Delhi motorists could teach a thing or two to F 1 drivers
Well, Saturday we witnessed Formula one driver Daniel Riccardio giving a demonstration in a Red Bull sports car going up and down the Raj Path at 270kmph. Since it was close to my office and in the afternoon around 2.30 pm, I decided to take a look. Walked down to boat club and found an enclosure with several metal detector doorways. Walked through one of them to find that there were no galleries. One could just lean against the security fence with another such fence separating the crowd from the road. Red Bull, the organisers, had set up huge boxes for the sound system and screens that gave a good view of both India Gate and Rashtrapati Bhavan ends. The compering was done by FM Red channel. The first item was stunt riding by the Ghost riders, a motorcycle team. They did a couple of wheelies, that is lifting the front wheel high in the air and rolling on the rear wheel and then reversing the order to almost stand still on the front wheel. Then a couple of them