Webber was fastest in testing yesterday, and if that is the first meaninful testing time we've seen so far, then it's looking like a good start for Red Bull. There will be another dedicated testing thread along for day two in Barcelona, and I'm intrigued to see who will be fast on the second outing. Meanwhile, here are some things we're talking about:
- Talking of Webber, it appears the Australian has gone and got himself a presence on Twitter. The name @aussiegrit is already causing some confusion. I've seen people think it says 'girl' or mistake it for not having an 'r'. Perhaps MarkWebber was already taken? Still, good to see him on their, and as one of the more outspoken members of the paddock, there may some real gems to come.
- Meanwhile, di Grassi was being pretty useless out on track in Barcelona, although the team were quick to say they had been trying an experimental setup so it wasn't his fault. He crashed into the wall and wrecked the car, meaning the team had to sit out the rest of the day, and are hoping to be ready to go again tomorrow. What else can go wrong for Virgin?
- Mr Stefanovic still thinks he's in with a shot of getting a grid slot, but he says time really is tight now. Apparently to be ready for Bahrain they need to be packed by next Wednesday, and he's sure they'll have something sorted by then. Really? I suppose this can only coincide with the fact that the employees at US F1 have so little to do without a car that they really are going to make a toaster. I don't know about you but I would buy that toaster.
That should do it for now. We're out in London today, but will be keeping an eye on the site and hopefully feeding back as much as we can. I'll see you in the comments.
Have updated the Friday Fun page as well: http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Friday+Fun
#sorrySteven
Still can't think of anything for today, but I won't give up!
It looks good
This evening has been awful! i've just noticed that the last 6 pages of my notes and my coursework plan aren't in my folder.. or in the study at all.. bad bad times. i'm going to sleep so that time passes quickly and the evening with joe is closer :) night all xx
I've been furiously reading through Google Reader while listening to a couple of podcasts. I'm still miles behind on all fronts. I can't say no to anything.
Night Lou. I am sure you will find your stuff. Enjoy Joe
I can't think of anything. I went to Autosport to remind myself of what's current that we could twist.. got nuthin.
Although DLR recommends Heidfeld for the GPDA directorship. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81707
ouch.. have a good night tomorrow.
not sure how anyone can sleep knowing something is missing though!
PING: http://sidepodcast.com/2010/02/26/f1-digest-2010-season-preview-the-drivers/
I'm not very impressed. For some stupid reason I've woken up after 2 hours sleep.... I think I'm broken.
Poor you. I blame the worry about swans
The cheek of that!! He promised I could have ducks then wanted to offer me swans instead. Not on your nelly.....
Swans in a studio flat? Is he insane. First time you sleep they will kill you
I know!!! I want ducks. I really really want ducks. I don't think they're really Dubai compatible though....
Don't they have ducks there? You maybe need to keep them in the bath
Hehehe not really. I super want one though. Apparently it's cruel to just have one though, they get lonely.
Speak to Lou. She had ducks.
I thought she said she had evil geese.... I definitely don't want them. They hiss!
I am sure she had two ducks that used to come into her house but they got killed last year. She did mention geese earlier.
Are they in a row?
J.Legard has just landed in Barcelona.
Just the four hour delay in getting to Barcelona! Baggage reclaim v quiet at 2.30. Testing will be the perfect wakeup call.
:(
I super want two little duckys!!
I've not named them yet. I don't think Nick is going to let me have them. He did definitely promise though!
She had ducks
I tried to post a link with her talking about one going missing on the Brazil live commenting thread but it won't let me post the link. Search for ducks on the site and you will get it
http://sidepodcast.com/2008/11/01/live-commenting-brazil-qualifying/#comment-136946
Somehow I switched my browser to offline mode without knowing. I thought the doohickey had died and was saying rude things about mediatemple
FTT:
Mr C judging Jake by his cover! Shame on him. :P Hehehe. ;)
Morning, folks.
Alison... you want pet ducks? :-/
Want want want.
Morning :)
Nick wants to get her swans so they will kill her for the insurance
Hahahaha! Which duck's better, Daffy or Donald? :D
*facepalm* :D
That's quite a sinister way of looking at it.... I think he just wanted to put me off ducks.
In case any of you were tempted, I'm not insured :P
So why not suggest a dog or cat or hamster rather than swans
Stick to that story. Much safer
He did. I really hate dogs though. Cats scratch me. My housemate last year had a hamster and I refused to touch it. I would lure it into a ball so I could put food into its cage. That's my limit.
Hamsters are evil. We had one as a class pet in primary school and the little sod sank its teeth into my finger tip. I bled all over the place.
I just don't see the point of them. They're super noisy too. I want ducks and won't be satisfied with anything else....
I am sure Nick will get you half a dozen ducks
Not when they are dangling from your 8 year old index finger by their teet they are not.
Eep.
:D
He needs to get me a new house first!
Complete with duckpond obviously.
He probably has estate agents looking already
Of course.... We are talking about the same guy right??
I am sure we have slightly different views on him given that you have actually met him
Awww I swear he was a lot nicer to me before I did :P
I don't believe that. Apart from trying to get swans to kill you what bad things has he done?
Awwww. :P
:D
Now you've put it like that, it definitely doesn't seem half as bad.... :D
My goodness, what else has he done?! :P
I forgot about the potential poisoning due to fridge misorganisation and then the problems of the two of them being confined to his shoebox sized apartment.
Awww no nothing. He's really lovely to me and you know it :D
That was a quick turn round. Have you just realised he is going to read all this?
Hah you're so cynical! I would love him more if he bought me ducklings but life is good.
Tell him the price for keeping his books is ducks
I'm positive my love is worth more than a rubbish James Allen book....
That's so SWEET! :)
:D
and cheap
Hehehehehehehehehe.
:D Let's call it being practical! ;)
You all need to learn to be happy with what you have :)
I am sure Nick will be thrilled with that
As long as what you have is a new and sensibly sized house....
...with room for ducks and the occasional visiting Bassano
I'm not letting that man near my ducks!
Drunken ducks could be entertaining
Leave my duckies alone!!
Wasn't me. It was Bassano
Don't be trying that one. He's not even here....
I know. He is messing with your ducks. I'm here so you know I didn't do it. You are my alibi.
I have no ducks to mess with :cry:
#blamenick
I'm sure he'll get me ducks! They don't seem very Dubai friendly though.... :P
I think this is where we started. He has to move then
Good plan :)
So where are you going to move him to?
Carlisle?
Actually I take that back. I wouldn't wish it on anyone to have to live here...
Surely somewhere warm but not to warm for ducks
I'd be happy anywhere with my duckies.
You say that until he chooses somewhere then you will say it is too hot or too far away
Who said anything about Nick? :P
THE REMOTE HAS BEEN FOUND!
Woooooooooooo!!! Party time!!!
You should move somewhere that has a race but not a Tilke track. Poor Nick.
Go you
i am also doing less work than ever. Being a team leader rules.
Glad to see you are coping with the pressure
i have already had to give someone a verbal warning. I felt mean :(
That didn't take long. You just need to get used to those sort of things. Most people realise that you are just doing your job but some will take it personally. Nothing you can do about it.
yeah he didnt care and I figure the more stuff I experience in this period the better it is for me if a permanent job comes up in this role
Didn't care doesn't sound like a hugely successful verbal warning....
haha i meant didnt care as in doesnt hold it against me :D
That is the important thing in any job. What you can get out of it that is useful to you in your future.
Anyways some of us have to sleep. Good night
hello all, or few
You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need. :D
:D
i am in a shop getting the chocolate hazelnut and strawberry pizza! I figure its a good i survived my first day treat.
Morning guys :D
Pastry Day!!!
I am confused by lollies on pizza. Please explain
its just nutella and strawberries. Not a lot of strawberries and probably a years worth of servings of nutella. So unhealthy! It's a dessert pizza :D
Morning everyone :)
Anybody know much about Pitlane Magazine?
For something that hasn't launched yet, it's attracted 4000+ followers on Facebook and a healthy number on Twitter, which seems pretty impressive.
Seems impressive. They talk the correct talk as well, "next Will Buxton" etc on the about page. You'd have to know a bit about F1 to know to say that.
A few people here were approached to write content for the magazine. They asked me and I said yes, but they never got back to me...
I've been contacted as well, just don't know if I have the time to dedicate to it.
good morning
Morning...
Mike Griffin was twittering that he will be writing for them. Alianora also mentioned they contacted her too...
Didn't someone try something like this a couple of years ago? I forget the site name, looked green, that's all I remember?
Might see how it pans out before I say yay or nay.
i think they contacted the entire planet...
talking of which, I was just admiring this rather nice graphic illustrating the rise of spam...
Yes... Um... It was called um... something :)
Have you only just been contacted, out of interest? Or is it something you've been sitting on?
it wasn't called uberf1 was it? :-)
it was aaaages ago for me...
Received an email in my Inbox yesterday. I feel like the boy who is last picked to play football at playtime.
Funnily enough... It was called F1-Pitlane...
...hmmm...
:-)
I ask because if they're still looking for people this late in the day it suggests they might be about as ready as USF1
Second link in the F1 Blogs links on Clive's site: http://madtv.me.uk/f1insight/links.html
I knew Clive hadn't updated his site for a while so figured the link might still be there. The site's gone now though.
I think it was run that time by a guy called John Beamer?
It was green: http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/f1pitlane
Good work Pirot.
Merci :)
oh yes, remember it now
Circular Monopoly, with Debit Cards and prices adjusted for inflation: http://www.styleture.com/2010/02/05/new-monopoly-game-design-does-it-deliver-or-dissapoint/
Same guy then?
It does seem odd that they seemed interested and never followed up... quite a few blogs have asked me to write guest posts for them it seems...
I know the guy who comes up with these for monopoly funnily enough
circular or square? guess it doesn't matter but the counters are nothing the get excited about - they're replacing my gorgeous 1930's racing car with THAT?
it is odd, I decided I haven't got time
you can write one for us if they're not interested :-)
i like it, actually. :) but classical Monopoly definitely has its own attractions.
well it doesn't need batteries which is a plus
have they really ditched the chance and community chest cards?
from what I see, the chest is gone, but chance is still there?
no idea how they output it, though.
I'd love to. I am assuming when people ask for guest posts that they mean original content, not just a reposting of stuff from their own blog, right?
Apparently.
OMG... Google Maps has a drag zoomy thingy!
Is there any testing scheduled today?
perhaps a chance to write something shorter, highlighting more detailed content?
Like a summary of one of my posts?
yes, or perhaps something you're intending to do this year?
the randomness of your castrol post which is different from your regular stuff would have been a good guest post for somewhere
but at the end of the day, there should be something in it for you too, in terms of attracting new readers to your own blog, even if it's just in terms of reading more of your work
I agree, but at the same time I still want these posts to end up on my blog. I might send some summary posts out with graphs in for starters to some places at first and see what people think...
That is the goal, to spread the word, share my work and attract a few more clicks.
Incidentally thanks for linking to my post again - I've have quite a few clicks come in from it ;)
I'm exhausted. Not a great start to the day.
Hi Christine. Are you OK?
good morning
Only one comment on my poor little digest too. Boo.
Yup, Red Bull for breakfast :)
I had mine for morning tea ;)
I just gave the comment count a 100% increase ;)
I am assuming most people are not here because they are travelling to London for Joe's gig.
It's interesting, because it looks like it takes a long time to get to London. I commute 175km to work and it takes me about 2 hours. The train ride itself is just over an hour...
depends if you make a day of it I suppose
boo :(
Ah, true. Day out in the big smoke and all that...
I wish to advise that I am not travelling to London :D
I did just fall asleep though. So tired :(
It doesn't take a long time to get to London. It takes a long time to get INTO London once you are there.
I have only just got my iPhone to sync with it on my computer has been giving me gip :(
Morning all, am back from a very tiring few days and its far from over. How are we all?
Tired but good. How are you?
Doing alright i think, shower and a quick nap and ill be alright again.
Really I doubt it... How many people are coming tonight?
Christine, Mr C, myself, Bassano, Lou and TurkeyMachine. I don't know about Mr Machine but I'm guessing everyone else hasn't set off yet.
That's very true actually. The trains I took in and out of London last Easter were very good - it was the transport from the stations to the hotel that took ages!
Well it must be quieter because I am reduced to random speculating ;)
http://sweetf1.blogspot.com/2010/02/sweetf1-f1-motivational-posters.html
:D
Fact. This is the number one reason I suggest taking the train in for most people... While the first part of the journey might take slightly longer the second part of the journey takes significantly less time.
note to self: don't take car to London.
You can certainly forget about driving and parking in London!
fact
I don't think it would have fitted on the plane anyway. :D
A couple of years ago my mother set off from her house about an hour south of London and I set off from my house in South london and we both headed to the same place in Birmingham. Here's the google maps estimation on time:
Her journey (no London): 153 mi 2 hours 46 mins
My journey: 125 mi 2 hours 33 mins
So she averaged 55mph and you did 49mph?
That's what Google is predicting. In actual fact she beat me there by half an hour. And on the motorway section I'm guessing I was driving faster than her.
Oh sorry I misread that bit. So what was the actual time then?
Clearly my spam filter is doing its job. Yes. That's what it is..
Oh I don't know. Basically... Point is that to get to the same place if you have to go through London rather than around it it will almost automatically take you an extra hour.
Cool!
Did you get asked too?
Not cool!
Indeed. So are you driving today? Or train?
Yeah.. dunno why I said that actually?
I will be behind the wheel.
interesting... Dad's got a couple of square ones with credit cards, this looks weird :)
I have always felt that they should have a wheel on a train just so you could pretend :)
A guest post from Janna: http://sidepodcast.com/2010/02/26/the-best-gift-is-the-one-you-give/
That would be fun!
You have trains without wheels?!
oh yeah all our trains glide... don't yours?
Most of the time, I dont think they go at all :-(
Mine just stop randomly ;)
Our trains have both wheels and shoes
Sounds like a bumpy ride!
Shoes?
Only if you get wheel flats. The shoes are the pickups for the juice from the conductor rail
Are we talking trams here?
No, in my part of the UK we get our power from third rail, not from overhead lines. The train has a part which runs along this rail and makes the circuit so that the train has power
no different to this time yesterday tbh
You can see a far better explanation here.
http://xkcd.com/706/
Cartoon of the day.
No. That's what i mean, clearly my invite got blocked on the way ;)
Okay I have a techy question... I have set up domain forwarding for gamboling to use the hosted wordpress... But it seems to have totally broken my gamboling.co.uk e-mail address which used to forward to me.
My question is if I am using wordpresses name servers then how can I split out the MX record?
You can't split a DNS. Your MX record has to be on that one DNS server.
do you have to use wordpress' nameservers? could you not use 123reg ones instead?
umm... probably :)
When my sister lived in London I visited a few times. It took roughly the same time to get to the edge of London but the car took over an hour and the train less than half that because it didn't stop after Woking (albeit it put me at Waterloo and had to spend time on the tube).
as paul says, you can't split dns, so use 123 as dns provider and cname/a record to wordpress from there. then mx to whoever you're using for email.
What he said.
or, wordpress lets you enter MX Record details, doesn't it?
Popping out for a while now, thanks for all the birthday wishes, catch you later
see ya
Alex, are you planning on UStreaming today?
What time is your Joe thing on?
Basically the problem is that it would appear that
a) wordpress does not allow you to do CNAME records for www or *.gamboling.co.uk to do that I would have to us the ns
and
b) wordpress does not allow you to change the MX records except to establish a google e-mail account
It starts at 7pm.
Boo. I will be asleep.
I guess so... I don't know how much I will be doing... Like I don't imagine I would be ustreaming the whole event. But I might do little ustream interviews with people or something.
oh balls.
that's what I thought
so you can't just use 123's DNS server?
no because I would then have to have my blog on blog.gamboling.co.uk
Hmmm.
Can gmail auto-forward mail? I do hate that suggetsion though,...
Yeah I might have to do that... of course this and all of these solutions means that I can't use my site for anything else now... I can't have a somethingelse.gamboling.co.uk if I'd like to which is quite annoying. If it were self hosted both of these problems would go away... hmmm
Roll-your-own blog?
not only that wordpress.com appears to be less stable than hoped.
WHA?? It went down for about... 90 minutes in four years.
oh yeah.
If you have fancy reasons to want to be self-hosted, then you should go for it. I like to encourage wordpress.com if you just want to blog and be done with it, because that's what it's good at.
By the way I don't know if you guys remember me mentioning my mate Beardyman he's the world human beatbox champion. And now he's done something really really bizarre but rather cool. He recorded lots of versions of himself doing his beatbox and then had some people "play" him in holographic form. There is some bad language right at the end so please don't listen if you are sensitive to that kind of thing...
but this is rather amazing: http://vimeo.com/9543537
Also, we now know that even self-hosted wordpress.com is better than squarespace.
Yeah... I mean I have no particularly fancy reasons except the e-mail. I'd rather not have the hosting headache to be honest. So yeah... I'll have to think... But on a day when I am about to disappear up into London it's probably not a good idea to make a fundamental change just before I go :)
Yes indeedy :)
It is? But Leo said....!
I know. Bad Leo.
A backdated ping: http://sidepodcast.com/2010/02/25/thursday-thoughts-a-branson-pickle/
Shh.
you haven't got the day off by any chance?
I know and we haven't even had Friday Fun yet!!!
That is cool
Whoa! The new safety car is an SLS
Nice!
No one can think of anything! :(
Aren't you having your friday fun tonight?
He's sponsored by Squarespace, so we can let him off for that, right?
Fingers crossed Schumi ends up driving it ;)
He says he's always sponsored by things that he loves and uses, so he definitely approves of it.
Each to their own.
Hehe. Well he is already in the add driving one
Then I have no probs with it.
I am watching "The Ring". This is spooky in a teen-movie kind of way.
I forgot to close the poll on Life in the Fast Lane last night, so if you haven't voted already, I'll be closing it in about ten minutes: http://tenstepstories.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/life-in-the-fast-lane-part-8/
There's one in the locker that hasn't happened yet isn't there? Limericks or something? I was looking forward to that one.
And I know somebody else who uses and loves it. I just found it really horrid.
http://sidepodcast.com/2010/02/05/daily-5th-february-2010/#comment-674634
Oh yea!!
♥
time to drive to the other site and do the stock count... pub after, I hope.
have fun with Joe :)
another ping: http://sidepodcast.com/2010/02/26/were-off-to-see-joe/
Annnnnd Big Picture has been updated too:
http://www.f1minute.com/2010/02/25/red-bull-on-a-charge/
http://www.f1minute.com/2010/02/24/some-light-on-the-matter/
x1 Friday Fun coming up, then I might be done!
Wooooo!
http://sidepodcast.com/2010/02/26/friday-fun-f1-limericks/
Done.
blimey! No Holiday for you!
Speaking of lunch, we had chocolate soup today!
Just dropping by.
But something is catching on, for sure. :D
Looks like Pitlane Magazine are still interested in me, so I'll keep you posted...
Urrrrggggghhhh
To use the phrase "feeling a little bit delicate", grossly underestimates the gravity of the situation
Hello
And it's all Alex's fault for NOT coming out! ;)
Afternoon :)
My legs are very sore. Gym = big mistake.....
Just you stay away from my duckies!!!
I'm not even gonna begin to try to uderstand that statement
#HangoversaurusWreks
I'll make it easy. If you see ducks, leave them alone!!!
That I can definitely do
Ducks would be WAY too noisy today
I'm going to atempt to feed myself
I may fail and seek tasty morsels at an exterior establishment
My online banking is down. Boooooo! Not on payday please....
:(
I'm sure it'll fix itself.... I have bills to pay don't you know. Stupid bank!!!
You could just ring them, couldn't you?
I guess so.... I'm not a big fan of phoning people :P It's not desperately urgent. I just like to get everything sorted when I get paid so I don't forget anything....
#BlameNick ;)
Awww poor boy.
Has he fixed that acquarium yet?
I suggested he use some of Mr C's speedtape
Spelling today, not high on the priorities :D
Hehehe that looked terrifying! If you had any idea of the scale of it.... If it properly gave way, people would be dead for sure....
Oddly enough, I'm used to it :P
It's not at The Burjj is it?
Not from me!
It's in the mall directly below it yeah. Built by the same developers too which probably isn't ideal for them considering the problems they've had up the Burj too recently...
Not a great project really
I think it's quite funny really. I can't see how they won't go bankrupt now though really....
The fire alarm of the block next door went off, it wasnt very loud where im sitting but its stopped and i can still hear it...bad times
yaay it stopped.
Ah the joy of university...
it is a major factor that puts me off changing uni's, because id have to deal with them again :D
Oh yes, I remember those. Fire alarms unfortunately do come in handy when some idiot microwaves a trainer at 4am setting their kitchen on fire. 2 engines and a burnt-out shell later, they STILL owe £2000!
On a scale of 1 to completely stupid, would it be bad if i put my trainers in the tumble dryers?
nb. not my tumble dryer
Yeah, we had someone set off fireworks inside on bonfire night. That was super smart. They did it right by the main door as well so we all had to get out these awful fire escape stairways that hadn't been used in years. Purely disgusting!
I'm not really sure. Definitely smarter than the microwave.
hmm, i shall google.
They're still quite wet from the rain/mejumpinginpuddles from last night, i can wear my un-cleated cycle shoes but they're less comfy for general walking around
Hello, there are some good testing photos on the BBC site I especially like the one of Jenson
I type in tumble dryers and trainers into google and get
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/leicester/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8286000/8286982.stm
hmmm
LOL!
unlace them first, but you should probably be fine.
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for you torching your trainers, or destroying the dryer, or anything else you might do if this does turn out to be a stupid idea :)
;)
A few people here were approached to write content for the magazine. They asked me and I said yes, but they never got back to me...
I've been contacted as well, just don't know if I have the time to dedicate to it.
Mike Griffin was twittering that he will be writing for them. Alianora also mentioned they contacted her too... {Comment #109}
If Mike is reading this, I'd still like to know what exactly I am supposed to be doing for the magazine. This makes USF1's communication between staff look exemplary!
What mag is this Ali?
:D
Put them in a pillow and tie the shoelaces together
[Not in that order]
http://www.pitlanemagazine.com/magazine/
they've been looking for bloggers
last time this idea was tried though, it fell flat for some reason
Just realised I will have to gon on the tube soon with a hangover more epic than Ben Hur!
That's your own fault isn't it!
Funnily enough... It was called F1-Pitlane...
...hmmm... {Comment #121}
I was in that project too - but that time it was my fault rather than the magazine's, because I didn't have enough time to properly commit to it then (back then I was new to being unemployed and hadn't learned efficient ways of applying for stuff).
At least F1-Pitlane knew what it wanted me to do and communicated clearly with me. Sometimes I wonder if I could do a better job - but I think the market is seriously overheated at the moment.
Oh absolutely
Just sayin' :D
they've been looking for bloggers
last time this idea was tried though, it fell flat for some reason {Comment #304}
I think in the end people lost interest. It's difficult to mentally switch from writing for your own blog to writing for a magazine, especially if you're still maintaining the blog, and not everyone functions well on a lack of obvious feedback.
Cheers...just taking a educated interest ;)
In fairness, I contacted them (that makes me sound a bit desperate, they said something about replying to me on Friday since they were away for the week.
Afternoon.
Friday as in today.
do you know why F1-Pitlane stopped?
Right...offski for me.
Have a good one with Joe tonight if you're going
As a commercial proposition these things are non-starters because nobody is advertising.
For fun and to talk to other people with similar interests they're fine - but we've got here for that!
Just seen a man with a head band that had incorporated ear warmers. Winter makes us look silly
Says an elastic advocate? I think winter warms look cute.
I'll have you know, it's very fetching
The baby reigns are maybe overkill though
Now you're just doing it on purpose to wind up Alison
Right im off again, see you all Sunday evening!
Bye Jon, have a good weekend
DAY 2 TIMES, for the record
1 N Hulkenberg - Williams - 1min 20.614s - 99 laps
2 F Alonso - Ferrari - 1min 20.637s +0.023s - 134 laps
3 P De la Rosa - Sauber - 1min 20.973s +0.359s - 114 laps
4 V Liuzzi - Force India - 1min 21.056s +0.442s - 90 laps
5 S Vettel - Red Bull - 1min 21.258s +0.841s - 125 laps
6 J Alguersuari - Toro Rosso - 1min 21.571s +0.957s - 104 laps
7 M Schumacher - Mercedes - 1min 21.689s +1.075s - 85 laps
8 L Hamilton - McLaren - 1min 22.152s +1.538s - 93 laps
9 R Kubica - Renault - 1min 24.912s +4.298s - 53 laps
10 J Trulli - Lotus - 1min 25.524s +4.910s - 70 laps
11 T Glock - Virgin - 1min 25.942s +5.328s - 52 laps
When Christine sees the mess we've made of these threads, her head is going to explode!
the stupid thing is that I remembered to change threads... but then scrolled past the article so quickly that I didn't notice that I had clicked on the wrong one
Ahh...rFactor. The perfect remedy for the last day of work experience...
You know you want one... a mouse with "KERS"
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/greener-gadgets-2010/4
the KERS chair on slide 2 is neat too... just imagining people rocking like crazy in order to get their laptop recharged
As a commercial proposition these things are non-starters because nobody is advertising. {Comment #315}
As an advertising-driven method, I'd completely agree. Given that conventional advertising is, to all intents and purposes, ineffective on me, I wouldn't feel good about trying to sell a magazine on that basis anyway.
I'm not 100% convinced that a sale-per-issue or subscription method is a non-starter because GP+ is already managing it.
Liuzzi's 4th place is ominous - his programme mostly consisted of a race simulation, which only went awry because of the red flag at the end of the day.
he didn't set that time during his simulation though - his fastest lap during that was a 1:23.9
A couple of interesting items from this week's AUTOSPORT.
Alan Permane aka Witness X #confidential while discussing Kubica and the loss of Alonso.
So Mr ultimate racing driver is not dedicated? I am not sure what I find harder to believe. The idea that he is not dedicated or someone in that team would say it.
Another person bursting bubbles was Edwin Irvine Esq on his third favourite subject Michael Schumacher.
Christine have you asked Joe how many he's expecting?
We're here!
i can confirm that mr c is not the stig. end of.
Prost again!
should the fia have done more for new teams to make the grid?
should the fia have done more for new teams to make the grid? {Comment #336}
It should have been sensible from the start and not promised a budget cap it couldn't deliver, but apart from that... ...no. USF1 and Campos overestimated their respective capabilities and are paying the price.
Are you listening AND commenting at the same time?!
What does Joe think of 'AussieGrit' as a Twitter handle for Mark Webber?
Are you listening AND commenting at the same time?! {Comment #338}
I'm not; Christine and some other people are...
Incidentally, please can I point out to Steven that the point of Witness X being called that was to avoid being publicly connected with a specific individual? Since Witness X has not formally identified himself or herself, we cannot even be sure he/she is who you say it is...
He has not identified himself but he has been identified. I don't believe there is a shred of doubt about his identity
Is Twitter being really flaky or is it just my Tweetdeck?
minor interjection, last call on my game for the week, just over 1hr to enter:
http://toomuchracing.com/
Hi there how was the Joe thing people?
Lots of ongoing talk in the Joe thread, some good stuff has come up. Not so many answers but they don't want to give it all away :)
I'm not sure I saw a link posted for the new Safety Car.
Jack found pics;
http://www.anf1blog.com/2010/02/2010-f1-safety-car-revealed-gallery/
Am testing commenting for Alex.
Test confirmed. bug will be filed to mr c when i am sober!
GB Crashed in the bobsled. That's 3 for 3 :(
doh
Hardly surprised.
Which run was that? When's the 4-man on?
Talking of the Olympic ceremonies earlier, when's the Closing Ceremony for this one?
I'm trying to find it and can't see it.
Sunday Night I think...
Sunday, not sure when. After the men's hockey final I'd imagine
4man, 2nd run...
I'm answering my own questions 'cos i found a BBC schedule.
4-man bob is tomorrow, boo I'll miss it.
Closing ceremony is Sunday
1am to 3.45am. I'll be watching that after work on Monday then :)
ahh, finals tomorrow then.
Is everybody going to finish this bobsled thing upside down?
Perhaps they should have an upside down medal?
Maybe there is a new sport for 2014 in Sochi, upside down bobsleigh, where you use bob's helmet instead of a sleigh...
I suspect they don't want to give gold to Britain that easily.
Britain still wouldn't win - all the others did it too!
Style points?
This fellow has his eyes closed before he starts!
That's the German guy. He's apparently awesome!
Secret weapon: don't look.
just made the train. :) have had such an amazing evening, was lovely to see everyone again and great to chat and listen to joe. will comment when i get good safely :) xx
I assume good is predictive text for home
i meant get home safely :) silly phone x
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