We have reached Friday and it is Free Practice day in Singapore. Things have been about Renault all week, so it would be nice if some other teams got a mention. We'll start that now:
- Mario Theissen has confirmed that if the team-formerly-known-as-BMW can get a place on the grid in 2010, then they will be running Ferrari engines. They are clearly still working really hard to get things sorted for next year, but what are the chances of the FIA playing ball?
- Red Bull are still sure that bizarre things happened to their gearbox last year and are taking extra precautions this year. Apparently the solution involves bolting an extra metal plate under the gearbox to try and avoid any rogue tram line electricity.
- Button says that he isn't even allowing himself to contemplate the possibility of winning the title, even though it could be his anytime soon. He's going into it one race at a time, and only looking that far ahead. It's the right thing to say, but he can't possibly have not thought about it. Not possible.
That'll do it for now. Free Practice starts a little bit later than usual, but we'll have all the normal threads up and in the right place. I will see you in the comments.
I am in waterloo wondering whether to sober up here or in dorchester.
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ohh, new daily. today is free practice day :)
Right bed for me! g'night!
Sounds a lot like a tinfoil hat to me
see ya sir.
oh dear!!
Wooo I'm glad FP is later. Means I have time to get home from work first :D
Goodnight all! Tomorrow is a work from home day, so I can watch practice.
Yay!
Fairthee well Internets.
*waves*
Right. I'm off to bed. Night!
night those who are sleeping.
its far too early in the morning to be wearing
fluro orangerocket red:)
Train at 1am or 5am. Tbh wasn.t expecting to be abandoned at 11.15.
they abandoned you? where will you go until 5am?
:( I'd say 1am is more sensible.... Where will you go if you stay out?
You alright, pat?
It's too early in the weekend to be wearing it
BOO!!! BOO at me being on the ground floor and everyone in my block and 2 others having to walk past my flat door....boo that they all insist on ringing the bell
do we have a number for pat?
Welcome to uni campus life, to be honest
you may want to take the battery out...
I don't have one sorry :(
Has someone passed out while "cooking" yet?
I think it's wired into the mains
Not yet, but only Monday (or tuesday, i forget), we had a fire alarm at 4.15, 4.20 and then 4.25. booo
Yep. That's Uni. :P
Ah so you've had the fire, just not the accident.... :P
i only have him on skype.
Am sure he's just busy trying to work out what to do next.
Presumably Bassano or Alex has it. They'd love to be woken so you can ask for it.....
boo :(
Urm... hmm.
By the time i get to dorch i will be fine. 2h 40m train. Love london, always hard to leave!
ok. keep in touch please pat.
Have sent him a text, lost him roundabouts Waterloo bridge. Was right behind us before then
Okay. It's a good plan to go home though :)
Old Nanna Me. ;-)
Sorry we lost ya fella, thought you were in our wake
phew. lost, not abandoned. how drunk was he?
no sidepodder left behind ;)
he found the eye: http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/picture-37
:)
all for f1, f1 for all!
or... in this case... drinks. ;)
:P
I don't feel heavily drunk, but i know i can't drive. And there is more to do here than home while i shake it off
I'm home!
Hope Pat's Ok, i only made my train with 10 secs to spare!
fair enough. in that case keep sending us piccies ;)
yay. was it a good night?
How about you entertain us with an amazing voicemail account of your evening?
Very good!
We should do it again soon!
In the meantime are you coming to the lecture next week mrc?
Y'know, I hate photoshop sometimes. I can't look at the Renault now without thinking 'TOTAL FAIL' at the Total sponsors...
and we wont take no for an answer :D
there's always time for a revision...
really not sure i can. sorry :(
I dunno... i sums up the whole fiasco quite well...
#imsosorrymrcpleasedonthurtme
You're not planning on getting him drunk are you? ;) :D
Do you still have Renault love Mr C?
personally no, but im sure the others have plans
tis okay. i can see the funny side. you couldn't make up a disaster as big as this.
we're into orange arrows territory now.
boo, s'ok. we understand :)
Ooh yes we need a T minus countdown!! To nothing!!
Thats ok...
...we have a week to convince you ;)
I am half tempted to stay until 5 and get piccies :-)
they let us in their garage for three days, no questions asked.
no other team has, or will likely ever come close to how cool they are in my eyes. regardless of what they do/have done.
Yeah, that's quite normal
Until everyone works out what thickness of sock to put over the smoke alarm in their room
Ut oh! Stay in lighted areas and keep commenting! :D
Here's the fan page for Zero Downforce :)
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mr c is not able to leave rockall, we established this last night.
For some really odd reason, this whole fiasco has made me like Alonso a lot more.... Particularly his latest comments :D
He probably looks at the water and ponders as to what it actually is. ;)
I can't help but wonder if this is all a giant episode of F1 Scooby Doo though Heck, I can even imagine Flav and Pat getting caught by the scruff of the necks, standing there shaking their fists proclaiming 'And we woudda gota away with it if it weren't for those meddlin' Piquets!'
Not langered, just quiet. So, hard to tell ;)
Was still compus mentus though
what did he say?
meanie!
UPS is too heavy to carry along with him
:P
;) :D
You knows I don't mean it :P
Basically he said if you still thought he had something to do with it you should read the FIA report. If you'd done that then you should learn to read properly....
ah-ha yes.
This would be a lot easier with mobile lclt, jussayin
I like on AUTOSPORT's q&a his answers are basically 'Nope. Not saying. Don't care. That's not my job. Neeooooooooope. No comment.'
Morning Amy! we didnt go to 'your pub' ...yet!
I am thinking i will be nice to you so we can have permission ;)
Mr C could fashion a raft out of the equipent building the hotel?
No, he'd likely be driving part of the way and I respect that
Rockall is a nasty drive at the best of times ;)
So, Renault's sentence to wear orange ended early with parole for bad behaviour :-)
good morning
i give you permission to go to my pub in august 2010.
See, if you'd said that earlier, we'd be in some bar knocking back the drinks till sunset
hey wolf, have you arrived?
I don't know where my Alonso love has come from. It's mad. I'm sure I hate him really.... That's the only explanation!
Which pub is your pub? Clearly I have missed something.
Cant we go sooner to check it out?
We can send pics if you want!
I'll take a pic of he mclaren sign ;)
not yet, on the way to airport, taking off in an hour or so
Heading off now guys, hope Pat gets home safely :)
night all!
It's a floating one that sells Speights, apparently it's taken a while to get here
night lukeh.
Night Lukeh
Oh my goodness ipod finish syncing already!!! It's loaded all the stuff, why is it just sat there saying "Syncing"
If it tells me it's failed or broken or something, I'll smash it!
I thoughtj sunset was the plan
Pls take pics/video if you do ;)
no checking it out. I wont allow it.
Sleep tight!
But I was soooo close!
What would it take!?
At my best estimate, it's 7 years old! That's well beyond the normal life of an iPod. It's probably ready for retirement.... It's probably worth something as an antique by now.
Any excuse for an iphone.
mobile doohickey?
FP1 at 11:00
There's a slight chance I may see some of that
g'night less-drunk peoples
hehe. night good sir.
Niiiight Mr Bassano
argh site problems are making me cry so i am going to say goodbye and cross my fingers its all ok for fp later
g'night amy. have sent a support req to mediatemple. fingers crossed.
Have fun at work*!
*or under your desk!
night Amy
Night weekling :P
Is something going on here that I've missed?
am also going to depart, hoping the people go away from outside my window, or hoping my ear plugs work (have had to use them every day so far, boo)
Night all
aww. night sir.
Night Amy and anyone else who left
Best of luck. We had the pleasure of IBMs "on hold" music for 45 minutes yesterday. 'Twas not so wonderful.
Night!
Amy did some hiding ;)
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/21092009
Still really hot and thundery in Singapore! Will the teams go out in the rain if they think it'll be wet all weekend?
all except vettel, yup.
MGM have released RoboCop soundboard App for iPhone and iPod Touch. I won't bother linking for all the different iTunes countries. Heaps of good soundboards now like iDaft. I want one for Family Guy and American Dad!
From yesterdays thread (on rice)
When its cooked properly its amazing! But your right its really just something you mix with flavour to get food! Its like hating bread, you can't hate bread!
Don't get me wrong, I like it. I just don't get what's to dislike.... The texture maybe? But that's usually caused by boiling it until it makes a paste....
I think we need an explanation from AMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Her McLaren shirt must be too loud for her to hear the headping!
AMY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Try slightly higher volume
Always with the good advice ;)
I think she might be working (for once :P)
What are the odds on that?
*Ahem* Because I have nothing better to do, I give you "F1 headlines at SPC Towers":
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch?e=20090924203607942
I hope you'll like it!
how dare you accuse me of working. I was online shopping and then my 3g died. I shall explain the rice thing in good time.
I tried to defend you
Yowser!
Hows the victory shirt going down?
That is fabulous. I am sure it will go down well. Can't wait for the Franck song.
oh.my.god.
how cool is that? thank you alenyaa.
Hehe, Poor Frackanack!
And MrC has a goatee! #mrcfacts
its quite a story. As a kid my mum cooked meals and always had too much rice so there was not enough food to mix with the bland plainness of the rice. So i decided i didnt like rice and didnt eat it for years. Now i think its all in my head because i still say i dont like it but when my flat mate books bengali food i love it and i always make rice to go with my favourite meal ever which is beef stroganoff and im also a fan of butter chicken with rice. So really when i say i dont like it i am lying and still think its the early 90s
Beef stroganoff with rice rocks!
(grey stroganoff, not red) (although red is also good)
So it's your mother's fault you are lying?
You're quite welcome :)
The best thing is, anyone can make one of those. All you have to do enter text and animations where you like them, and there you go :)
Mmmm, rice toppings. :D
Morning, everyone.
Morning Journeyer
stroganoff has colours? Victory shirt is going unnoticed as i am cold and my jacket is done up
Morning!
Surely the victory shirt is for Monday?
There is grey stoganoff which is super yummy and one of my favourites and red which i guess is more normal and what you get at cafe's and restaurants
I had it once at a antony worrall thompson's pub (he is a tv cheff with a pretentious name) It was the second best thing i have ever eaten!
top of the marnin!
AFL finals in Oz this weekend - so their office asked them to wear team colours. ;)
we had to wear team colours today so i went for a proper colour. I am going to have to investigate stroganoff when i get home. Im curious now
I must have missed that earlier. Seems odd for the office to ask them to wear McLaren team colours for an AFL final but what do I know?
Heheh. Amy's not really an AFL fan, is she? :D
*hopes this isnt some crazy family recipe which was stolen from continenetal europe and has been passed down though the generations*
#simracers
apparently all 3 versions of forza have been released between GT4 and 5
they said any football code was acceptable but i dont have an all blacks or otago shirt so i improvised.
whaaa?!
You went for F1 being a political football
You havent had any reactions?
You need to walk around untill someone says something!
everyone is too dumb to even realise its f1 except for my admin lady who always wants to talk to me about lewis and who actually asked me about renault on monday.
no one watches f1 there except the admin lady?!
a few people are what bernie would call "casual fans" because they seem to know who wins occasionally. My team leader only found out recently that i am a fan, he was a fan in the 90s and really liked villeneuve, ugh.
must've liked him in australia 1996. he seemed great in 96, but he just became annoying in 97.
a pic has been uploaded to the drop with the following comment:
"hazy morning in Singapore"
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/imgp4507-jpg
has wolf landed already, or do we know more people in singapore today?
Joe?
wolf, i guess. no one else i know... ;)
ahhh, singapore. i miss it. :D
There is nothing wrong with JV (other than the tunes!)
I hope Pat is Ok...
He tweeted: I should have got that train.
oh dear :(
the flight from hk cant be too long?
#sorryjourneyer
Surviving overnight in london isnt too bad... I have done it enough times! But i grew up in a big city...
4 hours, i suspect. manila to hk is 2 hrs, manila to sg is 3 hours.
tis alright, wolf can afford it. i can't. :D
From MrC Yesterday:
He might need to do some editing...
editing?
editING? ;)
Big Black marker?
..over the ex sponsors who have ceased to be (sponsors) ;)
OH NO!
heheh. you and Mrs C seem to have an affinity with French drivers. :D
And while we are on the subject... Nelsons new helmet is orange not pink!
#bringbackPK
:)
:D
Its the start of a new campaign! :D
In tribute to Frackanack's assult on Petit LeMans I have added a photo of his car to the drop
youtube account INGRenaultF1Team are now horribly misnamed.
maybe they'll open a new account now? or they could use their old account from the 2006 championship days?
Personal sponsorship?
hello from Singapore
Hey Wolf! Where are you now in SG? Were you the one that dropped the SG pic this morning? Looks like it's from Changi.
come to think of it, their twitter account is in trouble too.
no I haven't dropped anything :-) right now I am in my Sentosa hotel contemplating splash in the swimming pool
... and their media site keeps denying me access with my perfectly good login and password
who was THAT then? Hmmm. How's the weather?
i can't access their site, period. it seems that their twitter account hasn't been updated since the ING pullout as well.
like this :-)
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/singapore-friday-afternoon-jpg
ok, that somehow did not work but the picture is somewhere on drop.io
looks like typical Malay weather, then. the cloud cover isn't too bad - i think the chance of rain is just at 50/50.
it's rather smoggy though.
hooray home time. Hello weekend! I am off home to cook dinner. Cooking on a practice day, how foreign!
if it doesn't load here, just go straight to the URL. loads fine there.
yes, hazy smoky and the air stinks a bit :-)
Good for you! :D mine's still some time away... ;)
this is the last time this season F1 is on at its usual time (1200 GMT). so for all intents and purposes, this is just like the European rounds TV-wise...
it is just like europe. I demand a parade lap!
FP2 is from 21:30 to 23:00 over here. that is brutal :-)
I wish I was theeeeeeeeere. *thinks happy 2010 spa and monza thoughts*
we could actually make a good case for that. ;) not that Mrs C would agree to it. :D
brutal? we all did that last year! and we all managed fine. ;)
Aw poo. I'm not part of that! :P
what races if any are you doing next year? Sepang? Korea? China? Melbourne is lovely.... ;)
yes, but I totally forgot, somehow I thought that by 10pm I will be sipping beer in a bar. well, I will have it at the Turn 1 then :-)
I will do Melbourne for sure, can't not to go
I'm interested to see how different it will feel next year without the buzz of being the first race.
St. Kilda will still be there, right ?
Our family is trying to do different circuits before we repeat any of them. Korea was our first choice, but it's now unlikely (it's in October, our summer is March-May). We're now looking at China for 2010 (assuming we don't go to the US for a family thingy) and Melbourne for 2011.
but of course. I plan to spend much more time down there next year driver spotting, since I won't have a brother to entertain.
Qik special with Amy and Wolf? :D
and it's your brother that got you into f1 in the first place? odd. :P
I do not want to go back to that horrible Shanghai place. tried it 3-4 times, always hoping the things will get better the next year. never happened...
heheheh that was the 90s man! We can blame my ex boyfriend for most of it, he watered the seeds that were dead in the ground. Would it be wrong of me to taunt him when I am back in NZ that he has never been to a race and I have lined up 4, 5 and 6?
Thank goodness we're just going once. :D Not sure if my mom and sis will watch, but definitely me and my dad will. :) if we push through, i'll ask you for tips. ;)
time for the swimming pool. will see if can get this thing working on my phone, if yes, I may be back during FP
the tip - choose different GP :-)
:D HAHAHA! Well, if you still talk, I see nothing wrong with it. If you don't, though... perhaps it's better you not bring it up. ;)
china's the cheapest, that's why it's top of the list. if that weren't a factor, melbourne would easily be tops. but alas, we're not stinky-rich. :)
I think our mutual friends give him heaps about it anyway :D
watch out then, Shanghai can be very expensive
:D Ouch - that's gotta hurt. :P
Hopefully not - the top 2 airlines from here to shanghai have cheap flights (one is a sister company of my mom's work; the other is a sister company of my dad's work). the hotel is owned by my mom's company. that should cancel out most of the costs. :)
right, cooking time!
Hope Pat W got home okay last night...
Morning everyone!
on qik?
hola! I was impressed with your pie platters.
If Amy says she wants to know about mini pies in Britain, then we will live stream mini pies in Britain.
not on qik but here is a picture! We will have to make sure Mr C never sees it, the unfamiliar location, and the things in that location might confuse him.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/25092009
He did watch my live streamed cooking thing...
ooh! thats it!
When I got home I found a 'you have missed the courier' card but I'm not expecting any packages. It must be my pasta!
Morning.
Is today a Thursday? Becuase it's Effin' Rubbish!
I didn't send you any ;) morning all. where did you order pasta from? you're in melbourne - they have great pasta.
I asked Giggles to send me some the other day :D
what's so special about his pasta?
2 hrs and 34 minutes until free practice 1 - and when somebody no doubt will schedule a meeting.
I was hungry, it was the middle of the night, he was having pasta. Made sense at the time ;)
how many of your stories start with "it was the middle of the night..." ?
morning Gavin - what's so wrong about today?
:)
if anyone is a fan of The Editors, there is a remix of the new single freely available on the NME site. Album comes out 13th October. I'm a fan.
and now I need to disappear for bit. ciao.
Everything. Train was 1 hour late (so twice as long), which also means that I miss breakfast on Danish Pastry day. Now the coffee machine is broken too.
Should have stayed in bed :(
Firstly, I'm sorry things are not working out so far. Danish Pastry Day? what special things happen on those days?
Be optimistic - your day should get better.
going AWOL now to venture across the river to the empire of the city...trying to make this sound more interesting that in it....
Mmmm Pastry... Sorry to hear that Gavin!
Thanks. We get Croissants, chocolate snails, Copenhagen bread, muffins, Spandau cakes and bread rolls.
I see ING and Mutua Madrilena have withdrawn sponsorship of Renault - did they see Lukah's mock up of the Renault logo with the CheatING?
Heh, you don't even have a proper Danish pastry..... :P
Such as...?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_pastry
Lukeh said he wasn't the one who did that, oddly enough. Lukeh did do a mockup of an ING-less Renault, though.
Morning all.
Ah, we have different names for stuff here. The 'glazed apple Danish' is a Spandauer, and the snail certainly is a Danish. I'm not sure about the copenhagen bread but it is a sweet pastry.
Short of Brunsviger, this is what myu wife's family also refer to as 'Danish'...
Morning :)
I want to go to Central Perk!
Morning, Christine. :)
Really? Or is that just for the lawyers? ;-)
Did we see Kubica's comments from yesterday?
I know!
Satire cannot be tried as defamtion, right?
Tell that to Ian Hislop.....
You know how Friends is awesome... well do you not think it is on TV too much these days? I am afraid of turning on the TV and thinking "Not again..."
That's just what I was going to say
Woot! New computer! Can now return to my sidepodaddiction!
It's weird still finding an episode I've somehow never ever seen
I don't have a TV.
Maybe that's why they pulled the sponsorship?
Genius. Problem solved. Because I think in Denmark it is on 3 TV channels!
Friends? ;)
Remember Ian doesn't get in trouble for the satire he gets in trouble for the parts which are either wrong or unproven in the serious news parts of private eye.
It's a distinct possibility.
Yes I have no idea about that either.
Has some one got a link to the CheatING Renault image?
In Italy, I think it's a yes.
http://i32.tinypic.com/22i49d.jpg
Spandau cakes? i can't read that without thinking of the ballet...
me toooo *adds it to London list*
Weirdly... They are releasing their first single for 20 years this morning.
It's only here for two weeks I think :(
oh booooo
I think Gavin's comments were a subversive attempt to promote it. And they're even touring too, Ireland, that other island nearby, and even Milano.... Website
Just remembered I forgot to order my online shopping. I may have to go to the actual supermarket. Boo.
they still have those?
Still only up to 76:
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/100+Reasons+to+Watch+Formula+1
Come on!
number 76 is a good good good good good reason, if I do say so myself.
The last Twitpic from Pat looks suspiciously like it was from a train, which is good.
Don't blame it on today though, my guess is that this was probably Thursday's fault.
It was. Supposed to do it last night.
Sadly not... That's Waterloo Bridge he's standing on I think...
Oh. It looks like motion. Fair enough. We continue to wait then.
om nom nom cooking is finished
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/25092009-001
It's just that where Pat would be taking the train from he's already be south of the river.
There is a man cleaning the window right in front of me... I don't think he can see me because of my Bassano Blinds TM :)
I believe you. You'd know more than me, I can't even recognise places where I actually live.
Well I keep getting lost when I go for a run around my area - and I have lived there for two years!
you sound like cookie monster. :D
I am pleased to be having a full meal with veges and stuff!
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/25092009-002
chicken schnitzel, spinach and cauliflower cheese. mmm food.
First Look: ING-less Renault
It doesn't look all that different, to be honest...
Cheers to their sticker guy though - looks like all the ex-sponsor stickers are gone already...
Lukeh Woz Right!
D'oh!
Sorry Journeyer!
Tis alright. Did Lukeh say that Renault logos would replace the ING logos?
They've not left all the empty space empty - a few extra Renault stickers around the place
They've took Renault off the side of the nose - don't even Renault want to be associated with it?
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/photo-259
It's not on the side of the nose anymore. It's just on the top of the nose, the engine cover, the sidepods, the rear wing, and probably the front wing too, is all. ;)
Those are some good blinds.
Would it be good/bad/neither here nor there for F1 if Renault won in Singapore this weekend?
I'm thinking bad because it means the story will stick around for even longer. I hope for F1's sake they turn up midway in those uninteresting positions in the middle.
It would be good, I think, to show that they can legitimately take a win.
Just thought, they also have to remove the ING from www.ing-renaultf1.com
Laughing at the end of Renault's last press release on Wednesday:
The sponsors seem to have other ideas.
Morning guys
As long as no safety car was involved.
I think it would be bad, because Rubens doesn't drive for them.
They don't actually have the speed to win, though, do they? So it would be an 'unusual' race if they did, and I think that would be bad.
With me unable to access the site, they may be doing that right now.
Of course.
True. I suppose on that basis it would be better if it wasn't Alonso at the wheel of the winning car.
I think that's just you
They might discover that the problem was the ING stickers all along :-P
:D
If it rains, it might help Renault out. A wet race doesn't diminish the value of a potential Renault win.
ING are all over that website like a rash...
I asked Le BOL if he was going to change his name now there is no Lion or ING in the team and he said 'no', BTW...
You're able to access it? Rats. :(
Mr C's BFF FTW? ;)
:D
That bloke is crackers - it wasn't actually him that replied - it was his dog apparently!
In this instance, I disagree. People always judge a wet race differently to a dry one and for Renault, they need to keep under the radar - even when winning.
site fine for me too but the photo I have of Bell with his fingers in his ears is not the company image I'd be using this week. "i don't want to know!"
totally agree.
Are you suggesting they may fix the race so they can't win? Surely that would lead to more problems! :D
speaking of rain, my slippers have been involved in a tragic 'checking the mail in the rain' accident.
Don't you think people may noticed the empty top step on the podium :-D
:D
how sweet for Nelson if they win, and keep winning now that flavio is gone. Then he (PK) can say that Flab was holding them back. Of course, the correct response will be to point out that PK isn't there either...
floated away?
That would almost be a respectful thing to do, but Bernie would have none of it.
I think Bernie would even stick on a driversuit and jump up there instead. But he might be the same height as the trophy and then there could be an awkward moment where the prime minister of the country tries to pick him up and give him to one of the drivers.
I thought I'd be OK because they have a proper sole but once I got more than about 4m from my front door the water was a lot deeper than it looked and all the fur got soaked. Will take a while for them to dry too :(
Wouldn't that just net them a penalty for not following podium protocol?
Renault can't really help it. If they do anything very good (or very bad), they get noticed. If the race gets boring, they'll be the topic of conversation. Not good for them either way.
You need that megablastic hairdryer.
:D
Blowdry? It'll be fine. :)
Hopefully it will deter people from cheating then.
I don't own one :D I sat them on the heater but the soles started to melt heh.
I think this is exactly the reason that MM and ING pulled out, isn't it?
It is, but like Mr C said before, they should have pulled out the minute they admitted everything.
In reality, either that or they become more careful they don't get caught.
I'm cynical and would guess the latter.
I agree - the contracts were broken at that exact moment...
Perhaps there's a reason it had to wait until yesterday? Maybe legal discussions and all that?
The public reaction seems to have done more damage than the FIA, at least.
It wasn't hard for ING - only four races ahead of what they were going to do anyway. hey - when did they announce they were pulling out - was it about the same time as Singapore 2008?
Who knows? Those contracts must be very tricky things.
I'll answer my own question. late Jan 2009 was when they announced. I wonder if they knew though....
http://twitter.com/PatWotton/status/4364032567
Phew he made it :P
hooray!
phew! Glad you made it Pat!
Good to see that. :)
Absolutely!
Morning all.
Last night's Guinness was nice and the company was excellent.
And now I'm back to work.
Cheerio.
Not yet, but only Monday (or tuesday, i forget), we had a fire alarm at 4.15, 4.20 and then 4.25. booo {Comment #28}
Is it me or does someone at your uni like their food "well-done"?
thank the lord!
And Legard is going to mention Piquet's crash everytime they go past turn 17 anyway, remember
I'd been trying to forget the Guiness! ;)
You can be sure they already do the latter. This was amateur time from the moment they sacked Piquet.
he'll probably mention it on turn 14 instead because I'm still not convinced he follows the sport.
ROFL.
Didn't we suggest last night they should paint a bullseye/target on that corner?
he was the blue lion before ing came along.
i forget what the lion bit represents, but we first met him when renault were blue and yellow.
I had been quite worried there. I travelled off a different way (in a taxi) from the rest and Nick, Pat and Bassano all looked thick as thieves when I left them.
Sounds like Peugeot not Renault
they at least have the http://www.renaultf1.com/ domain.
He has changed his name about sixteen times though.
he added "and orange" for ing i guess :)
Before that it was NONSENSE in capital letters, and before that it was something else. I forget.
no one watches f1 there except the admin lady?! {Comment #161}
That's not so strange. The only two people who watch(ed) it where I work are me and my supervisor's boss (who left on Friday - I gave her a Brawn lanyard as a leaving present). Both of us are in the admin section of the organisation...
wombat.
ok, i gives up :)
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/100+Reasons+to+Watch+Formula+1
Just twelve to go.
You need to push hard NOW.
heheheheheh!!
Giancarlo, keep poosheeng!
I have literally about 10 meetings to attend each year - what idiot schedules them to during free practice?
Home home. Happy times!
what idiot schedules free practice in the middle of the working day?
That would be Bernie, not sure he's in charge of my personal schedule though
thats my question about japan. I might *gasp* have to miss it.
Did we see Kubica’s comments from yesterday?
“Yeah, normally if you go the police and you say you killed someone but you know someone else who killed three people, you will still go to jail,” Kubica told reporters in Singapore. {Comment #256}
This is very true. While some countries have the concept of plea-bargaining, getting out of major punishment that way hasn't worked in Europe since the days of the Revolution...
6pm Free Practice would be wicked.
The trick is to move to Australia where its always at 6. Apart from tonight when its at 8. And the next 3 races where its all over the place.
I have a cunning plan to trade Mrs Maverick's lie-in this weekend for mine next weekend. Just don't tell her the reason.
That is quite a long way to go. I don't know if I like F1 that much.
I'm sure there are recent examples - if they don't go to court then there is nothing for the press to cover.
Of course you can make a plea bargain. One of my friends smashed into a parked car while a sliver under the drink drive limit. She could have gone to court to defend herself and risked jail, severe fines etc but instead she admitted she was responsible and had to attend a driver improvement course.
We're up to 96 on the "100 reasons to watch F1" list!
well wikid :)
Christine, you might like this link ;)
Head surprisingly fairly good today. How good were those SidepodPub Pies last night!
Was sorry to read Pat's tweets this morning after missing his train :(
On repeat, it seems
yes :)
I'm there, but but only until lunch is served. Ham and sausage pasta parcels in soup...
It would only make sense to flav to say something as dramatic as "I've been betrayed by my own world" and then follow it up with "I'm not giving any quotes"
http://bit.ly/zHQ1d
Was there a Force India podcast from Monza?
Apparently not? Alia?
has phillips been completely silenced?
If so, then I am very sad. I love the banter between Phillips and Hamilton :(
Kinda sounds like it
Yes, there is a Monza ForceCast. I haven't transferred it to my PDA yet and therefore don't know if Ian said anything in it.
Mmmm I've made pasta. I'm very impressed with myself :D
Well done :)
Anti-climax or what? :D
Funny because it never appeared in my iTunes feed...
The Italian lessons are really working well
Maybe Ian was the only one who knew how to get iTunes to talk to the RSS feed ;)
On the subject of bookcases being useful / pointless we were talking about here the other week the BBC have finally caught up:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8264572.stm
Pah. I'll show you one day Steven Roy.
Nor mine - I think something went wrong with the RSS feed. I enjoy Phillips - you know they guy still loves the sport and that is refreshing and he gives credit to other teams. For sure he sometimes goes on a bit!
:D
I don't mean I boiled it in a pot you know.... I'm talking about proper making and rolling and cutting. I made tortellini and filled it with spicy pepper sauce stuff :)
yum :)
No pictures? Mr C would be very impressed.
Wow. Well done - that is very difficult to do you know!
Yeah, this is the first time it's actually worked. Normally I end up with pasta stew.....
I shall try and find a cable to get my picture up properly. I tried photographing it with the computer and you can't see what it is.
District 9 booked for Monday, continuiing my run of IMAX only cinema visits to 4. Don't know how I'll bear such a small screen again ;)
Thanks Alia, it never madde it to iTunes I guess
That film intrigues me. Let me know if it is worth seeing please!
Is there anyone in the media who doesn't read SPC?
Technology is apparently not completely perfect in communication yet. Sounds a bit like people...
Soounds delish!
You should have a good ready audience for #mediafuturechange, then :D
Hmmm I got pretty bored. My friend I went to see it with thought it was ground breaking though. He was raving about it. I wasn't so moved....
Will do
Just came across these pics from last years Sinagpore GP http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/the_singapore_grand_prix.html
Boston Globe's Big Pics are great
It's always in my feed reader ;)
I think that's how we first found them, wasn't it? I remember Alex showing us them at the time.
Christine:
Do you guys have the ability to lock a thread?
As an incredibly last resort, yes.
Blimey I had no idea that's what those kerbs were made of.....
Looks like sheets of marzipan
I was searching here http://weheartit.com/ one of my favourite sites and it was one of three results for formula one :)
Hitting those certainly makes one appreciate the strength of an F1 car's suspension.
You may have to.
Guys, she did ask nicely...
can i just add, that i think gavin's being a bit hard done by here. wikipedia says he's has a valid point.
i don't wish to continue the argument, but i think both nick and rich's words were a bit strong and just wanted to make sure it was noted.
as you were.
AFAIK weren't these your inspiration for F1 Big Picture? ;)
Nope. We've had a lot worse than this. Generally speaking, if someone isn't going to listen to me, then they're going to get moderated before we close the thread.
Either way, Alia has drawn a line under it and we have a whole new FP session to get to grips with.
Fingers crossed live timing works from the off this time.
Marzipan kerbs. My imagination likes the sound of those... :)
Absolutely. It's an homage to an amazing idea.
Not much of a deterrent though - hit these and you get soft and squishy?
Apologies - I am sensitive on the entire whistle-blower issue - it can be used to regulate industries but more often ends up persecuting the individuals it seeks to protect.
And spin on the squishy bits if you do it again...
Wa-hey there you go - 21st century gravel traps!
You mean like proper cooking with flour and chocolate and Red Bull?
I think I did as it goes.
Does anyone else think that Grosjean is struggling? I am also thinking Tim is struggling, they each appear to have taken a different strategies - Grosjean wrestling the car and crashing a lot and Tim simply not wanting to make any mistakes. I really wish they would allow in season testing (at least for reserve and new drivers). Having drivers without recent experience makes me a little nervous.
Hello again Daily
Time for some yummy, fresh coffee
Replays on the red button show the dust being kicked up during Grosjean's spin earlier.
I suddenly feel compelled to blog something.
level 20 is much easier than 19. That makes no sense... What has happened to me?
I've been distracted from blogging now :D
Whoever dreamt up level 49 is sick in the head. I will never get through that
What on earth are you on about?
You haven't read Christine' blog either. I am shocked. It looks like I am the only person who does.
http://www.ninjakiwi.com/Games/Puzzle/Play/Meeblings.html
Presumably that Meebles game that Christine is addicted to.
Nah, I've read it, I'e played it, I just didn't know what on earth you were doing.
I read it too... I left comments also... honest!
Hello. I'm quite tired. :-)
Hello! He's alive!
we are just glad you are alive!
Heheh.
Sorry if I was bellyaching a bit too much in the comments/twitter last night.
We were a bit worried as to why you missed the 1pm train!
*1am
You finished the game?
No way we were worried you werent commenting enough!
So long as you are safe!
On something like level 40
My own stupidity! I went for a walk.
On balance it might have been the best thing because I don't know if I would have been okay to drive when I got off at the other end.
I am on 49 and it is impossible. Absolutely definitely impossible
My phone battery was dying so I had to switch the thing off, which was a bit annoying.
I'm stuck on 18 :(
Giancarlo Minardi has apparently released some sort of statement claiming the ban on briatorie was too harsh
I wandered London for a while. Interesting seeing a mix of drunken people, and people working on things you wouldn't expect them to be working on. I saw a man varnishing a restaurant chair in Covent Garden at 1.30am.
I got the 5.30am train and the rocking made me ill at first so I'd hate to think what the earlier one would have done.
Looking at the Grosjean crash at PK corner - you can't make this stuff up if you tried!
Just did 49. Insane
Well glad you got home safe and sound!
Woohoooo, my DIY is done. Made a stack oh shelves for all my DVDs, cds and games piling ip and now everything is tidy yay!
Also, new Wii footage of the F1 game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS6zjl8YFWU
At least that show the difference between a natural crash there and a manufactured one. He gout out of the throttle and hit the outside all and didn't get the same degree of rotation.
Ta! Was good to meet everyone.
True.
I finished meeblings
YAY
Gwen Stefani's baby could almost pass for Finnish
Hmmm do any of you have any experience with qualifications from the Open College? (not to be confused with the Open University....)
Bad news is Meeblings 2. Is there no end to her torture?
http://www.ninjakiwi.com/Games/Puzzle/Play/Meeblings-2.html
I'm dead
http://www.f1-live.com/f1/photos/2009/gpsingapore/diapo_660.jpg
Hmmm do any of you have any experience with qualifications from the Open College? (not to be confused with the Open University….) {Comment #484}
Unfortuantely I've never heard of it.
Hehehehe
why is Heikki wearing a Lewis hat :D
odd!
first it was last years model, now its his team mates....they really didn't make enough for him :D
:( That's not a link :(
I looked them up on Google before and their website looks distinctly dodgy. They provide the qualification that I get at the end of my Italian course. It's not that important to me as I'm going to improve not to be qualified (ironically, I am qualified but my standard of speaking is very poor) I was just really curious as I hadn't heard of them.
I've seen Alonso wear a Trulli hat in their Renault days. Probably had no Heikki caps on hand... ;)
No Kimi, though. ;)
Mika with a beard? It doesn't suit him...
He's clearly a fan!
Netx year, watch as Whitmarsh unveils Lewki Hamileinan to partner Lewis.
In all my years of trying, I have never found a photo of the three of them together. It might cause my heart to stop if it ever happens.
hehe you should make that your username!
:)
I wondered what you meant then till I said it out loud...!!.
Reet, time for training, loves yas and leave yas for a bit.
And I'll go to bed now too.
This weekend will be faaaantastic.
Night, all. ;)
With wordpress can I edit the properties of a table?
See ya guys
I have heard of hem and they are legit but I don't know anything about them
I think the McLaren team hats have Lewis on one side and Heikki on the other
It's OK, once you get to Monza your speaking will improve rapidly.
I thought you dropioed one?
they do only have one name on them but they are on opposite sides of the brim.
Steven's already told me I have to go.
I have dropped many of Kimi/Mika and Heikki/Mika and Kimi/Heikki but that is all :(
hooray! I need someone to come, do you know how expensive single rooms are? ;)
I said you should go work in Italy not go stalking Finns with Amy
I am sure there was one called triple Finn. I bet Mr C can find the commet when Christine gives him time off for good behaviour. That could take a whil though
I think the third Finn in that one was Hugo Hakkinen
He must only be half a Finn like Nico. Except one day he will be a full Finn
I'll do you a deal. If I get a sensible payrise, I'll come with you.
I love DC's face in this pic
[EJ warning, beware]
I should also point out that the chances of this happening are errrrm slim?
heheh thats OK :D
:lol:
MacLaren are already drafting the papers
I am up for going,i wanted to go to monza this year. Cant commit just yet though ;)
Blog Post Plug: Where to Qualify? :)
I'll do Monza only if Spa falls through
Am tentatively thinking about grabbing Spa tickets anyway. This noise thing really bothers me but it'll go ahead anyway, I'm sure of it
And if it's cancelled they'd have to give us a refund.
Damn you recession....
True, by then the exchange rate would've have gone in the wrong direction though :(
Amy, are you still opting for Gold 4 (Uncovered stand at Eau Rouge)?
yep, if thats where everyone else who is buying now is going :D
If you guys are booking, I'll book. Jack said he'd come and he's sent me money over.
I think Mr C & Christine, as well as Alex wasnt the covered stand for their electronics
I am happy to be al fresco
we're not buying now, no.
Will let you know before I do and you can choose the same block if you want
You're booking now? Madness! At this rate i dont know if i will be coming!
Pah, covered shmovered
I realise that
Not sure about Alex though
Soon, very soon
I think we forgot to discuss it properly last night..
looks like Pat and Jackie wanted that uncovered one as well.
Yeah, we really did
Booze FAIL :D
I want that one too... i dont really want to go if i end up having to get tickets to some random corner miles away from everyone
If you're camping, do you need to tell them when you book?
There's a camping option, so yes
No, the booze was fine, we checked it thoroughly :-)
Hmmm I may need to have further conversations with the boy then. He's keen to camp.
pat's back!
we were up all night pacing, you had us worried sick...
Not in an Adrien Sutil way, obviously ;)
You can't stick him in a tent if you are in a hotel with Amy
I don't think he wants to share with Amy. Else I hope not!
heheh
Sorry... would have updated you more but the battery ran low.
If I'd taken the earlier train I would have been very ill on it (as it was I was only slightly ill on the other one), and would have had to wait in Dorchester until I could drive... so I was doing a lot of pacing around London instead. Turns out it was a lot colder at this end too.
tis okay really. glad you're back :)
I blame the shots. I don't do well on shots :-)
Guess the second one wasn't such a good idea then
Ah you got to 100 reasons!
L.O. :)
Shame there's no radio this weekend
I can't quite tell you how excited I am about the chance for a lie in this weekend.
I can understand .. says she who went to bed at 8.30pm last night as she was so knackered
It was great though, or at least it was for us listening in. It must have taken a toll on the two of you though
It was exhausting and wonderful and I wouldn't change a thing.
i'd like a server that didn't crash so often. but aside from that. i concur.
I reckon I was more excited about the build-up to sidpodradio than I am to the racing this weekend
How's your Spanish? .. our one's not too bad, but then again, we don't have the traffic demands you do
I'll put up the poll soon for the charity as well.
I had no idea it would be as fantastic as it turned out
Mr C is right, the amount of talent here is amazing
We have 10 hours of Franck tomorrow. Sidepodradio was the warm up act
What time does that start?
Sorry Christine but I'm not at all into Franck
How do you expect to be Christine's favourite if you say something like that?
Makes no odds to me.
Is it just me or is doohicky and lclt not working on iPhone anymore?
Full details at http://www.americanlemans.com/index_racehub.php
I am supporting McNish
Doohickey was fine earlier, one sec
But UK time?
Really? ;)
Mobile test for doohickey, please ignore
Honesty is the best policy don't you think. I don't dislike him, I just haven't got the vibe that's all. Besides, it's good we all like different things
Just you I think
Reset time
Maybe it's the series .. cause I'm not supporting McNish either
You are going to trust me with time conversions?? Radio Le Mans have their show schedule which is in OK times
http://www.radiolemans.com/
I was only really commenting to put a quote from a certain show in the commnts, "I know, it's all part of the them not liking you extraviganza". :)
Maybe. Some people only get certain types of racing. Some other types just don't do anything for them.
4.15pm
That is to say, 15min after F1 qual finishes..
Sounds good - finish at 2am. Find a stream and I can do that...
Perhaps we should do what we did with the IRL and all choose/be randomly assigned drivers?
I have tried turning it off and turning it back on again.
Worked great!
Should not be a problem but with RLM you don't really need a picture.
Last night's mimi pies
Yum!
mmmm
want more
evening everyone.
:( That’s not a link :( {Cmment #492}
It wasn't intended to be. I missed a close tag somewhere (it has since been fixed). Sorry :(
Note to all, the pies were mini, not called mimi
Gravy shots!
HI Adie
I'm popping out for a bit, chat later folks
[Eek, outside!]
MMMM They look good.
Hey.. I may not be here too much, i am working on the worlds longest blog post...
So much for Manor signing PK... i knew it was too good to be true.
However that is a pretty bold quote from that guy which could be used agaisnt him later on. Perhaps he could have made his point more tactfully?
he didn't say he wouldn't have piquet. just nobody that cheats.
in fact that is an awful autosport article. both the title and this line:
"but said that Piquet could never be associated with the brand."
tai does not say that at all? he could've been referring to symonds for example.
If it was me, I would have gone with the headline: Someone in F1 with actual morals!!!
"I don't believe it is professional to in any way talk about our plans while we are sponsoring another team this year..."
What i meant is though if say the team had an infringment like we have seen this season like the moveable wings, unseccured wheelnuts, or something like the double diffuser if it was ruled illegal.
Would he not (theoretically) be required to sack those responsible?
Helps though! I wanna do another Sebring...
hehe. agreed.
He can't really say anything else though, can he? Would you rather he said, welcome in all cheaters and ruffians?
ooooh. i see.
well he's not the boss, so i guess he can't?
"...have you got pat's number?"
I do really think I should get bonus points for using ruffian in a sentence. It's an awesome word.
Seconded
Although can anyone up the ante with ragamuffin?
Ooooh.
How about Periwinkle?
But the article speculates he is about to become team boss...
It is, my dad uses it occasionaly, i should pick it up.
Its very hard to use without seeming patronising though... ;)
Oh. Sorry.
I have just realised this new format for my blog is insane.
Its bacicly as long as one of your debrief's in written form...
good point. in that case, yes :)
Aww, don't worry. That ragamuffin Nick has clearly been affected by the thought of a periwinkle.
Bloomin eck, shorts sleaves was a bad idea. Hey again.
nincompoop?
hehe, not here... but if i tried to drop it in casual conversation :D
I think Its fine when you are writting though, its one of those strange words which change
Is that because it's too cold "oop North?"
Bless you.
I like that one!
:)
Nah, this is hot for us. Its about 10 degrees. Or something
They have an albino hedgehog on the one show! Its amazing!
The PF chat filter changes certain words to 'nincompoop'. :-)
Wow, that's even colder than Denmark!
I lie, its 14.
rubens has a new car:
http://www.racecar-engineering.com/news/cars/398637/brawn-introduces-new-chassis-at-singapore.html
doesn't say why though?
That was a plug worthy of Alex. He is talking about next year's team but gets in this year's and the fact they are winning
Must be fatigue? Is it related to the fire in Belgium?
Is there yet another scandal brewing?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8274036.stm
I like the fact everytime I see photos of Rubens' car at Singapore I see the dude at Goodwood who was chatting to us. :D
there's only 3 and a bit weekends left. how can they possibly fit one in?
have commented and asked.
It's nearly 17 degrees here, but then there is some debate as to where I live constitutes "oop North". Steven would probably say I don't...
"Sorry, we're all fully booked for scandals. We're looking good for booking at about Spain onwards in 2010 though if you want to come back then?"
I'm hoping they don't. Seriously beginning to bore the absolute life out of me now. Glad I follow other racing series!
You dont - that's why it's called the Midlands!
"oop North" is above Middlesborough.
wow.. that's done well! :)
evening all :)
Always get that ending conufused with Scarborough.
I always thought it was above Yorkshire?
there’s only 3 and a bit weekends left. how can they possibly fit one in? {Comment #636}
This is F1 - the only place where they can fit a quart into a pint pot...
Not in my eyes.
You are in the deep south
You are in the deep south {Comment #648}
:D
I am watching highlights of Dallas 1984 - it is amazing how similar the circuit is to Valencia!
Petit Le Mans quali is on.
http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/alms-live-streaming-qualifying-friday-220-pm-et/
20 mins for GT and 20 mins for LMP
Good evening one and all :)
I'm still laughing at Grosjean's spin today. Just... of all the corners. :)
I hate my blog... 1000 words and i am 30% done.
I have done too much to stop now though!
part I II and III?
Don't hate it. But if it feels too long, split it into separate parts.
Good things always come in 3 parts
;)
I like long article if they have a purpose and structure so go for it. Give us a link when you have completed it.
Top 3 in GT2 qualifying currently seperated by just over half a tenth!
GT2 is awesome!
BMW, Porsche, Ferrari, Corvette, Panoz and a Ford GT. What's not to love about it?!
Evening Scott.
!
I had video then lost it
ok, i guess i have enough for part 1 :)
Hey Pat. Did you get home OK?
Haha, I started watching that and as soon as he crashed my RLM stream booted up and just said 'Quite unbelievable'. Scary.
OMG that BMW sounds like heaven!
I feel sorry for him - it had to be the same corner! You did see Bob Bell's interview on the incident - I commented earlier.
Yep thanks!
That's good to hear. :)
Doran Ford GT is coming on track :D
Look out everybody!
Spotters Guide for Petit Le Mans by Andy Blackmore:
http://www.spotterguides.com/images/stories/guides/alms_09_plm_v2.jpg
Each class gets a seperate qualifying session? That's convenient. :)
I like the 'Vette and the Ford :-)
All these streams... barely getting any work done today!
Man, that's a huge fire on that Corvette!
That Vette at Le Mans is so loud and brutal you could hear it's distinctive sound from the campsite!
FORD GT ON POLE!!!! :D
Split between GT and Prototype, so LMP1 and LMP2 in a mo. No GT1 of course.. which is odd because if I had a GT1 I'd just turn up for the automatic qualifying place for Le Mans..
Hehehe. Where's my DBR9? ;) :P
ALMS Live timing
http://scoring.americanlemans.com/index_live2.php
holy cow, they just showed Scott Sharp's crash from yesterday
My video is stuttering, audio is fine..
Mine too
This'll be fun. Audi vs Peugeot for pole.
They flew a new tub from California overnight and have spent the day building it up!
Come on the Pugs! :D
Come on Bell/Cocker/Drayson!
Did you say come on the plugs?
Ah, part1 of my leviathon is ready
An endurance race is tough enough, but having to basically put the car together the day before, that certainly isn't going to help :)
eek! the brawn just gets nicer and nicer :) looks like they've changed the bodywork a little over the exhausts...either that or the lighting makes it look different
Ahaha. Well done sir.
GO FRANCK!!! :D
Franck's first flying lap is a cracker
Franck is quick
Damn it Minassian!
I love how the comments have gone silent while we watch this :D
I'm amazed only 5 minutes have gone
Oh wow, listen to that Acura onboard! :D
Ooooh new MFC :D
i feel i'm missing something...
ALMS quali
I have another 2500 words to write!
Not to mention i need dinner and havent got a crumb
ah-ha. sir franck. is he winning?
Other Peugeot
Franck
McNish
Other Audi
Acura
Just behind the other Pug in 2nd.
hehe. ta.
Is that the Tequila Patron Acura out on track?!
#MFC
A Facebook movie?
Yeesh... and I thought a movie about The Sims was bad...
No, they are still building the new one. This is the De Ferran car.
My mistake, the Drayson Lola.
Nooo, fuel pump problem, noooo.
It won't be built until tomorrow morning
red flag for the slow Drayson car is a strange decision..
Nice feature in the ALMS live timing. If you point your mouse at the car's race number a picture of the car pops up.
Did you hear that Bernie?
If he didn't hear us raving about the IRL video streaming coverage he is not going to hear that.
While Bernie is pulling down streams and youtube videos ALMS last season were asking peoplle to post their videos on the ALMS site.
I won't bother asking him for Grosjean's telemetry from his crash then.
spider alert - he's trying to sneak past and hope I don't notice
There's the Jag on the alms stream now... SORTA looks like the DBR9 :)
You need to watch the IRL coverage on their site sometime. The amount of info is incredible. 5 video feeds, 4 on boards, data from any car on the grid and you can see up to 7 I think at a time. You can even see steering wheel position when the car is parked.
Hang-on, there's another one doing the exact same thing now.
We've got a spider convoy!
i am so pleased i'm not you right now ;)
I hear the scissor sound, and that can only mean one thing!!!
Internets back :)
How are we all?
Dropioed a screen shot of top quali times
Hi!
i'm good thanks, how are you?
For Sidepodradio 2. Maybe I should carry on the Who theme and sing 'Lou and the Spider'
I just did a 1'08.415 round Road Atlanta in a Toyota GT-One on Forza 2 :D
Pretty good actually, had a really rubbish day and a bit, but my brother and dad were passing so we had a fun avo/evening together, and i've got back to discover we have a new flatmate! She seems quite nice, she's chinese and has a name that no-one can say, so told me to call her stephanie!
What happened in FP1/2? Are they worth a watch?
haha :D
Irony as the year as Renault number 2 crashes at turn 17.
Worth it just for grosjean
oh and the meeblings theme is playing, its an awesome tune!
Oh and hi. I keep forgetting to say hi to people.
Don't call her Tim
yeah was around briefly earlier when it happened! i love the irony
erm.. i haven't watched them tbh.. however i do know that Grosjean crashed in an unfortunate place today :D lol, oh and that the canon sponsorship on the brawn looks amazing :)
#sidepodspace
Looks like it is the week for finding water in space. This time Mars. I have never understood why people think it exists on Earth and nowhere else.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/news/mro-20090924r.html
Failtemple!!!
Yeyyy :)
Yay .. grr mediatemple
there's a picture on the homepage, and i swear the wording could do with some tweaking:
http://mediatemple.net/
I say Jackie fixed it. :)
loved your tweet though.
:)
If only we knew someone good at that kind of thing!
They were lucky I was polite
Ohhohohh hohoh hohoh hhoohohoh.
Ohoh.
Be right back.
Cool. Did they find mediatemple while they were at it?
"...the freshly exposed ice vaporized into the thin Martian atmosphere."
tut, tut nasa. it sublimated not vaporized.
nick wasn't :D
Ooh I never saw him tweet
LOL .. funny but true
I was thinking to replying to the 'Our engineers are on it' with 'Your engineers must get a lot of money then'.
Then I thought about being nice.
http://twitter.com/Twiger/status/4377183337
You having more server problems?
yeah. at some point we'll be moving away, but part of me wants to stick around and see just how bad it gets.
harsh but fair :D
Nick's tweet was brilliant
wierdo :P
Built to Fail?
I just thought i would give them some advice.
Cant't hurt, maybe they will reconsider everything and shut down the company. Unlikely, but it would be nice.
Set up mediatemplewatch?
It's NASA. They don't understand basic science
naughty step beckons?
it was worth it ;)
It's not rocket science - and that's the problem?
We could make one of those sites: ismediatemplefailing.com.
It would just be a permanent YES though.
If there is water does that mean there is tuna?
It could say 'If you can see this, its a miracle!'
Hehehe.
Hahahahaha
You could do one of those Andy Murray o meter things. A MT %age fail
Bound to be.
So... when we colonise Mars, we'll be allowed to bring pandas, right?
We would need to plant a lot of bamboo first and find some way to feed them n the journey.
A1GP is saved!
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78881
Can we cryogenically freeze them along with Bruce?
Whos Bruce?
Fail.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/failfailfailfailfail-jpg
Savoiour of the universe. Or Bruce Willis. I believe he uses both.
We are taking Bruce? I suppose we should just in case. Nothing wrong with having a few pandas in the fridge
:D:D:D:D:D
Ooops. Bigger resolution.
We don't have to bring him, but I was just thinking if freezing is good enough for Bruce, then it's good enough for a cuddly panda or two.
excellent
Bruce Willis. He is going to save the planet so it would be a bad move going to another planet and leaving behind the one person who can save us
Hehe, tweet it to them!
"up for 14 minutes" :)
Eeeehehehe, I heart the EXACTLY!
(ft)
i ♥ lukeh
Support not available :D
He can save earth though, that doesnt qualify him to save mars. We need to find the Bruce Willis equivalent to save mars
Did you add the fire or did they burn themselves?
It really depends where the meteor thingy is going to crash first. That's where he needs to be.
It was there before. I assumed they literally try and host through fire.
I think they were handing ideas to you on a plate.
It's the server going into meltdown
If anyone wants to see Scott Sharps massive accident
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I361oZvBqYE
fos some reason mediatemplefail.com is still available, i cant believe they didnt register it, especially with their performance!
What about mediatempleofdoom.com?
Well they can't host it properly anyway can they?
The comedy's on fire in here tonight!
Does their own website keep going down?
Remember the asteroid field between Mars and Jupiter? I have never seen figures but I would bet Mars gets hit more than Earth
for a time it did yup!
Its there!
Geese that's scary, is the guy okay?
:D :D
Amazingly, he walked away and is fine.
Can you find out if they host their own site or do they out source :D
Walked out of it straight away apparantly.
Less atmosphere to burn them up - more reach the surface
haha.
He walked away from it. The team had a new chassis flown in and are building a car from the tub out.
Heheh. That one's not mine. Someone said it here before, I forget who, but I can't take credit for it :)
Christ, that's a huge one.
We're definitely having Bruce then. Earth can have someone else.
gonna put money on nick or bassano?
They source it themselves thanks to an episode of blue peter where they host a website using a washing up liquid bottle, string, an empty cereal box and blu tac
That's what I was thinking. We need Bruce there.
It definitely can't be me because I don't know films and that.
On the other hand - Mars is a smaller target when considering a big strike
I think it was me, but i dont want to be big headed ! ! !
Having a beheading on BBC2 - looks like mediatemple designed the executioner
evening all. Watching FP1 on the tv (recorded). How're we doing tonight?
Hey Chris. We're all demolishing any fabric of morale remaining in Media Temple HQ. :)
heeeeh!
cool!
Media Temple - The New GMM
you can record red button coverage?
See, we can shoot down GMM stories very quickly but as quick as MediaTemple shoots itself down?
Just save time and have GMMT
(strange, I want a gin and tonic now)
got a freeview recorder box. Freeview red button is a channel, allowing me to record it
ahh.. sky + fail :(
You can just record it on AV out too
unfortunatly, yes. Shame really!
That's how to do sky + probably
There is a way to do it, but its a bit time consuming and way easier to get a freview usb stick
ah... well.. practise doesn't mean that much to me to be bothered to try that ;)
Bother! Just got my attempt at muffins out of the oven. I accidently added too much baking powder and soda, meaning they've burnt on the outside and are still liquid inside! I'll have to buy more red bull tomorrow...
How many races is Nicfeld up to without a dnf?
nooo :(
You are making MrC look good!
Well it proves you're a better cook then me! (although you cheated getting Christine to do the weights for you! ;))
41 as of monza
Nonsense. Mr C wouldn't know if they weren't cooked properly, or the reason why!
I hear DNF means Did Not Finish, yknow.
cheers
touche!
To be fair i wouldnt know the reason why but i could see if it wasnt cooked right i hope!
if it's still wet it's not cooked enough, if it's black it's been cooked too long
Howdy all
You know what, I've never heard that before. What an interesting fact you've shared with me.
unless you're making hot chocolate
or black forest gateau
I learnt it from Jonathon legard! He even knows what colour the Ferrari is
blue?
Well how did that happen? England beat Sri Lanka in the cricket.
Quite convincingly as well....
Odd
I'm not sure. Maybe we should check with Martin Brundle.
I can solve that mystery... I wasnt watching for once as i have been wriitng my putrid blog!!!!!
Just don't ask ej. He'll tell you he invented the colour blue!
Can I just stop you there Jonathon....
Possibly. Or Flavio has switched to running the Sri Lankans
:D
Still!
I recorded 20 minutes of audio for my soon to be terrible podcast tonight. Then deleted it by mistake without saving the file.
For someone with over 5 years of IT support experience in a previous life that's pretty much a stand in the corner for the rest of the night moment.
I should have a podcast, it would take me 20% of the time to say this rather than write it... GRRRRR *back to grindstone*
That's my logic.
Except I seem to sound like a moron.
With Alan Partridges' voice.
Whew, completed that meeblings games, I can see Steven's point about level 49.
Somone already went and thunk of an F1 podcast though ;)
The Swines!!!
You know there is a meeblings 2 http://www.ninjakiwi.com/Games/Puzzle/Play/Meeblings-2.html
can't have too many.
Thats what I happen to be playing right now ;)
Did you see the goalkeeper moving the goal posts?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEN_o3xYfEE
The cheeky so-and-so
Hehe there is no point duplicating, and i dont think my stick mic, webcam and windows voice recorder can quite compete with your set-up!
I should have left this whole rambling thing as one long voicemail :P
He's only gone and ruined it for all of us, we were getting away with it too for so long.
also acceptable.
"However, what I can say, is that as a director of the main board of Virgin, I can assure you that we would never have anybody in a team sponsored by us who cheats."
Alex Tai Team Boss to Be of Virgin F1 (nee Manor)
Clearly they have not researched the team they intend to sponsor. A significant number of Manor staff were recruited from Renault F1. Remember Renault was caught with McLaren IP very widely distributed across their desktops.
I am sure John Booth's pun that Piquet was a "smashing little driver" was tongue-in-cheek. I think we are in for some humour in 2010
i think this one is for nick:
http://twitter.com/mediatemple/status/4378493929
What's the number? I can do rambling!
Hehe :)
I should reply
I refuse to believe normalizing is a word!
0121 28 87225
or free is you skype us with the username sidepodcast.
do you mean the sidepodcast answer phone?
01212 TRACK
01212 887225
Or Sidepodcast on Skype
what the heck is a tweetologist? .. I think they are p-ologist's
Ah...I reset up my account last week.
So I just finish of this bottle of red and leave you a DUI?? :D
They need a failologist
gorgeous
That is lovely.
I really enjoyed the dusk setting in Fp1!
@mediatemple Not at all, pleased to be a help!
Set a background...
You built my hopes up, only to find it is Jarno Trulli.
Still a lovely setting.
*as
haha!
They've already got that sorted
Why is autosport search so sloooooow? is it always like that?
yup.
I hate it when Mum asks me to do something over the weekend but then has to give a full blown lecture as to how and why it needs to be done. She must love boring me to death.
They had to make a choice to be fair on them; capitalise their name, or improve the search features on the website.
At least now they can shout their name.
I virtually cannot get into autosport and been blaming the proxy server we have to use. But today I have had problems getting into lots of websites.
Did anyone ever find out what the cake tin on an F1 car is for?
I remember those days well.
Still watching FP1 Ted just gained an echo, making finally sound as awesome as he really is!
Cakes?
I think Nick said earlier, Megablastic Ted :P
treasure those days Scott, your mum wont be around forever
Montoya must have left them as a memento ;)
She just wants you to do it right, that's all.
My Mum still does it from 12,000km away ;)
Yeah but can't she just tell me how she wants it done just before I'm about to do it?
No, because she wants to make sure you hear it!
No, because she wants to make sure you hear it!
No - silence from Brawn on the matter.
OK what's up with the doohickey? It told me "Error, comment cannot be submitted", then it posts it twice?
I've had that too.
Talking of Brawn and Cakes have any of you ever seen this?
http://bit.ly/NLSfL
Oh those mischievous useless Fail Temple people!
Yes a while ago, good innit?
Yeah, both would look good in my flat!
i wannnnnt one!!
I have had that issiue for a while...when it happens to me, I copy the comment, refresh doohicky, then if your comment is there its fine, if its not paste it in the box.
Now on to FP2. Yay for Jackie!
Are they real or some weird project?
He was REALLY good in the 'box.
JYS did a fantastic job, was very interesting and amusing :)
?
Argh. "Days of Thunder" is on Sky Modern Greats.
Why did I not know about this!
Jackie Stewart :P
He commentated fp2
Ah Stewart :doh:
I meant Sir Stewart. Yay for you too however! :)
LOL
I'm heading off, enjoy quali tomorrow! :)
Night!
goodnight Lukeh
Night mate.
James Allen must be desperate for a news story with this tweet http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2009/09/ferrari-driver-situation-has-changed/
Don't let Alex catch you saying that! It's Sir Jackie didn't you know ;)
Well, I didn't want to say Mr Stewart
It said a lot hey!
I really like James Allen's blog - never minded him too much as a commentator was impartial to a point on his musings. The Lewis-love was too much though.
As a writer though, he's very good.
Saying good night as I'm simply shattered, night and lotsa love.
Night.
I prefer Joe's Blog personally - James can be a bit superficial at times like his last post which you wondered why he bothered. He is way better as a writer than as a commentator.
He is, although I find he's writing more mainstream news stuff these days instead of original thought.
Night Lukeh and RG
Yeah Joe's great. I really like the aside with Joe podcasts Mr C does. Great to listen to 'someone on the inside'
Another reason I prefer Joe's blog.
That might be why I'm getting a bit tired of James' blog. For me, he was much better when he started his blog, before he got the fancy new domain
That is actually the best podcast of my entire subscription.
It seems he is going for quantity rather than quality.
It has also become really really popular, the comments seem to have become a small forum!
That's not really a bad thing. The same thing's happened here!
Anyone in British land who wants to see the portugal track, the algarve one..
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/british-formula-3-international-series/4od#2970769
and every time there is a BIG happening it crashes - I think it is hugely popular.
Its a bit different here, virtually everything gets approved, not just the stuff he likes, and with solution's like doohicky and LCLT it works for chat. It can take hours or days for things to be apporved on his site.
The other problem is he seems to have a loyal following who praise everything he does instead of being honest and telling him what works. I think they even told him the hand gestures thing was great!
*Shudder*
Pretty much all my comments get greenlit except for two - one hoping that whoever was ill in his family gets well soon, and another saying that a link on his page was badly formatted (which he edited the page and edited that bit out).
whats greenlit?
When a comment is approved?
Never heard that expression before
Oh dear. Downstairs are having a party and it's got to the ABBA stage :(
Already? Blimey, good luck!
Take a bottle down! :D
Your in for a FUN filled Night!
hehehe last time i heard ABBA a group of my friends and i were making up words to 'Fernando' ... we discovered that there is a perfect gap after they sing 'fernando' to sing 'alonso' good times :D
what time is FP3 tomorrow .. I'm thinking long lay in bed
12pm :)
Bassano would be in there already
3PM GMT apparently...
Part 2 of my build-up rundown is done http://f1rundown.wordpress.com/
only 4 teams to go...
That's Qualli 1 mate
that's quali :)
fp3 wow that's late
Yeah sorry, misread it!
I am envious - I have a workshop that I am presenting tomorrow starting 8am - so best to get some shut eye now.
tis 12 noon
Ah in Denmark it doesn't work like that. You never see your neighbours!
Bye Rich
so if quali is 2 hours later than usual, car weights wont be out till about 7.30pm
Good night all!
Night Rich *backs to lurking*
Ah bum. No sleep for Gav this weekend? Better hit the sack now then... Good night!
that will be 2:30 am hopefully they might get them out quicker!
The floaty oeople game...how do I get past level 19??!
night Gavin
Night Rich
Is that the evil one with the trees down the hole? You need to be very precise and also lucky :)
Night all who are going
Night guys, .. I'm off too
Noo did that 1st time :p
The one with the line of fans!
I'm stuck on 16 i think
Good Morning/Evening/Afternoon :)
What is this floaty people game you all speak of?
http://www.ninjakiwi.com/Games/Puzzle/Play/Meeblings.html
http://www.ninjakiwi.com/Games/Puzzle/Play/Meeblings.html
Night Jackie and anyone else leaving
Same problem then really.... You just need to keep them in a long line only 1 layer thick and nudge them along slowly. Any higher and they get sucked up and smashed.
16 is the one with the trees.
Suck the trees left....twiddle so the meebs end left, then push to hole.
Suck the blue dude in to the bottom then push 'em all out.
Simples!
Yeah...that's what I'm trying :(
this is addictive, up to level 8
DID IT!!
It gets ridiculously addictive. I am at level 40 in the second game.
on 25...
I've managed to absentmindedly make and drink a large volume of very strong coffee.... I'm really not sure why I did that at this time of night.
morning all :) all those comments that people made about renault doing things quietly this weekend. oh well, nice try.