A number of you have asked if there is a more direkt way to get to the BOB than through the main team website, where all along there has been a nice front page link (thank you, Roland). The BOB is hosted by an Austrian company -- for reasons that I am sure make sense to BMW -- called Two Day, hence the "twoday.net" URL that you may have noticed connected with the BOB.

Suffice to say, to get to the BOB you can simply direkt your browser to www.bmworacleracing.com/blog. Hopefully that's easier to remember. Better yet, please bookmark our site in your "favorites" list.

We have checked the BOB for compatibility with the new versions of both Internet Explorer and Firefox, and all looks fine to us. Please let us know if you ever have any problems with viewing our blog with either of those browsers or any other. We also note that the BOB is quite readable on a number of popular mobile devices including Treo, Sony-Ericsson and Nokia smartphones.

While we are at it, we are pleased to report that our site stats continue very strong. October readership nearly matched the record set in July, thanks it would appear to interest wide and far in the Allianz Cup. Thanks for your continuing support and kind comments. They are appreciated, and motivate us to keep it up day after day throughout the year. Now, with our growing success, it is planned to continue through the balance of this Cup.

Honorable mention, too, to all of you who contribute story ideas as well as additions and corrections to what we have otherwise posted on here. Apropos of which, I should give myself a bonehead award for the best typo of the year. A post during the Allianz Cup was complimentary of the TV guys and their good output despite a "makeshift control room" -- but "makeshift" was missing the "h". Luckily the post was done in the evening SFO time when at least the the bulk of our USA and European readers would been offline if not asleep; and, thankfully, early Europe time the next morning (only an hour or so after the post went up) eagle-eyed Sten Mohr (DEN, afterguard) noticed the typo and dashed off an email calling it to my attention. We were able to fix it before too many people read it and thought we were trash-talking Sam Usher and his very capable NarrowStep TV team. Ah, life at the speed of the internet!

Finally, a close friend of our team has just written to say what a good job we have done walking the fine line between telling people what is going on within our team but, as Vito Corleone said in The Godfather, "Never tell anyone outside the family what you are thinking." ;-)

As always, you can tell us what you are thinking by email, via blog [at] tfehman [dot] com.