Here we are then, finally we have reached our first Free Practice Friday for about a month. I have already forgotten how to do the Digest, so I'm curious to know if I'll be able to get everything ready throughout today. Anyway, we'll be talking about F1 all day, but here are some of the topics we're already discussing:
- The Ari vs Jean battle continued yesterday, with Jean writing to members and suggesting he wants to increase the transparency of the FIA. This is a constant source of contention so will no doubt go down well. Ari released his own manifesto, and sadly, it didn't seem to have quite as much oomph as the aforementioned candidate. Oh dear.
- Kovalainen has said he isn't worried about the hints that he needs to try harder to retain his seat at McLaren, despite the fact that Rosberg has admitted he would love the chance to try his hand behind the silver car. Heikki doesn't have long left, then?
- Meanwhile, the BMW boys have been thinking about the future, and Kubica admits he was informed about the quitting decision via email. Harsh. He's not too worried, and says now the summer break is over he can start looking around. Heidfeld said he was already in discussions with people, and that will just continue.
That'll do for now. Before you know it, it'll be time for Free Practice and we'll be in the live thread for each session. When there is no action, you can find us here in the daily. I'll see you in the comments.
Hello daily, how pretty you are looking today.
i'm not done with thursday yet.
You could say its a Beautiful Day...
I have broken free from the worst day of the week! Wahoooo!
magnificent?
It's all shiny here
The sky falls, you feel like its a beautiful day
me neither, thursdays been really good (Surprisingly) this week
don't let it get away
Sooo, before I start singing out loud, anyone doing anything over than watching F1 today?
Is Twitter down again?
That was nice.
Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeping, lots of sleep, more phone calls....:D
Work (boo) and food shopping as I shall be home alone for the next week or so
Thats like being dumped via text
works pour moi
does leo have his new studio wired in already?
have you still got "Itty-bitty-hokey-kokey-linen…" in your head aswell? i've been singing it alllll day
I have now *curses Jon* ;)
ahaa, winnnner
Anyways, going to go for an early night to get up in time for praccy. Nighty night. Lotsa love!
See ya RG
Wow, all has changed in the RG camp....an early night is now 00:18?
You look quite tired, are you tired? ;) (or whatever the reference was)
Night Mr G
Listen, I went to bed at half 3 last night, so yes, its early.
Defo gone now.
Just remember RG
Itty-bitty-hokey-kokey-linen…
Might Mr Garros
You went to bed 2 hours before i woke up...thats amy territory ;)
I haven't checked. The guy supplying the new kit thought there was a good cahnce it would be ready by now.
it.looks.awesome!
Night RG
Is that a blood pressure machine on his right?
:)
That looks like Dr Kiki in the studio with Leo so she must be doing a show.
It looks like Leo is trying to turn his studio into a Star Trek set
Is Twitter down again? {Comment #10}
Must have been me and a couple of friends twittering to one another too much...
Sooo, before I start singing out loud, anyone doing anything over than watching F1 today? {Comment #9}
Getting stuff so that Dad can fix the washing machine - it's been broken all week and I could do with some socks to match the odd ones that fill a drawer...
I think I just have. Busy day today too. This week-off business isn't half time-consuming. I was expecting to have a few days of doing very little indeed..
#blamealia?
Yeah, Twitter seems to be back, couldn't access it for a while...
#blamealia? {Comment #37}
:blush:
I will get up, take my car to be signed off for the MOT now that I have chased my tail getting the niggles fixed, then play golf for a good 4hrs, then going for a meal with college buddies as a sort of send-off now we have our results. So I won't be here much and despite my being off work I still won't see FP live..
In my defense, I did learn that Brawn look like changing engines next year unless the FIA decide to turn a blind eye to their own engine regulations (which to be fair they've done more than once in the past).
And that the leaving custom at Force India is for whoever is leaving to buy everyone else in their department a pint. I thought it was usually the other way round...
i thought since i am only 2 hours away from halfway through the day i had better come and say hello to fridays daily. Hi friday!
I moved to Friday earlier but some of the Thursday people dragged me back there without my knowledge
You got caught out by a couple of trawlers who were delayed finishing the day, sorry 'bout that.
you clicked the active thread list at the top of the doohickey page. don't try to deny it... :)
i am now ready for friday.
I blame sidepodtime
Wasn't my fault
I started mine with some BEP 'I gotta feeling'. I dont listen to music much but I am now onto Rockafella Skank by Fatboy Slim. It has been an interesting start to the day. Original iPod is still going strong off the original battery.
I moved to Friday earlier but some of the Thursday people dragged me back there without my knowledge {Comment #43}
Sorry. My timekeeping is awful...
Sleep for me! Night all!
Sleep for me! Night all! {Comment #51}
Goodnight!
Sleep for me too - I want to get up in just over six hours...
Night Jon
Night Jon
Night Alianora
Night
I have been preparing points graphs for F1 2009 with a view to creating blog posts out of them. Should be ready next week. I hope to do the same for IndyCar. I don't know if anyone else does them, I'm sure they exist somewhere but I don't know where.
like this:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=prOWs9OlsmMyZ9wNK7deZJQ&gid=3
or something different.
[question mark]
So am I, but FP1 is not broadcast in the US. By the way, Mr.C! And a good day to you, Sir!
I have two sheets. One looks like that, the other chops off the races that haven't run yet because midseason it makes things look clearer.
Then another two for teams.
and you joe.
What time is the Sidepodcast Luca Badoer fan club meeting?
He has fans?
Mr C.
8:30am or time.
true :)
yes, he does. Me for one. If he can get a point....dear god a podium it will be one of the best feel-good stories in sports of the year
If anyone has seen him collapse at his Minardi crying after losing a 4th place finish, you have to be pulling for him
Any F1 Rejects fan is automatically a Luca Badoer fan. A podium here would be brilliant; but can you imagine a Luca Badoer podium at Monza?! That would be EPIC.
I love it when you order something at lunchtime Thursday and it turns up via courier at 10 am on Friday.
Hello new Time Capsule 1TB!
Morning, by the way. :D
Did you buy that to archive drop.io?
It would bring down the house. I'm not a Ferrari fan, just a Kimi fan. But for the next few races I want Ferrari 1-2's
I want to get excited about it, I really do... I just can't.
Morning
Sorry to disappoint. I have already booked McLaren wins, but you can have Ferrari 2-3s, or perhaps 3-4s if we can get Webber into second.
If only I lived in Finlandia...
If anything could beat the story of Minardi DNA winning at Monza in 2008, it's this one. :D
Agreed.
Luca getting on the podium would make me more than happy. :D
If Luca could stumble ass-backward into some points, that would great. I think an F1 drivers career is incomplete without championship points, thus, I'm hoping Scott Speed gets the USF1 gig, but I doubt it.
Mark Webber's first race in Australia?
'twas pretty cool. You would have thought he won, the way our media ignored everyone else at the time.
that is cool. Minardi is always a fan favorite, which makes Luca's 1999 European GP so much more important.
It's nice not having to hate Ferrari any more, so it would be great to see Luca do the business.
Ahhhh, yes, there was that. :D Hmmm, but this might top it for me, after everything Luca's been through.
Luca's just hung on with Ferrari for so so long. I think it's such a shame he couldn't get a drive somewhere else and just hung on for them. Bless him, I really can't believe he's got in the car.
On Friday I'll be playing at a golf course which is on a cliff top overlooking Lyme Bay, very excellent views of Portland and the coast all along here.
One of the holes has a tee at the top of a cliff and the hole at sea level. It is only 100yds or so in horizontal distance but the drop is 30 or 40 feet. Have only played it once before and the score was terrible, so I'm hoping for a good one.
It's great news and he will live in history for ever, I hope not as having the longest career without a championship point, but with a solid point....maybe even a podium
How do you play that? Do you just drop the ball and hope?
It is nice isn't it? If MS had come back it would have gone back to how it was... I like feeling neutral about them. Luca needs to get at least one point. He'd have 5 already if the current system had been used when he last raced.
Good luck, take alot of balls....I think you know what I mean
Getting his 4th place back 10 years after he lost it at the European Grand Prix would be poetic justice - and more!
Pretty much! I had several attempts at it and got it completely wrong, before figuring out it is just a moderate hit with a 9 iron. I expect to score better than 14 on it this time...
Maybe then Sutil can get his 4th place back......
Oh dear. Par 3 I presume?
I think most people feel like that. Imagine being Marc Genene having just won Le Mans and you don't get the call while someone who hasn't raced in a decade does.
I always take a lot of balls :-)
I seem to lose 2 or 3 in every round, no matter what course...
Yep!
Funnily enough, both incidents happened at the Nurburgring, Luca in 99, Adrian in 09...
I think alot of drivers are owed 4th place finishes
Oh god, I hope they don't take each other out
I wonder if Gene already had this race off his list because it clashes with an LMS round, in which case Peugeot may have taken priority... had it been racing.
I'm talking from a feel-good-story standpoint, but Gene has his WC point. I want Luca to have his
This is Valencia, it can't happen.
That said, Massa and Sutil nearly took each other out last year. And Badoer is driving Massa's car now...
Are Peugeot doing LMS races?
And if Sutil takes Badoer out, any sympathy I had for Adrian after the Nurburgring and Monaco last year will vanish - very quickly.
I'm gonna head to bed. Enjoy FP1+2 those who get to see it. If I get time I'll pop in tomorrow afternoon
Hopefully Luca will be higher on the grid than Adrian
No but that wasn't known earlier in the year. He might have arranged to have this weekend and Monza taken off his 'reserve' schedule to provide for it, in which case Ferrari would have made other arrangements. Obviously they can just as easily change them back..
i'm amazed there's so much love for badoer. unexpected.
#notlewis
feel the looooove. :D
i think a big gap before valencia is a great idea. I cant believe i am looking forward to it! I need to see a heikki win, luca get a point and romain to do even worse than piquet :D
#notschumi
:D
Why? He's a company man who got passed over for promotion. He deserves this gig.
Maybe that was Ferrari's PR dept. idea all along?
i'd rather badoer than schumi, but i'd rather gene than badoer and liuzzi over gene.
Got a thing for Nelson, or just dislike Flavio?
i'd say he's a man who lacked ambition and instead settled for a cushy and lucrative testing number.
Of all of us, who wouldn't take the Ferrari test driving gig?
i guess he was interested in f1 and f1 alone. and no one else was gonna hire him in f1 by 2000.
dislike flavio!
agreed. :D
wurz showed how a test driver can get back in the game.
but he's a renault boy, grosjean. he'll stick around.
of course. and we all lack ambition ;)
but even he had to wait for a while to get his chance...
But he knows so much about F1?
Not with huge success it must be said.
:D
he didn't get in when someone was injured. he got off his arse and found a seat.
I have so little ambition I would work in the Ferrari garage.
fair point.
:D
I don't know if you can call stumbling ass-backward into a podium in Montreal a success....
LOL...really
I think Pedalo has been the best test-driver effort. But then that was a dominant car
i called him a legend at the time:
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2007/06/11/the-man-is-a-legend/
shhhh.
:D
True, but Kimi took himself out of the way...very convenient
Badoer has done nothing to justify an F1 drive since he won the F3000 championship. Ferrari bypassed him for Salo a decade ago so it is insane giving him a drive now.
He' good like that. (kimi)
Wurz was a decent race driver in th first place
Yeah, in 2005 if his teammate had been on his tail he might not have been shuffled off to NASCAR
speaking of legends, there is a team missing from the list on the right (that list of names is called a legend right?)
https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=prOWs9OlsmMyZ9wNK7deZJQ&gid=2
Hah, yeah it is called a legend.
Whoever's made that graph has Force India in the lead ;)
Bendy displays without organic light emitting diodes (OLED)?
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/08/researchers-build-bendy-displays-with-inorganic-leds.ars
OLEDs are awesome. Try this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcAm3KihFho
Usain Bolt proved that his new 100 mtre world record was not a fluke by setting a new 200 metre record in Berlin. The man is incredible.
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/20082009/58/berlin-2009-bolt-smashes-200m-world-record.html
welcome, edgar! dont worry about it - i'm a schumi fan too. :-) hope to see you at this weekend's live commenting!
hey everyone :)
change of plans! I am going home now so my livestream will take a different path
its very windy today. Expect terrible audio!
Phew! Lucky your Porsche missed that tree.
ah yes, my Porsche *cough*
The official advice is stay inside and away from trees. Never! I have an audience to capture and a belly to fill!
KFC don't deliver then?
unfortunately no. Or perhaps, thankfully no.
Good Morning!
Are we all ready for Free Practice at ValenciYAWN?
Your Buum is thankful for this :)
and my wallet!
right i am off! stay tuned to the playground :D
if I am right this weekend we will have first French driver in Renault since Tambay (1985) and first Italian in Ferrari since Nicola Larini in 1994
also, good afternoon
And those were resounding successes weren't they?
Tambay didn't have high praise for that Renault, that's for sure. And the 1994 Ferrari was awful :(
and what did Renault do after 1985 season ? they pulled out
It's nice when people are rooting for Heikki ....
So Heikki 1st, Kimi 2nd....
I'd prefer the other way round personally....
especially Heikki himself:
comment from Heikki Kovalainen "If Lewis goes and wins the race, I should be finishing a bit ahead of him"
thinking about that, is his target to just about avoid being lapped by Lewis ?
Hello Ms Snowcat... haven't seen you around for a while!
Um?
Maybe he's been watching the old videos of Damon Hill and wants his car to have a 0 on it?
*yaaaaawns*
Morning.
Morning... Am I right in thinking today is a day off for you?
Half day for me, I start work at half 1 so I only get to see Fp1.
random people are watching my stream and chatting to me as i do it. Do not like randoms! Only spc people! One block to go then i shall stream the great unboxing
*tunes in*
A garage that is closing on Amy's street. Monumental stuff
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77808
vettel stays on with Red Bull
:D
Amy: "I feel sorry for the animals with a cone around their head because I wouldn't like a cone around my head"
Good stuff for Red Bull, very smart move.
how did we cope before live streaming?
Hi Alex....
Ahh well....
I've been at the races, so currently struggling with missing the smell of engine oil and looking for a reason to have a glass of bubbly....
just catching up with: http://www.qik.com/amyfulton
I just watched that. I love the opening line of the first one. We have been told not to go near trees because it is windy. The line is delivered as she is walking towards some trees.
coolest hospital ever.
the potato and gravy looks entirely gross
there is actually two hospitals there so i'd be safe if a tree did fall on me!
hehe. live streaming the ordering of fast food is brilliant!
i wanted to shove the camera in her face but I couldn't bring myself to do it so I filmed the bench instead :D
hehe i´m back again :) not sure how many time i can manage to get into an internet cafe, but so far so good :)
hey lou. did you catch fp1?
I can confirm that Mr C watched Amy order food twice in a row.
ahaha!
wow! biiiiiiiiig flag
I want to see them take it down/put it up to see how big it is at ground level.
They actually told you to stay away from trees? :lol:
At least they keep the giant flag near the windy place.
love it. where are we going for lunch?
It seems to be very windy in Australia. You do not get this impression from Neighbours.
indeed :D standard wind warning here is stay inside if possible, and stay away from powerlines and trees :D
Hi Lou
"I wouldn't like to have a cone around my neck"
Amy's quote of the day
I blame the live streaming, the two days I have attempted it have been the two windiest days in months.
Gah!
Amy you need to go to Ramsay street and Qik! :D
no sadly not :( Lukeh text me the final fp screen print though. i may even get to watch quali tomorrow.
how is everyone?
the heat here in spain is stupidly high.. i may melt. our electricity went off in the early hours of the morning and we all felt like we were cooking.
however i suppose heat in spain means heat in Valencia.. which means good for Brawn?
hehe, they dont trust you to work that out :P
I had never though about that until I saw the comment earlier. Imagine if it rained and you had a cone round your head. You could drown
ahahaha if I did the Neighbours Tour I would be the only person on it who was not a backpacker from the UK. I wonder if you can get there on public transport.
Amy... How do you stay up all the time? Surely doing that accent the whole time must really tire you out :)
:D
I should do my next qik video in an Alex-accent ;)
You have to!!!
With Amy doing the unboxing that reminded me of this from the other day that I really really liked...
http://stevenf.tumblr.com/post/129159119/my-loving-homage-to-every-breathless-unboxing
Yes, the tour! it would be awesome :D
I promise to do my next one in my Amy accent :)
That could be funny...
Luckily i dont have an accent ;)
I think Ramsay Street is actually called Pin Oak Court. There is also Neighbours Nights at one of the pubs in the city where Dr Karl comes and plays with his band.
:)
Dr Karl has a band!
I know :D
One of the guys i met while travelling went to meet him and couldnt think of anything to say, so said 'Dr Karl and Batman street in the same day, I will rmember this until the day i die' Dr Karl was not impressed
He does loads of uni gigs around the UK too. Just pretent your a mature student and your in!
i´ve just discovered the new jenson merchandise range... i may need to start saving...
I don't need to qik that, it's already on youtube :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxtoGUU3hTc
aha, i wondered if you had :D
OH.MY. :D
not that the nice hoody could stop me melting right now... gosh it´s hot...
also: the abandoned hospital is the "Royal Dental Hospital"
Less happy, if you listen to the susan song you'll understand why....WARNING: choice words are used...
OK, i think i am happy with it...
I have a new blog :D
http://f1rundown.wordpress.com/
Hopefully it isnt too similar to f1 miniute or what goes on here... I just want to link to the days stories and write a few thoughts about them. I will try to do it every day about 6pm.
Its loosely based on PTI on ESPN if anyone has seen that.Hopefully i will keep this one up! ;)
oh my!
http://www.bur.st/~somebody/pinoakcourt.html
I think I have to do it now that someone has gone to the trouble of writing that guide.
Yay!
Awesome :D
This will replace the old ones, i will still do occasional politics posts but they will be on the new site. Hoping to do one about Ari's manifesto over the next few days
Have subscribed, good work :)
Thanks,
Hopefully i will be able to just spend 20-30 mins on it in the evenings so it shouldnt be too difficult to do it every day. The other blogs lacked focus and might have been a bit to ambitious
Okay... I am going to attempt a qik broadcast in Amy's accent very shortly...
i think we are off to a zoo today.. any requests for photos?
Pandas?
You holding a spider :P
elephants!
edinburgh zoo is the best - the monkeys there were compeltley mental
When Amy first mentioned the flag i thought she said lake.... (Sorry Amy)
ahahaha this is must see tv
ah... noo :( i will have to wait till i get home to catch up on all these videos seeing as this computer is useless lol.
er... i´ve no idea if there are pandas...
going now
ahahahahaha no.
i´ll take a look at the website.
i´ve just discovered the new jenson merchandise range… i may need to start saving… {Comment #224}
The till assistant at the F1 Shop told me the Force India merchandise range wasn't coming until November :(
sounds too australian!
ooo there are sea lions at this zoo i think...
This mouse didn't pick a good time for its left-hand mouse button to start behaving randomly - I'm trying to update the Comparitor...
I dont think i could attempt it. I would just end up saying:
New Zealanders, Internet Icess and Murray :P
It's hard not to...
Reading that they really sound dangerous!
Are you okay Brett?
I'm guessing that Alex is still 'working from home' then :)
I love how its pronounced 'rit'
It was my lunch break!
they are playing the pussy cat dolls in this internet cafe...the things i put myself through for formula 1...
Of course it was
Hence the boxed chucken
are you on ye olde comments? surely internet cafe's dont have up to date browsers?
Food shopping done. Grrrrrrrrr that was annoying :(
Having to look after yourself officially blows
At least they're not there.
Does Qik always suffer this badly from the 'B' word?
Yup
Did you get Trolley Rage?
Bread, butter & jam?
I should have used the Wifi but that qik camera wasn't charged.
I got shopping bag rage because it reminded me of a) work and b) having to work in an hour :(
I'm surprised I managed to get £25s worth of stuff to last me on my own the next 6 days
I'll watch it later on, sounds good
I loved the unboxing...
We do have potato and gravy in the UK, just not at KFC! :P
I am trying to watch it so that I can give handy hints on how to sound more Kiwi but it buffers too much :(
looking back through some comments quickly do i spy there is another jenson fan/sidepodcast fan in kent?
erm am using an oldish version of IE.. doohickey seems very temperamental with it... but it works :)
The buffering is imense... I have stopped now though.
love the slippers though.
got to love you all and leave you. no idea if i´ll be back for the gp, my prediction is Jenson or Anando to win ;) byee!! xx
Have fun!
Have fun :) see ya.
hasta luego!
Bye!
I've given up on trying to update the comparitor today. The computer won't behave itself long enough :(
adios!
Has anyone started work on their Sidepodradio segments?
Maybe you need a sound card?
Yes.
in honour of Lou's trip to the zoo, and my request for elephants, I bring you
the baby elephant at Melbourne Zoo
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/dsc05174-jpg
I have never before or since seen an animal SO HAPPY to be drinking water. I am not sure if elephants can smile but I'm pretty sure that one was.
I think the video's finished uploading now.
Awww.
Has anyone started work on their Sidepodradio segments? {Comment #290}
Yes. In fact I've finished the Travels... ...bit, but can't get the recordings off my PDA!e
But I haven't got very far...
box of chicken might be your new favourite saying but you missed a choice opportunity to talk about having a cone round your head :D
Maybe you need a sound card? {Comment #289}
I think this was a mouse issue. A sound card would solve certain other problems I'm having though.
At this rate I think I'm looking at a new computer (my current one also reboots randomly, especially when playing certain games, and has already corrupted one operating system to the point where it wouldn't boot into it...) The problem is I can't afford it!
Oh yeah!
and according to my friend at high school who was from South Shields, a very NZ thing to say is "yeah man, fully aye"
I don't think I've said that in my life though.
I think you might be one of those people who jinx computers!
I was just thinking that, I have never heard of someone with so many computer problems!
TED NEWS: Badoer only has a green paddock pass, no pit lane access! Drivers usually have red ones!
(stolen from James Allen: http://twitter.com/Jamesallenonf1/status/3447288598 )
so he cant have pitstops? :D
How old is your machine?
Awesome... It looked like a lot of effort ;)
boxed chicken...I cant stop saying boxed chicken...
I think that's true.
It was, ironically, quite tiring :)
Don't stop.
I refuse to believe it is more tiring than trying to sound British all the time ;)
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Somone was moving house and it was... boxed chicken!
Well there's only one way to find out... We want an Amy vid now!
And if I'm wearing slippers, I think you need a blue shirt!
I quite literally don't own even one.
I hope that didn't make you fall off your chair as you pondered how such a thing was possible.
I am in bed now so no more videos tonight but who knows what tomorrow may bring :D
5livef1:
Got to the root of the mystery voices on our broadcast earlier... Was another crew testing their radio mics... Wont happen again...
Doh!
What no blue shirt? How are you alive? How? HOW?!?!
To make it even worse I only own one shirt with a collar. Just one. I call it my "job interview shirt"
In this country we are given a stack of them at birth...
What devilry is this?
Very true.
its the southern hemisphere. Closer to hell ;)
I get confused here as well because people seem to wonder around in the world with different coloured shirts and collarless without feeling hideously under-dressed. I just don't get it!
You are starting to influence me... i realised the other day i dont own enough collared shirts... might have to grab a few this afternoon
Excellent!
I now need to have some lunch and am disapointed about the lack of boxed chicken :(
I think you might be one of those people who jinx computers! {Comment #300}
Ironically there are people out there who ask me to come and fix their computers because they jinx theirs worse...
mine was oddly disappointing :(
Why does the chicken have a black eye?
Its just come out the ring with Mike tyson... it is a 'Boxed Chicken' :P
This was really really bad...
Boo!
TED NEWS: Badoer only has a green paddock pass, no pit lane access! Drivers usually have red ones! {Comment #302}
That's stolen from Five Live as well (though they claimed it was Grosjean in that mess, not Badoer...)
#tTNT Ted needs Twitter
that should be #TNT
How old is your machine? {Comment Comment #304
Which bit? The keyboard is from 1998. The mouse is from 2005. The case is from 2004, but it has a motherboard from 2007 in it. The CPU on that motherboard is from 2005 but the RAM is from 2007. One hard drive is three months old (the main one) and the other (the backup) dates from 2000. The sound card came with the motherboard, but the speakers are from 2002. The monitor is from 2003. The network card for the internet is from 2000, the docking cradle which has been identified as one source of random reboots is from 2007 and the relatively stable Bluetooth connection is from 2008.
In case you're wondering, the computer was originally made out of bits and therefore never had a warranty.
You didn't sound to excited by the unboxing.... was anything wrong with it?
hes dy-no-mite?
I blame the stupid tasty grapes again. Ate too many before dinner :D
Do R5L normally cover FP1 & 2?
Got to the root of the mystery voices on our broadcast earlier… Was another crew testing their radio mics… Wont happen again… {Comment #312}
"Testing... ...testing... ...1, 2, oops!"
Wow.. all those bits of different ages... that might be your problem!
5Live Sports Extra... They wont be doing the next one for radio though
Do R5L normally cover FP1 & 2? {Comment #335}
Yes. The cricket's in the way today, though.
Boo, guess I have to try the iPhone App to keep up to date surreptitiously whilst at work
Rubens has a new helmet variation for felipe...
http://twitpic.com/ep94u
Awesome!!
Bless. I wonder if he is watching.
aww thats so sweet!
Ah grapes... they are too hard to resist... they look so small and harmless
Awww he's obviously first in line for Felipe's title of resident sweetie
Time to head off once more. Bah.
See you guys this evening, enjoy FP2 :)
I wonder who it was that said 'you have to put it in English' because I bet that wouldn't be his first choice!
Me too, hasta la huego
You, umm, have fun! too!
He told me everything to do with the team has to be in english...
But i agree Portuguese makes more sense. I suppose more people understand it this way though...
indeed, his portuguese tweets annoy me since I don't know what they say and he never translates them but its not his fault I can't speak his language :D
I suspect he says stuff only intended for Brazilian ears. It's a trick Alonso used to do while at McLaren...
Have you got tweetdeck? you can just click and select translate with that
It's never the same as actually understanding it though, something always gets lost in translation
In tennis they only get penalised for swearing in English, so the other day there was two Spanish players and a Spanish ref, and he couldn't do anything even though both players were blatantly using "offensive language" :D
You cold call the umpire some nasty things...
Thats true... Boxed chicken :P
I think I might return to the daily thread.
so wise. that must be why you are boss.
:)
Thank goodness your here for us! If the break had been at a race weekend we would be in serious trouble!
'the boss? or 'boss' as in cool? (not that it's cool to say 'boss' when you mean cool. ever.)
You heard it here first, Christine is Springsteen.
Well you never see them in the same place!
http://www.morewords.com/ends-with/side
I thought she was Eartha Kitt
How much has the discussion and this link cost SPC Towers so far?
Sarah Holt is waiting to talk to Heikki. What a terrible job she has. Who on earth would want to have to wait around to talk to Heikki? Poor woman.
You cold call the umpire some nasty things… {Comment #358}
You could - but with the umpire the same nationality as the players, he could say some nastier things back (having had more thinking time to be creative) and you couldn't complain because of the same rule!
Does anyone know a method for saving something you watch on justin.tv?
Amy did you enter the new Fantasy Racers too?
Woohoo! I found a legitimate reason to blog!
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/08/21/fantasy-racers-reminder-europe/
Mr C can't be mad with that :)
Print screening really quickly?
oh boo the fantasy racers post wasn't up when I started writing that comment, but was by the time I finished :(
ooh I did, then promptly forgot I had.
Sorry. I can move your comment if you like?
nice idea. but not the effort I'm willing to put in. I've also considered asking a drama group to watch it, and re-enact it upon request.
go go gadget admin! (thanks)
Good plan...
and now I can't see it because it keeps redirecting me to the login page even with the correct username/password.
I'm sure there are programs that can capture a flash based stream but I don't know their names.
What about finding a torrent of what you've missed? Better quality will likely be your reward.
Unfortunately the local theatre group here perform in german, and i don't like there chances at recreating the sport I plan on recording over the weekend. so I'm just looking for something free to record it off justin.tv i found a plug in thingy that works with other sites, just not justin. sigh... think i'll call the local theatre..
Have moved Alianora and Amy's FR updates to the thread. Apologies for being too late with it, but I was banned from blogging :)
:D
Eh? Why?
Mr C can't keep up.
ooh ashes are getting gooder er
I have one for the Mac. Snapz Pro I think it is called.
Australia are doing an England :)
*Claps*
Was hoping to avoid torrents where possible but I agree with you about better quality, just can't do torrent on these computers. will need to outsource ;)
thanks. but on a pc. had one recommended to me but doesn't work for justin. thanks guys for your input but i think a torrent will have to suffice. assuming i can get one. my mate is the top league in the australian rugby league this weekend hence wanting a souvenir.
How soon do you need it? I can only record quali and the race, but can set it to be streamable to any modern browser the next day.
I haven't seen Flibster lately - he always claimed to have everything recorded.
Proxy Server?
He's chosen not to stick around for the moment...
I must have missed that :(
let me know when it's on and i'll do my best to record it for you and stream or burn to dvd
His Evora has arrived? :P
Shame.
BBC 'F1 Mole' On why Grosjean is a perfect fit for Renault
Erm, he's French, cheap and will submit to Alonso when and where necessary?
There's an explanation in the comments somewhere. It's been a couple of weeks at least though.
Ah, i am not that bothered, i noticed he hadntnt been around though
Basically, we moderated him and he didn't like it.
Fair enough
Hello, everyone.
Looks like Brawn is back. And just in time too. :D
Was Friday FP anything special?
oh. he knew the rules though? maybe he's taken an opportunity to attempt quitting the addiction that afflicts us all?
F1 (and the world around it) really is a soap opera isn't it?
Badoer was painfully slow.
Alonso tried to hurt Nicky.
Hey mate.
So I see. Well, he does need time to bed in. I'll be happy if he's on the pace by Monza - assuming he's still in the seat by then.
I also heard that Mr Whitmarsh has more or less stated that Alonso's Maranello-bound, with Ferrari trying their best to deny it (and failing to convince me).
FP2, right? Shouldn't he be staying out of trouble after Budapest?
Perhaps. There are only a few who have successfully done it, so well done to him :)
What's this from Joe Saward?
Interesting, that. :D
RSS error?
And to add to that,
Hehehe. Nope, he wrote it - for real! :O
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/fisichella-ferrari-indians-and-astons/
Does SPC go to sleep more quickly than it used to, or do I normally pay more attention than this? :P
It worried me you didnt post a link with it :P
thanks Jeremy. I'll send you an email.
Sorry for delay - internet cable had unplugged. Thought it was odd nobody had replied ;)
How is the most interesting news Fisi!
Force India could go bust and let prodrive in, and your worried about an aging Itallian!
Cos its the news everyone wants to hear the most?
Advance Australia Fair?
hehe. i took some time off from F1 too. needed to cut back. it wasn't healthy. plus it was easy to follow the f1 saga on tv.
Ah so it is true, this was reported in the times last week (maybe week before)
Have just read that Andretti is taking over full control of AGR. Do we know if this is good or bad news for Franck?
I dunno, I think that's just a bunch of speculation at this point. I give more credence to the Fisi story.
whenever i try, i always fail because i miss SPC people too much
So the G is gone in AGR?
Hmmm. Not sure how it affects Franck at this point - if it won't stop Danica from moving to Ganassi, I'm guessing Franck will still be in A(G)R next season.
Force India is still part owned by the Dutch Mol family, and they will be happy to sell their share. At least that's the story in the Netherlands.
It might be good for him, Andretti is a racer and if he sees something in franck he might be prepared to give him a bigger go.
He isnt a big name in the states so he will have to do well this weekend to attract sponsors or bring a bucket load of cash with him
@NobleF1: A few smiles in the media centre as Badoer get a third pit-lane speeding fine - 3000 Euros this time. No fine yet for speeding on the track
If anyone is interested andy stobart says:
Not only rear tyre lateral graining, but front tyre lateral graining here too
:D
:D :D :D
work took care of the void :( I would have rather been here though!
England doing well at cricket against australia... what am i supposed to do?
Surely thats a GMM story?
go into shock like me.
I find it very hard to follow the cricket. I'm sure my dad'll convert me sooner or later. He's pretty much managed to make me interested in every sport he likes that I've ever turned my nose up at.
I am. We are the ones suposed to have the phone number!
What's happened that we're all so excited about?
How hard is it to press a button?
Austrlai 112-7.. its really bad for a 1st innings
(Although they would claim they are 7-112) :P
Goodness knows how he'll get on with KERS.
Okay thanks :)
Didn't England get out for a stupidly small number yesterday though?
Maybe he is mixing up KERS and the pit limit button. Could be slow at the start of the race.
Can't be too hard. even Piquet could do it ;)
maybe he's getting them confused, pushing kers coming into hte pits and the pit lane speed limiter when he wants to go faster, would explain a lot
?phone number?
Yeah, but our stupidly small number was over 300 :P
Aaaah. All things are relative then.
:)
When you have a batting card with lots of people out for single figures in a row it looks like a phone number ;)
Never heard that before. I played one season. I contributed greatly towards the phone number.
hehe, me too!
leaving the computer. see you all sometime on the weekend. not sure if i'll be around for qualy. ciao :)
See ya later!
Badoer up to 4 speeding fines...
I feel for Rob, i really do...
Whaaaat?? How do they discover them after the event? What was he doing? He'll have spent his whole race fee on fines at this rate.
My career figures are simply useless, I must be the first wicket keeper, ever to be the tailender
Why? Because he misses his Felipe baby
Papa Luca will come good, I'm sure of it.
If this were a road car he'd get his licence taken away for that...
They probably can take his superlicence if he does it again once they've warned him.
He probably told him to slow down and turn the limiter on after the first one. I am not sure what he would have done after the 4th!
Just reading this
Agree with everything. But, when did Kubica get to 7th, I'm stunned.
How is that possible?
He is going to get a ban before Sunday at this rate
Happened very late in the session
I wish there was an autosport story that said
"Badoer Gets Speeding Fine"
update 1 - now has 2 fines
update 2 - now has 3 fines
update 3 - now has 4 fines :D
Renaut get away with More cheating
I can't read those in my browser. Is that their non autographing or do I need to find IE?
i wonder what their explanation was
I saw Jenson got a speeding fine too.
Tis their non autographing
non autograph signing... but they might well be tempted to stick a v12 in the back now ;)
I say ban them!!!
Especially what car number 7 did to car number 6.
Alonso doesn't show up for the autographing session for his home race? Was their debrief THAT long?
I wonder if Gene is at the track...
They are still allowed to change him, up until qualifying
They might have to. Surely you get a ban for speeding so extensively
Boxed Chicken
Yup If he kept doing it he'd get a bigger punishment
still at it :)
If they swap him before he's done an actual race does he count as one of their drivers for the season?
I don't think so, no.
Theres a limit isnt there? I cant remember how many though
But whoever got in the car wouldn't be given much of a chance to get used to it with hardly any practice left....
*left clicks*
w00t!
why? more money for the fia coffers.
I think 3 per car per year. I don't know if you can have 3 in each car.
Just travelling in to London. Needed to go to London Bridge got to the train station, but the Victoria train was delayed and so by accident I got on that instead. From the same platform it goes in entirely the opposite direction.
Luckily the place that they branch off is after the next station so I manger to change in time - phew.
show off
why don't they tell us what those circumstances were?
:)
So outside can be useful sometimes?
Hows Waterloo East treating you?
Wrong way! oops
shhh
this really annoys me.
They complain that people just make things up on the Internet - we do too - but is it any surprise when they won't tell us the answers to these simple questions.
not that far it was west norwood
wait a moment... There was no live streaming or comments...
Something bad's going to happen.
When Rosberg skipped on us in Sepang, they said it was due to a long debrief. I'm guessing that those in the line were informed, but sadly, it's not announced publicly.
I thought you were at London Bridge. It is a very crazy station!
Off to training, see ya's in a few hours.
Boo Alonso.
I think I'm missing someting
Reading back my comment I can see why. My station is totally mad. We have two platforms. One which goes East and the other one goes East and West. You may be thinking - well maybe because of North / South etc. No. One platform goes to London Bridge. The other one goes to London Victoria and London Bridge. Madness.
Broken Mouse. Mr C goes out. Comes back. Mouse works.
Did he try switching it off and back on again?
he didn't mention it.
Logic says Christine fixed it when he wasn't looking
But Christine doesn't like Logic.
proper broke. the new one works but the scroll wheel is annoying.
So you purchased a new one?
annoying how?
doesn't seem to pick up every scroll. have to scroll more than necessary maybe. it matters not though left click is somewhat more important.
yes.
Just a quick plug if its ok...My daily post for today is up!
What did you get?
same as i had, a microsoft laser 1000.
I have to say I do like M$ mice. Prefer them to the Apple ones.
my finger's too fat for the little nipple wheel thing.
Hehe. Do you need a dialling wand for your phone?
i think so :)
:)
i think maybe they've "improved" the mouse, rather than it not working properly.
microsoft are a bunch of fiddlers.
Hello all! Boy a dissappointing day for the Sidepodcast Luca Badoer Fan Club, huh?
Are we allowed to say "we told you so?"
i think the fia really appreciate his contribution(s).
Clearly there is something compelling about outside that I have mised on my previous visits so I am heading out again to find the compellingness(?) of outside. I have my phone but am going to risk not taking a crash helmet.
:D
It would be a bit harsh, clashes with the fairy tale
*checks for RG*
IIIIIIIIIIIIM IN LOOOOOOOVE WITH A FAAAAAAIRYTAAAALLEEE
im done :D
go steady, i only went cause i had to.
Anybody know which of the email options means people wont see the email address? Is it Bcc or Cc?
bcc.
thankin' you sir
What I want to know is why is Christine giving first aid to a rodent? :D
Has anyone else noticed the plans that Danny has cooked up for 2010 in Fantast Racers? It is quite interesting, mostly going back to 2008 regulations....
Jordan F1 has an awesome chance to stage a comeback!
i look forward to it.
FIA site only reports 3 fines
I'm noticing that no new site is mensioning about Badoers 4 fines...does this mean that they are laughing too much to write
I am outside as we speak... this London place is addictive!
i (hearts) mobile commenting.
I did... I think send a movie to th drop.
Evening all! I have my provisional licence! :D
*I'm not here* Alex, movie on drop says "could not convert"
Ace! Do we need to take cover on the roads soon then?
Evening gang. I haven't read through back on fp2 yet but... um... just seen the alonso/heidfeld pic on drop.io
uhhhhh...?!
Oi! :P
Those few hours went by quickly.
But, with no sponsors to er, sponsor the team, the name greggs was in the air. But its most likely not going to be them, but worth a try eh.
It was an odd moment.
Thats what useless drivers do, flip the heroes in awful cars who are trying their very best.
I dunno if the shock is that or the fact there was actual drama at Valencia.
just checking out soundboard. much fun!
It certainly woke me up!
Just about to do some wheel cam live streaming, Green Hell stylee :D
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77844
ahaahahahahahahahahaha
really?
At least he has already broken some records, and it's only his first day.
Hmm, Schumacher helping him is he?
I smell a conspiracy.
Am live streaming now
"Record Breaking Badoer"
I like it
gone quiet, hasn't it? Is it because I is live?
aaah, today cant get any better..
http://www.crash.net/f1/news/151221/1/alonso_piquet_talented_enough_to_merit_f1_future.html
you broke the internet ;)
Am writing a Digest. Mr C is playing with that soundboard thing.
He is. Just picked the worst team to start off with.
Ah i know, but i never in a million years expected someone (who's not his dad) to stand up for him
I am back from outside. The good news is it is not leaking as badly as it has been recently
The outside?
From @f1_fans on twitter
'Ed Gorman on the Times blog has reported a paddock rumour that this will be the last grand prix at Valenica Street Circuit #F1'
Good times eh?
Every time I have gone out recently it has had a leak and I got soaked. Today I only got slightly damp
Ah, gotcha. You'd think God would have discovered gaffa tape by now.
I thought Mr C had hidden that until he had found a use for it
If anyone's wondering what I'm doing on wheel cam I'm drifting :P
ooh. i shall check out shortly. am slightly obsessed by new stuff. gimmie 10mins.
Well I say drifting. More like spinning like an idiot.
Gives me an idea though. Lukeh, get the Sidepodjaaaaag fired up...
Oooh, okay dokay.
hehe.
What say you to a dual live stream race - Sidepodjaaaaag vs Sidepodcorvette?
Is yours stock though?
Sounds good, lemme find something to get to hold my phone otherwise it will be disastrous :D
The live streaming debut of the Sidepodcar race :D
ace.
ok. I have attached my phone to my head.
will stream now.
Just adding some last minute lettering to my car :P
evening all. Looks like I arrived at a good time!
We may need pictures of that!
aha :D
it kind of makes my phone go mad so I need an alternative :(
Can ya tell what it is yet? ;)
i see luke too :)
Lukeh, is your Jag stock?
stock?
Have you modified it?
chicken? beef?
dont think so
Right, pick a track :P
laguna seca!
Fine choice.
am I streaming by the way? I think i am... might be a bit of a delay
I see a black box where your stream should be.
how many laps?
You choose! :P
Here goes
Does anyone know a method for saving something you watch on justin.tv? {Comment #372}
ScreenToaster} saves anything your screen is showing, but there are two things I should warn you about:
1) It's tricky to set up
2) I'm not sure how strict they are with copyrighted content - and being an online service, it would be relatively easy for them to find out if you did something dodgy with the facility.
Alternatives are available, but I don't know what they're like.
I'm lost, I don't know whos where are anything.
Wheres Legard when you need him.
Easy. Who's on first
hehe. just had a supermarket delivery. what did we miss?
I think Scott just did a 360. Lukeh, erm, I'm getting Mr Swirly
*waves at lukeh*
It's not going great....
we have x1 car on track and x1 loading screen or menu?
I think lukeh's qik is lightyears behind.
oh. shouldn't we see him on scott's screen?
Um, no idea.
I think Scott has just got passed lukeh, and unless im very much mistaken, he's took the lead.
And Scott................................................................WINS.
I think, oh that could be a bad mistake if im wrong.
That was fun :)
What next Lukeh? You pick. :P
I think mine had a fair delay on it. That was fun though :)
Probably me screaming in fear caused it to slow down
Try the same car to make it equal?
i cant remember the tracks :(
is road america on here?
Have moved Alianora and Amy’s FR updates to the thread. Apologies for being too late with it, but I was banned from blogging :) {Comment #385}
You're welcome. I was halfway to the dishwasher repair place by the time the thread was ready, so thank you for finding the appropriate place for my comment.
sure!
indeed.
You pick :P
done
this is gona be terrifying
Good choice of cars
What’s this from Joe Saward?
The word in F1 circles is that Force India driver Giancarlo Fisichella is hoping to land a test drive with Ferrari next year.
Interesting, that. {Comment #413}
It is interesting - though Giancarlo has said that Ferrari haven't contacted him yet. He may have to wait for his Ferrari dream to be realised...
I should say they are Audi R10s?
One rumour that has begun to circulate is that Prodrive might make a bid to buy Mallya out of [Force India]. This would enable the Brackley team to use Mercedes-Benz engines, which is what it wishes to do. {Comment #415}
David Richards will be lucky - there's four years of contract left after this one. It will be rather expensive, especially since last I heard he was still waiting for enough backers to attempt an entry...
Looks like Lukeh ran wide there, Scott takes the lead. Then loses it again.
Hehe, only Alianora would mention copyright when talking about recording something that already violates copyright.
lukeh's pic is much better quaility for me, but behind.
Im using Scott's, I wanna be with the up to date one. Plus I can live with the shadow.
Ooooh, big mistake by Scott, ran wide, smash into wall.
I think Lukeh may have won this one...
Speaking of racing, having listened to MWM last night, about time there's a local lad in the big stage of motorracing, go Rob Bell!
Sorry, my phone went mental with the streaming during that it seems :(
Nobody say anything.
More bad news for Lukeh.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/21/oxfam_donations/
Will play again another time Scott, that was great fun though :D
Apologies for my Mark Webber Nurburgring moment on the final lap there... eek...
Well I like his books! :(
aha
fyi. droppler has been updated and now works with sidepodcast drop!
it's currently £1.19 on the appstore, but previously struggled with the size of the drop.
I do too.
story seems to overlook that he sells a lot of books in the first place...
so true! I love the idea they mention at the end about stuff being handed in relating to digital stuff. :)
I do like the one night stand analogy.
One for Mr and Mrs C* - Soundboard from Ambrosia software:
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/soundboard/
*other podcasts are available.
I have disposed of 90% of the books in this house, but have kept the Dan Browns.
waaaay ahead of you sir. was discussed earlier in this thread. already bought and paid for our copies. recommended though.
Same here. Angels and Demons is one of my favourite books in general although I have not seen the film. I did like the Da Vinci Code film just as much as the book mind you, in a little minority perhaps :P
Angels and Demons on the silver screen surely can't be as wildly bleh as Yes Man though, at least.
Is that because one of the legs on your bed is shorter than the others?
1) either those books are really thin or you have a big gap
2) how tall is there bed!!!
Haha. At least you will always have that optimism now. No other book-to-film transition can possibly be as bad as Yes Man, right? :)
I would just buy a new bed?
Great. I like Ambrosia software :)
Absolutely! I have been to the very lows and it can only get better after that... thing. No doubt the best thing to come out of watching it!
we got discounts for owning wiretap too. good times.
I was just trying to work out why you'd keep Dan Brown books in the house. This was the only feasible explanation I could come up with.
ooooh, i got confused, thought you meant they had 90% of their books proping up their bed...
I like books that make me think. I like books that aren't scared of outside forces. I like books that tell a good story.
i like them too.
(and i don't like books)
How is the most interesting news Fisi!
Force India could go bust and let prodrive in, and your worried about an aging Itallian! {Comment #420}
Possibly because it's the most likely to be true. Force India could theoretically go bust if debts are mounting, but it is entirely possible that Vijay could be doing an EJ and simply waiting until the last possible moment to pay. It might not be the sort of thing an improving team usually does in F1, but there's a long and not particularly honourable tradition of it at Jordan/Midland/Spyker.
Prodrive to Force India makes little sense because it would cost less for Prodrive to have Cosworth engines in the first instance and Brawn's reduced budget means that there's a good chance the Mercedes stuff will be available in 2011 when the team is more established and can afford it more easily. The advantages of buying Mercedes are clear, but not if Prodrive destroys itself as a result of acquiring them. After all, if Force India did find itself on the brink of going bust, the last thing a savvy entrepreneur like David will want to do is follow suit...
The Fisi item, on the other hand, has almost certainly happened, even though according to him Ferrari haven't contacted him yet. I might think it more likely that he gets a race drive with FIF1 or a new team, but if that doesn't happen, I could certainly envisage him being happy in a Ferrari test seat.
I am still live streaming here. Just thought I'd do some general chat. :P
howdy. am distracted by http://live.twit.tv/ where are you racing now?
Have been playing GT4 in my lounge, i have a projector and am doing it onto the wall, tis awesome
I'm not at the moment, just doing some general chat :)
So do I, but I also like my books to be well written. LPG suggests you try Bitten by Kelley Armstrong. There's free stuff on her site: http://kelleyarmstrong.com
I highly recommend a book called Shadowmagic by John Lenahan. This is available as a free podcast audio book.
@NobleF1: A few smiles in the media centre as Badoer get a third pit-lane speeding fine – 3000 Euros this time. {Comment #431}
I guess the FIA must be pleased to be getting Luca's salary for the weekend - I believe that's €6000 in total so far...
How hard is it to press a button? {Comment #442}
Very, apparently...
Forgot the link for Shadowmagic : http://shadowmagic.co.uk/
“A Lord of the Rings for the 21st century. Only a lot shorter. And funnier. And completely different.”
Never heard that before. I played one season. I contributed greatly towards the phone number. {Comment #454}
I played cricket once at school. I don't know what my score was because the game degenerated so badly that I got pulled out while I was still batting to be the assistant umpire. It can't have been a high number though because up to that point my bat had never actually connected with the ball...
Badoer up to 4 speeding fines… {Comment #458}
Congratulations, Luca, you have created a new F1 record for the highest number of penalties issued to one driver (for any offence or combination of offences) in one weekend.
I can only assume the stewards demanded Luca's telemetry after the second practise session. I also fear for Luca's Superlicence.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/jon-waldock-live
You don't need to watch, am just seeing if my camera works, but if you want to see my projector setupy thing, you can :)
no sound btw
cool. should we add to the live page too?
Renaut get away with More cheating {Comment #462}
Considering that McLaren missed it in Australia (if I remember the relevant thread correctly) and it didn't even get mentioned, this is relatively tough. Still the equivalent of being struck with a bus ticket, though.
you can do :) when im at uni i'll do some proper live stuff :)
will do in a bit cheers.
Alonso doesn’t show up for the autographing session for his home race? Was their debrief THAT long? {Comment #480}
Exactly. How odd.
They are still allowed to change him, up until qualifying {Comment #482}
If Luca falls ill, gets banned or gets sacked, yes. Either of the latter two is possible.
If they swap him before he’s done an actual race does he count as one of their drivers for the season? {Comment #487}
Yes. Ferrari have used three drivers thus far, so using a fourth driver would rule Michael out for the rest of the year unless there was force majuere.
I think 3 per car per year. I don’t know if you can have 3 in each car. {Comment #493}
The current limit is 4 per team, unless a team is absolutely forced to use a fifth driver through force majuere. It changed a few years back.
haven't plugged f1 minute in ages...
check out F1 MINUTE now!
And while you're there, why not check out F1 Big Picture as well!!
why don’t they tell us what those circumstances were? {Comment #496}
Because that's what the Steward's Report is for.
Why hasn't the Steward's Report been released for any race so far this year, despite the promises? Because, I guess, the FIA would rather we did not reason why it acts as it does.
is that F1 BIG PICTURE?
F1 BIG PICTURE?
ohh yes. very uppercase.
we need an F1 BIG PICTURE PLUS i think.
Is your caps lock broken as well now?
i'd almost certainly subscribe to that
So you'll be hiding away a picture relevant to an event a few days ago for your own financial benefit? ;)
Surely we'll print it out and say - go buy it in the actual shops next week?
FIA site only reports 3 fines {Comment #543}
The other offence netted a reprimand, which in the FIA system is one notch up from a fine.
:P
Ah that sounds perfect :)
and for hte people who havent subscribed...you'll show them a bit of the picture...say, 3 pixels?
f1 postage stamp picture?
Evening all! I have my provisional licence! {Comment #548}
Excellent, Scott :D
i like
Maybe just the little thumbnail like on the site?
Evening all.
Have been inspired by the sight of Battersea Power Station, lit up for some X-Games shenanigans.
Just in the door from work to grab my proper camera and get some ace pics, hopefully
ace. looks stunning.
Will see if I can get some on Flickr tonight. Must dash. So excited
Back in Badeor's day, was there any pit lane speed limit? Maybe Luca's trying to set a fastest lap buy using the pit lane to shorten the lap distnace a la Senna ?
you raise a good point.
I think on Autosport they said it was because he was used to the 100km/h speed limit from testing.
Hehe, only Alianora would mention copyright when talking about recording something that already violates copyright. {Comment #636}
I thought the warning needed to be clearly made because unlike software that sits on your computer and records stuff on your screen, the ScreenToaster sticks everything through its own servers before downloading the file to your computer. This is why it works (at least in theory) on all modern multimedia-capable browsers irrespective of platform - but it also means that if the copyright owner complains, a simple video cross-reference would pull up everyone who'd used the service to copy that particular thing. Search engines are now capable of that (albeit to a limited extent).
I just don't want to see you commenting from inside a court room...
Correct me if im wrong but dosent the speed limit go back up during the race? i thought it was only low for practice
He said the problem was that the testing limit is 100 kn/h but for races it is 60 so he is braking too late.
although that would be a sidepodfirst
That's not allowed, especially live streaming. :p
isn't it the other way around?
30.12 A speed limit of 60km/h will be imposed in the pit lane during all free practice sessions, this will be raised to 100km/h for the remainder of the Event
And this rule;
30.13 If a driver has serious mechanical difficulties he must leave the track as soon as it is safe to do so.
would have been part of the FIA's argument against renault
Never have been happier in the fact that there is an ocean between myself and England.... I should be quite safe unless you have one of those James Bond Lotuses that convertes into a submarine...
ah-ha. thank you. he'll be fine then.
:D
Back in Badeor’s day, was there any pit lane speed limit? {Comment #707}
At the start, I don't think there was. By the end, the limit was 60kp/h (imposed somewhere between Monaco 1994 and the start of 1995), but after a decade of testing at 100kp/h he's clearly forgotten that.
I can't wait to see what he does if/when the speed limit is increased to 80kp/h for qualifying and the race (as the stewards have the discretionary power to do following a circuit condition report tomorrow morning).
mmmm, however;
Except in the race, any driver who exceeds the limit will be fined €200 for each km/h above the limit (this may be increased in the case of a second offence in the same Event).
so he may find his FP3 gets a little more expensive
And then I discover that the stewards lost that right, replaced with a straight 100kp/h limit for qualifying and the race. Thank you, Jon, and one day I might keep up with the regulations...
:D
It is not possible to keep up with all the pointless reg changes
so he may find his FP3 gets a little more expensive
{Comment #722}
I'm not so sure. The FIA have already given up on fines and moved to reprimands. Do it again and I think he'll be sent to the back of the grid or possibly barred from the rest of the weekend. Those may even amount to the same thing if Ferrari are annoyed enough.
"Apple says it has not rejected the Google Voice application and "continues to study it."
hmmm
I reckon we'll see a grid penalty next time
Renault would argue that 3 out of 4 wheels on the car is not really a serious mechanical difficulty. You bring the car back to the pit, throw on a new tyre and the probem is gone. There is nothing different between this and a flat tyre or a sherdded tyre.
How does a driver comply with this ruling in the event of a massive brake failure? I guess is is how that grid drop penality at the next race was created for :D .
If they have a brake failure, i dont think that generaly they have much choice of where they pull off ;)
Done 50 snaps and wishing my camera was fully charged!
I'm currently listening to Prom 45 - The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. On iPlayer (Radio 3) for the next few days.
WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO THE NEW QUIZ?!?! :(
Oh, boy. Here we go again with the Spagetthi Western Sandwich Jokes - But they do an awesome version of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly theme song if it is the same group that I am thinking of. They have a Youtube clip of them.
The 7 "Hams With No Name....". 5 guys and 2 gals. right?
hi.
what?
Sandi Toxfig has gone and it's been renamed "I guess thats why they call it the news"
It's not as good
oh wait, i meant news quiz :D
That's them. There are 8 of them though. They did Jerusalem as well as Anarchy in the UK, plus the audience were invited to bring their own Ukuleles and play along to Ode to Joy
what was it called before?
The News Quiz
WHAAT??
Obviously I mean hello as well but also WHAAAT??
Oh no! Have they ruined it?
Who is it now?
EXACTLY!!!!!!
is this thing that isn't the now show?
Fred 'Scottish bloke who's surname i cant spell'
yup
ahh. never listened.
how can a new name make that much difference?
I love the news quiz, I'm outraged.
So they can get rid of the host and change the format ;)
The abbreviation just looks silly on iTunes.
it really does
You can hush. I just tell you when the Now Show is back on. You don't understand.
oh.
i didnt think i'd ever miss the squeeky voiced dane...but apparently i do :(
I don't understand, what do you mean? Mine isn't really abbreviated :S
Hehe. I'm not sure if I should be sad about the demise of the News Quiz or excited to hear Milton Jones doing topical stuff.
The podcast, not the subscription itself
It has pangs of I'm sorry i havent got a clue...just not done aswell
The also do an awesome version of "Smells Like Nirvana" or is it "Smells Like Teen Spirit"?
Yes. And other stuff. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ7rx76g5DM
and pangs of Just a minute...
Oh dear. Not looking forward to it now, although the presence of Milton Jones makes it hard to resist.
Don't worry just yet my good man, after extensive* research I find this
'This show has been commissioned to fill the summer gap between The Now Show finishing and the next series of The News Quiz.'
http://www.comedy.org.uk/guide/radio/i_guess_thats_why_call_it_news/
I like bring up good news
*Exageration possible, sorry, very likely.
I HEART RG!!!!!
PHEW
I think I've done a Mr C and just made a sentence which makes no sense.
RG = Yoda?
me too. Did you know that there is an unwritten rule that Now Show presenters do not appear on The News Quiz? They had to use Steve Punt once as no one else was available.
Son of...
Who's the mum? dare i ask
Mrs Yoda.
Hello Sidepodpeople. How you all doing?
evening sir, good thanks. yourself?
Tired and full of curry :)
Yeah alright thanks.
Has anything been mentioned in the comments about Anando moving to the Red side?
Mmm Curry
sure has :D
I have mini cheddars :D
mmm, they are very retro but very nice. Much like wotsits
Have you tried the Branston Pickle and Extra Cheddary flavours? Tasty.
I'm just writing up a b,og entry related to the subject, and a friend told me to check out a cover of the Scissor Sisters doing Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd...
....I'm terrified and am so unsure what to expect in the next few minutes...
Mr Lukeh....you can totally not tell me....but what grades did you get?
Imagine a Pop version of that song. You're halfway there.
ABB at a level, dropped history at AS
ah ok, so you were quite high over your required then?
I got accepted for interviews in primary teaching. I guess I just messed them up :P
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/ohchrist-jpg
Nuff said.
What course are you doing now then?
Computing.
You went for an interview at Wales to do Primary Teaching?
Which I got rejected for so I went for another course
:D
Ah ok, awesome.
It's not that bad. I actually quite like the Scissor Sisters.
I have nothing against them whatsoever.
But ... I'm speechless. :P
Imagine Kylie doing a cover of Stairway To Heaven in a Pop stylee.
That would be awesome. :D
Hmmm, i also dont like this new Radio 4 comedy show because they're mocking A-Level-ers. GRrr
I listen to the Podcast Feed regularly, should I bother listening to it?
It's only a filler for the summer, so hopefuly wont last too long.
Its OK but is no Now Show or News Quiz
Is Mr C still about? he might be happy to know what has made it into my blog post about cover songs down the oage a bit... ;)
Lukeh, if you're still in shock, I have something you might like. In fact all of you might like it. One of my favourite tracks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrBZeWjGjl8
It might not be to your taste, just a recommendation.
I think Mr C is anti-blog post at the moment ;)
Wow, didn't even know the Johnny Cash song was a cover. Love that song.
I want to reduce the white light of the towers on this
Anyone have an idea what I should be reducing, other than brightness
You missed the Mike Flowers Pops version of Wonderwall. Utter genius.
There's something insanely relaxing about that. I really like it!
Hahaha
A Levelers deserve to be mocked :P
I think the towers are over exposed - blown out. Did you take this using RAW?
Run and hide...
Yes, using Aperture to try to adjust
The video is awesome
Try the recover slider.
Actually that video really reminds me of Air... not sure if you've heard them at all SB...
Not much difference, will keep playing
Yes I LOVE Air. One of my favourite bands,
Woo! Awesome :)
My personal favourite Album is 10,000 Hz. I know most people like Moon Safari.
Thanks for the help though Andy, I'll put the best result on drop.io later
Virgin Suicides OST is also good
Air is another favourite of mine too.
I have to admit I'm a Moon Safari guy.
And with that I bid my farewell for the night. Tomorrow is a long day that opens into a looooong week. Night all!
Night Lukeh
Night Lukeh
I'm going sleepywards too. Night
G'night Lukeh & Jon
No worries. I like what you're trying to do with the shot. Night time pictures are tricky, it's usually a good idea to bracket your exposures and then combine the images if necessary. If you spot meter off the towers then they should be correctly exposed, but everything else will be darker.
I'd also reduce the flash power down a bit and/or adjust the colour of the flash to match the ambient a bit more.
Just as I was leaving (and battery almost dying), the light show started
Night Jon
I'm also heading to bed, so goodnight all.
Night Andy
I've a lot to learn. I saw the towers lit up on the way home and rushed back to grab my camera. Playing with settings to see what they can do at the moment and find out what I need to learn
G'night fella
Just you & me then Mr Bunny?
I'm awake, I'm just trying to write a personal statement style thingy :(
Hey Alison
Err, don't getcha. What's one of them, then?
Looks like it isn't :) Which is probably a good thing.
For a CV thingy?
Looks like Valencia put most people to sleep
Ha ha, that's just the beginning. I haven't watched any FP1 or 2 highlights yet. It seems I also, have a list ;)
The list thing seems to be catching
I'm NOT getting a playground!
I did say, when Alex was putting up blinds, that he would top Valencia. I hope for Valencia that the race is a corker.
How is Mr Roy this fine evening?
Well, you did set the bar low
Not the slightest chance. 25 corners in 3 miles means no overtaking
I am good. I have been scanning through the comments and admiring the photography of the light show
We might actually need some Transformers to storm in and create havoc to make this one exciting
Sadly, my skills are nascient and under fed. I want to take some classes
*nascent
Damn my keyboard spelling and the lack of an edit button
I am the worst photographer in the world
No you are not. Psshh. You obviously haven't been on twitpic lately.
That site was aptly named, if ever I saw one
I haven't posted my Autosport 2009 pics ever, they were pretty poor. Although my mate saw a different Autosport. Don't even know if he took any pics of the cars, he was busy asking the models to pose for him.
A wise young Jedi, your friend is
:D
I've seen some pretty rough pics there.
That's what they are there for
A dirty young Jedi you mean!
In fact, they'd be quite offended if you didn't snap at those itty bitty shorts and tings
That too, but mostly wise
Hello
It's like a long paragraph about yourself you write for applications for university usually. Mine isn't exactly like that. It's an application for an extra course I want to do as part of my degree, it's a right pain.
A cover letter
I hate doing those things. I don't think the personal statement on my CV has changed in years
Get usedto it, every job application wants one with your CV
A bad one misses you an interview
Think Keywords
Hmmmm but not a letter. It's just how we do things in Britain.
I know but that's what they're called
Keywords keywords keywords
With some grammar and stuff wrapped around it :)
Yeah, it's just doing this one is giving me nightmares about when I was making my proper uni application. It's an awful experience. Hours wasted drafting and redrafting. I mean does anyone really care what I've learned from my work experience?
A cover letter is different to a personal statement. The personal statement is part of the CV and is generic where the cover letter is specific to the job you are applying for
You'd be suprised
What you need to learn it how to flower that up into nonsense they want to hear.
It's ridiculous but it'll get you far. It takes a lot of practice
What do you need to say?
I would be surprised if Uni did but in the real world that could be more important than academic qualifications. Maybe not in your field but generally.
Oh, ok
It get's worse then :)
With these applications, other than your exam results, the only information they get about you, your background, why you want to do the course, why your suitable, how you've shown your commitment etc etc has to go in this statement. It's heavily character limited.
It is worse than a cover letter. In the end I got someone else to write mine for me.
How long have you got?
What course is it and what is your main subject?
Yeah. I can do it. I'm just not in the mood. I'm somehow trying to explain how I have a passion for economics and maths. Even though I haven't actually studied the subjects since I left school 3 years ago. I think lack of facts is what's holding me back at the moment rather than flowers :P
The important thing about all these things is thatthey only ever know what you tell them so you have to pick out the bits that make what you did sound good and taught you a lot.
Flowering up Economics and Maths?
Yeah, you're screwed ;)
Seriously, if you aren't in the right frame of mind, it's better to set some time aside tomorrow, sounds like it's important
If you've got a few days to write this, then get the basics down, and leave it for a while. Come back to it the next day with a fresh perspective. Sometimes forcing yourself to write something in a short space of time doesn't produce the best results.
Find someone who you trust that knows and understands what you have done and talk it through with them. It will make it a lot easier than doing it yourself.
3000 characters with spaces.
I'm a medical student, I'm applying to do a year long course in Economics and Maths for which you'd join final year degree students and be awarded a degree for successful completion (which seems like a sneaky cheat to me but hey)
Eeek!
Why go from medecine to economics and maths
I'm not, I'll go back to my medical degree and complete that after the year. I can do anything really but, shocking as it might be, I do really like maths!
Edvard Munch has nothing on Badoer
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/badoer-s-the-scream-jpg
I used to feel like that, until 'A' Level Pure & Applied (and girls)
I understand liking maths. I was keen on it myself for a while. Just seems an unusual path.
*shocked* :)
I did further maths at school. I'd be qualified for the degree course as a school leaver, I just don't really have any relevant work experience and don't really know where I can go find any to write about.
Maybe it helps, especially with the NHS.
If you wanted to go into anything public health oriented or NHS management, yeah that'd be a really useful skills base.
Work experience of maths? Maybe stick to the analytical mind, life experience stuff
It's good not to have a one track education
I've a friend who is a Health Strategist, I'd imagine statistics being quite useful. Basic multiplication, a given
Kubica making plans with Kimi
&
One for Lou
Don't know what you mean!
Glug Glug Glug
Just saw beginning of Amy's last Qik stream. At the point she got the can of Mountain Dew out of the bag, the close window button was pressed