The ghost of Jacob Marley

I took a look into the world of rallying for the first time since the championship ended yesterday, to find two excellent pieces of news.
The first is that Suzuki has confirmed its drivers for the '08 season. They entered their new machine late into the '07 WRC purely to get it to ground and really see what they can do with it, and as they refine their design the SX4 is going to be a completely new factor to look out for next year. The lead driver has been revealed as none other than Toni Gardemeister, the privateer I mentioned all the way back at the beginning of September for his incredible drift skills will be returning, this time trading in his Evo for what could be a much more suitable SX4, which being smaller and lighter should play perfectly with his talents.
The second, and most fantastic piece of news is that Latvala will in fact be joining the BP Focus team next year. This is truly brilliant news as he really has nowhere to go but up, and with a killer duo of Hirvonen and Latvala tearing it up behind the wheels of the best Focuses on the road, next year is guaranteed to have me following it every single step of the way.

I finished my last day of work today, or at least until after New Year, but I won't hold my breath for shifts after then. I was going to work half a day tomorrow as I wanted to get off early to go Christmas shopping with Nicola, but the big boss man just told me not to bother coming in at all, with Christmas so close all of the shops have got their orders in, so the need for so much man power is gone and we're left with a lot of people with nothing to do.
The next few days are definitely going to be busy for me though, but I am very much looking forward to being able to relax through it all once I've got the shopping done and have nothing I need to worry about. I have been invited to quite a few parties and will be spending pretty much every night out at them, although I feel bad about having to miss a lot of people's stuff as there are simply too many for me to go to them all, but I guess that's how Christmas rolls outside of secondary school where you pretty much have one big circle of friends.
I will be spending the daylight hours of the weekend on the streets as my Dad imparts more tuition in the ways of the motorized vehicle, I am especially looking forward to this as I was too busy seeing Nicola to attend my lessons last weekend, not that I would ever imagine complaining about that.