Kabul Grand Prix Gets Off to Explosive Start

November 10th, 2009

by Alain Katayama

The Kabul stretch of the Grand Prix has been the most exciting yet..

KABUL - Afghanistan - After an intense qualifying session on Saturday, the Afghan Grand Prix began in spectacular fashion.

Jenson Helmand made it two wins out of twenty one for Brown GP in Kabul on Sunday afternoon, with a finely judged performance dodging suicide bombers and grenades that stretched his world championship score to 12 points.

Before the race, the Englishman had suggested that Brown’s domination was under threat after the team's chief mechanic was abducted by the Taliban. But when Louis Ascari was finally found and the ransom money paid to the tribal chiefs, there was relief all around -- especially for Ascari who was prepared to endure a painful Taliban beheading on his person with a blunt butter knife, which, thankfully was averted in the nick of time.

It was just a matter of waiting for the Toyota team to make their stops (leader Abdullah on lap 11, polesitter Mahmoud bin Abdul on lap 12), and thereafter he nearly lost his head after his own first stop on lap 15 when Giancarlo Hamid tried to shoot him with an AK-47 (regaining it on lap 22 when Mohammed and Ferrari’s Sheik Omar stopped and detonated their explosives), and after his second stop on lap 37, when Ali Babba again moved ahead for three laps, this time on a camel.

Far from challenging, the young Afghan had his hands full looking after his opium in traffic, so he stopped for awhile and smoked the lot missing the end of the race by three weeks.

A day that started well for Toyota ultimately yielded an opium finish, but after both cars started from the front row that had to count as a bribe payment. Abdul Azizi blamed a long middle stint on the prime Kalashnikov tyre which let Osama pass in the final stops by shooting out his tyres and wishing he had caught his 72 virgins.

Helmand now has 10 points from Mahmoud bin Abdul on 2, Sheik Omar on -92, Ali Babba on -74.5 and Giancarlo Hamid on -87.

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