flap

A rookie almost becomes world champion in his debut season.
A double world champion nearly makes it a hat-rick with a new team.
And the championship goes to a fantastic racer who’s come tearfully close twice before.
That was the end of the Formula 1 season, 2007.
And true to form, 2008 started with the same momentum. Interesting developments, interesting rules and the odd surprise. All in all, a great 5 races.
But this last race, Istanbul, Turkey, things went downhill.
A ‘fastest lap’ is now called a (drumroll), ‘flap’. And commentators have started using the term in live commentary. Not without the odd chuckle of course, but hell! Drivers are risking their lives, lap after lap. And when they take best lap from the other 19 (sans Aguri) you call it a flap. It seems to this writer that a very rich someone, somewhere, is suddenly, very bored.