History Made : Halfway across the world

I am not going to brag about not writing a post for a long time like i usually do while starting a new t. I am going to directly come to my post. Phew after a super cool 2 weeks India had atlast won a major world championship in the form of the twenty20 world cup. It was just an outstanding achievement seeing the quality of the game we played, and the big teams that we beat.

However, I am not going to talk about the history that was made through cricket as you guys might be expecting, I am gonna talk about someone else. A 23 year old called Karun Chandok, had won the penultimate race of the GP2 series in Spa Circuit , Belgium. You might have heard of it. If you have not then search for it through google. Well the big thing is that he had won a race in his first ever season in the series.

The GP2 series is the one next to the formula 1 championship, the difference between them is that , all the cars have the same engine , tyres, electronics etc.. this is the perfect way to test the drivers talent, also it is raced in the same formula 1 circuits. I had the great pleasure of seeing this race (telecast in ten sports) , this race was also being watched by Bernie Ecclestone (Director of fia, the sports governing body, Fernando Alonso, who personally praised Karun for the race, and so on), who heard the Indian National anthem being played at the podium for the first time ever in a formula one circuit, and also saw the standing ovation from the crowd.

All this was after the best overtaking meneuver they had seen in a long time (said by Bernie), and from being in the ninth place in the starting he had gone to first place and overtook the leader from being 1.5 seconds behind in the last five laps of the race.

This is such a great acheivement and sadly in our country these go unnoticed, this is just my attempt to praise karun for his acheivement, Kudos to you Karun.. I request whoever reads this post to watch the final race of the season to be held on 29th and 30th of this month, he might not win , but if he does we all might be able to hear our national anthem once again.

cya
shiv