Nico's Bahrain Blog: Thursday

Posted on Thursday 23 Apr 2009 and tagged with nico, bahrain, sakhir, blog.

There’s no point dwelling on what happened last weekend. My Chinese Grand Prix didn’t work out from a strategic point of view and there’s not much else to say. Obviously, 15th place was a disappointing result.

I’m now 100 percent focused on this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix, which is a race I’ve always enjoyed. I have a good record here too: in 2005 I won the GP2 Series at the track; I scored points here on my Grand Prix debut in 2006, and took the race’s fastest lap, and last year I finished eighth. I think the FW31 should work well, so I’m looking forward to getting back into the points this weekend.

I’ve been in Bahrain since Monday, chilling out and training. I like the country and have had fun: on Tuesday I took the race team out to dinner at a restaurant called “The Meat Company” (no prizes for guessing what was on the menu); on Wednesday I ran the track with my trainer Oli and on Thursday I did a piece to camera with German broadcaster RTL in the oldest souq in Manama. It involved me drinking a lot of sweet tea and looking at gold jewellery!

According to my press officer, many of the locals thought I looked like Leonardo di Caprio. What do you think? Answers on a postcard…