In the high profile game of F1, for that matter with any professional sport, its always WYSIWYG as far as the athelete goes, nothing more nothing less. Well unless they write a biography or if they are a party animal, who loves to go cross country skiing a week before the season starts (hint Ferrari’s Finnish driver), you never get to read about their exploits off the track or off the field. But here is a golden nugget about Narain.
Then there was Narain Karthikeyan and the great SARS scare. It’s fair to say that Narain has always been a bit of a worrier and a lot of a hypochondriac, but he wasn’t well that weekend and eventually decided that he wanted to go home to his Mum back in India. He therefore left Macau – or at least tried to. It wasn’t long before news of what had happened started to filter back however. Needless to say, given his record, most of us were unkindly amused when it turned out that he’s triggered the SARS alarms at the ferry terminal and was instantly surrounded by bio-hazard suited officials, bundled into an ambulance and carted away. It turned out to be dengue fever so at least he was right that he did have something wrong with him. Narain actually was mightily quick round Macau, but he’d got this awful habit of crashing at Maternity Bend. There were suggestions it should be renamed Narain Bend after he’d pulled the same stunt three years out of three.
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