2015, what a year that has been, like the All Blacks winning a 3rd Rugby World Cup by going back to back but the whole rugby world is in mourning as Jonah Tali Lomu, becomes the 3rd All Black after Jerry Collins and Norm Berryman to die at the tender age of 40 due to a kidney disorder which affected his life not only because he is rugby's 1st global superstar who made an impact 20 years ago at the 1995 Rugby World Cup and even made a video game about him and the sport which is arguably the best as well as becoming the youngest ever All Black at 19.
Well, life said it ain't easy that the Richie McCaw led All Blacks lifted the William Webb Ellis Trophy by beating the Wallabies in the final to successfully complete the sequel (Which I labeled the game as Judgment Day II, the sequel to Judgment Day as the All Blacks took on South Africa in the semi final) which was the greatest moment of my life compared to the 2011 one when the All Blacks won it on home soil and what about the players like Daniel Carter, Julian Savea, Ma'a Nonu, Sonny Bill Williams and Nehe Milner-Skudder (The rookie All Black), they were great awesome players from my All Blacks perspective but the highlight of the 2015 Rugby World Cup was the mighty Japanese led by Kiwi born Michael Leitch (Ayumu Goromaru was the star player for Japan) with that historic World Cup upset victory over the Jean de Villiers led South Africans (With fellow Kiwi born player and super-sub Karne Hesketh scoring the match winning try which turned the whole world upside down) as well as the All Blacks knocking over the Thierry Dusautoir led France 62 - 13 in the Quarter Final similar to Germany's 7 - 1 victory over hosts Brazil in the FIFA World Cup semi-final last year (With Julian Savea getting his 4th hat-trick (He has done it before against Ireland, England & Georgia) of his international rugby career and ending the tournament as the top try scorer with 8 (Equals the record with Springbok Bryan Habana and the now late Jonah Lomu) + Brilliant tries from Brodie Retallick, Nehe Milner-Skudder, Jerome Kaino, Kieran Read and Tawera Kerr-Barlow who got 2).
And look what we have here, just because Christmas is just around the corner next week because I am looking forward to this not only because The Real Thing is 7 days away.
P.S. New Zealand Indycar racer Scott Dixon has won his 4th Indycar title after winning in Sonoma (It was held just a week after Justin Wilson lost his life in a fatal accident (The 1st driver to die since Dan Wheldon in 2011) in Pocono meaning that the Indycar world was in mourning), heading into the final race of the 2015 season, Dixon was 1 of 6 drivers are having a mathematical chance of winning the championship, Those drivers were Juan Pablo Montoya, Graham Rahal, Scott Dixon, Will Power, Hélio Castroneves, and Josef Newgarden. One of the championship contenders Will Power picks up his 6th pole position of the season, 5th at Sonoma, and his 35th pole of his career. He was followed by the other 4 championship contenders Newgarden (2nd), Montoya (5th), and Rahal (6th). The drivers who aren't in the championship started in the top 6: Ryan Hunter Reay (3rd) and Simon Pagenaud (4th). Other championship contenders Dixon started 9th and Castroneves started 15th. The race ran the 1st 32 laps without a caution until Luca Filippi brought out the first caution when he slowed on the track. The 1st restart came on the 38th lap, it did not take long to get the 2nd caution came on lap 39 when championship leader Juan Pablo Montoya took out his championship rival and teammate Will Power in the 4th turn. The next restart came on the 42nd lap, the 3rd caution came on lap 65 when James Jakes crashed in turn 9. The next to last restart came on the 69th lap. The 4th and last caution came on lap 71 when Jack Hawksworth spun Carlos Muñoz in turn 7. The last restart came on the 73rd lap, late in the race Sebastien Bourdais spun championship contender Graham Rahal in turn 7 and there was no caution for that because Graham Rahal got the car going, Bourdais got a drive thru penalty for avoidable contact.. After the race Rahal got out of his car and went to confront Bourdais. Dixon took his third victory at Sonoma Raceway, third of 2015, and back to back wins at Sonoma Raceway like Will Power did in 2010 and 2011. Scott Dixon has won his 4th championship tying Dario Franchitti, Sébastien Bourdais and Mario Andretti for United States open wheel titles. Dixon was followed by Hunter Reay and Charlie Kimball. Scott Dixon won the tiebreaker over Juan Pablo Montoya because Dixon had more victories, Dixon got his third victory of the season compared to Montoya who has two victories of the 2015 IndyCar season.
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