One of the drivers new this year to F1 is named Kamui Kobayashi.

That name is interesting. In Realbout High School there are four people who can control a kind of psychic energy they call "kamui". Ryoko, the heroine, has a comparable power they refer to as "shinki" which could, I suppose, be translated as "spirit of God". Anyway, I wonder if Mr. Kobayashi can shoot fire out of his fist the way Shizuma can.

(I haven't been able to figure out how kamui is spelled in Japanese, so I don't know what they think that word means.)

UPDATE: Wikipedia says that kamui is the Ainu word for divine beings e.g. kami.

Our friend the driver spells his name 可夢偉. But the kanji don't make any sense read literally. (As is usually the case for kanji used in names.)

UPDATE: Not an auspicious start to his season today, but also not his fault. He dropped out of the race in lap 11 due to a hydraulic problem with his car.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 08:07 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
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