Well, it looks like the Lions of South Africa will host a home quarterfinal, semifinal & final (Depending if they want to progress because they of course have the home ground advantage) in the 2017 Super Rugby season because they managed to beat the Sharks at Growthpoint Kings Park in Durban to move ahead of the Crusaders on top of the overall standings (Well, 2014 was the last time that a non New Zealand Super Rugby team has won a Super Rugby title which is the Waratahs from Australia while in 2010 was the last time that a South African side had won a Super Rugby title which is the Bulls) whose unbeaten run ended (They are now 15 & 1) by the hands of the Hurricanes last night (Although the Hurricanes managed to avoid the trip to South Africa by going to Australia to take on the Brumbies (Who had lost to the Chiefs meaning that all New Zealand Super Rugby teams had a clean sweep against Australian opposition because they played 25 times but the Brumbies will have a shot at redemption against the Hurricanes because both teams had played earlier in the season resulting in a victory to the Hurricanes but what about the Sunwolves because they managed to clean out the Blues in an historic upset victory at the Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium in Tokyo (Well the hot weather was the main concern for the Blues because it is summer there in the Northern hemisphere) because it is one of the greatest upsets of all time in the history of Super Rugby & only the 3rd time that a New Zealand Super Rugby team has lost against both Japanese (Once) & South African (Twice) opposition with the Stormers becoming the 1st team to beat a Kiwi team which is the Chiefs followed by the Blues before the Sunwolves becoming the 2nd team to defeat Kiwi opposition such as the Blues) in the quarterfinal while the Highlanders will travel to Christchurch to take on the previously undefeated Crusaders after beating the Reds at Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin) at Westpac Stadium in Wellington so this is what the quarterfinals looks like:
Lions Vs Sharks: Emirates Airline Park, Johannesburg
Crusaders Vs Highlanders: AMI Stadium, Christchurch
Stormers Vs Chiefs: DHL Newlands, Cape Town
& the Brumbies Vs the Hurricanes at GIO Stadium in Canberra.
And finally Lewis Hamilton (Great Britain) in the Mercedes is on pole position for tomorrow's race after dominating qualifying by putting the fastest time possible (The golden rules say that in qualifying, the driver with the fastest time gets the pole) in front of his adoring home fans at the British Grand Prix which is in Silverstone equalling the late Jim Clark's record of 5 pole positions at the event because Hamilton is aiming 4 in a row at his home event (Or should I say on his home turf because Hamilton has the home advantage) hoping to take over the lead of the championship if his main rival Sebastian Vettel (Germany) in the Ferrari gets a DNF (Did not finish).
So that is my 128th blog of the year 2017 (MMXVII).
P.S. And I've simply pre-ordered F1 2017 on the PS4 at EB Games yesterday meaning that the game will be released on the 25th of August.
And finally Lewis Hamilton (Great Britain) in the Mercedes has won the British Grand Prix for the 4th year in a row in front of his adoring home fans at Silverstone (Although his quest of regaining the Formula 1 World Championship title (Remember Nico Rosberg (The son of 1982 world champion Keke Rosberg) won the world championship last year ending Hamilton's hopes of a 4th title) appears to be back on track as he is now trailing by just 2 points behind championship leader Sebastian Vettel & Mercedes is definitely winning the constructors war against the likes of Ferrari, Red Bull, Force India, Williams, Toro Rosso, Haas, Renault, Sauber & McLaren) but during the race, Carlos Sainz (Spain) in the Toro Rosso retired while Max Verstappen (The Netherlands) in the Red Bull put a brilliant overtaking move on championship leader Sebastian Vettel (Germany) in the Ferrari & both Ferrari's of Vettel & Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) had a puncture with 3 laps remaining in the race not only because Ferrari may have lost important championship points just before the finish.
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