Friday is here, and that can only mean it is Free Practice day in Hungary. Now Free Practice is usually the least exciting day of the race weekend, and if you multiply that by being at the Hungaroring, we're not expecting much. Still, the weather is supposed to be nice.
- RG created a great quiz last night called: "Which F1 Driver Are You?" It's a couple of pages of questions but well worth a few minutes of your time. Apparently I am Jaime Alguersuari, which is typical as I can't even say his name. If you haven't already, take the quiz and let us know who you are.
- Ollie has written a good post about the naming conventions surrounding US F1 - if that is in fact what they are really called. Am also a fan of the title, as it looks like this could be the start of an occasional series. Yay.
- Also, if you've not placed any bets on the upcoming race weekend, then you might be able to glean something from F1 Punter's latest two posts - Hungary for Success and Another Podium Possibility. The latter features Timo Glock, which will make the aforementioned RG happy.
That'll do it for now. Join us for live commenting throughout the day as we enjoy Free Practice, and let us know how you think the rest of the weekend will pan out. I'll see you in the comments.
Hello Friday!
To open another day and an f1 day, I present... the F1 Drivers Song Covers CD Collection!
Kimi: http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/smile-jpg
Jacques Villeneuve: http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/smile-jpg
Piquet Jr: http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/nels-jpg
Alonso: http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/alonso-jpg-2
Rob Smedley: http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/rob-jpg
Schumi:http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/schumi-jpg-2
Rubens: http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/rubenscd-jpg
Jenson: http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/jensonb-jpg
:D
Oops, here is Jacques... http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/jv-jpg-3
Mr C: A back-up Q
Do you use an external drive via Firewire & if so, which?
I need a new one, mine is getting noisy and am considering a WD but have heard mixed things about their Firewire enabled drives
Have two of their USB driven devices and they've been faultless so far
sometimes, but i don't recommend it if you have a mac laptop, because the firewire bus doesn't have the power to run to blooming things unaided (at least not reliably).
heard great things about drobo, if you have the budget.
hehe. too good :)
Awesome!
schumi link didn't work for me:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/schumi-jpg-2
love it though!
awesome!! love it
♥
I think this might be contraversial... But.
Listening to Murray commentate on the old 80's hungarian GP's...
..And he isnt very good...
in what way?
this photo makes me giggle a lot.. :) just cause it's something i would do..
Finally!
Someone who agrees with me, I really don't like Murray as a commentator
I can see how he's a legend but the bumbling fool thing really gets me goat
[Sorry Gavin]
Uh oh.
He was just calling stuff wrong.
His style was as great as always, but he was just calling drivers having a look as 'he's gone past'
maybe im a bit out of context, i haven't seen enough of f1 in that era.
But i know if it was JA or JL calling that they would have been crucified on the forums
I think I'd just stand back and admire my work, then laugh :D
he did that a lot. but paired with hunt, it was a great combination.
No, this would be fixed next to my iMac. I have a portable external also and will get another soon (WD TV Media is awesome BTW)
Used to have a Lego brick Lacie until it fell off the side of the coffee table :(
I love Hunt, great commentator.
I dont mind murray making mistakes, but confusing something, and just calling something plain wrongly is a bit different?
oops. the desktop lacie's are fine, although christine says her's is noisier than her old WD.
any reason you don't want to use usb? unless your recording audio/video i can't tell the difference.
The nozzles on those last four on the right aren't aligned. That wouldn't happen in a McLaren garage ;)
It's what he's famous for!
To be fair though, the information he had in front of him would have been minimal compared to today's live timing and multiple camera angles. Murray and James didn't always travel to the races either.
Could you have done a flawless job based on the frankly poor TV coverage?
It seems DC is getting surprised very easily now he's retired...
I'd stick with USB too unless you are using the drive for video or audio.
I transfer large files (1GB+) between HD & External
Ripping Bluray and 720p video ends up with super large files
Probably not but Murray took it to another level
Might be worth going for Firewire then.
yeah, but he's irreplaceable.
he came back and commentated on 5live in 2007. the race was nuts, the worst possible thing for murray really, and he didn't call very much right. but i loved every minute of him and would've listened forever.
i don't care if commentators get things wrong, so much as i don't want them to be annoying nor condensing. allen was both, legard is just dull. murray was never those things.
I am not complaining about mistakes...
I am just saying i am seeing something and hearing murray describe it differently...
Allen and Legards problems both lie in delivery, but i think technically they are way ahead of Murray. People seem to remember him with rose tinted glasses, myself included.
Had the web been around then he would never have survived
I am
My current 1TB USB drive will switch to Time Machine
The new one will be my new external media storage
ahh, okay :)
In your personal experience, are WD firewire externals the same as or no worse for reliabiilty Andy?
agreed, and i hate them for it.
i don't. i know he wasn't as good as he could've been. but i still don't care.
That is true though
I've no idea, I use Toshiba USB externals.
Classic!
I find commentators missing things i can see or getting things wrong verry annoying.
But delivery could be every bit as annoying, under allen especialy.
I guess the Murray i remember didnt make the big mistakes, just the general confusion, so perhaps that is the best way to remember his work in the box
I should just get an enclosure and buy a decent fast drive but...
last photo i'll share tonight, i just wanted to post it cause Rubens is just kinda... awesome
LOVE that! :D:D
Is there a Mr Whingey?
[Sorry Lou & Lukeh] ;)
the 97 race is a classic murray one by the way :D
My tiredness read that as Mr Whippy with initial confusion...
why? are you thinking that Kubica needs one too? :P
Wrong URL ;)
Featuring a car with some of the most ridiculous areo add ons ever! :D
good comeback.
That was guybrush threepwood esque. Kudos to lou. :D
*realises noone will get that but still says it*
Is Kubica still in F1?
anyone up for some f1 themed energy drink? - http://tinyurl.com/mw3pc7
i really really need to stop looking at photos now..
:D thanks.
Just think of the blog, good research!
meeeeeeeeeee
Gaaaaah, now I'm looking at G M M stories :(
Remember the fake Veyron speeding ticket? This one is real (but for a Lamborghini)
http://www.kpho.com/news/14722418/detail.html
giggle's turned pro?
Has anyone got a spare highlighter pen? i have 3 pages to go out of 54, and mine has just run out.
I dont know whether to cry or...
Times might be hard but I don't think he's that desperate yet ;)
not sure... maybe he decided to skip this race? i've seen about one photo of him... mind you that's one more than i've seen of Sutil... or Kaz...
RG created a great quiz last night called: “Which F1 Driver Are You?”
Apparently, I'm Mark Webber
Turn it nib down for 10mins or so
I thought he gave up after Australia... or was that BMW?
good idea... I dont think shaking and swearing at it is helping it at all... :D
It'll help you, just not the pen
I use highlighters for a living, I want one with a swichable refil tank :)
didn't BMW give up after the Canadian GP last year? ;)
ouch :)
now that is a good idea!
I havent used this one for 2 years so its a bit out of practice...
:lol:
Probably, Austrralia was to satisfy the sponsors ;)
okay i need some help. i've seen about 4 photos of this guy and none of the captions help me with what he is actually doing...
I dont think they have been able to adapt to not having a Mario moustache on the car...
"Some guy doing some thing"
best autosport caption ever?
Looks like a mini weather radar
The BBC have finally brought someone in to find EJ's common sense
tis kinda true though :P sorry to RG though... if he reads this ;)
Average SPC caption ;)
ahhh it all makes sense now! :)
:D :D
Ah, he is clearly searching for hobbits!
At a guess, Is he is checking radio reception for the cameras, e.t.c..?
if i had to guess. i'd say he's ensuring people are using the proper radio signals in the pitlane.
That person would be too elusive
I disappear for a couple of hours and come back to find people slagging Murray. Shocking.
Yes he made a lot of mistakes but the two differences with modern commentators is he had personality to spare and the level of info availble. At times he was at the track with a small black and white monitor or in London commenting on the feed coming in. In a lot of cases half the track had no camera coverage an live timing didn't exist.
Apart from that he had to deal with Hunt who is the single least impressive human being I have ever met.
I'd go with these
But the wit...
:P
I think he is looking for aliens
Can you confirm from the 3 other photos whether he has a big sign saying 'golf sale' on the back...
I wasn't a fan of Hunt on TV but that dropped so many times the day I met him. I was so happy when Palmer replaced him.
:D
hehe it's probable. one of the other captions i came across for this guy was
"strange guy in the paddock"
which i thought was useful :)
I think it is Nigel Stepney in disguise spying
thank you :)
he's helping ant in spa... or is he?
hehehe sadly all the photos are basically the same.
I would've prefered 'Man finds Formula 1' myself but strange guy in paddock works :P
I think the memories of him are better than the reality, pre 1990.
I suspect if we leave Legard in the job for a few decades i wonder if he might garner a similar level of affection.
i'm going to miss ant :( i wont get to hear his commentary till the Belgium GP now. stupid spanish holiday meaning i'll have to watch f1 in spanish.
Michael Jackson's doctor is being investigated for manslaughter.
BBC 2 quoting AP
he won't. he used to commentate on 5live. we heard him again recently... still sucked a**.
I refuse to belive anything untill BBC 1 confirms :P
hehe ;)
a**. sorry.
But Johnny Herbert will be good. Just seems ridiculous Ant has a drive and Johnny doesn't
How long until the first practice session?
:D
it will be nice to hear him commentate... but i'll still miss ant lol
7 hours 38 minutes 14 seconds
http://www.formula1.com/
But my point is, if you had murray as the new commentator now, for the first time on tv; Thousands of people, probably myself and most people here included would be complaining to the BBC several times a month!
7 hours 37mins :)
we wouldn't. you might, but we wouldn't.
Was he replaced by Croftie or Ant?
You guys are hard core, only 8 hours early LOL.
croftie, i guess. ant only started full time this year.
But you are assuming he would be as bad if he had all the modern information. Modern TV pictures are so good that you can read the driver's name on the car despite them being tiny. There was a time when Murray was commentating that You could barely read large numbers
We're her 24/7. You can do it too.
In a weeks time we are doing 12 hours of live radio
F1 is behind the times broadcast-wise, anything other than pure HD is unacceptable. Crap, in the States they have the Big 10 Network for nothing but coverage of college sports in ONE division, 24/7 in HD.
Early and SPC?
We only do;
late night
too late
too late to sleep
oops I'm late for work
Bernie nees to emerge from the analogue age first
Even if he had never done it before, all the memories of him didnt exist?
It is perhaps a bit hypothetical i know...
Highlighter is working again thanks Bassano (C)!
Funny I just looked at the F1 online store, they have a grand total of FIVE Red Bull items available for sale. Pretty crappy for one of the current top 2 teams this season....
We have had similar conversations a few times. It's the same with the internet access. F1 live timing is pathetic compared to the services offered by IRL, ALMS, Le Mans etc. Bernie is a dinosaur.
you're missing what i like about murray.
enthusiasm.
Tis a tried and trusted emergency method
Early and SPC?
We only do;
late night
too late
too late to sleep
oops I'm late for work
To be fair we are here late Thursday rather than early Friday.
The problem is the UK is the only country in europe which has reasonable HD service.
Even then, very few people here have it.
Europe seems to have gone for interactive stuff, whilst North America has gone for picture quality.
Didnt James Allen have that though?
(Before he had hand gestures)
Reasonable?
I have potential access to one HD channnel
I refuse to pay a premium for that
nope. he did faux enthusiasm.
Any weekend predictions gentlemen? Any news about this weekend out there, whose favoured, etc.? Here in Canada coverage is nil.
we have no access to any HD channels.
BBC HD iPlayer FTW [hopes]
Murray is 85 years old and has more boyish enthusiasm for the sport than any other commentator. It was quite amazing watching him at the ASI show. Bouncing around like he was 16.
ahh yes. it's not really HD, whatever they claim it to be. but i'd take f1 in that format.
HD is pretty common here, not everyone has it, but all the sports are in HD. Everything from NASCAR trucks to poker. You haven't seen racing until you have proper HD and real multi-channel surround sound. NASCAR has it right for that....
It will be boring
Not Seb will crash/spin off
Piquet Jr will be fired
A Brawn car will do well
A Red Bull will be on the podium
he was trying to lose his minder when we saw him. not with much success admittedly.
HD poker, c'mon... I mean, where do I start?
It's a tough one to forecast. Weather should favour Brawn but we have to see what McLaren can do.
Amy will be pleased to know that according to AUTOSPORT that Heikki is to get all the new bits and will have an identical car to Lewis this week.
....not to mention the sattelite radio here has 12 different broadcast radio channels for every NASCAR race, a broadcast for EACH driver. Its crazy!
You don't have a TV
It is supposed to be warm, so brawn is in vouge, Jenson seems to be implying they might not have enough in the bag to keep up with the red bull upgrades. going by his previous statements this means a cake walk for brawn.
So far i have picked Piquet Jr to win it in a Williams (with naked pit crew)... dont know how that will happen mind you.
Yeah well we've got a channel called Dave!
Dave!!
I hear Renault is running KERS for the rest of the year.
true. but...
planning permission says no dish on the wall, so even if we did HDFreeSat is unavailable to us.
As I said, a toatally decent chap, I just want him commentating
If he still was, I'd be on 5Live
Hang on...
dont forget Dave ja vu!
And Dave ja vu!!
Dave ja vu!!
I saw him interviewed on the F1 Racing stand by Stuart although I didn't know it was Stuart and when the interview was finished Murray dived under the ropes and practically sprinted to his next appearance.
I wish Piquet Jr. would get run over or light on fire or something. Just seems like a real dumbass.
And the +1 (hour) version is called Dave Ja Vu :lol:
News to me
yup. probably that was him avoiding the guy who's job it is to keep an eye on him.
What an uncivilised country you live in
:D
Do you have a loft? Insert dish with skylight window ;)
Poker in HD? we can top that... CNN shuts down early here so we can watch people play roulette.... without the people.
wha?
what if we don't have a skylight?
Seems?
That's too kind :)
How's Alguersuari going to do this weekend?
I have the same problem.
I also cant get Cable as virgin seem unable to work out what they installed a cable on my building for..
Get one?
He's "Not Seb"
Not well, but I wouldn't either :D
Try giving that tv a go before you take it to the dump! Channel 84!
are skylights allowed in buildings that don't allows dishes on the wall?
2nd corner will be an unimagined paradise, I fear
but, roulette without people?
I think he will do OK. He is a decent driver but with no experience of the car, the team or F1. All he has to do is get to the end of the race for it to be a success.
oh dear... how did that happen it's nearly 2am... i need sleep or i'll never get up for FP1 in the morning.
night all! x
It's just a window in your roof
What you have inside, is it their business?
night lou.
Night Lou
I would hope the feeling would be mutual, but he seems to friendly to say something like that...
G'night Lou
Night,
i better hit the hay too... night all.
That's assuming dishes work through windows, I have no idea
you can replace roof tiles with special stuff that looks the same but lets signal through...
i'll go with iplayer hd methinks.
test
Night Nick
Take the glass out of the window
it's a sloped roof. that could get just the tiniest bit wet.
night nick.
whatya testing david?
This is the clever bit. You build and Lshaped shelf that seals the window and just happens to have a dish sitting on it.
:)
When they switch off the analogue signal, HD freeview should be possible
this xmas apparently, not sure which areas, but am keeping an eye on it.
Then we have to introduce Bernie to the 90's and bring him up to date
did the quiz. I am jaime too. The real news today is it is kfc day. Having lunch at 10.45am in preparation for huge dinner :D
Love KFC
I grew up above a KFC shop and had their exhaust vent at the foot of our yard. Ah, fond times
I thought you would have been Heikki.
I just posted a comment a few minutes ago you would like. According to this week's AUTOSPORT Heikki is getting all the latest bits this weekend so his car will be identical to Lewis's
KFC day
Is this an international holiday?
Not if you are a chicken
Are you implying there is chicken in KFC? ;)
:)
it totally should be a holiday. I am pleased to see heikki gets presents this weekend. I shall once again predict him to beat lewis in the mclaren twitter comp
Zinger tower burger for me please or 2 pieces & hot wings
I suppose the name is deceiving. It's not like Amy is going to Kentucky for it.
Australia takes all the fun out of fast food
They were the first I saw that put kebabs in wraps
[8 years ago!]
Is it Saturday in Australia yet?
Friday morning, near lunch time
In that case Amy should know what happened in Practise so if she tells us we can bet on it.
I just finished the quiz and I'm Nelson Piquet. Now I'm gonna go hang my head in shame:D
Did you finish or crash out?
I got Webber! :D
Morning, all. :)
Hey Journeyer
My off season visit is in doubt :(
My cousin is getting married, in Greece.
My attendance may be mandatory
There's always pre-season 2010 to hold onto though
[keeps fingers optimistically crossed]
Awww, a shame.
Kinda like my cousing getting married in the US. :D
Let's see how it pans out. :) If it doesn't push through, we can always plan for a future date.
Of course
Never leave a man behind! :)
kfc have this huge marketing campaign based around the fact the chicken arrives at the store fresh not frozen. Cant say i care either yay as long as i dont get food poisoning
Am with ya
i think we should put money on whether i can get through a whole shift at work on mobile doohickey without forgetting to fix a predictive dictionary error
IMAX email proclaims:
Now booking Lord of the Rings all-nighter
Is this sponsored by Red Bull?
is it still okay for you btw? nick said his layout's a bit screwy.
Do you not a have add to dictionary option?
Hello
I learnt today that it's cheaper to upgrade our version of SAP (with 3500+ users) because Windows IE 6/XP support is more expensive :D :) :D
Hey Joe, wassup?
what???
Not much, just hanging out at work. Anything good about?
SAP upgrade = 1.5mill
Windows support at current version 500k per year
[Yes, we are sooo behind. My desktop has near 3.0GHz chip with 512MHz RAM! :( ]
Hi Joe. Bad day for your team today.
how does it cost that much money to support one person?
Just waiting for the Friday news
If Piquet goes off before Not Seb, he may be unemployed before Sunday!
I don't think the IT dept is just supporting me ;)
What happened?
3500+ users at 500k per person, right?
Well the picture at the end of the quiz showed the Renault up against a wall and Piquet walking away from the car, so I'm guessing I crashed out.
Join the club, it's time to turn over a new leaf....Nelson Rules!
My Single Friend dot Com update:
7 msgs sent, 5 unread
Options:
Stop sending messages after 1am [possibly sending wrong signals]
Get friend to remove references to Ice Cube in profile (music, not acting) [undecided, though is a funny story]
Thankfully not :)
[alleged] 500k per annum support for B A E n g ineering
Guy pitched a perfect game against them
confused how 1.5m sap upgrade is cheaper then?
Oh, yeah. That I saw. I was hoping that is nothing tragic like Marco Andretti being signed to USF1
If we didn't upgrade to latest version of SAP now, in 3 years the support costs would be higher than 500k by then
For winblows
ahh, right. sorry. new sap it is then :)
For the record SAP is like a cross between Windows software & Mac
Great tool, looks like nothing you've ever seen, makes no logical sense
sadly i know it rather well. or at least bits of it.
We bought the aerospace module, logistics & HR
I was the area champion/key user
That's how I got my last promotion, so I'm a fan :D
[I used to be a grease monkey]
i think mclaren use it (maybe others too). it feels like software that mclaren would use too :)
That and the logo stickered on their chassis
that too!
It is a bit Ron-like
when does the upgrade happen?
sap that is, not ron.
May 2010
I learnt today that one transcationat a time may be the limit [Multi-tabbed browsing hasn't been tested yet {it runs in IE}]
[Currently, I have the option of 5 concurrent windows, plus the option of more external ones]
Do you really want to limit the coices of the guy who ensures the compliance of the aircraft you're flying on?
Thought not
:D
next you're gonna say you use lotus too.
Don't start! :)
I really do prefer Lotus over Outlook
Before SAP we had 100+ custom apps built for Ferranti terminals :D
really? i despise lotus with a passion. palpitations and everything.
what now?
I don't have to provide tech support so, meh
Over 100 custom written programs back in the day when our desktops were made by Ferranti. No one provided the software we needed
[We upgraded our machines to Windows 95 after that, I think]
never heard of ferranti. a wikipedia glance says they're the kind of people who stuck with mainframes.
You were probably in knee high shorts :)
The keyboards & monitors were brown and came with infra red barcode readers and no mouse
[Double eek!]
:)
i guess it beats punch cards... just.
Only just, and yes, we used to swipe a barcode 'in'
Still do really, just now it's a microchip :(
not iris scanning?
To clock into work, no (chipped ID card)
To clear Immigration, yes. If registered [Saves time on return and every other departure]
Ferranti ended up being bought by GEC but at one time (before PCs) they were a huge electronics company but they made some bad decisions probably including being taken over by GEC just when the management consultants finally got control of the company after many years of telling them how old fashioned their thinking was. Turned a good company with lots of cash in the bank into a bankrupt shell in no time flat.
I hate management consultants.
ahh, fair enough. on that note, i have to sleeps. see you in not very much time at all.
My Bluetooth Mouse has just died :(
Never trusted it, tis why I always had my wired mighty mouse plugged in under my desk. Has come in handy so many times
seconded!
Anyway I should probably try and get some sleep before it is time to get out of bed again.
Hasta Luego
Try Tamiflu
Ditto
Medication is for wimps :)
i can add words to dictionary (lets just say it didnt come with kovalainen pre installed) i just forget to push * to switch between words. As for layout it hasnt changed for me at all. I still heart mobile doohickey.
Then you only have yourself (or Steven) to blame
D'oh. I missed all the KFC talk.
(wonders why KFC gravy never took off Here as it did in Asia Pacific)
Good evening everyone.
Just finished preparing dinner and letting the spaghetti and marinara sauce boil away.
A sidepodspace update for Steven Roy. Guess who we signed up to be a after dinner speaker for the first night of our annual meeting?
very good question, indeed - it's a big hit over here. must be down to the spices. some countries have quite the spicy gravy...
one of my favourite thing to do in foreign countries is buy fast food not available at home. Kfc singapore had a burger with mushroom sauce. It wasnt as good as i hoped.
Which KFC in Singapore did you go to? We also went to one there - tried out their chicken. When even the original recipe is spicy, you KNOW you're not at home. :D
Mmmmmmmmmmmm. Fast food.
i went to the one about 200m from the hotel where renault were staying in the rich part of town haha . I had strange foreign mcdonalds a few more times because it was on the walk between my hostel and the track
Morning all,
Fridays are great because there's pastries in the canteen for breakfast. I went for a croissant and a snail to go with my coffee :)
Hey Amy, Fed's had twins!
I wish we had a canteen :(
I'm tied to my desk at the moment, didn't bring any cash in this morning, all of the usual guys on my desk who are in at this time are on holiday so I can't borrow any cash. So the vending machine is just sitting there taunting me. I even have a £20 note, but no change :(
Didn't Renault stay at the Raffles? There's a KFC not very far from there, yes. Perhaps we went to the same one? ;)
There's also a McDonalds near Raffles. That's the one you went to?
Congratulations! :D
Mornin all. Don't like this early mornin business.
Anyways, might miss practice as i might have to go see the doctors.
Morning! I'm so surprised I'm actually up so early in the holidays, I even heard jake on radio one :D everyone looking forward to practice?
Morning peoples. I usually wake up earlier on a friday and yet I'm tireder now. huh.
Morning all. I have 2 and a half hours sleep. I blame Mr C.
Thing is I feel better than I normally do in the morning
oh my god! They did very well to keep it under wraps they were having two! I didnt think mirka was big enough!
KFC have gravy?
youre only meant to get 2 and a half hours sleep before practice when it's on ridiculously early in the morning at like 2am... Not 9am ;)
I am so jealous. I guess being the only scientist who went he is going to be obsessed by rocks while all the others were obsessed with rockets.
I blame Mr C.
*gets a drink of orange juice*
Eyes feel like eyebags. So havy. Bleh.
Sandbags.... heavy... i'll be quiet...
There are two future saviours of tennis?
thats fair enough ;) at least you're up for practice :) I wonder if mr c will be late to watch coverage...
I am sure he will make it.
I wonder if we will get a political announcement since it is Friday morning and that now seems to be the official time for such things. I wonder what it could be if there is one
am currently still laying in bed waiting for dad to get out of the bathroom so I can have a shower... He's worse than me of morning! I could do with getting a cup of tea, but I don't want to move lol
That's actually 3 excellent ideas... shower and cup of tea. Think I shall take my initiative and at least have a shower before pratise to actually wake me up :P
how about 'bernie promises to fix f1 in the next 48 hours.' ..... Oh maybe not...
Concord agreement?
I have every confidence that he will trot that out the next time he ;ands himself in a mess.
That is what I was thinking.
I'm off to get breakfast. See you in a few minutes...
French drivers should not play football. They just shouldn't
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77165
I thought Webber had a contract for next year but apparently he has just signed one.
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns21660.html
Joe's disappearing blog post that was discussed yesterday is back again
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/morality-and-the-fia-election/
Has it been edited/changed at all?
Right, Time for Midweek Motorsport - hopefully I will be able to listen it it!
No idea. I have never seen it before. Someone (Jackie?) mentioned it was in their feedreader yesterday then gone
A gift Jenson received yesterday - http://twitpic.com/bfbha
Can't say I saw it yesterday and I had a close eye on my feed reader...
I like that ;)
I am guessing that because Fed is such a top notch bloke he looked at all the criticism the womens game gets and decided it was up to him to do something about it.
He removed the last paragraph.
I would love to know what that said now...
Ahhh that's miles better now. Good old trustworthy shower.
the gist of it was whether a registered charity should be chartering planes when there are perfectly good commercial flights available.
So why remove it?
Because there was no chartered plane. Mark Hughes got it wrong. Since he stopped copying me his column has gone downhill.
because questioning the FIA= no more accreditation
Ah ok, fair enough :)
Hopefully that may change if Ari wins...
I want to know the Todt rumours.
Lots will change if Ari wins. But it is a big if.
So do I. I also want to know what Stepney knows - hopefully now he will reveal all...
I am full of chicken. So full. But if I have a chicken induced heart attack anytime soon, I will die happy.
I would have thought that Stepney would use the fact that Todt is standing to get his book published.
Anyone think Jimmy Superaguri will be faster than Tato Head?
I don't - the more I think about it, the more I think he will be a disaster this weekend...
he sure will be the busiest driver out there today, if he manages to keep the car away from barriers
the gist of it was whether a registered charity should be chartering planes when there are perfectly good commercial flights available.
And there was no explanation proffered as to why a registered charity is chartering planes? That sounds odd - like the FIA cares more about looking good through the press than demonstrating to people it is spending its money properly and wisely. My guess is that Joe got given an explanation that he thought was a load of rubbish, or else simply threatened without any correction being given at all.
The FIA really needs to sort out its PR. As it stands, I am now convinced that it was wrong to charter a plane for this purpose and that it doesn't want people to understand the real reasons why it does what it does. A bad combination.
DC is reserve driver for RB, let's hope STR is not the team that may actually need services of 3rd driver
Do we know who the Brawn reserve is since Ant is away playing racing drivers this weekend?
By the way, I did the "Which F1 Driver Are You" test and the answer was apparently Nick Heidfeld. Do I really have a huge beard?
Johnny Herbert.
Obviously - and a camp German accent!
5 mins to practice if my watch is correct
I thought DC stopped being the reserve driver a few races back when Brendon Hartley got his superlicence?
But I don't even know how to say a German sentence (unless "Hello" and "Goodbye" count)...
Live Timing is up...
At least you are an original. I am one of several Webbers and there are several other multiples as well but you are the first Heidfeld.
I'm amazed he hasn't self-published his account of events already...
That qualifies you for a Toro Rosso drive
yes but then Jaime took over from Brendon and now Jaime races for STR, so back to good old DC
More news about Bernie Ecclestone planning to fix things in 48 hours...
That man needs a blog?
You have too much time on your hands!
Are you sure? I thought the main qualification was being on the Red Bull driver programme?
No he doesn't - if he had a blog, we'd be bored silly by how he was "hard done-to". At least with a book, only people who've paid him money will need to go through that.
If you've got a BBC stream, refresh the page manually...
Jaime leaves the pits quickly but is still beaten out of there by two of the other three Red Bull drivers.
hi everyone...over here *waves*
Hello, lou!
so what has everyone got planned for the gap between FP1 and FP2?
Just the usual for a Friday...
Doctors appointment at 12:20.
You get all the illnesses during the holidays :(
:( ah i'm sorry to hear you're feeling ill. i always think its best to get ill during the holidays, that way you don't have anything to catch up with at school. i hope the doctors appointment goes well and you get better soon!
I'm feeling fine, its my eye though, doesn't look good.
Amazing. Not eating it very often makes it taste so good.
oh :( well i hope your eye gets better soon :)
watching Neighbours + Home and Away that I recorded during FP1. So much drama.
Ugly eyes qualify as a disease?
ooo, i forgot about neighbours... *goes onto five live site*...
I'm watching some Doctor Who as well as trying to improve the Fuel Fing.
oh no! partial recording warning due to low signal strength!
What do you plan on doing? I am interested now... :)
oh no! in about six weeks i can fill you in with what you've missed in that episode... cause we are like six weeks behind :(
eheheh I can catch up online but I was trying to save bandwidth although, I was only watching it for the death and now its happened I'm bored with the other storylines. I've always been more of an H&A fan :D
ahaha one of my friends is very into H&A... so much so she is now up to date with it in Australian time. lol :D
there was a bomb! on the bus! It was just like Speed but really not at all!
I am planning on taking everyone's predicted lap for each race so far, comparing it with their actual lap stopped on (excluding any races where strategy was altered, for example due to tyre problems). I can calculate the differences between these for each individual driver, as well as per track and overall.
I don't know if it will be possible to find a per-track pattern (though it would help if I could), but each individual driver could have their own modification of the F1 Yearbook figure, which should improve accuracy for the remaining races.
Five tv? :P
in H&A? wow... sounds exciting. am not a H&A fan myself though.
I have escaped from meetings for a short while. Have spotted some helpful and not-so-helpful digest updates so thanks everyone :)
How did Not Seb do?
not as good as Heikki :D :D :D
to be more helpful, he did the worlds slowest installation lap ever, the most laps out of everyone, and he was last at the end of the session.
He has not crashed, and croftie said that he told him he doesnt mind being called jay-me. so he called him that for most of the session.
I guess that might make your job easier!
He was only 0.2s slower than Tato Head
hashtags are great aren't they :P
Not Seb was surprising actually...okay maybe not... he was last... and stalled... other than that he was looking better than i expected :) he seemed happier than Le Seb on the radio which is nice ;)
I imagine the mechanics appreciate that!
Sky news, sports news have spent half the broadcast reporting on twitter and facebook...
i'd imagine they were happier than Kimi's mechanics. apparently Kimi has bad Fridays :D
Ah, he needs more baby pandas in his life.
if he had twitter we could send him a few links to photos to help him get through the day
Here is a bad state of affairs - someone laughed at me just now for spending my weekend watching F1. He said you could take a nap between the first and last lap and it would still be the same.
This happens all the time, but today... I couldn't be bothered to defend it.
F1 = fail.
oh no! :( although if it happens all the time it's easy to feel like you are fighting a loosing battle.
Well, I say all the time. It happens occasionally, and this is a new person to comment upon it.
maybe we need to record all the reasons why f1 is great, and why it's not boring and then play that to people who comment on it? :D
Morning all,
How are we all?
I'm trying to write, but nothings coming out. Booo
Ha, that would be good.
You can say the same about any sport...
Football = Syncronised falling
Rugby: Egg chasing
Golf: ball walking
Cricket: Organised sunbathing
You could do a radio show on that
Absolutely. My point is not that he thinks it's nonsense, but that I don't care.
erm... i'm alright thanks ;)
Ah, i gave up trying to convert people a long time ago! ;)
reason 1. I can't name another sport that is 10% Finnish. Except for Pesäpallo and that doesn't count.
:( we need a saviour of f1 who will help us in our hour of need... if there is anyone from the FIA watching...vote ARI!!
Do you want my spreadsheet with these calculations already done? Might save you some work...
Ha. I wasn't even trying to do that. Just defend my corner. But F1 is indefensible these days, and what is a worrying thing for a podcaster - I just don't want to talk about it.
Roger has saved womens tennis, who can save F1?
An excellent start to our list :)
Apparently after Sven-Goran Eriksson got the Notts County Job they did a whole report from the local Hooters!
I am sure it will come back :D It is Friday after all!
I didn't know you lived in NZ.
Don't bother with these idiots - let them watch their stupid sports instead :)
haha:
It was Tour de france news (it is still going apparently): Show twitter
Tennis News: Show Facebook
I just remembered Mrs Massa is pregnant. Holy saviour of F1?
what about DC? he has a baby...lol
I like that you are considering it
I don't think that baby exists. It's almost a year old and theres not been any photos. I though sports stars were meant to pimp out their babies for magazine cash.
I guess it just shows what a top bloke he is for not doing that then...
i saw the baby in December... it was next to Karen at the ROC...
Would you want to open a magazine and see a baby with DDC's jaw?
I don't want to open a magazine and see two babies with Rogers nose, but it'll happen. :D
hmm. Another excuse. Um. DDC doesn't even live with the kid and thus his F1 influence cannot rub off on it at this young, impressionable age?
do Karen and DC not live together? i thought they shared their time between her house in France and his place in Monaco?
last I heard she was living somewhere else with the baby until her older daughter finishes school and then they will move to Monaco to be with him full time.
Too many chins under one roof?
#sorrychristine
ahhh cool :)
I like the idea that Massa's baby woukd be the saviour of F1, if only cos of his Uncle Rob.
coolest.uncle.ever
hehe :D
i'd like one of Rubens son's to be the saviour of F1... they can have MR Happy shirts and everything :D
If only Kimi would be more like his team mate. I'm quite sure the saviour of F1 should be Finnish.
I had meetings too... Just trying to catch up with what happened in FP1 and it would appear that somebody is having a baby... That is a surprising result of Friday Practice!
Right, I have to go again. Speak to you all later :)
See ya Christine. Have 'fun'
see ya :) we'll try and make useful comments to help with the digest :)
yes. good plan lou.
I'm off as well. See you all later!
Grr. Shopping is rubbish.
I just wanted to make this picture known to everyone, it's amazing.
http://www.crscuderia.com/crs/img/uploaded_images/large/1248346810.jpg
are you two in the same meeting?
isn't that what they invented the internet for?
I'm not sure... I don't think it's likely but I haven't seen the agenda yet!
Ok... google cant help... Where is my railcard?
bye Alex!
where you left it. easy.
next question?
wow!!
why are busses so rubbish?
I am not too sure, i havent seen if for a few months.
tough one. i blame the person who invented the wheel. almost certainly lacked motivation.
He seems to have had quite a bit of momentum though ;)
:D
Do i say sod it and buy a new one? It only had 2 months to go anyway, and it will expire next july anyway...
If you've still got a year left on it then you could pay £5/£10 and get a new one
how long have autosport had twitter feed integrated into the sidebar?
depends how much a new one is? and if you've checked everywhere you think it could be?
A few days
I noticed it yesterday. I am not an observant person though.
i likes it. did everyone but me, also know about:
http://twitter.com/autosportlive/
Buses are evil!
yay!
rubarrichello
"fridays we always run heavy.For every 10kg of fuel in the car it is 4/10 of time loss...I am confident"
I have a new railcard...
Bargain price of £26
It will have paid for itself by next sunday evening!
Morning.
Whats goin' down in groovetown?
It's FP2, whats happening sire?
FP2 hmmm... *goes to make food and get a good book*
I've just been listening to some of my new musical purchases.
Monkeys for Nothin' and the Chimps for Free by Reel Big Fish and Liberty of Norton Folgate by Madness
Both sound awesome on decent vinyl.
Vi-nyl?
Like a cd... but 12's across and black.. ;)
#digest
Track Temp 45C
Air Temp 28C
Wind speed 4.5 m/s
Humidity 37%
Air Pressure 986.6 mBar
c-d?
Made it back just in time with my new issue of F1 Racing :)
Alguersuari has a Henry Surtees tribute, which is a nice touch.
GPDA "trade union" - I like it when Ian Phillips joins in the commentary...
I am very much enjoying seeing Fisichella in 4th.
Raikkonen and the Toro Rosso driver need to keep their cars on the track.
Am I on my own in here?
Are they still struggling to get heat into their tires?
Pass. Not watching
I'm watching but only on some Brazilian TV - http://nl.justin.tv/canalsimples/old
*noms fresh bread....mmmmmm*
Great pic
I have returned!
Weirdly I have just now too. Maybe we were in the same meeting...
...although I didn't notice you.
I think three o'clock must be a standard meeting finish time. It's annoying because I'm exhausted and it's still not home time yet.
yay! welcome back Christine!
Welcome back Alex! :)
Did good old pk beat alonso in fp2?
It's annoying innit? However I have another meeting at 4! 4! Who are these people scheduling meetings at 4pm on a Friday! Madness!
Thanks Lou :)
Gosh. That is proper madness!
Hello
Civil war erupting on my train ar to who reserved seats... I got here first and got one of the 3 'available' seats. So fun for me! :)
Are they still struggling to get heat into their tires? {Comment #466}
Yes, with the apparent exception of McLaren.
#sidepodspace
The 4th spacewalk of the STS127 mission has just started
Who are these people scheduling meetings at 4pm on a Friday! {Comment #475}
Probably the people who think work should be drudgery - or one big practical joke.
Seriously, if you want anything important doing in a business (and it's a Monday-Friday 9-5-type business), do yourself a favour and avoid anything after lunchtime on Friday!
It's a Monday-Friday 7-7 type business. Friday afternoons are even worse if you've been in the office since 7am.
I never book meetings on a Friday afternoon. Another part of the group invited me to these two meetings and then it was explained to me that I wasn't allowed to decline. An interesting new definition of "invite".
They are scheduled to change 2 solar array batteries but they will have to do 4 as the last spacewalk was cut short.
They are also going to transfer a cargo containerfrom the station into the shuttle bay using the main station robotic arm.
was there any bribery? i get bribed to meetings with donuts.
No donuts or biscuits! And it wasn't even on the floor where they have proper coffee. So just machine coffee! A terrible business.
I'd think about suing if I were you.
I have just started a wiki page about my sidepodspace show on sidepodradio.
If anyone has any space related ideas, questions, views please let me know and I will incoporate them in the show. Also if anyone likes any podsafe music that is somehow space related let me know as I will use a few tunes to break up the show and give people a rest from listening to me
I am so jealous that my dad never has to work again after August 14. Why can't I be near retirement age?
I think I shall hold off in the next meeting.
"I will not speak until somebody brings me a donut!"
Nice work! If only Spaceman by Babylon Zoo were podsafe.
Maybe David Bowie will decalre Space Oddity podsafe by next week
Oh.My.God.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN75im_us4k
Nirvana vs Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit up
It actually works! Good video editing work too! Madness!
It’s a Monday-Friday 7-7 type business. Friday afternoons are even worse if you’ve been in the office since 7am.
I never book meetings on a Friday afternoon. Another part of the group invited me to these two meetings and then it was explained to me that I wasn’t allowed to decline. An interesting new definition of “invite”. {Comment #483}
That reminds me of a joke I saw in Reader's Digest a while back. A speaker went to a meeting of some company. His first words to the packed room were, "I can't find the words to describe the number of you here."
From the back of the room, a clear voice replied, "Mandatory".
I'm going to use that at this meeting!
NO NO NO NO
It is sacrilegious I know.
Much better than the sum of it's parts. :D
Never Gonna Give You Up takes me back to the good ol days ;) when there was only one Singstar disc so you really had no choice but to do the same few songs over and over and over again. I was very good at this one.
Singstar has been banned from the flat.
The other half listens to country - so she can't sing at all. :D
Ghostbusters Vs Bad :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fv-cDaXi5A
My god, I can't stop yawning. Is there a cure, like there is for the hiccups?
un-named energy drink?
Sleep
Caffeine
I have none on me sadly.
Hey guys .. mad rush at work to finish before holiday starts. Missed FP2... any highlights?
That is incredile
Jaime came last, Massa went off, massa spun, massa went off, massa went off, Piquet spun, massa went off.
Pretty much sums it up.
incredible
I think you forgot another massa went off.
Take your shoes off and ball your feet and push down on your toes - not too hard. It's not supposed to hurt.
I knew you'd know :)
heh. Mentioned in a movie that should be on your list if it isn't: Die Hard!
I bought the quadrilogy on blu ray months ago and haven't watched found time to watch them. Must. Do. Soon.
That's from Die Hard!
Christine, don't do it - your building will get stormed by East German terrorists and you'll have to kill them all in your bare feet!
Same here but replace bluray with DVD. In fact I have quite a few DVDs that need watching...
Die Hard 1+2 at Christmas. Full of Win!
But maybe if I do it Bruce Willis would come and save us all?
No because by taking your shoes off you will become Bruce Willis!
I don't even want to think about the number of DVDs I have purchased and never watched. At last count it was around 45.
I must go to this meeting now... Hope nobody a) turns into Bruce Willis or b) needs saving by Bruce Willis :)
Let's not depend on Bruce Willis. A few days ago he was saving us from meteorites, now he's saving us from terrorists. I say Bruce should just become FIA President and save us from politics.
Ah, that's not so good.
have fun ;)
Bruce can handle all of that and more :)
Alia, do you still want help updating your Fuel Fing? Because I have a spreadsheet with data containing all the 1st pitstops in races not affected by a safety car...
If Bernie can't fix F1 in 48 hours, Brucie sure as heck can!
I have full faith in Bruce to do so. Let's not forget, Bernie's working on something else...
:P
Whenever I see the word Quadrilogy - I immediately think of the Alien Quadriligy - I keep forgetting there was 4 die hards...
I think Quadophenia but that is something very different
Another classic though. :)
This is the Alien Quadrilogy box set to own though. ;)
How many Die Hards do I have to put on my list?
1 & 3... Now I'm really not here
Don't forget From Justin To Kelly.
Really... all 4.
But there are differing versions too...
Therre's an extended version of Die Hard with a couple of scenes replaced *but only in Black and white as they were never completed* and there's 2 versions of Die Hard 4.0 - Theatrical and Extended. I prefer the theatrical cut. Extended is a bit messy.
Lou and Steven, you guys are an absolute gem!
And thank you to Mr. C for implementing a hashtag search and the 'More' button into the doohickey. I can now easily follow all the highlights from the last session later on using a hashtag search of #digest ;)
its on the itunes store! I am shocked!
Uh-oh.
One and Two. If you still like what you see, move on to 3 and 4.
Personally for me it's a very close call between 1&2 for my favourite.
Oh no you can't. Mr C needs to invent something to stop me using #debrief when I mean #digest
I would be lying if I said the other night after I mentioned it here I was whining to my old flatmate about how it was such a bomb that they never released the soundtrack, and she told me she had found the unreleased songs online. I was pleased that the ID3 tags were incomplete so last.fm couldn't scrobble them ;)
NASA TV giving us some really good pictures today.
s'alright if i'm about i'll correct you :P
That's your fail and not mine, Steven! :)
You failed to find what you were looking for
Hmm I should go to bed since I have to get up at 8am on Sunday. Saturday is my only sleep in day :(
I found plenty because Lou kept correcting you ;)
Hello, everyone.
Night, Amy. :)
sorry for the awful quality - http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/spp (no idea why I saved it as spp, brain not in gear today) - Mr C's question from fp2
;)
Night Amy
night amy :)
Train has stopped. There are sheep on the line. Its baaaaaaaaa-my!
Ooooh.. thunderbolts and lightning. :D
Very Very frightening?
Not for me.
For one of my ex-workmates it will be though. He's terrified of thunder. :D
So naturally - whenever we had a storm and he wanted to cower under his desk, we'd send him out on a cake run. :D
Alia, do you still want help updating your Fuel Fing? Because I have a spreadsheet with data containing all the 1st pitstops in races not affected by a safety car… {Comment #526}
That would be great. Admittedly, I'd have to copy the values manually from drop.io to PDA, but it would be a huge benefit to me.
Thank you very much :D
Very Very frightening? {Comment #555}
Galileo Galileo
Flicker of lights...
*sticks battery into laptop - checks UPS status*
Eeeeevil... :D
So funny though. He was fine with lightning though - the bit that can hurt you...
Strange chap.
Hmmm - I only freak when you see it and hear it at the same time - that means it's near you...
There's a Danish Football player in a coma because he got hit by lightning during training the other day...
Here you go Alia - no sense in doing the work twice.
Feel free to use anything you want from it ;)
Speed of sound is roughly 1100ft/s
So for every 3 seconds of gap between the thunder and lightning, that strike was roughly 1km away from you.
or 5 seconds per mile...
Gah, just called a friend of mine called Jamie, Hi-mey. Grr.
I call him High-meh. :D
That strike was closer than the rest have been - hit the building across the road... 8O
#digest I have realised that Not Seb is now a guinea-pig for new drivers being introduced with an in-season testing ban. It's going to be very tough for him I reckon - F1 is a very steep learning curve...
Journeyer, Mr C and anyone else interested in Journeyer's question about how he should go about making his workplace more innovative I would be very interested in your thoughts on this that I happened to be listening to this morning. It's from the Stackoverflow podcast and somebody asks a similar-ish question about how do you go about improving the quality of your co-workers code. Joel and Jeff really are very good people to listen to for advice I think...
The question comes 50 minutes in:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/podcast-62/
Did mr c have a question answered in fp2 or am I reading this wrong?
Ooooh - I'm thinking code review - which we're currently implementing company-wide. :D Thanks, Alex, will listen to this one...
Well code review is a good way to go... And there are lots of things you can do, in other podcasts they have talked positively about these things... Anyway you will have to see... Thought it was very interesting.
Yes. Rachel dropioed the clip
Thats great! Did they call him mr c? :D
sidepodcast and both of them pronounced it correctly first time.
I'm just in so didn't see FP .. what happened to Williams and the team workwear?
They were not naked. They looked just the same as they do at any other race
Ah, I wondered if they had to cover up all the logos on the overalls and car
ahh, cheers rachel :)
hi-meh?
spp = sidepodplug?
sidepodrebrand?
1 and 2. not 3 or 4.
:D
:D
#pants or #biscuit?
jake appears to be implying he'll be doing the grid walk with martin this weekend.
that probably means nachos'll be delayed again :(
Oii .. I thought you were learning to cook
f1 pants does seem to sell the show that well.
f1 biscuits... hmmm.
:D i can't wait for it, should be great!
aw :( do the nachos before the gridwalk? when EJ is talking?
no? i will be cooking. i have no intention of retaining that information though.
Stuff is always a good word. Sidepodstuff.
actually if its debrief does that infer #nopants? :D
you can't call the weekly show sidepodstuff... can you?
cooking really isn't that difficult. once you learn some of the terms it's easy to follow a recipe..
:D
F1 Stuff.
You will never convince him. God knows I've tried.
catchy.
I like it, it's kinda all encompassing
i need the spare brain capacity for other.. stuff.
Sidepodstuff?
yup.
oh.
what if you were to have a definition for any 'cooking terms' and then you'll easily be able to follow a recipe. you'll only need that bit of brain capacity for a short time :P
fair enough :)
by recording the show i can immediately forget everything that happened.
if i ever need to make a single cupcake, i have the perfect resource to help :)
hehe :) or just repeat it as many times as you need to? :P
ooh. brilliant!
Isn't Cooking from a recipie pretty much the same as coding?
I heard its harder
have never burnt the house down coding.
i have, proof that i should never be let near php ever again :D
I have made it to manchester. Friends... Not so much. Beer 1 is a go!
hehehe. the sheep moved on then?
noted!
Call it F1nachos then there have to be nachos.
I am trying to work it so I am the one who picks him up from the airport and drives him the two hours to place we are having the meeting. If I get to do so, I will be asking if he could sign a copy of this photo and I will send it to you.
Oh that's a gorgeous photo - I hope you get to do that for Steven!
That is a great pic and a very nice gesture. Thank you Dan
You can thank my unhealthy addiction to Sidepodcast. I lwas looking through the speaker book, saw him, thought of sidepodspace, then suggested him, I can't believe my bosses took him. They usually bring out some political hack from D.C. to speak about blah, blah, blah.
(BTW: Have we added blah, blah, blah to the sidepod-dictionary?)
I have been watching today's space walk for hours and one thing keeps nagging at me. If I was designing a space station with batteries that needed regular replacement I would have designed them so that the job could be done by a robotic arm rather than sending two guys outside to do it. The batteries weigh 367 pounds on Earth and apart from being bulky and awkward to handle in space they need to be presciselt lined up so that the cooling fins fit perfectly.
That to me sounds like a machine job rather than a manual job.
What would be the definition?
Not to point out the obvious...
Solar power?
The batteries are charged by the solar panels so that when the station is in orbital night they have full power.
So why do batterys need regular replacement?
team orders
Blah-Blah-Blah
n.
a. Referring to another person, driver, organization, or team's lengthy excuses and/or explanations in a mocking manner. Usually expressed racing drivers and fans who are frustrated with a certain entity such as a team.
Ex: Fans are tired of all the blah-blah-blah from Renault for why Piquet still has a drive.
Oh i do love this..
At 17:16 Autosport Report "New-spec GT1 Lamborghini unveiled"
Then at 17:19 Autsport Report "GT1 cars banned for 2010 Spa 24"
ehehehe
:D love it
WOW!
Because like all batteries, the lifetimes reduce after usage. Sorta like an old phone or iPod (Or Mr. C's Macbook)?
Batteries also don't do well if you pour wine on them. Sort of like Mr. C's Macbook.
it's fine!
(ish)
I think Stephane Ratel is turning into the Max Mosley of GT Racing - it's like he wants to destroy the sport!
I assume they are only good for so many charging cycles. As with anything in space we are not dealing with up to the minute or up to the decade technology.
exactly ;) some of the keys are meant to be that redy/ pink colour aren't they ;)
Yes of course it is, Mr "I've got a pink backlight" ;)
And it's perfectly normal not be able to use a question mark.
NASA did that?
Pure coincedence I'm sure Mr C will agree :D
exactly :) question mark, what question mark?
oh..
Goood evening. How is everyone? The rain has gone and the sun is out and it is Friday - bliss.
I was playing "quickly scan through everything to catch up" when I should have been doing work in the office earlier, wasn't able to reply though.
So.. housekeeping:
- I absolutely LOVE Nick's Goodwood video posted yesterday. Such a brilliant idea to do a 'fan POV' vid.
- I saw someone dissing the Kings of Leon and quietly shook my fist. Disappointed to hear they aren't good live - I like them, shame they got over-promoted so everyone got bored of them.
- I am a Vulcan Mark Webber.
- I can't remember anything else.
Will now watch today's Tour highlights and catch up with today's stuff.
mean
mean
mean
and mean
aw, sorry Mr C... but you did kinda walk into that one a bit :P
*hides*
*hides with Lukeh*
Heheh :-)
I can completely see why people wouldn't like 'em though. I think they are an acquired taste.
Just added blah-blah-blah to the SidepodWiki Dictionary.
I find it funny that our dictionary is not in alphabetical order. For example drop-io appears before delurk.
To be fair I didn't diss them, but I was disappointed at the gig.
alex started it!
have we given up blaming Steven for everything now then? :)
I was only skimming and noticed some general... not as strong as 'dislike', maybe 'not taken with'. I wasn't taking names.. ;-)
I did. Sorry.
I was going to suggest using the spanish upside down question mark, but that's option+shift+question mark so presumably that doesn't work either :(
same issue.
To be fair I think it was Steven who first mentioned spilling wine on batteries in the coldness of space - I may have got some of these details mangled.
now you mention it...
Evening Pat.
Are "Your Sticks on a Wire"? ;)
I am also a Vulcan Mark Webber. How it is possible to be both of those is beyond me.
It's illogical mate.
I have lost another job?
:)
#blamesteven
I don't know, I'll check.
If Pat's watching the cycling:
"Your Tour's on the Pyre(nese)"
Hehehe :-)
Can Lukeh knock up a pic of Webber with Vulcan ears?
So since we are comparing F1 drivers to Star Trek characters, who is Kirk?
If you have done something really bad and need to blame someone else post it here or on the wiki with #blamesteven and once it has been mentioned on my sidepodradio show or any other show on sidepodcast you are absolved of all blame. A bit like Giggles'll fix it but more limited
I'd like to unlimit it....
F1 is rubbish.
#blamesteven
I think we should mention it on the Parade Lap. People get their #blamesteven ideas ready!
Mr C could you use something like this?
http://www.olofsson.info/index.html?inputremapper.html
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/web-jpg ?
I don't watch star trek so... I dunno how accurate that is
It is limited only in as much as I only deal with blame. If you want a pony for Xmas speak to Giggles. If you want someone to blame for the mess the pony made on the carpet that's my department.
He gets to give out presents and I have to deal with all the horse****
i dont know how you do it....you are amaazing!!
impressively fast! ta
#sidepodspace
They are discussing the possibility of today's spacewalk being the longest ever. Originally it was scheduled for 6 and a half hours but was extended to over 7 hours to make time for swapping the batteries that were not don during the last spacewalk. The current record is over 8 hours and mission control have just reported that with the current carbon dioxide levels in their suits they should be good for 9 hours.
Something to keep RG happy. Ned Flanders reckons that the team now know what has made their car so awful this year and they can sort it over the next few races. Last year when he had a car that could have challenenged for the championship and this year when the car barks he wants to keep developing.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77176
And on that subject: http://www.f1bigpicture.com
Couldn't they have sorted this out, I don't know, after Bahrain??
tis an awesome picture, 'owever, i still think they look rediculous
This looks like joined up thinking rather than dumb luck.
#blamesteven?
Ouch!
Just been having a look at Scott Speed's F1 results.
10 GP's....
7 DNF'S
a 9th, 13th and 14th.
hehehehehe
And yet, I have a soft spot for him.
Clearly Toro Rosso's fault.
Almost certainly
And Liuzzi's results werent that much better, but peoeple still think he was good.
#blamesteven
:D
True.
Thats because he is still good.
Liuzzi races single seaters, quite well too.
Speed struggles racing bangers in the USA.
To be fair though, oval racing is so different to circuit racing, just because he's naff on ovals dosent mean he would be on circuits...
He would be, but thats besides the point
Just seen the start of the German GP again.
Webber does swerve into Barrichello. Ron would have described it as "as translucent as the reproductive organs on a male specimen of the canine species..."
I haven't seen the Beeb's InsideF1 before. They just had Mike Gascoyne in the BBC News studio in London talking about Jaime.
Now Jake and Martin in the paddock - Jake can't pronounce Jaime's last name. Martin says he'll struggle on this track which isn't an easy one.
How much trouble am I going to be in?
Tuesday is mine and my other half's anniversary...
I've booked a ticket to go see The Blues Brothers at the cinema *only showing it has... never seen it on the big screen*
I haven't told her yet. ;)
Evening guys. For some reason, I don't have the Friday feeling. I need cheering up. :/
Holly Samos, knows who we are...
That seems to have worked somewhat :D
Does she like The Blues Brothers?
As in, she actually knows Sidepodcast?
Doesn't matter - she couldn't get to the screening of it anyway - she'll still be at work.
She will be home about 2 hours before me though.
Well, she said, on the radio, on 5Live Sprts Xtra 'Sidepodcast peoples'
Then get her to make a romantic dinner. Sorted!
Mmmm. Blues Brothers and food poisoning... :D
Flibster! You're back! :D How was the Green Hell?
Slippery
Cool :P
She is bound to love it. There is no-one on the planet that doesn't love the Blues Brothers
Cooool :-)
Wow... So we're stalking Holly now then?
How was it round Eiskurve?
Sounds like a lovely evening together ;)
Yeah, what he said :D
Slippery.
I really couldn't stress the car - had to slow right down, due to my tyres being exceptionally dangerous. Just didn't work on the surface. Could only get to about 7500rpm before the wheels started spinning - they're absolutely fine on the road though.
I will be changing for RE050's I think and going back again.
Evening all :D
Hope it's been a good week for everyone
The Nordschleife must be a nightmare in the wet let alone challenging in the dry.
Yeah it has thanks... what about you?
Its sorta went from good to bad.
Meh, it's not been brilliant, but I'll live. :P
Yeah. Boring pretty much, I've just been cleaning, unpacking, building furniture and the like. I forgot the F1 was on this weekend until about 10 minutes ago though, so that's a nice surprise
Hey Scott ... was listening to Midweek Motorsport today and Olly Gavin mentioned that before his first ever Spa race he practiced on a video game first. He got pole and won the race!
Thought you'd might like that one ;)
Sim racing news: LADA!
http://www.virtualr.net/race-on-first-lada-artwork/
Mines been average....but it turns out Gavin was right, and the less said about that subject the better
Sounds like fun ... I'm guessing you shifted abode recently?
If it works for Olly and Alonso, I'm sure it'll work for us sim racers. Look at that guy who won GT Academy. He was a university student or something that just played it like the rest of us and now he's racing in the FIA GT4 championship in a 350Z, and doing well!
reverse that :-)
I think this is pretty unrealistic ;) :D
http://www.virtualr.net/wp-content/gallery/1766/5415_131977111123_130115126123_3191622_1997841_n.jpg
Silly boy! They're being lapped! :D
One for Jenson fans
http://twitpic.com/bh53r
Intresting he still has that helmet, and in the paddock as well.
:D
Yeah, all sorted now though. It's great!
Anything get broken?
A couple of glasses. That was my fault though, I couldn't be bothered to pack my kitchen stuff up properly and just rammed it all in the box.....
yay!!! Jenson!!!! yep he uses his old helmets as spares/ helmets for his paddock bike.
Legard at German GP: "Jamie Agoosweary"
Awesome!!
:D
Doh! I took that driver quiz and seem to have ended up as Nelson Piquet :(
So he ain't gonna be using that helmet no more then.
When we moved to NZ our washing machine got swapped. When I moved to Denmark my DVD recorder looked like it had been hit by a hammer. My PC got crushed too! Both still worked though!
Things can only get better
he may change liveries.. it might happen... Rubens changes his. who does the twitter account belong to btw? i don't know of him i don't think... he seems to know Jenson and Rubens though...
http://twitpic.com/8tcga
http://twitpic.com/ayga5
http://twitpic.com/afcz5
he is very lucky :(
Luciano Burti, rather average F1 driver from the past, and accident prone
oh right.
Is he the one that had all those horrible accidents in a Prost in 2001? It's amazing he's still around!
Indeed he was.
Germany and Belgium, yep.
I'm just listening to an old (and rival) podcast's summary of last season. It's so funny to hear them mocking the idea that Jenson said he'd be fighting for the championship. They're so derogatory :)
i thought he was a Ferrari test driver?
Which podcast?
Raced for Jaguar and Prost, then I think he went to Ferrari.
Ahem... please don't read the transcript or listen to the first Sidepodpanel then ...
I just love how hindsight changes things, it really amuses me.
I stand by what I said at the time - it was based on observation. It was just plain wrong, that's all...
I agree, but Murray has charisma in spades and a colossal memory bank of F1 info, even though it often comes out wrong.
Allen also has a lot of info but wants to be all Jackanory, telling us a story.
Legard doesn't seem to know anything and is just dull, dull, dull - though I did wonder if he is playing the role of newbie fan who doesn't know much, if he is, he's doing a terrible job.
You may say that.. I say James Allen proves you wrong. People were online clamouring for him to leave for YEARS.
Well yeah, F1 drivers always mouth off as well.... When he said he was gonna challenge for the title of course people laugh when you scored something like 5 points the season before....
I have heard commentators mention, not sure if it is F1 or other series (can't remember - may have been Martin Haven, he's never shy of a complaint on air), that the commentators still only get small screens to work with, so they don't see anything like as much detail as we see.
It is like when Massa was so poor at the start of 2008. Oh how I laughed putting together the best of last year :)
oh my god!.. that's just unfair! she got to take a few photos with Darren Heath!! ...
What podcast is it BTW?
Yeah but in fairness, "FIIIIVE, MASSAAAA SPIIIINS!"
Hehehehe. I wouldn't change a single thing.
Oh sorry, it's called F1 rejects. I just found it on my computer, thought I'd try one out.
Don't know who said it but it is true they have to spend most of the time looking at a small VT screen so they can coordinate based on what we see...
Jenson and Darren Heath. She is living your ideal life
it isn't fair!...
RDTCC news: Our Volvo team leader has had the Red Ring of Death on his 360 meaning he's out as team leader for a while it seems. Not sure if it'll be myself or Greg that will have to take over, we'll see. If we can get someone to fill the place, then he's said he'll drop to a reserve driver position while his 360 is off for repairs.
So, Lukeh... ;) :D
Great podcast that one. :D
Didn't they get an interview with HWNSNBM recently?
Neither would I. He did improve a heck of a lot towards the end of 2008 but he also made a lot of mistakes too...
Didn't everyone!
You what? This is the only one I've listened to. They are quite amusing
That's the RL equivalent of writing off the car and not having the funds to get a new one!
Only when Ferrari won. And maybe Button.
Indeed they did.
Robert Kubica didn't, to be fair.
there are more photos of her getting some tips from Mr Heath.
pic 1.
pic 2
pic 3
i'm maybe just a tiny bit jealous...
He Whose Name Shall Not Be Mentioned ;)
They kept pimping one driver - now they just call him HWNSNBM
in defence of my Anti-Button comments, I blame James Allen and his bias towards him that made me a little sick of him...
Do you race these?
Is Murray doing the Silverstone Classic on MotorsTV this weekend? He did it last year. Not that I saw it :-(
Hindy says he is...
They're so strange!! I hadn't noticed that I've been downloading it for months.... Maybe I'll listen to some more
The reject of the race is normally a good laugh too. At the end of the year they do a Reject of the Year as well. :D
Mmmm Chivas Regal time...
NASA just told one of the spacewalkers not to breathe so fast as his carbon dioxide level was going up. Seems a bit harsh when he is dangling on a string 200 miles up doing heavy work.
But he's weightless so that's just cheating!
Poor poor Honda (RIP)
Okay.
No sir, we race these:
http://static.autoblog.nl/images/wp2007/Volvo S60 WTCC E85 bioethanol.jpg
i prefer the estate ;)
Try this one instead:
http://www.zercustoms.com/news/images/Volvo/WTCC-Volvo-S60-Ethanol-E85.jpg
He must have made a few...
Meh, it's all we got on Race Pro Volvo-wise. :P
Poor Honda?
They deserved every bit of derision they got and more.
That's a big car... where does that race?
Amen Brother!
Yeah I suppose so. I'm too British for my own good :)
!!!
...this evening isn't going too well...
That did race in the STCC but they use the C30 now.
It's also ran in the WTCC, but only at the Anderstorp rounds I believe.
The C30 Touring Car is mad as...
Deep breaths lou, deep breaths!
You are having the last laught now though. This time last year you were listening to people saying how bad Honda are. Now it is how bad they were. That is a huge difference.
Exactly - look at the driver I follow, Last year he was a champion and this year he's a mopey chump in a rubbish car!
http://www.f1complete.com/content/view/13618/900/
Anyone interested in "Racing Driver" by Norman Howell (review subscription only)
What?? I will admit full-on sympathy for Nelsinho... Didn't Renault already come out and confirm he'd still be driving?
In the most expensive and and longest developed car in years. ;)
yeah.. i suppose you're right...it's just... even though they aren't around anymore people still say how bad they are, still better than people being mean about Jenson though :D
The driver I follow was in an average car last year, and an average car this year. Its much more easier.
You gotta pick your battles :)
So I should give up on Nelson then?
yep :)
i think i may need to meet Jessica now... just to ask her about Darren Heath and if he gave her any useful advice....
I think the only people who haven't are Nelson Piquet, and Nelson Piquet Jr... ;)
I think he should try and pass his dad off as himself.... Either that or do away with Fernando. Then he might keep his seat.
So, if you met her would your first question be Darren or Jenson?
Darren... not sure what i'd say regarding Jenson...
pass himself of as Alonso and then his dad as himself?
Can I take him off your hands?
Hahahaha. He'd look amazing then.
Well there'd have to be some poking first :P
He'd look bloody ugly though!
:D ahahahaha i'm thinking she may say no... but if i see her again (saw her at goodwood looking around a car waiting for Jenson) i may go up and say hi.. or just giggle at her, depending on how star struck i get....
@Gavin - the S60 might be a big car, but it handles b-e-a-utifully on a stock setup :D
it's still a Volvo though!
Make sure you take Chris.
...So?
You could always get someone to punch her like John Button
i'll try ;)
i'm not sure she'd be up for a photo or a chat if someone punched her... not sure Jenson would like me either....
Well, ah, not very exciting for me I'm afraid.
But then again, most Touring Cars aren't these days I'm afraid...
You want John Button to punch her?
any pictures?
i'm not sure that would go down too well with Jenson either..
ooh, tempting. i have to keep googling the phrase:
question mark
and then finding one to copy.
I've just thought - we have Comment of the Year, why not Voicemail of the Year. Lukeh's one about Chris punching John Button just made think of it :D
i likes it. wiki?
That would work
You should put a question mark in your name, then you will always have one.
never give up. has christine given up on franck, despite being dropped first from f1 and then cart? nooo. she's started a website and he started to do well.
what you need alison... is a blog!
Absolutely.
won't i look like i'm confused as to who i am?
He wasn't dropped from CART, they broke it.
www. wellsomeonehastoheartnelson.com
I think a ex-F1 slightly accident prone driver has indirectly responded to my tweet.
hehehehe it's funny :D
Or maybe something like "me - i needs a question mark?"
my mistake. maybe piquet won't get dropped from f1, it'll just become gp1?
:D :D :D :D
Now it's fixed, he has a great chance to get there at last.
eheheheh
i'm not buying it.
How about: "me - saving ??s for a rainy day"
me - isn't he the bestest guy on the planet?
Isn't adding a question mark to your name technically donating to Sidepodcast?
me - never question (mark) his maximum efficency
If Mr. C. talked like a Kiwi he would have to end every sentence with a question mark, coz that's what they all bloody sound like anyway!
#sorryamy
It is?
:D
eh?
I have to go, if someone suddenly becomes interested just drop me a message in the wiki.
Good night everyone
I'm donating a question mark to Sidepodcast so one of the hosts can use it?
did i mention to lukeh that monkey somehow appeared on the itouch? christine doesn't appreciate it though :(
ahh :)
ooooooooooooooooh my gooooooooooooooooood.
Monkey Island, obviously. Not just random monkeys.
why do you have a monkey on yoiur ipod?
I have a sudden urge to buy an iPod touch.
i guess i didn't. it sorta appeared just before fp1, haven't had much chance to check it out though.
Night Kathi
but it's such a challenge... and it's immense fun when you get addicted to it... and it's brilliantly witty... and you can't go wrong whwn your characer is called guybrush threepwood.... :P
See now if he was called something less amusing like, oh I don't know... Franck...
;)
Naughty step?
That's one big huge major OUCH right there.
In the appliance store I used to do 8am-9pm on Fridays. Waste of Effing time - there was nobody in the store after 6pm so we used to play Gran Turismo instead :)
Sacrilegiously awesome! Take a look at the others on that account too, brilliant.
isn't 'working' for that long illegal or something?
Not when you get two meal breaks and 3x 15 minute breaks... honestly it was so cruisy it was never any stress anyways...
#sidepodspace
The 4th spacewalk of the mission has just ended after achieving all the tasks set for them.
Did it break records?
Not even close. They were only out for about 7 hours
It's NASA, they're bound to have broken somethíng!
Wow, that's great stuff Dan!
What? GT1 banned from the Spa 24? What?? That's... No no no.. Sportscars is going all wrong.
GT1's been dying for years, it's had its final year 'm afraid.
No, no I don't think they are.
That's... an interesting pronunciation ;-)
But after the media overload of the last 12 months I now prefer the Kings' earlier stuff to their later stuff.
No, the 'new' GT1 has been banned...
i've found Jessica's blog something tells me i may be trying to learn Japanese soon....
there's more than one gt1?
she blogs? cool.
you really really do have a problem, you need to stop before you get a restraining order ;)
I thought he had a lot of unfulfilled potential.
Brawn GP and Team Jenson are really becoming a fantastic source to enhance your multinational language skills! :D
They've started a new GT1 that actually has some racing in it, so its not a 2 make series. woop woop
They changed the rules - and they make Max's rules look nice and simple.
You need to listen to Midweek Motorsport from this week - but needless to say it sounds stupid!
Yeah, there were plenty of walls he didn't hit and plenty of cars he didn't crash into ;)
oii! i'm just a super fan... but year that did cross my mind....
more evidence she is getting into photography.... i really will stop now... i blame the internet..:(
Just reminding myself with The Who and Pink Floyd on why they both were the only memorable moments of Live 8.
Epic times. Won't see many bands in modern music who'll stand the test of time like bands like that. :)
Google Translate?
Pink Floyd reunited, allbeit briefly, was almost unbelievable.
Your Bernie's shed article is brilliant BTW. I particularly like "Kubica confirms he is still taking part in F1 races" on the links.
Sleepy sleepy!
Does anyone know what time quali is in the morning?
It had to be confirmed! :P
fp3 is at 10am. you gotta watch fp3.
quali is at 1pm.
www.f1.com
Loved the original. Is there a PC or Wii version?
BBC prog starts at 12.10 though
May I ask why?
I think I've caught up on comments and tweets... but forgot to write my preview blog. oops.
I don't think I've ever watched fp 3. Is it an amazing experience?
There's a PC remake of the first MI game out now, with HD graphics and voice acting. Don't let that put you off, it's absolutely incredible, makes a classic game even better and brings it to the 21st century without losing what made it classic in the first place.
There's also a brand new MI game coming to the Wii and PC, yep. Although that's in episodic content rather than a whole full game...
aha, amazing? not so much
We don't know that there will be racing in it, yet. But why start a new top class and then exempt it from the biggest race in the championship?
fp3 is awesome! as is any f1 action :) it's just more lovely f1 :D
I'm watching a DVD of the German GP while trying to finish a blog post on Vettel Vs. Webber...
I will swap watching that for being in work if thats ok? :P
Because the FIA hate the ACO
simple
possibly i might be overselling it, but we'll all be here watching.
He could have been the next (or first?) Takuma Sato. Crashed often until he calmed down a bit.
Definitely the highlights. At the time I preferred The Who's performance, but I knew more of their stuff.
Bla bla bla bla-ing!!!
I shall have to seek out the remake then, thanks :-)
But the Spa 24h is an FIA race and the rules are FIA rules, so what's the problem?
All practise is interesting nut rarely amazing
At the time, it must've been about 11pm and it was mega silent in my house, watching Pink Floyd with my mouth sat open in glee was quite an experience sat in the dark. I know Live 8 had absolutely NOTHING on Live Aid but that moment with pink Floyd will honestly be something I'll probably never forget, as cheesy as that sounds. Just seeing them back one more time knowing their history and from what I knew of them. I guess growing up in their era would've made it far more special but it was still a pretty amazing experience as a Floyd fan.
Might give it a go. Doubt I'll be commenting over the weekend though, see how it goes.
They're banned because Ratel wants them to have 2x 1 hour races after the 24 hour race...
Listen to this week's MWM - it explains it all very well...
Because the FIA have started the world GT1 class, and have changed some GT2/3 rules and basically said "The ACO can take our rules if they want, but we aren't changing"
As a non-fan.. it was absolutely brilliant. I kept meaning to explore there stuff more, afterwards, but didn't manage to.
Ah ok. I'll probably be listening to that in about eight weeks time then.,,
Do I get Martin Brundle for FP3, I might watch if I get a bit of Martin.....
But how does that affect Spa? I didn't think Spa had anything to do with the ACO. Surely they can still lump the GT1s in with the GT2s.
no... but you get Croftie!! :D
Not in FP3, but in quali you will.
BBC news on tv reporting rain for quali
BTW Anthony Davidson and Jacques Villeneuve will be racing in the Spa 24 Hours this weekend...
Pah! No Brundle, no sale!
It has nothing to do with spa, but thats part of why GT1's (i'm meaning in their current guise, not hte new ones) arent going to be there
Also get ikkle Johnny this weekend. :D
Just noticed in the forum how Frank Williams holds his arms ... can he not use his arms anymore?
but... but.... it's Croftie...
Ah. I was talking about the new ones not being in the Spa 24h next year.
I can't explain it, I just have a thing for Martin Brundle
So am I, Jon's got his wires crossed I think...
ah, not too fussed about the new GT1, theres more of the new cars than there was the old ones, so i can only hope it will make good racing
me? crossed wires? never?
:D
Very easily done.. they should have given the new one a new name. But sportscar class structures have always been monumentally confusing.
He has limited movement in his arms and hands. He was very close to being a quadriplegic iirc.
Agreed.
he'll still be there for quali...
He had some us of his shoulders but nothing below that
If anyone is missing Bourdais this weekend I made a wallpaper of his Toro Rosso plus another Toro Rossa and Two Force India cars - it was more to prove to somebody that you can use Adobe Photoshop using a very cheap Linux netbook without any memory problems.
Then I'll have to put up with Jonathon Leggard
Uh oh.
I've scared myself on photoshop.
Now theres a change ;)
drop.io?
When 5 live are talking about Maurice Hamilton, they do mean Lewis' dad???
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/bbcf1ej-jpg
:)
niiiice
it's halloween come early :(
EJ looks like one of them trolls you used to be able to put on the end of pencils in that pic. As for DC - that just looks wrong!
hahaha, DC reminds me of those things from the Super Mario film!
no, they mean their commentator.
But his chin's almost a normal size now
Well DC's last commentary was simply rubbish!
wow! lol
Aaaaaah! That explains a lot.... :)
I don't know who's worse...
;)
The stare, or the radio ruiner? Hmm.
Just watching bits of FP1, why is "not-Seb" in a Red Bull not an STR? Did they always just say Red Bull on the side?
Think it's just been this year they've had Red Bull on the side of both teams' cars.
Awww meany 5 live are saying he's going too slowly! Surely he's actually NEVER driven a formula one car before?
Yes the Toro Rosso's do just say Red Bull this year.
No.
Good evening
Work: Over
Tweets: Read
Guinness: In Fridge
Right, I'm ready!
Well he has never turned a steering wheel on an F1 until today. So it is mean. He is going to be slow - some of the other F1 drivers have been a bit mean as well.
You should rename this SidePodSchool :D
Yes
Last year they had a very prominent Red Bull cartoon on the sides but this year they put more emphasis on promotion rather than the graphics. I seem to remember I was the only one that like the Toro Rosso livery last year.
I remember the STR was redder at the back with an angry bull on it when the fluffy one won at Monza
Year I remember the very prominent horns on the angry bull.
oh.
photoshop on linux?
hey, i remember that!
Haha! Not like that.....
I was nearly ill when he was nearly naked doing his Mark Webber featurette
:P
ahh, that's okay then :)
are you watching all of fp1/fp2?
somehow i thought you might do.
Yeah, I'm idly watching FP1. Might go to bed rather than go for FP2 but I'll see how I feel.
hasn't FP1 and FP2 already been and gone?
wasnt that the time when christine nearly died
oh never mind. i get it... replay...
The joys of tinternet....
she did die, briefly.
she got better though.
fp2 is better :)
tis the main thing
I liked Fp1.
Mainly because I saw more of it. :(
I am sure Amy would disagree
first half of fp2 is better?
i was thinking.. while at goodwood actually, christine hasn't had the best luck with being outside at f1 related events... I remember reading that during your first trip to goodwood she got fuel fumes in her eyes (ouch!). it's a wonder she follows the sport after all it's put her through, tis real encouragement to get us through these tough f1 political times.
All the drivers (except Alonso_) have said Jaime is too young and inexperienced to be in the F1 car this weekend. I think it will be a miracle if he finishes. Everything is stack against the kid - slow car - no experience - a tough track - and hopefully (for the Brawns) it will be hot and the race is longer than any he has competed in before plus the pit stops not to make a miss of.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/motorsport/2009/07/24/jeson-button-warns-youngest-ever-f1-driver-jaime-alguersuari-that-he-is-too-young-115875-21544241/
i once painted a car with petrol....
....its not as random as it sounds...
OH.MY.GOD!!! i'm not going to read that article, stupid paper not even being able to spell Jenson's name! humph.
hehe. she's a walking disaster. we'd hardly been there ten minutes!
I heard what Lewis said on the radio about an hour ago though and he wasn't mean, he just said it was harsh that he'd not even been allowed to test.
So 19's too young, but 20 isn't? Hypocrit.
Jeson....
JESON.
JESON
i thought of that when i headed through the older section of the f1 paddock and could smell fumes... i quickly hustled through it.
it's the daily mirror. you think he actually said those words in that order?
You have a point.
Jeson Button probably says a lot of things.
Jeson probably did... Jenson on the other hand.
good call.
I would quite like to beat sportinglife.com...who report that "18-year-old Henry Surtees who lost his life in a GP2 race at Brands Hatch on Sunday."
Non-motorsport press shouldnt report on motorsport things.
PAH!
This isn't their first time...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/motorsport/2009/06/05/and-button-winzzzzzzz-115875-21416304/
This Jeson guy needs to stop stealing other people's lives!
It's not really about age though is it, most of them have had a whole winter of testing before they have to actually do a race
Depends on experience
chandook-esque.
Lewis has been quite polite but also said it would have been a disaster if he had attempted to race without testing - I htink he is one of the more sympathetic drivers.
According to wikipedia (fountain of all knowledge)...
He was Red Bull test driver last year...
I didnt know that
wasn't that hartley?
just want to make a point though... Jenson had a whole off season of testing before he got in the car for a race... he had even driven an f1 car round a corner :D but i've also read interviews with JB where he has said he felt he was too young for f1 but as the opportunity appeared he couldn't refuse it.
Like i say, it's from wiki ;)
ahh.. i'd applaud the mirror for their creativity, but i can't be bothered.. :)
(Another) question....
When teams talk about "abandoning this year's development" and "focussing on next year" and whatever, what benefit does it really have if there's no regulation change?
Surely without rule changes, next year's car is largely this years with development? Working on this years, helps next years?
a) good pr.
b) changes to the length of the car will make a small difference and apparently they're getting longer.
Some car, especially those with KERS will have to be redesigned to accommodate the bigger fuel tanks since there will be no refuelling next year. In this year's Ferrari the tanks were too high to accommodate the KERS as low as possible and it was some of their problems.
Is that because of the increase in fuel tank size with the refuelling ban?
and longer = (generally) longer wheelbase, which makes it stable, but more prone to understeer.
i believe last years Ferrari was alot longer than usual and it did really well in the high speed bits but struggles at tracks like monaco with lots of chicanes etc
Is this because of the extra weight from carrying more fuel?
ah, snap!
KERS is banned next year
bigger tanks, yeah.
You think The Mirror are bad, look what I just found from AUTOSPORT about Danica looking to move to Ganassi:
yikes. she kept that quiet.
mwaha, i love things like that. i once emailed the Formula Palmer Audi website because they had called their only female driver the son of one guy and the brother of another :D
Just to add this in, but it occured to me earlier that refueling ban won't cut as many costs as I thought. I mean, they're still going to have to lug the refueling rigs around between races to fill the things up in the first place/get the fuel right for qualifying.....
So...
...it's Daniel now?
We've talked about this before. There's no need for high flow fuel rigs
The FOTA teams have agreed not to use KERS next year- it has not actually been banned. No one will be using it though.
No need to keep developing them I suppose, but surely it's a huge piece of equipment?
Ah ok, well same difference, no-ones going to have to design a car for KERS and big tank if no-ones using it
You can use gravity feed rigs which are way simpler and cheaper.
They can fill up the car with a funnel if they want [probably]
I think I just hate the idea because I love my Sebastian too much. How's he ever going to win now.....
I'm heading off so I'll speak to you guys tomorrow night after what I'm sure will be an awesome qualifying session.
not that I'm jealous... noooooope. No sirree. ;)
Anyways, night :)
they will.
Williams & FI?
night lukeh.
Some very funny tarentino mocking moments on Jonathan Ross tonight :D
Not if they value the prospect of going back into FOTA
Night Lukeh
night Lukeh, wil pic message live timings as usual to try keep you in the loop. ;)
Do you know if they're going to be allocated a set amount per race or can they put in as much as they want/think they'll need?
I think they would like to get back into FOTA - large fuel tanks and KERS not a nice combination.
If Concorde Agreement is signed, FOTA may not be required
Don't they already only use them for the race and Q3?
Also, do the teams own them or rent them from that company who's name I've forgotten? I mean, if they own them, they'd want to keep them hanging around for the inevitable rule change for 2011.
Less of a weight penalty by percentage though
Night.
That is and always has been an excuse. When they say we kept developing last year's car and this year's suffered it means they did a lousy job. The idea that you can't do both is nonsense.
Depends how you split your resources
Maximum fuel tank size?
And minimum most likely
Also when they say they are giving up on this year's car it meant they did a lousy job. Basically BMW Sauber have a completely different car now that at the beginning of the year - had to design two cars for 2009 and both were rubbish.
I'm just envisioning more Ferrari fuel blunders....
They only use the rigs in the race
:)
Somebody is going to run out of fuel next year!
Good good. :D
Night Lukeh
apparently this is something to look forward too. go figure.
Traditionally, Ferraris were always gas guzzlers
Not sure if that's due to them having V12s when everyone else had V10s but I seem to remember that
it happened this year with massa, i thought it was quite amusing, but quite stupid
As Pressdog is fond of saying... the fans really go crazy for that fuel saving action!
Yeah I'm sure they will! Won't that trash one of their engines as well just to deal a double blow.....
i (hearts) pressdog.
What was quite stupid was that he hadn't actually run out..... Don't they have a fuel guage in among all those lights on the dash?
i might need a t-shirt with that on in fact...
Ferrari won 5 consecutive championships albeit with a little assistance. McLaren have three separate development teams. The team that designed last year's car started work on next year's two months before this year's was launched. The team that designed and developed this year's will switch to the 2011 car at the end of the season.
:D
wow. it feels like 2010 already.
It was faulty instrumentation - he need not have saved fuel poor guy!
The team that designed this years are still employed?
iley isn't, no.
:D
It is part of their history. Enzo Ferrari thought the only part of the car that mattered was the engine and the engine had to have 12 cylinders regardless of whether or not that made any technical sense. How he succeeded is beyond me because the guy was an idiot. He thought that Lotus developed ground effect because they couldn't make 12 cyinder engines.
Had he really been the leading light in F1 we would still have 12 cylinder front engined cars.
The one that is going to guzzle fuel with be the Coswworth according to Williams - the modern V8 F1 engine all use much the same fuel although it is rumoured that both BMW is a little more economical. They usually go a lap longer than predicted.
the renault too. hence why the rbr switch rumours don't add up for me.
The Cosworth must be thirstier unless they are allowed some development before the season starts. The enfines are so closely regulated now there can;t be much between them
There is little more to it - it is true Enzo was not complementary about the small light rear engined British cars - but tracks were also changing.
Except that they blow up? How many smoky engined RBR's have we had so far?
Strangely, I don't remember the Renaults doing the same
When you said FP2 was better, is that because there's no commentary for the end of FP1???
I do not think there is much - although last years Honda was down on power and flexibility compared to the other engines.
they don't blown up much in the renault. newey likes his tight packaging, does he.
ah yeah. that happened. it comes back.
If you look at any part of F1 history the guy was living in the past. In the 80s he refused to drop the flat 12 engine so the cars couldn't get proper ground effect. In the 50s he was about last to move the engine behind the driver.
Almost any time you can look at he backed the wrong horse. If there was a choice of two ways of doing something he was on the wrong one.
It is certainly tighter than the Ferrari - I think the Merc is the best engine followed by the Renault.
best, maybe. but most efficient?
We lost commentary for a chunk of FP2. They introduced a Peter Windsor interview and we lost commentary and came back as they said thanks Peter that was interesting.
I did get it back. It was refreshing to actually hear the radio conversations without commentators talking over it.
The Merc can be packaged tighter because it doesn't create as much heat. That is probably why Red Bull are trying to get their hands on some for next season.
It is the most reliable which is one aspect of efficiency. My inside knowledge suggests that is very flexible so the car is easier to drive than other cars. Remember in Motorbike Ducati superbikes were not the most powerful but they had immense grunt out of the corners and this allowed they to dominate over the other teams.
It is also apparently a little bit lighter so it will offset the need for the larger fuel tank.
Didn't know that. That would be a big advantage
formula mercedes?
Rumours only by about 4kg - but it is a very good engine.
Joe did say they had hired a lot of Cosworth guys so it is like going back in time. Of course the two guys who founded Ilmor which became Mercedes engine operation were ex-Cosworth
I think that is why they are so good. If I were a new team I would be unhappy about using the Cosworth. BMW keep saying they want to supply their engines to another team - but no takers.
It's just something about BMW in general I think. Nothing particularly wrong with them, but just not that interesting....
Kubica has gone through a good few this year and was lucky that some don't count.
Anyways, I'm off to bed I think. Night all :)
Night Alison
see ya.
night Alison.
Ooo Fake Jake likes Lukeh's pic :)
there is a fake jake?
@FakeJakeH
Fake Eddie and David too :)
2009 really is the year of f1 twittering isn't it?
And Fake Twittering even more so
certainly is... i'm loving the fact that my team are regular users of Twitter.. makes it much easier to keep up with what's going on with Brawn ;)
*cough*
;)
Nelson Piquet just did a Follow Friday!
you know me too well...
:lol:
i warned you ;)
i'm starting to think that if i were ever to meet someone from brawn i'd freak them out so much they'd run in the opposite direction... maybe i should try find out about other teams too... just to even it out...
something he ate?
who is iWitness at williams?
:)
i have no idea... im not sure where i'd start to even find out... shall have a look....
williams need twitter so we can ask them :P
:-)
actually considering they are from the team... and i assume they wouldn't sit in on meetings etc, maybe it is the woman who was interviewing Nico?... maybe ask Joe? wouldn't he know?
yes, but that wouldn't occupy very much of your time, or expand your knowledge beyond brawn...
Clearing out some email from a (very) old address
Seems I'm entitled to $2 million
An ATM CARD ...has been issued in your favour
You are to send down the following information in other for us to send your card direct to you:
1.Your Full Name as it is written on your driver lincense, international passport of identity card
2.Your Direct Telephone Number for prompt communication
3.And your full contact address.
I've never been sent an email that blatant before :)
oh... but how am i meant to find out?... i already look at pretty much all the photos i can find on the web taken on an f1 weekend.... and there aren't usually as many on other teams as there are on brawn... surprisingly :P i'll keep an eye out for a random team member interviewing kaz and nico...
how did you learn about all the brawn peeps?
it's on the website, Jenson and Rubens mention them in interviews, in press releases... but they all have names and photos... how am i meant to find out the identity of someone who is anonymous? hehe
Mr C's friend Claire could tell you
4. And we promise not to use them in any fraud against you. PROMISE!!
You think this might be a scam?
I'd already started spending my compensation
Lou, surely you must be considering working for Brawn after uni...
i wouldn't know where to start. have written to Jules but... other than that. actually i'm probably doing all the wrong Alevels to get into an f1 team anyways.
An F1 team is just like any other business, it's not just engineering, they need catering/pr/etc etc people like every other company in the world
...photographers
exactamundo
*sob* but.... how.......??? plus i'm not sure if i'll do photography or psychology at uni :s
She could always ask Jessica for some photography tips...
i think jessica is somewhat beneath lou's level tbh.
rather
just keep your eyes open. there are plenty of ways to fall into f1. remember stuart's story?
Tips on how to take her job :-)
ehehe :D this makes me happy. :)
If you'll take photography, F1 has a corps of photographers. Psych is a VERY flexible course - you can go a lot of ways with it, and I'm sure more than one way can get you into F1.
yeah... lucky lucky guy... okay, consider these eyes as wide open!
agreed. :D
excellent. don't forget to blink though.
But she has links to the team?
Ah late night humour gone wrong :(
i have to blink? so much to think about :P
ahh... nope, still gone over me head.
:P
the doctor said don't blink, so who ya gonna listen to now ;)
didn't you see the pics i put up of Darren Heath showing Jessica how to take pics? i think that's what Gavin means?
She was getting tips from Darren Heath and she has links to the Brawn team through Jenson.
Here, have some question marks instead: ???????????????????????
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this is going to give me a headache :P all this and learning to drive :P
ehehehehehe XD
don't blink whilst driving!
Contact Brawn's personnel department
not once?
if your name is Marcus Gronholm
Do one eye at a time that way one is always watching the road
:D
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:D :D :D ahahaha!!
Hello all, back from my part-time job, playing blackjack, made $85/hr today
Mr. C! And a good morning to you, Sir!
How many hours did you play for? :)
BTW, we're in Saturday's thread
He's gone to bed I think