Old Chickens Make Good Soup!!

I’m going to talk about the new Moto GP world champion Valentino Rossi, who is considered to be the best rider ever. He has won the championship 9 times. He has managed to beat one of his hardest competitors, the Spanish pilot Jorge Lorenzo, who is 22.

Rossi, 30, celebrated his new title with the slogan: Old chickens make good soup. With this Rossi wanted to say that he is old, but he still manages to beat the “youngsters”.

He won the championship after a very difficult rainy race. He started in pole position but when he reached the first bend he was in 10th position. However, he ended the race in third place, just one place before his rival Jorge. So for me, one of his greatest fans, it was one of the best moments of the year and to celebrate it he did two amazing wheelies!!

What a disaster!

Hi, it’s Sergio again and I’m going to talk about a bad experience I had last weekend. I took part in the duathlon in Almazan. This duathlon consists of running 6 kilometres, then cycling 20 kilometres and then running again the final 3 kilometres.

The race started. I ran the first 6 kms in 24 minutes, 2 minutes slower than the first runner and 30 seconds slower than the second. When I got on the bike I was third, but in 5kms I was first.

I was first and I was feeling great, but then something bad happened… I had a puncture in my rear tyre. I decided to continue with a flat rear wheel, but I had to reduce speed so the second competitor reached me, and a kilometre later something even worse happened to me. I had another puncture in my front wheel!!! At that exact moment I realised that I wasn’t going to finish the race. I had to retire.

This was a bad experience that I hope will never happen to me again!!

NEW AUDI E-TRON

If we take a look at today’s number of electric cars we will be able to see that it is incredibly low. Nowadays, the country with the highest number of working electric cars is Germany with just 1400 units. Why don’t we care more about investing in “techno-ecology” and sustainable resources, so that the Earth will last much longer?

Audi has assumed this responsibility and has therefore designed a futuristic, new-concept car. The basis of this car is simple: no CO2 emissions are allowed. The car is powered with four interconnected electric engines placed one in each of the wheels. The maximum power of the car is 313 horsepower and the weight of the batteries (which are stored in the centre of the car), is 450kg. The whole car weighs about 1600kg and it can reach 100km/hour in 4.8s. The maximum speed of the E-Tron is limited to 200km/h due to the batteries dependency. The autonomy of this car is 248km but Audi has promised an improvement in this aspect. It has got just two seats and they are displaced several centimetres to the front because of the huge space occupied by the batteries.

Like many other electric cars, it is provided with a system that uses the kinetic energy generated during the use of the brake. Furthermore, they are now investigating how to heat or cool the inside of the car without using any electric energy or any fuel.

The coolest thing about this car is that you can just plug it in the socket of your own house. When the batteries’ charge level is low, you simply plug it in and wait between six and eight hours. In spite of being quite a long time, there is a chance that in the near future gas stations will provide us with high voltage sockets that will reduce the charging time to 1 or 2 hours.

This car is great but what about the price? The cheapest 100% electric car is nearly 32,000 euros, so just imagine what the price of the new Audi might be... It seems that if we want to help our plane we need either to be rich or wait for the electric cars to come along an dismantle today’s motor industry.