Although it was raining in Jerez yesterday, it was intermittent and that meant we saw a good bit of running, even if it wasn't representative of anything. Virgin Racing are still struggling, and they are who I am keeping my eye on today. I hope you'll join me in the dedicated testing thread to do the same (or similar for whichever team you're interested in). Elsewhere:
- We're also keeping an eye out for any US F1 related news, as the rumour mill is really hotting up that there are bad vibes coming from Peter Windsor and the team. There is nothing concrete, and it's all speculation at the moment, but this is a similar feeling to the one's that happened before Honda and before Toyota.
- In better news, KerbRider gave us some more thoughts on the upcoming season in another great guest post - this time focusing on the relationships between the drivers in the four teams we'll all be watching closely. There are some interesting thoughts in there, and it's well worth a read. The inter-team relationships are going to be super important this year, I think.
- We were curious why Lotus ran Fauzy on their first day of testing, particularly as Heikki was at Jerez, tweeting away from the garage. Apparently, the car lacked some power steering though, so perhaps Heikki didn't want to bother when the car wasn't going to be setup right? Either way, the new team did really well, certainly won the battle of the new boys in terms of first day of testing!
- Dan Brunell has published this week's Thursday Thoughts question and it's a tough one. Head on over to his site for more detail, and leave a comment or blog your response before the end of today. Don't forget to plug like crazy if you take part.
That should do it for now. Let us know what you're up to, and how you're coping with horrible Thursday, and I will see you in the comments.
Hello all.
Hi grouch. Didn't notice the new day
Zombie,
http://www.hollow-hill.com/sabina/images/ice-cream-zombie.jpg
Hi Grouch
We're still chattin' in the Wed 17th thread
Come join us [before we switch to the new daily]
Hello! I've enjoyed today so far...
Hi Alia
Its been a good 15 minutes.
As usual I come with questions....how the heck do ya do that?
http://sidepodcast.com/about/new-to-sidepodcast-quick-start-guide/
*sits in new day*
Hi. Glad to here you have had a good day
All 15 minutes of it?
All the talk of drink in the other thread makes me want to try various cocktails.
If I'm writing a blog post about contacting the new CEO of IndyCar, is this a terrible headline? I fear I know the answer..
Write to the Top
Love it
Christine will get mad with us :(
bassano!!!!
Now it is Thursday, that means there are three weeks until scrutineering for Bahrain.
I live on the naughty step
I can't help it
she'll never know
#confidential
When you say us you mean Bassano and Emily. We need to keep them apart. They are a bad combination
So, apparently, this is what Italians have instead of Pancakes
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/italiano-carnivale-jpg
They are sweet, quite nice too
:D
Hi Mr C! i thought you must have been sleeping cause you were so quiet tonight.
Sounds like a He-Man episode :D
boo today is going far too slowly and my nana is very sick. Thursday sucks.
coding like crazy.
#nothere
Hi Amy! aww i'm sorry to hear about your nana :( hugs for you and silly thursdays.
coding exciting things?
Controversy on the speed skating. Spandau Ballet stopped when the race started despite the other guy carrying on for the rest of the lap.
What's up with her?
Angle Wings? My fiance is Italian and as a result I have put on about 20lbs in the last year and a half.
:D
I know that feeling :( Kinda rubbish
But then he stopped too.... Without any direction.
I hope both skaters are allowed to run again. I hope the 2nd guy isn't too tired to have a proper try.....
Dunno but they were nice
if they worked they'd awesome.
if...
They will race later on, apparently.
I shall read KerbRider's post tomorrow at work. Thursday is my 'quiet day'. :)
Ohh I know how that feels.
#storyofmyassignment
ooooh!!
oh. i'd offer you a brownie... but i'm not sure it would get to Rockall by morning..
Happy times. Some people in the crowd are proper idiots!! Why would you do that???
er, today, Thursday, whatever..
To me it is Wednesday still because I haven't slept yet.
they think she has had a heart attack and her kidneys have been failing for a while. They have doped her up on morphine and called mum up to the hospital because they dont think she will get better. She is 92 though so she has had a very good innings
You could leave a voicemail of the recipe and he could make his own
Offending by the gold, clearly.
I have to wait another 20 minutes for the Olympics to come on. I hear that the woman's downhill was something to see.
*gets back to blog post*
Definitely.
That sounds awful.
Best of luck, Amy's Nanna
:(
Doesn't make it any easier really...
Thats terrible :(
:( i'm sorry to hear that Amy :(
Lots of big crashes
Aww no :( poor her...
You are doing drunken blogging?
i'm not drunk.
But Em's there, are you sure? ;)
meanie.
I bet while you are commenting Emily is trying Bassano's Baileys cocktail or trying to make zombies
:D
Lets just say. Ski, ski, slip, slide, fall.
What on earth is going on with the speed skating?
nope, she has a copy of photoshop now thanks to me, so she is photoshopping some of her awesome awesome drawings.
It's like Star Wars Ep I and I'm Liam Neeson, Em do you mind being Ewan MacGregor :D
Or, in one case, Sk-fall.
you lost me at star wars... #sorry
Lost the Cowbell?
I don't have a Cool Runnings analogy, sorry
More like ouch, Ouch, OUCH, OUCH!!!, AAARRRRRGHHHHH!!!
steven?
I think the referee is throwing his toys out the pram. I can't see another reason for it....
Did you guys hear about USF1 not making the grid for the first three races?
Y'see. That won't happen in the ice hockey.
:D
He wants to be Alan Sugar and wants Em to be his apprentice
or the remaining 16.
(I hope thats the right amount)
:D thank you :)
Well someone in the crowd blew a whistle at an unfortunate moment when the last skaters were on and they both stopped! Now he's trying to be assertive or something.... Killjoy?
Sounds more like they won't make next week but you can never tell
The rules were clarified
It's not allowed
It happens occasionally in football matches too.
Yea, if true they are out for 2010. I don't know if this is crap or not but,
http://jalopnik.com/5473765/report-usf1-to-fold-youtube-founder-out
sounds like the speed skating is very entertaining. I am far too lazy to change the channel off snowboarding though.
Is already happening
The Midichlorians are strong in this one
Just to clarify Alan Sugar was not in Cool Runnings. Or Star Wars
midichlorians are such an annoying explanation.
:D i know that much ;)
but how awesome would it have been if he was...
I swear I saw him in the Mos Eisley Cantina
i'm gonna need a steven explanation again...
At least you know that
[glares at Lou!]
I am not sure what the Cool Runnings equivalent of Midichlorians is/are
Who would he be in each one?
"You are a disgrace to this compitition, however, since you won this weeks event, you get a free ticket to the final round."
Red Stripe Lager
[Best I can do given the environment]
Jabba
If I've never seen Cool Runnings or Star Wars am I just doomed?
If you combine it with the wiki, you only need to watch one
YOU'VE NEVER SEEN COOL RUNNINGS?!
Star Wars, yeah, whatever. ;)
i'm sorry... i've not seen either titanic or star wars.. (and am secretly proud of this..)
Darth Vader. 'You're fired' would be even less fun for the candidate...
erm.... If you have never seen Star Wars that is going to be difficult so you just have to settle for wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midichlorians#Midi-chlorians_and_the_Chosen_One
you've never seen cool runnings?? (actually neither has emily)
The cinematography in ...
Ah forget it ;)
?!!!!!!!!
The next time she asks for a film suggestion I know what the first six suggestions will be
I saw Cool Runnings for my birthday when I was something like 14.
:P i may watch star wars at one point. never titanic though, the songs annoy me to much to put myself through it.
in the cinema
Did anyone see the Star Wars T-Shit on Twitter:
"May The Mass Times Weight Be With You"?
We need a sidepodfilmnight or 7
I saw it for the first time last Saturday :)
Mr C, we're gonna need that edit button :)
Wall*E !!!
Groan.
I haven't seen Titanic. It sank so what is the point if you know the ending
And of course, it gets quoted :)
So disappointed in her
that's another pixar film i never saw :(
*falls over*
X2.
neither have I
you can't be my friend any more
Better than Up
[Well, the first 3/4 anyway]
Oooh I saw that for the first time on the plane to Dubai. Then I watched cloudy with a chance of meatballs. Kids films are far far better than ones for grown ups.
it's not like i didn't want to see it :( but there was no one to go with!
'Cloudy' was awesome
Surely mass times acceleration? Weight is mass times acceleration so it is a force
Heresy!!!
you went to see it without me! :(
Eeeee-Vaaaa
Me too
Pixar is good, but it #needsmoredug/kevin
you mean mass times acceleration
*Wall*e is good
But, but...
I've been promised UP, you're not going to put me off!!!
Yeah, true
#Wine&NewtonsLawsDon'tMix
The starter in the skating is an idiot!
squirrel!
Lurker! ;)
Skeleton on BBC2 now.
Switches
He likes to be important
:lol: :lol:
I hate the way he says reeeeeeeeeeeeady
How can you be ready for anything if someone takes so long to say the word?
I just can't believe someone thought the luge wasn't insane enough and dreamt up the skeleton
He sounds like MIka Hakkinen when he says that
Awww go go go poor disadvantaged skater men!!
oh no luge?
*watches this instead* The skating is annoying now
Boooo :(
I have switched to the skeleton
Next up, Skeleton with a trampoline launch!
Luge Doubles is on soon
Yes so have I. I feel too sorry for those two guys.....
Alright folks, it's about time for me to call it quits and pull up on the couch with the Mrs.
Rocket assisted skeleton
Red Button > BBC2
[less natter]
Good night
i see an interview... no skeleton...
See ya Grouch
See ya.
See ya mate.
night!
Skeleton starts tomorrow.
:(
*checks Vancouver App*
Patience my young apprentice
*Star Wars not Alan Sugar*
Where's the skeleton?
This explains a lot!
I assumed we were tuning into Victoria Beckham related programming.
Boo. Still we must get doubles luge then?
nah, skeleton with tusken raiders taking potshots!
Useful stuff from the BBC:
http://winterolympics.external.bbc.co.uk/event-results-schedules/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sol/shared/bsp/hi/winter_olympics_2010/epg/html/epg.stm
says tonight
Indeed but as RG pointed out on Twitter, Snowboards semi finals soon too.
Luge at 1
Snowboard Halfpipe at 1:15
so... where can i find
the cowbells and scary people speeding down a hill?the luge?:lol:
:lol:
:lol:
Way too complicated
Hehehe, womens downhill on BBC2 :D
Yah. Luge in about 5 mins.
Looks like it's just interviews and no fail though.
Is it compulsary for, like, Snowboarders, to like, talk like Clueless cast members
I expect photos of cowbells on Lou's flickr soon or someone could photoshop something with them. Darth Vader with a cowbell round his neck?
kiwis are awesome because we are tough and dont do the luge. We have 3 skeletoners though.
Whats wrong with saying 'like'?
They're running late because of the rubbish starting man.
speed skating delayed on BBC2 (they don't know why), so they are going ot short-track skating (which I think is better)
Short track speed skating is way better.
Luge is on in a sec anyways
We know that. You just have to hope he doesn't, it'll only encourage him!
i'm lost...
It appears I have come to the stage where there is too many things to watch. Short track, Luge and snowboarding.
4 times a sentance?
Like, y'know, whatever.
Umm, nothing?
You tried Emily's cocktail didn't you?
You must remember RG is from a part of the world where everyone says it :)
Mahoosive Cowbell
The Luge stream has begun on the website. Cowbell!
I wish the commentators were more clear about the format of each competition. Some events have run after run after run. Others is one run decides medals and everything. They really don't even attempt to tell you.
Much more acceptable than L.A. speak
Did you steal that from a golf course?
Thats what they use at my local club to let the players behind you know you're done with the hole
i know what a cowbell is... i'm just confused as to why they would be on my flickr... i have no way of photographing any...
have both on 'cos short track is very good
The doorbell is back :D
I found the Luge on the red button! i'm happy now.
But look at the size of it
[Phoenix '09]
i didn't hear it :(
Point camera and click
yes... but where do i find the cowbells?
Luge doubles is just crazy
#LouNeedsMoreCowbell!
Horses?
Just tweeted this to F1 Rejects:
@f1rejects Does USF1 qualify for Reject status? Can I borrow the music from the funeral of Formula Elaborate Bluff for USF1's services #F1
On cows
It's very cosy!
I'm guessing curry is banned pre-tournament
Hehehe. Seriously, though, have you seen Adam Cooper's article? Tough luck for those involved.
It IS good news for Stefan, though. All they need to do now is buy the slot off USF1's hands.
Can't they rename it to the Snuggly Slide?
Morning, folks. Between the USF1 news and the NBA trade deadline, a bit crazy here right now. Hehehe.
:D but Kentish cows don't have bells...
I do feel bad, if Chad Hurley wanted to see any of the money back, he may need to learn to speak Croatian right about now...
Hi Journeyer
Neither do Cumbrian cows. I've only seen bells on cows abroad really.
My mother has one on her wall but you don't want to go that far to photograph one. Someone in Kent must have a cowbell
#OnlySeenWatchingHeidi
I feel they'll make more money from YouTube revenue sharing
Watching Heidi? I read a book.... I swear that was about goats.
Hahahahaha, short track is hilarious.
you mean you aren't watching the luge?
It was a tv show too
Must've been cowbells somewhere!
But one of the Brits was involved...
Cow bells
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=cow+bell&_sacat=See-All-Categories
Although Adam C does mention Hurley is a sponsorship target right now. And not just by Croatians...
http://adamcooperf1.com/2010/02/17/the-end-of-the-road-for-usf1/
You should definitely take a quick look at the short track racing as Pat says. They all take each other out on the first corner!
Was there a smash?
*shrugs*
it's on?? *checks TV*
Anyone with money will be targeted by every team
i'm not buying a cowbell...
This guy takes facial hair advice from Luizzi
I have short track on TV and luge on computer
Online
i can't believe the correct term for being on the same team is "sliding together".
You can never, ever have enough Cowbell...
They did it AGAIN!
Oh yeah!
Get Emily drunk and she will buy you some.
#confidential
Can the Canadian girl stop crashing into Sarah Lindsey?
Surprisingly, it IS on our TV! :D
some is definitely better than one.
Schumacher Tactics on Ice
#ITVprogram
*facepalm* :O
Oooh, someone DSQed?
I did that briefly but found I was doing too many things at once.
:)
Ohhh, hey, Emily, you're here! :D
Booooooooooo.
The Britosh one has been disqualified for doing too much Schumachering
British bet DSQed. Commentators don't agree.
British lady disqualified! This is much more fun that the luge #sorrylou
The Canadian had her arms around the Brit
hello! :D
It works out OK because of the breaks between each run I get to see most of both events. That luge accident looked like it hurt
Chinese bet wins by a loooong way.
bad times :( the poor guy who got injured just then in the luge.
New Olympic record, which was just set in the race before anyways
Sprints without defined lanes are always basically wrestling....
I don't even really understand the luge... i just like randomly watching people fall down the hill..
I'm trying to watch the telly and write a blog post which is referring (directly or not) to three posts from other people, and I want to do it in 10 mins so I can go to bed :)
Schumacher always has his arms around other cars when crashing them out and gets away with it
Still another Brit to go though...
False start, whoopsy
They don't like going round first time do they?
Another false start! This is better than F1
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:D
This is my favourite sport. It's silly.
Blimey..... what are they doing??
Blame it on technical issues, no?
I feel bad, there are all these people coming out of the woodwork on twitter pleading for USF1 to keep the dream alive. Some have offered money, some to work for free, other kind words.
I am not going to lie, this is really heartbreaking. I knew the ship was sinking but to see it go under the waves is just sad.
Trying to watch Men's Snowboard Halfpipe
Buffering, not even starting
Ok, fine, it almost as good as F1 :P
From someone who is there:
"@SauberRG Yeah, I'm not at all convinced by that either but that's Lindsay's only event... whole Olympic build-up just for a DSQ"
Shame that. :(
This Italian mafia style starter is much better.....
hmmmmmmm
It's like Austria 85 or 86 when they had about 3 false starts
The gun was broken. People saw the guy pull the trigger and moved but the gun didn't make a noise..... Henceforth no-one was disqualified.
Better than 'reeeeaaaddyyy' I suppose.
He'd have sent everyone off including the crowd....
Oooooooh, one of them decided to slide on their belly instead.
Nooo, she lost it on the last lap :(
Back to the snorboarding!
It's loading now, yay
The first thing I see is a fail landing #apt
You're missing the stewards' enquiry!
Not missing it, just not seeing it ;)
OK it's too much like F1...
poor Massa... oh you mean the skating?
Yeah, we want the Korean disqualified apparantly.
This is the perfect starter for F1.
These Halfpipe moves sound like Starbucks coffee descriptions!
http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2010/02/jerez-day-1-lotus-get-off-the-mark-in-style/
Apparently, Fauzy ran today's test to get his superlicense. So whoever joked about that earlier today may have been on to something... :D
And most of the Lotus folks have experience already from other teams. No wonder they seem to have the tightest ship of the new teams at this point.
ooh poor great british man
Look at awesome Kudo though!! He is awesome.
We aren't having much luck in the past 5 minutes.
Waot, I don't think he's the one I'm thinking of. I think that's the other japanese guy.
BBC commentator hasn't got a flippin' clue what he's on about sometimes :)
"Do double cork or not to double cork"!
I wish the BBC would just show events rather than talking about them. There is so much on right now and they are telling us stuff they have already told us ten times. No-one explains events in the summer Olympics.
This is the 100metres. 8 athletes line up behind a line then..and you need to pay attention to this bit they run ... as fast as they can ....to another line 100 metres(hence the name) from the start line.... Most importantly the person who gets to the finish wins.
Ooooh nice moustache!!
Can I just point out, theres more Short track stuff going on...
I don't have enough screens
Bah, too much falling and false starts
Well, the summer Olympics are more familair to most
Agreed but they don't need to explain things like I am 105 and never seen snow
Still true
you need the 4 channel olympics pass, every gold medal event live and in full, every australian athlete live and in full on 4 stunning 24/7 hd or sd channels, only $50 for the most comprehensive olympics coverage ever /workmode
They miss the important info here though. This is the only round? This is a qualifier? This is a qualifier but also counts towards medals?
ive tuned in for the short track to see why it's so good... they keep having false starts!
I don't wanna watch one country's events, i want what I want
#NotNationalistic
Where do I send the money to?
Also, UK coverage - free to air
ooooo this is mental!!
Twice so far I thought I was watching a final only to find out there were two or more rounds to go.
I miss the short track skating *changes back*
We need Olympic breakout threads by event :)
Why do we keep being overtaken on the last lap?
:D hehehe
Payback for Hamilton
i'm tired, bed time for me. night all!! xx
in other olympics news, london is only 890 days away. Too soon to start a countdown?
This is why we'll never become mods
Night
night everybody :)
Before me?
Good night
Nighht.
Night
See ya Lou & Em
Remember to hydrate
YES. To soon to cancel?
Night
we have it on free to air too, the pay coverage is in addition to it. I wouldnt pay for it myself but its very handy at work. Apparently we are doing the same thing with the commonwealth games later in the year.
How do youever get any work done? Do they do 4 channels of tennis for the grand slams?
*Wonders if it could be worse than the Olympic coverage*
UK Law: All Olympic coverage is free
BOO BBC.
Suzi Perry out of MotoGP coverage. :(
http://twitter.com/suziperry/status/9257386643
Night Lou and Em.
We hate Murdoch more than you guys ;)
I am sure that going round those big bends on the kuge with both feet on thee ice is not the quick way to do it
I heard that earlier, I've asked Megan Fox if she's busy
Noooooooooo! Can't be. She has to be on it
More blogging
http://toomuchracing.com/2010/02/18/write-to-the-top/
Damn Gadget Show
hmph :(
Hehehe more skating assault!
Now that was a last corner.
Looks like it was her decision
http://twitter.com/suziperry
apparently the 'del' tags don't work in a blog post
Ooooh Amy a NZ skater has gone through because a Frenchman tripped and Italian over.... The Italian has been allowed through as well!
And she may be doing a motor sport show
Any idea what it is?
As for her replacement... VBH, anyone? :D
I can see a new Nascar and Danica fan getting into Moto GP if that was the case
I would never watch Moto GP again. That would totally ruin it
They'll probably do what they did last year when she had to miss a couple of races and have the other reporter (Matt) do the main work.
#heardthat
I'm off. Controversial comment from the Brit who got dsq in the short track:
"I don't know why the Canadian got preference."
Hmm. Night and lotsa love.
night rg
and?
#busted
But we gain Mr C! C'mon, give it a try... :D
erm...
She wouldn't commentate, tune on before the lights drop
Night RG
Good point.
See ya RG
Eurgh is that the annoying woman off fifth gear?
ya
Do you have a VBH filter? ;)
:D
That's Tiff Needel
Mr C doesn't think she is annoying
:D
They're all pretty annoying on that programme, it's hard to single one out particularly. Tiff(?) looks like my old headteacher....
:)
45 minutes till second and last run in the doubles luge
I like Plato, all the others im not so keen on
Commentators take the AUTOSPORT approach. "The Frenchman won, or it could have been the Italian. I can't be wrong if I say them both"
Doubles Luge?
Is that like a 3 legged race?
Two men, one luge
Goodnight!
Two bulky men lie on top of each other in a luge....
i've just done a terrible thing. i've bought a book from amazon :(
in my defence i bought the iphone version earlier this evening, but it's too flippin small to be of use. i need an ipad now.
wait. ignore me. i saw luge and thought speed skating. my bad
woo go nz skater! I am on lunch now though and amazingly our break room has the only tv with no actual tv on it, its only connected to a playstation.
Scottish snowboarder fell.
with paper and pages and stuff?
sadly.
welcome to the dark side :D
A paper book? What will Christine say?
You couldn't have waited?
:D
i know. but i need it asap, and the ipad isn't here.
What if he spills milk on it?
Ohno just TOYED with his competition. Put them to shame...
umm? it'll get wet?
Who would do that?
:(
the f1 season isn't going to hang on for me to get an ipad and i need to make comments more stable before we start live commenting the races.
so it's a dev book, then? interesting. :D
I need a new iPhone Twitter client, Tweetie 2 is really bugging me
Suggestions?
[Twitterific is good but still fails]
you are not allowed to claim the snowboarder mr roy! He is great british for the purposes of this! (the great makes me laugh so I include it)
:D
And uninsuredly smelly
I'm with Steven, he's Scottish
He fell which immediately renders him Scottish.
Amy, rules say he's now scottish. Sorry
so he is another andy murray? Scottish because he is average british rather than great? (ps i am not serious)
http://andymurrayometer.com/#
Ooooh. The American speed skater is half-Filipino! And half-Polish. But he races for the US. Awww.
How does that work?
Scottish by nature, British by Politics
Move along now please ;)
The French skate boarder is French Polynesian and called Zebrowski?
The starter set off the gun before anyone was settled. Idiot. He is mafia man though so I shalln't mess with him...
andy has been angering the french i see. Good times.
British as the result of some illegal bribes and some greedy **********s 300 years ago
Has everyone gone to sleep? It went very quiet very quickly
*waves*
Can't decide what to watch since the last bout of Halfpipe finished
Speed Skating not grabbing me
Phew
Halfpipe is on BBC2 now
Still here. Just saw 2 major NBA trades pretty much confirmed in the last 15 minutes.
It's back online to
Was switching for a while
*too
thinking about sleep but not there
This guy looks good
I haven't paid any attention to the NBA this season since it disappeared from the channel I used to watch it on
The top 5? ish have pre-qualified so this is the second runs of the semis so they are all really good and pushing it
i started reading a book. And by book of course i mean not a book
Finnish guy messed it
the top 3 from each heat made it to the final automatically then 4-9 from each heat go to the semis and im not sure how many go through from there. I think its 6
That explains it perfectly. Which sport are you talking about or is this in your book?
The soundtrack between runs is just... something else
[Luge]
Do i really need a skater explaing the event to me to say they wear helmets? No. I can see they wear helmets especially as they are bright yellow
Mah Na Ma Nah!
Didn't know the luge was back on
thats for halfpipe.
Nothing happening but online
Thanks
Only stayed for the Muppets song
[flicks]
I think they need stalls like horse racing for the speed skating
No one fell, is that allowed?
Looked far too tame. Throw them all out for not trying hard enough
New Zealand skater does a Bradbury
Just got home. I love that I am 120 miles away from the Olympics but I can't watch them live because the people that run the American Network NBC are a bunch of idiots... GRRRRRRRR
Geolocking needs to come to a halt soon
Hi Dan
What am I missing?
There is so much going on. Short trak speed skating, men's doubles luge and snowboard halfpipe is due back soon. Can you get the BBC site to work?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympic_games/vancouver_2010/8520541.stm
Thanks.
...and thus like that... I am discovered and blocked out. Oh well.
I'll just work on the blog a bit. I need to clean up the Thursday Thoughts and write my obituary to USF1...
That is a bit ridiculous considering the same event is being shown all round the world and you have no alternatve way of seeing it.
I think we're getting BBC coverage! Lots of rooting for Team GBR here.
So, are they definitely gone?
I've seen the odd tweet and comment but haven't read the Auto news today
Adam Cooper's article thinks so. A shorter version has also been published on the SPEED website. Given their connections to PW, I think it's pretty much done and dusted.
Add the new york times story
Not definitely but the sources are reputable. Adam Cooper ex-AUTOSPORT who works for SPEED TV said that J Lo had headed of to SPain to try and do a deal with Campos and elsewhere it is reported that Chad youtube is trying to place his sponsorship with other teams
So are will it be Serbian F1 now or do we wait for Campos to default on their bills
i appear to be watching a nelly furtardo concert. I know she is canadian but she is not sport!
Is that breaking the rules?
I did a news search for USF1 yesterday and Buspass are running a piece saying Prodrive may try for any vacant slot
Prodrive might kind of need a car.
I'd like to see that but shame about the source
BBC website has a Medal Ceremony and Concert option. I will stick with luge and skating on TV
There may be a cheap Dallara soon
But likely it's way too late
Well, if youtube boy starts getting involved with Campos that Dallara won't be there.
There is no shortage of cars. Dallara have one and no-one paying the bills. Toyota have one that Stefan may or may not have paid for and of course DR may have been tipped off earlier and built his car on the quiet. Maybe the three race thing was for his benefit because of the late notice.
Why not, it's probably almost ready
Though may be lacking in toast
My thoughts exactly
Because youtube boy might have the money Campos needs to pay their bills.
But they'd likely need the Dallara chassis to race, whatever they're called
To give you an idea, the BBC has the results of the 5000m short track up.
On NBC, they *just* started the race. The events aired live aren't even live.
does he even have anything to sponsor? he doesn't own youtube anymore, what exactly was he planning on plugging?
Exactly. Youtube boy will provide said money to pay for that chassis.
Are they trying to translate the Canadian coverage?
good question. his twitter account makes a mention of a company named Hlaska. no idea what it is, though.
its not breaking the rules because its an olympic concert. The halfpipe is in 10 min though, the course looks sweet in the dark.
I still can't believe he couldn't raise enough money for USF1. How hard can it be for someone like him to raise $50 million? With his contacts he should have raised that with a few phone calls.
Luxury men's and women's bags, wallets and accessories?
looks like it, based from its twitter account.
http://www.hlaska.com/ luxury handbags or some such junk
blame it on the recession? i guess they just don't think it's worth the investment, when there could be most cost-efficient options in nascar.
Maybe the sponsors weren't thinking 'Global'
Nascar is fine for the USA but the internet and computers are world wide. $5 million to get their name shown all round the world 17-19 times in a year is not a lot of money and that is before you look at the networking opportunities for them. 10 companies $5 million each and you have a basic budget. I still don't understand someone with his background can fail at that.
To me there are two big failures in this. One is Windsor and the other is Chad. In his position I would have been tempted to finance the first year myself to get it going rather than have the fanfare and fail before the car existed.
I think Bernie should be added to the list. The man doesn't know the meaning of doing due diligence.
@Mr. C
My Thursday Thoughts is ready.
Nothing to do with him. This was Max's department and his selection methids have failed again
The Cosworth thing proved the selection process was a sham
methids? surely methods
Good point. Even with the Cosworth thing, Prodrive and Lola were a lot safer bets.
For the pinnacle of motor sports, how this sport is run sometimes astonishes me.
Thing is, are they even interested to do it worldwide? These are US brands, remember. They tend to focus on US advertising only. How else is F1 as a whole struggling to get US sponsors?
Don't forget Epsilon Euskadi
Should be interesting to see if Max touches on that in his autobio or conveniently ignores it.
legend, i'll update the daily in a sec. cheers sir.
The internet and electronics industry contacts he has advertise world wide. THe days when the USA was such a big market that they could ignore everything else is long gone because these companies are so big that they couldn't live if they only had the US market.
OK, gonna catch some Lost before sleeps
See ya peeps
You gonna miss the halfpipe.
Good night
There are American sponsors in the sport like AT&T and Marlboro. The reason why we don't see more American companies in F1 is 1) The teams don't know how to sell the sport to people that don't know anything about F1. 2) Bernie does lift a finger to create an atmosphere that we see with FIFA, NFL, NBA, and MLB that actively work with teams and sponsors to keep everyone happy. 3) Open wheel racing is on life support over here.
Ok, maybe I'll watch that in bed :)
Halfpipe on the website now
Ta
Wow. That is a killer question. Will have a think about that.
oh lordy... tough one.
But who's left? Yahoo left, HP left, while other companies such as Amazon, Apple, IBM, Microsoft and Google haven't bothered to come over. Why the lack of interest?
I've sitting on that column forever.
Even Marlboro is on its way out with the tobacco ban. But good points all.
Amazon: bezos is a cheap jerk who doesn't lift a finger for anyone.
IBM: Don't know.
Microsoft and Google: These guys make sense. Especially with a lot of Google Touches and XBoxes to sell.
There are also companies like Intel and AMD who have been involved recently. If they are getting a return then so should other similar companies.
That is never going to happen. F1 is never going to be like a US sport. US sports have a culture that is unlike anything found elsewhere in the world and I really don't believe that companies who operate and sell all round the globe are going to be put off by the lack of that atmosphere as they are used to not having it.
microsoft helped make the standard ecu in every F1 car, and even they aren't interested in the free publicity.
Intel's gone too. Reason I heard from inside the company is that they're not getting the returns they wanted. AMD has also vanished from Ferrari's overalls.
There are all sorts of manufacturing companies in the elctronics industry who should be in F1 and then there are the big internet brands and those with ambition to be big.
Olympic sweeping on Freeview
Ah, found it on BBC2
Just that single case study for corporate sales. And that's it.
This is invading another column I've been working on, but what I mean by atmosphere is that the league and teams work together to bring sponsors in and keep them happy. The power of the sport is sold instead of the popularity of the team. That the secret to NASCAR.
I asked their company governmental affairs staff person about that last week, and she didn't know they did that.
But that's boring as hell
The ads per lap show who's boss
If Bernie had been on top of the F1 game over the past few years he should be trying to point X-Box, Nintendo etc at different teams to keep them all happy
We didn't even have an F1 game again until last year. This is a quantum leap for him.
Say what you want about NASCAR (I don't like it) but they know how to make money.
It's annoying, but it F1 had only 1/5th of that reverence to their sponsors, we would never have a blank and empty car.
Never going to happen in a European run sport. It is not how the culture works in any major European sport
We did, but it was about 4 years ago :)
very true. and the drivers know how to plug too.
and they're not frakkin' robots.
Yeah, and to be honest... that what makes F1 kind of endearing to me.
Sport should be before profit
[I realise the world doesn't operate this way]
That bugs the hell out of me too
Monetizing the earth
That is exactly what I mean. Imagine those guys had been bundling an F1 game with their machines for the past 5 years and that bundle was selling they would be desperate to be involved.
I agree with you. That the problem when you have someone like Bernie and CVC in charge. As Joe says, too much money is being taken out of the sport that don't deserve it.
Bernie _was_ good for the sport. Then he sold out to CVC [saw the divorce coming?]
All Max's fault but Bernie owned Max. I posted a comment last night from somewhere that said CVC made something like £297 million from F1 rights last year. Max sold Bernie 100 years of rights for $300 million. Is it any wonder money is going out of the sport.
Bernie was good for Bernie. His incompetence and greed have cost the sport billions
It not like Bernie and CVC isn't even doing a good job in my opinion. If any reasonable sports management company was managing F1, I guarantee that we would have a F1 game, High Def TV, paid-per-view steaming video, ect, ect, ect.
He built the sport into something the world watches. But then he just saw green, yes
On these similar lines, you will love my Thursday Thoughts question Steven. LINK: http://www.racingeagles.com/2010/02/thursday-thoughts-public-money-and-motorsports.html
I have written so many comments over the years on all the opportunities he has missed. Look at Ferrari world in Abu Dhabi. Every year F1 teams produce 50? cars that are obsolete 12 months later. Bernie has been running the sport for 20 years so that is 1000 cars that are obsolete so why are there not F1 museums all round the world with cars, race suits, helmets, pit equipment etc etc with a simulator room and a kart track. Cost to F1 next to nothing and guaranteed to draw crowds and sell merchandise.
He has finally sorted out a game but why is there not an online game with competitions where the winners get to race online with Hamilton etc who race online anyway then once or twice a year give away circuit rides or kart races.
I don't think he did. He contributed but so did lots of other people. He is a dinosaur who knows one trick and has been holding the sport back for 20 years.
I have that on a tab to look at when I am awake tomorrow,
Sean White about to run
That was class!
Do you think he has a triple cork for his next run?
He'll have something up his sleeve
46.8!
OK, the fact that it is tapped delayed now just torture.
aw poor finnish guy fell over on both his runs
We are about 5-10 minutes behind live. The web feed is ahead of us so I turned it off so that I don't spoil it.
THe height Shaun White gets is incredible
Friend of Heikki?
oh i shall shh and not spoil you
Is that plaid shirt the U.S. Team jersey?
Sponsored by Pearl Jam? :)
They're trying too hard now
David Lettermen with David McMurray
Pretty funny.
Not a problem. If you have something to say just say it. I won't hate you forever ;)
Yep
They have to
What a mo!
True
that guy looks exactly like kevin from the backstreet boys
Pull up your pants Beavis!
That is a huge pot hole
reading all the USF1 talk and realizing this is about a year since the project was announced ... what a difference can a year make
David? Isn't it Jamie?
Anyway, gotta dash. See ya!
Bye Journeyer
Bye
Best Run out of 2 rather than combined score?
i misread jamie mcmurray as jamie murray the other day and i was like "he plays tennis and drives nascar?
Yes. So now he can go crazy
Amd Jaime Murray was in Dexter and Hustle :)
And he did!
That was incredible. As if he needed a new, more complicated trick
That was worth waiting for
How can they switch to Curling after that!
Unless the stones are laden with dynamite, they can't top that
I think I can go to bed now because nothing tonight is going to beat that.
Good night all.
Indeed. Night Steven
Dohhh!
Double Luge: "It is open to women to take part but they don't. Maybe they have more sense"
Nice intro from the beeb
Sleep calls
Ciao
i just saw a man wearing a mclaren heikki shirt. He didnt even look finnish!
:D i'm sure it made your day. afternoon, amy.
it did indeed :D I was on my way home from buying the Up Blu-Ray, all the talk of that movie here recently reminded me it was on my to do list :D
Oooh. Up. Twas a very good movie, that. :) Can't wait for Toy Story 3 this year.
V8 Supercars Should i stay or should i go?>
http://www.yasmarinacircuit.com/ticketpurchase/v8ticketpricing.aspx
the bonus features on the discs are amaaaaazing. I love Pixar shorts.
Prices look good. Who's going with you?
Prices look terrible! for Saturday prices start at 385dhs
There is international cricket this weekend in Dubai
England Vs Pakistan. Prices start at 75...
Cheaper than F1, though. If you think it's terrible, why consider going, then?
I don't even stay for them when they're on the same bill as F1. Boring!
I want to go, i dont want to pay that much though.
At those prices there wont be much of a crowd, so no atmosphere.
Its a bit like the gp2... I dont mind paying for it, but not a huge amount as it comes free as a support race...
An ad on my Windows Messenger goes:
#hotmailfail
oh my!
I am a bit slow... i dont get it!
The word Philippino doesn't exist. It's spelled Filipino.
Morning :)
Eurgh, Taxi Racing. It's not even real Touring Cars!
Aha, that was one guess ;)
My other guess was... What if you are proud to be a filipina?
You MUST send that to Fail Blog!
Or if your name is Philip?
Filipina DOES exist, but it only pertains to women. Filipino is the collective noun. :)
I think i would prefer to watch it over touring cars, V8 engines sound far nicer than souped up vectras!
Oooh. Sounds like a good idea.
Yeah, but NASCAR sounds good too ;)
Sorry, I just never got into it...
The NASCARs at goodwood sounded amazing. i think they were possibly the best sounding cars there....
Done. :D
http://cheezburger.com/View.aspx?aid=3203000576
oooooh different heikki lid
http://tweetphoto.com/11744522
Hmm, should have been a darker green...
He wrote his name all over it so he doesnt get it mixed up with his friends ones!
Yup. This green is... awkward.
And... is it just me, or is he trying too hard to copy Kimi's helmet? They look awfully similar in design, if not in secondary color.
I like the design, I'm just not a fan of Lime Green...
Aussies have real (V8) touring cars :D
Morning everyone :)
I've just read Dieter Rencken's column: http://www.autosport.com/features/article.php/id/2636
And there's a bit at the end that is very interesting:
Now why would Bridgestone kick up a fuss about this I wonder? Has the FIA put pressure on them because they don't want Stefan to be there or to run as a test team outside of the F1 rules?
'lo :)
Christine may well be interested in this... It's BBC website design stuff... very interesting... http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/02/a_new_global_visual_language_f.html
This is odd, to say the least. But ultimately, if Stefan buys USF1's spot, Bridgestone will have no choice but to give them tyres.
Wow, after the one they did on Mobile Apps too... information overload! I love it.
Not sure if anyone else has reported this but feeds.sidepodcast.com/sidepodcast is broken
XML Parsing Error: syntax error
Location: http://feeds.sidepodcast.com/sidepodcast
Line Number 1, Column 1:Could not connect to persistent storage server
^
Thanks Dr J. I'll, er, wait for someone to wake up to have a look at it :)
I think http://feeds.sidepodcast.com/sidepodcast/blog/ is the correct/new one.
or not :)
I dont think you can just buy a grid slot, especially not this late in the day, if they did enter i suspect it would have to be 'as usf1' which would make about as much sense as BMW Sauber racing with a Ferrari engine
They bent over backwards to let Brawn in last year, apparently.
I guess what it boils down to is that F1 is a club and you need to earn your membership. Just having two F1 cars and possible resources may not be enough if the establishment doesn't like you...
We'll see just how strong Bernie still is with the rest of 'em.
That was different though, Ross Brawn is a respected member of the sport.
Stefan is a weird guy from Serbia nobody knows anything about who tried to take the FIA to the european courts last year
Very true dat.
Not to mention he hired Mike Coughlan.
Surely BMW Sauber's name will change, the team's are surely not that pedantic about preventing the name change are they? You would think the manufacturers would be keen for BMW not to be getting advertising, especially Ferrari. It must Sauber's choice - part of the agreement of the cut price sale?
If you read my comment, that's what I am implying. Ross Brawn is a respected member of 'the club' while Stefan isn't...
New blog post - USF1: Epic Fail
The hope is gone.
I need to change my website banner.
What I like about Stefan GP is that so many people seem to think it is Stephen GP - and he just sounds like a doctor
Agreed.
Ah yes, but i dont think its just f1 people, its about profile. For example Tony Fernandes had little to do with the sport beyond low level sponsorship at Williams and now he is a team owner, had it been another Malaysian it might not have been so smooth
:D Maybe that made them so attractive to... Jacques Villeneuve!
Does he walk around with a sign that says "Will Drive for Food"?
Never mind for food, he might drive for free!
I think my new blog header is a bit over the top.
I dont quite understand. USF1 had the longest lead time, in the wealthiest country. WHy can't it work?
Awwww.
Because it was run in the wrong way by the wrong people at the wrong time in the wrong place?
But that's the thing. You would think Peter Windsor would know the ropes?
He probably trusted Ken Anderson too much.
But who knows what went on, Im sure there will be a book about it!
Peter Windsor only knows how to BS. Anderson only knows how to design. None of them were businessmen. Chad Hurley got suckered in.
If it was Roger Penske, Ganassi, de Ferrain, or Hendricks... this team would be ready to go.
We need Roger Penske to take over
Although come to think of it, I'm surprised JV didn't try to takeover USF1 and make it B.A.R 2.0 - or maybe he already learned after the first time? ;)
Amen. If only :(
I wonder what, say, Penske's NASCAR budget is compared to what they would need for F1?
Remember Chad Hurley while a great ideas man no doubt sold his business for tons of money while it still was in no way profitable. That doesn't necessarily mean he is a good "business man" either.
I wish I could think of something Google want to buy :(
They employ hard workers? and you get 1 day a week to play up
but I think constantly plugging it as a US venture was a mistake in the first place
It's my old joke with Microsoft. "If they didn't have so much money, they would be broke from all the failures."
I don't want to work for them, I just want them to give me lots of money for an idea I have so I never have to work again.
Indeed. That's what made it so laughable.
Wait what's this on craigslist:
Wanted: 1 kindle. Must have been owned by New Zealander who lives in Australia and really loves Finnish people and Roger Federer.
Payment: 1Billion AUD and the Kindle back after 2 days loan.
I think maybe the lottery can do that for you.
that doesn't seem to be working for me either. It's rigged I tells ya.
Are you any good at football? Check out Winston Bogarde @Chelsea...
This needs to happen. Now.
ooh why have I never heard of him before? That story is amazing!
How could you be employee of the year if you never worked again?
Never working again > Employee of the year. That $50 won't go far!
That what really hurts for me. They made every mistake I could possibly think of. People are going to laugh and for good reason. There are good automotive and racing engineers over here. However, the trails of USF1 only re-enforces the stereotype that Americans can't do proper racing.
I love that the press ridicule him for honouring his contract and pocketing the money - football is so full of hypocrisy these days!
This is true. Not that Penske or Ganassi would care, but it reflects badly on US racing
US racing has been a shadow of itself ever since the IRL-CART split I reckon...
Like I said, it is getting to the point that I feel that I need to sacrifice something on the banking at Indy to get this hex off of us.
It seems to have forced the great teams into NASCAR, even though they try ALMS and the like occasionally.
Some Michelin tyres perhaps?
ALMS is the pinnacle of road racing in the states...
I would argue that it is now the biggest non-NASCAR series. It is certainly in better shape than the IRL
USF1 inflicted the hex on themselves - they could have called themselves Andsor Racing or something
Fiction racing?
The thing is, it just isn't USF1. It a long trend that goes all the way back to when Long Beach told F1 to go away because Bernie got greedy. Ever since then it has been one disaster after another.
and what a shame, there are so many great tracks there!
Alright, I need to go to bed.
Goodnight everyone... or morning.
See ya Dan
Night Dan, we feel your pain.
Maybe, but the 500 is probably bigger than the whole of the ALMS and the rest of the IRL season combined
As a spectacle, yes it is.
Morning. snow, once again... *sighs*
We are expecting 5-10cm later and most probably delays. But I don't care - I still love it :D
I'm starting to seriously hate this stupid weather. I miss rain.
Winderson
morning
*gasp*
#sorryKathi
I mean, it's great when it usually comes every 2 years or so...
Oh, I hate meetings.
Parente's sponsor pulled out. Shame. He's always had sponsor trouble.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81568
AUTOSPORT's online magazine broked my poor little 'puter :(
Boooo. I'm just having a look.
*shakes fist*
Stupid thursdays.
Takuma Sato's confirmed with KV in IndyCar.. Sato on an oval, hmm :)
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81564
Don't try to print 10 pages at once :)
Ah. Definitely not something I'll be doing :)
I just wanted to see what would happen. - nothing good
I can't even find it.
I found it via Dank http://bit.ly/9xipd1
Ah thanks. Strange it isn't linked on the main site yet, that I can see...
It has downloadable pdfs. That should please Mr C.
What a great idea. I can read it at lunchtime now, instead of having to wait until I get home... or tomorrow, as is the case lately..
(though I do have a mega backlog of old ones to get through too)
Christine, that has to be worth a point ...
if swearing gets you a point, Webber would be winning after this
Swearing does not get you points. In fact, I might take points off for that.
I disagree. In an age where drivers seem to be afraid to speak out, it is refreshing to hear such things.
Not on a family friendly site though
Webber is always good at speaking his mind. I don't really like swearing though.
FTA:
It isn't necessary to phrase it that way though
Also, I don't think they are anymore.
Depends what you are trying to say.
...about selling energy drink :-)
"I don't know," he says, before pausing. "If we had a total LEMON last year, maybe."
still honest isn't it?
Terrible car. Awful car. If it was the worst car I'd ever driven. If it was like the Honda. If it made me go backwards.
All acceptable substitutes.
Ooh, I like that one.
Lemon... If it was like the Honda... we were thinking the same thing
In fairness, the headline mentions the phrase twice, when he only says it once during the article.
I'm not that fussed about it to be honest. I just like that he's speaking his mind. I'm not very averse to seeing swear words, but that may be a function of where I live now and the industry I work in more than anything.
:)
Hmm, just got back my assignment for prolog programming. scraped a pass, pretty dissapointed with that :( Pass is a pass though...
#stupidthursday
Good going for getting a pass then...
And he could say, "luckily this year we have decided to keep the lemons in our drinks and so I would like to today launch the lemon red bull drink".
Lecturer looked really sourly at me when he told me the mark. Not a fun way to get told really, and admitted he was disappointed. Boo.
...but it's not all corporate PR stuff, Red Bull really care. etc etc
That sounds too much like corporate speak. The sort of stuff that would make Kimi cringe and run to WRC!
Was he sour because of the Lemons?
If Hermann Tilke designed your course, a pass is very impressive
to advertise aforementioned energy drink ;-)
If it's anything like Coke with Lemon, they should steer clear.
Worse, Red Bull Cola and Lemon!
Oh lord!
Is it the same lecturer that never turns up?
Nahh, tis a different one. He's Norwegian so i thought he'd be in a great mood with all this snow. maybe not, oops.
He does sound like heikki though, incidentally.
Norwegians are always in a bad mood!
E's pining for the fjords!
RG, I love what you did on this page: http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/On+the+Blog
Great stuff :)
No problemo ;)
When I came in this morning I could see over most of newport because the uni is very high up in the city. Now...
http://twitpic.com/13xcv6
*shakes fist at outside*
Why do you dislike the snow so much?
Because it gets in the way! everyone decides that snow = bad and everything stops. it's unecessary. some of our buses have already stopped because of this as mininal as it is at the moment. Plus I want it to be gone by the weekend so I can see Lou :(
Yeah that does suck. I don't think I have had a train run on time since December!
I'm hoping for either lots of snow, or no snow... anything in between means everyone will still go to work but drive at 2 mph whereas on the heaviest snow days this year I've managed to drive to work in record time
On my train, half of the carriages are left unheated. This makes me very happy because if I sit there, nobody sits next to you because they can't stand the cold!
Yeah my main problem with snow on the roads, is the standard of other peoples driving.... It's often so slow as to be dangerous. Driving on snow is common sense stuff.
We had a bus full of Danish tourists crash in Germany for this very reason, sadly.
Dreary. We've got heavy rain.
I was sad to hear of that train crash in Belgium. I don't want to die on my holiday!
Don't be silly
That's an odd one that. They're supposed to have anti-collision systems if a train runs a red light. Do what I do and sit at the back ;)
So... hang on,
The Stefan-JV news was serious?!
what an odd article, based on rumours and a quote from chandok. Hmm.
Can anything regarding Stefan be considered serious? It'll be Nigel Mansell driving for them tomorrow...
And:
Campos set for takeover
If true, Senna keeps his seat, while Chandhok has to go up against Bertrand the Bread for the second seat.
Wasn't that the same chap who said he was 96% sure of joining Sauber though.
I was asking earlier why JV didn't take over USF1 and make it B.A.R 2.0. Maybe it's because he will do precisely that with this team instead...
Dieter Rencken helped write the article. We trust him, right?
Indeed so. What an odd number to choose - 96.
I'm not saying he's not a credible writer or anything, just comes across as a very... GMM style article. Perhaps it's my own utter pessimism that Stefan would even consider Villeneuve.
Still, they mentioned Ralf, so...
Shame that they can't make it on their own. Unlike USF1, I think these guys got unlucky as they expected a budget cap and a Senna to bring some cash...
It's 1% more sure than 95 ;)
True, but at the same time, it's not quite 97... :P
Mmm Jelly Beans :)
Good point on the former, but the latter was their decision all the way.
Still, give them credit for finding a way, which is more than can be said for USF1.
exactly - they are trying, not just keeping quiet and falling down the hole...
I feel for Adrian Campos. The only way to make his dream a reality is to bail out.. hopefully he'll still have a role.
Apparently Google might be transferring all its employees to working macs and chome-os.
Either they are really mad about IE6 or they are trying to make friends with apple.
I think they are really mad about IE6. (& IE7). (& IE8).
From @MikeGascoyne Slight off for Heikki. Knocked off the front wing. Spare on its way but will not be here until 2am in the morning so no more running today
wow, that's restrained from MG
And no swearing ;)
i assumed they all used linux anyhow?
Well you would have thought he would have known to pack 2 front wings...
they do?
#poorgooglers
*shrugs*
do you have a link to the story?
:D just because you made your computer cry...
Just got this via the BBC F1 gossip column linking to the ESPN website:
http://en.espnf1.com/teamus/motorsport/story/9004.html
Can they please just put us out of our misery?
http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/story/9046.html
Andretti tells it like it is, although I'm amused by that German paper's reaction...
he thinks Schumacher didn't come back in 2009 because he didn't know valencia? Really?
has he never seen Frankenstein?
i'm laughing, but i don't know why. :D
um, do explain the link...
The many bolts in Schumacher's neck ;)
unless they don't know valencia either, then I agree. Schumacher didnt come back because his bolts didn't know Valencia.
Afternooon all. As sick as a pike today - one of those 24-hour things, I think.
The quote from the 'anonymous insider' on that ESPN story about USF1 comes from an email that's been doing the rounds for a couple of days now. It's quite damning, to the extent that I'm not surprised it's been kept under wraps. It's got 'WRIT' writ large all over it.
That quote is taken directly from this month's Motorsport Magazine podcast where they interview Mario Andretti and Brian Redman.
Well worth a listen - he also talks about his career, McLaren and his son a little too...
ah, the buses have stopped because of the snow. figures.
Is this the same source that Marshall Pruett mentioned during this week's Midweek Motorsport?
#NotDenmark
Oooh, right! Must listen.
it's THAT solid?
Ahhhh. :D
Probably. That's where all the stuff about the car being two months away comes from.
oh no :(
oooh.
i guess that makes them toast then :)
:D
You've been waiting all week to say that :P
I do hope that you didn't catch it from me via the doohickey!
shhh!
Excoriating rather than solid. It says a lot of stuff that you wouldn't be able to repeat in print without having more substantiation. I didn't see who it was from. When defending a libel suit you can't stand up in court and wave a hard copy of an email with the address line torn off. The legal eagles would be pecking at your corpse for weeks!
That's my word of the day ;)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/excoriate
eagles? more like vultures.
but i see where you're coming from. i'm surprised they haven't come out and defended themselves like they did the last time this happened.
boo today is going far too slowly and my nana is very sick. Thursday sucks. {Comment #25}
That's awful *hugs Amy*
Interesting. Wonder if it bore relation to the CompositeKen post at Autosport.. which I can't find...
Sums up what this affliction has been doing with my innards, too. I'm not sure I'll be able to muster enough enthusiasm to watch Murder, She Wrote...
Now I heard the same comments quoted by the 'anonymous insider' something like a week ago on a forum. He gets about a bit.
http://forums.autosport.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=115762&view=findpost&p=4123537
or the remaining 16.
(I hope thats the right amount) {Comment #77}
If USF1 are planning on skipping so many as 4 races, they'll miss every other race that F1 will ever have, so the numerical amount (if above 3) is largely academic. (That said, 16 + 3 = 19, so if you meant USF1 won't be doing F1 2009, you are absolutely right).
thanks
and this: http://www.motorsportforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=745339&postcount=227
and this: http://www.motorsportforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=746103&postcount=233
Just to clarify Alan Sugar was not in Cool Runnings. Or Star Wars
I swear I saw him in the Mos Eisley Cantina {Comment #90}
:D Given that everyone at the Mos Eisley Cantina was in costume, I suppose that is entirely possible (if he was using an acting psuedonym - after all most of the Mos Eisley denizens were actually Industrial Light and Magic employees...)
right, bedtime for me. So happy it's Friday!
Plans for this weekend include scoping out Beaconsfield Parade so I can work out where this Joe thing is. Because I like to be prepared.
Is already happening
The Midichlorians are strong in this one
I am not sure what the Cool Runnings equivalent of Midichlorians is/are {Comment #92}
Fighting Spirit! (the difference in Cool Runnings is that it's possible to get it bottled as well as inborn).
That's the dude Dank referred to as 'Compost Ken' :D
Afternoon all!
Well, as some of you might have seen on Facebook, I was successful in my interview with Orange and got the job! :D I can't wait to get started. :D
Autosport just posted this, I haven't watched it yet:
With the track empty again, here's a commercial for Finnish TV station MTV3's F1 coverage with Heikki Kovalainen in a starring role
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw5sfoJQAes
Well done sir - I think you mentioned that you also plan to continue with CTL?
I wish the BBC would just show events rather than talking about them. There is so much on right now and they are telling us stuff they have already told us ten times. No-one explains events in the summer Olympics. {Comment #310}
Unless it's the Paralympics, in which case there tends to be a surprising amount of explanation. How much talk will be needed to explain the Winter Paralympics could be mind-boggling...
I get this on FF2: http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/youtube-gif
They repeat the explanations every.single.time. It's worse than the recycling of the F1 bits!
Yeah that's the plan. I've asked Sapphire to have a chat with Clive today while I'm on my day off and then I guess they'll have a chat with me tomorrow and try and sort something from there.
Who is Sapphire?
I've just done a search on Google, and apparently the word Heikki says at the end is a swearword in Finnish, referring to Satan!
She's the girl I'm helping with the merchandising, PR and admin for CTL.
w00t! death to old browsers.
scarbs just posted x6 blog posts!
http://scarbsf1.wordpress.com/
oh :)
That's a common form of curse word in Danish too. They seem to say "To Hell" and "For Satan" a lot...
Not if your IT department refuses to upgrade :(
An ad on my Windows Messenger goes:
Proud to be Philippino? Announce it with new local Hotmail!
#hotmailfail {Comment #596}
Is that for the benefit of people who live in the tiny country of Phillip, presumably where everyone is required by law to be called Phillip? Because it's not a nationality on any list I've ever seen and it's definitely nothing like the Phillipines (Filipino)...
5live just tweeted that the US F1 website is down. Oh dear.
It's down here.
They got around to writing about the digital edition
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81575
Hello again.
Ah well, it was good whilst it lasted.
...ahh.
Good news then... they must be launching!
:) :) :)
Goodness me, the sky has gone very, very dark. I think the Apocalypse might have come.
Wow, USF1
It ate my comment!
Peter Windsor is the anti-Christ?
USF1Team, the official Twitter, just tweeted this
The US F1 Team web server is down and is being repaired as this is written. We are not gone, as many have reported. More news soon.
See... they're launching :-)
Phew!
do you when when it returns it will be a page with a giant 'OK, FINE. IT AiN'T HAPPENING!' message?
I hope they are not repairing it themselves. I am sure it will make great toast but that is all
:)
I think it will say "DON'T PANIC" in large, friendly letters
Ooh hopefully.
afternoon all
what the?
Joe has commented on USF1. Nothing new, but he thinks the reports are reliable.
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/bad-news-for-usf1/
Time is up, then?
If there is nothing new, we're still waiting aren't we?
I thought we were waiting for confirmation from a reliable source? Although, yes, there's no official confirmation.
Oh, fair enough. I'm waiting for something a bit more concrete really. Poised to make a breakout thread, no actual evidence to do it on.
USF1 website is back... no sign of new car or 'OK, FINE. IT AIN'T HAPPENING!' message
ping! - http://photofinishblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/how-to-be-a-domestic-goddesskind-of/
Oooooh, blogging!
You are just torturing us with pics of brownies. I am so pleased Mr C hasn't written the smell-o-net yet
;) they were yummy :)
Snowflakes. Fousands of em!
It brightened up again here.
My desktop background changes automatically every hour, I thought christine might like what it's just changed to now
http://i50.tinypic.com/10p7ond.png
OH MY GOD!
I forgot Baby Panda Thursday.
Rrrrrrubbish.
How do you make it do that?
*falls over*
Tis a setting on Windows 7.
It's not the first time. I coulda done with them cute pandas today, though.
Also... The Sims 2!!
Oops.. I shoulda hid that...
I found a few baby panda pics
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q="baby+panda"&go=&form=QBIR&qs=n&sc=8-10
Must have a look for that
i've shown you these before... but.. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1248678/Panda-monium-Sixteen-panda-cubs-pose-class-shot-day-nursery.html
I'm still loving the pics that came with it!
If you just right click the desktop and go on Personalize, the settings will be at the bottom. You can customize what it uses and where it searches etc. I really like it, shakes up looking at the same thing all the time!
Have you guys seen the latest TweetDeck Update? It has a thingy at the bottom that lets you click the column you want to see :D
So with all the USF1 news, I'm thinking I totally missed out on Lotus actually running!
Quick note for the day shift as I keep forgetting to plug my stuff outside of evenings..
Since we're all watching NASCAR now, you may like to have a go at my game. :) The next 2 weeks are NASCAR-only, after that the fun and high scores will begin with F1 and IndyCar, so why not get some early points on the board? Doesn't matter if you don't follow NASCAR, just pick Montoya and 6 random others to tide you over until the F1 ;)
http://toomuchracing.com/2010/02/17/tmr-game-week-4
Also on the site: a plea to get in touch with the new IRL CEO in this new era of supposed fan interaction, and a via the header are two new sub-pages showing more info about the game and an Extras page with my 'rules of the blog/twitter...sort of'.
I may be guilty of going on about this a little too much, for which I apologise.
Not sure if any of you caught the Maurace Hamilton Twitter / Private Eye coversation from earlier. Here is the article:
Evenining everyone as well :)
Crikey!
Hullo Alex
I'm really not sure what to think about this one. But in a weird way it's quite a bit #mfc
Heyo Alex.
i think it means he'll be back in the commentary box a lot this year!
Aw no.
I hadn't heard Maurice Hamilton had gone form that job. Wonder what Bernie and sponsors make of that group of papers terminating coverage after several decades
well it's true that on Twitter he doesn't seem to be concerned. I like the gun ho approach.
well it's in private eye it may, of course, not be true.
he doesn't seem to be denying it though.
but I also think that by some token there is a responsibility to the reader. I worry he thinks he is more important than the people he serves.
true.
or he just doesn't care anymore?
not at all. i don't really have the energy to take part, but please keep plugging.
without reading any more comments I would like to argue with my own comment. Of course he can change his mind and decide to report in a different way. And maybe that's what happened. Personally I was werided out by somebody seemingly rejoicing in a collegue losing their job. I can understand being happy. But that seemed a bit mean so put me on edge.
Afternoon peeps
Alex: are you going to the Joe thing next week straight from work or grabbing a bite first?
even if the guy was hopeless at his job? i have no idea if he was, but if maurice thinks he was, then why not say so?
Because he is then publically slagging of his boss for not recognising the guy was hopeless.
agreed. but i get the impression he's not all that bothered, so if his boss was also useless, that's two birds down.
with one tweet.
(how did miss that??)
It still seems an odd thing to do unless he was trying to get fired
that is true.
To Christine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMb91Kk5Ln8
oh wow! i spot a climber :)
even i (heart) him, after the first 10 seconds.
http://www.nba.com/timberwolves/news/The_Fan_Forum_2010_02_18.html
now THIS is interaction with the fans!
too bad the team involved is a sucky one. :D
No chance of Mr C getting anything to eat tonight now Christine is distracted
HAH!! The beach thing is fantastic :D
I think I really like this Virgin team, actually.
the vigin holidays bit is genius!
i saw them first!
Fine, fine... :P
They have shown more personality already than toyota did in their entire F1 lifespan!
(or maybe it was rg)
And nothing fell off the car!
Virgin may end up embarrassingly slow but I like there approach to media
I hope this help him even more in Christine´s rankings...
This is really quite sweet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyaE2Mw6YuU
i'd put money on it :)
Listening to Motorsport podcast with Andretti.
Mario thinks Michael could've won a title with McLaren? Even if he stayed on, the car was nowhere near good enough for at least another 3 years!
Ha ha, watching Leo talk about the story of Korean iPhone users with Sausages as a Stylus whilst wearing winter gloves
http://obamapacman.com/2010/02/tips-top-10-ways-to-use-apple-iphone-ipod-touch-ipad-capacitive-touchscreen-display-in-cold-winter/5/
Leo has no sausages in the studio so he uses a 'cheese stck' which works just as well :D
Genius. I can't believe they didn't go on to try a whol bunch of things
Next winter I'm getting gloves with capacitance fingertips
Hi SPC!! Long time, no comment. Just sent off my guest post and my email
for the next debrief. I'm feeling pretty pleased.
Change of name -_-
Hi Lewis.
is.... is Lewis growing a beard?!!
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47328000/jpg/_47328596_lewisone766.jpg
looks like he's not standing close enough to the razor in the morning
what's with drivers and their beards? First Jense, then Nick, now Lewis...What's next Schumacher?
im also noticing glocky has a bit more stubble than usual...
hi lewis
Would love to know what Ron thinks...
jealous of Jenson ;)
good evening!
Probably hyperventilating right now. Lewis is supposed to be clean shaven!
It is testing, no tv cameras
cheers chap!
"me" how do I get my guest post to you on Sweden?....
there was a rumour that schumi had that electrolysis thing done. probably nonsense though.
unless the drivers are growing them to take the... michael...
you're getting confused with the whole lightning bolt thing they used to bring him to life
couple of options. emailing christine@sidepodcast.com is easiest. or the contact form on the about page also works (although is limited to a few thousand characters).
cheers.
:)
That bring in the "no clothes" thing... not a picture I like to conjure with....
Maybe he is meeting Jenson half way
Interesting post from Joe
The latest from Jerez
Gooooooooo Rubens!
interesting in terms of the Cosworth...
...What? :O
I'm distracted by another sport right now, but THIS, this is some speculation.
Williams (with a Cossie) is on the pace??
This is too good to be true...
Exactly.
yikes. hadn't considered that.
why yikes?
AUTOSPORT last week said during its first week of tests the Williams had the engine turned down to make sure they got realibility and good info on the car
because that makes the renault pretty hopeless.
ahh. well...
I think Rubens has snuck in an engine from 2009. don't tell anyone though.
Imagine if Honda pulled out one year then someone replaced their engine and won the championship then the following year Toyota pulled out and someone replaced their engine and won the championship.
maybe rubens is the engine?
:D
Yabbaa dabba dooo!
never-ending Japanese shame that would be. even more so if Kobayashi proves to be quick.
hehe
Also:
Ferrari always used to struggle with fuel consumption in the V12 & V10 days
Kobayashi will be quick. Sauber lap times are perfectly fine, we have plenty of sponsorship.
#livinginacloud
...Is that you, RG?
Last year, pre-season testing gave us a pretty good idea of everyone's pace (i.e. Brawn on top). We just didn't really believe.
We may not even get a decent idea this time round.
I don't know anymore.
The battle between Lotus and Virgin continues...
here's Heikki's video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw5sfoJQAes
Normally Barcelona gives the best guide to performance and this time it is the last test too so we should get some idea
Love it!
...assuming the weather holds up.
I like that he's racing against a black stallion, a nice touch
Thanks. Its hard to tell if/when plugging becomes annoying :)
they could be my new favourite team :)
sure beats ferrari bitching about the weather.
My point is... that we all have to face situations where we have to be professional in our conduct... My first impression was, "oh he wasn't being professional". Then I realised, "he's decided to do something else why not go for it". Hence my criticism of my own first comment - if that makes sense.
it does.
What time is the Joe thing?
Starts at 7, I think
:)
Excellent, great set-up for the season... :)
Cool... the International Space Station has been fitted with a window from the Millennium Falcon:
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn15018-pick-of-the-pictures
#sidepodspace
:lol:
:lol:
The windows even have lids to stop things breaking them.
http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/SpaceOps/ISS/EPS/cupola.jpg
I think the window is for astronauts to play I spy
Their weather report was longer than most team's press releases today
there are no laser canons? :-(
!!!
Not yet
heheh, Tweetdeck stole Mr C's idea. Youtube videos now load within TD instead of linking to the site :)
pah!
(we may have considered their idea of thread columns, but shh)
:)
I was wondering about in doohickey, maybe have the active thread on one side and comments on the other, a bit like LCLT with fewer boxes.
possibly. if we can make ye olde comments as good as they should be, it might not matter so much.
am waiting for ye olde paperbacks to arrive though.
i feel very lonely now Em has gone home. For the first time in 3 days my house is all quiet and i don't like it.
hi everyone
hey lou.
Hi Lou
You have us though
i know, that's why i'm here :D
Autosport going all 'digital' is good isn't it?
I worry though that given it's available in plain ol' .pdf format, it'll appear on all manner of illicit websites and torrent thingies quicker than I can read the front cover.
Though I have it on good authority that someone will be keeping a watchful eye on such shenanigans, if that’s possible?
To a limited degree
I am sure you will cope without Em until you see her again
haven't had chance to look yet.
the preview issue was in flash?
yup. within reason.
You can download them in pdf now. No usernames or passwords required to open and view.
that's monday! monday is so far away.
(hearts)
(hearts)
(hearts)
christine paid for it, but then went shopping!
[Waits for the iPad]
Go visit her or invite her back but tell her to bring her own wine
ooo i have just seen the Virgin GP video... i have never agreed with christine more... delicious is awesome... :)
it's a years subscription. you should sign up now.
Commercial disaster waiting to happen though?
How much?
I don't want a year's subscription to AUTOSPORT
I'll give Joe my money instead
i'm all busy till monday, as is she. bad times.
Heikki's MTV3 one is better
in that it can be copied? i wouldn't have though that the kind of people who steal PDF downloads would pay for a newsagent copy anyhow.
it does open up the content to be gmm-ised though.
:D
£112 if you don't have the Plus subscription. Which is only £13 cheaper than subscribing to the paper mag, and you get all the online gubbins as well.
Nah. Timo and di Grassi. Twice the awesomeness.
If you have plus?
i showed em that she wasn't impressed :D she was also not impressed that he crashed his 'soup can' today.
waiting for an ipad makes no odds then :)
I'll buy the odd issue if they put it on the iBookstore
Exactly. There's a chap on the Autosport forums (no names mentioned) that is a journalist from some central European country and is known to rip off English websites for his gain. Rightfully, he was getting just a little bit too excited about the prospect of the mag being available online!
I don't know.
understandable.
things is, the paper business model is dead anyhow. they have to try this, or simply roll over and go out of business.
all the info you need gavin: http://www.autosport.com/digital/
This is brillant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiFWZ8MC2cE
Nolan's Cheddar ad, don't worry, there's a happy ending
heheh very good :)
Cheers. I make it to be about £1.30 a week. Not bad...
No, scratch that, it's £76 a year which is about £1.50 a week...
we get to share it, so works out better for us. but i'm very happy about it.
You can also sell the online mag for less and make more profit so even if they lose a bit through people stealing their content they may still be better off financially
i hope so. i've waited so long for this, i'd hate to see it bomb.
I'll get it next month I think. It looks really good eh!
Yeah, but you can't have the digital edition separately can you? So add another £30?
i'd have been happy with the flash version. a downloadable / searchable version is fantastic.
wonder if they'll open up the archives?
It said that my deal as an exisiting subscriber is €76 for a year for the digital verison...
Sean White at 11. No wonder he's so good! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYxY1LL3AUk
Sato has an IRL drive. At least Danica and Dario have experience of Nascar so they should be OK
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81564
So how does that work then? Both subscriptions will overlap? Yet a new online subscriber has to have both at £112? Crumbs, this is confusing.
Did you see his last run? Unbelievable.
we also paid 76 EUR.
Somehow I like the idea of this!
It would have been amusing if I had been charged more for being overseas ;)
It was stunning, he's absolutely fearless
Just watching it now ;)
Looks like he had some natural ability
Gah!! It all makes sense to me now regarding Mercedes GP!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lukehmuse/4368667856/
:D
♥
:-)
Judging by the picture Heikki's accident today was very minor. Looks like he was really unlucky and did almost no damage to the car apart from the front wing. They lost half a day's testing because of a stupid wing.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8522444.stm
Seems like they had no spare either
I reckon they wanted to get the car running as soon as they had enough parts to make one complete car. I can't say I blame them.
Thought I'd compare various points systems used since 1950 and try some of my own: http://f1numbers.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/points-systems-comparison-1950-2010/
There will be a second part to this about the 'Fairness' of each system coming soon...
Evening everyone!
Hi Adie
hi
Getting a bit sick of wet testing now.
I may have to support Virgin Racing...
Just shows how stupid wings are. Why do we need to have a fragile piece that is so exposed and the slightest touch results in half a million dollars worth of car and a team of people unable to function. This should not still be happening
I seem to have acquired a lot of must read posts over the past day or two. I have this to the list
You think you are, you should see Ferrari's twitter. I fear how it's gonna be come Saturday.
Hi Adie
Lou, if you're serious about your coffee, you must try these guys
http://www.justcoffee.co.uk/
Currently supping Brazillan Bourbon and it's delish!
They will be ok, there is some sun tommorow ;)
Haha, true. But Ferrari are only happy when they have something to whinge about.
Better read it quick, I'm already working on the second part ;)
Why didn't they go to Bahrain?
Group tests now IIRC?
So the whinging is to get back to Bahrain for next year
ooooo!! tea is more my thing, but coffee is also lovely! thanks :)
Probably. But then they'll moan because there's too much sand.
It's all white noise as far as I'm concerned with them!
The Bourbon has a hint of a chocolatey taste, sublime!
ooo!
I buy 250g packets and it lasts over a month, one cup a day, relatively strong
Agreed, which is why Alonso should fit in well there ;)
People need to slow down production. I can't cope. I just found a new space site from Dr Kiki's Science hour (possibly the best non-sidepodcast podcast on the web) that is going make a lot of my time disappear.
All sorts of ways that people who are not specialist or qualified to get involved in space research. I can see my life disappearing.
http://spacehack.org/
:D
You don't think she had enough chocolate last night?
I'm already 30% of the way through the next F1Weekender. Even if I do say so myself it's looking much MUCH better. Pleased with the work so far...
New Dog Judo is out, yes!
http://www.dogjudo.com/
Its a full time job just keeping up with everything :)
To be fair, I have been pretty slack with the posts lately ;)
I still have your last one on a tab to read
MotoGP rider Nicky Hayden is now on Twitter
http://twitter.com/NickyHayden69
What the heck is that????
Short animation series, quality! :D
Great, something else to take up my time. Lobster Judo, Snap snap snap snap.
Boo. That British woman that got disqualified in the speed skating was clearly fixed for the Canadians!
Evening all!
It was a poor decision.
Well that was short lived, just watched all episodes. Now I can get back to what I was doing.
i just plugged today's f1 minute on twitter and this is the shortened url:
http://bit.ly/crpyFa
charming!
Mean Bitly.
hullo chris.
Hullo! #isstillherejustquiet
Great Bit.ly link :D
Should I watch the curling?
I've got the women's slalom event on from the super combined...I think I'll stick with that.
Lyndsey Vonn :p
Currently trying to concot an answer to Thursday Thoughts. http://www.racingeagles.com/2010/02/thursday-thoughts-public-money-and-motorsports.html
It is going to be a long answer
ooh, i forgot. that seems like a long time ago.
I'm a day behind ;)
Olympic sweeping
Ah.
I wish I was at the premier league darts in Bournemouth though. Forgot it was on and a mate just called me totally hammered. He's having a blast!
I do hope you're not annoyed at me for working on my other posts instead...
tis optional sir!
Dave Gorman's been talking about how he's gotten into Darts recently on his Sunday show/podcast
That was a great question...I'm not sure I can answer all of that though.
It's not that I don't like the question ... I do and I will leave a comment.
It's just that I have been sitting on these two posts for nearly a week...
It looks brilliant to go and watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fppvy52FbIg
Go Chemy!
Little and Large had a really funny parody of it where they had to drink instead of throwing a dart :D
Wasn't it Smith & Jones, I remember that one?
I skipped the curling. To me it's like cricket - fascinating but ultimately unwatchable!
Agreed
If you want to know how a driver's seat is made, have a look at James Hinchcliffe's last few twitpics
It was Smith and Jones.
I have to disagree! Cricket is excellent.
Although I will concede the fact it's much more fun to be there...
Cricket is possibly the only sport on the planet I genuinely hate.
Yeah probably. I get the names confused!
I enjoy playing cricket, on TV I like snoozing to it on the couch, except when the crowd's clapping wakes me up
I totally agree. I went to a cricket match once and I had a great time :)
Two were funnier, two weren't
Question. over which period did F1 adopt F2 rules? 1950-something to 1965?
*Two were funny, I meant
Beer?
Lots. Was free too ;)
Then the fun wasn't due to the cricket ;)
TV!!! I'VE MISSED YOU!
It's nice to be able to watch the Olympics live and actually know what you're all talking about
You've not been watching online?
Amazing.
The last time I went to a cricket match my friend got very drunk. Stood up to cheer a 6 and his seat flipped up, he sat down (read: fell) and didn't spill a drop!
That takes talent.
Man after my own heart
Very professional ;)
On iPlayer....a day later, don't have a tv licence so couldnt watch it live
Thursday Thoughts answer posted. Don't start reading unless you have a free 20 minutes.
http://www.racingeagles.com/2010/02/thursday-thoughts-public-money-and-motorsports.html
Mock the Week. I nearly forgot
Very good post and you're right. F1 is SO behind the times.
Not the same since Frankie Boyle left
Pretty sure you need a licence for iPlayer too
I disagree. He was good, but he wasn't the only funny person in the show. I think the show is just as good as before Frankie left.
You don't.
Only if its live
OK, didn't know that
Very law abiding of you
"If you use the BBC iPlayer to watch BBC programmes after they have been broadcast either to download or via streaming on demand then you will not need a TV Licence."
I'm not saying it's now bad, just not as good imho
You can't not like Seb Vettel
:lol:
I [heart] Seb
omg!!!! *cries*
Is he following sidepodcast? He impersonated Christine earlier (#sorrychristine) and now Lou... ;)
One mahoosive camera!
i want onee!!!!!!!
Huh?
or maybe two..
Did he? Missed that!
Bit Nikon's are nicer ;)
Can I have a Nikon one
Scott Bourne is giving away a D300 [?] soon
tbh.. i'll take any camera, as long as i can use it to take pics of f1 cars with i don't mind. anyway i already have a nikon.. :)
Humph.
But you don't need two types of lenses
True
I've entered!
I used my D60 at the McLaren launch for the pics I took. Paid for itself that day. Now I need to buy some faster lenses, something that stops around 1.8 or 2.8. 2 if poss and 24-70 and a super telephoto, around 300+
Just need the money :(
VONN FELL!
I missed it!
Lens envy?
She shoulda won it.
She clipped a gate. Turmed in too early!
Just turned in a tad too early
thing is.. Canon are awesome to f1 and motorsport image agencies and lend cameras and lenses to both them and the photographers... if i ever get to that stage i'm not going to turn it down because they use Canon and i have Nikons :)
But Julia Mancuso came second, and using the 'Athlete'syoufancyabit' system I can be happy.
:(
But surely using that system, Vonn wins every time?
Or you can be very happy when they get a 1-2.
If you have Sky the Discovery channel are showing the construction of the Yas Marina circuit.
I shall watch to see where they wasted their money. ELEVATION is underrated Herman...
Garlic bread is a mere 5 mins away!
Ping: http://sidepodcast.com/2010/02/18/thursday-thoughts-f1-and-government-funding/
If there are any Jonsi fans around, tickets for his only UK gig go on sale tomorrow at 9. it's going to be awesome - 59 step productions are going to do his live show special effects/animation!
He's the dude from Sigur Rios isn't he?
Where are they on sale?
When is it Lou, I'd love to see that?
haha i love that i totally forgot to mention the important details :D hehehe
Wed 26th May, 7pm - HMV Forum, London
http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/1F00444CBBC14E1C?camefrom=CFC_UK_BUYAT_sgrrs
info on the actual show - http://jonsi.com/news/2010-tour-sneak-preview
Em and I will hopefully be getting tickets :D hehe well, i'll be up bright and early to make sure :)
yep! much love for Jonsi.
Hey, Mr C, I think Wordpress is dead and you told me that I should move to hosted so that wouldn't happen.
The Forum is now the HMV Forum?
umm....
It's dead here too :(
they've tweeted:
WordPress.com is down, we're working on restoring service now.
http://twitter.com/wordpressdotcom/status/9302612517
I'm on lates, I may have to book the evening off
Phone reminder: set!
apparently. never been there, pics of the venue make it look very cute though.
Cheers Lou
Yeah, it's in Kentish town. Great venue. Saw Maximo Park there last year.
Sorry, should rephrase that to "WE ARE MAXIMO PARK!!!!"
My friend doesn't want to go [fool] I might see you there!
on the homepage there is a pic of Jenson and Lewis both in mclarens... this makes me very sad. :(
have you shown them the 59steps behind the scenes video!! it's going to be incredible!
#sorrylou
Would you prefer him next to Schumacher in a Mercedes?!
I remember when it was the Town & Country Club. Many a happy evening there
Curiosity Killed The Cat
Curve
Fun times
Ferrari are STILL moaning on Twitter.
I don't think she's into gigs where she can't mosh :(
I remeber falling asleep at a Damon & Naomi concert, so chilled. Bliss
if he was still with brackley there would be no schumi in a mercedes.
The magic of the Unfollow button :)
bad times.. if the car is quick, and Jenson is happy, i may forgive Mclaren...
Send a funny reply like I did!
i find it kinda sweet... #isodd
It's a good venue, is Lukeh up for it?
am tempted. Will be hard to buy tickets in a -20 room though ;)
How do you link to specific tweets?
I don't follow them, they might protest about my phone and get it excluded from Twitter
but....but.... you can't not love Jonsi....
i don't know who they are, but sounds awesome! ;) It's during our last week at school and it will be an awesome treat before exams begin :)
Click the time they were tweeted
Lukeh?
From the Twtter webpage?
you are working tomorrow morning?
Excellent thanks. I found it, but using the view source widget in my firefox.
Your way is MUCH easier!!!
Google Galaxie 500 or 'Damon & Naomi'
A bit Velvet Underground-esque
Blissed out choons
Yup, in the lovely cold room of stock. :P
I only wanted to know so I could do this:
Classic Ferrari
Lou, get Lukeh a ticket!
Why did Wordpress have to fail on a Thursday when most of us are blogging?
i'm not buying them.. shall ask my mum :)
:)
Kids! [tuts] ;)
Couldn't resist:
Q: @InsideFerrari where do u prefer to have testing?
A: Abu Dhabi? Bahrain? Somewhere drier and warmer...
Me: And covered in flying sand?
:D
Brilliant
It's far too tempting to troll the Inside Ferrari tweets
More loyally fierce than Apple Fanboys
Best close that column now
I'm gonna head off. Night all.
Night Lukeh
Night!
Lou, if you're definitely going, I'll buy ticket tomorrow from work
Can get Lukeh one and DM you
check your phone as i have text you! :)
let me check with mum when she gets in, but i'm sure i can sort something out with her if not i shall DM you if that's okay :) thank you though.
If you're def going I'll go too
Just don't fancy a solitary gig
No worries
we are definitely going :) i'm getting up early specially :D... if we don't get tickets we'll be upset. not sure how much they'll be, but based on the American tickets maybe around the £17 mark.
Oops, quote FAIL
available here - http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/1F00444CBBC14E1C?camefrom=CFC_UK_BUYAT_sgrrs
Cool, needed to check how Flash happy the site was. Standing, I presume?
ah good point, not sure... will their be standing tickets? will check with Em what she would prefer.
ooops grammer fail.
There is, always better in my view for smaller venues
funniest tweet was "Showers and sun spells are making the day more and more difficult..."
Too windy, too wet, too sunny... what do you want?!?
:lol:
Silly Scuderia
The Moon on a stick.
Actually I may ask them that.
secretly they want snow - kimi was actually sent out on a scouting mission
USF1 on the grid with their own car *sniffle* :(
Em agrees, standing it is then :)
**SHAKES FIST AT WORDPRESS**
Pre-sale here, £22.50 + fees
http://www.gigsandtours.com/gat/price.asp?code=456555&userid={0B93BB8D-9A9A-4A96-82E3-4A0C0F930DBB}&filler1=gigsandtours
*cough* self hosted *cough*
Here
Link FAIL
*cough* free hobby *cough*
true, my point being that it being free its not going to be up all the time. this is the first time ive ever heard it failing
I might try to buy them now
Lou, shall I get 4?
Hey everyone.
I think Joe's website is down.
all wordpress.com blogs are down
the whole of the wordpress network is down.
Hi Dan
Wordpress is having 'issues'
i've not heard back from Lukeh yet. so i wouldn't worry about getting tickets for us just yet... no idea if he can come or not :s
Evening.
The USF1 site is back up. All wordpress sites are down...
Ahh... so AUTOSPORT is going digital. I am debating if it is worth it. I have GP+ and Racecar Engineering... do I really need anything else other than the web?
we may have to make thursday thoughts, friday ones instead.
Friday foughts?
Sorry, my question was way too deep. I should of asked something like, "If each F1 driver was a dog, what kind of dog would they be?"
:)
I can sell the extras on ebay
I'm gonna see if it lets me get em now
hehe. it was fine. it's just no-one has a blog with which to respond
Interestingly, I just posted a draft to my blog using Windows Live Writer. Can't download from it though so I saved a local copy just in case!
Good night guys ... lets dream a world where wordpress is working again!
See ya Gavin
night
Night Gavin.
see ya.
Night Gavin
Gavin,
Just started reading your points post. The first two graphs have an error in them. The 1950s column is a copy of the 1960 column with a 6th place point. I tried to comment on your site but wordpress has killed it
#blameseteven
Sato video, on the series' official YouTube channel.
Memo to Bernie -- you do it like THIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wlhzM16lZw
That could make a Friday Fun question.
I had it on a tab and tried to reload it to see if anyone had posted a comment with the same point since I clicked the link and Wordpress wouldn't reload it.
#blame wordpress
Sorted!
you've got the tickets? does this mean i don't need to get up early in the morning?
All done
I can email the details to you, I got the confirmation email just now
If so, just DM
Ha ha
From @GrandPrixDiary
RT@clubforce: Adrians been telling us that he wants a podium this year. >> And I want to marry Keira Knightley but it's not going to happen.
:)
Just checked Fantasy Racers for the first time since the rally. Our F1 league has 165 entries already. Our rally league has 19 entries and our IRL league has 15 entries.
Who would have thought rallying was more popular than the IRL
Works for me
Me too. I wonder where all the other people who were in last year's F1 league are. Maybe just too early for some of them yet
have DMd you on twitter. Em says thank you very much, but has also given me strict instructions not to let her start drinking with you :P
They probably can't find it.
Sounds fair enough
Will reply in 5
may also be why the IRL list is so small but it was small last year..
Evening I'm home from work. Very disappointed to see my only Olympic option appears to be curling.... I swear I was watching skating a minute ago!
Could be as there are already over 3000 entries. Some of them must be from sidepodcast people
It's not called Sidepodcast league this year though, that may confuse some people
Evening. There were 4 options on the web feed the last time I looked and now there are none.
Boooo seems like an ideal time to go make myself some tea!
We need to publicise it more. Shame we don't have a list of contact details from last year so that they could just be pinged with details
Hi Alison
Done
WP fail has taken away the pressure to blog, I'm quite enjoying it.. I fear I'm becoming as reluctant a blogger as Jackie..
Oh erm yeah
Hi peoples :)
I blame Nick. There were things to watch when he rang me and now there is nothing! He killed the Olympics!
The women's halfpipe semis finished half an hour ago and they said they would be back shortly. I wonder what the BBC considers to be shortly.
50 minutes?
The snowboard and skeleton are scheduled to start at midnight.
Ooh, didn't know that
I stayed up really late last night for the Men's but it was so worth it
Cool
Rightio. I am starving. Im going to cobble together some kind of cheesy pasta based meal.
I have a Paella calling me from the fridge
That's a really good idea. No options for an hour then two good events at the same time. Is Max organising this?
Ah I have happy memories of fresh paella from market stalls! I've never really tried to recreate it at home.
if you're bored, have added recent comments back onto the homepage. it'll require a browser refresh and you need to scroll to the bottom of the page.
filtering works (without killing the browser), sharing via twitter (on rollover) also works. live updating not enabled, so you still have to hit f5.
Hola Bassano.
I can hear it
Phew, I thought I was going mad ;)
Luckily, Sainsbury's did for me though
I love that. It means anyone arriving at the home page can see that there are comments being made and in what thread so should encourage them to comment. Great idea. Of course it lets them see the type of cnversations we have which may put them off.
But Cool Runnings fans will be happily surprised!
:)
did you see this btw: http://www.f1minute.com/category/f1-big-picture/
I did earlier but it never clicked
:D
:D
Nice
It's Mini Doohickey for the Homepage!
Must plug on next Debrief!
BRRRRRRRRR!!
will do. although maybe when it goes "live". at the moment it's just a list of comments.
Suzi Perry pushed out of MotoGP or they made her an offer she had to refuse?
http://twitter.com/suziperry/status/9306794796
I couldn't think of a smart response to that so I did a search. 34,000 hits for BRRRRRRRRR!!. Who'd've thunk it?
Ha ha
From @GrandPrixDiary
RT@clubforce: Adrians been telling us that he wants a podium this year. >> And I want to marry Keira Knightley but it's not going to happen. {Comment #1268}
Be fair - if Fisi had told GrandPrixDiary he wanted a podium this time last year he'd probably have received the same response, but it still happened...
Think of it as a 'teaser'
I hope Adrian gets it too
But it is a funny tweet
We saw that last night. If you read her twitter stream it looks like her decision because she said the night before that she would make an announcement and then in the morning said she quit. She later said that she may do another motor sport show. Bye EJ
Ooh, that'd be good
But not this year, they already announced everyone would be staying
that would be awesome!! ;)
I'm sorry, did you just suggest a woman co-anchor with DC??
How did I not know about pandas laying tennis when we have a logo?
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Sidepodcast+Empire
Lou, the Jónsi preview looks fab!
http://jonsi.com/news/2010-tour-sneak-preview
I am sure Suzi can deal with him. She is used to dealing with bikers so he is easy
oh. i see your point.
Err, yeah
:)
If it is a problem she could replace Legard and commentate with Brundle
i know!!! em and i were soooo amazed by it earlier! very exciting! :)
She's a show host not a commentator
But yeah, can't be worse the JL
I'm sure she could. Watching DC hit on people makes me feel ill though. I'd rather keep him well away....
Maybe fatherhood has calmed him down
Have you ever known anyone that has worked on?
Dream on.
wordpress.com lives.
Yes, actually
For the first two years, anyway
Blimey.
One of my friends just got married to a proper womaniser. I'm not sure why you'd put up with it.
Lou: You won't be taking exams in late May, will you?
I'm sure she thinks getting married is gonna sort him out....
Thinks now: I can change him
Thinks Later: He's not the man I married
:D
Doesn't make any difference. I knew a guy who was married 3 times before he was 30 and all three of the wives thought he wouldn't do it to them
no, my 2 paper based exams are in June, nothing to stop me coming up to london that evening :)
Perfect!
Some people need their heads knocking together!
You get my email?
just checked. thank you :)
Too hot for the skeleton?
http://adamcooperf1.com/2010/02/18/will-lopezcampos-deal-be-confirmed-soon/
Adam Cooper reckons a Lopez/Campos/Hurley/Kolles deal will be announced "sooner rather than later". Lopez and Hurley's reps have been to see Bernie.
Interesting. Wonder when we will hear from Windsor and co
When Windsor writes a book about it I suppose.
Presumably he has to go public before Campos announce J Lo or the media will decend on him and he will have to fight a defensive action
Skeleton coming up now on BBC2
Looks like wordpress is back in action
I wonder if Nick's aware that the Australian V8 Supercars are racing in Abu Dhabi this weekend? Practice took place today. :P
It's a shame that there's an ever decreasing amount of Fords in the field. I just counted and there's 10 Falcons compared to the 19 Holden Commodores. Personally, I'm a Blue Oval man myself.
He has tickets
Join us in Friday?
Yah he's heading over on Saturday I think. One of his friends gave him a free ticket.
Having said that, perhaps this was just to stop me giving him grief!
Awesome. He should be in for a real treat. The Aussie V8s are epic. :P
Ooh, just remembered, saw Dad last night and he gave me one of these:
http://www.sekonda.co.uk/index.php?fuseaction=Range.view&ID=1&SubCat=3&ModelID=384
He won it at Palmer Sport for being the instuctor with the best feedback and seeing as he already has a Seiko Honda F1 Racing watch which he wears all the time, he said if I liked it and wanted it, I could have it. I'd been thinking to myself that I needed a nice watch, so how coincidental's that? :P
Plus I think it kinda fits in with Classic Team Lotus a bit, what with it being black and gold like the JPS colours :)