Before I started today's entry I would firstly like to congradulation Irish boxer Katie Taylor who became Amateur Feather weight world champion in China giving her a bye to the quarter finals for the 2012 London Olympics.
Anyway back to Motorsport, this weekend as I said in my headline is the biggest racing weekend of the year firstly we have the Monaco GrandPrix the most glamourous race of the calendar where everyone is hoping that firstly we won't see a repeat of the dramatic scene's following the Spanish GrandPrix two week's ago and secondly we'll get to see our sixth different winner out of six race's.
Ok many pundits are tipping Lewis Hamilton to win this weekend, however you can never discount Mark Webber at Monaco the Aussie won there in 2012 leading home a RedBull one two. We must also take into account the Lotus team's strong performance in Bahrain and again in Spain. Can Kimi take the win? Or indeed will Romain Grosjean be the one to take Lotus' first win?
Will Felipe Massa make the breakthrough he desperately needs to silence his critics for the moment at least? We will find out when the light's go out on Sunday.
Now for the second major racing event of the weekend, The Indianapolis 500, which for the first time in 7 year's will not feature Danica Patrick the NASCAR driver opted not to attempt to qualify the race due to a busy stock car schedule.
Firstly, this year's race will be a somber and poignant event as Dan Wheldon, who was so tragically killed in the final race of last season is the current Indy 500 champion. Penske's Ryan Briscoe will stat Sunday's race from pole position while the Ganassi Racing driver's Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti will star from 15th and 16th place's respectively.
This year also sees the largest number of ex F1 driver's taking part in the race at one time. Jean Alesi, Takuma Sato, Justin Wilson and Rubens Barrichello all qualified for the race. So it will be extremely interesting to see what happens.
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