I've had a pretty manic three weeks or so, so have stored up a few points that need to be unleashed. Adopt the brace position.

NASCAR-wise just about everyone has been proved royally wrong. The Hendrick cars continue to have a big round 0 in their win column (and long may it continue). By no means is their recent domination long forgotten but they've failed to pick up where they left off in 2007. Dale Jr continues to keep those of us who think he's over-rated and over-hyped happy by looking the same sort of ordinary he did last year. Also proving everyone wrong is the list (wel. two Toyota winners so far). Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin. You see Tony Stewart in that list. No. Me Neither. You expect that. No? Me neither.

So far it looks like were getting into the best NASCAR season in recent years - no matter what your opinion of the car is you have to agree the near identical templates have made the intended equality between the makers real. We've had all 4 makers win a race, a bunch of teams look strong, putting probably the longest list in years on a list we might put on the 'potential winners' list. Dave Blaney's luck continues to suck more than a breast-fed 12 year old. Running strong at Daytona - bumped out, running strong at Martinsville - unspecified mechanical problem drops him from 12th to 43rd. Joy Unconfined.

The new combined open wheel series is underway. Not that you would have noticed. Given the incredible-ness of last years Chicagoland title decider last weekends dull and very used dishwater Homestead opener was a turn off. It only confirmed what some of us already guessed. The same old IRL guys will be winning, the converted Champ Car guys will be mobile chicanes, so despite the 25 car grid that rolled up messily to the green flag in Miami the real race was probably between the same old 6-8 drivers. Amazingly I found the Cup race at Martinsville more watchable than the IRL race, something that given my very very low opinion of Martinville racing I never expected to happen.

Someone fixed Formula One!! From the first corner in Melbourne when Felipe Massa put his foot down and span towards the wall the sport was a very different monster. It might even now be described as a sport. The drivers have to drive. Incredible.

I have a new love. The American Le Mans Series. I've always loved endurance racing, the main Le Mans event especially, and the American sister series got off to a stormer in Sebring. Although Europe has a similar Le Mans series it is run much closer to 'real' ACO rules, meaning that P2 cars are far weaker than P1's. The ALMS's throwing out of that rule makes the racing far better. No-one wants to see Audi win over and over again. Thanks to Speed TV having coverage of Sebring on the internet and Radio Le Mans also broadcasting over the internet I didn't go to sleep till 2am. And I loved every minute of it.

Unfortunately I have to end some sad news.  A plane crash on Sunday claimed the life of two of the most well-known guys in British motorsport. Former Touring Car driver David Leslie and Team Owner Richard Lloyd crashed en route to the Nogaro circuit in France where they were planning on testing their latest project - a Jaguar GT3 car for the FIA GT championship. Both these guys were, if not childhood heroes of mine, central figures in the sport as I just started to follow it in the early 90's.

It's just a shame that after a great start to the motor-racing year, something like that has to happen.