Thrills, Spills, Spins and Donuts at Goodwood Festival Of Speed!
As usual the weekend was an explosion for all senses…sounds, sights and of beautiful machines, the smell of burning rubber from spins and donuts and the taste of typically unhealthy snacks! What a great event – some pics below! Weather was hot and sunny and I was lucky enough to see Lewis Hamilton and Desire Wilson (one of the only women to race an F1 car) being interviewd!
It looks like this time out and change of intensity worked well judging by his and McLaren’s performance in qualifying for the German GP this afternoon.
Anyway, I digress….back to Goodwood! Chris Evan’s collection of Ferarri’s was truely a sight to see – so too were the 1960s/70s concept cars from Alfa Romeo and Vauxhall (….yes a Vauxhall..I was surprised too!!)
But the car that stole the show was the Cartier winner – the 1938 Hispano-Suiza!
Had a great time at the event. Can’t wait for next year!!
Which one’s your favourite?
Talk to y’all soon
Annabel
Lewis Hamilton being interviewd by Amanda Stretton at Goodwood Festival Of Speed
Desire Wilson being interviewd at 2009 Goodwood Festival Of Speed
1968 Alpha Romeo Carabo a beautiful Concept Road Car
2009 Goodwood Festival Of Speed Alpha Carabo
Black Ferarri - the only one in Chris Evans collection
2009 Goodwood Festival Of Speed and Chris Evans White Ferarri Dino
2009 Goodwood Festival Of Speed Chris Evans Ferarri Collection White Ferarri GTO
White Ferarri Lusso part of Chris Evans Collection at Goodwood Festival Of Speed
1938 Hispano-Suiza winner of the Cartier prize at 2009 Goodwood Festival Of Speed
Had a great day at Porsche Human Performance centre, Silverstone where Mark Webber spoke about his diet, training, approach to race weekends….oh and ofcourse ‘that’ injury!!
Thanks to all at Porsche Experience for a cool day. I met lots of cool racers and learnt some new stuff too…which is always good : ) so I can go out there and kick some more ass!!!! : )
I was having a chat with someone a few days ago about the differences of racing a rear-wheeled car to a front-wheeled car. Surely its just a case of understanding the weight distribution and loading forces of a car under breaking, during and after a corner which is important.
If you know and understand where the power is distributed and when then isn’t it a case of adjusting your style and understanding to suit? As a racer I find understeer incredibly frustrating – I just want to get on with exiting the corner. Now for me it would be good to change the set up and/or understand the car better and adapt my style to suit. Thats what’s so cool about racing – you have to work through problems, learn and adapt…..cool..bring it on!!!!
Well have spent some time over the Summer adding to the book. I kinda left events to unfold as I spent much of the summer with an ice pack on my foot. A couple of months later after having to wait to see a consultant, x-rays and MRI showed a fracture to one of my Sesamoid bones. So I couldn’t do much but wait! I decided to add to the book as there were areas I had left out which I wanted to amend. The trouble with being a Forex Trader is the market moves so quickly its difficult to add everything….especially recently! But what I have done is to write about the areas everyone should know to give you an understanding of how all the areas fit together including a really great, effective and yet simple strategy.
It has given me something constructive to do aswell as trading, working on the web site and setting up my trading club on Ecademy which I’m really enjoying : ) So the foot is still being a pain in the ass but have a boot brace to limit the use so it gets better – at least there is some improvement.
Its funny how things work out : ) I really want to be training again – I miss my training buddies at British Military Fitness! I also miss racing massively…have been working on that one too! I always like to think of how I can turn a setback into an advantage…believe me I have done it many times!! Its a challenge and you have to think out of the box and creatively but there’s nothing worse than feelin sorry for yourself. I guess I have a ‘can do’ approach!!
So managed to get lots done over the Summer and am lovin gettin to know you guys out there. Hopefully you can all hear about my racing progress too next year….!!
A few years ago I was working out how I could earn enough money to quit my day career and commuter hell to follow my passion for car racing and be financially independent. Having found buying and selling UK stocks not profitable enough for short term returns I enrolled on an expensive financial trading seminar. After the course I traded many of the markets but found I was increasingly disillusioned by trading the UK stock market and binary trading. Following on from conversations with other traders there it was – the Foreign Exchange platform or FOREX
This had to be where professional traders made their money and I wanted to know more!
The trouble was there was so much information on the internet about FOREX trading – where would I start? Since coming across this problem I decided I wanted to write a book (download the first chapter for free here) to explain the essentials of FOREX trading in layman’s terms. For this reason, I wrote Trade Forex From Home keeping it really simple, easy to follow and to understand with some basic trading techniques which if followed has the opportunity to get your Forex trading account up and running in no time. I wanted to share my journey and communicate how anyone can trade the FOREX market.
It’s taken nearly three years with juggling my day career, sponsorship hunting for racing and sometimes working part time to fit trading into my daily routine, in addition to researching and writing the book, to reach this stage. That’s years of research, reading, learning, practicing trading set-ups and seeing what works.
Please take a look at my new web site and book available here – www.tradeforexfromhome.com if you would like to know more about trading the FOREX market.
I hope you enjoy the read…….
With best wishes for a successful FOREX trading career.
What a great race – a fantastic end to the season! Well done to Lewis Hamilton and McLaren. As always racing is such an intriguing combination of team and driver – one can’t succeed without the other. Winning is always the sum of all parts especially in Formula One.
WELL DONE TO EVERYONE INVOLVED!
I can’t wait for 2009 season to start! I should be on track too in 2009…..still working on things here as always..
Did anyone see the Bathurst race last weekend? Awesome!! Would love to race it myself : ) Great weekend for motorsport….jst about went to bed on Saturday eve as F1 GP on early! Had planned an allnighter which almost happened : ) Caught Motors TV on widescreen surround sound…!!
As always things in the pipeline although most of it outside my control. Just need to make sure I’m prepared for situations as they arise….more news soon hopefully.
Well I think this is true. When I first started trading (with a demo account) I was reluctant to pull out of a trade when it was going against me. It guess it went something like…..’maybe its a pull back and not an actual change in direction’ but you only know for definite when you have already lost money. Its so easy to say when your sitting comfortably in your office chair when you Work From Home ahh that will never happen with my trading – and if it does then you need to learn from the experience and build a better exit strategy into your trading plan. On paper it is relatively easy to Earn Money trading the Forex Online but there is a psychology to trading well and building a Buisness From Home as your future earning capacity and fulfilling your dreams of Financial Freedom.
It is very hard to cut your loses but you need to for your money management strategy aswell as your trading plan. Forex Trading is something you need to learn how to do and this learning doesn’t happen over night. It takes time to understand market movement, back test strategies, find out which indicators and moving averages suit you best and do you use Pivot Points aswell as Fibonacci?
If you are prepared to really Learn Forex trading it is such a great opportunity. Millions are already trading but I don’t know how many adopt good trading attitudes, see trading as developing their Own Business and treat it with the same respect as if they were starting out with a business loan in hand. Having said that it offers such freedom that I would recommend it to others and great for Work At Home Moms, those who do shift work, those who love Home Working and part time workers too!
So trading Forex Market isn’t just for the City boys then!
Being home based is something I have always wanted to do – I guess like many others. Having control of my daily routine and of the way I earn money has become increasingly important to me as I juggle working to make money keeping a roof over head while I figure out how the hell I’m gonna race full time! In the short term I took out loans to pay for racing which I am obviuosly paying back every month.
Having spent the last year and a half researching and writing the FOREX BOOK whilst working full time sometimes with my own private clients, sponsorship hunting, writing sponsorship proposals, networking, learning Forex trading and keeping up with the running, I am now finding that FOREX Trading IS the way forward. The more I think of the other business opportunities available the more I think trading is great. Yes you can loose money but the most important aspect to trading is preparation, practise and know what you are doing.
I was discussing the potential trading has to offer in terms of financial gains with someone online a couple of days ago. It really does have the potential to make money for the rest of your life. The Forex market doesn’t generally respond to economic forces like any nation’s stock market will so is relatively stable and as its so liquid and volatile there will be plenty of movement in the price to make daily gains. It is very reassuring, especially in this current economic climate to know I am not nervous about loosing my job as normally I would be. I consider trading to be one of the best home based business opportunities available to all – especailly for work at home moms. Its great to be in control of your income, daily routine and there’s no wasted time now sitting in pointless traffic jams and spending hours commuting – aaahhh how lovely
Its also good to know you can learn and develop at your own pace. When I first started trading I didn’t think there was much point in trading £1 per pip and looking for a measly 20 pips – what good is that?! But now I see that its not about the money – its about consistency. If you can consistently gain 20 pips then it doesn’t matter if you trade £1 per pip or £100 per pip. There is always a progression – a step up the financial ladder if you like. As long as you can be consistent thats all it takes – and it is possible to trade £100 per pip if you have a large enough account size. This is why I see Forex trading as running a business from home – THE BEST online business opportunity there is.
Convinced? take a look at my web site for further information including a free download of the first chapter of the FOREX BOOK and some great Top Forex Trading Tips too to help you on your way.
This really follows on from my previous post about sponsorship being as risky as any other marketing, advertising or PR campaign. It made me think that when I mention to others that I actively trade the Forex market the first reaction is – ‘oh I could do that – its far too risky’. But isn’t running your own business risky? Isn’t taking out a 100% mortgage risky? But many people do – society sees it as, yes risky, but its acceptable.
I think maybe many people are not altogether seeing trading as the business it is….possibly see it as a bit of a game – or worse see and treat it as gambling. You can loose a lot of money that way – which is up to the individual but if trading the Forex is seen and treated as a business opportunity then this is a very powerful way to earn money for the rest of your life….well certianly for a very long time! Again its all about preparation, practise and learning how to do it the right way. There are now many tools available to everyone from books, ecourses – like this one software, software from your broker, lots of online tutorials, experts with help and advice, live data – mostly all the tools available to all the city traders!
Again using the reference to starting your online business – you would do the necessary research first to establish an understanding of the market and build your knowledge first before making decisions to market your brand and carry out an advertising campaign. Having spent your budget on advertising your product/service how do you know what returns you will see – well you don’t. You may have expectations but its a complete unknown. Again this can be seen with making trading decisions – know one knows what the market will do next – you make your decsions and see what happens. If you add in your expectations, wants and needs to the situation you can become emotional and not able to make clear decisions. OK so these will happen more often when trading but the key to successful trading is not to let your emotions affect your decision making when it comes to entering or exiting a trade. Do your research and write a clear trading plan – a business strategy if you like and then STICK TO IT. By doing this you will be practising good trading techniques – perfect practise makes perfect.
There are many get rich quick schemes or should I say scams. I don’t believe any of them – surely someone else must be making money from you. I don’t want that. The plan for me when I started trading is that I could work at home and be incharge of exactly how much money I made each day and what I could do to progress. I wanted to be in control and not a client or a boss and have the opportunity to progress and develop my understanding with a knowledge that this development would be reflected in monetary terms in the future. I see Forex trading as a fantastic home based, internet business opportunity with the added luxury of being able to work from home – ahhh no commuting….and something ANYONE can do – I’m not joking either.
For the short, medium and long term it is about financial freedom – not only from commuting but also as a solution to my continued underlying concern that design/architecture is the first to be cut from a company’s list of things to do when there is concern about the economy. Yes its true to say that there are many projects being build around the world which I would work on and I have the experience to probably have work whenever I want it but I have experienced a downturn in the market a few times before – and its not a nice situation to be in. The schemes I am inlvoved with start at around £150,000 – so quite a chunk of investment for any company. That was one of the reasons for the decision to do something else – something I could control and conduct business from home. Trading the Forex gives me exactly that as its such a vast global entity that it is relatively ’safe’ to trade and fairly ‘predicatable’ once you know how!
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