Sidepodchat day dawns, but there's plenty to talk about before then. Things are all quiet on the F1 front, so here are some tasty links from around the blogosphere:
- Dank takes a closer look at how the Red Bull mechanics work in his Anatomy of a pit-stop post. As Ollie points out in the comments, it's not only informative, but also a fun game of spot the difference.
- Talking of Ollie, BlogF1 has a positive spin on things in The Future Looks Bright For Formula One. It makes a nice change to read something positive about F1, what with all the doom and gloom at the moment.
- Meanwhile, Alianora has been looking into ownership in her post: F1 Racing, Perfume and Trademarks. Always a tricky subject, I wouldn't be surprised if Bernie got involved, just for fun.
That should keep you busy for this lovely Sunday. If you're interested in the Sidepodchat, then feel free to sign up on the wiki, or simply turn up in the comments later today. A post will appear when we're getting ready to go live. Until then, I'll see you in the comments.
GPM2 Update - Renault dominated the championship with Vettel champion and Kubica 2nd and the team claiming the constructors title. "2010" now sees Prodrive take the place of Honda, Super Aguri are still in the championship(?!) and the driver line-ups are as follows:
Renault: Kubica and Vettel
McLaren: Alonso and Hamilton (seriously!)
Ferrari: Raikkonen and Massa
BMW: Kovalainen and Klien
Red Bull: Buemi and Kobayashi
Toyota: Heidfeld and Glock
Toro Rosso: Bourdais and Rahal
Williams: Sato(!) and Nakajima
Force India: Button and Rosberg
Super Aguri: Fisichella and Wurz
Prodrive: Sutil and d'Ambrosio
Mornin all.
Scotty - I just love GPM2 because of the absolute randomness sometimes, Raikkonen once ended up with Toro Rosso, then I managed to bag him, before he left back to McLaren.
Hehe, it is good. Vettel just won at Sepang (badged as Jerez because that's the circuit it took the place of) with Hamilton and Alonso on the podium and Kubica 4th. Just nabbed a better rear wing from BMW since their security is crap! That's one thing I love - the top teams have the best security in the first season, then switch to the worst one afterwards! It's just soooo easy to take their better parts :D
So is Sepang good, I've never actually tried it yet?
Yeah, it's very good. Hopefully the guys at GPM2 World will make more circuits. But for now, I'll accept Estoril taking the place of Bahrain. The layouts do look very similar :P
Cool, will download it soon then. Never liked Jerez anyway, we could never qualify well or race well.
My cars are consistenly qualifying on the first two rows at every race. Not always like that at the finish of the race but it's nice when we pull off a 1-2.
We just demolished everyone in qualifying for Barcelona. Both my guys did 1'12s, 3rd placed Bourdais only did 1'15! :D
And a 1-2 as well :D
Aye, usually we get one guy on the podium and the other either low down in the points or out of it completley. I think the best result I've got is a 1-4
And it's now official - the Renault is the best car on the grid :D
Oh stop showing off ;) Well done though
:D
I take it Mr C made an update to the realtime when we were sleeping then.
I love it, I praise Mr C and it gets put in the mod queue.
Got it.
Cheers
Meanwhile, Alianora has been looking into ownership in her post: F1 Racing, Perfume and Trademarks. Always a tricky subject, I wouldn’t be surprised if Bernie got involved, just for fun. {Original entry}
Since Bernie owned Formula One Licensing (FOL) at the time it opposed F1 Racing Enterprise, you could say he already has. I believe FOL is the upteemth Bernie company now in CVC's F1 portfolio, but that happened at the same time as CVC hoovered up the other Bernie companies, post-dating FOL losing its case against F1 Racing Enterprise by two years. I probably should have mentioned that in the entry...
GPM2 Update - Renault dominated the championship with Vettel champion and Kubica 2nd and the team claiming the constructors title. “2010? now sees Prodrive take the place of Honda, Super Aguri are still in the championship(?!) and the driver line-ups are as follows: {Comment #1}
Keep dreaming, GPM2! Still, I think I'll give this game another go when I've reinstalled my computer (I'm getting a hard drive to replace my failed secondary hard drive and it seems like a good time to reinstall, if only to get all my Sims 2 files in sequence to improve its speed).
Morning all, i have to tell you about my dream last night, it was positivily odd.....'me' and Christine were coming over to my house (dont know why), they arrived in a Vauxhall vx220 then we ended up going to a park that i didnt recognise, where there was a cafe which did mcflurrys and fish and chips...but it wasnt a McDonald...how odd....
However, and this is a very BIG however....i took some prescription sleeping tablets that give you one hell of a hangover in the morning, so im guessing i was pretty drugged up last night!!! hahah
anyone planning on watching/ watching A1 gp?
What time is it on? Monaco's on pole! :D
wow! for what race did they get pole?
sprint race reply just finished - netherlands won, with monaco losing 4th on the last lap to finish 5th.
Feature race, courtesy of Clivio Piccione.
i think now. but i can't get the site to load :(
Oooh, ok.
Wont load for me either...
after about 10 mins of timeouts it have a new message 'server is too busy' :)
Honda turn down £100m from Uncle Bernie
(yes, The News of the World!)
I tried to help with the management buy-out. They should have taken what I offered. It was a very good offer for everybody concerned. It gave them complete protection but they wanted to do things on their own. Now all we can do is hope and pray!
If we lost a McLaren or Ferrari or somebody like BMW, people would wonder what’s going on. But I don’t think that will be the case with Honda. They didn’t do too much last year, did they?
http://www.justin.tv/jonnys2_tv
Is this it?
oo yep, thanks, but no cool graphics though :(
What does that mean? Neither did Williams...
Bernie making a drama out of it, as usual.
Netherlands won the sprint race after starting on pole.
And GB made a mess of it.
GPM2 question - I've got Kubica and Vettel under contract for another season's worth of races, yet the news says he's planning to leave my team. Does this mean he's going elsewhere next season or after the contract is over?
What did they do this time?
Which one is planning to leave? Probably means after the contract is over.
Sorry, forgot to say it's Vettel who plans to leave.
But it's confusing since I've got him under contract for another 24 races or so.
Decided to move across into Brazil..
Brazil continues - GB didn't
Tight start, great one by New Zealand! Nice to see Andretti up with Prost.
Ireland out!
Ireland spin!
Well done Ireland. :D
Go on Marco! :D
Fantastic battle between NZL and Malaysia here! :D
Australia joining the fight.
And Australia now.
Malaysia occasionally have a great race - mostly they hover around 10th
COLLISION with Malaysia and New Zealand!
Malaysia better watch out, John Martin really pressuring. Brazil looking to get in there too.
Don't spoil it! I haven't seen that yet. :(
Seen it now. Bit cheeky.
It's turning into a comedy again.
NZ, France + Mexico out.
Comedy of errors you mean :D
Yup.
India, china, ireland, malaysia, france..... :D
Should we speed the footage up, change the filter to black and white and put in some 1930s movie music?
:D
Benny Hill theme. :D
Malaysia has retired Ireland and NZ.
Sounds like I should expect the entire grid to collide with each other before the end of the race. Then they wonder why nobody gets straight from A1GP to F1...
Definately marking that one a 5.9 for style. Well done Malaysia
I think they should change the name of the series from A1GP to the Takuma Sato School for Race Driving.
I'll give an extra .5 for the smoke.
And now - the pit lane chaos...
hehe :)
FLAMBE!
Think we need this for the pitstops.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg
I'm LMFAO at these pitstops with the Benny Hill theme playing :D
that is pure genius....
haha :)
Swiss looking good now.
Poor Monaco. :(
Has A1gp.com disapeared from the web?
Yup. Am watching via Justin.tv
http://www.justin.tv/jonnys2_tv
Got Sky HD so.. ;)
Just wanted the dashboard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nth5FDOvSJE
play these at the same time...
GAH! my laptop just gets worse. I go to save my edit on photoshop and photoshop stops responding. it's getting beyond a joke now.
Going wrong for Monaco.
If you lived closer - i'd offer to take a look at it for you. Sadly, too far away and no car at the moment. :( *I broked it....*
Even worse for USA.
What time will the live show be on? Might be able to join, for once. ;)
:(
Lebanon are improving with every race. I could see them getting regular points end of this season and next season.
South Africa - unable to downshift.
Home team out.
Am guessing 7pm?
Not bad for a team that didn't score until this season! What's the secret, I wonder?
And as I say that, Lebanon passes Germany - round the outside!
First thing for RSA to try, reboot the computer system and replace the steering wheel - may work perfectly after that.
if it's due to start at 7pm... real start time... 7:32pm? ;)
Getting used to the car? They are massivly improved. And it was a great move past the Gerry. :D
aw thanks. am just getting frustrated with it. Mum promises me we will get it fixed this week.
They didn't even bother trying. Zaugg is out of the car.
The crackling on that onboard camera made the engine sound like the Renault V10 from the 1994 Williams
As long as you have a full backup of everything before trying anything then thats good. :)
First thing to try is purely to wipe the machine clean and reinstall from scratch. If it still fails after that, most likely to be a hardware issue.
I have a stock of external USB hard drives holding images and essential data of most of my machines so I can wipe them and have them running again in around 10 minutes.
Probs at the end of the 24 races he has been signed on to someone else.
And if this fails, hit it with a hammer.
...what? :)
Okay, so how much of the A1GP have I missed?
am testing out doohickey on the g1. we're hurrying to pc world.
I prefer the PlankCam. They've attached a camera to one the Portugal car's splitter in front of the plank. Looking at the underside of the nose and through the front wing - it rocks.
China sloooooow.
Speaking of USB, not sure if this has been mentioned here:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-269606.html
Single charger coming for mobile phones.
Whole sprint race, half of the feature race.
Getting a new laptop for Lou?
18 laps to go in the feature race...
You'll need this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg
Damn
haha :D
Monaco really falling back now - Brazil up to 2nd. The Monaco car not liking this set of tyres at all.
How useful would that be? I'm fed up of going into our kitchen drawers and finding about 20 tangled up chargers from previous and current phones! So annoying :(
He's taking a shortcut, i Ithink he might be kidnapping me.
:D sidepodcast - keeping the community happy :P
Brazil though - Monaco fluffed it. :(
I'm scared to ask. Hows GB doing?
Moderated. :(
EXACTLY!
Brazil hasn't done this well since the days of Nelsinho Piquet.
Sprint: Not very well at all.
Feature: Doing OK.
Ninth, actually.
The very first A1GP races were both won bt Brazil - thats about as good as it gets...
Just had a 15.6 second pit stop. :(
Pitstops? Cue Benny Hill theme!
haha :)
PlankCam! :D
You should trademark that name. :D
Oh lordy...
lets just say the first round of pitstops were a little ferrari-esque... as in long and a disaster ;)
Is this a geniune shortcut or a normal MAN-Shortcut.. Much nicer road to drive, but 12 miles longer? ;)
For everyone?
GBR FL! :D
WTF!? team GBR has the fastest lap? How did he do that?
Shortcut went well until unexpected roadworks. Damn. Just spotted hamilton on a billboard.
Not anymore, team USA has beat it.
Team USA got the fastest lap now. :D
About half... You have also missed a quite impressive spin from Malaysia - lots of smoke and gravel and dust. :D
Kimi-esque. :P
looks like it's not only the chasis they got from ferrari then :P
-Car Stalls
-Mechanics push car into pitlane
-Mechanics block pitlane for other cars
-Car catches on fire
Thats more Hondaesque than Ferrariesque. :D
Darn.
Dunno whats worse, roadworks or Hamilton grinning at you.
In pc world now. On the list:
Printer cartridge
New laptop bag
New laptop for lou
anything else?
Did Malaysia get any penalty after taking out both Ireland AND New Zealand?
once... it happen once! :P an technically that was after the race :P
Nope. They retired.
The commentator says they are still driving. I think thats what he means
In Honda's defence, I'm sure they wanted to end a rough season and go out with a bang.... literally. ;)
I prefer Benneton-esque.
But in '07 they gave him a lighter to do it...
In '08 the car did it itself. :D
PLANKCAM! :D I love that.
:) shows they have a sense of humour :D
GB up to 6th.
They certainly need one. :P
They were just trying to get rid of yet another useless car in an entertaining way for everyone to see.
They certainly need one. :P
Could be - especially if you include Renault with that - Alonso's car toasted itself at the last race in '05(?)
7 laps to go - plenty of time for TeamGB to make a complete hash of it.
You would not believe how fussy a man can be over a laptop bag.
Just buy him the pink furry one. ;)
so you rushed to PC World for a laptop bag?
Is this a new feature in F1? I can see the adverts now from suppliers of the device:
'Want a new way to spice up the racing? Had a bad season and want to get rid of the car quickly and without effort? Well, try the new Autolighter, guaranteed to set off a spark in your dark days of motorsport!'
I love this! Brilliant!
Amongst other things :)
India approaching Italy to try and ram him over the road again....
Yep, a sense of humour is never a bad thing. :D
Come on Lebanon, the Minardi of A1GP by the sounds of it.
India fails once again.
ah :)
Have put a picture of a potential new bag for Mr C. Can someone link to it for me? Drop.io takes ages to load on here.
India does the same thing...
Poor old Narain, hasn't improved much since his Jordan days in 2005 then?
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/1235311137236
Oh sweet god
hahaha i thought he liked to stay anonymous? :P
I didn't think he was that bad at Jordan - but the fact that he has F1 xperience and he can't compete here shows a lot though.
GB 2 second a lap slower than anyone around him... Yay!
Oooh. Next race is at the new track in Portugal. Sweet.
Final lap.
He's gone for a boring blue one. Next up printer cartridge, and laptop for lou.
Hello Emmo!
Not bad, finally get a chance to see the track properly.
Switzerland wins, Brazil hangs on from Monaco, Lebanon P6.
Nice. If you're getting a new laptop for Lou, don't forget to buy the AppleCare too.
Lebanaon and Monaco best results.
:D
GOO Lebanon!
He's been distracted by the monitors. Has been jealous of mine for weeks.
Had the chance of going to see that or the speedway in Cardiff. Picked the speedway.
Or buy a dell which won't need extra cover. ;) :P
Nice one Brazil - fuel pressure problems for the last 10 laps.
Lebanon - superb. :D
Portugal or Wales? And you chose Wales? Eh?
Thinking about it, there's no way i'd buy a mac from pc world.
I'd been wanting to go see it for years though, and there is more chance of a British victory.
Did you buy yours without him knowing it or something? :P
Its a long story :)
Me neither, obviously. I was just trying to hint that Lour really wants a Mac :)
Now trying to decide between printer cartridge and new printer.
That's Lou I mean
Surely printer cartridges are cheaper?! :S
If you need a cartridge - buy online - massively cheaper.
May well be better to get a new printer. I went from a Epson Stylus 13 job to an A3 colour laser - sold the Epson and bought the laser for about £50 on top. :D
You would think.
No, printer cartridges are like razor blades. The printer is sometimes cheaper than a set of new cartridges.
the number of ink cartridges we go through i wouldn't be surprised if it was cheaper to buy a new printer :P
Switzerland is home to Neel Jani, Sebastian Buemi, and numerous other F1 drivers who call it their tax haven.
And yet their Parliament wants no part of motor racing. Quite silly, really.
Interesting - if medals were used instead of points - Portugal would be leading the championship. As it's done on points, then if there's a tie, the medals decide it, the Swiss lead.
Not always!
Isn't Michael Schumacher registered as unemployed in Switzerland?
By the way, what's wrong with the Doohickey? Suddenly the webpage that links to my SPC wiki page is not valid...?
They repealed the ban in 2007.
Purchases made, heading home now. Battery life on G1 = hopeless.
So next time we see a Panda with a pink rucksack we can be fairly sure it's Mr C
Next A1GP race - April 11th! :(
Because the Indonesian one was cancelled on the grounds of the circuit not being finished!
Mexico was cancelled too. :(
We could have as few as 7 races this season. :(
Although is they do head to Interlagos then it'll be 8 instead of 10. :( But going to Interlagos would be great. Real comparison with F1 and GP2 cars
Indonesia have their own version of Donington ;)
Do GP2 cars run at Interlagos?
Nope, the gp2 series usually ends about a month before f1 does
Evidently not - I thought they had in the past though. Wrong. :D
We can compare them to Formula BMW though - they are one of the F1 support races.
Disaster at Sidepodcast Towers. We brought the wrong printer cartridge!
I knew we shoulda gone with the new printer.
oh dear. you can take it back and exchange it though, can't you?
Possibly. Running short on time now though, it will have to be in the week.
Never mind, printing isn't very green, anyway :)
Don't know if anyone's seen this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7899228.stm
Turns out there isn't going to be a night race in Malaysia for a while.
Has A1gp.com disapeared from the web?
Yup. Am watching via Justin.tv {Comment #71}
Uh-oh. Web presences are usually quite cheap. I hope this isn't a sign of financial difficulties...
Nope. Just tried it out now.
can ya refresh doohickey and try your web address pls gavin?
Probably just the high demand at the time
:-P
How do ya get the web adress in doohikey?
Looks like it works ok now :-D
one character encoding bug down, 6,999 to go :)
top left, third box down.
I've got that bit, but how dya have it as a link then?
ahh, at the moment, only in the stats at the bottom of the page.
i can add links to comments too if you like?
Ahhh
Not too fussed personally
Afternoon all.
Have to pop out for my nephews birthday so do not know if I will be back by 7pm tonight
Hopefully I can catch most of the show
(These 8 year olds can be such divas)
booo!
you think we're gonna start on time?
True ;)
Will be straight on the 'puter when I get back
Me and Joe were just discussing this whole Bernie-Honda thing that the News of the World 'revealed'. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the article started something like this:
'Formula One supreme Bernie Ecclestone SENSATIONALLY reaveled today that Honda bosses refused his own buyout of the team for a massive £100m. Ecclestone's publicist exclusively told the NOTW that Honda:
*PLEADED with Bernie to buyout the team for more money until they
*REFUSED to talk to Ecclestone in person due to the teams pullout from the sport
*SHOUTED at the Formula 1 boss for the plans he had if he bought the team
*IGNORED any actual attempts from other buyers for any kind of buyout
and then 2 pages of sheer crap. It's the News of the World template. Pinch of salt etc.
Printer ink is the most expensive liquid in the world
I guess that means I missed it then. OOPS
Agreed... NOTW doesn't usually let veracity get in the way of a good yarn....
Although I do recall that they get the odd story right...
hehe :)
just testing lclt. pls ignore.
Yeawn, I wonder if lclt will be updated soon ;)
yay! have added the [1 unread message] info to the live commenting, live... thing. yell if you spot any problems.
will migrate more of the new things from doohickey this week and next.
hehe.
Theres only one, Mr C!
lclt test
Now the other way
Does it come up?
Notice you've added time function as well.
Am testing from doohickey
Yay! It works :)
yeah, it'll have the same issue as doohickey had last week, in that posted comments don't contain seconds (until refreshed). it'll catch up soon enough though.
Post a smiley on the doohickey, and it's massive on the lclt?
I posted that from lclt
Should add: :?
:( :) :D
Blimey
How come those five smileys are big and all the others are small?
:D:D
:D:D
:P:P:P
You still need spaces between smilies in the lclt.
Yay. The smileys are properly viewable now :D
just looking into it.
and in ye olde comments
I don't get it, the smilies look the same to me :(
Which commenting system be ye be using?
I take it I'm the only one seeing me double posting a la doohickey initial problems.
I had it once but that was a couple of days ago
fixing now. same issue as when doohickey changes went live last week (you'd think i'd learn!!)
:mrgreen:
if you refresh doohickey smilies should be consistent, and i'm hoping the double posting has been sorted.
Doohickey ot lclt?
i mean lclt smilies, gah! where's a preview button when you need one?
Are we expecting the live show at 7?
ish.
Ah, of course.
It is funny to watch the delay in new posts appearing in the lclt or the doohickey. I have both plus a few other tabs open on other things. Switching to a different tab you see the new post appear on the lclt then the doohickey.
I was on the doohickey, didnt realise you were on about the lclt. my bad :P
it's likely i'll be having dinner in the next half hour, but i would like to take part tonight. is that ok? i may be a bit late turning up though :p
I think I may have left my phone at the party last night.
Is that the only phone you can sing on :D
Yes. And has someone just nicked all of the comments?
The smilies are bigger :D
The Comments have gone! PANIC, the world is back tracking on itself, were dooooooomed
huh?
huh?
That's not what you want to hear when you turn up for a live show.
F5. ;)
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/dooomed-jpg
???
how odd.
A quick refresh and its all good, but aye, how did that happen?
Every time I change a page in lclt the comments disappear...
Did they just suddenly go?
ahh okay... don't do that :)
I changed page and there were no comments, changed back to the inital page and no comments on there
Same.
Problem solved. :D
too late to fix this evening. will tackle tomorrow.
James Allen speculates as to why Honda told Bernie to go away: http://allenonf1.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/why-did-honda-turn-bernie-down/
In a 'why didn't we think of that!' moment... could Bernie's interest in Honda be down to him wanting in at future FOTA meetings?