Ann Bradshaw: Point of View
In this week's colum, Ann Bradshaw writes about her weekend at the Nurburgring 24 Hours race with the BMW Motosrport team, far away from all the Formula One political wranglings which took place in at the same time in Barcelona
I have just spent a weekend with the most amazing group of people. It was my second visit to the Nurburgring 24 Hour race with BMW Motorsport, and a greater set of characters you could not find to spend a night out of bed with. Every single one of them - from the mechanics and engineers to the girls making the sandwiches and the seven drivers - was the sort of person who you would happily spend time with away from a race track.
While by the sheer nature of the team's name you would deduce it was mainly peopled by Germans, also in the mix were a variety of drivers from the UK, Portugal, the Netherlands and the USA. One amazing character among this eclectic set of people was Boris Said, a laid back Californian who I first met when I was living in Georgia and working for Panoz Motorsport back in 1999.
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