iWitness Turkey Sunday

Posted on Tuesday 28 Aug 2007

ATT Williams star Alex Wurz has finally admitted that a motorhome is the way forward. It took him two hours and six minutes to return to the Intercontinental Hotel last night, which prompted him to say: "I can see the benefits of staying at the track." At least he was travelling with his engineers on that fateful journey, which allowed him to watch DVDs on their lap-tops.

Bo Derek was strutting her stuff on the grid in Turkey. The Hollywood temptress was a guest of Flavio Briatore. Question for 10: what is her most celebrated film? (Geddit?)

The biggest party on Saturday night was aboard the Indian Empress. The 95-metre super yacht belonging to entrepreneur Dr Vijay Mallya was moored on the Bosphorus and played host to a variety of paddock people, including Williams F1 CEO Adam Parr. iWitness understands that someone fell into the yacht's Jacuzzi and while that behaviour is par for the course in F1, it wasn't Adam...

Ex-Williams F1 driver Mark Webber spoke yesterday about meeting seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong for the first time. The meeting took place at the end of 2004 in Austin, Texas. "Lance wanted to know everthing about the characters involved in F1," said Mark, "and he had a memory like an elephant. He didn't forget anything I said during the days we were together. A phenomenal guy."