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Resuming normal transmission: Don't worry about the F1 in Austin, Texas, this weekend. Lewis Hamilton will win as he has four times before.
Now that you don't have to watch any of that, you can focus on the motor racing event of the year, the 24 Hours of LeMons at Wakefield Park in Goulburn, NSW, on Friday and Saturday.
Yes, race fans, we've dragged the BMW Supercar out of the shed in the Adelaide Hills where it has been resting for a year in what, these days, you would call a barn-fine state. Also in the barn we found a very large common brown snake. Since it's classed as the second most venomous land snake in the world, we decided to take heroic, manly action. What we did was yell at "Brownie" through the shed door, leave the door open, run away and hope he would leave.
Luckily, former hipster Matt McGill from our transport and race management supplier, Garth Walden Racing, turned up the next day and got the car into the transporter.
And last Thursday the world's top boutique classic car dealer, Simon Kidston, led 23 Lamborghini Miuras to the car's spiritual home, the Miura cattle ranch in Andalucia, Spain, to celebrate the birth of the auto that changed supercars forever.