A bit of trivia:

As you know, I follow open wheel racing and in the winter, F1 off-season, I will watch anything on 4 wheels on a race track. So it was with delight while enjoying my coffee this am, that my Replay taped the Monza Superfund Euro F3000 race last night.

And who should be on the pole for the 2004 race? 23 year old, Mathias Lauda. Yes, he is the son of famous F1 driver Niki Lauda, shown here on the left with his Heuer logo on his driver suit.(Shameless tie in in order to justify my post. LOL Extra points for naming the other driver in the pic.)

Well, wouldn't it be a smart move on TAG Heuer's part to toss a few racing bucks to this obviously quick driver. Niki/Mathias are you listening?

Maybe not that smart, as he screwed up the start, fell back to 5th, raced up to 3rd only to try and pull off a low-percentage, bone head pass which caused him to DNF.