The action gets underway in Bahrain today, and we're looking at a dry race, at least. The prospect of a sandstorm seems to increase the more we talk about it, so we'll see what happens. Here are some of the things we're discussing at the moment (but they'll soon be outdated by FP1 and 2):
- The chances of a race at Donington Park are looking less and less as their debts seem to increase. At the moment, they've got £2.5 million hanging over their heads owed in rent to Wheatcroft & Sons. The building isn't even completed and they're already facing legal proceedings.
- Prodrive have added their name to the "we want to join the F1 party" list. Chances are this is just because the topic is going around at the moment, but Richards did suggest that he would enter F1 when the time is right - is that time 2010?
- Apparently, Mosley has written to the teams to get their opinion on the £30 million budget cap. He wanted them to submit figures that they thought might be more appropriate with a deadline of yesterday, so I wonder if we will here what they think.
That's all for now, although do check out Chris' great post about Codemasters upcoming F1 game. There'll be plenty more to come today in terms of blogs, podcasts and discussions, so stay tuned, and I'll see you in the comments.
Ayt, time to move over. ;)
I shall be missing my first practice of the season, I'll be having withdrawals no doubt. See you all for FP2!
Awww! :D I won't be around for all of FP2, but I'll see you when I see you, Amy!
Right, must go to bed. WIll have to find something to listen to on my iPod to distract me from morris dancers. Night all, let me know if you work out if Schumacher is a worthy champion or not.
Better it be broken today, than it be broken on Sunday.
That's Michael, of course. No discussion needed for Ralf.
No one else to discuss it with, so he IS a worthy champion!
Night, Andy. ;)
He's not even a champion. :D
Worthy of what?
If Michael Schumacher is worthy of his championships.
About as worthy a Piquiet Snr I guess
I always thought he had little competition other than Mika. I you look at the late 80s, early 90s, there were a lot more world champions competeing. But I guess all this has been said.
Mr C would love you. :D
But seriously, he has to be more worthy than Nelson Sr. Maybe higher than Senna, but lower than Fangio?
Yup, it has. But I think it's just that Michael was so much better than the rest. Had Michael not been around, we'd have all been discussing how high-up all time Montoya and Raikkonen would be.
I guess so. Since I didn't see the rest of the discussion, I wont carry on. But Ferrari were so far ahead in the early naughtys, and Williams and the like were in decline. No Brabham, no Lotus......
Yup. We kinda end up with a chicken or egg question - did Williams and McLaren go into decline because of Ferrari's rise? Or did Ferrari rise thanks to their decline?
Excatly.
Anyway, that's why things are looking so good now. More competition, and more real world champions on the grid. 3 and counting......
I wonder what the maximum number of world champs have lined up on the grid.
We need some of the F1 anoraks back on.
Way things are looking, we'll get a 4th one this year. ;)
Austria 1978 had the best grid ever, in terms of champions and race winners.
Not sure which issue of F1 Racing I saw it on, but that's the one.
I'll have to dig that race up. I think the earliest Austria GP I have is 1982.
Yep, none of the 3 that are already there have a chance of winning it this year.
keeping sidepodtime caught up with me yesterday and i fell asleep around comment 250. So i have enjoyed catching up on 1000 comments today while i was supposed to be working. I like that while i was sleeping people were commenting that i hadnt slept all season. As for schumi, i wish rubens hadnt been such a #2 driver. That is all i will say on that ;)
Not sleeping is one thing, sidepodcasting at work is another.
I fear I am getting funny looks about the amount of typing that I am doing!
It's amazing how quickly you can go from being happy to angry.
Not on Friday surely.
And then back to happy again when you realise that the solution was very simple.
Oh we aren't talking computers now, are we?
How ever did you guess? ;)
Just lucky.
Or is it that I spend my whole day with them?
Good morning. .. It is? .. it's still dark here.
Are you getting up for a new job?
No afraid not :( I just don't sleep very well
Oh sorry. I hope the last day was OK though.
I have applied for one, but so far, there's not much I've seen that I fancy doing
Well I'm glad I went in but it was difficult
Well best of luck. I know it's hard, but things will get better.
So do you get live streaming of FP1 this morning ( or is it late afternoon for you)
Thanks Paul :D
Late afternoon it will be. Hoping for a justin.tv. Unless I am off to the beach for the weekend
Sorry Pauli .. I missed off the i at the end
Ah yes, with the time difference its the weekend for you. Are you doing anything special?
No worries. It is Paul - I just have friends that call me Pauli....
We have a long weekend this weekend, so it's a chance to head to the beach for me. Although that means missing the racing and sidepodcasting
So are all the European races run in the middle of the night Oz time?
Oh nice, enjoy that .. you can always record the race .. it's the 5000 comments you'll come back to here that will be a challenge :)
Actually most are not too bad, starting about 10pm, so that's OK.
Problem is where I am (Canberra) we get no live TV, so it's Justintv, or a replay at some stupid time
Oh dear, so it's challenging to be an F1 fan in Australia .. and here's us moan when we have to do stupid o'clock for about 3 races a year
The usual suspects should have it on - I don't think they've been discovered by Bernie's henchmen yet. :D
Never worried me - I so happy I can now get it live on the Internet !!
:D It's not so bad, really. The worst bit is usually Brazil, because we have to stay up extra late for that. In Paul's case, I think they get up extra early for it.
Afternoon Journeyer. Do you really think that it's Bernie thats responsible for feeds being removed?
:)
At least the feed quality seems to be getting better with widescreen now
It is slowly getting there, especially for you guys in the UK and Aus. Over here, we still get a standard 4:3 feed. At least I have a widescreen now, so I see the whole image. It turns out my old TV used to cut off the upper and lower edges of the feed. :O
Honestly, when you are used to V8 touring cars and nothing else, seeing live F1 is great however it looks. I was actually happy just watching live timing for a couple of races last year!
Whilst I remember, about the quiz. I was suggested we could do an occassional one earlier but Jolly has other commitments in the afternoon.
If I could find a weekend time that fits in with the evergrowing sidepodcast schedule of shows I'd be willing to host a quiz .. unless you fancy hosting one?
*ducks*
I hope to be surfing
Just live timing .. ooh, I think I'd lose interest very quickly. I honestly thought that with F1's global appeal that there would be decent coverage for most parts of the world
Now you're just making me jealous!
Actually it's getting better. Problem is, live coverage is now on HD digital which is currently in the "larger capital cities" only, which doesn't count us.
Hopefully it will make it to your area soon
Do you listen to the streaming with your headphones on? When we used to get FP1 and 2 online with ITV I used to love the sound of the cars, and you don't seem to notice that so much on the tv
Happy Birthday to me,
that's me not Mr C,
Happy Birthday to meeeeeeeee,
Happy Birthday to me!
Ahem. Morning guys!
Is it someones birthday?
Morning, Alex! What a wonderful rhyme!
Happy birthday to ya! :D
I don't have any good headphones. I get lazy and lay on the couch with the laptop.
No headphones on, just listen to it with speakers. That's one advantage of no commentary, I guess - the natural sound really comes alive.
Might be ;) How did you remember! ;)
Cheers Journeyer!
That calls for a sidepod song .. if I knew how to do it :(
A very happy birthday to you
Happy Birthday Alex, did you bring cake?
Thanks Jackie :)
:D
Now all we need is for Alex to rap out his bday song on the show. :D
I downloaded that audioboo app for the ipod last night .. could I use that to record a little song? .. not that I'm promising or anything
What a shame, but he just shouldn't be sooooooooo good at it :D
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/f1iso-jpg
hahaha!
WooHoo!
I don't have that one... You might be able to. Sounds good!
Or you could phone / skype Sidepodcast and leave them a message!
Oh nice, wonder if that's gonna be the new Brawn colour scheme if Virgin become team sponsor
There's an idea. With the new iPhone app.
a ha, smart thinking .. I likes
hmm .. but that would push me higher up the addiction scale!
That's a good thing :)
and .. if a few of us phoned in we could have a birthday reprise
happy birthday Alex!
Happy Birthday!
How good is Formula 1?
i would like to add my name to the panel this week please. I cant edit the wiki from my phone :)
Happy Birthday alex.
I'll add it for you Amy
Done :D .. ooh girls rule this week .. be very afraid boys!
Thanks for all the good wishes :)
I work by the theory that girls always rule. And am therefore always afraid ;)
I have recorded something .. but I'm trying to get access to it to upload to dropio
I love the way computers allow you to, as administrator, deny yourself access to everything.
GAAAAHHHHH !!!!!
LOL :D
Happy birthday Alex
hooray 2nd friday in a row i have been sent home from work early. No missing fp for me!
Would be funnier if it was Monday and not Friday. Oh well, there's always next week.
yay, result!
Hey Pauli. I have heard rumours that One sport is coming to Canberra on standard def free to air...Have you heard anything like this? Mind you I have also heard that Ch10 aren't going to bother with Canberra cos it's "regional".
Yeah, I have heard both. OneHD has a banner saying it's "coming in future months", whatever that means.
Btw, I think we are the only two F1 fans in Canberra.
There's at least one more, but can't remember his name.
I am so tempted to ring CH10...mind you that probably won't help.
I've been watching the DTV forums, and a lot of people have done that - for no response. I really don't think they care. They have had a HD test loop going for almost 2 years now.
I think we must be the only country that regards it's capital as "regional". Seriously, even though I don't live there, its pathetic.
Now don't get me started...!
Absolutely - FOM own the commercial rights, so they're the only people who can chase down these providers.\
Over the weekend? Absolutely! I can do a pre-race one on a Sunday. :D Does this mean I prepare the questions?
Agreed. Should be tons of fun to watch. :D
Just realized - Sunday pre-race won't do when Parade Lap comes back.
Maybe a pre-quali Saturday, then. I won't always be free at that time, though. ;)
Best time for me to host a quiz would be Monday or Tuesday afternoon your time. :)
Just think how much money they would make if they offered an online feed for a subscription!
That would be great .. just need to drum up some afternoon players. You can always send me a message on PF if you want to arrange something :)
Morning Gavin
God morgen :)
Is that the Danish version?
Ja, der er det :D
:D so there are some similarities with the German language?
Indeed. But then they know that such an online feed would drag away people from TV feeds - and they don't want to lose that revenue stream, but it will always pay more than an online channel. Which is why we probably won't see any online F1 feed from FOM.
I was thinking of the bank holiday on the 4th, but I have a morning commitment the following day. Arg. Will see when a good time would be. ;)
Does anyone here remember GeoCities?
*URL removed*
Wrong URL!
Yahoo to shut down Geocities
I remember them. I remember having to make a website on GeoCities for a school assignment about 5 years ago.
Only 5 years ago? I remember having to use GeoCities for an assignment 10 years ago! :D
A shame they're on their way out... Personal websites nowadays are actually blogs, which is why Geocities lost out to platforms like Blogger and Wordpress.
I think so - I understand more German now because I figure it out from a Danish word that is quite close :)
reading or listening?
A bit of both. I have promised myself I will learn German when I have mastered Danish...)
Goodness me, I changed my FR lineup again.
This time, I let go of Webber for Glock. In case Toyota DO make it back to 2nd overall, at least I'll be scoring c/o Glock. I'm keeping Vettel, though.
What time is the cutoff?
1700 BST; 1800 CET
Just want to say fantastic result in BatRacer for BMW :D Considering I missed the initial setup session, is a great result for the team.
Wow Jackie! Wow! Thank you so much :) :) :) :)
would anyone be interested in the 30 min show of the Mark Webber Pure Tasmania challenge? If so I'll get it online, if not I won't record it :)
way-hey!
that is rather awesome!
Now that my name is on the list I would like to advise the two words most used to describe me by people who know me are "cynical" and "sarcastic"
if its the same one we saw, mark's only in it for about 30 seconds :(
it's been on like 8 times and I haven't actually bothered to watch it, so I don't know. It probably is though, I doubt they'd make two :)
I'd better start practicing hiding quickly then.
Just watching Murray walker answer some questions, and he believes a former driver should be part of the stewards. I can see the benifits but won't that cause more problems as people will believe that they are biased to a team because they have raced with them?
Could you please? I don't have OneHD yet.
it's on at 12.30 tonight, but I'll be up watching the tennis so I'll drop.io it then :)
Anyone who fancies casting their vote for the SofaF1 pole poll the thread is open now... http://www.sofaf1.com/2009/04/bahrain-pole-poll.html
Does anyone here remember GeoCities? {Comment #123}
F1-Pitlane got set up through a GeoCities site last year. It was an exciting time to be there. When I have free time, I may write more stuff for them.
(F1-Pitlane itself isn't on GeoCities, so that's one headache the site admins won't have).
Mmmm, had a nice bath, got a gorgeous cup of tea in my Muse mug and well done toast simmering next to me, there's more formula 1 on later, it's pay day and UPS should be around soon to get my 360.
Today is a good day :)
Morning all. What time is FP2 starting?
Morning Chris, its on bbc red button at 11:55
Thread will be up at 11:30.
That sounds dreamy! Apart from the 360 bit.
Ok, thanks
I don't think that would happen if it was a Stewart or a Lauda. Or even a Damon Hill.
Showered - check
Had a quick kip - check
Have a bacon and egg buttie - check
Have headache from hell - check
Feel human - errrr...
:D Are you still doing those country-based breakfasts on Sunday mornings?
BRDC been talking to Bernie - great, but he hates the place.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/74743
Not always breakfasts - depends when the race is on.
This weekend I have a special treat. Goat.
Yea, Flibster, where's my wiki page? ;)
In my mind.
Although, most of whats in my mind should be sealed in concrete and dumped in the north sea.
As mention in today's daily about Donnington, I don't personally think the GP should go there anyway, and now that it looks like they may be on shaky ground should'nt someone put a rocket up the BRDC's ar*e and get them to relly sort out Silverstone once and for all. Last I heard Damon was saying that they had the money in place, so why not spend it.
Damon seems to be implying he doesn't need govt help - where will he get the funding from??
Goat? :O Interesting.
What did you have for Malaysia and China? :)
I'll make the page, if you tell me what you've had so far.
His Aussie menu (with vegemite!) is on one of the pages that weekend.
No idea if he's said what he had for Malaysia (durian, maybe?) or China.
bootneckuk, Bernie hates the BRDC because it doesn't have the seemingly-infinite resources of a government, needs the British Grand Prix to run close to breakeven point in order for it to be feasible for them and is run on lines vaguely resembling a democracy. There isn't anything it could have done to salvage this race.
Right, I'm going to catch a Doctor Who episode before Free Practise 2. See you!
Vettels trophy-cut must have been deep, in Thursday's photos he's still wearing a bandaid!
Maybe to ensure the wound doesn't reopen? There's no way that could've been deeper than the cut Mansell had way back.
Goat should be quite nice. Freshly slaughtered too *picking it up today*
Also having fried breem and chips. :D It's not traditional, but popular.
Also going to try to make traditional Bahraini coffee - done over an open fire...
Malaysia was a couple of things - the best of which was a steamed palm sugar custard. I made enough for 6-8 people. I ate the lot. :D
The rest was kinda nondescript.
These flywaway races are difficult for me - I hate rice, but I had some very basic steamed then flash fried fish with noodles and some pork balls.
Was trying to get some fresh cuttlefish, but failed.
Did have some very nice proper chineese tea though.
Don't remind me about the bloody Vomitmite
Oh well I'll just have to settle for 25 years of continous attendance, I thought I might make at least 30 years before the bones gave out!!!!!!!!!
There you go, job done:
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Flibster's+2009+Grand+Prix+Menu
While we wait for FP2, may I direct your attention to:
http://zerodownforce.blogspot.com/2009/04/world-series-here-i-come-again.html
;)
Right, I'm gonna take a shower and get myself up properly. Be two ticks. Feel free to read the new post on my blog there and leave a comment :)
I'm watching Murray's preview of Bahrain now on the red button. It's good to see him on television :)
It still makes me laugh how desperate we all are for a normal dry race :P
Have you invited me round? First I've heard of anything :)
Maybe to ensure the wound doesn’t reopen? There’s no way that could’ve been deeper than the cut Mansell had way back. {Comment #165}
I thought trophies were supposed to be handled easily, according to the Sporting Regulations?
Two breaches of podium protocol at one race
I downloaded the F1 Minute Wordpress widget file but I don't know what to do next.
remind us after practice and we'll help scott.
Ta :)
Just been to pick it up.
Found out it was called
D'OH
Typing with ice cream in hand...
The goats name was Brian. Brian the Goat.
Does its name affect the taste?
buemi's issue was the electrical cut-off kicking in after bouncing on the kerbs.
It was well cared for - hand raised by the daughter of the family and kept almost as a pet.
And I'm eating it. :D
Mmmm.. Taste that love...
we has video.
I am a genius. I just realised I can load justin.tv on the PS3 web browser, then I don't have to plug my laptop into the TV, and I can still live comment, but with more available screen space. If only I'd worked this out 6 hours ago.
hi all
Has anyone been getting the red bulletins out each day of the grand prix weekend? All I seem to keep finding is a monthly red bulletion off the red bull site. Or simply am i looking for something that isn't there anymore?
they don't exist anymore :(
Well that's just gayola
how's the Batracer going today? I haven't logged in yet....have we managed any points yet?
At least you now have two screens to work with. Unlike some others of us... ;)
way-hey! many more races to go though.
we may need a pic of the setup!
you did very well, me, not so much!
Gah! 9th! Only 1 second off my first points!
Oooh, nice idea. I did something like that with the Race of Champions stream in December :)
Ha ha I can't believe the car got up into 5th place! gutted for the others.
Shame it's not every race
It's embarrassing trundling around at the back!
here is a demonstration of the setup using the free! legal! tennis streaming. F1 will be even better since the streams have a full screen mode.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/dsc06867-jpg
at one stage you were on for a podium, then you had a collision that made you lap slower.
that's very cool :)
Lame
I swear this game is random on purpose.......No matter how hard I play with the setup etc I always get thrashed by some Force India etc....
15 setup runs for the British GP and it was a wet session, then dry qualifying. Talk about a waste!!
I didn't make it past the first lap. Lukeh hit me :(
I'm sorry :( I always feel guilty when stufff like that happens on batracer
"Just been to Morrisons to buy nachos ready for Sunday. According to @sidepodcast they're what the cool kids eat whilst watching f1."
http://twitter.com/sdryden/statuses/1602710982
:D
10 race ban should sort it?
These are awesome :D
http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/04/23/alastair-gibson-carbon-fiber-fish-sculptures/
Lee McKenzie on Twitter:
"Just been to try and interview Jean Alesi who has gone home after taking ill in heat. Ironic I waited in sun for an hour to find this out!"
I might do the same, I was going to resume my pub visits this week, but I figured if I want to get any sleep at all I have to skip the pub for the panel. Pubbing can start when we return to Europe :D
You call them pubs out in Australia? I thought you called them bars or something.
Aaaaah, on Doctor Who the Doctor just said
"keep working Mr C!!!"
Scary times :P hehe
pubs and bars are slightly different, that's how i view it anyway. Pubs are your traditional go and have a beer and have a chat to your mates, a bar is more doof doof music with overpriced cocktails that make me feel like an old lady because I hate them so very much.
I feel like writing another blog post - but what about? Hmm...
see, then you'll miss the parade lap...
What do you think should happen at the WMSC hearing?
this is my pub, they have a free wireless network, and I have headphones...
it could still work!
sorted!
i like that i can go to a pub with a laptop and not look out of place, there is always a fight to share a table with someone with live timing screens :)
Oooh that's a lot better. The BBC website now has much bigger photos for Formula 1 rather than really small ones it usually posts...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8016083.stm
Mental note:
When extremely tired, ensure that you put both cheese and onion in a cheese and onion sandwich.
Just onion is not nice.
Just got the call from Anovo, the company that I had the interview with:
I GOT IT! I GOT THE JOB! YES! :D *starts doing Alonso celebrations*
Well done!
Hooray!
Grats.
Congrats!
Congratulations buddy! :D
Well done. What's the job?
Call centre representative at Anovo in Norwich. They're a French company that deal with electronics and the branch I'm working at deals with mobile phone repairs.
*starts doing donuts in a Radical on Race Pro to celebrate*
When do you start?
5th of May, just after the bank holiday.
Little bit of freedom left then :)
Hehe, yup. But I only have to work either a Saturday or Sunday a week, and I get one day off in the week as well, which is nice. I've got 18.5 days holiday as well, which is 2.3 days per month.
Hey, everyone!
Hey, Scott. :D
Everyone's FR lineup locked-in? :)
Good thing is that this branch looks after the repairs for O2, Phones 4 U and Tesco, so I'm predicting I might have to be testing out iPhones for faults. That's another part of the job.
Already dreaming of holiday, you haven't even started yet ;)
:D
Back to F1 then:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/74748
Obviously trying to help soften the blow should there be any punishment.
Trying to avoid a race ban and just incur a fine. With this written apology (and Lewis Hamilton's star power), it just might work. I really think they'll just get a fine.
Surely McLaren don't have as much money as we all think they do. They're still paying off the $50million from the spy scandal, I assume?
KERS fault for Kovalainen?
"My KERS stopped towards the end of the final session, which meant my times weren’t as competitive as they could have been. But I definitely think we’ll be more competitive in qualifying. "
http://www.mclaren.com/latestnews/mclaren-news.php?article=284
Already paid off.
They had to pay it off by early last year IIRC. This years car is the first to be impacted by the fine really.
KERS has it in for finnish drivers it seems...
KERS must have it in for me, I like the Finnish drivers!
oops, other post in the wrong thread
I GOT IT! I GOT THE JOB! YES! {Comment #212}
Congratulations, Scott!
SWiss FTW
Well done, Scott! :) Treat us with your first paycheck? ;)
Maybe ;)
Oh my god, this is from the 2004 Bahrain Grand Prix and Mr Legard explaining Michael Schumacher's pit stop. I can't get over how utterly stupid this is:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/legard-mp3
If he just looking around the commentators box?!!!
tea... sandwich... napkin... cake... fruit...
right... :O
Heya everyone
Well done Sco... Mr Woodwiss. Remember who got you were you are before you went all rich and famous.
Managed to get two hours off work today, though that was after I engaged war with the holepuncher, and lost. The thumb is looking pretty nasy.
Happy birthday Mr. Alex
Depends when the afternoon is, anything after 4pm on that day will be good for me.
Fantastic news .. congratulations but I'm not siinging twice in one day ;)
Win RBR stuff
Thanks Amy .. I have entered :D
Same here :D
And here.
I love the name of their store - Bullshop. Brilliant! :)
A 13 year old in Conneticut won the 17" Laptop, iPod Touch and $10,000 to spend in the iTunes store with the 1 billionth app download!
Sorry, should have put that in the daily post
WOWOW! Well done to him!
I feel sorry for the guy who was 1 download off!
test.
Luckily, he'll never know
Should I have revised?
:D
My doohickey was playing a up.
pmsl :D
How are we all on this glorious Friday?
I'm good thanks .. and you?
It's Saturday for me:D I'm tired, but my neighbours are having a very loud party.
I'm great!
Better now that work is done till Monday afternoon
I'm fine apart from my thumb. Including my thumb, in terrible pain
So what's the deal with Nico during the FP sessions?
Ctrl Alt + Del again? ;)
Knackered. :D
Late night Flibster?
It's Nico being 2009-spec Nico - King of Fridays. Can he translate his form to Saturday, though? He better - I dropped Kubica for him. :D
the singstar has come out next door. I'm shocked people still play that game.
Early morning more like.
Went to a batchelor party at a 'gentlemens club'
Had about 1 hours sleep.
Last time I cheked, a holepuncher didn't involve windows, im thinking it was mac powered.
I had him earlier on but droppped him as I've not been too impressed with his race performance. Maybe it's the team making bad decisions, not sure yet
Self inflicted injury Sir! .. no sympathy :D
You don't have a perfect small hole in your thumb do you?
Hmmm, not sure you have much to complain about then.
Apart from an empty wallet maybe :)
No, it was the thing you press down, my thumb was under it and managed to be caught by the edge.
I was thinking that too, but then Kubica hasn't shown that much form, either, other than that banzai run on the options. I'm better off going with a car that has pace in it. Rosberg is the weakest guy in my lineup, anyway, with Button, Barrichello, Vettel, and Glock in it too.
Wasn't after sympathy.
Stone cold sober too.
Nice party though. Celebrating becoming single. :D
Ouch!
;)
You or the ex-groom?
I'm only kidding.
Oh-no!
Ex-groom.
His wedding was meant to be tomorrow.
What happened?! What a shame.
Ah!
Then his friends did the right thing. Hopefully he was hammered and had the foresight to book today off to sleep
Bride and the grooms ex happened.
Nope. :D
What? I'm confused...
Cat fight?
No way that alone can cause a breakup.
Paul O'Grady is talking about Jenson Button on Channel 4
O'Grady just said Jenson is engaged...?
Paul O'Grady talking about F1 on his show on C4.
Erm... what?!
There was obviously a reason for it that may be best not shared
Now Lewis.
if thats true, that was very quick.
Yeah He's probably wrong, especially if hes; with his new girlfriend. I don't remember him getting engaged in the past?
I'll echo that but only cos, you're watching Paul O'Grady?
Paul setting down the fact that he's a Jenson fan ;)
he was engaged once, but that was years ago.
*shuffles papers uncomfortably*
Moving on!
It's been about six months
You were channel hopping weren't you (wink, wink)
which is very quick.
to Louise - we all know how that ended up.
True
Who said the grooms ex was a girl?
Then again, so was DC's engagement to Karen - they turned out fine.
Oh. Ohhhh. Okaaay.
If not then it pretty much still becomes a cat fight ;)
Hehe, he wants Jenson on the show.
and 5 years didn't work for Jenson so longevity isn't a great sign anyway :D
Thinking it through now... this is... very odd.
Not necessarily.
He might wanna buy himself out next year!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8017279.stm :D
Off to see Andy Parsons tonight, should be good :D
sorry for the randomness, i'm just excited :P
I often wonder why I am friends with them...
Must tell him that. :D
at.long.last.
formula1.com China video is up.
Cool :)
it wasn't a catfight, then? i knew it.
thanks Journeyer, I checked about 30 minutes ago and it wasn't there then so I was going to give up for the day :D
Haha, what a great interview!
Piquet should take a look at Seb's attitude to the sport and whatnot, I know we've said it over and over but he's such a shining example of the future for F1 :)
I know the feeling. ;)
twas my last check for the day - and wahoi, it was up!
bbc geolocking:(
On the latest Murray one it says 'if you are not in the UK click here' and when you do, that video also says 'not available outside of the UK'
i want to watch one of the practices the whole way through...which one had the most incidents in it?
In case anyone's wondering, the song is:
"Living for the Weekend" - Hard-Fi
'Robert why are you in the pits?
I crashed.'
:D never heard that from China. Another good video from f1.com :)
"I don't see anything out of my helmet!"
:D
Jarno was told he had no rear wing - didn't he figure that out on his own? ;)
I love Vettel's quote when he wins "OH....YES!"
‘Robert why are you in the pits?
'Does it not look blinkin obvious without the front wing
Why did BMW let go of Vettel again? At this rate, he may end up achieving more than Kubica will.
They weren't looking at the TV feed, they were looking at the timing screen.
Wasn't he on loan?
They could have turned around
Who loaned him to who, exactly?
You can tell Webber doesn't podium often, I've never seen someone look so awkward when they spray champagne.
He was a Red Bull Junior
Ah, but he won in Formula BMW, right?
the factory returns. season two inside the williams hq:
"In a change from the programme’s first season, which focused on individuals and their impact within the team, this year’s episodes will be more documentary-based. At least once a month, Eurosport’s crew will record Williams F1’s race preparations and how various departments work, as well as features focusing on technical aspects such as KERS."
http://www.williamsf1.com/news/view/915
That dosen't give you anything. It's just another series
Right, I'll see you all in a few hours. And yay for the factory to be coming back
It does - it allows BMW to give him a test drive which would lead to a contract.
just wanna re-bring up what I posted earlier today, it's far too funny I thought to miss out on if anyone did :D
Wasn't he Renault World Series champion despite leaving halfway through to do F1?
You only get a BMW F1 test if you win the Formula BMW World Thing which is the top 4/5 people from each series. In theory he could have got a contract, but Red Bull snapped him up and he went to WSR
very, very scary.
I love that, it's just so random
i think he was a bit bored of schumi winning. which i can relate to, but fruit?
Interesting... I thought it was BMW who had him under contract first.
I honestly cant work out what he was doing, I've watched it again on the BBC website and it's just schumi in the pits when he starts saying it...
There is no explanation to the various snacks being brought up!
its very CBBC
maybe he saw someone having a picnic? ;)
seriously, perhaps it's some mnemonic device he had from school?
my assumption is, earlier in the race he must've made reference to how easy the team make pitstops look. delivering tyres like a waiter... or something.
he did say at one point schumacher is having a quiet sunday drive, that's the only correlation I can make between the two, but even then I can't see what cakes, napkins and fruit ahve to do with a sunday drive :D
Ok, so i've looked at his career, he was snapped up by Red Bull for the juniors program up till WSR, then BMW made him the 3rd driver whilst still being in WSR, then he was called up to race by BMW. So i don't know :S he was contracted by both at once i guess
the person at fault here is the person who looked back at legard's previous f1 commentary and said "we'll have im!".
clearly the guy's useless, just no-one's bothered to tell him.
That's what I saw too... how very odd. Oh well, it's done him no harm... except for his helmet design. ;)
2006 he was called up to be F1 Third driver after kubica made the race team, but was also doing F3 Euroseries (red bull car).
2007 he was third driver and did WSR too (red bull car) but then was called up to the race team after Kubica's "moment"
i want to go to sleeeep but nando vs nando is NAIL BITING
I guess you're watching tennis again, but who is the second nando?
verdasco v gonzalez
i think you have a problem....you have a serious tennis addiction
:D
what do you and i have then, jon?
I've been doing well, I haven't been watching full tournaments, only quarter finals onwards :D
it's been a while since i watched tennis without federer. it's not deliberate but italian tv doesn't show it and the swiss tv only show the odd swiss competition or the final 8 or federer matches. not that they're biased.
well i have good nights sleep through no tennis watching ;) you?
All the tennis is on pay tv here except for the grand slams, but once I found streams online that were guaranteed not to disappear I started watching a lot more. Federer is still my favourite though.
Is he giving commentary or is he ordering lunch?
maybe both? ;) :D
All I'm doing is sitting here staring at the screen and yawning...
I need sleep...
... or more caffeine.
boo it's all over and the wrong fernando won. bed time for me though!
verdasco? ayt, nyt, amy. :D
lol, night
verdasco is the right fernando!
night :)
oh, so you don't like gonzalez? the chilean fernando - he's not half-bad. :)
you are so addicted! we laugh at non-F1 addiction around here ;)
pah! a sport where only 4 people can play at a time, PAH! hehehehe
while F1 addiction is assumed as a given. ;) Haha! :D
other than motorsport, is there any sport that allows 3 or more teams to all play at the same time?
how about the Royal Rumble thing that Wrestlemania used to do (not sure if they do...i last saw in 2002)
i can only think of running and cycling, but they're also forms of racing.
that's 2 different pay-per-views, the Rumble's in January and Mania is in March/April. :D yeah, there's that, but not everyone will even agree if it's a sport or not. ;)
anything else?
Has anyone mentioned this: McLaren pleads guilty…
Hi everyone, how are we doing?
evening
yup, it's been brought up.
hey, chris!
Royal Rumble does indeed still happen, we had a party at my flat for it this year and got nostalgic about the times when we still thought it was real.
cool! i'm guessing you loved the bit between michaels and taker at the end. :D
Aah. back in the day i think it was just the one. i agree other than racing type things, i cannot think of anything. orienteering is a similar team sport but racing again. how 'bout shooting? no racing there, other than the biathlon type stuff.
That was Wrestltmania, didn't watch that. Royal Rumble is a separate event.
was real??
some forms of shooting have it, i think, but not all. :)
as long as there was a chair being thrown, i never really cared what happened!
it's wierd, a friend burnt it on a DVD for me and i had no idea who 99% of the people were but it was still really fun to watch. Soemthing really enjoyable about the royal rumble match
We liked to think so :D
ah yes, but they don't necessarily shoot against each other, more one at a time, rather than directly competitng
hang on - who were the last 2 men at the Rumble? i thought it was HBK and Taker - to tease a Mania match?
Agreed. I only really cared about Rey Mysterio, Undertaker and Kane.
I was more implying (badly) that I maintain it is real. it is the audience that is fake. and maybe the referee.
agreed. can you imagine what it would be like if they directly competed against each other in shooting? :D
Nope, Triple H and..... that guy who also only wears black pants.
hehehe i dont mean against each other like trying to kill each other, but clay pidgen shooting where they both go for it could be fun
one shot, and you could take your time....
Think it's time for digest quotes:
Plenty of on-track action to keep us amused, with a lot of drivers finding it difficult to stay on the road, especially at Turn 10. McLaren seem to be making further strides towards the front, and Rosberg retains his title of King of Free Practice. Ferrari had another torrid time while my new favourite Sutil certainly made an impact in the vastly improved Force India. Piquet also proved my point that he's quite useless but what really surprised me was some calculations I made after practice had finished. I found that at the moment, based on times from FP1 and 2, the entire grid is covered on average by just 1.077 seconds, which must mean that upgrades coming from teams pretty much every race, 2009 has the closest field in F1 history.
Randy orton I think it was.
ohhh! them... edge, is it? oh well, my memory has failed me again. hbk-taker was at last year's rumble. :D
he doesn't wear black pants, does he? only black trunks?
but it would be like F1 - wait a week for the ballistic forensics to figure out who shot the clay pigeon.
That's the fella.
i have no idea, I just recognise the name in my mind from watching it. I cant reember who won the damn thing :D
:D
ah, orton it is then. i think it was orton who won it, right?
*shrug*
There were far too many men wearing black undergarments for me to know who was who.
thats true, but im sure you could use different colours bullets and a good camera, but would be a faff
:D
And on that bombshell, I'm off to bed. See ya in FP3 - maybe.
As long as you painted green stripes around the bullets as well.
in one version now they just use "lasers". no fun at all.
Night Journeyer.
:)
Don't forget to leave your summaries of the action today for tonight's F1 Digest.
i second that :)
I've done laser clay pigeon shooting a few times, it's more fun than it sounds.
only got to see 20 minutes unfortunately. but i could talk about clay pigeon shooting for a minute...
Star wars style? :D
Erm, I think that's a different podcast :)
Long stint from Journeyer means I have to push to close the gap now ;)
really? wow. do you get sound effects? i'm asking seriously. i'd like to hear about it.
Night! :D
shootpodcast? :D
ever since i saw Tractor Monthly a few weeks back, I never know where the limits are anymore.
sidepidegeoncast
what did i start? ...oh dear... i should have know the mood of the room when monty python was bandied about this morning...
Hehehe.
There are limits here?
I'll go in for that one. :D
Need to go shooting again soon. Got to keep my club membership up.
Were there any new aero parts on the cars today??
Yup, there is a speaker in each gun that plays a shotgun sound when you fire and a 'ping' if you get a hit. The guns are roughly the same size and weight as a real shotgun too so other than the recoil, it's surprisingly realistic (or so I am told, having never fired a real shotgun myself) .
good point.
McLaren front wing
McLaren diffuser
Force India diffuser *+ other bits still in customs*
Toyota front wing
there were a fair few experimental things, or at least changes..but i wasn't around much to keep attention. anyone else?
Toyota brought that front wing either last race or Malaysia. It's not new.
I am intrigued. I'll have to keep a look out for it. i just don't think it's the thing around here...
It's got new parts on it. The main parts of the wing are the same.
OK thanks Im in Bahrain but no Kangaroo TV so not much info on that front. I spoke to a mechanic at force india he said there was a new floor and sidepods. When I asked if he thought it would make an improvement he just said "No"
this was about the clay pigeon shooting thing i was discussing with Chris
If you mean the elements which extend inwards from the endplates, they had that from Malaysia.
Great insight, great summary.
Where's "here"?
:( Poor F.I.
Enjoy the weekend Nathan, keep up us up-to-date with all the goings on including any potential sand storms
Also managed to stop Eddie Jordan eating his breakfast to sign a photo for me. Got a photo with Nico Rosberg. Had a chat with Bernd Maylander he said he was a little worried about the wind in Bahrain.
Evening. :)
you're not hanging out with Bernie or something are you? You sound like you're becoming quite a figure out on the paddock. Any other gossip from the track?
Ha ha, Fake Bernie says:
"I'm nothing if not fair. So of course I MUST eliminate the British GP. I'd be favouring the Americans and the Canadians if I didn't."
northern italy. they shoot stuff, but usually they expect food at the end of it. a "ping" just isn't going to do it.
Haha, doesn't sound like it would go down too well then.
Wish I was hanging out with Bernie. Then maybe I could go to every race. Bernie has brought a nice collection of classic F1 cars here. Part of the Ecclestone collection. Really beautiful.
hunting = good. hunting without food = bad.
Strangely, Giggles is not live commenting his birthday, too many Elderflower Spritzers perhaps?
Right....i shall be back in a while (that is if i haven't had to be scraped off the group or from under a car) to continue to chat about random stuff hehe
the f1 website was plugging that collection. they claimed it was showing bernie's support for the race..
ciao:)
Well I have to say the Sakir circuit is awesome. Well maintained, not too big, lots of entertainment, easy access. It is now my favourite circuit from a spectators point of view. As for the TV viewer I'm not sure yet.
I didn't to see a lot of the racing today, but it's hard to get used to looking at sand. Have they spray painted any of it green like they did once before? (or have I made this up in my mind?)
It's really weird watching the cars disappear out into the dessert. I think before they did spray something on the sand to stop it from blowing onto the track. Not sure what it was. They seem to have decorated it all quiet well.
Have to go anyway battery nearly dead will drop in tomorrow.
thanks for the insights. have a great time.
There's an F1 world champ on Question of Sport apparently?
Last call for Free Practice summaries. I only have one, may have to drop them if there's not a lot to say about the desert :)
Excellent :-)
It's Damon! :D
ooooh...
*turns bbc1 on*
He's not done much yet though :P
Cool :) Evenings all
"AND LOOK AT THAT!" Gotta love Murray :D
TV has been taken over by corrie lovers. Flip :(
Rubbeeennnss!!
Hehe, I got that question as soon as they said first win in 2000 :)
Surprised Damon seemed a bit hesitant about answering!
Poll on my blog has Button to win on Sunday at the moment with just over half of the votes. There's still time to vote, it ends midnight on Sunday.
http://zerodownforce.blogspot.com
I had to think about it for a second but I got it ;)
Surely midnight on Sunday is after the race?
Ooh, I'll vote then. ;)
I certainly do. The strange thing is some of his BBC videos are available to view on the international version and others not - those available are tediously slow. Does anyone know a way of downloading these Murray Walker videos?
Muse on QoS! :o
Muse, eh Lukeh? ;)
Eeeek, my favourite guitar solo too. Best episode ever. ;)
Surely Nick, Damon?
He'll be kicking himself now... well done Dom :P
OiOi! I'm back, with no tyre marks on me! Score!
Where ya been Jon?
Been sunbathing in the road?
Poo, I've been writing my blog and only just noticed you were all talking about QoS. Ah well, thank God for iPlayer!
Had a good cycle around, tres fun, although nearly got hit by a car, i blame the cyclist i was following!
Yeah, i really should stop that
Hey, me again.
Remember that holepunching incident, seems it was a blood blister, also seems im rather nervous of needles.
Do it!
You'll regret it if you don't
Thanks for sharing!
Think I'll play me some New Star GP :)
I did, after about fifteen minutes.
Your welcome.
*You're* ;)
I'm in pain here, grammar is the last thing i give a damn about
hahaha :D
Man up RG, don't let the holepunch see it get the better of you ;)
what is this holepunch incident?! is it like the fishing trip from gavin and stacey :P
Didn't see that Ep of G&S but RG had a bit of an unfortunate collision between thumb and holepunch
its a running joke throughout the series, no-ones quite sure what its about hehe
the question i need to ask is...how thin is your thumb!!! and why did you put it in the holepunch?
Is it a hole or a slot? :D
lol :)
It was the handle bit of it.
impressed i am
Can't stop laughing at this
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/acount-overdue-emails-pdf
hehe yup
I'm trying to remember where I've seen that before...
I have concluded that since breakfast materials won't make their own way to the fridge by morning, I shall have to retrieve them my self from Somerfields
It was an email floating around a while back and I just found it in one of my folders
it did the rounds a while ago
Ooh, 5 Live F1 special at 9.00
Can you shout when its on? I'm likely to forget
So am I. Will do my best though.
hehe thanks
A nice short blog post ;)
http://zerodownforce.blogspot.com/2009/04/as-close-as-you-like.html
quick heads-up. may be having a chat with joe later this evening (technology willing). you guys and girls have any questions in need of answering or anything we should keep in mind?
umm, sure you've got it covered, but stuff about the British GP would be good, what he thinks of it, what can be done, etc.
:)
Ooh nice. Could you ask his opinion about my averages of FP today showing the field seperated by just 1 second?
I'll think of some more.
I'm not sure he will have heard any of him, but I would be interested to know his opinion on Jonathan Legard.
Okay. Question from me, Timo Glock (yes, I know, I'm sorry) is having a good season so far, do you think he could possibly challenge Button and maybe even Vettel for the championship?
Another one - Just how good could Force India become?
Intresting thing about that is that he might have met him in the paddock, so we could see what he is like as a person maybe?
gonna need more info sir. based on what evidence?
does he know the contents of the leaked apology?
his season isnt that good
am making notes, do keep 'em coming.
Based on their performance in FP today?
oooh, nice one.
How much of an effect does he think the apology will have on the outcome of the hearing?
i see. we don't know what fuel they were running. can ask though.
He's joint third in the championship with two points finishes and a podium.
we may have to do this every week. you have much better questions!
has he any idea of who is being mooted for the Renault seat if Piquet has to step aside
How many races does he think Piquet has left before he gets the boot?
(soon I hope)
he answered that one on his blog earlier. lebol asked the question, joe said "yes", but can't say.
thanks .. not read it yet
What are his thoughts on Lola and Prodrive's F1 ambitions for 2010? And how serious does he think they are about them?
Ooh, I'm liking this:
On your own Flavio. :D
agreed, however theres not a great deal between him and the other guys around him, plus the red bulls are getting alot better, you never know, but i personally wouldnt bet on it
what are the thoughts of the paddock re Honda's tv rights money and is Briatore the only one who doesn't want Brawn to get hold of the money
Has the whole internet gone slow or is it just me again?
I'm not sure Joe could answer that...
;)
hehe :)
Ask Lou, maybe she's broken it again
dunno if joe can help ya with that one?
I say blame Steven.
Is James Allen argry we took the michael out of his youtube voice over?
:D
hehe. he has our number if he is.
Did Mike Gascoyne find work with an F1 team after his trip to China
I've just seen Murray Walker's latest video.
Has he been reading my blog?
Does anyone seriously think Mercedes will sell or reduce it's share in McLaren?
haha .. is he free for a quiz next wednesday :D
Does he mention Timo?
Is he free for a panel next Sunday?
:D
Special host?
Router restart cured it. Damn thing.
*crosses off list*
:D
Oddly enough I don't have some sort of 'You Are a Legend Timo Glock Post' just yet. Should get it started sometime
this was just twittered to to us via psychemedia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw8Egn9qolY
driving on google maps!
would he like a researcher?
awww!
disappointed.
Does he need a messiah?
isn't franck busy?
Jenson's China diary btw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K02dTkz9KUQ
I'm sorry. Time and all.
In February Mercedes had a meeting and it was only narrowly voted (one vote) to continue participating in F1
"management board of Mercedes-Benz was only one vote away from announcing the German manufacturer's withdrawal from Formula 1 this week. Following Daimler AG chief executive Dieter Zetsche's proposal to submit the company's participation in Formula 1 to a vote, the permission to continue was granted with 3 votes for and 2 against"
Source: http://www.autoevolution.com/news/mercedes-bmw-to-leave-f1-3774.html
Quick plug! New blog post on iPhone gaming.
http://snakesonlevelnine.wordpress.com/
Thanks for your time, please resume your normal lives.
With Luca flying out, is Raikkonen's job on the line?
I thought that story had been dismissed as rubbish by Mercedes?
right to reply!
he is?
Any more details about Brawns sponsorship with Virgin .. wasn't it just for 2 races?
sure I read that .. or maybe I'm going mad .. lemme look
Yeah, Mr Montz...dle...dkeodmalo... is coming to Bahrain apparently.
haven't read yet, but did you mention the bmw game?
Radio 5 Live
Luca is going to Bahrain to kick butt
Was just about to write that :P
I cannot find reference to Mercedes rubbishing it. But the above story was widely publicised.
Mercedes is haemorrhaging a billion dollars a month!
Have I Got News For You is back... is the Radio 5 thing downloadable?
can ya post any good info pls?
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/74778
they were running Virgin atlantic today. so i guess it is still going. but not sure of the details...
Lucky De Monzazeppelino?
Should be on iPlayer later
Does Joe read any F1 blogs?
Nope. It's more about how and why the quality of games has got better and better since launch, so that they are now reaching the point where they can rival those on DS.
So $200 million (ish) a year for worldwide advertising in F1 is a drop in the ocean.
apart from sidepodcast? .. that's a good one
given that he's heard of spc... we can ask which tho.
Can he read some of our blogs? ;)
ahh cool. i read shortly. am interested if the touch will split and become more of a gaming device than the phone.
Well that's what I mean :-)
In addition to SPC I'm guessing he'll mention other journos mainly.
haha, wondered when that would come ;)
Do the big teams really not recoup a large dose of the cash from revenue & sponsors?
Honestly it is difficult to read the corporate mind. I think Macca will turn things around non the tracks though!
The touch is certainly more accessible as a gaming device (no contracts to sign) but I imagine they will always both have the same software.
does he rate those have made the top 5 most talkative list, more than those who haven't?
does he think the budget cap is workable
They'll keep the same OS and the difference will be 3G and call making ability IMHO
Now that's a good one :D
the touch has better hardware doesn't it? due to less internal bits.
What does he think is a reasonable figure for the budget cap?
F1 on R5L now
very nice.
5 Live F1 starting now.
I thought they were both the same (other than the phone bits obviously). I may be wrong though.
Slightly better processor, but not a great deal faster I think
More memory available though
First up is Crofty talking to Domenicali.
What do we think is a reasonable budget cap, if FIA can make a fine of $100 million?
this sounds like its going to be good
"andy!"
Still got Holly talking to Lewis and Ant to Webber to come.
Ah, didn't know that. I still doubt they will make iPod touch specific games though, I imagine there are far more downloads on iPhone.
The primary difference is a faster processor: The second-generation iPod touch has a 532 MHz processor. The iPhone, iPhone 3G, and first-generation iPod touch all have 412 MHz processors
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/24/toucharcade-second-generation-ipod-touch-faster-than-iphone/
I don't think I can compete with 5live, but here's todays show:
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/04/24/f1-digest-2009-bahrain-free-practice/
Thanks Christine, it's on the list ;)
Thank you :D
Seeing as it's F1 digest, I think I can turn the volume down on Domenicali for a few minutes ;)
Note how everyone's stopped commenting because they're either listening to the digest or 5 live :D
Actually I'm trying to neaten up my blog
Or reading my blog.
Ok, maybe not.
i'm busy getting requests on nme radio ;)
I just have nothing interesting to say ;)
Or watching HIGNFY. :P
Am looking at this blokes stoopid t-shirt
http://www.autosport.com/gallery/photo.php/id/126841
"Is he Schumi in disguise"
:O You missed my summary :(
Ah well, there's always qualifying.
Maybe he should have taken those glasses off before he got dressed.
:D
Can't we have F1 Radio where they don't keep interrupting for football?
she said... "where was it"?
I forgot to complain about last week, you missed me qually and race summaries for Bahrain.
What do you expect of Kai Ebel?
Damn, China. I hate these new races.
Here in the comments:
damn. we need somewhere better than the comments to store these.
Oh god, what have I started...
I had 2 spins and I off .. seemed he had more than 2 spins
Have only just found out who he is
who is he
who said that?
There's a wiki for this place isn't there?
Lewis
FIVE
:)
christine suggests, maybe the results post?
Name Dropper
...when I met Nelson Mandela
He is weird
Of the FP sessions?
Seems reasonable
That could work
that's the one.
maybe tag is with some identifier eg
@digest
I tried to find out who he is and found this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q9Q0qvq6rU
Excuse me?
he spun five times, not two.
Ah, I see.
technically, seeing as i can prove it... that kinda makes him a bit of a liar.
:)
more porkies *run*
Just gonna watch the FSR WC race from Bahrain last year ;)
Lewis: "this is the toughest season for a long long time"
umm...excuse me...spy gate?
Anyone know if the GP2 Asia race is on telly tomorrow?
Timo does a brilliant impersonation of Kai Ebel. Hoping for Timo to win this weekend.
Just a bit of a liar? That's an improvement then.
i guess... habitual?
;)
Booo, news.
It would seem not.
Anyone else round here a snooker fan?
Eurosport listings say 10pm..
18:30 UK on Eurosport 2 tomorrow apparently
Used to be, then as I got older I found it more boring, no where near as good as it used to be.
Oh, ehm, I can explain that. you see .. ehm ...
*hangs head in shame*
Eurosport 2 that is.
The sprint race is at 6:30pm Sunday. This seems to be due to the MotoGP taking precedence.
I find it as hypnotic as ever. I've been known to lose three or more hours to it.
:D
Ah no, that's Sunday's race
Pat is correct
Ditto. I watched it often about 5 years ago. Now it sends my mind into mush. One of those games it is enjoyable/frustrating (in equal measure) when you play it, but is boring as hell on telly.
Kai Ebel is the 'pit reporter' for RTL and well known for his excellent taste in tight fitting clothes
I'm the same with cricket but usually cos it's great to fall asleep to on the couch ;)
It's German humour - just a little over the top.
Marlk Webber 'umms' more than Giggles!
Thanks Kathi :)
I find it fascinating. I love watching the finals that go on into the early hours of the morning.
Giggleuums
Racing car powered by chocolate.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090414/racing-car-powered-chocolate-carrots-and-potatoes-components.htm
okaaay...
What a waste.
Waste of good chocolate
:D
Somerfield family value dark chocolate is surprisingly good
oops put the blockquote tag in wrong place
No such thing
Always keep a supply of KitKats in the cupboard for such eventualities.
No such thing. :P
Stop talking about chocolate or I may have to have a trip to Tesco
Heh, great minds.....
This is true.
Kai Ebel (* 30 August 1964 in Mönchengladbach) is a German editor and reporter.
Nach dem Abitur am Neusprachlichen Gymnasium in Mönchengladbach absolvierte er den Wehrdienst und studierte anschließend an der Deutschen Sporthochschule in Köln mit Abschluss Diplom -Sportlehrer. After graduating from the Gymnasium Neusprachliches in Mönchengladbach, he completed the military service and then studied at the German Sports University in Cologne with a degree Diplom-sports.
Seit 1988 ist er Sportredakteur bei RTL und berichtet seit 1992 über die Formel 1 live von der Rennstrecke, aus der Boxengasse und von der Startaufstellung . Since 1988 he has been sports editor at RTL and reports since 1992 on the Formula 1 live from the racetrack, from the pit lane and from the starting line-up. Weiter moderierte er das RTL-Promiboxen und den RTL-Führerscheintest. Next, he moderated the RTL Promi boxes and the RTL-license test. Ebel ist ein Fan der Fußballmannschaft Borussia Mönchengladbach . Ebel is a fan of the soccer team Borussia Mönchengladbach. 2004 hatte Ebel einen Gastauftritt im Musikvideo zur Single „Runaway“ der Band Groove Coverage . Ebel 2004 had a guest appearance in the music video for the single "Runaway" the band Groove Coverage. 2007 nahm er an der RTL Sendung Entern oder Kentern als Kommandant teil. 2007, he participated in the RTL broadcast boarding or capsizing in part as a commander.
Bekannt ist Ebel auch für seine extravagante und bunte Kleiderwahl, für die er 2009 anlässlich des 25. Ebel is known for its extravagant and colorful dresses election for which he is the 25th at 2009 Geburtstages von RTL zum Moderator mit dem schlechtesten Modegeschmack gekürt wurde. Birthday of RTL to moderator with the worst fashion taste has been chosen.
Google translation
I can't do that
The rainy day comes too often then :)
*cry* .. off out shopping grr
It's Virgin Galactic not Atlantic this weekend?
I blame Steven
I hear there's a big market in space travel in Bahrain.....
This is why I stopped buying pies.
Sorry :-)
That gets my vote for comment of the year.
Add it to the wiki
:)
Really?
Is also why my fridge is not full of Guinness
Will do.
Yep, I read that and burst out laughing. It's even funnier out of context.
Okay. Time for some bloggery. I'm nearly a week behind on my posts.
is like lappery?
My first COTY vote then, thanks. :-)
Yes but not like another word I'm thinking of.
It was lappage!
I really do make myself too much work with these regular features. I'm starting to realise what it must be like to be in SPC-land.
Right, am gonna veg out in front of the tv and fall asleep in the hope I can get up for FP3 at 9am
See you all then
oops.
Evening all.
I see I was needed earlier (while I was wading through the comments).
Bassano answered the iPod question correctly though.
Kit Kats are not a suitable emergency chocolate snack for several reasons, most importantly that they are made by Nestlé. They also don't contain nearly enough chocolate.
I'm going to take it i missed it during fp's
you mean... what it's like to be christine in spc-land?
night bassano.
There aren't many words that can't be improved with a bit of 'age' on the end ;)
night :)
I hate the afct I can now not watch qualifying or fp3 for the rest of the season now apart from at the very end... :(
Bloggery. There's a joke there...
Bye Bassano.
FP3 at 9? That's not too bad actually...
Primarily yes.
Live commenting maltesers purchase :)
brilliant!
Could sb check if this video is viewable outside of Germany. Thanks
It Works.
But mainly only if one was Stephen Fry....
He does enjoy a good bit of bloggery.
Is that like Kenneth WIlliams telling people he was an enormous Cult?
So do us lot, I've never known so many bloggers in one place.
Maybe you missed the alternative word..
I'll pretend I did.... :P
some people still don't have one though.
"My friend asked me for a double entendre for a speech she was making, so i gave her one."
:D hehe
Shocking if you ask me. Especially now I have one.
Wehey!
have we seen andy's yet?
Quick! Look over there! *hides*
I don't have one, as there is nothing for me to say!
:(
I think you'll find you do. You just may not know it yet.
quick plug: http://www.f1bigpicture.com/
Nope. Seriously. Most of what I learn comes from this site. I only got into F1 properly at the end of 07 and found this site less than a year later. I have nothing new that someone has already come up with.
I wonder if he spins out when walking?
Doesn't have to be an F1 blog.
Blog about something else then? Mine is mostly about video games but I still plug the hell out of it here! :P
Harsh.
True. Still don't think I have enough to say though.
That is one cool picture
Only if Fernando has been oiling up his shoes.
I guess. It's just I've lost any sympathy for him now... he's had more than enough chances at Renault, it's time to get someone new.
It is a good picture though :P
Agreed. He's become a joke now.
I had a letter today from the Domain Renewal Group. Apparently, my .com domain name is due for renewal (in August). They want to know if I'd like to renew my domain via them at a cost of just £20 for 1 year, or £65 for 5 years.
Gosh, that's tempting. Or I could simply renew with my existing provider for just £8.17 per year instead and save myself some money.
Its not compulsory to have a lot to say to have a blog.... (whistles)
LPG who has more than one, but rarely gets around to transferring the writing from the notepad (computer) or the paper to said online tome(s)...
You have a domain .. so you COULD have a blog :D
I could.
He has a site with a lot of photos on it... would that do?
I dunno what constitutes a blog, why couldn't it be a visual blog of one's journey through life?
Sounds cool
I'm playing F106 on my ps2....guess who's commentating!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
I just write a lot of paragraphs about whats on my mind or what I feel like talking about. I guess that constitutes as a blog, or an extended talk to myself :P
Just general observations on things.
Did no one use to commentate themselves
'And its RG flying through to complete another lap at Shanghai, he leads from Alonso and Schumacher, one of the two.'
I don't think I could do it, takes me too much time to think up articles for PF without trying to blog every day
Depends if anyone is reading. My past blogs have tended to just be me talking to myself. It's still good to be writing though.
PitlaneFanatic is a website with articles where you talk, its close enough to a blog for me ;)
I fanx you :D
the worst bit is that he refers to me as Jenson Button (not "you're first") and i'm like "YES! I KNOW! I'M IN THE CAR!""
I have no idea if anyone reads mine. I did get ncie feedback for the music one I wrote the other day which was nice, but even with that, it was meant to be a quick insight into my thoughts, and ended up being a blog entry half the size of manchester :D
I read it and enjoyed it .. can't remember if I commented though (sorry)
I have subscribed to yours and read it. I've left a comment somewhere, cant remember which one though.
The comments were broken at the time so it's no problem :)
Ah yes, was the Hillsborough one
Me too. I think I was just about to leave for work though so didn't comment. I always try to though!
I loved the serious security guard gets serious one :D
I feel the same, no idea who reads mine, i don't get many comments on it, i know a few people who do, but not many.
I like that with Wordpress it's easy to see how many views you have got.
I've got 40 today thanks to the sidepodplug in the Daily post. :D
Yup. No idea to monitor visiter rates either, would like to think a few read it, I know Jackie commented on my RoC post
2 people today on mine, woot, and 4 yesterday
I'm not actually sure if I have them all (peoples blogs) in my feedreader we need a comprehensive list .. are yours on the wiki?
Nope, shall add it.
Great trees from small acorns etc
Blogger can't do that but if you go to www.feedburner.com you can get stats and a little plugin to put in your sidebar. That's the little counter I've got on mine.
We have something called "sitemeter" at our place which is quite cool
Added :)
thanks will go have a nose
cheers
Ah, I noticed that yesterday, I liked the snake logo :D
watching Chinese GP build-up because I missed it live. best gridwalk ever :-)
You have a nice writing style
where are you watching it?
Another shameless plug of my blog then, if we're doing that sort of thing at the moment:
http://zerodownforce.blogspot.com/
;)
Thanks, I'm quite pleased with that last post. More pleased with the logo though :D
Wooooah, load of emails getting flooded into my email inbox from the Wiki
At home. Got the race from iPlayer, the buildup from.. elsewhere :-)
I think I added your to my reader Scott, will go and check. Have you got an RSS feed Chris?
This is good or bad?
take a look, apparently your account was involved? (Not saying you were, just maybe a bug with the wiki?)
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/ummm-jpg
drop.io has made the pic smaller but you can still see all the emails im getting...
I just had a scarily similar crash to button did at monaco....and i was button too...spooky
That would seem to be a bug. I'll check my email...
Watchlists, basically you have edited a page so you are watching what other people are editing, so you are getting loads of emails of people which have edited the pages you have previously edited. You cna turn it off in the settings.
I've got 8 similar emails yet the Science Museum page hasn't been updated...
I get those too, but I doubt that there have been that many updates this evening?
Er...no? Don't really know how tbh!
Might be coming in batches, say once a week?
i havent updated a page in ages for one, and it says i have
Except they didn't - it is emailing about the Museum trip saying it has updated just now when in fact it was last updated by me last week!
yeah they all arrived in literaly 5 minutes as you can see on the right.
So for some reason, the site thinks you haven't seen any update emails and is sending them all out at once. It must be a bug
Hmmm. They are old stuff as well. Err, might be that, no idea.
Do you have the watchlist checkbox ticked?
That's weird, I haven't added anything to the wiki apart from Amy's request to be added to the panel this morning
There must be something in your account that would give you the option?
Er... I'll look. I'm pretty new to the whole Wordpress thing.
it should be on by default. i'll try and sub to it.
yup Google Reader recognises it
I have no idea what I'm looking for to be honest.
Cool. I'll not lose any sleep over that then!
Right, must love ya's and leave ya's. See you in the morning, no promises on this 'practice' malarky though. Ciao
OMG just got 20 emails from wiki
You might want a link in the sidebar. Best thing could be the little RSS logo linking to it.
In the options it might be under 'feed' or 'rss' or 'atom' or something like that.
Cool, cheers. WIll take a look
It's sharing the bug then.
i feel your pain :(
At least none of them are trying to sell you Viagra or cosmetic surgery.
I guess thats the handy thing about gmail, it hides all that in the spam folder. Albeit it I seem to have 133 spam emails just today, apparently.
I read a story that THAT woman is quitting THAT group and going solo
oooh. does that make her more or less annoying i wonder?
Didn't she try that once before and fail miserably?
Evening Steven :)
Who knows
Not sure why, but I felt compelled to write my 3rd blog post of the day:
http://zerodownforce.blogspot.com/2009/04/they-can-haz-f1-race-here.html
Hi Jackie
She could be a pussy cat TROLL
:D
Makes her easier to ignore...
... but could also mean that the one who can sing but is always covered up has finally rebelled and wants her due frontspersonage....
who dat den?
Speaking of annoying women, did anyone just see Miley Cyrus on Jonathan Ross?
I purposely did not. But then I find Jonathon Ross annoying.
I don't know the name but she is always on the far left or right of the line/formation, and has many more clothes on than THAT WOMAN.
Annoying maybe, but definately hot.
Isn't she about 12?
More like 17 or 18.
Really? Can't say I agree with you there. Then again, I tend to fancy celebs that are 10 - 20 years older than me so maybe I'm the odd one.
Morning everyone.
Wow, I woke up early today...
wait until she shaves her head and starts hanging out with her mom.
Ah they must be repeats of the tv show then, that my kid sister watches. Still young though...
So that's your plan, is it? ;)
Morning Journeyer. :)
Just so long as she doesn't shave her head and hang out with her dad until they decide to re-release one of his songs.
Why yes, yes it is. See, our comments are pretty much dead-even. :P
Morning, Scott.
And why are you talking about... Miley? :O
c'mon he had one classic.
She was on Jonathan Ross' show.
I just don't think you understand.
i may have to last.fm him.
Oh. I see. Something tells me that girl will fall apart in 5 years time.
three...
Four.
I doubt it - BRC is in no way dependent on his daughter for his income or (in)fame(y)
(yes, I know, dodgy spelling ha!)
that type of start in tv either means they'll do amazingly well, or rubbish
think i'd better go to bed... haven't really commented much tonight but nevermind. Enjoy fp3 and qualifying tomorrow, will see you guys tomorrow evening :)
night!
i think she'll do well, but her life will end up being rubbish. don't you see? she and britney have so many similarities.
night Lukeh
Wonder how the chat with Joe went?
bye
night lukeh
night lukeh!
Wonder what questions were picked?
good. sorry, should've said.
we won't sleep until it's up. asked a bunch of your questions. not sure we gave y'all enough credit actually. but will listen back in a bit.
Didn't ask from a credit point of view. It's just great that he takes the time out of his schedule to keep us informed :)
Not to mention we get legit information from one of F1's insiders. :) That doesn't happen everyday.
If you're worried about it stick a note in the post. As Jackie said I don't think many of us are after credit..
Tonight, my housemate had dinner with Formula 3 driver Victor Garcia. Which isn't something you hear every day.
i know, and it's not that. i think joe would probably be quite pleased if he knew the response we got from you all when we asked if there were any questions. that everyone was interested and excited enough to chip in with their thoughts.
i was, and i spend all day here!
We're only too happy to oblige :)
Just found this via Mitch Benn's web site. Amazing stuff. Apparently he's been on the BBC too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z19zFlPah-o
Indeed. Joe talks a lot of sense and without any pretension or delusions of granduer. He's a damn good journalist and tells it like it is. We should all feel privileged that he's chosen to share with us.
At least I assume it's him. He's definitely called Victor, definitely in F3 and definitely Spanish.
The guy's even got his own Wikipedia entry!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Saward
That's.. different :-)
Just left a comment on Joe's blog with a rather sneaky plug of my blog ;) Still to be moderated though.
Haha! You sneaky one, you... :P
I'd forgotten about that book he wrote. Interestingly, there is a game coming out later this year called The Saboteur which is set in World War II where you play a spy in Paris who used to be.... you guessed it, a racing driver!
no way?
According to someone who posted a comment on the exact same article as I just did, Fernando has a new version of the double diffuser in Bahrain, while Nelson's using the one Fernando had in China.
Really...? I wonder if they got any ideas from Joe... ;)
Nelsinho will always be a step behind, won't he?
damn I'm going to have to miss FP3 tomorrow
Indeed. My housemate's girlfriend lives with someone from Spain who knows him from home apparently.
I'm 50-50 for FP3, but I should make it for quali.
way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saboteur_(2009_video_game)
JA says they are the same James Allen Blog
good find.
"The game's protagonist, (based on war hero William Grover-Williams)"
same guy, so it must be related. i (heart) sidepodcommunity. thank you chris.
Any time :D
yup - and the looks pretty good too. worth a look when it comes out. :)
What? There is no way anything in that book could be trivialised to be put in a game.
That is sick
It's the usual case of take an interesting piece of history and run with it until it makes a good plot for a game. It actually looks like a really cool concept.
tell us more? i haven't read the book yet (christine's mother-in-law won't relinquish it).
You have to read the book. It is fabulous. It is a bit difficult to follow at times but it is obvious that he put so much work into it.
i would do, if i could. her who was just named, actually bought a copyfrom a bookshop after reading only the back cover, and not having a clue who joe was.
am still patiently waiting :)
... I see an op. for some very crafty education coming along...