sense, running a competition to name their cars.
Now we have Glock with his hands on Virginia and di Grassi inside Veronica..
And for Turkey's race, Chandok has jumped on the bandwagon, asking on Twitter to name this weekend's engine..
