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Steve Matchett

@mrstevematchett

I used to be young, then a mechanic, then an author, then a television broadcaster. Now I am old. And all I've come to know only confirms I know nothing at all.

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calendar_today10-04-2009 22:56:55

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Yes, an emotional win for the team, no question, and quite the personal moment too: the first time a Matchett prepared car secured a Formula 1 victory. Anything is possible providing one is prepared to give everything (and then some) in order to make it happen. There is no try.

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Wordle 1,472 3/6 ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I asked old thingy, the mechanic one, not to ask about lap two. Honestly, you take your eyes off the ball for a split nanosecond, and something stoopid happens. It’s exactly like those folks who attempt Wordle without coffee.

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Wordle 1,473 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Looking at those opening laps, I can’t but feel today’s strategy proved more than a tad stale.

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Charlotte NC. July. Awake. Walk outside. Immediately, I mean *immediately* start dripping. Stagger back inside. Watch the world through windows, full of pensive thoughts of how past folks ever lived here without air conditioning. Await next massive thunderstorm. Go to bed.

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Wordle 1,475 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Something smells; the engine seemed plagued with small misfires from lap one.

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Wordle 1,476 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I can’t get the hang of these things. I shared this with old thingy, the mechanic one, and he suggested I give drag racing a go. Mind you, he warned, I’d still need to get off the line without stalling, so maybe not.

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Wordle 1,477 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟨 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I was so crammed and cramped inside that stoopid car of theirs, it felt like something had wrapped me in ropes and squeezed the air out of me. Certainly, I did not feel like a well oiled machine.

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This audiobook will change your life. I’ve even heard reports that hardbitten grand prix drivers have learned a thing or two from this book, listening to it while soaking in an ice bath in their team’s tire storage bay. That sort of thing happens very frequently in F1 by the way.

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Many years ago, I recall Ross Brawn telling me this; said I had a way of calming drivers when they were not having a good day. As every driver I worked with was perpetually irked by Michael’s pace, I was given considerable opportunity to practice my improving counseling skills.

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Must say, m’colleague David Hobbs was all over this story. Admittedly, this particular pre-race storyline did take fifteen years to pay off, but that’s an example of true faith for you, right there. Well played Hobbo!

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Wordle 1,479 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A most curious race; the result certainly put a strut in my step, though, sadly, no trophy in my hand.

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Wordle 1,480 3/6 ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 It is with a sense of great trepidation that I attempt to explain to whatshisname, the engineer one, that I thought he said ‘let the competition by,’ and not ‘don’t let the competition by.’ I mean it’s only a loss of one place!

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Yes, sure am, I talked with Bat first thing this morning. It’s taken decades of his life to be offered the big chair, and I’m extremely happy for him.

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Wordle 1,482 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Feared I’d picked up a viral infection towards the end of today’s race but, ultimately, I was fine; turns out I was but simply highly agitated. Old thingy, the mechanic one, knew my poor result wasn’t down to illness.

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Wordle 1,483 3/6 ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I’m thinking of launching a signature line of casual attire. I suggested this to old thingy, the mechanic one, and he thought it an inspired idea; proposing I call it ‘the-how-not-to collection’. I don’t get it… but I like it!