iWitness in Spa: Thursday

Posted on Friday 28 Aug 2009 and tagged with iwitness, spa.

Fans of German TV series “Alarm for Cobra 11” should look out for a cameo appearance by Nico Rosberg in the near future. He did some filming with two stuntmen from the programme this afternoon, which involved him leaping backwards on a reverse bungee. “It was like being blown up in a movie,” said Nico. “I enjoyed it a lot.”

Nico the stuntman

These back-to-back races are hard enough for the teams’ motorhome staff, without them being mucked around by officious paddock policemen. Our guys arrived at Spa-Francorchamps at 0500 on Tuesday to prepare the AT&T Williams motorhome, but weren’t allowed to enter the paddock until 0800…

However, our motorhome dramas have been nothing like as bad as those at Force India. They have turned up at Spa with a unit from MotoGP after their motorhome failed to make it in time from Valencia. Wonder what Bernie will have to say about that?

After making his grand prix debut at Valencia last weekend, Romain Grosjean returned to work in a Geneva bank on Tuesday. “I did it to keep in touch with reality,” says Romain. “I think it’s important to continue like this as I enjoy working there and this routine has always worked well for me in the past.”