In 1994, Bognar returned home for the holidays and spent time with Knutson and Yell, who were the guitarists of Richmond band The Distractions.
Despite being the teams Technical Director, he alienated himself from the team when he decided to set up his office in England and not at the factory in Maranello, reasoning that it would allow more work to be done on designing the 1989 car without the distractions of the factory (he also believed it would distance himself from the Italian press who had been known to be scathing on any Ferrari failures).
He decided that his players needed a camp away from the distractions on campus; thus, he arranged for the camp to be held in the small Hill Country town of Junction, where Texas A&M had a 411-acre (1.7 km²) adjunct campus (now the Texas Tech University Center at Junction).
Crimes Against Music is a 2005 album by Mitch Benn and The Distractions named after and featuring songs from the show, as well as The Now Show and It's Been a Bad Week.
In the debate on 12 October on the second Bishops Exclusion Bill, Dering proposed that a national synod should be called to remove the distractions of the church.