Crewpersons

Let’s call her “Debbie,” because that’s what Derrick Walker called her and I never did get her right name. Must’ve been flummoxed by her sly, limpid eyes.

Walker is a Champ Car team co-owner whom I’ve known since he was a Brabham F1 mechanic. We were catching up in the paddock at Surfers Paradise the other day when a group of people in his green-and-yellow Team Australia livery came along, this dark-haired vixen among them. “Debbie!” Derrick greeted her. “Love your hair!”