While I wasn't particularly looking forward to returning to Bahrain, due to last year's boring race, I still wanted to get my fix of F1 action, all the same. Now I'll have to wait a couple more weeks because the Bahrain Grand Prix has been cancelled.
This is how the recent unrest in the Arab nations has affected me. The people of Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and Libya have been up in arms against their political leaders over the past month or so, some more successful than others, and usually it has next to no immediate effect on my life. But not this time.
While I'm a bit put out by missing the first race of the 2011 season, it helps to put into percpective, for me, how much this must be disrupting the lives of the people living and working in these contries. Some of these people have lost their lives! Let's not lose sight of what's really important here; fighting on track for glory or fighting in the streets for you and your kind?
Respect.
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