We had a double header of races at Battersea Park for Formula E which not unusually was a procession on what was a joke of a track. Goat track would be a better description. Joe Saward said it reminded him of a 1950's track, but he is wrong. A '50's track would have had the odd straw bale in front of trees, not a concrete wall. I don't know who thought a narrow two lane, bumpy, high crowned road in a park was a suitable venue to showcase their sport, but as I have said before, they did them selves no favors in doing so. It was so bad at the first corner it broke a car's suspension so they narrowed the track to one lane to avoid it, and started under a safety car. So whoever started on pole finished there. They fixed it for the Sunday race, but the anticipated first turn crash did not happen. In fact only two cars hit a wall all weekend. Amazing given the narrowness and tight man-made chicanes. One was a car problem, so we saw one driver error in two hours of racing. These guys are either the best there is or they were not trying. I suspect the latter. Yes we saw a couple of bits of biff and barge, but no one brushed a wall or took anyone out. A procession. And then the winner of the Sunday race is penalized for being able to get to the end with no battery power left. Good driving I would say, but no, he was docked 30 seconds and finished 15th. Go figure. It was fitting that this all took place in the shadow of one of London's main power stations, Battersea Power Station, a landmark. And no it is not solar or wind powered, just like the cars. 

Surprisingly NASCAR showed us the real future of automotive power, hydrogen. For the second time this year Toyota's hydrogen powered car was the pace car for the Sonoma race, and it goes on sale soon. If you wonder where the hydrogen will come from read this from Stanford University.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/june/water-splitter-catalyst-062315.html

We saw something else at Sonoma, undersized and un-pinned safety barriers. Not what you would expect from a track owned by one of the major track owners in the world, Speedway Motorsports Inc. 

As surprising as that is we also saw at Watkins Glen, owned by International Speedway Corporation, i.e the France Family, a track with incorrectly built tire walls, concrete patches and apparently "sealer" in places like a patchwork quilt. Add rain and you have an incident packed event red flagged a couple of times. Now the commentator said it was sealer, but I cannot believe that the facility guys for ISC would use it instead of trackbond. Thankfully ISC is going to put their hand in their pocket and repave the track, about time. No excuse for concrete patches in a track with the asphalt technology we have now.

There is a rumor going around that ISC has put their hand up to operate the Laguna Seca Raceway. SCRAMP has run it since it's inception, but it is on County Park land, so they have to bid for the rights periodically. People have tried before without success, SCRAMP being a local charity they have a head start, but things could change. SCRAMP actually only operates it half of the days each year, Skip Barber having the rest for his racing school, and even then SCRAMP is only allowed 5 noisy weekends. I.E, big events like the MotoGP, Historics and the Tudor Sports cars. Gone are the days of 70,000 + crowds, so I have to ask why would ISC want it? Just because SMI has Sonoma? I can't see they want another road race on the calendar, and if they did they already own or operate Road Atlanta and Sebring. Watch this space with interest.

Then we had the Indycar race at Fontana. A great race apparently, but it depends who you ask. Some of the drivers thought it too dangerous, and the saga of the aero kits introduced this year goes on. It would seem they still do not understand them and each race is actually a test session, a dangerous situation. If they don't understand them go back to last year's body until you do. Hire Adrian Newey to sort it out, don't just tinker with it. Then there was the lack of spectators, 3 or 5 thousand depending on who you listen to. Either way not good. Robin Miller, usually an apologist and huckster for Indycar, has some scathing words on this clip from Racer Magazine.

http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/118583-racer-video-robin-miller-s-message-to-mark-miles 

I went to the first race at Fontana which was an Indycar race in 100 degrees along with a lot of other people, a good crowd. We left half way through, too hot and too boring. So you can get a crowd at Fontana, even in summer. Fontana is not the only speedway not to attract spectators. New Hampshire gave up a couple of years ago, and Texas was not exactly packed. Indy is Indy, but still not the 400,000 of its heyday. Perhaps Indycars on ovals, its roots, does not work anymore. Certainly street tracks draw a crowd, but perhaps not quite as many as Robin thinks at Toronto. Not that many stands there even if he is talking about a three day total. Indycar has a problem, and it is not just the aero or speedways. The product is not pulling the fans. Too many foreigners, one make racing, or a combination of factors? All spectator racing is struggling, look at NASCAR, and let's not mention XFinity or the trucks with no one watching. Tudor Sports Cars has some loyal fans, but not enough. If you look at Le Mans with over 250'000 real attendees you can see what the fans want to watch, even if it is 24 hours, so short races are not the answer either.

Talking of Le Mans and the ACO I, like many people, are at a loss as to their plans for LMP2. I admit when it was introduced I saw it as a poor relation not worthy of my time to watch, but now with the variety of cars and top drivers it is a success. So why strangle it with limited chassis options and one engine supplier? Cost containment is the mantra, but judging by the entry this year at Le Mans no one is crying poor. Here in the US it is our top category with the DPs, not that they get a look in against the DPs, but at least it has the ability to bring interesting cars and technology like the Ligiers. IMSA is phasing out the DPs to go to an all LMP2 class at the top, but what are Chevrolet, Ford, Nissan, Mazda etc going to do with that? Ford is going to go GT racing that's what. I know IMSA are not going to adhere to the strict Le Mans rules, so what is the point? Time for the ACO to rethink the LMP2 rules.   

Sorry for the rant. It was a good race, not quite up to the Silverstone edition, but enough, especially with the Audi strategy to win the race with not the fastest car. Toyota strangely off the pace, let's hope they sort that out for Le Mans.

Another crowded weekend of racing with the WEC, NASCAR, MotoGP and Tudor Sports Cars. Lorenzo dominated the race at Jerez, but I'm sure the 122,000 crowd did not care. Amazing place, only one way in and who cares? When I was there with KR's team we went in Sunday at 5 am and waited till midnight to leave, but the atmosphere was worth it. NASCAR also had their best crowd for many a race at Talladega, must all come for the crashes as the racing itself was not great. Laguna Seca by comparison was empty. I'm sure they will say it was a record crowd, but it was a sad sight. Again the racing did not set the world alight, the "key pass of the race"  was Westbrook coming out of the pits! The DP cars still dominate, so what is the future with the LMP2 class going to virtually a spec series? 

We saw once again at Talladega a flash fuel fire during refuelling with cans. They are supposed to be dry break nozzles, but fuel spills every time. This one was thankfully smaller than last week at Richmond, and it was good to see one team with full face helmets and balaclavas. Some other teams had balaclavas with open face helmets, but that still left the face exposed, so what's the point?  

It does not take a malfunction for this to hapen though. We see at every pit stop fuel sloshing around as the can is withdrawn. What major race series in the world still fills cars from fuel cans? Even Indycar with what I would expect are far less budgets can afford dry break fuel rigs. We are no longer looking at good old boys in their stock cars, this is a highly professional sport run in the main by highly technically competent teams. So why do we still do this type of thing? Culture I expect, like the bumps around Sebring. As I have said before, if we did not change we would still be racing Roman Chariots. But then there would be no risk of fire. 

I commend the fire marshals, on the spot, fast reactions and had the fire out quickly. Well done, and brave too with open face helmets! Again, why would you ask someone to go to that conflagration with his face exposed? 

Add to that the Masters Golf from Augusta that rounded off the day. Great examples of the mind games that sport is good at demonstrating. We saw Lewis psych out Nico in China, he is really getting into Nico's head. "He's driving very slow" complained Nico of Lewis. Well he should be easy to overtake then. Lewis played a very smart hand with that middle stint. Winning a race by a minute gets you no more points than winning by 3 seconds, winning at the slowest pace as Sir Stirling Moss used to say. It reminded me of the piece in "Days of Thunder" when the Crew Chief sends Tom Cruise out to do a stint and drive as fast as he liked. Of course the tires were shot well before the end of the stint, and when he went out again and ran a set pace the overall time was better. Maybe Lewis had just watched it on the plane.

The safety car with two laps ago seemed a trifle unnecessary, again a reaction to the Bianchi incident? Watching the marshals trying to move it through a gap in the pit wall gave truth to the old saying, "a Chinese fire drill." The car was near the end of the straight in clear view and up against the wall. A yellow flag should have covered it and left there until the end. It probably made no difference to the result, but we won't know will we? 

Jordan Spieth showed incredible mental strength in leading every round of the Masters, setting new records and holding off the challenge of champions like Phil Mickelson. Talent is never enough in either sport. They all have talent or they would not be out there, it is who wants it most and can keep control of his own performance in the heat of battle. You are racing or playing yourself after all.   

We saw plenty of talent and commitment in the Silverstone 6 hours. One of the commentators, one who actually does know racing, not just a talking head, said it was the best sports car race he had ever seen. It would be hard to argue with him. Porsche, Audi and Toyota all with different designs achieved the same ends over a lap with each showing strength in different places. The racing between Jani and Fessler was incredible, swapping the lead two or three times a lap, almost like a MotoGP race. Just wait for Spa and Le Mans. Fox is showing all the WEC rounds live here in the US, although live is a relative term. Half live it should be as were subjected to never ending ads, mostly for what's coming soon on Fox. We had two interruptions while they crossed to Austin to do a promo for the MotoGP!  At least we did not have the obligatory interview with Scott Atherton as we have to have in the Tudor Series, plus the "infomercials." We had to have the repeated "highlight packages" to interrupt a great race. If people can't be bothered to watch more than the last hour then that is their loss.

Nissan brought their cars, but did not race. Is this another publicity stunt like the Delta Wing? They even took them to the Manchester City ground to show off! I'm sorry Nissan, either race or go away. Enough "wacky racers." 

MotoGP threw up some odd racing with the usually close Moto3 seeing a runaway win by the young Englishman Kent. Moto2 was a bit more fought over but after Qatar that was to be expected. What was also to be expected was Marqez running off with the MotoGP, although there was some good racing behind with Rossi and the Ducatis. Not much of a crowd, I'm glad I was not paying for this and hopefully Red Bull did. Need some American riders out there, which we hope MotoAmerica can provide. 

Then we had the Swamp GP from NOLA. God knows what Europeans think when they tune in to watch our premier open wheel racing from a facility like this. Don't get me wrong, it is fine for what it was built for, but you have to be desperate to stage this race there. Michael Andretti's organization promoted this and he was bemoaning the weather on Saturday for the empty seats. I don't think it was the rain Michael. Why you would start qualifying at 5pm in Louisiana I don't know, but it was predictably washed out. The race was not much better, lots of yellows and flooded run offs. One magazine led off with a headline of Snakes, Alligators and Hogs, and they did not mean Harleys. I hope the Louisiana Tourist Board think they got their moneys worth, but downtown New Orleans might have been a better ad for them. 

I missed the WSB from Aragon and the BES from Monza as we do not get them. Just as well or I would have had no sleep at all. 

NASCAR was at Martinsville, which looks a lot like a demolition derby. A good show but it is pot luck who escapes with the least amount of damage to win. I talked about Harvick a week or so ago and his domination, but the guy who is really on it this year is Joey Logano. Won Daytona and has been in front every race, and usually in the top five at the end. Won the truck race Saturday, and looks very happy and relaxed out of the cars. So relaxed you wonder how he does it, but put him in the car and he is steely eyed and gives as good as he gets. He and Brad make a serious pair to be reckoned with for the Championship this year. 

Indycar kicked off it's season in St Pete's street track with totally predictable results. As soon as I saw the new for this year aero packages from Honda and Chevy I knew that there was going to pieces of cars laying all over the track. F1 front wings are vulnerable, but these are ridiculous both ends of the car. I know the designer think it is great to add all these little flips and winglets, but surely someone with some common sense in the teams should say that they are not going to last much beyond the first corner. New front wings going on galore and at what cost? Then there is the stream of full course yellows to pick this stuff up, and punctures when they don't. If I was paying to attend this I'd want my money back. Montoya has regained his zest for racing and showed Sunday he will be a driver to reckon with again, great to see. One of the true racers. We were actually seeing some good racing towards the end, but then Power had a brain fade and stuck his winglet laden nose up the inside of Montoya with the inevitable result. Whatever happened to "keep it simple stupid?" Call me old fashioned but look at cars like the Williams FW07. Simple to build, and simpler to fix, and won the Championship. The great McLarens look very plain against today's F1 cars, but it was great racing still, no winglets to puncture tires.

Speaking of that, Raikkonen has had no luck at all in the two races this year. As Barry Sheene used to say, "If he had a duck it would drown." Hit on the first lap in Melbourne and then a wheel problem, and this weekend he qualifies badly due to the team sending him out late in Q2, and then a puncture from a nose hitting his sidewall. He probably had the best drive after that from last to fourth. The Ferrari suits him this year and we are missing out on seeing him having a chance to really show his old form. The early safety car spoiled the race for me, but I'm sure there are plenty who will say it made the race. Would we have seen the safety car if Bianchi had not been so badly injured last year? I doubt it, but it is an understandable reaction. I was surprised to see the snatch tractor come out. Ericsson was only just in the gravel and there were enough marshals running toward it to push it out I thought. Would have let Ericsson continue, but there you are. I was equally surprised to see the Mercedes come in for tires. At that point I knew Vettel had this won. I don't know what the strategists at Mercedes were looking at. Telling Rosberg that he would finish second, but would have to pass Vettel at the end. He could not even see him let alone pass him. Some strange calls, and maybe there was a tire wear issue, but Rosberg went on to mediums for the last stint, which lasted, and Hamilton was put on hards, which baffled him too. No new mediums was the reason apparently. Pundits say Vettel would have won anyway, but he only beat Hamilton by 9 seconds with one less pit stop, which would have cost him 23 seconds. So if Mercedes had waited and also done 2 stops then Lewis would have won by 14 seconds, but is that too simplistic? I guess we will see in China if Ferrari has made that big a gain, and hopefully see Kimi in the mix this time.

Finally we had the best racing in the MotoGP in Qatar. MotoGP provides the best value for money as the show provides three equally exciting and competitive races on the same bill. No Porsche Cups or historic displays here, just full on racing. The MotoGP saw Marquez slip up at the first corner and then fight back to fifth, while four guys swapped places all race for the win, with the decision made on the last run up to the finish. Great stuff, just a pity no one in Qatar wants to go and see it. Marquez made the race for us, but the Ducati's showed they have finally sorted themselves out and can compete at the front. Should be a good year with Rossi still having the fitness and commitment and Lorenzo back in form. Moto2 was a little unusual with a lack of competition at the front, but what it lacked was more than made up by the Moto3 crowd. Yes a crowd, with riders going from first to tenth and back again in the length of a straight. Amazing stuff with riders from 15 years of age to old hands mixing it all race. Can't take your eyes off stuff. I for one did not like to see the 125 and 250cc classes go as it seemed that the replacements were now seen to be subordinate to the top class, instead of being an equal World Championship, but you cannot complain about the racing we now get to see.   

I must confess to be surprised by the struggles of Honda. They sat out last year to develop the engine, so had the same lead time as the Mercedes, Renault and Ferrari. Last year we saw some problems in testing, especially Renault, but even they had a competitive car in the first race. Given Honda is probably the best engine company out there being the new guys does not seem much of an excuse.

Personally I enjoyed the race. I will confess to being a Hamilton fan and a purist who has followed F1 for the best part of 60 years and lover of the technology. So seeing Mercedes enjoy the fruits of their great engineering is how it should be. Are we surprised? Every time Mercedes has been in F1 it has dominated. So now Red Bull once more wants to take their bat and ball home because they can't win. Domination is bad for the sport. It wasn't when Vettel was winning 11 straight, or the team dominated for four years? Only Montezemolo threatened to leave and who took him seriously. Red Bull was always going to go away sooner or later to sponsor some other form of X Games for their audience of gullible kids. I have to admire their marketing prowess, as that is what drives all this. They want a "show" to sell more drinks. Ask Frank Williams why he has run a team, even after he is confined to a wheelchair. It is because he loves the sport. He has never threatened to quit even with all their lean years.

So we need to rein in Mercedes, equalize the engines. We just had that with the last years of the V8s and what happened? Red Bull dominated. They demonstrated that good engineering and preparation will always produce someone who dominates. Have we forgotten the Schumacher years?

Audi dominated Le Mans for years. What happened? Toyota, Peugeot and now Porsche took them on and are using technology that still makes F1 look a bit old hat. F1 had to change or lose its place as the top race series.

Loeb won how many WRC titles? It is in the nature of racing that a team and driver hits on a winning combination and it takes time for others to catch up. So be it, that's racing as they say.

So let's look across the pond to NASCAR, basically a spec series these days. Control ECU from McLaren, control tires from Goodyear, templates equalized in wind tunnel body testing, and close limits on just about everything else. Makes for close racing, but we still see domination by one driver/crew chief. Harvick is on a roll from the end of last season, winning the title, and winning two of the four races this year and second in the others. We saw Jimmy Johnson with six Titles, Earnhardt Sr, Jeff Gordon in his younger days winning so often we all hated him, and let's remember The King, Richard Petty won twice as many races as even Schumacher could manage. I don't recall any team owner threatening to quit.

Talking of NASCAR, does anyone else cringe when commentators tell us "these are the best drivers in the world." They are certainly great at what they do, there is no denying that, as we have seen drivers like Montoya and Ambrose struggle to compete. Now Ambrose has decided to vacate his V8Supercar seat after a couple of races where he has not been on the pace. Very odd, or is the standard of today's drivers in that series better than their NASCAR counterparts? Ambrose you will recall was clearly the best road course driver and did not disgrace himself on the ovals either, so what does that tell us? This is another of those stories that make you go, Hmm? Just like Alonso and Manor.

Kyle Busch was involved in a fairly innocuous side swipe at the exit of the Tri-Oval. Not enough to damage the car or the driver one would think. It then traveled over 500 feet to hit an unprotected concrete wall at what would be the inside wall from Turn 6 on the road course. He crossed over 400 feet of asphalt which is there as the run off for Turn 1 on the road course. The car appears to have not slowed and the black tire marks would appear to be from the yaw on the car. So why was Kyle, one of the top drivers, not able to turn or spin the car? There is the usual knee-jerk reaction like we saw with Dale Earnhardt with the cry for "safer barrier" everywhere, even though those calling for it accept they do not know it would have made a difference in this case. The tires that were placed for Sunday are a much better solution. Just think back to Massa and Perez at the end of the Canadian F1 race last year. High speed frontal impact into tires and no injury to either of them.

There has not been one word about the car and what happened before or during the impact. Now Kyle's legs may have just flopped around and hit things inside the foot well, but isn't that worth looking at? Did the foot well collapse or did something penetrate it? No one is saying anything. And why could it not stop or change direction? We saw a somewhat similar crash in the 500 where Larson spun and was nowhere near that wall. Answers on a postcard please.

And then there is Alonso, still recuperating at home for a crash that is recorded as a 105 kph hit. Cause of the crash given as the wind, going wide on the astroturf, but nothing wrong with the car apparently. Other drivers think this is all very strange. A low speed side impact in a car designed to protect drivers better than almost anything else on a race track causes concussion. OK, get that, but NFL footballers get concussion and are cleared to play a game where the object is to hit people the following Sunday. Alonso had three days in hospital and his ability to drive in Melbourne in twelve days time is still in doubt?  Something we are not being told.

Then there is the crash in Adelaide on my street circuit. Car breaks right front suspension on the apex curb of the second part of the chicane. One hit too many. So straight on into the unprotected concrete wall right on the edge of the track at Turn 3. The normal accident here is to go in at an angle where it is better to slide down the wall than be thrown back into the path of other cars by a tire wall. No mention of injuries. So is a V8Supercar built better than a Xfinity or F1 car? OK, slower impact than Busch but much closer, and a lot quicker than 105 kph.

We've seen cars disintegrate and drivers walk away. Scott Sharp in the Petit Le Mans a few years back. 90% of that car was destroyed and he unbuckled and walked away. The Audi at Le Mans last year, vertical between the catch fence and concrete wall. I think it was Duvall and not surprisingly he went home to think about that. McNish a few years earlier over the guard rail. Cars can be built to protect drivers, so how about NASCAR having a think about that. Cheaper to fix cars that can race anywhere rather than spend millions on walls that may not be hit again, or install a fix that other series like the IRL don't like.

With today's set up Sir Stirling Moss could not win the Monaco GP in a single car privateer team with a bought Lotus 18, and we would all be the losers. 1,2,3 and yes even 4 car teams were the norm. What is so important about 2 car teams? Does it fulfil Bernie's desire to see neatness and order for those fleeting seconds when the cars are on the grid, or is it that the latest pit buildings can only accommodate 2 car teams?  I for one would prefer to watch a race with three Ferraris or McLarens than a bunch of HRTs running around at the rear.

And why not customer cars? It is not that long ago we had Toro Rosso and Super Aguri running someone else's chassis and engine, and have we forgotten how F1 grew to become what it is today? Where would Sir Jackie and Ken Tyrrell have been without Matra, March and the Cosworth DFV. Buying a cheap competitive engine from Cosworth saw the best period of racing, even if Ferrari called them "garagistes." Good close competition that saw the birth of Williams and made possible James Hunt and Hesketh. Here in the US Champ Car had it's greatest success with teams buying chassis from March and Lola and bolting in an engine purchased from someone else, compare it to today's spec racing. 

I must admit I am surprised that there is not the usual suspects of wealthy businessmen waiting to snap up these teams, all thinking they are smarter than the last lot. Gene Haas thinks he is and has said so. "They all made mistakes." Yes, and you think you know something they did not? How many of these people were smart enough to make a lot of money and they all made mistakes? Look at the list for the last ten years. The mistake they made was not to understand the business and how the money goes around, or doesn't. Until the way the money is distributed changes we will have to be happy with three car teams and/or customer cars, although Horner says he can't afford a third car. Really? How many chassis has Vettel used this year? Perhaps not buying a new "motorhome" next year will cover it?

That is the point. They react to an incident and stick a band aid on it. How about being pro-active? Blind Freddy could see that sooner or later a driver wandering around on a hot race track seeking payback was going to be hit. It took a death to fix it. But what if Tony Stewart had not been the driver to hit Kevin? Suppose it was just another Saturday night local racer? Would we even have heard about it? We kill or maim people every week on tracks in the US, and unless someone well known is involved who cares? Ray Dunlap said on NASCAR Race Hub in the week that 25 people are killed a year, and I bet that is just in the NASCAR related races he knows about. What about kart tracks, private testing, track days etc?

I saw the reaction of one track after a 12 year old boy on a kart was decapitated for the lack of a barrier. They immediately installed a fence, straw bales, tires and plastic barriers. They said they could not do it beforehand as they could not predict where the accident would happen! There are tracks built all around the world where the basis of their design is the prediction of accidents and measures put in place to prevent or ameliorate them. We have over 100 years of knowledge and experience and now computer simulation to assist us, so why do we still have tracks that do not install the basic systems or do so incorrectly?

It took a big wreck at Watkins Glen for drivers to ask for improvements. Let's see how fast NASCAR reacts to that.

As with most of the expert witness cases I handle the only person who really knows what happened is no longer alive to tell the story. Only Kevin really knows what he did, I am sure Tony was not expecting it. What is remarkable is the Sheriff's involvement. I can only recall one case where the police attended, rare in itself, and conducted an investigation. Usually they decide this is a private facility and leave. On one case they did detail the fight that followed the accident and injury, but not the accident!

So why this case? Is Tony really seen to be a driver likely to run over someone on purpose? No way, he may be tough, but he lives for racing, and I for one cannot believe it. From the video I have seen it looks as if the rear wheels move away from Kevin, not toward. If it were Jimmy Johnson, Jeff Gordon, or Jr. would the police really be looking at this?

So Tony does not drive at Watkins Glen, and rightly so. We saw some great racing, especially my Aussie mate Ambrose showing them how to really drive. Some hard racing but clean. Well done AJ, fought for and deserved that first win. I still find it hard to perceive that oval racing is so different that guys like Ambrose and Montoya cannot translate their obvious world class talent into oval wins, but it obviously is.

What was graphically demonstrated was how in need of an full course update Watkins Glen is. I have offered to go up and provide a report but of course NASCAR knows better. That is why we still use sand barrels and tire walls built totally wrong. Several drivers offered the same comment but then said it would cost too much. Watkins Glen is owned by the largest track owner in the world, ISC, and they cannot afford it? I loved Alan Bestwick's comment that the track narrows near the site of the big crash due to a "natural feature," meaning the tunnel. What, it was there before they built the track? Just one of the many ill-informed comments. This layout is great, it just needs bringing up to modern standards, and yes you can accommodate different users and configurations. Even the guard rail is still acceptable, it did not fail and was a softer hit than a concrete wall. Just a pain to repair. It is just in the wrong place on most of the track.

Marquez won his tenth straight MotoGP at Indy, but who was there to see it. Red Bull must be paying for all this as the crowd certainly isn't. Same story with the Tudor Sports car race which thankfully is not to return. MotoGP needs to go to tracks that show off their product, not just somewhere that pays the most.