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Thompson reflects on a whirlwind first season
Wednesday December 02 2009
IT'S been an extraordinary first season of car racing for Gary Thompson. He's clocked up more air miles than Barack Obama and gone from the semi anonymity of European karting to the blinding glare of challenging for a major international single-seater series. Through it all, Thompson has maintained an even keel and a level head more reminiscent of Obama than a 17-year-old Leaving Certificate student in his first year out of karts.
