Alright, let’s talk about this car race thing, the “us gp qualifying results,” or whatever they call it. I don’t know much about these fancy cars, but my grandson, he likes ’em, so I hear things.
So, this Hamilton fella, everyone says he’s real good, like a rooster in a hen house, always on top. But this time, somethin’ went wrong. Real wrong. He didn’t even make it past the first part, Q1 they call it. Can you believe it? It’s like the prize-winning bull at the county fair suddenly refusing to leave the pen!
He was sayin’ somethin’ about his car breakin’ down. Suspension, he called it. Sounds like a fancy word for a busted wheel to me. Happened in that short race they had before, the “Sprint” thing. Messed him up real good, he says.
And then, get this, on his last try to go faster, he hits one of them orange cone things, a “bollard” they call it. Like hitting a chicken on the road, just plain bad luck. Knocked him right out. He’s gonna start way back in 19th place. Nineteenth! That’s like startin’ from the back of the church at a weddin’, you ain’t gonna see nothin’ good from there.
- So, Hamilton, usually up front, is stuck in the back.
- His car broke, somethin’ about the “suspension.”
- He hit a cone, a “bollard,” on his last lap.
Now, they got this other race comin’ up, in Las Vegas. Bright lights, big city, like they say. My grandson says they’re gonna race at night. Can you imagine? Racen’ cars at night! What will they think of next? They’re gonna start the qualifying at 10 at night there, which is 6 in the mornin’ over in England. That’s like gettin’ up before the chickens!
They got these different parts to the qualifying, Q1, Q2, and Q3. Sounds complicated, like makin’ a quilt, but faster. Q1 is like pickin’ out the scraps, Q2 is puttin’ ’em together, and Q3 is the fancy stitchin’ on top, I guess. Only the fastest cars get to Q3, and that’s how they decide who starts where.
This whole thing, it happened in Texas, at a place called “Circuit of the Americas.” Sounds grand, doesn’t it? Probably got more twists and turns than a country road. And they say this Hamilton fella, he’s been there twelve times before and never did so poorly. Guess everyone has a bad day, even those fancy race car drivers.
So, the results, they got ’em all written down somewhere, who was fastest and who wasn’t. But the big news is Hamilton in 19th. That’s the story everyone’s talkin’ about. It’s like the preacher showin’ up to Sunday service in his pajamas! Just ain’t right.
My grandson, he was all upset about it, sayin’ how Hamilton’s car wasn’t good enough, and how it’s unfair. I told him, life ain’t fair, son. Sometimes the rooster don’t crow, sometimes the cow don’t give milk, and sometimes the best race car driver ends up in the back. That’s just the way it is. You gotta pick yourself up and try again. That’s what my old man used to say, bless his soul.
So, that’s the story of this “us gp qualifying results” as best as I can tell it. A good driver had a bad day, his car broke down, he hit a cone, and now he’s gonna start way in the back. We’ll see if he can make his way up front in the race. It’ll be somethin’ to watch, that’s for sure. Maybe even this old lady will tune in to see if that Hamilton fella can pull a rabbit out of his hat, or in this case, a win out of 19th place.
Tags: [US Grand Prix, Formula 1, F1, Lewis Hamilton, Qualifying Results, Las Vegas GP, Circuit of the Americas, Auto Racing, Sports]
