On my last daily post a fortnight ago a pub prediction question was submitted on whether or not it would rain during last weekend's Belgian Grand Prix. The answer given to this question was, 'Yeah, probably.' It has come to my attention that the Grand Prix was dry throughout, therefore the answer given in the post was incorrect. I wish to apologise for the error made and promise that such inaccuracies may or may not happen again, depending on if I can be bothered to put the research in.
And with that out of the way, hello everyone and welcome to Thursday's daily post. Before we concentrate on the Belgian GP, I should draw everyone's attention to the official 2012 calendar, which the FIA ratified on Wednesday. There are some points of note, namely that the Turkish GP has been dropped due to regularly poor attendances [hurray], the Australian GP will be the opening race of the season again [hurray again], the US GP in Austin has been confirmed for the penultimate race i.e. November [don't mind either way] and the Bahrain GP has been scheduled for race 4 of the season, presumably in the hope that the civil unrest there will have subsided by then.
So back to 2011 and the race last weekend. The Belgian Grand Prix at Spa was a braw feast with overtaking, incidents and the same old German taking the top step of the podium. Even though he's 24 and not really that old. The Spa-Francorchamps circuit is an all-time classic racetrack that can hold its own against the newer, modern tracks, and as such has been the location for some unforgettable moments in Formula 1. Thus, here are five of my personal favourites:
- Here's a fun look at a pre-World Championship Belgian Grand Prix from 1937, which was won by Germany's Rudolf Hasse for the Auto Union team. You might be able to recognise some familiar corners.
- 1995 saw one of the most exciting battles between two supremely talented drivers. Michael Schumacher [Benetton] started from 16th on the grid and had fought his way up into 2nd. Damon Hill [Williams] had been leading before it started raining. Hill decided to pit for wet tyres but Schumacher elected to stay with slicks. The battle that ensued culminated in the German winning in superb and controlled style.
- Who can possibly forget the 1998 race? Where do you start? I would suggest starting here, and then eventually here.
- There was another titanic battle for the lead in the year 2000, this time between Schumacher and Mika Hakkinen. The Finn is desperately trying to get past his Ferrari nemesis but without much success, so he decides to use a back-marker to help him.
- Wet weather is a regular theme in Spa and 2008 was no exception. In the last remaining laps of the Grand Prix, the heavens opened after what had been a dry race, but the top 2 of Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton decide not to pit for wet tires. The resulting see-sawing battle is something to behold. Although Hamilton eventually won, he was stripped of his victory after having deemed to have overtaken Raikkonen by cutting the final chicane, despite giving the place straight back as they crossed the start-finish line.
And there it is, five memorable moments. Okay, make that four memorable moments and one interesting one. Still, anything's more interesting than the most recent IndyCar race at Sonoma, California. It was an event, which, it has to be said, had a procession-ness and a boredom factor similar to that of the Hungaroring or Valencia. Or Istanbul. Or Abu Dhabi. Or Singapore. Take your pick. It was a race where Will Power claimed victory to reduce his arrears over championship leader Dario Franchitti by leading the race from start to finish. With four races left to go, there's a 26-point gap between the top two, or a race win and a 10th place in F1 money.
So that's it for another fortnight. And with another historical race - the Italian GP at Monza - coming next week, the F1 train just keeps on rolling along. Well, that's as good an ending as I can think of just now.
cmcb
I have decided not to ever take Heikki's advice on tennis after he tweeted "saw Nadal arlier today he looked strong"
um, no. he didn't win that match in the slightest, more the other guy made one of the worst chokes I've ever seen.
Howdy.
I have just see Cowboys and Aliens. I give it a big tick Yes.
also, now that that calendar is all ratified and what not
WHO'S COMING TO GERMANY WITH MEEEEEE
There's a chance...
I don't think they're like Spa who let us make lots of little bookings then still sit together so I'll eventually decide on a cut off date and if you're in before then we can sit together, if you're not you can sit by yourself if you later decide to come :D
I'm not fully sure like, still need to see my school calendar and when everything is really, have to make sure I don't miss anything important. But I'm trying to see a F1 race next year...
fair enough :)
woah, I can book a one way flight London -> Melbourne for less than $1k for the date I need, I think I have to get on that.
Melbourne to Frankfurt can wait :)
I need to spend a whole evening doing costings for all the 'big things' I want to do next year, before committing to anything. With Hock, Spa and LM there are tough choices to make. :)
Also I need to take my mate to Silverstone on Sunday after next to try and use it as a carrot/stick to make him come to Le Mans with me because he's got camping gear and knows how to use it..
if spa isn't a bank holiday, is that worse? but if it's the last one until 2014 though you might wanna go :)
The Singapore airlines site keeps giving me prices in GBP and my brain doesn't work that way :(
Just because I'm departing from London doesn't mean I want you to override my "Location: Australia" settings
Their website is horrible.
It is only worse because it uses up another day of holiday allocation, but in other ways it is better because the Eurotunnel won't be as busy as it was last year.
The 2014 thing is the biggest consideration in going there next year to be honest.
lovely daily mr colin.
Ooh I got home and found an envelope with some F1 Minute stickers, thanks very much :)
grrr stupid website keeps taking me back to the homepage. Don't they know I should be working, not booking flights?
w00t!
yaaay I now have a flight! I will be leaving your fine shores on 9 August next year :)
Good idea.
I'll do my best to get there but I might not arrange it until after Christmas.
I doubt I'll buy tickets until next year anyway (shocking for me, I know!)
My credit card won't forgive me otherwise, I think I just hurt its feelings by booking that flight.
I donated a little something, it isn't much but you might be able to get some wine..
That's why I can't book yet! Well, technically I can, I just don't want to load it up.
For what it might be worth, I found return flights Thur-Mon on Lufthansa Gatwick-Frankfurt for £124.
Just in case going via London is cheaper than Melbourne to Frankfurt.
I wanted to check in case it was crazy cheap being the night after the GP dates were announced. :)
it's roughy the same to fly to London or Frankfurt but thanks anyway :D
you're a star, thank you. we sent out as many stickers as we could afford based on donations coming in, so everything helps muchly.
yay email from air asia!
They have arranged accommodation for 3 nights October 15-18, and have also booked domestic flights from Seoul to Yeongam for us. Wow! No bullet train for me anymore :)
hooray! :D
I have replied to enquire about transport to the track, I assume they'll have something sorted but Yeongam is just that little bit further away than Mokpo. I've also asked when they'll know the dates so Jeremy can book his flight to Melbourne and I can reconfirm my leave. If we have to fly back to Seoul I doubt we'll make the early Monday flight to KL that I was planning on.
It's all coming together slowly with only 7 weeks to go!
It's getting there, it's getting there! :D I personally hope that the title is clinched at Korea so you'd be there to see a little history. :)
and I still have Sydney and Singapore and my friends wedding to get through first! It's a busy tine of year. It'll be a poor time of year too as most of my leave will be unpaid :(
Seeing the title won would be very very cool. I will also accept Lotus's first points.
And you still have next year! Gosh, I don't know how you do it. You should really start saving soon. :)
You'll need a good amount of rain to even make that possible.
.....dad? ;)
they had more than enough last year!
:D Ha!
Let's just hope they didn't take the extra rain from this year. ;)
Italian grand prix at monza will be a big few days for Team Lotus. New technology, new people , new location with caterham cars. The future looks good for our F1 team.
Posted by: tonyfernandes
morning
New... name? :D
I think they are going to stick with Team Loftus they tested at Spa :-)
Im a huge fan of the fact Indian gp tickets start at 35 pounds for 3 days :)
http://www.jaypeesports.com/purchase-tickets.shtml
Good morning.
Anyone is awake?
always
Allegedly
Yes, I know you don't sleep too much hehe.
But now it is the afternoon in Australia, isn't it?
Hi Nick.
Will you go to Jaypee later this year? I've read you posted something about the tickets. 35 pounds is nothing for a F1 ticket!
4.40pm, almost finished work for the day :)
Good for you! Here it is 8:42am. I am on holidays, but in two weeks i'll have to return to the high school.......
There is a possibility, we need to have a work meeting in india, so maybe we will have it in Delhi around the same date :)
Lucky you :)
The track looks good, and I can't wait to test it in the F1 2011 game.
I guess it won't be the only Indian track in the calendar in the future...
yep, but falling asleep after lunch
I've just updated the 'Friends' page of my blog.
If you have a personal website, you can ask me and i'll put a link there :)
http://martif1.com/webs/webs-amigas/
We have had a 2 day holiday, and the weekend starts tomorrow, every other business in this business park has taken thursday off...
good parking though :)
There's nothing worse than checking out the woothemes.com themes portfolio.
You would like to buy them all!
I just got a letter from Haymarket thanking me for my recent subscription payment but that it was rejected by my credit card company
That confirms my suspicion that they were auto-renewing my F1 Racing subscription which I certainly never asked them to do. Old expired credit card details to the rescue! Now they'll stop taking my money for their magazine I don't even want!
Couldn't you ask your bank to not do the payment to Haymarket?
You can always put mine there if you want - f1numbers.wordpress.com ;)
Here I go :)
Yeah, we had some colleagues visiting us because of that...
last time they took the money out I thought 'ooh I didn't ask for that' and then assumed that perhaps it was a once off :D
Here it is! ;) http://martif1.com/webs/webs-amigas/
Thanks man. Although I should point out that my blog is actually called 'Making Up The Numbers'.
Lots of us here have blogs though so you may have quite a few to add!
Now I'll update the name ;)
Morning all
Morning Leigh
Hi Marti
How are you today?
Fine, thanks :) And you?
I've just had breakfast, now I'll update some little things of my blog!
I'm not bad - just started work. Nice enough day.
:)
Thankfully, the forecast for Rockingham this weekend is nice
Phew
:)
I think the forecast of where I am says it will rain.
Not bad, I like to hear raining when I am out of the city, but if I am in Barcelona it makes me sad.
:/
Just read Wordpress.com has 500.000.000 visits par month. Wow!
My blog only has 200-300 xD
How well do you know your Formula 1 history?
The book That'll be the Day: 365 F1 Stories takes a look at significant moments or quirky happenings on this day in Grand Prix history. Can you guess what event the following describes?
i think the max you can get as an f1 site is about 50,000 - if that's a more realistic target :)
Never that bothered about numbers though. I've always felt that if you start writing for numbers, then you may not in the right head spot.
But that's just me...
:)
Actually my target is 20 visits par day hehehe
I know a spanish f1 website which has 1.000.000 different visitors par month. It's the largest spanish f1 web on the net.
a noble stance.
I don't write for numbers, believe me. If I did so, then I would have quit in the second week of having my blog (sorry for my english).
I just enjoy :)
i like looking at charts and graphs.
actually. 50,000 individual users might be the figure. here's autosport's data:
https://www.google.com/adplanner/site_profile#siteDetails?uid=domain%3A%20autosport.com&geo=001&lp=false
Yes, me too, although my stats look like Monaco. Now we go up, now down,...
320.000 unique visitors. I always thought they had more...
All's good.
I must have contributed to that downward trend, I can't remember the last time I went there!
ooh, it's 50k a day, for some reason i thought that was a month. that's a slightly higher target to hit.
where are you getting your news?
What do you mean?
F1 Minute app!
ha! touché.
plus twitter and the comments. Speed newsing.
I am looking at the Autosport data and I see that the visits to their website are decrising. They've decreased a 50% in four months!
i blame twitter ;)
that is a lot though. ouchy.
...or there was news at the time (Perez Monaco crash / Bahrain debacle) that inflated their numbers at that time and what we see now is actually a return to normality.
Yes, it could be this.
Something similar happens to the website where I work.
But can twitter assume the rol of professional journalism website? I think no. :S
Thats over 16 months. But looking at their demographic data, i would say its a very valuable place to advertise.
-High numbers of Males 25-34
-High proportion High earners
-Average time on site over 5 mins
interesting. their paywall views aren't decreasing as much: https://www.google.com/adplanner/site_profile#siteDetails?uid=domain%3A%20plus.autosport.com&geo=001&lp=false
forum is tailing off too: https://www.google.com/adplanner/site_profile#siteDetails?uid=domain%3A%20forums.autosport.com&geo=001&lp=false
I wonder how much relevance a lot of site forums have nowadays though. Have they largely been replaced by social networks and site comment sections?
That's the website where I work: https://www.google.com/adplanner/site_profile#siteDetails?uid=domain%3A%20caranddriverthef1.com&geo=001&lp=false
The visits have decreasede too, but not too much as autosport.
social is replacing forums and comments.
of note, the demographic for the forum is 100% male. that's quite the achievement :)
Hehehehee
Here's my little new Life List :) With a link to Christine's blog.
http://martif1.com/sobremi/life-list/
Yes, there are more comments on Facebook or Twitter than in websites.
facebook comments can be added to blogs to replace traditional comments too: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/08/hurricane_irene.html#comments
Yes, I think wordpress did something related to this.
Jeremy had his leave approved today :D
yay for nice bosses!
Good stuff - enjoy Korea
:D
w00t!
Pamelas boss could learn a thing or two from them :(
there are many people interested in news, not in journalism, and that twitter can provide ...
Touché
Well, time to leave.
See you later! :)
See you Marti
There's also a lot of '(x) thinks their new car will be faster', '(y) says he expected to do better'.
Ya think? :)
more than there used to be though?
I don't have time to analyse the stats so I won't look at them until later, but I will say their paywall articles are the best thing they have.
agreed.
Maybe not in numbers of them, but it feels that way in terms of a signal:noise ratio. It would mean going back and checking and comparing to now, though.
i was thinking the same, but didn't know if it was because i was paying more attention, or they are getting worse.
Autosport is less easy to read than it used to be. I also think most F1 news isn't as earth shattering as it used to be, so those like GPWeek and GP+ can nicely summarise it without losing too many readers.
I also agree, forums have become too hardcore and social media have replaced them.
Hooray! :D
Kinda like F1 on Sky, then. :D
Autosport's main purpose now is to confirm news. The news is already widely known to what would be Autosport's main audience (hardcore fans) before they even get to publish it.
I have an internet connection. I still can't make calls from my phone as it diverts to BT but I only use the line for internet anyway. Shame I have to go out shortly after waiting two days to get connected.
I assume BT has decided that I have paid the zero pounds, zero pence I owed them
Mmm I suppose with less politics, or less dramatic politics anyway.
yesh.
I would've sent them a cheque for that amount.
!!
:) :)
That has been known to crash computers before!
That would have taken longer but would not have meant spending hours in mobile phone bills.
I really should wear my glasses when I type!
I do too until the landlord turns off the generator any moment. So if I stop responding, that's why.
Hopefully today power will be restored. Still no power or running water. Day 5.
I thought you were being the Churchill dog.
You missed that a couple of days ago. The 'restricted' my phone line because I had not paid zero pounds, zero pence. Restricted means incoming calls only. Not much use when it is only used for the internet
omg.
Scottish or English pounds?
Demand a refund for the inconvenience
;)
Is everything else OK there? I spoke to someone a day or two in NJ who got a direct hit and the only problem was his power went out for a few hours.
:D
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/08/hurricane_irene.html
Lots of trees down. Flooding has receded for the most part here. First day of school postponed to Tuesday because the police don't want kids walking under precarious tree situations.
Worst grid destruction we've ever had.
I will write up the whole thing as I have been taking notes. I have a claims form arriving in not more than 5 days. Well 3 now. For all the inconvenience involved BT will only pay a pound a day without receipts. We will see about that. For reasons I never quite understood one of the managers I spoke to decided to give me a pound a day for every day since the bill was paid. Seemed pretty random but I wasn't going to argue about free money. Sadly the bill was only paid 5 days ago.
and downed power lines.
Shelters are open so people can have food, water and shower.
We're getting there, though. I had a dream last night power came back on. :)
You always find a way to get days off school
Ouch
hehehe
Crews from as far as Texas, Florida, Missouri here to help. Yay, help!
Can't wait to read that. What a mess.
Vermont is VERY bad, though. The flooding there was really, really bad. They need a lot more help than we do.
There must be a fair few of those
um, yeah. hehe
Thousands.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/08/hurricane_irene.html
#7 That is a candidate for a Darwin Award
#12 Why not put it inside rather than in the pool?
I thought the same.
I dunno. Maybe not enough room inside? I'm not a qualified lifeguard, so I don't know the protocol. :)
Useful information
If BT tell you that there is no way they can guarantee that they can re-connect your phone line in less than 24 hours they are lying.
When you get to someone more senior and they say there is no way they can guarantee less than 5 hours they are lying
Eventually after a great deal of moaning and complaining and making their lives miserable you can get someone to connect to their senior manager who can do it immediately. Well in 30 minutes anyway.
*makes a note*
F1 Apex looking for feedback on new results page
http://f1apex.jimmymorris.co.uk/results.php
Seems odd to lob them in the pool. That doesn't seem a whole lot safer. The only thing I can think is that they will break up waves in the pool and stop that causing problems
oh yeah, good thinkin'.
You need to find a way to get the powers that be to le you stay in the country first
*makes another note*
I like that. Never seen that site before
I follow them on twitter.
I have to go out now. I really don't want to leave my internet connection now it is working but I have to. If I am not around this evening it is because I have no phone line because someone at BT has decided that it is fun to have me call and rant at more people
Good luck. School has power so I will have access there today until 2:30, then who knows, whenever the generator is on or the power comes back.
Miss you guys and a normal life.
It is very sad if we are your definition of normality
hehe
I miss you guys.
I miss a normal life, with running water at home, and food I can cook and keep cold.
Fixed. :)
Hello again :)
Hi Marti :)
Growth in AT&T's data traffic in from 2007-2010?
8000%
Not bad, I think hehe.
One company that doesn't know what crisis means. Lucky them.
I hope they've been maintaining their network to cope with that :)
@vickychandhok Great day with Charlie Whiting today inspecting the BIC for the Indian GP who said the progress "exceeded expectations" ! !
https://twitter.com/#!/vickychandhok/statuses/109233772448329729
They're looking to buy all kinds of other companies to keep up. They're known here as the captains of dropped calls, so, I guess "not quite" is the answer so far. I have them, and it's just ok. I want something else.
Surfing the net, trying to found out how to code a pop-up in HTML.
window.open("http://example.com");
Thanks :) Is it javascript?
yeah, put it inside a method that's bound to your click event.
Shame, then I can't use it.
My blog is a wordpress.com one.
yeah, always a problem.
I think I will create a .org as soon as I can.
low expectations then? ;)
Good point of view
I'm off to bed now. Jessica Ennis. Goodnight.
♥
It really does work in almost any situation :)
Bye Alex.
What happens with this sentence? I've read it twice today! :P
you have to watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6o52kZxvtg#t=188s
these people wanted the rights to f1 coverage in the uk.
Oooh, I wouldn't want to be the one to get John Rawling's name wrong...
ooh thats cringeworthy
is that really worse than andy grey on sky sports though? he just happens to be a famous, if poor presenter
I think my favourite bit is when he's talking about the decathlon.
"Thats coming up..........um........rightnowtenevents....
Andy Gray was at least capable of being in front of a camera in a live environment and know what he was talking about. To some extent.
My situation has gone worse.
I wanted to know what was the joke about, and I see the explanaiton is in a YouTube video. And I am connected with a really slow connection :(
...or any worse than Sky's muted F1 presenter, Georgie Thompson being arrested for drink driving last week?
During a live broadcast? Jeez louise.
Not yet, but who know what calamity may happen in the future?
he he love "Jeez louise"
When asking for keys I always say, "keys please louise" which does tend to confuse people
I can't link to it here but there was an absolutely fantastic mistake by an American sports journalist who said something on air when he thought he was off air and also spawned a strange out of context internet meme phrase.
I like "cheese please louise"
Oh yes... that too
in New Zealand our journalists just do a little 'yay I rule' fist pump when they think no one can see them. Very Ana Ivanovic.
Situation: Airport. All the flights are cancelled and people is angry. The airport is fuuuull of people.
The journalist, who thinks he is off air, starts screaming: "¡SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT IS HAPPENING!"
It was epic hahahaha
for those pondering Sidepockenheim 2012 the hotel I have booked has gone up 120 Euro in the three weeks since I booked it. Get in early for the best prices :D
I love that track, but unfortunetely it will took me some years before I can go there.
Le Mans, my european dream (waves)
don't worry, I hadn't been anywhere at your age, theres plenty of time :)
Ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/an-aside-with-joe-the-absolutely-greatest-thing-since-toasted-fried-bread
Ouch, what is the total for it now?
I thought they said people don't go to Germany any more :)
woohoo!
Ooh a surprise podcast :)
Now I have to wait 3 hours to hear it.
€445.45 for 4 nights
Ouch.
not too bad between two though :)
Exactly what I was thinking. :)
Aaah then it's better :)
Mega
Interesting-ish
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns23528.html
Sad news...
If it happens. Admittedly the suggested replacements do not inspire huge amounts of confidence
Lotus should grab him instead of trulli!
It's a bit late for that...
No, they just inspire money...
Williams with two pay drivers? Just sad...
nice prizes for rob's charity gig: https://www.facebook.com/notes/zoes-place-baby-hospice-middlesbrough/fancy-a-bid-have-a-look-at-the-amazing-some-of-the-amazing-prizes-we-have/10150350496536763
- Two places at an F1 Test Day at Silverstone (or Barcelona if no Test at Silverstone)
interesting.
Interesting.
Tests at Silverstone? I had read that it would be two weeks here. Maybe they go to Silverstone and it snows again..
Enjoy a little something from the Sidepodcast back catalogue.
- Live: Crashed Ice, Round 4 - Québec, Canada
Originally published 19 March 2011.
absolutely didn't see this coming: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/scuderia-toro-rosso-ownership/
The Spanish media is reporting that Scuderia Toro Rosso will be taken over from the Italian Grand Prix onwards by the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) of the United Arab Emirates.
sounds like an ipic deal of money involved.
So Toro Rosso = Manchester City?
:) :)
I was starting to like the name Toro Rosso and everything, they feel like an established team now. Hope they don't undergo a major change. Although moving away from the Red Bull livery would be useful...
There is not allowed to be news when I have gone away for a day!
i have no idea what that means. did they get bought out?
Also thank you for the strickers mr and mrs c :D
*waves*
i think joe has the scoop, you're okay for a day or two.
yippeee!
man city got bought out by arab oil peoples with lots and lots of money despite initially being quite poor
i was like.. oooh, coool, i have 2 sets... no wait... there's more!!!
best letter ever.
ah-ha.
They were your standard, mid-table club, hadn't done anything special in years (and I mean years). Dubai prince comes in, spends stupid money on the best players going, and Roque Santa Cruz, and are probably going to challenge for the title this year.
ah yes. didn't chelsea do that years ago too?
Yep. For the likes of Mallorca and Paris St Germain as well, could really transform the team.
Yeah. Abromavich pretty much kicked off the whole rich worldwide billionaires buying your bog standard premier league clubs thing I'd say
Heheheh. Love the irony of this photo.
http://twitpic.com/6ei926
Also I really wish I realised weeks ago the red bull thingy on Saturday was a ticket only event and not a general public event :(
Hello.
Back from a 20km ride with my bike.
How is the Sidepodworld this afternoon?
oh no. how do/did you have to get tickets?
well, it seems from that game they posted online, and... uh...
...beats me. All the website says is look out for local promotions, except, nobody has promoted it locally.
even phoned up the South Wales Argus newspaper and they had no idea what I was on about
put they can't close the streets of cardiff to the public, can they?
it's in cardiff bay so it's off the streets
ahh, boo. it says you needed to get special ring pulls in cans in june. sheesh.
Phew!
poorly publicised. :(
Still gonna go down and try and blag my way in though. #sneaky
good man.
:D seriously, though, it explains why Ricciardo got sent to HRT instead of STR. it does make you wonder where he'll be in 2012, though. i also wonder if Aabar will sell their stake in Mercedes, or if they decide to make IPIC their junior team - but given that Mercedes already power so many other teams, I'm not sure that's feasible.
Why Stefano's autograph and not Luca's? :D
http://twitpic.com/6ed8pd
Can anyone also figure out what car they got this from?
I am going to go out on a limb and say... a Ferrari.
#couldnthelpmyself
Well, yes, but a Ferrari what? :D
And don't say F1 car. :P
Hi all. I am still connected to the world. Although for a few seconds I was getting a no internet access and I was ready to scream and shout at BT people again. For reasons I don't understand I still can't dial out on my phone but I will let the BT people who responded to my earlier 'explanatory' tweets deal with that in the morning.
Of course Had I had an internet connection two days ago when they first replied I would have seen their message and made use of it.
a red one?
F...
...orgotten what car it is now.
Schumacher was Todt's man rather than Luca's. Kimi was Luca's man
Like all the others? :D
Not all of them
That's true, but Luca could've been a good sport as well.
#justsaying
he could've at least put a 'hmph'.
given that he arsed off to mercedes after they gave him an FXX, he's lucky he got so much a cast-off engine cover.
but you could also argue that the FXX was a consolation prize for being pushed out of Ferrari. and he still did give them 5 WDCs - it says so on the engine cover too. and that's without even mentioning the 6 WCCs. ;)
All the non-NART ones. :D
There was one in 1962? that ran in Belgian yellow. I only know because at ASI one year a man in his 60s almost blew a gasket when he saw a model of it in yellow because he had been looking for one for a very long time.
F1 babelfish PING
http://gridwalktalk.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/f1-babelfish-belgium/
Hello. What a day! My store has just had a record day :D Happy happy times.
You played records all day?
Hehehe I was going to say record sales. But I don't work at HMV. Busy busy. Best day ever!
And you want to leave that to go back to schoool?
Heheh not really... I don't know. I'm very undecided.
Did I see something about changing your surname?
Hahaha you did. I definitely can't be doing with that though!
You could change it to Nick's
Errrrm....
I'll let you tell him!
You want to change your name and that is an easy way
Harder to live with day to day perhaps than a sucky surname?
So the Baltimore track sounds fun, in the sense that 4 of the 15 corners are being laid with asphalt overnight, the main straight is very bumpy, there are train tracks across the circuit at two points and at one of those they had to build an impromptu chicane to change the speed and approach angle.
At least that's according to drivers and others who have reported on Twitter as they walked the lap..
Tomorrow's practices could be fun.
Evening all.
Today, after 6 months of hard training, it was the day of the DHL 5km relay. I had set myself a target time of finishing in under 30 minutes and I beat it by two seconds!
I'm really pleased and we had a great evening - so much so I felt compelled to blog about it: http://rubbergoat.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/reaching-my-goals/
Great stuff, well done :)
Thanks! I'm knackered now though!
RT @curtcavin: Tag on tracks on circuit #IndyCar http://www.yfrog.com/ki1gwoyj
How long before Tilke builds train tracks into a track?
The last time this happened was at San Jose in 2005. You think they would've learned really.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw6lThe7j0g&feature=youtu.be
That link via @indy44