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He comes sliding round the slippery corner, head thrust forward determinedly, totally committed in pursuit, in a glorious four-paw drift. Yes, you guessed. Bertie, our black cat, chasing his twin, Humphrey, who has nicked his favourite toy. Given a more suitable physiology, what a marvellous racing driver a cat could make. Fantastic reflexes, incredible agility, superb eye-to-paw coordination, wonderful eyesight and ruthless concentration on the task in hand, to the exclusion of everything else.

Funny what lockdown has one thinking about!

But, thanks to IndyCar, I was recently able to watch my first live motor racing

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