Credit: Lukeh
So that's what Vitaly drove over. No wonder it put Rory off...
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new Friday for us, and I'm feeling good! Another F1 weekend is upon us and that awesome day that is Friday has returned just as expected but there's plenty of good stuff for us to go through today. As ever I direct you towards the ever fabulous Race Information thread for the Chinese GP for everything F1 this weekend, and StatesmanF1 has more fantastic information to share with you about the race too, but what about today? Well, at least Andy Murray has made it through to the next round of the Monte Carlo Masters so there's a good thing already! There's much more...
Paddock News
The Lucky Tale of Speedy Gonzales - The man who's already impressed many in the sport, Sergio 'Checo' Perez, had a pretty lucky tale to tell from his experience in Malaysia where he was forced to retire but now we know why - a piece of ballast had shot into his cockpit from another car! Excuse me whilst I deal with the whole mental-ness of this story because it's not only a little scary (think back to Massa in 2009) but it's a little bit insane that ballast managed to fly off a car! Luckily Sergio is alright and our favourite little Mexican (sorry Chicharito, you are awesome though) I'm sure won't let it affect him for China.
Bleepity Bleep - It's never a good idea to question Sebastien Vettel's reign over Mark Webber to the feisty Australian and once more Mr Marky has defended his chance against the World Champion and even got a bit sweary as well. I'm certainly not gonna use it on a family friendly website such as this but let's just say he thought the comparison of him to Eddie Irvine was a bit silly! Well it is really. I mean, Mark Webber is a nice guy for starters.
Joe's Bigger Picture of an already Big Picture - It's already interesting enough reading some of Joe's insights into F1 on his blog but this post particularly intrigued me as he looked at how the many teams that make up the paddock are going to change where me might not see it over the coming months. What also really took my interest was his views on Vijay Mallyah and his personal desire to be seen as the 'Mr India' of F1 rather than the boss of Force India. Furthermore, Joe posted a very, very interesting and totally geeky post about lap charts in the sport that the Excel-inclined of us should really give a read! Fantastic insight into the world of Formula 1 journalism, and more numbers than a Matrix wallpaper.
Elsewhere
KERS you, stupid rules! - The Man with the Graphs is back again as Gavin returns with his always useful look at the numbers of F1, this time out studying the change in Vettel's laptimes and performance before and after his KERS problem during the Malaysian Grand Prix, and it's also interesting to see what can be analysed from the performance change. Of course, I can't forget to mention the fact Gavin's given Making up the Numbers a new lick of paint and an overhaul too without even visiting B&Q and spending any money, and it looks great! Jolly well done, sir.
Japan's Road to Recovery - One month ago you and I and many around the world watched on in absolute dread as that horrific 9.0 earthquake struck Japan and all we could do was watch and hope for the best. Of course, we all know that the Japanese public will come together as one community and this collection of photos from the Big Picture show just how things are going, some inspiring photos, some still dreadfully scary to see but all fascinating. Incidentally, do you remember this natural event exactly one year ago today? Hopefully this time round the F1 crew can get home easier!
A Google a Day keeps the Yahoo away - I found this earlier in the week, and it's something nice and new to do everyday which keeps it fresh - it's a Google a Day, where you get a little question or riddle to solve and you have to google the clues to find out the answer! For once in your life if someone suggests to you 'why don't you just google it to find out?' that is the actual point! Hurrah! Plus quizzes are awesome, even if this one makes me feel particularly stupid as I still can't work the questions out even after googling their clues. Damnit!
A Guide to Losing your Fans Immediately - Spotify Style! - It would be fair to say that I am most un-amused by this news from the online streaming chaps from Spotify as they have decided that from May 1st you can only listen to five free songs a month. Five. For a whole month. Five songs. Free. Month. ....For. A. Excuse me whilst I squeeze this stress ball the size of a volleyball! But in all seriousness, to me at least this is such a bad move for Spotify - whilst they're trying to encourage more Spotify premium sign-ups I can't help but feel that it's going to encourage people to go back to pirating music rather than embrace the fee. That's just how I feel anyways, maybe the change will work! Luckily, there are alternatives...
And Finally...
I'm in Stitches here! - These are brilliant, and I kind of wish I could buy one but I really shouldn't. Little pixel people all cross stitched and looking awesome! Maybe it's the whole stitchy-ness of them all or the little retro pixel design but they're just incredibly cool, especially the super heros and the Doctor Who one I now use for my Twitter profile picture. I just love them!
A Troubled Bridge over Water - If there's one thing that always catches my attention it's stuff that looks really surreal and quite bizarre to the human eye and these images taken from Google Maps and it's 3D maps function creates some really incredibly and quite surreal distortion of the bridges to quite some degree. Such a bizarre effect from something so simply but it's a really cool set of images. Love the wibbly wobbly bridges but I don't think I shall be using them any time soon, no sir!
And that's that for another week. Remember there's F1 on this morning in the early hours of BST or wherever you may be! If you're interested I've started up a brand spanking new blog I plan to work on quite a lot over the summer and yesterday I had a quick run down of Inception and Source Code through the means of Keanu Reeves, because that totally makes sense to me. For now though, once again I want to end on something quite summery and upbeat because we're going towards the summer and I'm in a very cheery mood so what better than Sunny Afternoon by The Kinks to end today's daily and hopefully make your day a little bit sunnier too. Have a fabulous day my friends, I'll see you around these parts.
Hiya new day.
ahh all I had to wait was one more second :(
Hahah, great pic :)
Spotify's restrictions aren't quite that bad. It isn't 5 free songs per month, but 5 listens to a particular song. They are reducing it from 20 free hours to 10 free hours per month.
http://thenextweb.com/eu/2011/04/14/spotify-to-restrict-free-playback-service-six-months-after-registration/
But it is very annoying as I was just starting to use it for general listening and discovering new things, rather than as a repository for things i want to check out later.
I've chucked some more pics up from Boston and the post should be up sometime tomorrow
Night all
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bassanoclapper/sets/72157626312573291/
Ping - Start Times 16-17 April
http://toomuchracing.com/2011/04/15/start-times-16-17-april-2011/
Thought this might be useful for me let alone everyone else. :)
ooh ta, night
Thanks and good night
They're gorgeous! I love the shots you found/created.
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Daily: 15th April 2011
- Daily: 14th April 2011
- China 2011 - Race information
- Amy wins the AirAsia Uber Fan competition - Korea here we come!
- Spanish Wednesday: 13th April 2011
Bedtime, goodnight. :)
I hope to be up for FP2 from the start but I'll be lazy and also getting ready for work so doubt I'll do any online stuff, enjoy the sessions.
Good night
phew just back from an exhausting shoot...
What did you do?
Like what kind of shoot? It sounds exciting. :)
it's hard to explain. it basically involved trying to turn a normal location into a spooky one. Highlighting the crimes in the country.. so i have one to symbolize murder, one child abductions.. it's hard to explain. but we did 3 locations tonight around farnham and i'm a bit tired.. no fp1 for me.. need to pack for tomorrow too!
It sounds cool. I'm excited for the work you're doing. Busy day!
i can do a few more shoots at home so i'll have to complete them. i'm hoping the series will be strong enough. will upload a few to tumblr once their edited over the weekend to give people more of an idea of my plans for the work. :)
Can't wait. :)
mmmmmmm pie
right, bed time. have a nice fp1... may see you all for fp2! xx
G'night
Sleep for me, too. Good night.
I am hoping wifi hotspotting with my phone will provide enough bandwidth for the timing app to work so i can follow along while I'm at work :)
Wait, I just saw that it was/is jpan's birthday today -my today, the 14th. Happy birthday!
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Live: China 2011 - Free Practice 2
- Live: China 2011 - Free Practice 1
- Daily: 15th April 2011
- Daily: 14th April 2011
- China 2011 - Race information
Marvellous daily Lukeh.
morning folks
Results Ping:
http://sidepodcast.com/post/china-2011-free-practice-1-results
http://sidepodcast.com/post/china-2011-free-practice-2-results
Nice daily Lukeh
It's not quite that simple though. Spotify can't go on losing $16 million every year and still provide content; especially now that new contracts from artists / labels force Spotify to pay more for streams.
I see one of the comments saying "another free service going ..." it is amazing how people simply take it for given that they should get things for free at the same time everybody expects to be paid more by their employees... where will the cash for wages come from if products and services are free ? (forget the music fees itself, but how about the people working at Spotify ? )
Grrrr....
Lufthansa's site is being difficult
Quite true
FINNS!
Que?
Hi all :)
AMY!!! Darren Heath photographed us on Sunday in the stand (hope the link works)
http://www.darrenheath.com/season/2011/malaysia-2011/image-gallery#4228
I'm sitting just above the word "darren".
team lotus tweeted a picture of Heikki with Mika :) ooh that's very cool pamela!
aha!
direct link to the pic. i see you!
http://www.darrenheath.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/gallery_large/photographs/Crowd_Malaysia'11_234i.jpg
Much better thanks :)
It's a shame the photo wasn't taken while the Venezuelans in front of us were holding up their placards.
Hello
I see ya! Amy in her Lotus headwear :)
Hello all, how are we?
I've come home from work as I'm not feeling too good. There's a bug going round the office and I think I've got it :(. I love that technology allows me to go to bed with the comments to keep me company.
Get well soon Janna
Healthy, but Lufthansa are making online check-in impossible which making me annoyed
:/
Morning. Have just been reading FP comments.
Niice!
That's not good, get well soon
Thank you, hopefully the vat of lemsip I intend to drink will help
Dad swears on adding brandy to it
Not very MFC, you'll just have to go & see them about it ;)
Not too fluey I hope Janna? A nice weekend is ahead!!
Lemsip is always my go-to drink. Hope you feel better soon.
MFC??
Just need a volunteer to bring me brandy then
Media Future Change, if you've actually got to go & check in at the desk it's a bit old school
Hopefully not, a bit achy. Other people have had bad cold & upset stomach. I'm hoping I just get the cold part.
They have an online check-in, but it's Italian only. No English option... and when I put in my ref number (in I hope the right box), I get an error message
Google translate won't work?
Only the odd word here and there, but not in a way that makes sense
Hardly helpful, English is the international language of aviation
Does anyone fancy a look to see if it makes sense?
https://www.lufthansa.com/online/portal/lh/it/info_and_services/checkin/web_checkin?l=it&nodeid=1680185&cid=1000273&WT.mc_id=cki_email_preflight_IT
It does if you click on English at the top (next to Home).
Only brings me the homepage
I set 'My Country' to the UK and the check-in options are in English
Then click on Check-in tab, next to Booking
Works for me too - came up in English.
Gotcha, but this is weird. They only allow online check-in 23 hours before the flight... Odd, but sorted I guess.
Cheers folks, but I wonder why the English tab was bringing me to the Italian page earlier on
That's normal-
Fair enough - never had to ever check-in online before
I just realized I haven't seen a single piece of Shanghai GP promotion here in Hong Kong, not a single poster or billboard. (and it is supposed one country although with two systems :-) )
In contrast the Singapore GP advertises and promotes here a lot every year even the non-F1 Macau GP makes itself seriously visible here every year ...
So far today I haven't seen a single mention of the fact that F1 action started in Shanghai on any of the major news portals ...
no wonder the grandstands are empty when they are not even trying to let general public know there is a race ...
That's crazy
I have to be careful because once I start ranting about our neighbours north of the border there is no stopping me. so I better stop right here right now, pack up and head for Friday night beer or two :-)
:) Have fun
Christine/Mr C
Have emailed a draft post and will follow up his afternoon with some picture links
Thanks for bearing with me
In case anyone missed it late last night UK time, I made a simple list of this week's event for people who don't want to use my or Christine's Google Calendars:
http://toomuchracing.com/2011/04/15/start-times-16-17-april-2011/
I've found GC to be a bit unreliable sometimes, better for long-term planning to see what day things are happening rather than what hour.
Anyone know what is up with the Virgin's this weekend? That's some worrying initial times there.
also got something else planned for tonight on the blog
Can you resend me your stats? Was gonna fill in my sheet tonight.
Group Lotus score a few quid
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/group-lotus-money-lands-cash/
Nick's preview of Shanghai: http://www.nickheidfeld.com/?1104A0A1A10695
Never really saw him as a chuck norris?
You may have to remind me when I get home.
OK
Bad car generally?
But if they have been overtaken by the Hispania's, that could be super extra bonus bad
they need a trip to the local windtunnel for a full bodywork check.
Hullo Sir
I have sent you and Christine and email and will follow it with another later this afternoon
awe and then sum
Afternoon party people.
...and they may get it too
joe says he heard they would on the last show.
hiiiiiiiiiiiii!
...and that would be a big downer for wirth
hello ms christine
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- China 2011 - Free Practice 2 Results
- Live: China 2011 - Free Practice 2
- China 2011 - Free Practice 1 Results
- Live: China 2011 - Free Practice 1
- Daily: 15th April 2011
not as big a downer as being beaten by a HRT, surely?
we won! Easy to say when you support both teams :D
Hi Christine
Happy Friday
I dunno - it's one thing to be last, but something else for one's radical concept to be undermined so publicly
what have you won now?? :)
yeah, but being last rather undermines one's concept in the most public way. HRT are barely half a team.
rugby :) my friends boyfriend is from the same province as me so also supports the team so we had many fistbumps. First try they scored we high fived but it didn't work very well
Makes me wonder what bet Branson would have with Kolles...
;)
excellent!
Mr C, I sent you an email, which you have to see even if you are too busy to do anything about it.
Same thing isn't it? The car is awful.
can't imagine kolles is much of a competitor to richard.
and now i am on my way home and once i get in the door i fully intend not to leave again until work on Monday. <3 hermitting
will do.
For HRT to be anywhere near them is public enough, I reckon.
That sounds good.
next week is a 6 day weekend. I am going to try staying inside for all 6 :D
Karun has clearly been chatting to Mike: In taxi off to meet @JRobertsF1 and the @5LiveF1 crew for dinner - very worried I'm going to get lost with no hope of communication !
I really have no desire to go to that race anyway but the tweets I see every year make me more sure that thats the right choice :)
It seems even worse this year
the smog is new, that doesn't sound like fun
I remember it being quite hazy before
done.
the haze has always been there but if Em Buxton is right, industry pumping out stuff near the track hasn't been switched off this year.
I always get paranoid when I see something like that.
Writing a post, wanted a second opinion.
I promise to have my Fanvision post completed this weekend. My hermitting shall be productive. #badblogger
I should say, things like that are never usually secret or bad, it's just the comments are the only reliable way to get Mr C's attention.
If it was a secret, I wouldn't say it out loud :)
I always wonder if it something I said :)
I look forward to it!
by now attending a fourth race it has officially become cheaper than hiring one each time, although I'm not sure how much use it'll get in Korea :)
Nit even with a #confidential protection hash tag?
The smog in China is terrible. My father in law told me when he shaved, he could see it on his razor...
Ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/f1-in-china-how-long-can-it-go-on
there it is :)
#notlongerconfidential
Hopefully it will be over the weekend
There apparently is a Graceland replica in Denmark now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13091099
No such thing as a bad blogger (unless you're reviewing something you haven't seen)
quite.
:D
Google has naughty pandas! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13091708
Ping: http://www.f1minute.com/news/red-bull-dominate-both-smoggy-friday-practice-sessions-in-shanghai
a quick "drive-by". Just saw these and knew they'd be appreciated here.
Doctor Who nesting dolls. http://twitpic.com/3k3tdx
Love!
Wow, this day is trudging along...
Yup, very slow, but nearly there.
I have quite the pile of completed work on my desk though so I'm quite happy. :)
I've stuff to do, but it's all slow burning bits and bobs
:/
Mine's gone quite quickly. Even got a haircut in with no waiting or annoyances or anything!
Just listening to FP1 on the iPlayer - are Renault really running a "1Malaysia" logo on their cars?
They did in Malaysia
Didn't notice
#rally
#WRC Jordan day 1
Ogier (Citroen)
Loeb (Citroen) +31.6
Latvala (Ford) +33.1
P.Solberg (Citroen) +35.3
Hirvonen (Ford) +2m30.9
Raikkonen (Citroen) +2m45.8
They are playing silly road position games, slowing down to not sweep the road tomorrow, apart from Ogier who went flat out because he thinks he can beat them even from the front.
#IRC Canarias Day 1, someone put on an IRC round on without telling me as it's not in my calendar.
Kopecky
That was such an awful rally last year. The first two days were a real waste
that wasn't supposed to post yet
#rally
#IRC Canarias Day 1, someone put on an IRC round on without telling me as it's not in my calendar.
Kopecky (Skoda)
Neuville (Peugeot) +0.4s
Hanninen (Skoda) +0.8s
Loix (Skoda) +1.5s
Wilks (Peugeot) +20.4s (typo on Autosport?)
Mikkelson (Skoda) +17.1s
Most of the gravel rallies are like that sadly
Jordan was the worst of the lot though; however the rallies so far haven't been too bad. The road sweeping has been helped a bit by the new Michelin tyres
Ping -->
http://theformulaoneandmotorsportsarchive.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/the-art-of-preparation/
what do i pay you commenters for???
???
Is the answer "wine and cheese"
nope.
to remind you what day it is?
Y.E.S.
and what day is it?
Don't be ridiculous - everyone knows this is Tuesday
Wait - what country are we in?
Friday...
FRIDAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!
friday the...
Is today Mr C's birthday?
15th April 2011
yes it is, and what happened of sidepodsignificance on 15th april?
ohh nnnoooooooooooooo, the first meetup!!
I just found the word file reminding me to put it in the daily too!!! Bah.
marriage!
*applies Milky Bars*
well... yes.
Even bigger ohhhhhhhhhhhh nnoooooooooooooooooooooooooo
many many many I think.
at least 16.
buggeration.
well its been 3 years...so roughly 1000 days. 1000 ought to do it.
right folks, must split - will try to comment from monza
The Milky Bars are on Mr C...
Just seen this comment by a friend of Mike Fuller (Mulsanne's Corner) who had this to say about CFD:
Have fun and a safe trip...
I remember the last two years I've been here thinking 'I should remember that their anniversary is so close to my birthday'
Nope.
have fun! #monzarules
what do i pay you people for??
:)
Will do. Cheers
:)
seconded. do report back and let us know you got there safely.
I really have no excuse either like...
Hi people.
Enjoy Italia.
I blame microsoft word for not reminding me to open the word document with the paragraph I meant to put in the daily
whatever it is, it clearly isn't enough ;)
Do you know how much money hanging out on this site has cost me!
i shall try that one. wish me luck.
heeheheh
yes, it's closer to your birthday than mine! #blamerg
You pay monkies you get peanuts... oh wait?
♥
we can only hope that one day she'll become like my mother and forget what day she got married. And you can become like my father and forget what year. Blissfully unaware :)
if that fails blame F1.
Blame Tweetdeck?
BUSTED!
YES
hi christine. i wish you were more like amy's mother.
#doihavethatright?
I thought Mr C was just asking what day it was... I knew it was a Friday because I was in the office but my trousers weren't black: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexandronov/5622263146/
Oh dear lord
so I hear shovels are cheap right now
my mum is pretty awesome
I have added this event to the calendar in my phone and because I'm from the future I can give Mr C plenty of warning in 2012.
thankyou.
sometimes being almost like a time traveller has benefits. or something.
Good evening from home, and a happy anniversary Mr & Mrs C. :)
#ithappenedbeforeiwasheresoimallowedtoforget
Have a great time
Also happy birthday to James P for yesterday
I like reading back through your wedding thread that Steven Roy decided Mr C is Ron Dennis :D
:)
Mr C I have your back
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexandronov/5622297500/
i have a calendar, how do i keep missing these things? happy kinda-late birthday sir.
Just 997 to go
oh you are a star and then some!
Did you check out that desktop thing I suggested?
Me too
While I was taking that picture a man drove a bicycle into me!
ooh, i have one in the top bar thing, cause it was in the app store. i'm just hopeless.
A message for Australians :) :)
http://www.shanerogers.com.au/push-to-pass-1.jpg
Mr C really is desperate for those milky bars
ooh I can press red on my Foxtel or Austar remote! Can't get up at 5.30am on a Monday though #ouch
It was probably him. It was a mysterious man who looked like Ron Dennis ;)
he's never seen a iphone in the wild before?
Here's the tyre tracks on my tyres:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexandronov/5622337356/
oh my! poor trousers :(
before: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexandronov/5622263146/in/photostream/
after: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexandronov/5622337356/
:( :(
He was thinking "ooh Milky Bars".
Oh blimey, quite a hit.. are you undamaged?
I can relate to that, I couldn't even get up for FP2 today
Trousers even
I made it into the pits (bus) without incident :)
Oooopss.. Mr C: FAIL ... ;-)
... like how you linked to my comment on twitter, looks like i was the one that blew your cover!
I mean Christine must realise that this makes up for you
forgettingnot being told by the people you were relying on about this whole wedding anniversary dealyobviously he didn't forget, we just all miserably failed our test :)
hehe, you figured it out first if i recall. that must make it your responsibility to remind me every year :)
I mean it's fair to guess that Mrs C didn't marry Mr C for his ability to remember dates, but perhaps a factor was his ability to help her create online communities which would remind him. She married him and we failed!
;)
this is good, i can get behind this. christiiiiiiiine!
Has there been any further info on cake watch?
Hmm.
Careful she might say you were supposed to build a community that would remember not a community who forgets!!!
Eeek!
more elephants needed
Trumpet
haha.. oh well Mr C. looks like you are doomed then! I cant remember what I had for breakfast!
... congrats anyways! ;-)
... cant you make a "dailyreminder" type thing for twitter that reminds you ??
I know how Mr C will remember. It's the same day as Fourstar's Mum's Birthday. Or the day before my Mum's birthday. That will help.
or the same day and many years after the Titanic sunk and Leo died. I think thats how it went.
what if we just moved the date. i can remember new years eve, for starters.
you should have thought of that 3 years ago.
Maybe if Jools had a hootenanny on April 15th
:D Happy anniverary Mr and Mrs C! :)
if it helps I had cake in work.
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- F1 in China - How long can it go on?
- China 2011 - Free Practice 2 Results
- Live: China 2011 - Free Practice 2
- China 2011 - Free Practice 1 Results
- Live: China 2011 - Free Practice 1
Awwww Happy Anniversary :D I agree this is a totally impossible date for remembering!
I've seen this one doing the rounds.. :)
http://twitpic.com/4l37f6
The titanic sunk many years before, but on my dad's birthday
WIN! Must reshare. :D
Hello all, feeling a bit less coldified after a snooze & lemsip.
Celeriac & truffle oil soup is really good when you don't want anything too spicy or filling. (sounds posh but on offer)
Good to hear you are feeling a little better.
Thank you Alex :D
6 cupcakes arrived while I was out (that's 2 for me and 2 for each of my parents):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacanta/5622001177/in/photostream
Each with a customised message:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacanta/5622001181/in/photostream
The card that came with them was cute:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacanta/5622001185/in/photostream
Awesome!
Glad you're feeling better
That's legendary!
How fantastic are they? & Alex, clearly
Amazing!
oh my!
ooooh, can you get pictures of all of them?
Points for Alex!
Hi people.
Custom cakes is the kind of nice thing someone would do for, say, an anniversary or something.
yes!
no!!
:lol:
or perhaps to apologize for forgetting such an occasion
Fantastic.
He hasn't forgotten again?
Too late for slightly less than custom Milky Bars?
or right.
*ahem*
christine. i am very, very sorry for forgetting our anniversary for the second year in a row.
:D hehe
dear mr c, the ical feature on macs is very handy. :)
Extremely. My parents thought it was very kind of Alex for sending the cakes and Sidepodcast for having the guest post system in the first place :)
You are incredibly brave putting a number on it with your memory
Gold!
http://jalopnik.com/#!5792474/
Or for marking the anniversary of the happy couple's return to the internet (the 18th, so there's still just enough time to order ;) )
Hehe.
meanie!
Woohoo ping! http://sidepodcast.com/post/two-pints-of-guinness-and-a-seltzer-with-lemon
Thanks for the link, I had forgotten how beautiful Christine looked & that fabulous dress
ooh
Joe has a piece on Bahar getting $440 million from 6 Malaysian banks
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/group-lotus-money-lands-cash/
There is no way they will get a return on that unless he just buys gold with it
the government are too far in to back out. only a change at the very top can fix this now, surely?
The government is certainly committed financially but for this decision they should be committed. I worked it out before that even just the cost of the money without interest etc puts something like $17500 on to the cost of each car even if they make their targets. Add in interest repayments and the need to make a profit on that and you are looking at an addition of $25-$30k on to the price of each car. Utterly insane
especially as they haven't waited until the result of the court case.
*waves at mav from the daily*
Yes, the problem is that I then forgot to switch back to the daily before saying hello!
Grrr
hehe!
It seems odd to be blowing lots of money on a court case against a team that is giving you lots of good free publicity and at the same time borrowing an unrealistic sum of money to expand you business.
Evening
Didn't know they'd failed to get their regional development handout
So will they do what they say and move manufacturing to Malaysia?
How "real" does that make the "real lotus" if they do?
Big question: pizza today or tomorrow?
Woohoo!
I'm so jealous! Bassano still owes me a chocolate bar!!!
odd probably doesn't quick cut it. reckless or foolhardy might be closer to the mark.
PING for a little list of little things that make my little life: http://toata.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/179-little-things/
Bit of a gamble
depends how much the court case is worth in publicity
I went for tomorrow
also, cute dr who link: http://pulsene.ws/1jPXY :)
that's what they need the money for :-)
Humph! :D
Well now you'll know that when I offer cake in the comments I really can make cake really come out of the Internet to your house!
Awesome list
I got the pack out of the freezer and everything. Stood there for a bit and thought... nah, tomorrow. :)
I have sausages tonight.
The diet is going well.
If they move to Malaysia they are going to have to find a lot more money to finance a new plant and new employees, training etc
:D It's been a long week... ;)
I had pasta on Wednesday and felt dozy and weak all yesterday. Clearly that's a sign. Also I need my nourishment, to be ready for the golf course tomorrow or Sunday. And I had vegetables yesterday. In the Malaysian curry.
I bought crisps for the first time in 10 days yesterday though. Just one bag. Quite an achievement for me :D
I'm scared Renault are going to start another recession :(
It takes a lot more than $440 million to start a recession. We are safe for now. If Bahar enters politics though we are all in trouble
No going back now. :)
Mine sounds bad but really I've also got sweetcorn, peas, etc, and I bought a pack of veg for use with other stuff, and lots of bananas, apples, clementines, and discovered the mixed bag of nuts and fruit is a nice snack instead of chocolate. So that's a major improvement..
That won't happen as long as Fernandes doesn't do it...
I'm too tight with my money to buy nice food though. I just end up eating odds and ends at work which really isn't very healthy!
they need to do that anyway
:D
Very pretty cakes too (we haven't eaten them yet due to a combination of their cuteness and the fact we've only just eaten tea).
Oh yes that's so easy to do. Picking up one or two "nice things" in the shop along with the usuals.
Until Bahar tries his next ill-advised expansion...
They have their existing plant and staff with vast experience. Closing all that down and starting from scratch in Malaysia is a huge additional cost
Phew!
We have food at work. If I eat something with a short shelf life on it I don't have to pay. And I wonder why I put on weight..... :P
I had burger and salad for lunch. I thought I was being clever until I spotted I had whole chilies in the salad - which were mild enough, but splattered copious amounts of water all over the table!
Precisely. It would be like BAR with Tyrrell. When the team burns through half a billion dollars or more and the banks pull out, I hope someone of Ross Brawn's skill level is around to take over.
Thankfully!
I can get discount bacon and cheese through work. Willpower required. I have bacon now with the sausages, it was short date and I needed to finish the pack and couldn't bring myself to throw it out..
Bathroom scales required. :)
finally, finally read the daily. phew.
lukeh has a new blog??
I have a blog post coming soon. I should stop yapping about food and finish it, back in a bit. :)
Indeed
interesting idea
*doffs capo*
new HIGNFY is on
cap. although i do have a capo. maybe i'll doff that too.
It wouldn't be caps though, you don't use those
Does anyone have any idea where Nick is?
I'm gonna put money on Dubai.
Hanging out with Wally and his dog, good luck finding him
they're banned.
Ping; http://www.f1bigpicture.com/news/upon-closer-inspection
Hey there new here! Greetings from Fayetteville, Arkansas
Hello, welcome, make yourself at home!
Hi David. We always like having new commenters
hey there David :)
there's beer in the fridge and friends is on the telly?
So how did you find sidepodcast?
What this that I was supposed to be writing an essay about the failure of the U.S. Grand Prix? I thought Dan was working on it. I was only pointing out that in the 1982 Grand Prix season, the U.S. had three Grand Prix, two in the Steets of Detroit, Michigan and Long Beach California and the third in the parking lot of the Caesar's Palace Parking Lot in Los Vegas, Nevada.
This was during a 16 race season, and with Montreal a full quarter of the F1 season was in North America.
A beer sounds amazing! I still have an hour of work today! I've listened for the last year or so but am just now figuring out the odds and ends of everything. I'm big into Indycar and F1. I grew up in Indianapolis and have been in love ever since!
Commenting from work is always to be encouraged
It's about as rebellious as I get. I really live on the edge :)
:D
I am sure if you hang around here long enough we can give your rebellious side some exercise
Hi David
I wish I'd got a pizza!
Sounds amazing. So what time has coverage of practice and so on been airing over in your direction?
Hey Pat!
I'm not sure we've had someone comment from Arkansas before.
Qualifying will be at 7am..
Next session is 4am but we will still be here live commenting it. You learn so much watching with a group of other fans.
Very early morning sessions. Quali and the race are approaching sociable hours at 7am
If I manage to avoid commenting in the middle of the night tonight, I'll count it as a job well done. I was totally zonked today!!
But you enjoyed FP1 even if you were meant to be sleeping.
Hmmmm I wasn't enjoying it at 6pm after 12 hours at work :P
FP3 starts an hour later so you should be OK till 7pm
Hah! I'd need to go straight out to work from watching that. I refuse to get up for work at 4am!?
I bet you are awake for at least part of the session
I hope not!!! Not on a Saturday. I had to get up early to let engineers in last week. I'm determined to have sensible sleep for one day at least!?
Do that on Monday after the race
Just seen this on the news. Madness.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-13094294
You all are amazing. My wife concedes to me in getting to watch all that Speed has to offer but I don't always get to do so live. I'm anxious for the European season which will offer a somewhat decent hour!
I just saw that too! Utterly stupid, stupid driver!
NIIIIIIIICK!! Steven's bullying me!
Someone doesn't know how to calculate risks
I thought you couldn't find him.
will ya be watching the race live on sunday?
Us too :)
Someone cut our level crossing yesterday. Went as the barrier was closing and ended up stuck between them. Had to have them raised again. Total moron.
Get her to comment an we will introduce her to live streams
He turned up :D
Sorry Nick. That's your job
Hehehe!
:) Welcome David :)
Woah
Diggnation discussing ovens!! What is the world coming to? Good thing is Mr C may learn to cook
Ping! - http://toomuchracing.com/2011/04/15/friday-favourites-15-april-2011/
Has there been a Wordpress update recently? The spam protection is hooking out all the comments to my blog, even though everyone has commented before..
Haven't seen anyone mention it if there has been
Work just went straight hades their for a moment. I probably won't be able to go live for this weekend but certainly for Turkey! As for my wife if racing didn't exist she'd probably be a happier person but was game enough to go to the Indy 500 last year so at least she has that going for her.
For those of you that are at all into Indycar. Is Will Power not just about the greatest name you could give to anyone involved in sport? Has this been discussed? Am I just a nerd?
We do every session live so it would be great if you could join us for some of them
For a long time I was convinced it was an elaborate hoax! Great name.
We live comment some IndyCar races too.
I remember when he was doing the junior formulae in England and I first saw his name. I thought it was a made up name.
We live comment IRL races too BTW
Not IRL any more. IRL bad. IRL Tony George. Randy Bernard now.
I imagine live commenting helps immensely with multi tasking in other areas as well?
OOPS. After all the things I have said about Tony George I can't believe I did that,
It does to some degree. Although nothing compares to Christine and the factbytefactbox. You need to see that live
Anyone who can make Professional Bull riding exciting is a genius. Not sure where Indycar would be with out RB.
Yes I think it does, although I do struggle with it if there are a lot of things happening at once.
I have never seen that. It does seem very odd that professional bull rider is a job though
Practice makes perfect!!
I thought everyone even in America might've laughed at it, until he came along.
I've woken up with the worst stomach ache I've ever had I think. OUCH!
How did you find time to get to sleep since your last comment?
I usually have lots of things going on at once during a race, seems okay for everything except F1 because of the sheer volume of people.
I've heard of power naps but that has to be polluting the atmosphere to conserve such energy in such a short time
I was asleep for about half an hour I think?
mini-kers?
As a general school of though we are all willing to do most things for a certain price :)
MrC needs to create a sleep logger
I would have been out for the night but I have epic stomach pain. Make it stop. I'll give it 15 minutes then it's off to 24 hour tesco.
I had one of those earlier. I'm getting old and fat, what's your excuse? :)
I ain't gettin' on no bull
You do work crazy hours though
True story. I can't really complain though. I need it for intensive saving while I still have a full time job.
Shopping is not medecine
OUCH!!!
I don't have any pain killers :(
You shouldn't be napping in your early twenties!
I was going to bed!? I have work at 6am :D Sleeping at 11pm isn't a nap!
Alternately it's just practice for daily student post-neighbours naps :D
Bad times
:D
Rrrrrubbish, my 24 hour pharmacy tonight is MILES away.
Oh right.
When you eventually get some pain killers take six and hide them somewhere. Then when you run out you will have an emergency supply.
Thank you all so much for the visit! I'll be back perhaps this evening (American time) have a great rest of your day!
Should I eat my chocolate muffin now or keep it for practise?
One now and one later? :D
Bye David. There is pretty much always someone here so if you ever feel the need to be encouraged to fritter away a chunk of your life just pop in
1/2 now, 1/2 later? But that takes discipline.
Hi guys.
The question contains only one muffin and sadly so does the box
I don't do choices can you tell??
See you David. We've got people from all over and plenty of night owls so there should be someone around.
Very unlikely
How is Connecticut today?
I'll get you one at Tesco
Hi Kai
Sunny and happy. How's Scotland doing, despite the chocolate muffin shortage?
If you're doing an all-nighter save it.
They come 4 in a box but I am prepared to eat all of them to save you having to find homes for them
Hi Pat
You'll have to tell me where you live so I can deliver them #cunningplan
We are having weird weather but noting unusual in that. Sometimes really sunny and others so foggy I can't tell if there is a sun
My plan is to do both sessions with naps between. My plan was the same for the last race but 3 alarms failed to wake me for FP3
That is weird.
Spring was canceled here. It's sunny but not warm.
You missed the #confidential or I may have fallen for that
You can have muffins. Bassano and I may also turn up on your doorstep. It's all or nothing.
Something to wake up for then. :)
Good food is worth getting up for.
Good plan
Not really here... SofaF1 predictions here though:
http://aaserver.co.uk/widgets/poll2011.cgi?race=23
Tornado warning at Talladega, all remaining practices cancelled..
RT @TravisKvapil: Alright, so I'm in the garage area and the tornado sirens are going off. Good times!
Nascar I assume
yeah
Excellent. And I just noticed the 2010 results too. I do pay attention, honest. :)
posted.
surprised i'm in the lead. i usually start well, but flounder as the season goes on. it's what's happened on Pat's TMR game.
I just tweeted Speedgeek to see if he's in for this year, I forgot before..
They were a tad late :)
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Two pints of Guinness and a Seltzer with lemon
- F1 in China - How long can it go on?
- China 2011 - Free Practice 2 Results
- Live: China 2011 - Free Practice 2
- China 2011 - Free Practice 1 Results
Can't believe all the world are Paul di Resta fans. How did that happen?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/sarahholt/2011/04/di_resta_takes_praise_in_his_s.html
#BlameSteven
It's all in the name
Evening folks
woh woh woh wohhhh...
Airport buses have wifi now? When did this happen?
Before I forget to share this with you guys, this is a great link to a time lapsed series of photos of the aurora borealis on a flight from San Francisco to Paris.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mashable/20110408/tc_mashable/timelapse_video_of_san_franciscotoparis_flight_captures_aurora_borealis
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Live: China 2011 - Qualifying
- Live: China 2011 - Free Practice 3
- Two pints of Guinness and a Seltzer with lemon
- F1 in China - How long can it go on?
- China 2011 - Free Practice 2 Results
New daily: http://sidepodcast.com/post/daily-16th-april-2011
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