Formula One for the boys!

Hi Timmy! Hi Nicki! Hi Matthew!

Kiai-kiai just came back from the Formula One Race, where she saw a really fast Ferrari!
In the Formula One race, the drivers go around a race-track many times. In the race I saw, the drivers went around the race track 56 times. The Ferrari car won the race!
The cars are so fast!

Kiai-Kiai took photos for you to see! CLick on them to make them bigger.

Here is the Ferrari Formula One Race car.:


See how low and skinny it is? That's how it goes so fast!



This is the steering wheel in the Ferrari. It comes off so that the driver can get in and out of the car. That's how small the space is! Look at all the buttons.



This is the Ferrari Garage. The Ferrari doctors! They are putting the car together from all the different parts.

Here is another picture of the Pit, which is just another name for the garage. See how the car hangs up from the ceiling? That's so the mechanics can get underneath it easily to fix it and put it together. The car is very light. Much lighter than daddy's car.



Once everything is put together, the driver can take the car around the track for a test-drive to see if everything is working OK. Here he is leaving the Pit.



As the car races around the track, these are the people who make sure everything is OK with it. They have computers where they can see if its going fast enough and if it isn't why not. The computers tell them if the car needs gas or if the tires need air and even if the pilot is thirsty!



If the guys on the computer see that something is wrong with the car during the race, they tell the pilot to come into the Pit. As soon as the pilot comes into the pit, all these people crowd around the car to put in gas and change the tires and give the pilot some water as fast as they can! It is usually faster than the time you would take to say Ferrari three times. Try it! Say Ferrari 3 times. That's how fast they are!



This is Kimi Raikkonen. He is the Ferrari driver that won the race that kiai-kiai saw.

I love you boys!!
and I miss you!

XXXX Kiai-kiai