Stickin it up!!

My brother in law, a respected Editor and a brilliant author (by my own admission) has spent half his productive life working for a company that wanted Germans out of business – no points for guessing this one was led by an American Jew. With the best business acumen, some brilliant Investment bankers at disposal to strike great deals (who all are American Jews, by the way) and some of the world’s most disguised hostile acquisitions to boot, his employers are still some distance away from overpowering this proud, utterly mechanical & military yet religious and family oriented European community.

My brother in law, with what I would reckon would be some significant contribution in challenging the German ability to do profitable business, is handicapped to the extent of being married to a woman who works for SAP and is in love with her German bosses as much as she hates the Indian ones. Now that’s a difficult one – an enemy within! But beat it – he’s got one more to handle.

Now, he has always complained of my driving styles. He (probably a tad disrespectfully) calls it “stickin your car up someone’s ass”. Always objecting – and paranoid - as I found my way through the ever crowded streets of Calcutta, Bombay, Delhi or Bangalore (well, India is a more aggregated synonym) he has been the single largest critic of driving ever so close to the car ahead of you.

As Sebastian Vettel lifts the trophy in Sao Paulo today, I get to see a certain pattern in his driving preference and choice of employers. 7 Germans of the 20 in the track today and all of them stickin there’s up someone else’s ass.. wit one that wins the battle.

Red Bull is based in Milton Keynes – but by the way – despite ignoring whatever has gone into building the history of 20th Century Europe, there’s no denying that a Brit is as much German and vice-versa. So a British car & a German driver - as summed up by Vettel himself – a fantastic day!

There’s fun in stickin your car up someone’s ass – guess you need to love Germans to enjoy that!

And Red bull has, quite poignantly, chosen to play the Oasis classic Champagne Supernova as their theme music today ! Congrats Christian - to the top in 6 years is incredible indeed!!