What you find in random office buildings in Austin

Yesterday I was with a friend in an office building in downtown Austin. She was on her way to an interview and I was going to grab a coffee and wait for her to finish. As I was walking out the building, next to the reprgraphics copy shop, I noticed an indescrete office with 'tilke' written by the door. The name sounded familiar but I didn't think so much about it.

I sat down in the coffee shop, ordered a cappuccino and pulled out my latest subscription of F1 Racing Magazine (a personal favorite if you haven't read it). Amongst the great articles and photographs was a piece on the new Austin F1 circuit and it mentioned the designer behind the project, Herman Tilke. Suddenly 2 and 2 became F1 and I closed the magazine and headed back to the office.

Without looking to obvious I peered in and couldn't really see much to give away the brain trust of a Formula 1 circuit construction office, but once I stepped in the door tell-tale circuit maps lined the wall. I was greated by a smartly dressed gentleman who was working in front of schematics and a lap top. He told me it was in fact the headquarters for the project and their group was from Germany. I didn't bother him too much about when I would be able to get on the track, but he did know some of the racers I was involved with in Europe and he did tell me he thought it was quite cold here in Texas!!

While I would like this to be a post encouraging you to go ahead and purchase your season tickets, i'll try not to get too far ahead of myself! Atleast this is a post to say the boys in Austin are hard at work to build something! Whether or not they have the quarter billion its going to take to put up such a monument to speed, I don't know, but atleast they have enough money to fly some authentic looking guys from Germany which is certainly better than nothing!!!

Cheers

Michael

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