How a Christmas vacation brought back memories of meeting 'The King'

This week, I'm afraid, you can probably tell me a lot more about what's going on in the F1 world than vice versa. I'm over in the US of A, taking the kids to visit Florida's Disney parks at a time when you can actually move. Every day I've been nervously logging in to see if Formula 1 still exists.

Disneyland would no doubt seem the ultimate fantasy if I didn't spend much of the year in the F1 paddock... Visiting America though, would be good preparation for a world without F1. It's just not on their radar.

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