The White Helmet

THE WHITE HELMET

And all the boys in the yellow, green and red and blue helmets

The White Helmet: And all the boys in the yellow, green, red and blue helmets (The Coloured Helmets (Red, White Yellow, Green and Blue)

"Grand Prix racing is primarily a mental contest it's a battle of strength of wills by the combatants and a magnificent contest, the arena to display and share unique gifts and talents. Perhaps in this 'theatre of speed', F1 is a metaphor for life itself."

- craig

A book on my great passion, motor racing. Or maybe a story or stories essentially of family, loyalty, redemption, hope, faith and love (some central themes) ....but we'll see where it all leads. Also perhaps even a true story...or a number of stories!

"The driver is expected to explore the inner places of his desire by taking everything to this limit...to translate it into a sublime peak only he can reach; but the trouble is they're all doing it.... on a narrow ribbon of track, together."

- fine writing by Christopher Hilton in his fascinating book 'Inside the Mind of a Grand Prix Driver (by Hilton (Haynes Publishing 2003)

WARNING! This book is going to be very different and will NOT be all about motor racing It's a story of finding and following our dreams

We'll just see what else flows and where the journey leads (as I write)

Am Just starting writing and will post extracts and upload AS I write.

Craig 27thh Nov 2011.

Here's a start...

"I want to write the way Gilles Villeneuve drove and power-slid his blood-red Formula One Ferrari with wild enthusiasm and a sense of abandonment, combined with the artists craft of a Stirling Moss, a Jim Clark, and especially that of the great Ayrton Senna, living on the razor-blade edge of life."

for dearest mom and dad, your spirits lives on (forever)

thanks for all the support, encouragement and especially love

craig

"Man is a great wall builder

The Berlin Wall

The Wailing Wall of Jerusalem

But the wall most impregnable

Has a moat

flowing with fright

around his heart

A wall without windows for the spirit to breeze through

without a door for love to walk in."

- OSWALD MTSHALI, Soweto (South African) poet

from 'My Traitor's Heart' by Rian Malan (published by Vintage 1990)

"It is a celebration of a man's unique vision a vision that reaches out and shines, touching with magic the drama of life across all its limitless horizons."

"The characters seem to represent the virtues and the

resilience of the little people, a story (or stories) to which we can all

relate. In essence it's about hope and faith: a tale (and tales) of the

unquenchable spirit of tenacity in battling on, no matter what are our

circumstances. And then eventually finding a way, a pathway to overcome

personal adversity and to ultimately succeed in glorious triumph."

- anon

Now that's some very inspiring words (and hopeful "reviews") to aim at in my "little work"... to test the very limits of my creative imagination.

Eureka. I just had another idea. I'll write two or three books at once...and see where they may lead.

'The Yellow Helmet (the Boy in the Yellow Helmet)' is "opening soon"... and the curtain will fall down

That's a metaphor, btw!

PPS

"Schumachers 2010 return shows the dream still burns - but the rest of us 'losers' should take heart. The key here is the dream, rather than its realisation. It may not be explicable to us mere mortals, but the more I heard about this 'Heaven on Earth' called the Zone, the more I was convinced it is the true Holy Grail - not just for racing drivers, but for all human beings in whatever we do. Finding it often enough inevitably leads to 'wi