I really admire Rory Byrne he is a
South African born engineer and car designer, currently Design and Development Consultant for the
Scuderia Ferrari. Rory also celebrates his birthday this week - January 10 (1944) I'd love to be a racing car designer like Rory one day and would love to meet him.
More on Rory from Wikipedia: He is the most successful Formula One designer of the last decade, since joining Ferrari in 1997 Byrne designed cars have won over seventy
Grand Prix races, six constructors titles and five drivers titles. Byrne was born in
Pretoria and went to
Witwatersrand University in
Johannesburg,
South Africa. He was interested in racng firstly as a competitor and later the technical side. His first car was a
Formula Ford which was raced in 1972. Byrne moved to
England to continue a career in racing car design. Purchasing an aging
Royale Formula Ford car he began putting together the skills required improve the design and received a lucky break in 1973 when Royale founder
Bob King decided to sell the team. The new owner needed an engineer to replace King, who had also been the cars designer, and offered the job to Rory Byrne, who spent the next four years designing a variety of cars for the Royale and its customers. An introduction to
Ted Toleman in 1977 offered the next opportunity for the thirty-three-year-old who was by now an established figure in
British motor racing.
Toleman was owner of a
Formula 2 team and hired the
South African as its designer. Several seasons of increasingly respectable results culminated in first and second place in the 1980 British Formula 2 championship. The team with Rory Byrne as its chief designer was now ready to make the jump into
Formula One.
Japan has launched a rocket with many satelites into space. The one satelite - Ibuki is looking for greenhouse gases and also looking for pollution and stuff. They want to make a business and money out of launching satelites into space. I wonder how many satelites are out there floating in space? Imagine the litter we're leaving in space. I want to design something that collects old satelites and junk from space ....
I can't believe it's 2009, because next year is the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa. I'm so glad that other teams from overseas are coming to play here in SA. My favourites are Brazil, Italy and Portugal.
A South African astronomer, Dr David Block discovered a new view of the universe. The equipment they used to see through the space dust was used by the United states to spy on Russia.
So I'm only nine and can't drive but boy do I love driving games like Need for Speed and Midnight Club. Those are the two best driving games I like! I like the way the Americans do the faces of the people on Midnight Club and the cars! It's cool cause you can test drive cars which are locked. 
I'm 9 but I know about Elvis and James Dean and Marilyn Monroe, they all could sing except for James Dean. My mom says it's Elvis' birthday today. He died in August - and Marilyn Monroe, I know 'cos I read this on the puzzle I'm busy building with the three of them gambling together. We have some Elvis stuff, clock, tins and records and James Dean and Marilyn Monroe pictures and collector cars. We also have James' Dean's movie which was boring. I do like old movies though - my mom has Thoroughly Modern Millie which I enjoy as well as the original Thunderbirds with puppets.
I’m nine and started my own blog with my mom. I like typing on the computer it’s quite fun or should I say cool. My favourite cars are the Ford Mustang, Audi R8, Merc Amg, Salleen, Mitsubishi Lancer, Chevrolet SS Lumina and the Buggati which is the fastest car in the whole world.
