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Jordan decided to give Schumacher a chance after his first test drive(Silverstone), which was also the very first time he sat inside an F1 car. Prior driving it the team made very clear to Schumacher that this is the same car he will be using in Spa 4 days later for his first race ever, and that this will be the same engine and there is no other. That he must be careful not to crash the car, because there isn't another one. But with all of that pressure Schumacher had to perform and impress Jordan's team. "Anderson watched as Schumacher pulled away and began to accelerate. Anderson could see instantly that the car control, the finesse was already there. As Schumacher completed his opening lap at speed he approached the little group (Weber, Foster, Phillips, Anderson and three mechanics resting on the armco) at 150 160mph there was a kink and a chicane. Ordinarily as Phillips says drivers would lifted off at the kink for the chicane but Schumacher came at them flat out. Istinctively they stepped backwards. Schumacher was gone into his second lap." Foster said "Within three laps the brakes were glowing into the chicane, he was flicking it through and i remember to this day turning to Weber and saying "We've got to call him in, slow him down by getting him out of the car!" He'd been immediately on the pace, immediately, like bomp-bomp-bomp. Three laps, there he was. No question of "I'll feel the brakes in because they are carbon brakes and ive never driven with them before" no, just bomp-bomp-bomp! Once Foster had told Weber this he said to Phillips "Go and ring Edie Jordan and tell him we've found a star!"

We always had minor tensions with China. The reasons for the increased tension is because China is trying to build a road to the Doklam spot, which belongs to Bhutan. You can read about it online. The spot is of strategic importance to us as well, as it is close to the Siliguri Corridor - a slim passage that connects the North-eastern part of India to the rest of our country. Things have been hot for a while before that, because: 1) We refused to participate in China's ambitious OBOR (One Belt One Road) project. Our reasons are justified because this project makes China and Pakistan more powerful in our region, something which we cannot allow. 2) We conducted navy exercises with Japan and US in Malabar, which further annoyed China. Anyways, I doubt whether we will go to war. We both are nuclear nations, but more importantly to China, the multi billion dollar trade with us cannot be jeopardised. The current situation is basically a bit of grandstanding on their part. Someone is standing up to a bully, and China don't want to back off. We have offered dialogue but China has refused that. As an Indian, my biggest worry is not China but the main opposition party in my country. When countries are threatened by foreign forces, all political parties unite, but in India, the main opposition party, Congress, which belongs to the powerful Gandhi(not Mahatma Gandhi) family secretly met with the Chinese envoy during the dispute, and repeatedly attempted to undermine the Indian government.

£42m on a defender that Danny Rose will still have to google.

Ibiza on Tuesday. Can't wait to arrive 9:30am and then not sleep until I get home. Great place.