It's a super busy day today, as testing continues in Jerez, Lotus are due to launch in London, Kimi gets some rallying action, and... well, it's Friday! It's been a subdued test so far with weather, and little running from Virgin Racing, but perhaps things will perk up today. Elsewhere:
- Talking of rallying, we got some Fantasy WRC scores from the special stage yesterday, and it looks as though Mr C is last in the league. Haha! I shouldn't laugh really, as I didn't even know we'd set up a league, but at least I'm not last. If you're keen to get involved, please sign up - don't worry, we don't have a clue what we're doing either.
- Scott has been working at the Classic Team Lotus factory for a while now, and has seen some exciting people come and go. Yesterday, he posted a picture of himself with Kovalainen, which is just fabulous. What is up with Kovi's hair though?
- Lukeh has started a new feature on his F1 blog, in which he poses a topic, discusses whether it is a good idea or not and then asks for your opinion - Yay or Nay. The first one is about Silverstone's new layout - what do you think?
That should keep us going for a bit. I have a feeling we'll have a few threads up during the day, so I will see you in the comments.
Hello Friday
Boooooooo!
Yay for teacher training days!
grr.. i have one day left :( with any luck the snow will be around tomorrow too. I don't fancy history first thing :(
I'm feeling better watching a quiz show where both teams are rubbish. They have about 2 points between them.... How embarrassing!
I'm not enamoured by it either, my weekend doesn't start until Tuesday!
hello people and Friday
Yeah Monday Tuesday is my weekend....
Hi Guille
Hey mate.
Has Heikki joined an Indie band?
time to get some sleep. school tomorrow and all that :s
Night lou
G'night Lou
night lou
Just think that its nearly half term. Night.
he looks scarily similar to Sting...
Yeah!
Mixed with a bit of Beavis, of course
:D :D
Is there an official SPC league to join? I'm 10th in the overall league! (I guess the highest I'll ever be...)
good work for Steven Roy, also
What quiz show?
Hi Guille. Night Lou and RG
I'm still 'ere mate.
It's called "You lost me at special stage" and we are winning cause no other team has 5 teams
Well be polite and go since I said goodnight :)
I'm joining it right now. SPC will win two championships this year? :-)
We have a Fantasy IRL league too. We were bored one night
The SPC IRL league is called Panda 500
didn't know! I might join during the weekend.
mildly amusing stat of the day. according to wefollow.com, sidepodcast is supposedly the most influential f1 person on twitter... uh-huh.
http://twitpic.com/12ofgs
one can only presume that breaking doohickey and having everyone tweet instead, has artificially bumped the stats.
So it's Media Temple's fault? ;)
ummm. i broke doohickey all by myself :(
We need to get Christine to put all our fantasy leagues in a daily post and mention them in a Debrief so we get as many people as possible.
I can believe it actually
With the followers you have, we could be the new Castrol ;)
You what? I didn't notice :P
I knew you were the most influential person in the sport
twas quite amusing.
Is that based on replies, or #f1 tags or something?
Today?
Ah well, I hope you learned something useful
Apart from, don't break doohickey
heikki. Haircut. Now.
Judgement has been made
It was before you got in. I was out for a few hours and when I got home Christine and Mr C were having a conversation about how they were the only two people who could comment on the site
I just noticed that in the F1 only the first 100 teams to join will be eligible for the top-5 average. I hope that Kathi has already joined... ;-)
Please don't make me twit!!!
But you made an avatar and everything!
always.
She has
Wasn't wasted then
She forced Danny into creating the WRC competition before she would agree to sign up though. That's unfair. She gave him the option of creating a WRC game or buying her a pony.
Going for Aperture 3 Mr C?
I'm trying the 30 day demo, will have a good play on my rest days
have downloaded the demo. we have lightroom licences though. don't know if it's enough to crossgrade, but facial recognition is fun.
it can match rob smedley, but hasn't a clue who christine is.
Don't bring Alphonso into this! That's below the belt....
If you have the latest iLife then I guess that's enough
I like having the editing tools and library in one package
Hong Kong is off :(
Am considering the options
Who wants a long weekend somewhere?
:( Was that for someone's wedding? If so mega :( :(
Maybe I was too asleep to listen at that point though.
If anyones got a hour and a half free (or if you havent then make it free)
I love this guy, such a great speaker;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJAL21IE9fY
Birthday
Ahhhh okay. That's not so bad then. I'm sure Nick would be happy to show you how tiny his flat is....
Dublin is my back-up, though I have to pay to get there
He was not sure last time I asked. I'll get in touch
I may have to be nice for a few days ;)
He was possibly planning to go and stay with his family in Australia for a couple of weeks. I use the word "planning" in the loosest possible sense....
Am totally falling asleep now, so see yas later. Night and lotsa love.
Night RG
Yeah, that's the one
I feel I'll be making a decision days before I go anywhere, which is fine
No visas for Dubai I take it?
Night dude
night RG
Presuming you're British? :P
No you turn up, they stamp :D
Legally, yes ;)
This sounds like an interesting story....
Not really
Born to Irish immigrants in London
I consider myself Irish (Irish ex-pats would call me a 'plastic paddy')
My British passport is purely a travel document in my eyes
When asked, I call myself London Irish
Took me years to work my identity out
I have no issue with being British
I just had a very Irish upbringing, nuture & nature
That sounds like some kind of sports team! I think deciding your own national identity is fair enough. No-one's right but your own....
I think it's a Rugby club :)
dinner is calling me. night!
Oddly, it took a year away from home to come to that conclusion.
I really worked out who I had the affinity with
¡Buen apetito!
I was born in London and have lived in England all my life. I would always describe myself as Scottish though.
Sounds good in my book
As you say, how you feel is more important that what a census describes
It is and there is a London Scottish rugby club
I think that's in Richmond
you could say I'm from the old occupied kingdom of Wessex... :)
Nice!
Have your family always hailed from those parts Pat?
My family are all Glaswegian. I think I had one Irish grandparent.
As the Scots say, the one that could swim :)
Yes. Actually I have a similar thing to you guys but on a county scale rather than a country scale :-)
I grew up in Dorset but all my family are a generation or two removed from Somerset and Devon...
am confused, are lotus launching at 6pm today?
an evening launch, i'll be at work :(
and as you know, Wessex ran from Devon to Hampshire up to what, Gloucs? until about 850AD or whatever it was. then Thomas Hardy came along.
That's quite late in Malaysia, isn't it?
You are the most infulential person on the internet and you don't know what is going on. What chance do the rest of us have?
Have you checked the SidepodCalendar? :)
yeah, i see no time information, but: http://twitter.com/tonyfernandes/status/8982036620
I have no idea. It'll happen when it happens. :-)
The final IndyCar concept is out too, from Lola.
People move around too much these days! We should all just stay still and we'd have none of this mess....
:)
:)
My cousin researched part of the family tree. Five or six generations were born, lived and died in the same little town. I have been to more countries than the number of counties all of them together have been to.
I needed to move away. So did my sister. Rural areas are not nice to grow up in, nothing happens and you become sheltered. I came back for some stupid reason.
In over 70 years my Mum has been to Spain, once
Aside from Ireland, that's the only time she has left the British Isles
She's now in Spain which is great because she's experiencing something different, but I'm a bit scared she wants to stay there... Selfishly I'd quite like for that not to happen.
Ooh no, it becomes like The League of Gentlemen then
All I can find at the moment is a Royal Horticultural Hall launch
Where did you get 6pm from, is that Malaysian time?
Ignoer that, I see the tweet link
I don't really object to migration :P But some people take it too far!!
tony said "in 17hrs time", two hours ago.
Ready for the Breakfast news on Saturday in KL?
my parents have never left new zealand and my dad doesnt want to. So once he has been forced here in april i doubt he will ever come back. My mother on the other hand wants to go everywhere but never has because of dad. I would love to be able to afford to take her to europe one day.
ahhh! could well be. a slight pain in the bum for me though.
however, i can go to bed without prepping a breakout thread. catch y'all tomorrow.
Don't they know how influential you are?
Night fella
I'm off as well. Had planned an earlyish night but that fell apart when I didn't feel tired, best go now though.
My family are very mobile. Even my gran used to go on holidays by herself. She kept globetrotting right up to 87!
So says the girl who bought a ticket to the Singapore GP in order to ensure she actually goes home from Europe! :)
See ya Pat
oh my! I just read about alexander mcqueen. I liked his stuff, what a shame.
Niiiight :)
I heard that earlier too :(
No doubt I'll be secretly trying to find testing and rally info at work tomorrow morning..
I love The Onion News Network
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i have not bought my singapore ticket yet ;) i cant promise i wont return to europe, gotta sort a visa first though!
Get a working Visa, just in case ;)
My favourite tweet of the day:
I'll do almost anything to lose weight. But exercising and eating properly is where I draw the line.
my flatmate is sad because she is moving to london in may but can only get a 2 year visa so she will have to come back before the olympics start. Guess i wont be going to any events with her ;)
She could end up with sponsorship to stay if she likes it
The Olympic Village is about half an hour from my place
Maybe I should think about going to an event
Hehehe dooooo it!
I got one when I went to Aus
[Didn't work a single hour but I got my Responsible Service of Alcohol cert]
Stop laughing!
i am coming over for the tennis! And since ill be there id best go see some kiwis too. Once ive been to an olympics there really wont be anything on my "do this at least once in your life" list
Wimbledon is June/July, are you talking about Roland Garros?
Drive an F1 car is not on your list?
Cripes no way!!
Why not? It has been on mine for a long time and it is going to happen. It may take two or three years but it is going to happen
My boss is having one of those 'red letter-type days' next week
Driving a Lamborghini around Silverstone
Officially jealous
Luckily, he is first up in the [cold] morning and will probably spin ;)
So this is kinda early but I'm taking names for a St Patrick's Day get-together. Last year's was great, mini pies and everything!
The first laps in a frosty track can be pretty unpleasant and I have never done it in anything with the power of a Lamborghini. Hopefully they will send people out in their own road cars and let them run laps. A dozen cars doing 10-15 laps makes a huge difference to the grip.
I haven't done Paddy's day properly since I was in Paris. The Irish bars had 6am licences and work started at 9. Tough day
I don't think this is that liberal
Should be great fun though
I'll definitely do a single seater day at some point
no, the tennis at the olympics. Gonna watch roger get that golden slam ;) . Driving an f1 car is so not on my list, i hate going fast. My dad once took me up to 160kmh and i almost had a heart attack
Ooh yes, I can imagine
100 mph!!
You mean, we're driving to Belgium... slowly? :)
For the record, I've never had a day in Aviation Engineering like this.. at all
The apprentices sure do get a lot of experience on those days... which never happened
Most of these places don't like people taking their own cars out without an instructor. I went through the racing school at Aintree and they were very relaxed about it once they knew you were sensible. I did the 28th and 29th of December there one year and the track was white so everyone with a car was sent out to bang in laps to try and make the surface black. I was always of the opinion that no way would I push it in my own car in a track but once you have done a few laps it gets a little competitive
Speed is very different when you are driving. It feels much slower. My mother didn't pass her test until she was in her fifties and if I went over 50 mph she got wound up. A few weeks after passing her test she was quite happily driving at 70
Is that allowed?
we are driving to belgium at or near the legal speed limit :D
He's a bit of a racer at heart but now only has a super-mini shopping trolley for a car and some American motorbike [Buelle?]
So if I go via Germany, we're all good ;)
That's what he said
Shhhhh!
Any further thoughts on Spa, btw Steven?
the fastest i have driven myself is about 130 and that was about my limit!
:cry:
'sup?
Ask me in a couple of weeks
That's only 80mph
Will do, in person hopefully
NICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No Spa for Alison :( No holiday for Alison at all :cry:
Yeah, lets confuse her with the Imperial system
Why not?
lets go via anywhere interesting :D i will accept speediness if it is legal. It feels safer somehow.
Beg, borrow, steal?
You don't want to be sitting in a car with people passing you going 50mph faster. That can be dangerous so best to go fast
Money is not my friend!
Deal
Scenic route it is
I may need to invest in a SatNav App
We may also leave London earlier than Thursday [who knows]
Spacewalk just started. I finally saw some space stuff this week
i dont get why your crazy country still uses miles. What are you, the metric hating usa? ;)
I'd offer a travel companion ticket to [I don't know yet] but I'm not sure it'd be appropriate
If so, March holibobs?
Sort of. Unless you're a market trader. Then we shut you in jail for using imperial units :P
Astronauts should not have English accents. It's just not right. It sounds like cheap sci fi
my phone does satnav! I have already downloaded all the europe maps :D
They inventewd them, there's an attachment
The law doesn't even stop some people!
If you've ever seen British money before decimalisation you'd understand the propensity for confusing number systems here
Data Roaming charges?
You are way too organised
Moon is awesome
Though not much in the way of British accents though
nope, the gps works without connecting to the data network
I was thinking more of that stupid thing that was on BBC recently
That's not Satnav, that's a map! :)
I need, for Belgium: turn left at the lights. When I'm lost in Andorra
Pah!
Did I say I like adventures?
Ooooh that's very kind of you! I'll definitely think about it. Especially if I've quite my job ;)
That week in March that I mentioned
Otherwise, after April... I have no plans really :)
it can connect to the data network to assist in finding a sat signal faster but i dont normally bother. It saved my life in sydney, i got lost in bondi!
If you are in Andorra you can find most of the way to Belgium by the position of the sun. No technology required
Hong Kong is still quite open apparently [availablility wise]
And at night?
Scrub that, I'll be in the pub!
Oookay well sorry to shake off the independent woman thing but it depends what young Nicholas is up to really.
Bondi is easy. Walk away from the water
No worries
Well, the option is there
[may be a limited offer, things move quickly in the last minute trip business]
That's no problem. You're too kind! :D
If in water, look for all the pink Irish & English people
That's the beach
Bondi rule No.1
If Giggles won't come to Manilla [fool], someone should gain somewhere
Alison's coming to Manila?
YEAAAAAH! :D
:lol:
Journeyer, you wouldn't believe the trouble I'm having giving this ticket away!
Howdy, btw
[Another awesome Head-ping tonight]
I don't even know where Manila is ;)
Here's a clue.. oh wait ;)
I really fancy Morocco though
It is here
http://twitpic.com/128p5g
To clarify I definitely do know where Manila is.... I had a bit of trouble with Malta that's all :P
Also morning Journeyer!
I recognise that Twitpic :)
Malta and Manilla are right next to each other. Both south east-ish from here
I remember the aftermath
It made an appearance earlier today
He loves me really....
It's where Maltesers are made, obviously
[someone had to, Giggles & Jon are probably asleep]
What is it?
A Twitpic from the International Space Station, of Manilla
It is Manilla as photographed from the space shuttle. They were posting twitpics and people were tweeting them with requests for places they wanted twitpics of.
ISS not shuttle
Cool pics too
Especially when the shuttle was coming up to dock
Oooooooh coolio!
I missed that whole section of the mission this time. I always love it and the shuttle flyaround after the mission before the two vehicles separate properly
There are a stack of them. NASA has a twitter account that shows the tweets of all astronuats where you can find all the twitpics. They are all I think by the Japanese astronaut Astro_Soichi
http://twitter.com/NASA_Astronauts
http://twitter.com/astro_Soichi
You don't have to log in if you don't want to twitter ;)
I tend to ignore all the individual astronaut accounts and check the combined account. One of NASA's better ideas. It includes astronauts of all nations
So is he part of NASA or a Japanese... don't know what the term is and can't be ar*ed to google
oh boo i tried to promote joes evening on a forum full of aussies but the url to the page has changed and i cant fix it on my mobile.
Good idea, very ISS
Or United Federation Of Planets [or Twitterdom]
Joe needs a new webmaster
I think he should hire Mr C
He is With JAXA the Japanese space agency. All the astronauts wear a flag on their uniforms that show which agency they are with. The guy doing the spacewalk now who was born in England has a US falg so he is NASA and not ESA. I assumed he moved to America a long time ago but just kept his accent.
BOO
United Federation of Planet doesn't really work. You need more planets to chip in
This is the page I'm getting, linked from his blog
http://www.morienval.com/joeinmelbourne.html
It must help with the chicks
As if being an astronaut wasn't enough
He is a Yorkshireman who went to Harrow then Cambridge and moved to the USA in 1994
He gets around
Bet he lives in the Hamptons between missions
Rye, New York. No idea which part of NY Rye is in
Q: @brentspiner Why is your hair white but your eyebrows are brown?
A: I dye my hair white. Or, my hair is older than my eyebrows.
:lol:
that one works, i was trying to link to the actual blog post about it. Must find new link.
Looks like Westchester county
Did you see him live on TWIT in Vegas. He is so funny
Weschester County, NY
I seem to have abadoned the use of question marks for some reason
Just said that
I didn't
I rarely catch stuff live these days, the tinternet has mmade me lazy[er]
Shall seek, Brent is the shiznit
Ole Yellow Eyes.. is a v. strange album
Your general knowledge is all far too good!
I know, it was an echo in the time space continuum
#blamedata
It's on iTunes as a short show on its own. Look for TWIT @ CES
fixed
What you talking about?
On it
You and Mr C are addicting me to Leo
There is so much good stuff on there
Google = Satan
This is perhaps why I don't know things....
Is that even a verb?
[This question is brought to you by Chilean Merlot]
TWIT@CES 7 and TWIT 230 if you want the full show
But Bing is just...
Bing image search is awesome
I'd say no. Have you been spending too much time with a management consultant?
I don't wanna email them [link fail oops;)]
[shudders]
http://www.wolframalpha.com/ FTW
TWIT infomercials
[which are doing my head in]
This podcast is brought to you by...
You could skip iTunes and go to http://www.twit.tv/ces7
I hate those btw
I could do the same for 1/8 the price
You, Steven and I should set it up
Eurgh!
I'll action this later today. For sure.
Then I'd have to look now
I'd never get the chance to put it on the list...
Does not compute
Those people should be shot as soon as they walk in the door then every 20 seconds after that for 1000 years
Points to all those in the room now who get 'for sure' in the most conversations tomorrow
Quoted for truth
The short version is about 12 minutes.
I've decided you all speak another language. Bing, twit... What are these things?
Quality podcasting comes at a price
Leo doesn't have to worry about overheating MacBooks
Just saying
No TWIT would mean no Sidepodcast.
I cant commit myself to a yay or nay for the new silverstone layout. no bridge hurts me. It was as fun last sector to drive around. (from gaming expereince only)
I hope the new bits have some gradient and camber fluctuations to mix it up. thats all i hope for
Bing: Microsofts Google
Twit: This Week In Tech: a tech podcast, by the podcast guru Leo Laporte
This is an absolute
They will struggle to get any gradient in there because the whole area is flat and there are two runways in the middle of the track and this section goes very close to them. Pilots would not be happy to find a big lump on the middle of the runway
Hi KR
I looked at the question and figured I had too little backround info to answer
Leo invented podcasting on a ball
Oh I see. I associate that phrase with dodgy dating podcasts my housemate used to listen to at stupid hours of the morning when I had work.....
Dating podcasts?
!!
Can't even think how that would work
Reminds me: Sarah Beeney's site needs an update from me
You know.... "how to make him propose today" "make your boyfriend love housework" stereotypical woman's trash!
4 easy steps to a new you....
That is because he pulled in close to $2million last year. A couple of months ago he announced that he was not going to take a salary any more but only live on the donations people made so that he would only get what he was worth. The first month after he said that donations went from the regular $9000 per month to $20000
Bleurghh!
You shared a house with one of those, poor you
She stole my router!!
Steve Jobs draws a $1 salary from Apple
His share options in Apple [& Disney] are sizeable
No doubt, Leo has "options" too
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Bloody cosmo ;)
Revenge is a dish...
His TWIT salary was only half of his salary as his radio shows pay the other half. TWIT pulled in between $1.5 and $2 million with costs of around half a million. So he is not exactly struggling. Also he has been making good money for a lot of years.
best not cooked by Mr C?
Too easy..... (not that I would ever behave like that!)
Not as catchy but very true
Why was Levar tweeted so much but not Brent?
Don't know but Levar is very active on twitter and is a serious geek. Brent seems to enjoy it but is not involved to the same extent. I would love to see Brent let loose to do something as himself because he comes across really well. We need to get him on a sidepodpanel
Brents tweets are quite funny
I should look into L's
Steven, we've really let the inner Geek out now!
No kidding!
How? When?
I think it sneaked up on us with a pillow
Catch it kill it bin it?
You were confused by Bing! ;)
PMSL
I don't know enough to be a geek. I just try and understand what is going on
OI!
NICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What... EVA! :D
?
Fridge talk?
He is going to protect me from you
:lol:
Hahahahahahahaha
Google giving out lots of Nexus One phones at CES to the hoi polloi then
Levar dropping in the Google convo's already [shame]
Some people seemed to acquire them. I guess playing an android has its advantages
Possibly :)
Philip K Dick's family disagree
Laugh my socks off at Brent
That was a good interview
I had no idea the guy was so funny
He really is
Some of his Data moments
Quite comically natural
Amy's being quiet
Good sport on or is she actually working?
I noticed he totally cracked Levar up so he has the kind of sense of humour that lasts. A lot of people are hysterical for an hour or two bu they have known each other for 20 years
Very true
She probably has her hands under her new blanket to keep them warm
She needs the glove equivalent of Billy Conolly's Big Slipper
Wonder if they're actually pals
Wishing my friend @BrentSpiner a Happy Birthday! He's a really good man. Send him some birthday love...!
actually working! And not a twit lsvends so not commenting.
I think she needs a tent to put her desk in so that she can work in a sensible temperature
actually working! And not a twit listener so not commenting.
Is that Finnish?
And not so busy to ego-filter ;)
They seem to be but then they are actors
Aye
ooh that first misspelled one wasnt meant to go through!
I thought that was some weird Kiwi word that I had never heard before
Just chatting, I only listen to the Mac weekly show. Not a huge TWIT fan
Weekend plans Amy, seeing as it's POET's day there?
Is it still misspelled if only one letter is correct?
Kiwi is most mis-understood when heard, not read ;)
i cant ego filter on mobile doohickey! I am just epic lurking
One eye work, the other SPC
i am working tomorrow and meant to be going out drinking tomorrow night. I think ive forgotten how, its been so long. Might not happen though as I cant get hold of the girl i barely know who invited me. (so barely i dont have her phone number)
Is she the one that will hold your hair back?
Way past my bedtime. Again. #blamealison.
Good night all
G'night Steven
Is not often I get to say that, it must be late
ooh just as i say that she tweeted me to exchange numbers. If we are going clubbing i wont stay long enough to throw up because clubbing sucks but if we are just going to a pub things could get dangerous. I need to build up tolerance for spa. And good night steven!
Ok, I'm going soon but Alison: think about Spa general access/camping and free flights in March to ... wherever
Is there a reason for this night? The start time will probably give the venue away
she is new in town and only knows one of the group so asked me along but i have only met her once and i have never met any of the others. They are all kiwis though.
In a land where folk talk funny, you have a common connection at least ;)
Tell her about your trip to the Speight's bar in London
You're too kind I definitely shall :)
if it all goes wrong we can talk tennis, thats how i met her haha
Seems fair enough
Ask her if she likes F1
she is not from the south island so speights wont impress her!
Pah!
:D
Am looking for a pic on my 'puter but found this link instead
Joey: A Moo Point
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iObtPBh3NXs
i dont think she does, she looked confused to hear that i was going to 4 races next year when i could spend that money going to tennis instead.
Where all the people live? Weird!
everyone lives in the north, crazy folk. Everyone knows south is better.
True
Just ask the sheep
People saying no to a free ticket?? Are they mad?!
Words fail me, business class too!
epic lurking - phrase of the day. :D
Should go in the dictionary, I'm almost spent
Yay! :D *rooting for Alison to say yes*
Oh, COME ON! :O
They.are.NUTS.
Note to self: Ask Amy to add epic lurking to the dictionary. ;)
On longhaul, it could be an upgrade to First
Just saying
oh, now that's just insane. :O
I wish I had a friend with that kind of pull here... *dreaming of Europe*
Right, if I don't go now, getting up at noon with a hangover will be tiresome
I need to sleep.
G'night
Night Bassano.
Christine, this may be of help to you, especially with those pesky lookalike Williams helmets. :D
2010 F1 Spotters Guide
Updated to a more specific link. ;)
World Rally Radio live now: http://www.wrc.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=250
It's -22 in Sweden. I hope Lady Snowcat brought a warm jacket.
Listening now.
The last song before they went live? Under Pressure. Brilliant. :D
Lady Snowcat is in Sweden now?! *jealous*
Morning Kathi.
At least that was the plan
Morning Journeyer
Marcus has won this 5 times?! Hmmm. It looks like I might've made the right move dropping Kimi for Marcus in Fantasy WRC. We shall see...
She is a true blue Kimi fan. That's all I can say.
Can I just say - it seems Kimi has already smiled more in the past 2 weeks than he's smiled in the last 2 years.
Back to F1, what time is the Lotus F1 launch?
4pm UK time if you believe Tony Fernandes
http://twitter.com/tonyfernandes/statuses/8982036620
The launch is in the UK, then?
London
I see. They also seem to be in Jerez this morning. Will they be joining the tests from here on out?
Morning all,
Know FOFA? (F1 Fans Association), turns out theres been a fan-association for much longer...
http://www.fosa.org/
i have a heavy bag of groceries and the bag has a small tear in it. Will I make it home without depositing my shopping on the footpath? Stay tuned.
2 hours to go before the last pre-holiday day in office ends . 9 days off to follow
they should join the next week test I believe
They usually end up sending a bit of spam, but I do remember them getting the scoop on the rest on the Briatore dossier.
Sounds like a good TV show. :D
That's a long Chinese New Year holiday. :D
I made it! And I fixed the gate when I went to get the mail for the first time in a week. The AGPC sent me a letter to say tickets are selling like hot cakes since a certain ex champion announced his return.
Morning.
Just asked my colleaguea a rather technical question. We had a big discussion regarding various engineering terms and practices, then after about 15 minutes, one turns around and says "So basically the answer is no then" :D
Hello all.
No surprise there at all... ;)
Poor Webber though. A German legend's comeback is a bigger pull than an Aussie's maiden win.
:D
Morning Christine. :)
he is mentioned in the same paragraph, with some terrible English abuse...
"our very own Mark Webber is a real chance to record his first race win in Melbourne!"
Ouch. That's grammar that can hurt my eyes.
Not to mention that cliche phrase "our very own"...
its the paper version of TV's "Australia's Mark Webber"
In an interview with Olivier Quesnel (Citroen team manager), it seems there's a lot of F1 drivers who's interested to try a rally car. And not just Vettel and Kubica.
The interviewer mentioned Hamilton wants to try it. Quesnel mentioned Alonso approached him about a prospective run.
Quesnel also mentions he thinks Prodrive will be back, and VW will follow suit...
Oh, and Kimi Raikkonen interview coming up soon on World Rally Radio... :D
Now! :D
Well course they are. They're running the Mini WRC entry next year?
Prodrive-Mini? Interesting. Will they lure Petter Solberg back?
Don't have a clue who is perhaps lined up, but it's been mooted for the best part of a year and is due to be unveiled next month.
Hence why I was a bit surprised to hear Citroen's rally head-honcho say he reckons Prodrive would be back soon!
More competition = more incentive to stay?
Of course.
Hi.
Is the limit in Belgium the same as France? That was good - you could do 80mph and not worry about cops with radar guns.
Since it should only take 3hrs from the tunnel there is time to go to interesting places... perhaps a discussion for nearer the time.
At the lunch break, Kimi is 11th, 5 seconds behind 10th placed Justin Wilson - and remember, points are up to 10th!
On the twitter thing... I was interested in this paperchase scandal...
sorry this paperchase scandal... http://www.speedcommunications.com/blogs/wadds/2010/02/11/paperchase-social-media-storm-versus-journalistic-integrity-and-implications-for-crisis-communications/
Hello, how's sidepodland? Hardly had time to poke my head in lately
Morning Mav
Morning Adie
Afternoon!
"companies must engage in the channels used their customers."
what it doesn't say, is that compaines can then retaliate. as, effectively, williams did this morning.
also, i didn't know about this: http://handbook.reuters.com/index.php/Motor_Racing
amazon appear to have pulled the offending item too.
Off for a bit all.
Laters
Oooh, excellent.
"The plural of grand prix is grands prix"
Too right it is (now why did the end of my comment go missing?)
Mr Roberts says: Just been looking at Stuart Codling's impressive first book: 'The Art of the Formula 1 race car.' Well worth a look at...
I want a go.
I've got a copy in the post ready to give away... just haven't decided how yet
I usually say Formula 1 - is that wrong?
it's shipping already?
f1.com (ironically) always use Formula One don't they
Not generally
ahh, phew. 1 march says amazon.
I think you should give it to me.
Publisher told me 10th, but that it might change by a few more weeks yet
we have a winner!
is that because the cover features dumbo flugel?
good lord print takes sooooooo long. if james has seen it, it must be finished. just release it already.
I'm assuming it's all about the dumbo flugel, isn't it? There better be mention of some flugel in there.
I just realised yesterdays daily has the same problem I did, it links to a post Joe deleted, grrrr.
do F1 books ever get released on the date that amazon claim?
i haven't bought an f1 book in about 3 years. i don't do books :)
why did he delete it?
no idea. I was trying to pimp out his evening on a few forums and when I came back to look at the response all I got was 'you've linked to a post that isn't there'
whatever happened to that Jenson book that was meant to come out about 4 years ago :D
Melbourne meet up is on hold?
doh, you try and help people!
I think he deleted it just to combine the info with the London one on http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/social-networking-in-formula-1/
what about all the comments?
Did Joe say why he changed his twitter feed?
nope, but he said ages ago that he wasn't updating grandprix.com so i guess it ties things up to the same account.
Ah. I wonder if my bernie owning/being a partner in it theory might have something to do with it. Joe wanted to make it more bloggy didn't he?
I did see the mole did a post... would be great to see him return :D
The dangers of twitter: This one from Will Buxton yesterday, had Jackie convinced that Petrov had been sacked. :-)
"So Petrov's been pulled out of the Renault... will we see him tomorrow or has his budget been rumbled?"
you think bernie owns grandprix.com??
I think so, i remember looking into it at one point last year. It started in its current format when it was bought by a company to promote F1 in the US (i think owned by bernie). I think Joe was just an occasional writer at first then took it over
speaking of Melbourne, I am going to go and suss out what this is all about. My guess is nothing.
There apparently is also a 'celebration of Italian motorsport' from the AGPC at this so I might go see what that is about too.
oooookay.
Its weird though, i assumed he had complete control.
Has he stopped writing for it altogether?
It's like gins and tonic is the plural of gin and tonic. Quite confusing but logical.
My parents sent me two books for Christmas: Lewis Hamilton's Autobiography and a book on Senna Vs. Prost. I have no interest in reading either, but thankfully my colleague does ;)
So I just stepped out the office and went to look at another apartment - it's really nice, and right near a metro station and a big shopping mall. If the paperwork is good we will take it and move in June, cutting my commute from 2 hours to ½ an houe :D
not sure what Senna vs Prost book you have, but I did like the one I read
hello sidepodpeople
It's called "Senna Vs. Prost" by Malcolm Folley.
I think being here makes me talk stange, ive noticed more often than not i will use the singular as a plural
e.g. 6 Jager & Coke please...
that is the one. among other things I learned from that book how Mr. Sutton started his F1 photo business :-)
Oooh, decisions, decisions: http://tenstepstories.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/life-in-the-fast-lane-part-3/
Votes please :)
Is it actually worth reading or is it just a recap?
Afternoon all.
Read and voted. Nice stuff ;)
Same here. Me likey!
well it probably depends on individual taste but I enjoyed reading that book. it does not take that long to finish. book is quite thick but the text is set in rather big font and printed on rather thick paper :-)
Hi,
Sorry if this has already been mentioned elsewhere. Who is going to see Joe Saward in London?
I'm making the trip down from Blackpool, just wondered how many others were going?
Kris
christine, giggles, lou, bassano, turkey machine and myself. plus your good self.
who have i missed?
I might as well make a wiki page for this, a few people have asked haven't they?
Wow! Thats amazing writing, i have caught up the first 3 episodes and voted!
I absolutely love it!
(hugs) rg
It worked well for the Sidepodmeetup...
In case you missed the discussion yesterday, RG, I am sort of ripping the wiki apart and reorganising it because there's too much stuff and it's a bit of a mess.
Just to keep you in the loop, as my fellow wiki-fanatic. You can keep on using it as normal, but you might blink and find it changed :)
and Spa, which you can find the details for here. Cough.
@willbuxton - Sources in Russia are telling me that there are reports that Putin himself will guarantee Petrov's 15 million Euro Renault F1 race deal.
that's quite the 180 on being fired yesterday!
Oooh, alright. I do see what you mean, can be hard to find things.
But he can still make the page though? Just that it's location may change?
hm, what does it actually mean that Putin will guarantee that deal ? he will pay up himself if Petrov's dad fails to come up with cash or what ?
I dread to think with that lot TBH!
#americascup
I seems today it's the day. First race of the 33rd America's Cup to start during the next hour (no start time published yet).
Video feed at http://www.americascup.com/en/regate/regarder-la-course/show.html
Is Team NZ in it?
Mega, as always. But really, there's only one right decision here! :D
That's what it says.
This is Russia we're talking about. Putin's guarantee must mean someone's gonna pay it... or else.
I think that "or else" part is what makes difference :-)
Here ya are: http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Joe+Saward+Meetup+-+London,+2010
If I've missed you, then add yourself.
Alinghi vs BMW Oracle (ex-Black Magic vs ex-Black Magic...)
time to check out, week + long holiday has arrived, time to go to celebrate this fact a bit
Swiss ex-Black Magic vs US ex-Black Magic.
Exactly. :D
@willbuxton - Ignore previous post. Putin's 15 mill is going into Rally Raid, not Petrov. Interesting.
Brilliant!
Have fun!
and that's how rumours start... ;-)
Rally Raid? Will he invest in the Transcontinental Rally - the one that goes from Paris to the Far East? Some of that goes through Russia...
oh, he's on fire this week!
Not Justin
maybe putting money into Kamaz so they can win at least one Dakar :P
is there any russian off-road car company that can take the fight in cars? Lada?
I should be mad at Switzerland for stealing Coutts and Butterworth, but they gave me Roger so.....
Ah that's right - the only sport with more cat calling and legal wrangling than F1.
Avoid.
Matthew! Of course!
But looking at the overall standings, it seems a fair bit larger than that... 30 seconds, in fact.
Give them credit for actually pushing the performance envelope this time...
Are you that mad about Coutts though? He got what he deserved in the end...
So BMW-Oracle wins some points, stealing Coutts from a thief...
Fill me in, I have not been following it for a while now.
get into the video feed and look at the 'boats'...
Guille can explain it better than me, but in a nutshell. ;)
Basically, because of all the legal wrangling, they went back to the original charter, from 1850(?). That charter has so few rules, they're basically allowed to do pretty much anything with their boats. So the boats now are radically different, both to previous boats and to each other.
it's a nice nutshell ;-)
But why are only two teams involved? What happened to the challenge series and all of the other syndicates?
I'm not mad, its just the insurance ad said they stole them :D
It's on! :D
Warning signal at 14:04. Race start at 1410 (local time)
Oh boy. That's just silly - like the Delta Wing!
That is a great ad if you can find it...
done
Still around, I think. But not sure. Guille?
as far as I'm aware they got sick of waiting for the legal stuff to be sorted out and the Louis Vuitton challenger thingy became a separate series this time around.
it's a 'Deed of Gift' match (the DoG is the document ruling the race from 1870). One to one, the challenger series require an agreement between the defender and the challenger, which they didn't get
And we thought F1 had too much off track stuff!
Excellent!
yes, LV got sick of it and literally retired because 'didn't like the proposed future' for the Cup, but that was before this Cup settled to a single challenger. The challenger series should be back, with another sponsor, for the next Cup.
newey must be kicking himself for sticking with f1!!
correction, warning signal at 14:00, in 8 minutes
fantastic :)
i'm not sure though if this is a one-off or if this is a case of the genie getting out of the bottle and not coming back in.
besides, newey can leave in 1-2 years and still have time to design a proper boat.
anybody is using the HD feed?
The commute is on a robot metro train too!
As predicted by JOE?
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/from-russia-with-interest/
#americascup
a sudden drop in wind speed, still waiting...
hmm
Finally caught up on comments and now working through Autosport articles..
From this morning's rally loop:
Kimi Raikkonen suffered an early delay when Ford's Khalid Al Qassimi rejoined right in front of him following an excursion on SS2. The Finn was stuck in Al Qassimi's snow spray for the rest of the stage, and is currently 11th, just over two minutes behind Loeb.
Boo to Al Qassimi! :(
Petter Solberg has suddenly slipped to 17th. Not sure why.
It does elevate Kimi into the points in 10th.
I don't understand why WRC doesn't get any live TV coverage.
While IRC does? I think it's because the stages are so large, a TV company would need to spend significantly for live TV coverage (like Eurosport does for IRC).
I say that as I've been off work for the last few days, and would have loved to sit down in front of the TV watching the action unfold. However, coverage doesn't start until Sunday evening.
#americascup
warning signal off. the start is in 10 minutes :-)
If anyone is interested, The americas cup race 1 is about to start in 10 mins time. the 5 mins before the start are one of the most spectacular parts of the race as they jostle for position.
http://www.americascup.com/en/regate/regarder-la-course/show.html
Live video^
Its a shame the nightly updates on Eurosport are no longer there. I heard they could be coming to MotorsTV instead, don't know if that's true.
How would you cover it? what would you show?
Nooo. I'm a fan of Petter
The rally radio is verygood and entertaining.
A good point, well made.
Show everything all of the time?
They have a helicopter camera, but that can only show one car at a time.
I don't know much about broadcasting techniques but I guess it's difficult when the stages are in the middle of nowhere and often hundreds of kilometres away from the service park.
Finnish TV will show one stage live on Sunday. I can't check at the moment if it's a superspecial or a normal stage.
so what do they stream through the WRC TV? Just highlights?
I struggle to understand how they can draw in interest frome newbies such as me when there's so little coverage.
Report: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81447
#americascup
penalty for alinghi in the pre-start. Oracle helmsmen is brilliant...
#americascup
race is on! The 33rd America's Cup has just started :D
The deserve to loose though, their team has ruined the americas cup. It used to be a huge deal, now its not even on tv most places
and then he blew it by stalling the boat...
Thats so bad its not even a schoolboy error
I thought he was going to cross them, put a new penalty on them, something. but he just seated there...
in any case, BO seems to be faster
The americas cup boats do look awesome though, t. because the saftey restrictions arent there, here is so much room for innovation
The sport is possibly more cutting edge than F1. No wonder Newey wants to have a go.
Unfortunately the politics are far worse...
Worst politics ever caused best innovation ever.
Hmmm. Something's gonna give there...
can we get the same in f1?
any sport that can get 4 times the wind speed deserves Newey's hand... ;-)
the OWG can't do it even if they tried...
The equivalent change would see the teams running bikes! :D
but unlimited bikes!
Alison: Can i please have 1 BMW Oracle Racing Yacht pls? thx!
they will drop it after the cup. maybe it will be up for a small price ;-)
BO is eating the lost distance from AL pretty fast, just overtaken them after starting 660m behind
You can have one if you take me on holiday!
I think they are racing with it all year in the louis vuitton cup, its coming here in october :)
Is that not the BMW Oracle Racing Yacht - Powered by Microsoft Ferrari?
I think the LV uses the ACC5 2007 boats, I don't remember if the ones from BMW or TNZ
mmm I feel that if AL doesn't have something massive for the downwind part we are going to see a clear 2-0 for the USA...
if there is a little swell though they cant fly their middle hull and alinghi will be faster.
hopefully the next race will be better organised than this :)
ah yes, i think i misread an article ;)
they're racing basically unlimited yachts, with very loose regulations. and yet they have basically the same speed. brain, time and money will always level the field. maybe F1 can get some examples from it...
Oh boy, I hate SQL!
I have to go to work. see you later
I love SQL...
can I help?
Nah, it's fine, I know what I am doing, just that a glacier would move quicker ;)
KIMI!! Haven't I told you to stay away from the snowbanks.
how did his engine sound?
:P
Top 10 after 6 stages:
1. Mikko HIRVONEN
2. Sébastien LOEB
3. Dani SORDO
4. Jari-Matti LATVALA
5. Sébastien OGIER
6. Henning SOLBERG
7. Matthew WILSON
8. Mads ÖSTBERG
9. P-G ANDERSSON
10.Janne TUOHINO
...
Petter + 6Min07
Grönholm +13Min31
Kimi +29Min07
Oh dear, this is not a nice coincidence... http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/front-wing-failures/
I'm amazed after all the hype I gave him yesterday, he hasn't crashed yet.
Listening to the rally radio, he seems to be the only one who hasn't :)
not Marcus as well! not a good rally for the drivers I like
Working late due to going to see the apartment and also I'm off to a poker night later...
It looks like they havent ended up that close today...
BMW are about 5 mins out.
These boats have crazy technology, things i havent even heard of or seen before.
It just leaves me wishing they raced them more...
Ollie's back
http://blogf1.co.uk/2010/02/12/daily-debate-should-the-fia-publish-the-fuel-weights/
Afternoon all.
Definition of Insanity:
Checking USF1's twitter streams every morning expecting good news.
Let me rephrase that for you:
that's more accurate, thank you :)
ollie, ollie, ollie!
please can this happen, pretty please:
http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2010/02/michelin-admits-talks-about-f1-return/
joe mentions it too: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/michelin-to-get-the-last-laugh/
they're talking, and they mentioned it to the press, so they're interested and just pressuring the FIA into giving them what they want. but given that it seems to be leaning towards green initiatives, it shouldn't be too difficult for fellow Frenchman Todt to say "Oui."
odd that suddenly they're not fussed about "competitive" racing., when it suits them.
Notus aren't live streaming their launch are they?
was that the reason they used last time? i thought they also mentioned something about cutting-edge technology?
nope, just on twitter, am prepping a breakout now.
nah. they didn't want to bid for a control tyre contract.
nice to see they're realistic about what they can pull off. :D
:)
:)
What's their Twitter ID...not sure I'm following that
http://twitter.com/MyLotusRacing/
Thanking you
breakout: http://sidepodcast.com/2010/02/12/lotus-f1-racing-launch-in-london/
i'll fill in the details as we go.
Dear Joe,
Please slow down your writing, i cant keep up.
That is all.
J
The video of hte wing failure on Joe's site has been blocked by FOM, was the video a personal one or a FOM video?
doesn't matter, FOM own the rights to all testing footage.
really? didnt know that.
Evening everybody :)
*interim results for the days WRC now available
*on account of me not realising there was a Super Special stage tonight
Fantasy WRC, obviously...
Quick question... Sorry I haven't been around today...
I am unable to do my radio show on Sunday afternoon/evening. I also can't do it on Saturday afternoon/evening. Would people like a Saturday morning or Sunday morning show? Or just to skip until next week?
hehe, superspecials aren't important anyway
here it is for anyone who hasnt seen it..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAyZbN72lFw
ouch. that coulda been very dangerous.
blimey. i didn't realise it was that bad.
surely I can't be the only one who finds a front wing simply falling off extremely worrying?
Its modified now, it'll be fine.
lotus = team green bay packers. Holy front wing, batman...
hehe you know Rubens' physio Achim took those awesome photos on the Brawn site of the tiny model car?
well i've just found his website dedicated to his project
http://rennfahrerbiberle.com/
:)
oohh!!!
http://rennfahrerbiberle.com/images/70.jpg
Awww
Quite superb!
Evening all.
Feel totally out of touch today but I see my fantasy rally team have had a good day so things must be OK
Big Pic of the new Lotus: http://www.f1minute.com/2010/02/12/jolly-green-giant/
Hmm. What do you think of this?
http://twitter.com/MikeGascoyne
Well, I've had a good think about it Adie but I think that is a webpage consisting of tweets from a Twitter account that could be Mike Gascoyne
Oi.
:D
:P
Have seen people on twitter say it's real anyways.
Joe mentioned he'd seen Mike tweeting, in a blog post today...
Are you sitting down? I think I've found another brilliant #GMM Fail.
Go on...
Link helps I guess http://bit.ly/cee1vG
I've not read this anywhere else? Anybody able to shed any light?
Would be nice if GMM linked to the original interview in some way, or say who it was for, or something more.
Alonso was asked about that I believe.
#RandomDayJobStufff
Red Bull may want to pay attention to a bill I just read from the Washington state Legislature. There are several elected officials that want to ban the drinks. Here is the bill title. They are writing the legislation over the weekend.
FRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey all :)
Motors TV UK have an hour long highlight show for the first day of the WRC Rally Sweden tonight at 10:20pm UK time
I apologize if Dank posted this in here already, but I think it's awesome:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBr3-DA0LQk&hd=1
the Patron/Highcroft team building their acura from scratch in 18 hours after that crash they had in practice last year. Whomever had the idea to put the camera up there and film the whole thing was a GENIUS!
That is a very impressive video.
I had an interview for a Sales Advisor role for Orange in one of their retail shops in Norwich today. I'll know whether I've got the job by Tuesday, but overall I feel the interview went very well and after looking on their Careers and hearing what would be in store if I got the job, I not only really want this job, but I desperately need it. I can't live on JSA for much longer. £100 every 2 weeks only goes so far.
Good to see a large high quality version up. I've seen it before as a small blocky thing :)
Here's the reason for the damage, not for the faint-hearted, though somehow he wasn't injured:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I361oZvBqYE
Ouch! I forgot how bad that crash looked. Very, very lucky to walk away uninjured from that.
Wait. Sidepodcast have a league for the Fantasy WRC?
Have a league?? We is winning.
We also have the Panda 500 league in Fantasy IRL
What's the league name though? Some how I've missed this vital bit of info and Raven Island Racing are sitting third overall after yesterday.
erm... It is the one with the most teams in it. If you click join a league then search league names it is something like "you lost me at special stage" but it is the only league that has more than 4 entries
With you we have 5 of the top 9 entries overall
I'm 11th proving that you don't need Hirvonen or Loeb
Loeb is way to expensive. Even if he wins everything you can get more points for your money elsewhere.
Well he is what, six time world champion now? So being expensive is understandable but putting him in your team is really going to limit your options.
If the budget had been 5 or 6 million I might spend 2.5 on him but 2.5 out of 4 million is just too much
Right all.....off for a bit.
See ya later
Bye
See ya mate.
A rather awful start to the Winter Olympics:
http://www.torontosun.com/sports/vancouver2010/news/2010/02/12/12857041-qmi.html
:(
There should not be poles anywhere people who can leave the track
Alright so all of my fantasy entries are set. This is going to require a lot of press releases.
Teams: CART Widower (IRL team), Ken from the Block (WRC), and Racing Eagles Racing (F1 team)
Have you joined all the sidepodcast leagues?
Know how rushed everything has been up there to get ready, a lapse like this unfortunately doesn't surprise me.
Yes, are there more?
Only the three so far but given the rate people get bored round here I would not be surprised to find a fantasy karting league soon
There is a world cup competition...
There is bound to be some interest in that but I guess there is no rush to enter that yet
Well, it's fair to say that Mr C and I will be watching LOST on Saturday morning and sleeping in on Sunday, but if you want to go ahead, we can absolutely set you up with a thread.
There's no point entering till the squads are announced at the end of May.
Christine has part 3 of her story up already. Read it and vote
http://tenstepstories.wordpress.com/
ping: http://sidepodcast.com/2010/02/12/high-definition-highcroft/
I love the cliffhanger Christine has left in today's chapter. I wonder what the result of the vote will say about the sidepodpeeps
Pressdog in satire mode.. http://pressdog.typepad.com/dogblog/2010/02/elements-quietly-working-toward-indyconcept-series.html#more
#irl
If they are crazy enough to race that car there are going to be a huge number of accidents. Drivers are going to stick there nose in a gap and forget that the rear is twice as wide and won't go through the same gap.
As soon as his work allows him, the Mercedes driver benefits from the break and comes over to the Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro motorhome to enjoy a plate of spaghetti aglio e olio, pasta with garlic and olive oil: it already happened last week in Valencia and it happened also today here in Jerez.
http://www.ferrari.com/English/News/Pages/100212_F1_attraction_pasta.aspx
(@via lookingspiffy)
I agree
heheh :-)
mmmmm... Olive Oil... perhaps one of the greatest foods ever.
Danny has updated the scores for today (now with added superspecial)
I think I shall skip this weekend... There seems to be a lot on!
I like those scores much more than the last lot.
Our league has every position in the top 7 other than 2nd
if i'm last...
:(
where are ya on dsundday?
ooh.
your blushes have been spared by a late entry on nil points.
Don't worry, I didn't enter in time for this weekend and have no points, so at least I'll be lower than you ;)
Do you have wine again?
I see they've given in and added an 8th day to the week.
Okie dokie, better to do it when you're fully focused on the excellent choons.
fat fingers?
ooh i haven't entered! i wanna be last! :)
(hearts) jpancoast!
You are not. It is a long season
Go on. Enter.
*coughs*DropKimi*coughs*
okay so i've entered... but everything is frozen till after the rally, so plenty of time to choose some drivers :)
but, we're doing fwrc because of kimi!
In fairness, Dani Sordo is good for his money.
you can't give up on your man just cause he wont win this year ;) i had JB in my team in 08 ;)
Have you joined our league? and have you joined the IRL game and our league there?
Later in the season he will be good value
what's the league number? and the IRL game??... i don't even know who drives in IRL...
oh never mind about the league number... found it.
and now you have to move on. He will understand.
:D ehehe
Mike Conway used to be a Honda test driver, Dario Franchitti is Paul di Resta's cousin. You will know the names when you see them
Mike Conway!! i know him!! ooo... where do i sign up! honda ftw ;)
Exactly. If you say "name 5 drivers" most would struggle. If you give them a list of 10 they might recognise 5..
I don't know if this is geolocked but there is a very very short sequence of Kimi trying to free his car: http://www.mtv3.fi/urheilu/ralli/uutiset.shtml/arkistot/ralli/2010/02/1055640
"wrong region"
Booo!!!
heheheh i spy sato!
I HATE geolocking
Just point yo
r mouse at Other Competitions and select Fantasy Indycar then once you have your team choose Panda 500 as your league
Did he hit something again?
Sato is in the IRL??
Neil Cole presents the rally roundup show for a channel called Dave and he just tweeted a behind-the-scenes video featuring dogs..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPoYwpSHAv0
How did that happen??? I did not stop halfway through a word to quote again
only snow this time
it says 'Takumo Sato (R)' like i say i know nothing about IRL... only clicking on random names...
He's been sniffing around for a few weeks while still trying to get an F1 driver. Word is he's signed for KV.
Co-driver's side?
I recommend only picking a couple of drivers at the mo, there's more to be announced
I don't know. I think with pretty much every site :)
who is better out of...Alex Tagliani, Dan Wheldon, and Mario Moraes they all cost the same amount and can't choose between them... I like the name Tagliani though...
I'd go Wheldon seeing as he's an IRL champion. And he's British. :P
If you are going to crash may as well do it properly
Wheldon
he's the champion and he only costs 7 million?? so why are some of the others costing up to 12million?
Tagliani is very experienced but he's set up a new team for this year. I expect teething troubles.
Dan Wheldon has won the 500 before and is fast in some places but not others and has slipped to a midfield team. The year Danica came 3rd and got loads of media attention at everyone's expense, he wore a t-shirt saying "Actually won the Indy 500".
Mario Moraes is in his 2nd year and has lots of potential.
Tagliani is the IRL's Fisichella
ahhhhhh at least they both have awesome names...
He won it two or three years ago. Last year Franchitti won it at the last race from his team mate Scott Dixon. Ganassi and Penske are the two top teams
You seem to have better knowledge of these drivers than me. As a whole, are there any obvious pricing errors in that field at the moment?
Um, ta :-)
I'll have a look
Wheldon's AN IRL champion, not the reigning one ;)
So.. my IRL choices (you'll be pleased with my logic here :P)
Dan Wheldon - 7.00m - cause you told me too...
Dario Franchitti - 12.00m - cause he's so expensive he must be good
Marco Andretti - 8.50m - cause i've heard of him before
Mike Conway - 7.00m - because of the whole honda thing...
Sarah Fisher - 5.50m - cause she's a woman.. but not Danica :)
riiight okay :)
hhehe i'm enjoying playing a competition i know nothing about :D
That's a decent team. Marco seems to enjoy crashing more than racing but he has a good car and he is a decent driver
well if he doesn't score me many points i'll just swap him for another random name :D
Franchitti's the reigning champion, just FYI. ;)
You've got good pricing on the Ganassi/Penske drivers.
I'd potentially move Kanaan up a tad over his teammates. Say by 0.5, they're about as fast as each other but he's got more experience.
Antinucci could be a touch too high but its hard to say. Generally its good as it is and you can easily leave it and not attract complaints.
if you beat me...
I am just so confused with these competitions. I spend how may hours a week on F1 and I was rubbish at that and I am totally out of touch with rallying and leading it after the first proper day.
Can I interest you in mine? :)
And he won the championship before he went to NASCAR and he won the Indy 500 before. He should get you loads of points
ahhh right :D that would make sense :)
I picked:
Wheldon - Cos he's British
Conway - Cos he's also British
Sato - Cos he's the Takuma Sato
Power - He seems decent
Ryan Hunter-Reay - Mainly because he is also called Ryan
Just have to point you all to this photo of Lou's that you may not have see...
"Do Not Feed The Animals....Macs"
Lou showed us not long after returning from the zoo ;)
hehehe i think i'm going to have fun coming last, but if i do beat you i will giggle alot.. seeing as you seem to know more about irl than me :D
Excellent - much appreciated.
I do watch IRL, but not really an avid follower.
grrr. booo
actually... that's not too difficult..
you have a league too
^^i must slow down with my typing.
I try to be an avid follower but I've fallen behind and not had time to catch up!
Love it when there's a trend for something, it dies out and then someone from somewhere completely different just happens to reference it... was only 5mins since boo-urns was all the rage in here :)
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/boo-urns-png-2
oh i did that wrong
Hrmm... wonder if Speed is covering any WRC rallies this year. Normally I have to get some european coverage from bittorrent.
i give up. someone was referencing boo-urns.
I have a game on the blog.
i didn't notice #sorrypat will check it out now
There's an HD channel somewhere but it isn't Speed... can't remember who it is now but it'll be a week late.
Given the state of my feed reader I'm in no position to be upset at people missing my posts :)
Motors TV has highlights
ahh thank you :)
hehehe Em's just found a pic of Heikki's new hair..
'i still love him, even though his car looks like a soup can and he seems to have aged and has 70's hair...poor heikki.'
link
Just on the IRL factor - watch the last 15 laps of the Homestead-Miami finale. Best tension builder in the sport. Rivals 2008 Brazilian GP. :)
They won't. It is on a obscure cable channel called HD Theater.
It angers me. You have WRC, IRL, and a bunch of other racing series in the wilderness while SpeedTV puts on another stupid reality show.
Really, ESPN wake up and start a motorsports channel.
That was a fantastic finish.
We also have a 1 hour program on "Dave" on Sunday night too.
A question on Twitter etiquette - I suppose someone will want me to call that Twittiquette, but I won't.
If I want to unfollow someone because they are becoming increasingly annoying (or rather, never talking about racing and they are on my racing account) yet they Follow Friday me every week without fail, do I unfollow?
In the cold, cruel world of twitter, you do what you need to do.
So yeah, unfollow that person.
Your call. Some guy called my Twitter feed spam and promptly removed me from the followers list. I don't lose sleep over it. :)
i don't follow anyone anymore. i list people.
so add them to a list.
This is what I'm tending toward :)
Thanks.
The amount of stuff going through Twitter these days, you need to follow who you find interesting, not who you don't want to offend.
Michelin returning to F1?
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/michelin-to-get-the-last-laugh/
I do both. I like to keep specific lists and then a general feed. It helps me get hte timeline right in my head.
I just unfollow. I can't be bothered with the hassle. Sadly I have followed a lot of psychotic Muse fans in the past who literally tweet every minute at least twice (I wish I was joking) and then rage when they get their limit unlocked, then use up the limit again etc... surprises me how many people do so that I've followed in the past.
Mmm, I follow quite a lot more people now than I did when I first followed - and I also have the personal a/c now too.
Yeah, psychotic Muse fans... dont' know any of those....
Oh, Hi Lukeh!
Muse are the new Radiohead in that respect.
Oh trust me, I got nothing on these guys.
WRC Rally Sweden highlights starting now on Motors TV in the UK for those interested
Have to say, the WRC coverage is extremely poor after watching what Eurosport did for the IRC Monte Carlo Rally
A question on Twitter etiquette - I suppose someone will want me to call that Twittiquette, but I won't.
If I want to unfollow someone because they are becoming increasingly annoying (or rather, never talking about racing and they are on my racing account) yet they Follow Friday me every week without fail, do I unfollow? {Comment #760}
Personally, I'd unfollow them, then thank them when they put me in their Follow Friday tweets. There's a good chance they won't know they've been unfollowed unless they watch their "followed" tallies very closely. However, if lots of people put you in Follow Fridays (or you don't give other people who Follow Friday you thanks), just unfollow them.
Strange seeing Kimi digging himself out of a snowbank
just seen this site for fisrt time my brother showed it to me, really cool will download podcasts tonight!
YAY!! Have finished finished what I've been working on with Gridwalk Talk... have edited the Formula 1 section I made the other night. Take a look! http://gridwalktalk.wordpress.com/formula-1-2010/
There are sites out there that will track who unfollows you and then email you, much in the same way that you get an email when someone follows you (if you have it turned on) http://twunfollow.com/ is the site i've used, doesn't work if your tweets are protected though.
I have come over all tired. Cheers for the laughs, however a TM must sleep. If a TM doesn't sleep, TM becomes lethargic on a weekend. Which is not necessarily a bad thing except I have *stuff* (not the word I was going to use) to do.
So I'm heading to bed. Night all!
Welcome! You'll love it here. :D
Hope you enjoy the podcasts. If you are commenting on the site try http://sidepodcast.com/realtime/ which lets you see comments on all threads at the same time and you always know what is going on.
lol @ Campos & USF1
Nice work, sir!
Brilliant stuff mate :)
Though If I am being awkward, the FIA haven't confirmed Sauber's numbers yet and I'd imagine Pedro will have the lower number than Kamui
Good night
Night Mr TM
Have saved them as PSD files as well so I can just edit it about if necessary, tis no issue.
night tm
Jess, you're email has moved into the name box! Just thought you may want to know!
Time for sleep... Must remember to set my alarm for work tonight. Night all!
oops, sorry, my mistake
We all do these silly mistakes.
Welcome btw.
No problem. I am sure the comment can be deleted so that your e-mail address is not picked up by some spammer
Mr C!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is the safest place to make a mistake like that tbh.
ok cool :)
I have sent an e-mail to the management to change your e-mail address to your name since neither of them are around just now.
seeing as headping has been disabled
It's very quiet here this evening. Where is everyone?
Very nice :)
I've just got in from work
Evening all
maybe mr c broke his headping when he broke the doohickey yesterday.
Writing a blog post.
i'm currently laying on my sofa coughing loads and feeling very sorry for myself. i hate being ill.
Mr C was under orders to do some work earlier
Why would you want to?
Welcome aboard
Egocentrics probably care more than they should
Hi Bassano
Indeed, welcome to SPC Jess
hi :)
Still got Em's death cold?
Hello Mr Bassano.
yes, Hi Jess :)
I'm watching recordings of MotoGP to try and clear my backlog of stuff, and I'm wondering whether to watch the Olympic opening ceremony given it starts at 1.30am
It actually starts at 2am...
yes :( although i thought i was getting a bit better yesterday so i went outside to take pics in the snow. needless to say, it was a bad idea because i've been feeling awful all day.
Sounds like yours is massively worse than mine. :(
All I can suggest is an early night.
ah
Going out in the snow with a death cold is a bad idea
it's not often i get this knotched off my feet due to a bad cold, i usually get a bad sore throat, loose my voice a little and am better within a week.
I would go to bed, but i've just started watching yesterday's episode of skins... :) #iammyonworstenemy
blame my textiles teacher, since our trip was cancelled she suggested going outside :)
Finally getting round to listening to the Lotus podcast
@pat your game looks great!! i shall join in next week though as i seem to have missed the cut off.
Have you got any of those vitamin C tablets you dissolve in a big glass of water?
Thanks :)
There's time to catch up with good-scoring rounds, although I think next week is NASCAR-only so that'll be pot luck. It'll get interesting when F1 and IRL kick in.
Evening! I'm determined to go to bed at midnight tonight. I'm up at stupid o clock in the morning :(
sadly not :( well, i actually don't know, mum may have some but she is currently sleeping.
I don't see that happening after you kept me up half the night last night
hi alison! stupid o clock in the morning should only ever been seen on early morning GP days..
Me?
It was someone using your name who spent half the night talking and moaning
So you came into the comments with ten minutes to go? I think you don't really want to go..
I tried to go to sleep when Nick did but there was epic fail....
How does that stop you going to bed? :P
Have you spoken to him since?
Finally getting round to downloading the Lotus podcast. Silly 3G limits
You scared me and I didn't want to go into a dark room
Hi Alison
Since when? 20 minutes ago? No :P
Since your whingeing last night
Ah in that case yes!
Clearly he has made you happier
:lol:
Shocker! :P
Who wants to see Kimi in a bobble hat shovelling snow to get his Citroen out of a snowbank? :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56bCsqMLXWM
I'm sorry Steven! I'll try harder to be nice next time....
Just came across the Lotus podcast edit fail. Oh dear! What a mess up
Don't believe you
:cry:
heh :-)
I wonder if the opening ceremony of the Olympics will be toned down after the bloke got killed on his luge
I'd imagine it to be. From the tweets of BBC reporters there, very sombre mood.
Not to take anything away from it, but how come events were taking place before the opening ceremony?
It was training, I think everyone has to do at least one training run before they can compete.
it happened during training i believe
He wasn't racing. It was a practise run
Ah I see.