This post is just a bit of fun.

My business is called Spingate, it’s actually named after a house and beyond that we have no idea what it means. However, when you type the name into Google (or Bing or any other search engine) you get two results:
- My company (or companies)
- The 2013 Federated Auto Parts 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on September 7, 2013, at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Virginia, United States

Could you get more different than a company based in England offering a range of class leading management consulting and property solutions (well I would say that!) and car racing? Not really.

So firstly, I got there first with the name! having established my company several years before the race but as Wikipedia notes: “The race was marred by a controversial finish, after evidence surfaced that two teams were found to have manipulated the outcome of the race and Chase positions in the final ten laps. NASCAR ultimately determined that Michael Waltrip Racing, Penske Racing, and Front Row Motorsports were involved in two separate, but intertwined, incidents, first by Clint Bowyer intentionally causing a caution with less than ten laps remaining in the race, and on the ensuing restart, having Brian Vickers pit after a restart from caution so that Martin Truex Jr. would clinch a Wildcard berth over Ryan Newman, and the second was collusion where Penske's Joey Logano earned the final guaranteed berth over Jeff Gordon after passing Front Row's David Gilliland. Both situations were intertwined together because of the tenth place and wild card situation. This scandal became widely known as Spingate”

So, there you have it. No great technical insights or anything that changes the world but it does show how we can be one degree of separation from wildly different things.

And NASCAR is great to watch if you like car racing!

Happy New Year and best wishes everyone