The end of a racing year

It is that time of year again. The F1 Championship will be sewn up next week at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. My favourite series the BTCC has already crowned Jason Plato as its champion. The WTCC is almost over, with just the brilliance of Macau to do. IndyCar is over. Heck, even the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, which has one of the longest calendars in motor-sports, has just three races left.

And so once more the question arises - what do us motor-sports fans talk about? Many will point to the "Silly Season" - talking about the backstage stuff, who is going where, what the teams are doing, engineering developments etc etc. It might be me, but this hasn't been happening as much this year. Even if it was, I wouldn't be interested anyway, and especially not this year. I'm more interested in the racing, and even if I wanted to talk about backstage developments, there's not an awful lot to talk about. IndyCar have confirmed they want to go nowhere with their new base chassis idea for 2012, instead of doing what I think is arguably the most sensible choice, and going with Batman's car - I mean the DeltaWing. Okay, the BTCC are moving forwards with the new NGTC concept, which looks interesting, but is not anything ground-breaking. Although I admit it will potentially mean more cars on the grid, which is always a plus.

To be honest, I'll be retreating into the murky world of sim-racing, where the grids get larger and the racing more intense throughout the winter, as people find they have nothing better to do. Perhaps you should investigate such an activity further too...