Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration

Blasphemy! Here in the Bible belt substituting watching an auto race for going to church? But Formula 1 beckons. The opening race of the season was held in Australia this weekend and a bunch of us gather on Sunday mornings during the F1 season and watch the races together.

The Australian Grand Prix is already in the books as I'm writing this, but I've been good and not gone out to discover who won. We'll have breakfast, settle into the couch and start giving each other a hard time watching what could be 'the world turned upside down'. (Not only because the race is in Australia but because qualifying found the usual suspects absent from the top of the grid, this could be a very interesting season.)

More to come. But here's a snap from the last F1 race held at Indianapolis in 2007. The current World Champion, Lewis Hamilton, works his magic in the McLaren-Mercedes.