We weren't expecting to be incredibly behind schedule this weekend, but that's exactly how it turned out. There are two F1 Digest shows expected out later today, however the Debrief is already up! At least something is going right. Here are some of the other things we're discussing:
- James has only gone and got himself a blog. The name comes from an interview Max Mosley gave during the British GP weekend, and managed to insult most of the paddock as he did so. At the time of writing, there's just an introduction post up there, but do as I do and subscribe to the blog, and wait for good things to fall into your feed reader.
- Yesterday's Parade Lap was a really fun show to create, and we hope it was good to listen to as well. If you haven't had a chance to do so, we really recommend going back and checking it out. We got to chat to Scott as he navigated his way towards the grandstands for the race, and we took in some predictions, and even had a bit of a special moment for Piquet. What more could you ask for in a show?
- In F1 news, Vettel has said his win was not as easy as it looked. Um... really?
That'll do it for now, as ever, we await your comments about all manner of topics, not necessarily just the above. Don't forget we try and keep things positive, though, and a quick reminder that anything Max gets up to behind closed doors is an unmentionable. Please. I will see you in the comments.
Now I have safely seen the daily post go up, I can go to bed.
G'night Christine
Thanks for another great weekend's entertainment
Goodnight! Thanks again :)
Awww Mr C seems to have managed recently! Night night christine!
Good night Christine and Jon
Now, do we continue here?
Shuey has a parachuting licence
Who knew
Brave jumping out a plane with that chin
:D
Damn, forgot the GP2 sprint race replay
I got a name check in the Parade Lap which I wasn't present for :)
Giggles and his ever open Doohickey, I think his cat stops it from sleeping
textiles is done! wohoo! sleep time for me, night all! x
Happy sleeps Lou
Night Lou
Mr C:
Should mobile realtime link be in the front page shortcuts?
[Most will bookmark but they need to be aware first!]
Night Lou
Oh that reminds me of something.
Mr C, what's the email address that will get to you?
You can try
[email protected]
or
[email protected]
Thanks Bassano, will do.
So quiet....
Think everyone's Silverstoned out :)
The night shift will be here soon
True enough
I've become addicted to this strange game I've found on my housemates computer about running a farm. It's compulsive
Oh dear, this could be dangerous
?
Games get a little addictive here. Hope it's installed rather than online :)
Yeah. You're safe....
So Alison, are you a night owl or an international member?
Night owl!
There's a small bunch here
Then Australia and the Far East log on to take over
Gave up on sleep. :(
So is that Sims "farm day" or something liek that?
What is it with the sidepodwomen?
I hate those nights, luckily I'm on lates this week
:)
It's all Finland's fault. Who had the stupid idea to build a country where it's light during the night.
Doesn't everyone have black-out blinds or curtains?
Must be great for getting the washing dry though.
Morning, everyone. ;)
I guess you guys saw the big Stig reveal? Watching the clip of it now. Will DL the whole EP later.
The student flats don't have any. They have fast internet instead.
That makes it hard to develope that pasty-white student colour.
Good show, must start the campaign to move to Saturdays to aid SPC debrief recording
No! *covers ears*
:D
I think it's safe to come out now
Boo!
Ahahaha! :P
Nah, I won't spoil it for ya.
Hello from Sydney! :D
Hey Jeremy
Yeah!
Hello from Manila. ;)
Hello from Seattle-ish.
hehe. I couldn't resist. I had to watch it on Youtube.
How do you cover a race if you record the day before it happens?
Hi Dan and goodnight. Time for bed. Or at least it was a couple of hours ago.
You move Top Gear not Debrief
G'night Steven
I'm looking forward to watching F1 live on my TV when OneHD starts here July 2nd, can any Australians tell me whether there are ads on during the race? I'll have the usual stream going for the pre and post race shows, so if there are ads, it wont be a big deal.
I'm so excited. I'm tempted to buy a new Samsung LED TV to celebrate!
I'm excited about it too. Reading Amy's comments (from Melbourne) it seems that they do have adds. I think it's the same as we see in the replay. Still, live will be a great improvement. Will be nice to watch live on 94cm screen, not a 4cm stream.
Hey Jeremy, there are still the normal adverts, but the pre-show is worth it
yes jeremy there are ads :(
Except you have to put up with Bill and Ben presenting it.
haha yeah! i have to say, im warming to Greg Rust
but the collection of Gumboots that they stick with him is .......tiring at best!
i dont bother with the one pre show. I put it on mute and i record it in case something looks worth watching later but there normally isnt anything. I prefer to stream the bbc preshow
Bring back Neil Crompton!
Random Greg Rust facts: he's very short! absolute professional and total dynamo.
i agree! with the cromley comment.
I'm not sure I enjoy Crompton's "footy show" style of commentating he brings to V8s.
It's an act for the intended audience. He was an awesome racer and is a brilliant commentator. He follows the racing just like any of us dedicated fans, and presents all the facts well.
You could be right about the act. He does seem to know his stuff.
Crompton was doing work on the circuit broadcast at Singapore last year
I knew it! I asked here at the time if anyone knew for sure. I wasn't 100 % sure, but I thought I recognised his voice.
Is it true that Max has dropped legal action against FOTA in an effort to get them to talk to him?
Except that FOTA has snubbed him? FOTA are really twisting the knife here - but this may backfire for them if Max proves to have enough support within the FIA to run again...
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2008/09/26/live-commenting-singapore-free-practice-2/#comment-112584
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2008/09/26/live-commenting-singapore-free-practice-2/#comment-112584
Yep, well spotted (at the time)
Looking like that isn't it. I'm not sure about the tactics either. There's obviously a lot going on behind doors, but it really seems FOTA is going for Max's scalp.
Morning
This is a calculated move. Andrew Davies of PF1 also made a very good point that Bernie didn't give a public statement of support for Max over the weekend.
Again, the big question is whether or not FOTA did their political homework at the FIA. Even if they now have the upper hand on Max, this is still a pretty risky move to take - this has as much downside as it has upside.
I swear someone will write a book about this sooner or later.
Morning, Flibster!
I know what I want for Christmas!
It won't be out by Christmas. Max will need to be out of power by at least a year before this can happen.
Hey hows everyone
Interestingly Bernie said at one point that the egos were too big on both sides... And I doubt he was talking about himself.
In further fuel to my argument that this is an entire charade designed to get rid of CVC guess who rode together in a single helicopter to circuit?
Bernie
and
Max
and
Flav
I'm thinking that this may have been more a quick closed-door discussion to try to get FOTA to back off, rather than a real conspiracy theory to get rid of CVC (even if that is probably what will happen anyway).
Morning all.
Christine, (and any one else in the UK wanting to watch a certain race engineer) the BBC forum replay is now up here, and Rob comes on ~8 mins in for ~10 mins.
Oooooh, thank you :)
good morning
Morning, Wolf. When are you heading home? Too bad you won't be in Paris on Wednesday. That will be a pretty big day. :)
flying tonite
Work done.
Let film day begin!
*ta da da daaaaaaa!*
What you got lined up?
Alien (Theatrical Cut)
Aliens (Directors Cut)
The Dirty Dozen
Clerks
I've seen that one! Get in!!
Add Terminator 2 Skynet Edition to that list. Just arrived in the post. :D
:D
I could dip into my obscure film collection for you? Bound to be nothing there you've seen. ;)
I think it would only be a depressing experience for the both of us :)
I've got some film that I havent seen all the way through yet...
To be fair, it's pretty extreme stuff - I have to be in the right mood to see it
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/06/18/its-all-about-the-music-tunes-from-apples-keynote-presentatio/
Morning
Morning Alison.
Morning.
I've just been listening back to the parade lap. Lots of fun.
I felt I needed to because I couldn't hear the our tune music in the background during recording. So it was interesting to hear it with the backing music. I am much crueler than Simon Bates ever was. Maybe because he was reading out other people's letters!
The song for Piquet is perfect! Looking in the mirror thinking it's over.
i didn't think it was cruel at all. although i swear he didn't spin out yesterday just to annoy us.
maybe we could take listener letters too?
He beat Alonso!! He heard and wanted to show you he was just pretending to be slow all this time....
Maybe people could write the Our Song? That could work well! I can edit into the style if necessary.
Maybe he was listening on twitter as Mr C suggested in the show?
christine has competition.
also, loving the race noted form ollie.
My favourite part of the show was that:
We were on a live link to Silverstone talking to Scott
And I sitting on a second live link
And I read a question from the comments from Lukeh about Heidfeld's beard
And Scott knowing the community so well had already asked Heidfeld about the beard and could answer.
Something about the interconnectedness of it all was pretty mindblowing. Almost as cool as a small digital boy reading a drawing on a screen.
You know he's been doing that for a while, right?
nope.
All season?
Since Bahrain, I think.
Since China
i very much agree. a special moment.
might even need a blog post about it... "how frickin' cool is this?"
Woooo! I've finished my last uni project for this year. Roll on summer holiday!
morning all
yay.
wasn't it the longest day yesterday?
*waves vigorously*
Yeah I think it was! Better not be the hottest day we're getting though
*waves back*
I was thinking - perhaps we could collate the best bits from the bloggers on their Silverstone experiences? I mean, there's SPC, Scott, RCC, F1Wolf, Jackie...?
Thought it might be a good idea...
8 minutes til Wimbledon starts :D
You should drop.io your best Tennis Grunt impression ;)
I've got sun burn from yesterday. Unfortunatly, I was wearing a red bull hat, so there is a upside down arch of sunburn on my face! looks a little rediculus (I can't spell!)
too busy trying to win $50,000,000 ;)
easy big fella - it's only Monday morning!
sounds like a fine plan. the cool thing is though, everyone one of those people has a blog!
had a great weekend though.
has anyone received a sporting injury from waving before?
Un-named Energy Drink gives you appendages that can be used in the implementation of powered flight?
heeheheheheh. :D
I know - but why not collect a quote from each and link in one mega post?
Put the bad spelling down to sunstroke?
can do. we'll hassle each one for a quote, as they stop buy the comments.
Will do!
we're selling comments now? interesting.
*stop by
Beats Google ads?
I thought the wimbledon champion was supposed to be first on court each year?
Why do we think that is? The political landscape changing? The British GP continuance news? The fact that even though one driver ran away with the race, it wasn't the same guy?
Wow. Even the Americans have noticed F1's issues.
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1905975,00.html
Even the FIA/FOTA meetings? ;)
According to the BBC F1 mole, what has been said behind closed doors is different to what was said in public over the weekend...
Well we have a championship battle again.
that is tradition, but he ain't here this year
all of the above.
actually, i'm not that bothered about vettel winning. was rooting for webber.
Oh yeah! I forgot Roger didn't win last year. Poor Rafa :(
Can't complain too much though, my man won yesterday....
Same here. Or Button from sixth. Vettel won in a way that was too much like Schumacher for my tastes.
Because we met ROB!!
unfortunately i get the impression red bull happily favour one driver over the other. i guess it's the only way they'll keep seb for the long term.
Well they keep fuelling Webber very heavily ... They must view Seb as the future and Web will just put up because he has a good drive?
You are an honorary Australian for the day after that statement. We need a double entendre smiley
maybe they keep him because he makes a good number two and crashes less than DC.
But Button hasn't in the other weeks?
Didn't matter after quali
I don't understand what you mean. Seb was heavier for qualy this race and tbh after the first lap no amount of strategy would have webber catch him up.
Agreed.
Not for the other races though...
hehe. we backed him to do well in turkey too.
i'm as equally bored of vettel as i am of jenson this year. they're both nice guys which makes them difficult to dislike though.
I had to save the photo in my phone after following the link to dropio. A great moment in Sidepodhistory
Did you know he likes Little Britain?
Not in every race he hasn't. Maybe Turkey, I dunno. It just seemed that Vettel won effortlessly when Jenson has to fight for it...
Just watching top gear - that FXX lap is amazing!
Only thanks to Rubens yesterday
In a new moment for "internet streaming in Amys life", I just paid for one.
i did not know that. fancy eh, a formula 1 driver liking a comedy program that hasn't been funny for at least three years. the things you learn.
I think that's just bias no? This race seems like most others this season. He's led off the line and driven into the sunset. Massa's been his rear gunner most of the season!
A driver with a sense of humour is apparently a fact worth repeating.
Just dropping pics from yesterday including an interview with Antony Davidson ! (unfortunatly louise goodman was interviewing him, but never mind...)
In my mind the effortless win was Barrichello's... well fault is too mean a word for it. Rubens did well to get a not very well handling car into position. And once he was there he kept Vettel's only competitor out of the way.
Driver likes a comedy program thats interesting at first and now is repetitive and boring - sounds like the 2009 F1 Season!
I saw no difference between the way Vettel and Button have won. Both lead easily from the front. Both bored me.
To be fair to him he mentioned liking it back during that first season when it was funny.
Paid for what?
Wimbledon online. I got sick of trying to find streams during the French Open, this way I can take my pick of 6 courts and know that the streams won't shut down.
That's kinda the point. When was the last time he mentioned he likes it? Not since it was actually funny.
But apparently it is the one fact about Vettel that bears repeating.
tis true. with my cynical hat on though i suspect rbr would've favoured one over the other if webber had passed.
of course this is all kimi's fault...
Blokey I know who works for RBR has popped a couple of pictures up on the Interweb from Christian Horner's annual post-Silverstone party last night: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=14334063&postcount=537
Newey doing his legendary doughnuts on Horner's lawn this time!
But they didn't let Vettel past... when was it? Last race? They issued team orders to keep Vettel behind.
I think they've played it pretty fairly over there - so far.
The only thing that impressed me yesterday was that absolutely nobody could overtake. This on a track everybody says is a great F1 track
Clever. Expensive?
i know. not having a go at vettel. i'll be less subtle, one second...
david croft, please shut the chuff up about vettel liking little britain, you must've mentioned it about 16 times this weekend. i cannot continue hearting you if you keep this up for much longer.
kthanxbye.
I do think they play the team game more than some others which tbh is ridiculous, surely the competitor title is gone?? Engineering the result last race just seems pointless
$10 for 24 hours or $30 for the whole 2 weeks. So I went for the latter.
Hello everyone..
I has a hangover... Alcohol is horrible stuff...
No new politics about? F1 is getting boring ;)
true enough. but my guess was they were very... fed up with his first lap mistake.
:)
Funny, Legard never mentioned it ;)
Well worth it. Makes the Official F1 iPod App seem good value.
You should read the BBC F1 Mole - I think you'll find it interesting...
Does Legard know what Little Britain is!?
That's kinda my point though. It's hardly rational is it? That's not how you make strategy decisions. You should think about it, not do it because you're annoyed then come on the radio and say "well that's what you get....."
you know that's because he wasn't following f1 for the past 5 years, right?
He would think it's a scale model of the country, no?
The official Wimbledon iPod App is free ;)
he's still enjoying adams family reruns presumably.
True. Still, he mentioned it 16 times less than Crofty!
Exactly... you can't infer from that that what they might have done had Webber got ahead.
And they put Vettel on a heavier fuel load than Webber this weekend confounding those who think they are giving Vettel everything.
I missed quali for Kitty Flanagan and several other excellent comedians. Can I drive for Red Bull now?
i guess they have a lot to learn, or maybe they think that's the best way to get the most out of seb?
Or a road near my office.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Little+Britain,+City+of+London,+London+EC1A,+United+Kingdom&sll=53.956086,-4.042969&sspn=22.670017,45.263672&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FYYYEgMdyH3-_w&split=0&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A
Hmm just read it...
I dont see why FOTA dont just openly call for max to resign... Unless that would solve everything, and give nobody anything to argue about
According to the folk at Mark Webber Forum the drivers are getting alternate strategies and taking it in turns to be heavy, as stated by some RBR person on TV earlier this year. Can't remember if it was a driver or a management dude. I am not sure if this is actually happening or not though.
Maybe I was so annoyed about last race result because it was like the Le Mans debacle.
The drivers take it in turns to select their preferences for qualifying and in Silverstone it fell to Webber to opt to run light and gun for pole - which then backfired due to a dawdling Finn with no concept of getting off the racing line on an in-lap.
and no reaction from officials supprisingly
I just wish people could be allowed to just race properly and settle it that way. Okay you can tell them if they crash into each other they're both sacked but beyond that I hate the 'team first' angle. Just seems to add a farcical dimension to it all.
At least Stefano had the grace to apologise by calling him up.
especially given the video footage and the fact the fia aren't best buddies with ferrari.
What;s the point? The race result is determined in qualifying
shame magnum p.i. couldn't have done the same :(
and given the carry on at times last year
hehe, good name.
now i need one...
look at the size of the trophy.
new cabinet?
In Turkey that whole carry on had nothing to do with qualifying.
Booo. :(
Had to drop Aliens from my film day - can't find the disc.
So it's been replaced on the schedule with the Goonies. :D
Awwww the Goonies!! Immense!
True. I;m just anooyed about yesterday.
I actually think Turkey made good team sense
Yup. Was one of my first purchases on Bluray. :D
I would say it's to appease the inner child... but I am my inner child. :D
Very irritated that I can't find Aliens. It's a Bluray disc - all the other in the Quadrilogy are in the case, Aliens isn't in there, and isn't in any of the bluray players...
Hmmmm.
They're going to have to pop to the large Ikea just down the road from them and buy a new one pretty sharpish!
In that it placated Webber?
You'd put something that heavy in an Ikea cabinet? 8O
Nope, not at all. I think Vettel would have get second without his mistake. That's just the way it goes sometime. Having them race over the last 5 laps could have been quite dangerous.
Do you think Webber should have just moved over?
I love that the Red Arrows are bustin' some moves in the marquee :)
at mclaren, newey
spentwasted his time making mechanical ducks for the MTC lake. maybe he could work on a light weight double-decker cabinet for RBR?:D
Ron Spies
Counting the smokers' unproductivity
They have lots of used planks from races and testing - there's a use for them. ;)
No, not at all. I think they took his 2nd away before then though when they refused to swap strategies to suit the fact that he wasn't in front anymore. It was obvious that Webber was gonna get in front unless he got straight past Button which wasn't really realistic.
hehe. Wish we had some of those
Oh - something to add to the diary.
Happy Chocolate Eclair Day!
tis all true.
You know what is great about this? Two competitive drivers in a great car. It's been a while...
All we need now is to let them compete and we'll be getting somewhere ;)
They might be trying to avoid the 2007 situation, although it doesn't seem to be working.
You're talking to an F1 rookie!! 2007 is too far back for my memory :D
Hamilton (another rookie!) V Anando. You should look it up :-)
i have no idea either. paul?
Oh lol. I know about that! I thought you were talking about red bull.
ohh. wasn't that more about alonso hating ron though? i get the impression horner is a difficult man to dislike.
Poor whiny Fernando had to run home to Flavio....
Just meant the drive V driver in the same team thing
But it became a bit of an inter-team battle, and they lost the championship as a result
Actually '89 was probably just as bad
Yeah, like I can see that Barrichello needed to beat Button this weekend. I think mentally you probably get to the point where you'd like to drive into your teammate just so they'd crash....
Worked for Senna.
and Prost...
:-) I was waiting for that. Lucky Steven Roy isn't around right now.
Hullo, posting on phone while on lunch break. Running entire frozen department on my own is beyond description. Any big news to get my mind off it all?
Good start for Laura Robson. The Brits should get behind her instead of Murray.
My shift is almost over, he will be here soon no doubt
My poor heart can't deal with getting excited yet.
I'm still looking for a man to cheer for.
Thing is, it will be interesting if we do see the Red Bulls 1 on 1. I think there is more chance of them being on the same pace. I just don't think Rubens will compete with Jenson. Besides, Jenson doesn't need to fight now.
How's Wozniacki doing?
Eat an icecream out the back of the freezer with your freezer suit on. That'll cheer you up. Cherish these moments Luke :P
not really. waiting for the rob chat on bbc tees.
hasnt played yet
I had a brief look at bbc.co.uk/tees
For all the foreigners, what is Tees? The East Side?
North East of England
Mr C - did you get into the pits at all?
Hello everyone!
I've just left an f1 cartoon i've been working on on drop.io, so i hope you enjoy it!
The people watching Roger right now have been queueing for 2 days. It's only the first round. Remind me never to go to Wimbledon.
I spy Jackie Stewart :D
Maybe if you blog enough about it, someone will slip you some free tickets ;)
and flights and accommodation? :D
Maybe start off with a boat and a tent....
:D
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/jackie-at-wimbledon-jpg
I bet he gets in for free ;)
Read his book. He bloody deserves it!
I really did expect our Jackie then!
His book is incredible!
Now if that isnt a photo of a man plotting something I dont know what is...
He wants to add a Wimbledon championship to his long list of achievements, and is wondering how he can take out Roger without anyone noticing.
I knew she'd struggle. Watching the mens straight after the womens, everything seems to be going so fast!!!
Roger needs to learn that early rounds shouldn't be quite so hard. More bagels, less getting broken.
umm, have you not listened to this weeks debrief?
What is this bagel thing tennis people talk about?
And i know what a real one is!
A bagel is when you win a set 6-0
ah... It doesn't really make sense... but ah
Is it bad that I'm bored of the tennis already?? Normally it takes until at least the semis....
It does! :D
Its silly though
Bagels are round. So are zeros. Bagels are tasty. Zeros not so much.
Keep winning 6-0 and there'll be loads of time to eat real bagels after your match
no not yet, that is tomorrows drive to work. But I think my question is answered
The first rounds tend to be boring though, its a bunch of no name players, or big names playing people they are waaaay better than. Theres normally only one upset per round and you'd have to watch 64 matches in the hope you'd see it.
:)
Blake looks like he's in trouble.
Maybe I'm just sad I should be watching Rafa :(
Is there an mp3 of the parade lap? I'm looking everywhere
How much do you reckon the linesmen hate hawkeye....
:D
I think its just a live show most weeks
yep. Sometimes they archive them. Oh well never mind
shall drop.io later.
I think the BBC are just shuffling matches around its channels to confuse everyone who has it on mute into thinking its more exciting that it is...
Hahaha. I've just been watching Laura Robson fall apart emotionally on BBC2. She's still there.....
:D I'm so tired that I'll miss a lot of my favourites tonight. Shall head to zzzz after someone wraps up this first set in Roger v Guy Who Isn't Roger.
Microsoft to launch Liver-Professional product
cool. Sleep for me now
Come on lady. FIGHT!!!
Ive just watched top gear... I'm not sure that FXX should count!
flibster said the same earlier.
It's not a road car is it? It's an invitation to a development programme where you get to lease the car for trackday use only.
ah.. im working my way forward... now doing the parade lap, followed by the pre gp show. highlights... last nights live show...
:)
didn't see it, but the conclusion was, with schumi at the wheel it's bound to have been a massive cheat from beginning to end.
No its not street legal, its been driven by someone who has had experience of the car before, probably helped develop it, and has been set up perfectly for him!
Although if they are going down this route we could have F1 and LMP1 cars going round the circuit this summer!
wasn't it his car too?
Did he try to ram Clarkson off the test track?
Verry true!
He even cheated at being drunk, dressing up in Toyota gear so people thought he was ralph!
According to wikipedipater it is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_FXX
Was it a Black FXX? Because apparently he was given the last one ever made in Carbon black...
that's next week ;)
congrats on the 'on speed' appearance btw. you knocked gareth sideways.
It can't drive over a sleeping policeman either, can it?
But blimey, what a car!
Also, does anyone of us believe that was actually the stig yesterday?
I'd like to believe it, but my mind just keeps saying it's unlikely.
Yeah, im pretty sure it was his... Would have to be really ;)
It wasn't the stig.
You could tell simply because you could see Michael's neck while he was driving the car. When you can't when the normal Stig is driving.
Hehehe, no, he didn't even fill out the suit properly!
schumi is not the stig.
although hockey cokey was once (shh).
Cheers! I was walking back to the van with my wife's second cousin when I saw him - honestly I just walked up to say hi and shake his hand - I didn't realise he was recording!
Sorry Amy
just love that they left his reaction in too. think you made his day.
:D
It's Ben Collins. But apparently there have been other White Stigs like Kovi...
no apologies needed! I liked Stig Heikki :D
I didn't think so.
I didn't know he was so popular in the UK though. I always though most of you peeps across the channel are a bit anti-Schumi by default :p
He seems like a really nice bloke - considering how excited and jumpy I was he made me feel relaxed!
I'll drop.io it later when I get home...)
Will there be a new stig with a new colour?
I'm thinking brown Stig!
Rob is on BBC Tees right now.
I watched Rob this morning on the forum.
I might have an unhealthy obsession. Thoughts?
Afternoon all.
What a surreal morning! The lady working the checkout at Sainsbury's wanted to know my views about the state of the nation – she was quite insistent, actually. Then the BBC rings up...
...and that's what they wanted to talk about. Will be doing about 12 local stations in an epic ring-round this pm.
Max had the compromise for the taking. Had he decided to stick to 2012, his reputation would've managed to escape relatively intact. While FOTA would look like they caved in.
But he just had to push too far. And now he's paying the price - bigtime.
Probably because the FIA members don't like getting dictated to by a bunch of teams/carmakers (outsiders, so to speak). It would be better for FOTA to try to influence these guys to make their own decision.
Gosh! Who knew it was that interesting!?
lap board is for cars:
1) You can buy
2) Are road legal
3) Can go over a speed bump
FXX - scores 0/3
Caparo T1 *which was faster than the FXX* Scores 3/3 Yet the T1 was removed. :(
'Stig' was disappointed with the T1 as well - he thought there was another 4 seconds in the car that he couldn't get out of it.
The main reason it was removed was because they thought that no-one would want to give them a hypercar in the future as there would be next to no chance of it being faster than the T1.
I want a T1. *looks down back of sofa for £270'000 worth of loose change - finds a melted chocolate button*
what in the world is there to talk about?
which stations? will tune in.
ROBnews: kers gives us a huge laptime advantage. will be on the cars in germany.
Yeah, I was actually surprised at the warm reception he got. Time heals all wounds, I guess. And he has conducted himself very well since his retirement. He really is a likable guy when he's not on the track. And he's been much more relaxed and open since his retirement.
*chants*Jingle, jingle, jingle.
I was not a Schumi fan in the slightest but I'd still be excited to see him in that environment :D
I'm starting to worry about you, Christine...
he'll have a jingle by next week. promise.
Your talking to 12 stations about the stig?
perhaps you should tell them all slightly different things... :D
i will be taken down next week
I can't imagine they won't take it down indeed.
KERS is one of those things you commit to at the start of the design phase. You either design a car with KERS in mind or not. No halfway house.
tell that to lewis.
Some people, it seems, are credulous enough to believe that MS really is the Stig!
About half of them are pre-recs, but I'll be live on Derby (!) just before 4pm. In all, it'll involve about an hour and a half on the phone...
Oh dear!
Jeremy even said he wasn't at the end of the show!
Listening to BBC Tees who say they asked Rob about the Stig thing - Why is everyone talking about whether Schumacher is the Stig or whether its a big publicity stunt. Is it not bleedin' obvious?
Going home in 30, watching TG in an hour's time - I saw the first 15-20 minutes live. Can't wait to see the FXX lap! :D
I guess you would be. I remember beeing excited at seeing Villeneuve from a distance so close I could have spat on him. Yet I wasn't at all a fan of him at the time.
he did? ha!
Stay cool, baby...
:)
:D
Hehehe.
I'm not sure it should be ROBnews though. I mean should it be ROB... something else?
ROBchews
ROBsnooze
ROBloose :(
Does F1Wolf think Schumi is the Stig? ;)
i dunno. shouldn't we retire ted news? he doesn't have a blog, and we can't listen to bbc cause of legard.
How about SmedleyAlert *wooo wooo wooo*
But you share so much with him!
:D
They have an affinity.
i do. but when did we last use the jingle? 2008?
Right, sorry to mention an unmentionable again, but I've gone on and created an F1 2007 batracer game for those that are interested. Seems some minor events took place over the weekend and therefor I think some possible interestees (that a word?) may have missed it.
Don't worry, I won't ask you to plug it in a daily, but I hope you don't mind me doing so here. :)
Join link: http://batracer.com/-cj?&D&42660
password: franck
:)
Maybe it should just be called CrushNews?
Then you can deal with Rob and Ted's exploits in one handy section ;)
I'm afraid everyone will associate that soley with Franck
I think it was this year - just - when you announced that Ted was joining the BBC. It was the next show after you retired it... Which was in the 2008 roundup show.
ROBnews: politics not finished by a long shot.
When i was on the wiki the other day in the unmentionables I was wondering if the ted related item was real or if someone was joking?
ROBnews: not saying nothing about the Stig.
:D
"Did you see that coming?"
He works for Ferrari. Of course he saw that coming, Mrs BBC Tees.
hehehe.
In the Ferrari motorhome about 10 minutes after his interview Eddie Jordan blew the surprise by saying it was Schumacher anyway. Blithering idiot that he is.
What?? Michael Shumacher is the stig?? I'm so confused. I doubt his ego would fit in the helmet....
he didn't?
oooh, that might see him let go.
I'm not sure anyone who didn't already know what was about to happen would have picked up on that though. I know those of us here certainly did but no one else mentioned it
That's possibly true.
I missed that ... although I wasn't paying attention (for a reason :( )
He did. I made a subtle comment about it when the Forum ended, and Alex agreed with it.
That said, we don't know if he did know it and slipped up, or if it was just sheer dumb coincidence.
That's true, but now we'd keep our ears open, lest he let another secret slip. ;)
Bruno Mantovani
Love it :D
Good stuff to you two for not spoiling it further!
Spoiling what? What's happened?
The Schumi Stiggy Fakey Thingy...
All I said after the Forum was that EJ was an idiot - or something to that effect. Alex caught on to what I meant. But if had no idea what it meant, it would seem like any other EJ comment. ;)
I didn't watch top gear
Well sorry for spoiling it - but it's so out there anyway...(
I wasn't complaining! I'm not a huge top gear watcher. I'm just trying to work out what's going on.
Other than that Eddie Jordan's a prune
Its everywhere, its impossible to miss it, i spent the morning trying!
If you are interested in the answer then...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8111588.stm
If not then don't click.
I figured you weren't :)
But it's obviously not him.... Does anyone honestly believe Mr Ego himself would drive anonymously for 6 years?
ha. the moon analogy is quite apt.
They do...
But thinking is difficult for a lot of them...
Actually he would... have you read James Allen's book on him? Seems that there's two sides to every Schumi...
This article links directly to an article with a large alpinestars ad banner on the bbc website!
Hey Guys Question: I have had a problem with my itunes so I am trying to resubscribed to the sidepodcast podcasts but in iTunes there are 2 sidepodcasts feeds. Both have the same casts in them, but both are missing the debrief, UK race and uk qualliy cast. The lastest cast from 20th is the free practice cast. Mr C help!!!!
I see from the home page the 3 missing casts have been made live so is it me or iTunes
Either is fine. Those podcasts haven't been released yet.
Oh wait, I have the debrief.
They are on the sidepodcast website!
Well my itunes hasn't downloaded them....
huh? is Christine around
we'll put them on the feed the evening.
I think it's just that patience is a virtue.
So it's not a problem my end
thank you ;)
Well...
ooo sorry just me being a eager beaver again!! lol
:)
I wish there was some way of fine tuning the auto delete of podcasts on itunes.... I just wanted to go back and replay something I was listening to literally 5 minutes ago and it's gone
iTunes autodeletes things?
If you ask it to. Which is good for me because I hoard things until it gets to the stage I can't sort through it anymore and have to mass delete it anyways.
You can choose to have it delete only played things or only things over a day old or whatever. But not a combination.
Ah, yes, I see.
It is not yet smart enough to know you are going to want to relisten to something in five minutes time ;)
Actually no, I've had another look, it's the timeframe bit it needs. You can choose to keep all unplayed or the last 5, 10, 20 etc episodes.
But then it might delete something you've not yet listened to.
I have this set on my iPhone but not in iTunes.
The wiki page is also up
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Sidepodcast+F1+2007+Championship
Yeah exactly so I don't like that. I only use that for the newspod I download because tbh if you don't listen to it soon, it's not worth it.
I keep strange working hours though so I don't really get to keep up with things as they happen. I live my life through podcasts in the car. There's too many for me to deal with, I need to trust Apple to do it for me :D
i wish christine would do that. save us a fortune in drives.
(ducks)
Hi again - I'm EeeeeeePC'ing from the train. GRRRR to my wife for not putting the thing on charge :(
Internet on the train??
the internets they are spreading...
Not down the west coast they're not!
i thought you hated it?
btw, how did alex sound on skype during the parade lap?
It's WiFi - works better on a laptop or an EeeePC than an iTouch..
Hey everyone, Mr C just two this I have through about to improve live commenting:
1. someway of saving you name and Mail because I have to type it in every time before I comment and thats BOORRRING!
2. The abilty to put all the f1 topics that have been already chatted about in the Factbox so someone doesn't login and start up a convo again and again about a subject all ready talked about!
My browser does this for me?
Get Safari?
Firefox doesn't for me
How strange. It's working for me in firefox. Have you got cookies disabled somehow?
Are you on a mac or a pc?
All right, who put me up for this tweet?
effingcards: @RubberGoat You can't just go around telling people to EFF OFF haha! OK well maybe you can! http://effing.cc
ah I use Chrome
Why is Brawns good name being branded about by a 9th rate media company?
Couldnt Richard have used it to promote Planes or something? Grrr... It makes me feel like tremayneing
I've just opened IE and my name and email are already in there ready to go. Whatever it is seems to be an issue with your computer
Oh wait. I lie! Just ignore me I'm going mental.
I'll go back to "Get Safari"
wassup?
OK cheers guys just tweeted my firefox settings doing to close firefox and reopen it to see it if worked
There are ads all over AUTOSPORT, and in this mornings metro about how Virgin
lack ofMedia have the fastest broadband and sponsor the fastest grand prix teamok it works in live commenting just now going to test the realtime
do they not then?
it works in Realtime too!!
Yaay! That was a productive complaint!
I have just added a shortcut to the realtime and live commenting in my firefox bookmarks toolbar live commenting has a logo but realtime doesn't!!!
I would love to know.... I really would.
I just cant think of any other company where you have to fight and argue with them to become a customer!
Its tainting Brawns image with its association.
the cars had virgin logos on them at the weekend.
what have i missed?
My personal experience with virgin broadband has been very positive. They installed it quickly, it goes quickly, it's never done anything strange.
Nothing, im being a bit crazy.
I just wished they had used Brawn to promote any of the hundreds of virgin business instead of the bad one.
oooh. ok.
hehe.
yay. apparently ant's driving in LMS this year:
"...yep he is doing another race later in the year. Details to come soon!"
That Aston looks and sounds GORGEOUS.
kthxbyeee...
I'm thing of getting the F1 app how is it?
does this appointment mean the man is more, or less likely to return to f1?
"Superleague Formula boss Robin Webb says the arrival of GP2 champion Giorgio Pantano is a massive boost"
hopefully less.
Afternoon all.
Less, driving alongside the likes of Duncan Tappy
who is he?
A mate has a couple of really short videos from Silverstone on Friday...
http://www.youtube.com/user/nick1799
Catch them before FOM takes them down.
if our assumptions are correct, they're too short to be taken down.
interesting test case though.
What are the assumptions?
clips need to be about 20(ish) seconds long to be picked up.
Interesting. How are they finding fan videos anyway? I understand the principle on things grabbed from the tv
good question. audio sampling maybe?
You've never heard of Duncan Tappy? Neither have I ;)
exactly :)
Can anyone reccomend a decent wireless keyboard?
And if i was going to spend a bit more cash... Would any one know for sure if you can use an apple one with a PC?
Accrington Stanley?
Who are they?
Exactly.
Drove for Spurs. Parantly it was his life long ambition yadda yadda ya
How are they finding feeds? I noticed less switching was required this weekend than previous races as we weren't continuously posting the feed password...
That's Flibster's department - but I think he's watching the goonies ATM...
feeds must be a manual thing, surely?
Ah I meant on YouTube you can send them the entire video and they will find anything that matches it.
hehehe. a long life ambition to drive for a football team. he lies better than bernie.
Thanks... Im mentaly throwing peanuts at his screen so he comes back on here...
..... Goonies never say die! :D
*goes to watch Clerks in a caffeine fuelled fog... too many espressos...*
F1 news is very dull today - even for the day after a grand prix.
Although this is good... :D
Lots of Heikki for Amy.... unfortunately it's like his race performances - full of mistakes. ;)
wow.
NAUGHTY STEP
Hmmmm?
Whatwhatwhatwhatwhat?
Apple ones can be used on a PC - but not recommended as they're missing a few important keys. ;)
I don't use wireless ones as I do a little bit of gaming and the latency isn't useful. Although I always found the batteries died at the worst moment.
I either use IBM Model M clicky keyboards or MS Natural 4000's - the 4000's are my keyboard of choice at the moment. Plus they're reasonably cheap. :D
hehe. Its like all footballers.
Isn't he technically, already on?
I never left it. :D
I scare myself sometimes :D
OK for bringing me that awesome video you're allowed half on and half off the step.
As I'm on the norty step permenantly, there's no real reason for me to stop. :D
Thanks flibster i am having a long running argument with my Microsoft wireless one at the moment... I think I might dodge them for now.
Is there a fate worse than Naughty Step?
"Hey dude"
I HAVE DIED OVER HERE.
Hamilton already has a teammate. ;)
moderation?
:D :P
:D
OI YOU NO!
Is Amy Posting from her sleep? Yikes!
Everyone say sory to Amy
*sorry
I heard Heikki mutterings, it raised me from my slumber.
Or maybe I just haven't slept yet.
It was meerly a amusing comment, that was what I was laughing at, not the situation in which the joke presented itself in.
gtg going to make dinner and then race at Barain on my PS2
See ya Chris
You are all allowed to laugh at amusing comments, you are even allowed to make amusing comments. You just have to apologise when you make them ;) This is where Flibster fails. ;)
bye Fisi, lets hope you can get a point in Germany
Bye Everyone
More chance than Heikki
Ooooh!
Coffee machine just pinged!
COFFEE TIME! :D
I dont think I am very good at shopping...
I started off trying to get a new keyboard, and i just had to stop myself from buying a macbook...
As in Fisi has finished ahead of Heikki on more occasions, which is possibly a scarily true stat.
way hey!
which one?
*shuffles across on nortystep to make space...*
Remember when they were team mates and Heikki beat him. Good times.
Me and you will get a point this season don't you worry about it
I am too busy trying to turn 'hey dude. pick up your phone' into my ringtone to notice anything that may happen in the comments for a while ;)
that must be fropio'd. must.
He fluked it in Japan, thats the only reason.
Just the cheapest white one, I think i will have to wait untill the family go back to Australia though as i will be told i am wasting money or need to get some sort of job...
Not to mention i dont really need one at the moment!
How much espresso is too much?
14 apparently http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/6944026.stm
Oh dear.....
If you must have a wireless keyboard - the Logitech diNovo Edge...
It aintent cheap though - £140 direct from Logitech - but it is rechargable rather than AA eating.
and here is behind the scenes of THE BEST AD EVER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLORITXSwr0
Yeah i had a lokk at it in a shop on friday, its very nice... :D
I think it was only 80 on amazon, but its still too much for a box of buttons!
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/hey-dude-mp3
:D :D :D :D :D :D
Is that Heikki? What is he doing!?
telling you to pick up your phone!
What now?
:P
Why When How and What might have been a better question...
its from the video that Naughty Flibster linked to, bloopers from what appears to be a Vodafone ad :D
I have paid over £100 for a keyboard in the past - Ms Natural pro's when they were new. Now I spend £18 on MS Natural 4000's
hehe, i missed that...
Verry funny!
Well if that isn't reason for me to update my blog regularly I don't know what is :D
I think this is the winner...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Emprex-MCE-Wireless-Gaming-Keyboard/dp/B001AHNBDU/ref=sr_1_29?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1245686136&sr=1-29
It might make me even more lazy though
Amy may like this particular non-F1 commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhyMRdebGuE
get the pretty one where all the keys are little screens ;)
I would be lying if I said I hadn't already turned that ad into animated gif files for the tennis community I comment in :D
Heheh. I'm impressed at how much time and devotion you can give to TWO sports.
I don't live on the tennis community like I do here though :D I just never like to miss a good gif party. I don't think there is anywhere that has F1 gif parties, if so I would have made a lot more of them. Instead I've only made one of Kimi falling off his boat. Fun to watch over and over and over in a loop.
Djokovic is really having to work today! Maybe he'll stop being such an arrogant ..... man! Then again maybe not....
Nole laughs at this suggestion
seriously. gifs. Always relevant.
Oh YES! I actually yelped when that went in.....
:D
When LeeMcK tweeted to say she was off to see Murray at Wimbledon for a minute my brain thought Walker. I was confused.
I'd love to go see the tennis live. But the tickets are impossible to get, I don't enjoy sleeping in the street....
*falls face first onto bed*
Evening guys and gals
I have already put money aside for my tickets for the Australian Open final next year. $280, ouch. I'm going to get a 5 day pass for $100 as well and try catch lots of games on the outside courts during the first week. I like that tickets are easy to get here :)
I have gotten so much more hooked since I went this year though, I refused to go to the final because I thought it was too expensive, but I really regret that decision now.
Hey sir, take it your shattered
I ran an entire department of a supermarket by myself today so yeah, you could say that ;)
I wouldn't mind saving up and paying though. It's just that money can't buy them.... You literally need to queue for days. It'd be cheaper for me to go to French Open which is ridiculous.
Oooh, sounds responsible
thats a shame :( they give away soooo many corporate tickets to people who probably don't even care that they're there. A bit like F1 really.
Watching Novak's 1st round now. Isn't he struggling... Federer's toughest opponent in the draw may not make it too far...
I won't bore anyone with the details, it's just taken a lot out of me tonight.
Anyone tech minded have any ideas how to get files of a memory stick that when I insert it tells me that it needs to be formatted?
Sounds like it's corrupted, I'm afraid. Anyone have any ideas?
General admission to the Hungarian GP is only (?) a hundred quid for 3 days... I am tempted...But i dont know why...
Thats what I thought, luckily it isn't mine hehe :D
Can you access it at all with explorer or search?
If not i have no idea beyond a big hammer.
because Hungary was the greatest race EVER last year? ;)
By miles.
I'm pretty sure you won't be able to. You'd need some special program to pull that data out - if it does exist.
My bf is pretty F1 mad, he's really rooting for there to be an Indian GP while he's out there. I doubt that'd be TOO expensive. Nothing's expensive compared to Silverstone. Maybe I'll get to go there next year ;)
it was... until Felipe's engine blew. :( He'd have been champion otherwise...
Obviously...
But it also sounds like a good road trip,
If he had been champion he'd have to get 3/4 of it to Rob ;)
That was odd - my comments refused to work for a minute or so there. Didn't wanna work anywhere - did the site go down ever so momentarily?
The chances are probably quite high that it did.
Novak doing his version of the primal scream there...
Happened again just a second ago, actually. Hmmm... Oh well.
Maybe the internets got caught on that train from earlier?
Have just been catching up with the Wimbledon news and watching it now
urm... am I reading Djokovic's score right? o.O
Scream away Novak. You're still being beaten!
hes a bit of a Choker-vic this morning.
Yeah, Benneteau's been playing the game of his life
media crappy temple.
(they've rebranded)
I like the rebrand name; it's very honest :P
Going for a Soderling-like impact. Then again, I don't even remember who sent Novak home at RG.
What's their name now?
ooh I'm giving up on Djoko to watch Fernando....I heart him.
i think it sets expectations to an acceptable level from the off.
Oops - twas a joke... :D
Kohlschreiber? At a guess
Oooh its worth watching?>
Cant think of anyone i enjoy seeing suffering a little more ...
Does Novak require a ( sorry Amy) too?
Just had a sudden other thought about the parade lap...
I think that the conversation with Scott in the middle of the Silverstone paddock might be the only time that a convo with Scott didn't require several attempts at ringing or a drop out or two after we got connected!
Another bonus point for Silverstone!
nah. He'd be about 6th on my list of 'players I like'
Nah. That's reserved for Roger. ;)
I hope not, I've never been a fan of him. ;)
:D
Yeah, I think it was him.
catchy.
This is why we must stay at Silverstone!
Has this corrupted the circuits up result :P
Christine I don't know if the two are connected but since being mentioned in the daily post my blog has had 67 hits the day after I started. ;)
He isnt exactly the happiest bloke i have ever seen :D
but...but....but....
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/eb3oyc-jpg
You may a good point
You also make one amy, although you may may one too. :P
ohhhh Fernando. You would win the grand slam of good lookingness.
No, he is annoyingly attractive though. Damn him!
You know you're supporting the other guy though when you start yelping involuntarily when they're playing well.
for those that missed it earlier, I feel compelled to re-link you to http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/hey-dude-mp3 the single greatest 2 second soundclip in history.
It hasn't been looped into a ring tone yet?
it is on my phone! I just put the mp3 on and it loops itself.
ah... clever phone
don't all phones loop ringtones?
hahahaha.
I am now a fan of heikki
I have been thinking about several ideas for Formula 1 so I may send a voicemail to you guys soon. Don't be scared. :)
I would be a fan of anyone in the world saying 'hey dude'
Hahah we're so superficial
but loooooooook
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/nando2-jpg
he wants us to be! he poses in magazines!
:D Amy, Novak is in another tiebreak. Willing to watch this one?
ok *changes stream*
man. Best $30 I ever spent.
Hehe, You got enough bandwidth to cover it?
its after 1am, I've got 110gb! :D
I dont know if this is relevant or if anyone cares, but it looks like sky sports might have a rival in the UK market... ESPN just bought the UK premier league rights which Setanta lost...
Having just watched the making of the "Amy's greatest advert ever" I was struck by the realisation that there was a competition involved in the original advert. I did not pick that up AT ALL!
Ooooh. Missing ISIHAC on BBCR4
But where will ESPN show it? They don't have a UK network, right? Smells like a Setanta takeover to me...
I picked up straight away on the fact that I can't enter :(
They have 2 channels here, there has been speculation they will launch a third for some time...
They have another one?
2 channels, including or excluding ESPN Classic?
They have ESPN America and ESPN Classic
Is ESPN America straight from the States? Or is it a local channel?
Never noticed ESPN America. Suppose a thrid might be likely in that case
Will watch the rest of Novak's match in bed. Night, y'all.
It is mainly American content, not always ESPN. Whatever they have the UK rights to.
It used to be NASN (north american sports nework) then Setanta NASN, I think setanta still handle distribution for that channel.
Night sir.
Damn you Djokovic!!
Nighty night
Night
NOOOOOOOO!!!
:D
Man. I'm gonna be a wreck tomorrow.
Howdy all :)
I return from a fun day at school, primary school kids are funnn
I say annoying
Today we did how to add different amounts of money together.
Last week i was doing maths that didn't use numbers, today i added different amounts of money together. WOOO, go primary school!!
This is why primary school work experience is awesome. I loved my weeks there.
I do maths without numbers, its called algebra, and its ridiculously hard
Algebra's the best!! Don't knock it.
I would so much rather do that than be a high school teacher. The stories my high school teacher friend tells me make me worried for the future of the world.
f(x) = x^3+x^2+x+x
Best, yeah...
Give it 2 years my friend and you will understand what real maths is ;)
can you work out the gradient on any part of the curve?
Haha what are you doing atm? I can't get an idea of how old people are here...
I am having flashbacks to stuff I once knew and now couldn't do to save my life.
We've only just started A-Level
A-Level stuff in year 10. Darn fasttrack.
Today made me feel clever, and in a class of 18 year olds genius's....i didn't feel clever last week
I'm 23 and can't remember anything I learnt at Uni let alone high school :D
I have lost count of the times I have said 'how are you a high school teacher. Didn't we just finish high school ourselves? 2003 feels like yesterday.
hense my point stands ;)
When C4 comes around you'll find what you're doing now is incredibly easy. But its a gradual increasement, so its not as bad as i make it sound...
FP3 anyone?
We convinced our friend not to buy one :D
Don't even say those letters in my presence
Right I'd better get my 3 hours sleep before work. At least tomorrow when I win $50,000,000 I won't have to worry about keeping hours to fit in with my job anymore because I so won't have one.
Hahahaha! It's been a while since I left school. The horror seems to have faded....
Evening all
Im glad i am not the only one!
Except Perter the great. He was great, it would be rude to forget him
It's been a week...and it hasn't faded at all
I'm still in uni and I've forogtten it all :(
They all lie about their age.
You need some real clever maths to work some of them out
Evening sire.
And who says the facilities at silverstone weren't up to scratch? ;)
Yes, my real age is 2x^2+4x-32 = 0
I do genuinly forget my age.
It has gotten me in trouble once or twice...
If you are getting al that money tomorrow there is no point in goig to work anyway
Ooooh stop talking dirty to me!
It's a sure thing. Just like Christine's was.
I lie about my age but I am honest about it. I reached 27 years ago and never saw any reason to get any older. I refuse to age.
f(x) walks into a bar,
barman says, "sorry, we don't do functions"
hehe.
Yes but you are not going to leave your ticket under a punch where someone can swap it for one with the wrong numbers on it.
hehehe
Ahhh Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult... what a legendary song.
I've got a fever, and the only prescription is mroe cowbell!
I don't even have a ticket. I bought it online and they emailed me my numbers.
:D
ahh, that's gotta be a voicemail!
[01] 14 17 18 20 23 34 38
[02] 03 11 19 26 29 38 39
[03] 08 14 18 20 24 41 44
[04] 03 21 29 30 40 42 45
[05] 02 19 22 28 29 35 42
[06] 17 18 20 24 40 41 42
[07] 01 06 07 22 29 37 42
[08] 12 19 22 23 26 28 45
[09] 13 18 23 29 30 40 45
[10] 19 26 33 34 37 42 45
[11] 09 11 14 20 28 34 45
[12] 08 21 22 34 40 42 44
[13] 05 16 25 28 31 32 36
[14] 08 18 19 20 25 31 42
[15] 06 16 19 24 27 28 34
15 chances. I'm telling you, its a sure thing.
Now you have made me need to watch it!
I have already sent one!
Shouldn't have said that. Kathi will find your e-mail address and password and become rich
You werent tempted by 4 8 15 16 23 42?
with cowbell? if not, can we have a second?
not that i'm pushy.
hehe.
How much do you spend on gambling?
I would never do that to Amy ... really.
I found it!
http://clamshare.com/videos/135/snl-more-cowbell.html
This is the 2nd ever lotto ticket I have bought in 23 years on earth, so not much :D
I am still playing off my original $40 with my sports betting too :)
Erm, didn't you get 15?
You guys could edit it into my previous voicemail actually thinking about what I talked about..
one ticket with 15 lines. The tickets in NZ have 10 lines. Australia is super sized.
You've all given me maths itch now! I'm having the sudden urge to go do maths exercises....
Ok, done. :D
will have a listen later ;)
really? damn you're good!
DON'T DO IT
or do a Key Stage 2 stats paper. They make you feel uber smart
I have homework, so technically I have to
can i do it? i miss AS
I love teh maths! I almost did my degree in it
Nah, tis easy stuff
When they started doing trigonometry on circles instead of triangles, i began to suspect they were making it all up and quit, I haven't done any complex maths since
Well, easy for the stuff we are doing.
You don't want $50 million?
Trigonometry is to work out angles?
Circles don't have angles!
Trigonometry is to work out angles?
Circles don't have angles !
ooooh double post. whooopsie
You are doing well in that case. I assume you must have had a big win at some time if you can afford to waste money betting on Heikki.
They do if your disceting it at any point in the circle
Go lie down. You have been working too hard. It is affecting your ability to think rationally.
That was my argument!
There's something so satisfying about it though. You can just sit down and puzzle through it.
Then its a triangle with an arc edge.
I repeat, you can't trig angles. It's against all meaning
You mean cricles.
I just realised that I didn't notice Dom's name in the comments during the weekend. Did anyone notice if he popped in?
Don't get all smart with me! ;)
I'm allowed to get it wrong, i'm never touching the stuff again
I haven't seen him since Monaco Qualifying to be honest...
I could swear I saw him somewhere. Though it might me me going mad
Damn you, *shakes fist*
oh and it's Circles, not cricles ;)
Dont get smart with me :D
last blog post was april:
http://thef1files.wordpress.com/
Sidepodsofa?
could be...
maybe if you threw some peanuts at the screen?
He made a brief appearance in the Le Mans thread, if I recall.
So I'm not going mad then.
I couldn't help myself...
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/icowbell-jpg
:P
:P
:P
LO all :)
I missed that
I dont think we have been on here at the same time, which makes it much harder...
different dom, i think?
Hi Jackie
Hi Steven
Come on Jeremy! Give it some!
apologies. same dom. my mistake:
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/06/13/the-2009-le-mans-24-hour-thread/#comment-347033
missed that one, sorry.
Sat on my sofa shaking rather a lot...
Far too much caffeine. :D
hullo jackie. how's tricks?
I'm good thanks, are you and Mrs C well?
we both (hearts) rob:
http://twitter.com/lisamccormick/status/2277936899
which makes life tricky.
I dont think we have been on here at the same time, which makes it much harder...
Sidepodcast just broke for me for about 5 mins..
Haha, awesome! :D
I liked him first.
Awe that's lovely. It's great to get the recognition for all the enjoyment you give to others
I guess he is either very busy or just fed up with F1 then
blame: http://mediatemple.net/
Hello all, new to this. Didn't know it was here.
So Rob is now the filling in the sandwich
Can I heart him for being like the only northerner in F1?
Hi!
It is definitely here. How did you find the site if you didn't know it was here?
oh no, we've been busted!
hi addison.
Hello, you just found here or been lurking for a while?
ahh, go on then.
he's a popular chap.
.. only if he gives Mr and Mrs C a guided tour round Maranello :D
It's impossible to hate him.
i'm impressed he's back there already today.
I am shaking my fist in their general direction!
Did you find the Radio Tees show Mrs C was on on Saturday?
wot, no holiday?
nope. not on i player. shall ask about it later. am gonna dropio the rob interview from today first.
apparently not.
No holidays while the car is so slow
When your team is 8th, thats when you call your car slow.
I am shaking my fist in their general direction!
Did you find the Radio Tees show Mrs C was on on Saturday?
Its still broken though!
the site seems ok now?
Mine kept giving me random error messages about 10 mins ago, but it's okay now I think.
Doohicky is being very temperamental, I cant get LCLT to load, and the main site is very slow.
same here. and that was the fault of mediafail. everything is good now though?
Seems to be yeah!
oo-er, there's a van going around with a loudspeaker saying there's no water available in the local area for a short time.
People currently in the shower must be mad right now.
they're in soapy bubble then (pardon the pun)
Hehe :D
I've just joined FOTA...
...Well, on Facebook anyways ;)
haha
Yup, seems to be all good in the neighborhood
ace :)
Hehe, Cant seem to find the FIA... Adam Parr must be worried
This has probably been discussed already, or you are all fed up of it, but I think Legard was really poor this weekend, probably his weakest race yet.
I've noticed he goes 'Whoomph' a lot... what is that noise all about? Is it some kind of gaseous legard output?
I gave up on Legard this week, tried 5Live, then realised how little I actually listen to the commentary.
That needs added to the dictionary :D :D :D you know when you've been whoomphed
Hey all
You realise how important commentary is when you can't have it. Trust me on that one...
true, but watching the highlights, i noticed that he almost seemed bored commentating on Hamilton going past Alonso, then didn't seem to understand why the crowd were so excited about it. It seems he just doesn't care about the sport, and would rather go back to football
I grew up with that, it was a lottery every race if we would get English commentary...
And no pre or post race at all...
I just can't stand them talking about the tyres! He always gets so confused like at Monaco I remember awful sentences like "He's on the soft tyre, I mean the Option, no that one's the Prime, he's on the soft, the harder of the two compounds as opposed to...." it just goes on and on and on and he gets more confused with every word.
The best bit was when he said someone was on hard tyres and Martin Brundle just pipes up with "No he's not" The disdain in his voice....
Helloo..
So yeah. Went for an emergency movie* last night instead of live show + TG, sorry 'bout that. Much going on?
* mate I've had to ignore during revision got locked out of his house and needed to kill several hours
He also stands out a lot more because the BBC coverage is so strong in every other area...
Cant see it being changed though
Unless your actually watching car racing live and in person it can sometimes get rather dull without commentary.
I hate the tyre rules anyway *SHAKES FIST AT BRIDGESTONE*
a quick fyi. f1minute.com hosted with slicehost just got hung up when christine was publishing a picture. went to reboot, but checked the uptime before i did.
last problem happened 42 days ago (a hardware failure).
sidepodcast.com uptime on media temple, is currently 37 minutes.
Or when he tells you you're looking at one person and actually it's someone else. I'm pretty sure I can fail to identify drivers all by myself....
You can literaly see the contempt before every race... its painfull
hi paul. what's new?
My Le Mans experience was 100 times better because of commentary from Radio Le Mans...
too bad I'm going in the 1960's before it was around...
Yeh, it doesn't seem like the greatest commentary partnership thats for sure. Don't think we will see the BBC change it this year though
You didn't mention that you were on GJOS
Thats a 24 hour race though, so thats alittle different. Plus it would be extremely hard to follow a 24 hour race without some sort off feedback
he does seem like a nice enough guy, just really not in the right job
Hopefully next season they dump Legard and EJ
I did. Nobody saw my comment!
If the BBC have 2 race series there will be fun enough for all!
Didn't they have 'Wireless Le Mans' back then?
Not alot, just trying to catch up on all the live motorsport I missed over the weekend. Watching the WTCC highlights at the minute
Look at James Allen. Last year we all hated him then he started a blog. He is a great writer but as soon as he opens his mouth there is an automatic reaction against him because he is just not good live despite having the knowledge and enthusiasm. It just doesn't come across on TV the way it does in print o whatever the internet equivalent of print is.
what did ya say, i'll find it?
Well don't comment in invisible ink
Sadly I have to admit that EJ is getting rather painfull to watch aswell, which I don;t like saying as I loved hearing him when he was running Jordan...plus I'm from Ireland
Evening all :)
He was great while he was selling his team on TV but now he is giving opinions he is awful.
Hey Scott how was the weekend?
EJ really does say a lot to other people on the BBC. In the same way I write essays and assignments for my Uni work, except I don't speak loads of rubbish in them and I get to the point sharply.
Hi Scott
I said something like "Listen to Gareth Jones on Speed Episode 93 - there's a cool guy about 10 min 55 sec into it"
Will drop.io the soundbyte in 5 anyways...
True, although Allen has gone down in my estimation recently...
Croft seems to be doing really well though, and he's getting on the news a lot which guess is a good sign. I think he could do a great job, i just hope he gets the chance.
He just says things that he obviously thinks are insightful and "straight to the point" but in reality he's just crass, obvious and offensive.
Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome and erm....oh yeah, AWE-SOME! :D
ahh, i read that. assumed you were referring to TK or something.
mine apologies.
I bet, did you gets loads of goodies
Sounds exciting, what did you do?
:P
Sadly nothing good that was free, only a pair of ear plugs Tim swiped from BMW but I did get myself a Brawn GP hat and shirt and a BMW shirt which I'm wearing right now after the race.
Heres a question, does anyone have any sites they recommend for buying F1 merchandise?
Really, that surprises me. So, spill the beans, you lill namedropper you, who'd you meet?
Hmm, let's see - met Alonso and Grosjean and got pics with them, interviewied Kubica and Heidfeld, spend early Saturday evening in the Formula BMW hospitality and got pics with Kub, Klien and Mario, interviewed fans on Sunday and did the pitstop challenge and simulator at the Santander stand.
Where's my Timo pic?
that bad huh! :D :D
Who I met:
Alonso, Grosjean, Kubica, Heidfeld, Klien, Theissen and a couple of Page 3 girls ;) :D
Who I saw:
Gascoyne, James Allen, Ted, Louise Goodman, Smedders, Norbert Haug, Piquet, Karun Chandhok, Davidson (never got round to meeting him, but saw him on Santander stand on Saturday)
Only got a couple of pics of him in the car. Will get them as soon as all the pics from the camera I had for the weekend are on the ftp site.
Oh and Flavio!
Just in the car? Damn. Ah well, at least you got some, will have to put the fishies away for another time.
I had no idea where the driver signings were or if there would be any on Sunday. :(
I thought it was McNish. Was there anyone else at Le Mans who could be described as cool?
What about all the stuff Puma sent you. Or do they want it back?
Oh I get to keep all that ;)
Apparently not.
by gavin? just TK, surely?
:P
What was Louise Goodman up to?
Not Franck then?
Well those are freebies
Dunno, I saw here walk past looking at some notes or something.
Fair enough, I thought Jackie meant what did I get free at Silverstone.
The number 2 can never be cool. Except when Gilles was number two
Christijan with a J of course
Poor thing is still chasing DC about unaware at the channel change for F1
I saw James Allen talking to a few people and Ted walking along quietly talking into his microphone.
she does circuit tv now.
Well here's the sound clip anyway...
I guess getting on the podium with a broken leg is cool. Do we have any updates on his leg? Like how did it repond to being bashed around in the car?
Is that part of Kangaroo?
You didn't barge Simon Gillett out of the way so you could talk to someone unlike other people then?
WOOOOOOOOOW! :D
nope. just the between session stuff on the jumbotrons around the track.
I did but freebies are freebies I guess
I have not heard the word jumbotron before this weekend and now you've said it twice. It might be my new favourite word.
i didn't barge. i tapped.
There was an element of barging.
So what do you have to do for Puma in terms of writing or is it all done now?
Right, question with a probably very predictable answer - who wants the audio clips of my interivews with Kub and Nick?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JumboTron
You not heard of jumbotron?
Spose I did first hear it on The Simpsons.
Erm, lemme guess, there might be someone here, no idea who
Write a fan report which I managed to start at work today. Spent most of my lunch writing. Done 5 pages and still on Saturday :D
I guess RG
nope
Ah yes, i gotcha, It would make sense to have interviews e.t.c...
i would say "sidling'.
Barging/pushing + simon gillett = a world of excellent possibilities
i did not barge. and i said sorry.
I love the picture they've chosen for the top of that article.... Satanic Sexual Abuse by Priests??
A little bit of cold shouldering as well, I reckon.
spoilsport
:P
He was very polite about the barging, I'll give him that.
It's kind of symbolic of what Bernie is going to do to him except Mr C didn't pick his pocket at the same time.
Funny, that's the sound the Aston LMP1's make ;)
:cry:
I woulda said whooooompth
Is the very polite Barge/Tap/Sliding on the debrief?
or have i missed something else?
I am catching up, its slowly slowly catchy Racey
I like Darren Heath's big picture on BBCF1, quite appropriate.
Although what it;'s appropriate about should be ignored in happy places like here :P
Glad you had an awesome time Scott. I gotta go to bed I'm so tired. night all :)
night jackie.
Night Jackie
Night Jackie
Night Jackie
Seems like Setanta Sports is going to go bye bye
Uploading both interviews and the BMW Q&A session to the drop now ;)
yay!
Wooo.
Your edging close to the 'live' side.
Better go find something to do in the meantime. It's gonna be a while... :P
I'm not happy about that, its the only place I get to watch German football, GP2 and the UFC
did you record it on your iphone?
Hopefully ESPN will do better, it shouldnt be too hard.
As long as they Keep the NRL i will be apy'
Think of it this way, its coming off pay per view. I can watch the NRL without paying an extra tenner
Indeed I did sir, with the very fine Voice Memo app. Have to say - amazing quality.
For anyone who didn't see it before the race on Sunday Jake's drive with Lewis is now on th BBC site
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8111616.stm
I should have said I don't know if it is geolocked
Yeh if someone picks those things up so I don't have to pay extra I'll be very happy, but if I can't get them at all?
It is?
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!
http://www.virtualr.net/f1-2010-first-artwork-previews/
:D :D :D !!!!
True that, but at least it might end up on sky, which i dont know if you have or not, but for me, that would be the best option
Look more like drawings.
I have sky but I'm not paying for Sky Sports...Setanta was the cheaper option and had more things I wanted to watch
Yeh thats just concept art
Has the Britain Quail and Race podcasts been added to the itunes stream Mr and Mrs C?
It is indeed but such lovely concept art :D
I'm loving the detail they have telementry wise, hopefully we'll see that in the game!!
Fair enough. I mean it does have stuff I wanna watch, non league football, NRL, football from like everywhere, GP2. I suppose if everything goes to ESPN and we don't have to pay for it, I think that will be excellent
Just relised that there is a model of Ferrari world and the Yas marina circuit behind EJ and DC in the bbc post race forum
Sorry if it was mentioned, i didnt see it on a scan through
They look like "back of the box" art that we used to get on video games in the 80's...
I'd be happy enough if like GP2, FIA GT and maybe some of the European football got picked up by Eurosport
looks well good
For me it won't matter what Codies F1 game looks like on PS3 and 360 if it handles like Grid did, Codies claimed it was a racing sim but the cars didn't even feel like they where on a track
GRID wasn't supposed to be a hardcore simulation though, whereas they've stated several times this will be fully accomadating to the real simulation hardcore fanbase the f1 games have. I'm sure there's nothing to worry about.
I thought it was supposed to be halfway between a sim and an arcade racer?
fakemansell: THE REAL STIG http://twitpic.com/84gkt
Just published a quick look at Turn 8 speeds for the Turkish GP: Who Was Best at Turning Round Turn 8 at Turkey?
GRID wasn't halfway anything though, it was a fun racing game but it didn't give you any feedback at all. It didn't even feel like a good arcade racer in terms of handling, so I just want to play there F1 game first
BMW Q&A press conference is now on the drop. Excuse the extended bit at the end, I forgot to stop the recording :D
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/bmw-press-conference-m4a
gavin on GJoS:
scott's q&a with bmw:
Feeling on a bit of an embedding moment we were Mr C?
I don't ask any questions in it by the way, just recorded the interviews.
bassano requested more of them. am very obliging.
Can I just point out that when he said "you are ON Gareth Jones on Speed" and replied with "Legend", what I really wanted to say was "Oh S...!"
:P
:D
Heidfeld interview is up. There a long bit I recorded before when he was talking to a couple of journalists which I thought you guys might like as well. ;)
Your a ledge
interview with NH:
Wow Scott - you did well there - he's not very easy to interview and he seemed rather curt and prickly...
Thanks Gavin :)
Was he smiling when you asked him about his beard? I like that question!
Erm, not really :D
I must admit after that interview I like him less. He acted like Tiff Needell did when I saw him at Le Mans and that P*** me off!
hehe. you got him to say prowessional.
I said it earlier in the week in the comments, I'll never forget that quote from ITVF1 from germany last year when he abruptly said "There is no fun in germany" - he doesn't half seem to live up to that statement!
The exception is of course Timo.
To be fair he is the dullest German, I mean Timo - Seb - Nico - Adrian - Nick
Timo is awesome though, he looked confuzzled by David hasslehoff's popularity in the same segment :D
Kub interview is now up. :)
Here is the video clip in question, for those that have forgot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auvmljhAWok
I thought Nico was quite dull until I heard the Turkey Williams Podcast. He played a quiz game with Kazuki and was mad cheating!
Was there an aside with joe this weekend? missed sidepodcast because i was at silverstone
Autosport's Paddock Life is up...
I love the fact that anyone who mentions croftie does so with the 7 sausages prefix!
http://www.autosport.com/news/grapevine.php/id/76482
Oh, maybe Timo Glock wasn't in the clip after all. :P
didn't happen. minor breakdown in communication methinks. will try to catch up before the next gp.
Yeah, blimey he is hardfaced. If he'd smiled afterwards it would have been funny but noooo.....
Darts and F1?
How did I miss this?
scott w interviewing kubica:
That was the best segement ITV F1 ever produced, (except for the goodbye song ;) )
I don't think he smiled once during the interview. Not that I remember, anyway.
I just can't work out whether he just has a super dry sense of humour, which i can appreciate. Or if he really does have no joy in his life
Mr C watched the goodbye song at least 50 times if not more.
Same here!
And me! :D
Me too :D
Shame it seemed to disappear from the web around February time :(
still on drop.io somewhere.
Blame Warner Music for that...
Grrrrrrr Warner Music grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. They make me mad for lots of reasons in the past. Grr
:D :D :D
Scott, im dissapointed in you.
I didn't hear you say "for sure" once!
I think it might be a little bit Bernie too.
I'm not familiar with this song....
I wouldn't be surprised. Just to balance it out... grr bernie grr.
"Welcome to the Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance
Who needs the song when you have Patrese driving his wife crazy!!!?
Anyone else get the email from Autosport asking if you'd like to do a survey?
They want to know how to improve the website.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/itvf1
Stop shouting their name at us for one!
damn you are good!
:D
true story
Oh go on then, one more time
Tim just sent me a link to my pictures and am downloading now! :D
Alan Hyde!
ahh, proper f1 cars.
Scott, at what point do you appear in the BMW Q&A file?
Its positively pringleishous
Once is never enough! Thank you so much Its brilliant!
mmmmm
I already pointed out - I don't. Just recorded it.
Hehehe.
And Bibendum. Couldn't ask for anything more, really.
I love the michael press conference bit, i love Nick Damon :D
Nice montage!
I love that they mocked Shumi crying....
How ironic that james allen is singing "you'll never break me"
Evening all. Just about managed to get caught up - Race Build-up, Race, Top Gear, James May's Moon and the BBC Four programme too.
How is everyone today?
F1 app on iPod touch. Tried it this weekend not impressed. Locked up during practice and the race. Anybody have the same problem?
hehe, JV used to look cool!
That was the anti-Smedley version.
But, ahem, Christijan with a J - 1, Franck with a C - 0
Right, back to whatever I was doing before
it's not ironic. he's merely mocking us for failing to get him ousted.
then he started pretending to be a 40 year old harry potter :(
yup. crashed repeatedly during the race. maybe 20-25 restarts all in all.
and oh how we tried.
bit like max really
So why isn't Max singing that then? ;)
very much so.
ask for a refund ;)
He really means it too. Proper fist waving.
I had mine plugged into the computer. Crashed twice, although I didn't press any buttons much like.
So...
if BBCF1 do something similar with legard we'll get "AND WE'LL NEVER...break me! Whoomph!", right?
I want to aplogise to those I'm talking to on twitter I'm hope I'm not that annoying :P
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/hey-dude-mp3
Did Amy explode when she head this?
Good idea but doesn't work! Anybody seen any video of hamilton doughnuts after the race
She made it.
Hey everyone, Playing with the F1 App it's Cool for the replay feature, can't wait until Germany to test this proberly
I'm not doing well with this going back to whatever I was doing thing.
aaah that explains it
huh?
It was in outtakes from a vodafone ad, posted earlier...
Jenson and Rubens look so care free in the Itv song...
Indeed. I would like to apologise for posting Facebook links tonight - most inappopriate for a Monday!
I replied to a few people from on here on twitter, they were kinda random replies :D
I'm still here....
Nope, not at all. As long as you listen to Fury :P
*has just linkyed you to it on twitter*
I think Twitter is a kinda random thing!
Oddly enough Nick Heidfeld wasn't there giving it gusto ;)
Again, continue talking amongst yourselves. These pics are gonna take a while. Not surprising since the camera was 13.6MP.
so long as you don't have a maxout avatar, you carry right on.
Thats the point of it my friend. Talk to randomness
Doctor Flanders was.
oops. missed this.
am flippin ace. how's you?
Just posted, was a nightmare during race kept locking up.
morning all! have everyone had a good day?
What do you have against those?
oops i mean evening all...
Just a cool fact to share: 129 days 8 hours and 23 minutes until Abu Dhabi FP1
hehe :)
evening!
That's OK as long as you have suddenly appeared in NZ/AUS...
Lou your bed calls to you :P
first person to use a #maxout gets a beating
Not too bad thanks. Just been marvelling at James May and the U2.
Stop scaring me, I, for a milisecond, believed you.
boring, boring, boring. am considering blocking everyone with one.
not into weightloss medication?
http://www.maxoutbody.com/images/products/prod-pm-1a.jpg
seconded.
Be a rebel and have a 'get 'get max out' out' picture
Yep, think of something original, like Gromit.
It did make me look at the clock too!
what about #maxout?
No they are not boring - they are pointless. There is a difference.
I watched the whole thing. Didn't see bono once
they're bloody worse.
i've no idea where this evening has gone. i started working at 5 when i got in and all of a sudden it was 10pm... i think i had some dinner but i can't remember...
I assure you my avatar is not anything to do with maxout ;)
Makes identifying tweets much harder too.
hehe sorry, i have no idea what my fingers are typing some of the time :P
:D
true.
he went close to the edge though.
Seems we have Max fans who don't want to see him go
:D !
Why? What's wrong with putting all of the anti-Max stuff into one category?
I might not quite understand hashtags here - what is the point of them and why not use them?
:D
I think Mr C may want to run away from twitter right about now
www.instantrimshot.com
How about, #stopsayinggetmaxoutorillkillyouall
:P
Haha, brilliant sir.
Where would he go? I cant see him doing anything sensible or fading into the background gracefully?
Perhaps the IOC would like a new leader?
Stop it. That's almost as bad as a Max Out avatar. By the way, I know it's an unmentionable really, but this week's Private Eye (the one with Alan Sugar on the front telling Gordon Brown he's F****ed) has a great cartoon about Max.
I heard UEFA will be looking for a job soon.*
*When I get my hands on Plantini of course
I don't know how any replacement could possibly be much better. People only rise to positions with so much power by being a certain type of person.
When you click the tag in a client it takes you to a search:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=#F1
There is also Twitterfall.com which is sometimes useful.
That is an interesting question.
So what's the harm in a #maxout at the end of a tweet then?
It is as much use as an internet petition.
mainly i guess because there isn't a sane person on this planet who wants him to stay in.
so what exactly are you telling me, that i don't already know?
Is president of the FIA one of those jobs like Home Secretary - any person that wants the job should never be allowed to do it?
totally.
My main gripe is when it occurs at the end of a sentence that is not about Max.
also true.
Needs to be clearer then ;) like #F1Max
That is very annoying, and perhaps slightly unstable
Pretty much. Seems to attract facists
How about Sub hashtags like #maxout~f1 or #maxout~uslessidiot or #maxout~planstooverthrow
Careful.... ;)
Actually it is true. Max started a political party with his father in the 50s that had extreme right wing policies and his father was the leader of the British Union of Facists. His mother's sister was Hitler's mistress and Max's parents were married in a house belonging to Josef Goebbels with Hitler in attendance.
His predecessor Jean-Marie Balestre was a well known French facist
i guess another gripe, is that the tags are neither constructive, nor helpful, nor positive.
so how about #jys-in
I'm well aware of Mr Mossley's dubious family name
who is this JYS, surely the job will go to James Allen?
Thats assuming the whole house of cards doesnt come down with F1 which it might well do
i assuming you're coming from the viewpoint of - i'm not sure i like where the conversation is going?
which is always a troublesome problem, because there are many, many smart people who comment on SPC, who can hold a sensible and mature debate on borderline subjects, but frequently someone comes along and takes it to far.
so usually it's easier to avoid said discussions. tis a tricky balance mind you.
On that bombshell, good night all!
and I thought I'd be in trouble for mentioning the unmentionable :)
g'night squire.
Night Mr gavin
Night Gavin
Ciao sir
hahah it's normally me that ends up saying something offensive :D
night
i find life is more bearable if i don't get reminded of it. ever.
it's personal taste i guess.
Yes, althought the need for the FIA to be controlled by a dictator is an interesting point, and one i am sure we would have been discussing regardless of what happened last year.
I say its a sign of a weak organisation more than anything, that cant control where it is going by itself.
it's probably intentionally a weak organisation by design.
I just think that to gain enough standing to be elected you need to be shamelessly power hungry. Didn't he stab the incumbent in the back to get in or was that Bernie?
Jackie Stewart was right when he said it needs to be restructured more like a business.
It has too much power though. The problem is the members are all organisations of themselves and thus the FIA is just an afterthought. if it was just a sort of Union of those members it would be fine, but its gone and acquired all this power in motorsport. Its 2 organisations masquerading as one, which has made it into a toy for a few people to control.
Bernie told Balestre that he had enough votes guaranteed to be re-elected while he was campaigning for Max.
A bit like now he was on both sides and whoever won owed him
This is where I say goodbye.
See ya's all Tuesday
nighgghhhttt!!
Night!
I think it would be better off stepping back from its remit and totally separating Roads and sports into completely independent organisations
Night RG
Sneaky weasel....
Thats Bernie for you.
At least he's not thick. Max's mouth works a lot faster than his brain...
Mr and Mrs C; When are the F1 Digest 2009 – Britain GP and F1 Digest 2009 – Britain Qualifying going to be uploaded on the itunes feed?
There used to be a sporting arm (FISA) which ran sport and the president of the FIA had no role in sport at all. Max became FISA president and used that to build his campaign against Balestre. Once he was elected he decided he didn't want anyone doing the dame to him so FISA just disappeared
Night RG
I dont think that's true, the man is a brilliant politician.
I dont agree with his politics, but he is very effective at what he does
When you start calling your opponents loonies, then you have lost.
So all those comments about Flavio at the weekend? No-one in their right mind answers questions like that.... The only answer is a wry smile!
Pics are now downloading quite fast, about 500kb a sec.
They were still linked together though before Max.
They need a solution where the 2 bodies wouldn't just not interfere with one another, but they would be completely irrelevant to each other
He's back tracked now saying calling them loonies was all a joke.
Either way I got my blog name :D
was he quoting Douglas Adams?
I disagree, you lose when people stop caring you have called them loonies.
You cant really judge someone by one move though, especially when you cant see that move in context
I can't imagine Max knowing anything about Douglas Adams
Not even the "bunch of mindless jerks" bit?
Can the Digest podcasts be put into the itunes feed over night so I can get them tomoz
But the backtracking, pretending later it was a joke. If he'd stood by it and said yes he did think recent events were mad I think he;d have regained a lot of lost respect.
They don't do requests.
Sorry, that was a bit abrupt in text form... I mean they'll do it when they can
right ok
bye see everyone here tomoz
I got back from Silverstone late yesterday, but it's taken until now to get an internet connection.
Looks like you've had lots of fun while I was out :)
night chris
This further undermines his position, but the point I was trying to make is that when all you can do is insult your (political) enemy then you have lost. It's the real world equivalent of Godwin's law. In the case of Max, he's unlikely to mention the Nazis though.
bye
I love all the earlier comments about Schumacher being the Stig and the FXX
My guess is Clarkson will make some comment that they found the Dtig tied up somewhere and this was just Schumacher cheating again and then they will disqualify the car
Night
Sutil¬?
Night Chris
Hi Alianora/
Did you enjoy your weekend?
sounds plausible :D
genius.
she's back! how was the tent?
I thought the rule was that cars had to get over a standard speed bump. I'm not sure the FXX meets that requirement.
It's also a pity that we didn't see a real F1 driver lap by MSC in the Lacetti.
someone asked yesterday for the mobile commenting page to be added to the homepage sidebar. tis now done.
Stuart says some people actually believe that Schumacher has been the Stig all along. How can anyone believe that?
He'll have an agreement to only drive FIAT Group products.
HE advertises FIAT, its not part of the family just yet :D
Night
Sutil¬? {Comment #1109}
I guess that's one mystery that will have to wait until morning (and possibly later) to be resolved...
The car isn't road legal and there is no way it will deal with a speed bump.
Schumacher put himself in a position like that with no car advantage????
haven't seen it, but did schumi actually wear the stigs helmet? surely that must break all kinds of schuberth contracts?
I didn't notice the branding actually...
Unless they made a replica ;)
Does he race bikes with there helmets?
How can there be a problem with wearing a plain white helmet in public?
Hi Alianora/
Did you enjoy your weekend? {Comment #1111}
I enjoyed most of my weekend immensely. Some parts went very badly wrong at the beginning and end, but if I had the chance to go again I'd do it in a heartbeat.
of a simpson helmet? that must break all kinds of... laws :)
I was looking for helmet stickers as soon as he came out as the Stig. It wasn't the same Bell helmet the Stig uses so it could have been a Schuberth mock up. In the videos on the Top Gear site showing the behind the scenes clips he practised earlier with a totally chrome helmet
Pics are downloaded! :D
Yes.
schumi has history.
The Stig wears a Simpson helmet. I said Bell earlier but it is a Simpson. It doesn't need a label because it is so distinctive
I look forward to the blog posts
I know why, I just said it was a pity. If Wikipedia is to be believed, the FXX on Top Gear is the one presented to MSC and so it is likely he was driving it.
This means that the real Stig didn't do the lap, so another reason to knock it off the board.
I feel like I should be wearing an anorak while posting this.
you're assuming that real stig is one person?
and that every lap on that board was driven by the same driver?
He was definitely driving it. There can be no question of that
Which he is not
Of course.
Absolutely. I also believe that the Stig is illegal in 17 US states.
My giddy aunt!! I'm sure I've seen a race before where the DC borrowed one of Shumacher's helmets and raced with it.
You'd have thought the negative publicity generated by that legal suit would more than outweigh whatever they get from him wearing their helmet.
stiggy's lid.
at least i think so.
I think it is fairly apparent it was driven by MSC and this was his only appearance on the show.
You also assume he is real, and not just a clever trick
Sorry, those thoughts weren't very coherent, what I mean though is that it always seems to be Ferrari that get into rows like this.... Other people just seem to be able to be reasonable.
Well someone has to drive the cars round as fast as possible. Unless this is another thing the BBC have lied to us about. They've got history too.
unless you're a person who thrives on negative publicity.
james allen once claimed schumi was developing a HUD display inside his visor, like fighter pilots use. i assume it was nonsense though.
she’s back! how was the tent? {Comment #1114}
Good to be back :)
The tent was as yucky as predicted. In the massive gale of Thursday, it crashed into the car while being put up. The "massive gale" being 8mph. Dad had to peg in the upwind side before it was possible to proceed with the rest of the tent, which is difficult because the tent design requires that the frame be put up, then have someone hold the frame while the guy ropes are put in...
We later discovered that a mouse had eaten a corner in the bedroom that came with the tent (luckily it wasn't the side that touched the ground). It also had so little sound protection that I ended up sleeping in the car on Friday and Saturday nights.
It came down with considerable difficulty and, just to cap it all, some of the tent pegs (including heavy-duty ones) needed digging out.
A stunt man?
Times then generated by computer simulation....
I don't believe it but it is a conspiracy theory
But he said their helmet was unsafe!! Surely that's the worst thing in the world to have claimed about your safety equipment.
Schuberth was a complete unknown before Schumacher started wearing them. Literally no-one had ever hear of them. He made their reputation.
aww man :(
It'll be reported as fact somewhere by the morning.
Ferrari is politics
jenson still uses bell, as do many other drivers. it couldn't have hurt them that badly.
I look forward to the blog posts {Comment #1133}
Thank you. The computer I'm connecting with is being reinstalled tomorrow, but hopefully my PDA will oblige. (There were no updates before this point because my PDA didn't even have enough signal to phone anyone, much less connect to the internet, in Silverstone - a problem I hadn't anticipated).
There have been one or two minor HUDs used in F1.
Surely less safe than a competitor's helmet? Does anyone know if he obeyed the court order or not?
Have they been banned?
Id hope they would be
really? fair enough.
But the sensible response is to ask in what way they're less safe and see if they can improve.
he did. one second, i find a linky.
Don't worry too much on my account, I'm not really that interested. ;)
aww man {Comment #1150}
It wasn't too hard to work around the problems - it didn't rain enough to penetrate the outer canvas (which is just as well since lots of stuff stored in the main part of the tent would have gotten wet had that happened...) and to be honest, my hearing sensitivity is such that Dad was anticipating me needing to make some sort of alternative arrangements. Perhaps I should consider myself lucky they didn't involve a local B&B...
It was just that, as tents go, this one wasn't much good!
They were not exactly sophistcated. Usually little more than flashing lights in the corner of the visor. No-one has anything like a plane compass front and centre. I am sure Johnny Herbert had a HUD in his helmet at Lotus
Jake Promised a Blog for monday... I for one feel betrayed ;)
They need to draw the line at nothing, it could get silly in the future if they don't...
He has 8 minutes!! :P
Random question but... has anyone read Danny Wallace's book Yes Man as well as seen the film with Jim Carrey with the same name?
a quick google later:
"In 2003, BMW WilliamsF1 driver Ralf Schumacher will use a helmet head-up display system, allowing him to read messages on a 'visual screen'. The system, similar to those used by military jet pilots, has been designed by the BMW Technology department in partnership with German helmet manufacturer Schuberth."
small world!
http://www.autosport-atlas.com/article.asp?id=28913
Is it better for a driver to be taking his eyes of the road to look at his dash than looking at a HUD?
yes you are ;)
"...both parties have now reached an agreement and the German star will be free to use his new Schuberth helmet at the Malaysian Grand Prix."
http://atlasf1.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/3844/.html
You're like the google king! Is there anything you can't find out for me....
I think so, its 6 of one and half a dozen of the other really, you can always look away from the dash, a hud will always be in the way.
But i worry about...What if they virtualise the view? Remove the sensation of speed? Is it really racing anymore?
hehe. basically schumi was forced to wear the bell for all sessions of the australian gp, but then settled before malaysia.
wasn’t it the longest day yesterday? {Comment #116}
Indeed it was. And I saw both the sunrise and the sunset.
There is a bid difference between displaying limited info and virtualising the view. No racing driver is ever going to accept a vitualised view
I dunno, did you watch that BBC feature before Sunday's race with Lewis? Didn't look like the real view was that extensive....
one more thing from autosport:
"Drivers, however, don't like the HUDs, because they put the information in full view all the time - the drivers only want to see it when they need the information, otherwise they may be distracted. To get away from this, the driver could turn the HUD on and off by pressing a button on the wheel."
What if its video real and optimised to remove information to make it as clean as possible?
Then you could train on the same system in the simulator...
Thanks :). Off to bed now, so will bid you all goodnight.
night Andy
HE Lied.... :(
see ya.
has anyone received a sporting injury from waving before? {Comment #127}
No.
In a near-miss for "Sporting Injuries", however, I almost got run over by the Medical Car on the way to the Grand Prix Party...
Oh blimey!! Never watch scary films late at night....
Thanks :) . Off to bed now, so will bid you all goodnight. {Comment #1179}
Goodnight, Andy.
can do. we’ll hassle each one for a quote, as they stop buy the comments. {Comment #132}
You can quote as much as you like from mine, when they appear :) There will be several entries though (one for each day is planned and the first one is completely written already), so you might want to take that into account.
It is quite incredible how bad a view a driver gets in the wet. The first Formula Ford race I did was on about the wettest day in history and the only thing I saw between starting the race and crashing out was the red light on the car in front and only in the braking areas where less water was being thrown up and the physical gap is less.
What it is like in F1 when the speeds are so much higher, the tyres are so much wider and the aero is sucking water off the ground and blasting it up and back I can't imagine.
And if it fails you die
actually, i’m not that bothered about vettel winning. was rooting for webber. {Comment #142}
I was primarily rooting for Force India. Watching Giancarlo show Adrian how a race weekend should be conducted was fascinating. So was Vettel's win, in an exhibition-match kind of way.
f(x) = x^3+x^2+x+x {Comment #628}
f(x) = x3 + x2 + 2x
(1/x3 + 1/x2) f(x) = 2x
1/2((1/x3 + 1/x2) (f (x)) = x
I think...
Yes, my real age is 2x^2+4x-32 = 0 {}
2x2 + 4x = 32
x2 + 2x = 16
x + sqr2x = 4
Three things are possible:
1) I've misunderstood somewhere
2) My E in A-Level Maths is showing (and unlike Harry Potter, E in A-Level does not mean "Excellent"...)
3) your age is between 1 and 2...
Circles don’t have angles! {Comment #690}
If I remember correctly, a circle has an angle of 1/infinity at any given point, and it has infinite points. That's why we can't see any corners and yet it is a complete shape.