- What’s the difference between a religious person and an atheist who chants for their favourite team? I don’t know. Nothing? Maybe everyone just needs to belong to a club. Both have songs. Knowing the words to a beloved hymn or the Geelong Football Club song seems arbitrary. Whether you’re ‘fundamentally’ religious or a hardcore sports fanatic, you’re both equally primed and ready to get violently irrational at anyone rooting for the other team. HOWEVER! Such exaggerations do not take place at the V8 Supercars. Kids from 4 to 80 love the speed, the roar, the bike stunts, the drag racing, the stats, the truck parade through town, the fast food and of course the XXXX Angels. Friendly rivalry replaces scowls and fistfights over Ford v Holden. Car v car and ute v ute.
Our Father, which art in darwin,
hallowed be thy fuel.
Thy lap record come,
times will be done,
in perth as it is in darwin
Give us this day our daily re-treads.
And forgive us our inside passes
as we forgive them that inside pass against us.
And lead us not until the last lap,
but deliver us from the pits.
For thine is the fastest,
the power, and the horses,
for ever and ever.
(or sixty-nine laps)
Ahem
- The thought of attempting to perceive the Jesus ute racing for Christ in the town named after the guy who brought the theory of evolution to the fore is doing my head in.
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