Here at Sidepodcast Towers, we are still reeling from the shock of seeing Barrichello back in the news. Seriously, I thought he'd gone underground and changed his name or something. Thankfully that was not the case, and he has finally broken cover to tell all.
- The one thing I picked out of Rubens' interview was that he said, and I paraphrase: "I could have retired and badmouthed all my old teams but I'm ready to stay and fight." Except, all he's been doing is mouthing off about Ferrari, so what's the difference?
- It's bad news all round for me, with Bourdais looking like he's going to head back to the US, and Franck's ALMS drive looking under threat. Who am I going to cheer on now?
- Ferrari are once again admitting that their KERS development is behind schedule, and they're even dreaming up schemes for starting the season without it. Is this ultimate sandbagging or will it put them on the back foot for 2009?
There are other bits and bobs going on in the F1 world and no doubt in your worlds as well, so please share with us. We'd love to know what you're up to, and whether you've got anything exciting planned for the weekend. Otherwise, just stop by and say hi. I'll see you in the comments.
Apparently Rubens can not-retire and bad-mouth his old teams at the same time. So technically he is correct. There may be no difference to anyone else, but I think there's a lot of difference to him...
I've just checked Darren Heath's website, and he has some new photos and a new blog from the FIA Gala. Not sure if it interests anyone :)
link - http://www.darrenheath.com/blogs.htm?big=79
I have just watched the Second Senna film on dropio called The Right to Win. I am not sure who it is aimed at or if it is meant to have subtitles. The majority of it is in English or Portugese with bits in Italian and German. Maybe they are aiming at the very limited market of Senna fans who speak those for languages. I still enjoyed it even though chunks of it went over my head.
It's quite interesting watching Viviane Senna speaking Portugese. Because I can't understand the words I was watching her mannersisms and it is quite incredibe how like Ayrton she is. A lot of the same facial movements and even the way she moves her head is the same at times.
My first time on THIS comments thing!
I usually always go on the facebook group and use the podcasts but suddenly realised the website is there for exploiting! Woohoo!
Looks like Darren is not particularly keen on the event's setting (but then again, he's not the only one who doesn't like the closed-door setup).
Whoa that sounded a bit hyper!
Did you hear that Tata (in the form of Tata Consultancy Services) is a new sponsor for Ferrari?
I saw a picture of their logo on a Williams in the past. Does this mean, with Lenovo moving to McLaren, Williams are losing all their sponsors?
How unfair!
Indeed, but not to worry. A lot of us here at hyper at one time or another. :PWelcome and good morning, by the way! :)
Good question. I believe they still have Accenture and Baugur (which, given their Icelandic nature, is actually an achievement). But who else is left with them?
Hey ya Rishi, welcome to the comments :) it's an awesome place, even if it is impossible to escape ;)
It's always nice to get new commenters.
Sponsors always move around F1. Vodafone went from Ferrari to McLaren. Marlboro went from McLaren to Ferrari. TAG who own 15% of McLaren started out sponsoring Williams.
Williams have said that 90% of their budget for next season is already in place so they are not suffering too badly.
Weren't they sponsored by Petrobus? I have no idea how true this is, but i heard they were possibly going to be sponsoring Honda next year...
Perhaps not now... But I had heard that Petrobas was shifting camps, too. I can't remember where that was though.
And welcome Rishi.
Williams had Petrobras sponsorship but I don't know if they were a sponsor last season or not. I heard the rumours about them going to Honda and you have to wonder if they are true given that Fry and Brawn didn't seem to know the end was coming until the end. It could be they were close to doing a deal then Honda pulled the plug.
*petrobras
Ah nice! If Honda came back, BP would make a brilliant sponsor I think. Especially seeing as Shell are so far dominating in terms of the Oil Companies, BP and Honda could both show off their green side, with Honda gaining the financial backing, whilst also establishing their green credentials.
Petrobras is still shown on the Williams pics on their website so they were a sponsor last year. I haven't heard Williams mention another oil company recently so they may still be there.
Here http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article5321662.ece
Petrobras was moving from Williams to Honda.
Another case of BYE BYE Williams!
Carrying over the comment on driver's sons racing from the previous thread Damon Hill's son is racing on ITV just now
there was racing on ITV?
There was. It has just finished. It was only half an hour of Seats and Ginettas
I didn't know DC's wife already had a kid.
I think i've heard that once before, possibly when both DC and Karen were on that strange ITV game show about couples...
Me neither, Steven.
Morning all,
I am wondering what they mean by '90% of next years budget', because we are all assuming that means '90% of the 2008 budget' when in fact they could have forecast a reduction in sponsorship and therefore the money they have in place for next year could be in fact a lot less than the 2008 budget!
I wouldn't worry about Williams though. They started from nothing in a phonebox and have survived a lot of tough times in the last 35 years, so they'll know how to survive and keep the team running - unlike the dorks that ran the Honda team. :-(
F1 Fanatic's list of 2008 Race Experiences.
Anyone care to add theirs? :-D
not necessarily. am sure frank would welcome them back with open arms now. also, with the revised 2009 regulations, the team may no need as much as last year.
williams are just about the last team i'd write off at the moment, just because max seems to be doinf his utmost to help them. of course that could change tomorrow and then they'd be in trouble again :)
we normally get about nine spam comments a day, most of which end up tucked away in the spam bin ready for deletion.
woke up this morning to find 200 sitting there. what the heck happened?
Is it all the old Honda employees applying for jobs at sidepodcast land? :-D
Seriously though, the RSS feed for the Sidepodcast Drop.io sometimes has spam links in it too... :-(
by all means exploit away rishi :D
yeah, nothing we can do about that sadly. tis out of our hands.
i'm thinking some people have started capitalising on the internet explorer hole.
Added mine for Singapore. :)
Didn't MS push the patch for that already? I installed mine 2 days ago.
On another F1 newsboard, a guy applied to be a marshal at Singapore and he was successful. Unfortunately all we got out of him was a couple of pics :-(
Are there people that still use MS IE out of choice?
I stopped using it 4 years ago and even my wife (who is not very IT-savvy) only uses it for the online banking (because they ironically forced us to as they think it is the most secure browser :-D )
yeah. can't say that is the reason for certain, but we're getting slammed with way more spam than we've ever had previously.
plus, it's always worth apportioning blame to microsoft given half the chance :)
they really are their own worst enemy aren't they?
what if you have a mac?
2009 mercedes mclaren slr stirling moss:
more on the car:
"The boldly styled Merc will be the last vehicle built under the partnership with McLaren, and even at a cost of €750,000 Mercedes should have no trouble finding buyers for the 75-car allotment."
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/18/officially-official-mclaren-slr-stirling-moss-to-bow-in-detroit/
That. is. absolutely. gorgeous! :-D
Is that a concept car or an actual production model? It's the sort of car that Jaguar and Ferrari should be making as well :-)
Yeah they are really.
My wife didn't want to switch over as she was used to IE. So I just made Firefox 'resemble' IE enough so that the change wasn't that much and she didn't have to keep switching between the two :-D
i know not what the difference is? but you can buy one.
from the same blog, something else for dc to crash:
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/18/mtm-creating-380-hp-ktm-x-bow/
Lou linked to DC's latest blog on yesterday's thread. I like this bit:
"We have just witnessed an exciting end to this season and it would be difficult to imagine that it could be any closer next year but with so many regulation changes it really is another formula in all but name."
Which is exactly why it makes a lot of people uncomfortable! And he doesn't say whether he approves or not.
maybe it needs a new name too?
formula lemon?
Kimi has a new race engineer: Andrea Stella (who used to be the data?-engineer)
any idea what was wrong with his old one?
Autosport in worthy purchase shocka!
£3.99 from all good (and rubbish newsagents). It's a double-issue Chrimbo special and genuinely has some interesting (F1) articles. Stone-the-crows!
got promoted. If I understood this article correctly, he and Rivola (from Toro Rosso) will take over some of Baldisseri's tasks.
Also: Ferrari and Toro Rosso are going to work closer together. Torro Rosso will serve as a training field for Ferrari engineers and that Italian guy Ferrari tested (Mirko Bortolotti) might become Toro Rosso's test driver. (according to Heikki Kulta)
I am assuming somrthing slightly different; 90% of what they anticipate bringing in for 2009.
Actually I was trying to say that too, just very badly :-)
What I am curious about is how much is the 2009 budget worth? Is it comparable to 2008 or is it a lot less? One shouldn't assume that because Williams are saying that they have 90% of their budget for the year that they are going to be ok...
There's a big difference.
A concept car can be anything from a Mock-up model (e.g. the Citroen GT) to a fully functioning car (e.g. the Jaguar F-Type). They are usually created to gauge public opinion on the style and development philosophies that the manufacturer will apply to future cars produced.
Sometimes the concept car evolves into a production model (that we can buy into a showroom) but the production model usually differs from the concept due to design changes, new regulations, etc. and typically looks different (usually a lot 'plainer') because of this.
Therefore what I really was asking before was:
"Is this car one that we can buy, or is it a concept car designed to make us all excited about a retro sports car from Mercedes, so that they can see whether one is worth building"?
yes, you can buy one. if you're very, very rich :)
not sure why it's the last one that mclaren will be involved in though?
ah-ha, been taking tips off of mc-india then :D
ahh, go on then, we'll take a look.
One shouldn’t assume that because Williams are saying that they have 90% of their budget for the year that they are going to be ok… {Gavin Brown - 5 comments ago}
Jordan fought back from a lot less (percentage-wise) in 2003 (I'm assuming Williams mean 90% of what they think they'll need for 2009). They even managed to score a few points. Still, it will probably be a tough year for Williams, unless their mechanical KERS system turns out to be a lot better than the electrical route their rivals have taken.
£3.99 from all good (and rubbish newsagents). {Dank - 9 comments ago}
Except the newsagent at my local train station. Typical.
Oh dear, more bad Motorsport News I'm afraid...
Mechachrome have filed for bankruptcy and also there'll be no Belle Isle event for the IndyCars next year (due to lack of sponsorship) :-(
On the plus side, Chrysler have reaffirmed their commitment to NASCAR in 2009, but unfortunately are reducing their involvement.
Still, something is better than nothing, I 'spose.
Don't they currently supply the engines and gearboxes for GP2 as well?
they build renault's engine's too, don't they?
If Andrea Stella becomes Kimi's new engineer, they've got to promote Chris Dyer up to a new role. I think he's very good at what he does: let's remember that his drivers have won 3 titles (2 with Schumi and 1 with Kimi).
Chrysler may have confirmed their NASCAR involvement but they are a long way from confirming their own company's existence by the time the season starts. They are putting 30 of their plants on extended holidays and are looking for the US government to give them a humungous loan to keep them in business.
Toyota rumours - Trulli to be replaced by Kamui Kobayashi?
swiiiing low.
"Toyota is on the verge of disassembling its young driver programme because of the need to cut costs."
flippin' heck there's gonna be nothing left to talk about soon.
sidepodcast - your quarterly f1 fix.
If the bank only supports IE then it is time to change banks
Button says he is going to win in 2009 and Honda leaves F1.
Truli says he is going to win in 2009 and could be replaced by Kobayashi.
I wonder if any other driver is going to risk saying they think they can win next year.
Not feasible, I'm afraid. It uses some kind of security token that only works on one computer, so it seems quite safe :-)
Hamilton is saying that it will be harder for him to win next year - so is that a good sign (using your logic)?
And sure enough, La Stampa says Dyer is indeed promoted to 'a new role in charge of track engineering'.
If I remember correctly, a previous occupant of this was Luca Baldiserri, who's now the on-track technical director (along with Mario Almondo).
I can win a race next year.
*Has been replaced by Tom Hanks for the rest of the post.
Indycars is goin down for a long time now, specially since the merge of champcar
Welcome to the fun world of spam. Old site I used to go on had a real problem with spam sadly, almost packed in with it cos it got so bad.
Hopefully it won't happen to you
I'm assuming car wise, not the entire including F1.
Just think of all that lovely money a Japanese driver like Kobayashi'll bring to the Toyota coffers...
Mind you, he was a bit rubbish in GP2 last year, at least if you compare him to his team mate (d'Ambrosio or whatever his name was)...
We can't have Trulli without a race seat dagnabit!
(Incidentally, Trulli was given a rather amusing nickname by the SPEED TV crew: "The Scrumptious One"). Before you ask, I have no idea why...
Sitting in the williams conference centre. Just met frank. Best thing about this place though = free wifi :)
Get you!
Free wifi or free Red Bull? Which is better?
FFIIIIGHHHTTT!!!
You can't just drop that into conversation without an explanation. Are you there for a special reason? Perhaps 'me' has taken his cog to be serviced?
The Future of F1: Chequered Flag podcast: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/cff1/cff1_20081219-1310a.mp3
:D
Since when were you guys going to the Williams factory. Could have at least told us! :P Or perhaps it was a secret ;)
Anyway, after tonight I'm gonna be offline until either Monday or Tuesday because I'm going to be taking part in the frustrating and tiring ritual that's called moving house. We've got most of the stuff over there, just the big things like the sofas, dining table, etc. The phone line switches on either Monday or Tuesday so I'll chat with you guys tonight and then I'll be gone for a couple of days. :P
Well the didn't tell us once they were in fact in a completley differenct country, when we all thought they were lounging around at home drinking Martini's and Coke's on their weekend off.
Have you guys seen the news about Coughlan et al on Autosport? http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/72545
wah?! No fair!! I'm really jealous! You guys get to go everywhere ;) hope you are having a great time, can't wait for you to fill us in with all the details when you get back :)
PS - I am really jealous!
is it just me, or is that gorgeous! :)
anyone got any ideas why the partnership is ending?
lol :D
I don't think it is just you
:D
Don't forget to watch F1 review show this Sunday 21 December at 10.45am on ITV1.
They usually show it on new years day; but it's earlier this time round due to the changing of the guard (BBC take over in 09, ect...)
The only thing I can't figure out about that car is how are you supposed to cope at 217mph without a windscreen.
AKA: The Lewis Hamilton Season Review.
haha, unfortunately so true.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-EpN1zdT5Ys
Oppsie! Petter Solberg falls off his moving Impreza whilst showing-off and breaks his wrist... :-D
Ouch!!!
Cheers Dank, should be a good one with Johnny Noble and Ian Phillips - they don't seem to sit on the fence!
Where's David Croft though???
2 words - Crash and Helmet :)
Wow. That's embarrassing, and painful!
are you back yet? did you have a good time?
Yes and yes :)
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2008/12/19/sidepodtour-heads-north-to-grove/
I don't suppose anyone knows what the f1 season review DVDs are like? i've been given some money to spend on a Christmas present from my nan and i was wondering if they are generally any good or not.
No but the covers look, poor.
I want to join FriendFace :)
They're not bad if you want a reminder of how the season went, but tend to miss some parts of the races and skips things that happen in between. Not getting any sense of the atmosphere at the time was pretty annoying for this years review, but I guess that's hard to include. They are getting better though.
:D
I'm sure you wont want to in about 5 minutes. :P
omg looks like Lewis is doing an interview on newsnight from a bus... haha, too bad it's on when live at the Apollo is on :P
ah ok. thanks Dom :)
Damn, been moderated for posting links.
friendface dot co dot uk
Also, Reynholm Industries have a page: reynholm dot co dot uk
I'm off on holiday back home to Scotland tomorrow, so in case I don't get a chance to get online. I'll wish you all a merry christmas and hope that you have a restful break.
Thanks for making me welcome in the SPC community :)
Merry Christmas Jackie
You're welcome anytime, Jackie. Merry Christmas!
I wonder if the BBC put Frankie Boyle on TV just to give their complaints department something to do.
:D He's great though.
Guys I must sign off, tomorrow is going to be a VERY, VERY long day with the move. I'm starting to wonder if we'll cope at all, what with all the internal renovation work done and the money being spent on that. I won't say how much, but I will say it's more than just a coat of paint. A LOT more. That and both myself and Mum are quite close to breaking point due to the stress of it all.
But I guess we'll manage. Somehow. Anyway, goodbye for now, hopefully I'll be back online Tuesday at the latest if not earlier. Adios amigos! :)
Merry Christmas Jackie!
Good luck with the move Scott :)
He is incredibly funny but when you see some of the things that generate complaints you have to wonder why you never hear of complaints about him.
To be honest, I think we might just need it. Thanks anyway :)
Are you taking zillions of stuff to a smaller houser or zillions of stuff to larger house 10,000 miles away?
On things like mock the week he actually produces alot more material than is shown, but the editors have to cut it out because they'd get taken off the air lol
kinda the second option.
Ah right, see ya on Tuesday, and if it all goes horribly and chaotically wrong, merry xmas.
Hahaha!Quick question: we ARE pushing through with the Sidepodparty on Sunday, right?
Last time I checked, aye
Decided not to get the f1 08 review in the end :) Igot a sidepodcast mug instead :D
Really? That's brilliant :)
ahh, that's made my day :)
:D the perfect christmas present for someone who is addicted to F1 and caffeine ;)
just bought:
http://tinyurl.com/jeffbuckleyhallelujah
basically cause the now show told me too :)
lol i got that yesterday, tis a beautiful song. :)
if there is ever a time to stick it to simon cowell....that is the time :P
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