It's so close you can almost feel it, we're starting to get atmospheric pictures from the Sidepodcommunity on the ground in Australia. There's just one more day before things kick off, if you can count tomorrow as a full day. Meanwhile, here's what we've been discussing:
- Two reserve drivers were revealed yesterday, with DC signed up for RBR and STR until poor Hartley can get his superlicence sorted. Meanwhile, Davidson will be the backup for Brawn GP. The BBC are losing their drivers all over the place, aren't they?
- He's plugged it twice in the comments already, so I thought I'd save him coming back and plugging it again. Alex has a predictions game over on Sofa F1 that Mr C signed up for, and somehow I have been talked into it as well. It looks like fun, just a guessing game at the moment, of course. If you're interested, head on over to make your championship predictions.
- Don't forget that if you've got a few minutes, you can post a comment with your short summaries for the F1 Digest - Australia Preview show. There's more info available here, and all I can reiterate for now is the shorter the better.
That'll do it for now. Just think, the next Daily post is due to go up about an hour before the live commenting gets underway. That's a nice feeling, isn't it? There's more info about our schedule for Australia here, and as ever, I will see you in the comments.
You should say Happy Birthday Alia over here :)
happy birthday alia!
Yay. Happy Birthday!!
hehe. imagine if both get called up...
I just done my annual thing of creating a folder specifically for pics from the upcoming season and put 10 or so in it for now. I do the same for winter testing and have done since 2006 : P
Anyone else do similar things?
Do you think the BBC have reserve pundits? Please don't let it be JA ;)
Oh and Happy Birthday Alianora + Goodnight all.
he could stand in at a moments notice?
night andy.
Thank you, "me", Christine and Andy!
And goodnight Andy.
you have anything special planned?
Just testing drop.io from mobile, supremely advanced prep for the museum trip... if it breaks that'll be my fault..
Is there a delay or did I do it wrong? I sent it to the email address [email protected]
Not that I think I'll use it but you never know. I might get caught up in the moment and drop pics of my journey...
what mobly are you using?
Nokia 6301
might be a small delay, that is the correct address though.
Ok. I'm just impatient, don't mind me.
have emailed a test too. no sign as yet.
Just realised the phone inserted the pic into the message, rather than attached. I sent it as a multimedia message to an email addy. I don't have proper email set up on it because it wants to download and store all my saved emails, and there are a lot of them..
ahh. my email has now appeared in the drop.
a close up of the front of the brawngp:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/brawn-snowplow-splitter-jpg
you have anything special planned?
Did it Tuesday. My parents and I went out to a posh local Italian restaurant. I had antipasto italiano (cold meats with salad), pasta carbonara and the house ice cream (pistachio and cream flavour). It was really nice.
Today, I have the JobCentre, town centre shopping, the library, Grandma, text processing class, lasagna, birthday cake and bed planned in approximately that order. I may not get much time to post comments today...
An important tip for anyone using BATracer.
If you convert a dry set up to a wet set up for the race remember to start the race on wet tyres.
Joe Saward hears five teams not three.
On that note I'll see you tomorrow. I have a day of being crammed with accountancy information I'll immediately forget, before picking up a birthday card for my sister then coming home for some blogging.
If I get around to it I may just pick up a headset in case I get tempted on Sunday...
Less than 24 hours to Friday Practice 1!
Happy Birthday Alia :D
Hope you have a great day.
Brawn fans, you may like this:
http://twitter.com/Jamesallenonf1/status/1392721538
Happy Birthday, Alia! :D
If ever you didn't know where Martin Brundles aliance was.....here's proof....
http://www.autosport.com/gallery/picture_free.php/dir/2009oz1/image/l_426y0567-2
HAIL BRAWN :P
You mean BBC SPORT? He has a small patch on his sleeve. :D
Lewis fans, you may NOT like this:
http://twitter.com/LeeMcK/status/1392022298
I wonder who did the questions, though... ;)
As some of you may know I'm a life long Williams fan, and it's good that this season it would seem that along with Toyota and BrawnGP we've stolen a march on the big boys as far as the rear diffuser is concerned. Just shows once again that it ain't just money that get you everywhere in this sport, but a little ingenuity goes a long way, even if the other teams follow it'll hopefully mean we've got 2 races on them.
Unless it gets banned, thanks to the FIA and the legal teams of the protesting teams - who probably spent a lot of money to get them banned.
Just watched the season preview, Brilliant, well done SPC, only thing is, 1 of the girrls in the office came in while I was watching it and wants to know why there's a spinning redbull can at the back of the Williams car........Bless.
Blimey, I wake up and Hamilton is dismissing suggestions he'll move to Ferrari (I must have missed this speculation?), the diffuser protests are in, and Brawn GP have a sponsor.
I must have been asleep for days!
Thank you for the plug for my predictions game :)
You know how time flies in F1. Blink and you'll miss it!
James is hungry.
http://twitter.com/Jamesallenonf1/status/1393361516
Whoo Hoo!
I never thought the day would come where it's the start of the season....
What an off season
As of tonight it's GO GO GO GO GO...........
Hello all, I've just arrived back home from my first day at the circuit. The Vodafone event this morning was fantastic, and I'm just putting up videos on youtube now. Watching a Finn trying to hold a cricket bat was my highlight of the day.
Only F1 car on circuit today was the 2008 BMW in a speed comparison with a road car and a V8 supercar. Only two laps, but god I'd missed that sound...
Finished up my day with a trip to the McLaren pits, the guy hosting it was super friendly, but not too much to see in there because you can't go in the garage. Spotted Heikki hiding at the back of the garage though!
To anyone following me on twitter, sorry if I update too much, it's just too exciting!
Protest lodged over teams' diffusers
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73901
In other news: NZ company making BBC's F1 graphics
Virtual Spectator was also Kiwi-made, I think! Get in there!
Really? Who?! :D
Henri Lloyd Apparel. It was mentioned here a few weeks ago. As usual, you heard it on SPC first! :-D
Did anyone pick up on this story last night?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7957788.stm
They come from my home town, makes me so proud of my wee city!
Everyone seems to be fearing Brawn GP ahead of this weekend.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7962869.stm
Saw the Bernie thing this morning, Prodrive and US GPE spring to mind but cant think who the other 1 could be or where from.
Welcome to Melbourne F1wolf! You're not staying at Crown are you? Perfect place for some driver spotting
No, staying at Novotel St.Kilda
aah, handy to the circuit, good choice.
There was a story a while ago suggesting Fortec Motorsport were looking to make the jump to F1. Of course, we already know USGPE will be on the grid anyway.
Sort of. We talked about it the other day but we discussed the points changes more.
In CAR Magazine last month, David Richards gave an interview where he sounded keen to start an F1 team. I would LOVE to see Prodrive back in the sport...
Who are Fortec, an insurance company?
I can't see Fortec starting a team without us knowing about it, and Prodrive just pulled loads of jobs at their plant so i can't see them doing it either. It is a bit confusing, i'm happy to wait to find out!
They race F3, FRenault, FBMW, a good junior formula team
Does somebody know where I can get 1920x1200 F1 wallpaper that is 5 Pints of Awesome?
Another morning, another dramatic F1 headline.
HI everyone, how are we all?
Morning Chris, I'm good, just waiting......
Chris, did you get camping sorted for Silverstone?
Heidfeld will be running with KERS this weekend, Kubica has opted out due to weight regulations.
That'll be good, hopefully we'll be able to see if there's any measured difference in performance, with r without KERS
The guy doing the tour at McLaren told me to spot this orange box on cars to work out who else is running KERS...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amyfulton/3386554561/
Hey, I meant to email you but my mac is in for repair at the mo, should be picking it up tomorrow. Turns out my Brother had already found a campsite and not bothered telling me, good job I checked with him before I booked anything!
Me thinketh Red Bull's season could be over before it's even began. If this diffuser protest doesn't go their way, there is no hope for them to be able to use a similar design to the Brawn et al thanks to their pull-rod suspension at the rear of their car.
Woo.
Don't know if anyone has posted this already, but there is a pretty good interview with Lewis on Autosport (once you cut through the PR speak anyway).
Turns out he has already joined the GPDA, Pedro talked him into it.
OK Chris, if you still need a lift in the transport dept let me know.
Was going to ask that, if there are still a couple of seats available that would be fantastic. I'll be in Huddersfield anyway and we will be travelling pretty light!
No worries Chris, keep in touch and we'll sort details out closer to the time. My bro will be coming down from Halifax in a transit van, should be loads of room.
Come on Nick....stick it to the man
Brill, will get in touch nearer the time then.
where'd you hear that, cause i don't believe it?
sounds like someone in the team is trying to overstate theit case to me. it would take them a while to match the design, but i can't see how the suspension has that much bearing on anything?
Here's my F1 Digest Australia preview quote:
Once again we're at the beginning of a new season and also a new era of Formula 1. Pre-season testing has only quenched our thirst for on-track action so much and now with the start of the first race just literally days away, the excitement is building as every minute goes by. I am so psyched for 2009 and greatly looking forward to what should be a fascinating championship opener. Brawn GP for the win! :D
How's that? :)
lewis joins the gpda?
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73904
also, why have autosport started typing their name as AUTOSPORT? keep thinking their shouting at me.
BECAUSE THEY REALLY WANT YOU TO READ THEIR ARTICLES!!! :-D
ahh, ok. well SIDEPODCAST finds it somewhat annoying :)
Brilliant, thank you!
And here's mine:
"It finally hit me this morning that the F1 season is less than 24 hours away! Normally I can't stand the wait during the off-season but this year was loads of fun as it was my first with the Sidepodcast community.
I'm so excited with the racing just a few days away and 2009 looks like it's going to be a fantastic year - because we have no idea what's going to happen!"
Seeing as you are averse to using capitals that doesn't surprise me ;-)
Thank you :)
Maybe they've been watching Anchorman?
LOUD NOISES!!
amy, you look like you're having a brilliant day. these have to be embedded:
how flippin' close were you?
No probs - it just hit me during lunch that the F1 was starting soon. I have no idea what my colleagues were talking about because all I could think about was F1. And I've been whistling "The Chain" all day! :-D
Don't tell me he's good at cricket too!
Everyone else there was a Vodafone VIP - I was the only McLaren guest. To the point where I turned up my name was not on the guest and only the McLaren hospitality girl saved me, as it was on HER list. So I got to go right to the fence, and everyone else there sat down and barely watched what was happening. Got a free Lewis hat but I'd rather have a Heikki one.
They didn't hang around at all for autographs for the 3 people who wanted them, they had their media lunch at the Stokehouse to get to.
Now I really want to know who this McLaren person who put my name on the list is. I honestly thought he was probably a fake until this morning happened.
I'll gladly take the Lewis hat if you don't want it ;-)
Good on you Kiwi for supporting McLaren!
Jenson's point in the press conference today about the late finishing race in Melbourne makes me smile; if light does fall then Brawn will help everyone as a portable light around the track due to the white and illuminous look :D
The guy at the McLaren tour started off with 'oh wouldn't it be great if Webber won' and I said "I'm not an Australian, you don't need to lie to me"
So he asked where I was from, and when I told him he said "Oh! New Zealand, the real home of McLaren!"
When I told him I'dhad a drink with Bruce McLarens sister this morning he was floored I knew who she was. So we had a great chat and he pretty much ignored everyone else.
I might even get a chance to go back tomorrow, Jan is trying to organise something, but sadly most of the mechanics from Bruce's days that she knows have left over the last few years and its a bit harder for her.
Oh I like that!
Ditto, I got eviled so badly by the Lewis fans at Silverstone when I cheered for Heikki as he got his first pole last year at Silverstone
If it wasn't for my videos on youtube, you wouldn't even know Heikki was at the cricket today. All the official reports are "Lewis Hamilton takes on Shane Warne"
He was holding that bat like a true Finn.......
after seeing him play, i'm not that surprised ;)
i bet the rest of season goes like that though :(
Who is Heikki BTW?
*yawn*
Morn... afternoon everyone. :D
I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE YELLING ABOUT!
Channel 4 news just mentioned the diffuser row as one of it's main stories. It's just started so switch over now if you want to see it in a bit.
DO WE NEED A REASON!!!
more info on f1wolf's day:
http://www.f1wolf.com/2009/03/thursday-in-melbourne.html
staying the same hotel as bbc sport!
james allen is doing covert ops during press conferences now:
:D
NAH, NOT REALLY!
he looked completely lost when I saw him run-walking away from the circuit today. He should have been on his way to the McLaren lunch but he was going in completely the wrong direction
F1 SHOULD BE REASON ENOUGH!
Just seen Button's new helmet
Ewwww.
Link?
Stop now.
Will be drop.io'd shortly.
my pet hate is when drivers change their helmets to match their car/sponsors. I like it when a driver can be associated throughout their career with it.
sorry... :(
Woah woah woah... when did this happen?
Also, whoever made this sandcastle... well, sandcar deserves a medal!
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45602000/jpg/_45602587_webber_vettel_416.jpg
http://www.autosport.com/gallery/photo.php/id/124583
Erm.....ARRGH! What HAVE you done, Jenson?!
F1 news story on Channel 4 news now!
Nice shorts!
Fair enough - someone else posted it - I was trying to drop.io it when the browser locked up. :(
Jenson ... what happened to the Union Jack???
How much of a chav does he look?
I saw Louise Goodman having a chat to Lee McKenzie at the media centre today. I couldn't be so civil to the person who took my role. Inside she must be fuming, I'm sure.
The Union Brawn!
Are they secretly sponsored by Stabilo or something?
She has some kind of PR company now though - training drivers to handle the media well...
Since when can drop.io update itself?
Autosport's Supergrid is back!
Calculated by methods unknown to man or beast, the 2009 grid looks like thus:
1. Barrichello
2. Button
3. Rosberg
4. Glock
5. Massa
6. Kubica
7. Raikkonen
8. Heidfeld
9. Vettel
10. Alonso
11. Hamilton
12. Nakajima
13. Trulli
14. Buemi
15. Fisichella
16. Webber
17. Bourdais
18. Piquet
19. Sutil
20. Kovalainen
There was an update a few weeks back, so it updates in realtime. They also introduced the chat, but I don't think we were big fans of that.
Channel 4 F1 story had Newey saying it's the biggest rule changes since 1998 or even 1983, then DC talked for a bit, then Newey talked us through some of the new rules, then there was a small bit about KERS, Brawn GP's diffuser reportedly giving them 5 tenths a lap and Lewis saying he'd consider an offer from a rival team because the aero on the McLaren is so poor.
:(
One day I want to be able to say "I TOLD YOU SO" about Heikki. Not sure it's going to happen, but he's staying in my fantasy racers team!
I love this pic:
http://www.autosport.com/gallery/photo.php/id/124598
Inside Kimi's head: "Why am I here? And where's my vodka?" :D
He looks excited as ever to be doing media events
If the grid turns out like that I'll eat my hat.
Well, I'll go out and buy a hat, then eat it.
wha??
Kimi's really smiling for the camera eh? :-D
I'll have one marinating for you. How does olive oil and balsamic vinegar sound?
Not actually what he said.
He said he would take it as a compliment if he got offers from another team.
It was just wild speculation by the British tabloids based on a passing comment he made.
Does anyone sell edible hats? Cos I bet they could make a killing.
McLaren has just had new cargo land in Melbourne to be fitted to the car for Friday practice. That's cutting it fine.
You've just GMM-washed the story there. He said he'd be flattered by an offer but wouldn't consider it as he wants to stay at McMerc.
oh, fair enough.
Chuck a bit of thyme and oregano in and you've got a deal.
Just read over at RealBrawnGP.com forums that, despite it being a GMM story so don't have a go at me about that, the FIA have declared the diffusers on the Brawn GP, Williams and Toyota cars legal.
5live on twitter saying...
Um, wow!
nothing I love more than a good FIA appeal that will overshadow two or three rounds.
Lame.
that was entirely expected though wasn't it?
aww man... Jenson.... we all know you're dedicated to Brawn, but i liked the union jack... it was something different... now it's just another yellow helmet on the grid :/
ahh, c'mon. it just wouldn't be f1 without one.
I didn;'t think they would reject it today, possibly after melbourne but I didnt realise it was expected this early
senna-esque.
it's an unfamiliar feeling, having McLaren be NOT directly involved in it!
Also read on that thread that Charlie Whiting apparently flew into Barcelona and declared them legal himself. So if that's true then why is this all still going on?
Oh goody, now come the appeals.
JUST SHUT UP ABOUT BLIMMIN' DIFFUSERS AND GET ON WITH RACING!!!
Ahem...
yay :)
:D
so true.
yeah. the teams will now appeal that decision and f1 will head to paris in a month or so.
they also have the ability to protest the results too.
Does Charlie have the authority to do that?
ah man not another one...
They had to do it before the weekend began. The Court of Appeal, on the other hand, cannot resolve it until after Sepang at the earliest.
he did. on the last day of testing.
it's going on because a courtroom really is the only option available to the teams to get clarification. and also because f1 is a hotbed of politics as ever.
Like I said yesterday:
In F1, Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but if that doesn't work then you can just protest it :-D
agreed
In other words, if you can't beat them, join them. If you can't join them, protest them. :D
that's one way of looking at it. here's another...
in 2007 there was no talk of protests in melbourne, and then it turned out ferrari had an illegal floor later in the year. ferrari kept the win due to a lack of protesting.
much better that this is all out in the open from day one if you ask me.
I am loving this technical argument because if it turns out that Newey could have made a diffuser like on Brawn but didn't and designed a suspension that couldn't be adapted to it, then he really has missed a golden opportunity!
:-D
I just done my annual thing of creating a folder specifically for pics from the upcoming season and put 10 or so in it for now. I do the same for winter testing and have done since 2006 : P
Anyone else do similar things? {Comment #5}
I tend to leave my F1 files in a bit of a mess. The only proper organisation is in the stuff I need to admin/co-admin fora (which is in one folder per forum), the podcasts I have (which are lumped together in a folder) and pictures (in another forum). Occasionally I've found stray F1 files on the wrong hard drive...
nothing like getting a good look at the problem is there:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/investigating-the-williams-f1-diffuser-jpg
something tells me that telegraph didn't put a lot of effort in their preview
Try this one out instead
toyota have released a statement:
"Toyota Motorsport has studied the wording of the new 2009 regulations in precise detail to ensure that we have interpreted them correctly."
Oh happy day!
Autosport are reporting that BMW lost their protest through not filing the form in time and Ferrari, Renault and Red Bull lost theirs because the stewards thought that Brawn, Williams and Toyota were in the right.
OK, there's still the possibility of an appeal, but for now let's just enjoy having the immediate threat over and done with :)
But then, so have Ferrari and Renault. Who is right, and who is wrong? :)
Oh happy day. If Red Bull are unable to copy the diffuser because of the suspension then Newey's gonna look really silly :-(
no mclaren or force india protest?
don't know, but we do know that toyota have never taken a single risk since entering formula 1.
also in that article:
"Such a meeting cannot take place until after the Malaysian Grand Prix, meaning that Brawn GP, Williams and Toyota will unofficially be racing under appeal at this weekend's race in Australia and would likely be subject to another appeal at Sepang."
this IS a risk, whichever way it ends. :) besides, there's a first for everything. the risk of their team getting shuttered has forced them against a wall.
Hiring Ralf Schumacher?
yup could well be. but they also had their budget slashed. can they afford to lose out on championship points / tv monies now?
that wasn't a risk, it was a guarantee of failure ;)
The risked hiring him instead of someone good. :D
10 minutes to go before the appeal window closes. Any word if it's been filed?
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2009/03/26/lewis-hamilton-in-publicity-storm-over-mclaren-quit-remarks/
Keith's got it horribly wrong, I think :-(
How did you read the events? - I'm just catching up.
The teams have said they will appeal, they can also appeal the results of the race too. So lots of shouting and complaining, and the the FIA will appeal their own appeal of the appeal.
Why so? I do think Lewis said more than what he really needed to say. It really depends on what they asked him.
but does the post contain that three-letter acronym again?
or is he starting up his own made-up-f1-news agency instead?
How about:
"I haven't had offers from other teams and I am not talking to anyone but I would listen to an offer if someone asked," he said. "It would be a compliment and it would be silly if I did not."
Being turned into an article called Hamilton rocks McLaren with admission he could leave? That's just sensationalist reporting to shift newspapers!
saying it is different from filing it. if there's nothing filed by the deadline (which should be anytime now), then it all ends here.
Mmmm. Chocolate bread recipie is a success. :D
Goes very well with a fresh coffee too.
until sunday, and then the next race...
don't worry, it's properly cited. he didn't really have a definitive opinion on it; he just asked some questions that were used as a springboard for discussion.
No, he's quoting the Guardian. The key is that the story is sensationalist because it contains a quote from Lewis that has been blown out of proportion, which is clear to see if the article is read properly. See my reply below for the quote and the link...
they have to appeal this ruling. if they don't appeal this ruling, an appeal on sunday would be thrown out on the grounds that the diffusers were legal - which in turn is based on today's ruling.
makes for a great blog headline though, eh?
ahh, interesting. could they not still appeal the results though?
tweet from the realhonda guy:
"Virgin linked to Brawn again, but as a sponsor? We'll find out in a few hours..."
http://twitter.com/CimaRacing/statuses/1394388230
He IS in a publicity storm, by his own fault or otherwise. and "Hamilton quit" is in quotes. I think it's OK.
But isn't Keith saying that when he says: "On the face of it Hamilton’s original quote seems innocent enough"
In other Brawn news - Virgin is back!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article5980935.ece
But his headline is Lewis Hamilton in publicity storm over ‘McLaren quit’ remarks/em> - that's just as bad as the original Guardian story I think...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article5980935.ece
They haven't scored at all, and they're going to be called Virgin BrawnGP?
ROFL! :D
Ed Gorman has asked Bernie, who seems to have confirmed it. We'll find out in the morning.
what's the SEO ranking for "lewis hamilton", "mclaren" and "quit", i wonder?
Gonna wait for official confirmation till I fully believe it..
Wow - that was a quick lap time by the stewards - they look in good form this weekend.
Wow - that was a quick lap time by the stewards - they look in good form this weekend.
LOL! :-D
TBH, I'm not too surprised - I kinda expected this when we realised he wasn't going to buy the team...
:D
As I said, he IS in a publicity storm, by his own fault or otherwise. and “Hamilton quit” is in quotes. I think it’s OK.
True, but it's disingenious to have that as the headline of the blog post because it's designed to be sensationalist. That's just my personal pet hate TBH.
can someone please explain the luminous yellow then? because button's changed his helmet and i can't see any link between that colour and virgin?
Red (or rather, a luminous yellow) herring?
No idea mate, I just had a gut feeling Virgin would end up being a sponsor :-)
agreed, and you'll find that it encourages sensationalist commenting too.
if you write a headline like that, you're asking for a certain response. at some point the comments will inevitably turn into a pro/anti lewis slanging match.
Aaaah. :D
HD-DVD and Bluray delivery has arrived just in time. :D Thats the weekend viewing sorted.
Saturday - Bullitt on Bluray
Sunday - Grand Prix on HD-DVD
w00t!
4 newspapers ran it this morning... I would say it's less bad than what any of them said. But it may still have been over the top.
In fact there does seem to be a lively debate going on about who has it worse about quit rumours Alonso or Lewis.
from radio le mans, f1 spotters guide:
http://www.spotterguides.com/images/stories/guides/f1_09_v1.jpg
we'll be needing more than that to tell the RBR from the STR this year.
Erm? Stolen?
You lucky B...!
eh?
all it shows is a gif saying it's been stolen
Someone phone the police!
Same here, spotterguides must do a referrer check
wha? i see the picture. anyone else?
Click on the link - I get redirected to a page that says stolen :-(
I went to the homepage and found it quite quickly though :-)
It does say stolen, but it's easy to navigate to from the homepage.
oh. ok:
http://www.spotterguides.com/content/view/21/44/
i didn't steal nothing :)
Actually, now I do see it. Weird!!!
i haven't read the post, but i would've put good money on that happening at some point.
you get the commentors you deserve, i guess.
Tis out of date now, anyway, thanks to Button!
:D
I like that - someone print one out and give it to Murray. ;)
The post seems innocent enough.
On reflection, I would agree - but it's the headline that does it, and also people may not read the article 4 or 5 times before commenting and therefore view the article as a whole as sensationalist.
I am trying to organise something at a track later this year, as a welcome home for a friend who is coming back from the States after successful cancer treatment. :D
It'll be a closed session but there will be some interesting stuff there - all his actually - so he's paying. :D
No details as of yet - but there may be space for a couple of passengers in one of the cars. ;)
sorry, not what i meant.
i meant... i didn't go look through the comments to see what they were like before criticising them. i just figured that if you write a title like that, i'd expect a certain kind of response.
I thought HD-DVD was dead?
bingo!
if you're bored, have a look through some older articles and see if any other sensationalist-style headlines marry up with a bunch a vitriolic commenting.
wow, that sounds brilliant!
Yup - but having a HD-DVD/Bluray drive in 2 pc's and the Xbox 360 one means I can pick up some films extremely cheaply.
Good point - but will future Blu-Ray players be able to read HD-DVDs?
It's a pain in the bum to set up. First of getting in touch with the chap who is looking after the cars at the moment is hard - need to know what could be available or made available.
As it's his personal collection though I need to ask him what he wants to get ready - there may be a single seater or two there.
No. They are still producing HD-DVD/Bluray combo drives for PC's, but the advantage is I can copy the HD-DVD files to the server and then convert to bluray format and in the future burn them to bluray. :D
Good point. Hehehe. :)
that is clever!
Given enough time and patience, any format can be converted. You could make DVD's of Inside Track for example...
we could. easily. but what would be the point?
It's nice that bluray disks have come down in price a lot.
£3.65 each for 35gb of storage.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/2009-formula-one-spotter-guide-this-time-stolen-for-real-jpg
ok, so now the image has been stolen, but no longer says so. it's a funny old world.
Just an example ...
fair enough. i hadn't considered flibster's solution tho.
It's very easy for HD-DVD to bluray. The codec used are the same. Just need to change the fiule structure really.
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Convert_Your_HD_DVDs_to_Blu-Ray
not sure if this has been pointed out already... but erm... Brawn appear to have bright yellow stickers on their wheel bins :D
link - http://www.autosport.com/gallery/photo.php/id/124571
Oh no...
ugh.
BTW Congrats to you, miss Lou!
I shouldnt be laughing, I really shouldnt
I was just a little bit sick in my mouth...
It HAS to be a joke - I expect Cherry Red and White by tomorrow!
Was it the same colour, perchance?
thank you! :D i was given my little badge today :D it all of a sudden feels really offical :D
Rubens auditions for a job after his racing life is over.
Doing the National Lotter adverts.
http://www.autosport.com/gallery/photo.php/id/124580
"It could be YOU!"
I think they're playing the game "how outlandish can we go before we get charged for bringing the sport into disripute?"
little badge? what have i misseD?
BAR001. Class dismissed :-)
:D
Going to sleep early, guys. See you before FP1!
my prefect badge :D
Couple of PDF's now uploading to drop.io
Bridgestones 2009 Australia iniformation - lots of good info.
Allianz 2009 F1 Safety Dictionary
night journeyer.
aaaah, thought it might be something like that!
congratumalations!!!
night Journeyer. I'll try.. but i have a concert tonight, plus i'm sooo excited. 10 and 1/2 hours to go!!
thanks :)
good luck with your concert :D
I tried to change my hours tomorrow and start at 8-5 rather than 10-7 but they wouldn't let me :( would've been so much easier to watch FP's that way personally damn them.
Bernie's getting angry now, swearing about Briatore and Dennis from earlier in the week
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73919
so it seems FOTA are saying now that all the teams supported what was said in the meeting, not just Renault and McLaren who were being reported with thretening to leave. The more FOTA get involved with things, the more they seem to annoy Bernie which now shows from his lovely use of the english language when describing their threat..
*waits for bernie breakdown*
news from joe as to why mclaren did not appear:
"It is expected that McLaren may also have a similar diffuser on its cars, which may have appeared at the very last minute."
so what's the point of sending cars to be looked at on thursday if you can go and change the car afterwards?
link: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/not-so-silent-night/
did not appeal, sorry.
they are standing strong. all credit to them.
Going back to that pic of the Brawn GP with the yellow wheels - why does it have a number 23 on the rear wing? I thought they were 20 and 21?
good spot, sir.
not a clue though.
actually, maybe they are 22 and 23, because they were added as a new team before honda were removed?
although that would make the official entry list complete bunkum.
There are no cars running the numbers 18 and 19. ;)
I think McLaren have had it looked at and that the other teams didn't know to protest about it. McLaren had something very Brawn-esque in testing, only with the upper deck of the diffuser blanked-off.
according this:
http://www.fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/pressreleases/f1releases/2009/Pages/f1_entry09_upd.aspx
fif1 are?
Wasn't it Force India complaining about their marketing material already bearing their numbers?
that's stupid if it's true.
Brawn are 22 and 23 now as they've changed the list yet again. Force India got upset that 20 and 21 were taken away from them after doing all their publicity stuff with those numbers, and so there is no 18 and 19 (which are never to be used again in memory of the team that was Super Aguri, perhaps.)
The new new new entry list:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73897
right. thanks you. i can't keep up :(
Autosport have just reported Virgin are to Sponser.... the BrawnGP team, does that mean F1 if fixed as far as Richard Bransons comments at the time of the speculated buying of the Honda team?
Nor can the FIA, so don't worry about it.
hehehe.
Anyone noticed The Times site had this?
http://timesonline.typepad.com/formula_one/2009/03/pretend-youre-i.html
Wow, their diffuser is even better than I thought if it has also fixed F1.
White, day-glo yellow stripes, green stripes on the tyres... what this car needs now is a big splash of red.
If Brawn keep finding sponsors at this rate they should be challenging Renault for ugliest livery by Malaysia.
Alex Wurz is no longer Brawn's reserve driver as they can't afford him?!
So they went with Anthony Davidson - is he really that much cheaper?
:(
isnt that just live timing ?! but different
I think it was mentioned yesterday
I'm getting rather anxious now, especially after going on the BBC website to see 9 hours left until FP1. Oh god oh god oh god.
Whoop! My new media server lives. :D
All content copied across and so much free space. I don't know what to do with it all.
Scary - just turned off my old media server for the first time in 197 days 13 hours and 7 minutes. Not bad for a Server 2003 box that was built out of spare parts.
Wasn't meant to use it until we move into the house, but sod it. The other half will never know and it saves me having to copy more data across at a later date.
Race commentary from the cockpit? Sure would be a level up of that the BBC did with "Motormouth", let alone ITV...
Jeson has a new squeeze it seems, and she's turned up in Australia.
Jessica Michibata
To which the obvious question is... Who?
He's been seeing her a little while I think. I must say, she is rather a cutie
Japanese model according to wiki.
Mixed in with some Spanish & Italian roots too.
It blends well it seems
Noo, the obvious question is... does she sing?
I hope not
*googles...*
So she is. :D
She has a blog
Unfortunately it's in Japanese
http://blog.honeyee.com/jessica/
You forgot to add lingerie to that sentence.
This is Jenson after all, folk would be surprised if she weren't :D
Ah not good. The red button stuff on ym TV is playing up again... will the FP sessions be streamed on the BBC website as well?
Sure hope so, can't trust my freeview...
Apparently so
Good way to start the season off...
Find out that I have to be in London at 8am tomorrow morning to help the management explain something very simple to a customer.
So no watching the free practices for me then. :(
The best children's book EVER is being released in October, directed by Spike Jonze: Where The Wild Things Are
Just drop.io'd something that shows the differences in the diffusers.
Quite telling.
yeah, very telling.
Sorry if I'm being synical - but Branson has seen the car's pace in testing... and NOW he is keen?
He also realises that if the cars are at the front of the grid, then they will be in the media spotlight bigtime this weekend, so he is flying over special to slap a Virgin sticker in the side?
Go Ross.
if this is fixed then i think we need to have a nice little chat with Mr Branson....
It looks like he's got himself quite a good deal to me. He will get all the virgin branding on the car but none of the risks of actually owning a team.
21.00 - 22.00 on Radio 5 Live this evening will be a season preview hosted by David Croft, Anthony Davidson and Holly Samos.
I'm not sure what we'd do without you! :)
Not F1 I know but some leaked shots of the new Tesla car have emerged.
None of the front yet, but I like it so far. Giant touch screen in the middle too by the looks of it. :D
http://www.engadget.com/photos/tesla-model-s-official-shots-unofficially-unveiled/1454579/
6ish hours till fp1!! AHHH!!!!
Since we're getting close to the race and all... where's a place for an American with no cable to stream all the race stuff from the internet?
They'll be some streams people are linking too at the sessions.
Sweet!!!
Tony Jardine was just on Irish radio (!) and he says Lewis Hamilton could have a performance-related contract clause. Also, rumours of him being unhappy? That's not hard to believe.
I still don't think he's unhappy. Just seems like a small wrongly worded bit of PR speak has blown into a silly proportion saying he wants to go.
performance clause likes that are relative to the overall pace of hte car...unless a team wants a driver gone!!
I don't doubt he has a performance related contract. More points/wins = more money
I don't think he wants to go, that's daft. I do however think he's unhappy with the car, but that's no tantrum, that's just frustration.
If I was driving for a top team, I'd certainly have one.
But if he was to leave at the end of the year, who could he go to? I have difficulty seeing where else he could go with a chance of winning races.
BMW wont touch him as he's a McLaren Mercedes pupil
Renault... well.... :D
Ferrari? Nope
Brawn? Possibility - but what is the chances of them being at the top of the field next year with a massively reduced development budget this year?
Wouldn't it just be easier for a team to say
'We don't like you, cheerio'
and let the lawyers sort the rest out?
Cool.
SPEED tv will be showing FP2 live @ 1:30 am Eastern time in the U.S. but not FP1.
So some linkies to any streams that people come across would be awesome :) I assume it'll be on Justin.tv somewhere...
(Perhaps either Me or Christine could pop the links at the top of the post so they're easy to find???)
Pretty please :)
no probs, we'll embed if available.
There could be another motive - it must have Alonso worried that Ferrari are now after Hamilton. Hamilton could just be laughing his head off at all the fuss.
Cheers.
Also, Skype convo tomorrow night anyone?
what time?
interesting thing to note (if you're geek)...
mclaren appear to have arrived in melbourne with the same diffuser that they covered in flow-vis paint last week in testing. assuming they have no plans racing a car that's less than immaculate (this is ron we're talking about), expect this multicoloured diffuser to change significantly today:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/big-picture-mclaren-diffuser-jpg
I think he might be. I suppose there's no surprise that there is wild speculation about driver changes already and we're nowhere near the silly season yet...
I don't even read these sorts of stories anymore. Maybe if someone reports that Alonso's going to Ferrari and it actually happens then I'll pay attention...
Interesting. Yep, you can definitely make out the green bits.
Here's hoping it has a nice v shape in the middle of it in FP1.
How can he be THAT unhappy before anyone's had the chance to compare performance over a single weekend?
Come on, per-leeeease!
i think the v-shape may require significant bodywork changes, it could easily match what toyota have though.
btw. christine says 101 comments required to break 150k. any one fancy winding up mr. roy?
Lurkie-Lurkie-Doo.....
Speed dot com has a couple of new vids up:
"Grand Prix Insights" & "Virtual Lap of Australia"
http://www.speedtv.com/video/popup/17704025001
(for those of you who think 6hrs is too long to wait)...
Nah, thats to easy, lets argue with someone else.
Where's Bernie?
y'okay faceman32?
Ahhh, lurking. quiet times they were. :)
Whats the bet the car hasn't been completely stripped and rebuilt since the test - guess what they're busy doing right now. :D
Fun times. Lets be honest.
Suspiciously too fun.
If Branson does bring sponsorship to BrawnGP, will there be some girlies to go with the launch? Trying to avoid the obvious jokes here, but he does like to show the glamour whenever he appears for promos
Formula Una & Foster's girls replacements?
this just mentioned on the autosport forum. mclaren looking for x2 new aero people:
Aerodynamicists/CFD Engineers
Model Makers/Windtunnel Technicians
entirely meaningless, but somewhat amusing :)
http://www.autosport.com/directory/appointments.html
Virgin Girls?
I'd certainly assist there. ;)
I'm not very good at paper aeroplanes so im not considering sending them my cv
podcast pimpage:
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/03/26/f1-digest-australia-preview-2/
the woman is a machine!
http://images.gpupdate.net/large/120503.jpg
SHINEY!!!! :D :D
I can make model airplanes, does that count?
and by Shiney i obviously mean Shiny :)
Well, some was going to weren't they! ;)
I appreciate the plug 'n all but I broke your hyperlink. It's now:
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/03/26/f1-digest-2009-australia-preview/
wait until the dulux dog gets his paws on it.
the woman is an annoying machine!
:D
Mr C....i promise today will be the last time i ask this until say...we get near 200,000....but.....
can we have a comment count perlease?!
i just did.
up there (or down there depending).
Its going all Comic Relief.
it's all gone comic releif!
Beaten to it... bah.
At the same time that Brawn make a load redundant? Well that's one way to find out their secret.
ah so you did, sorry, havent been watching :P
Except funnier. :D
Hehe.
Apparently this linky will show FP1 & 2
http://www.justin.tv/satis
comparediffuser.com
Now that's a website that should exist, won't be long
(Let’s Compare Notes … post)
little question....which is embarassing...but i have to ask...whats it 150k since?? if you do the comment thing manually then it says comment#226,000 or something like that....
The very start, late 2006 I assume
Awesome!! can't wait. Thanks for the find.
Dank's interesting thingy-me-bob of the day (from grandprix.com):
F1 is a small world after all.
Sorry dunno how to quote. Just saying thanks for the justin link.
Hahahahaha.
do you use the doohickey?
or lclt?
i hoped that wouldnt be the answer lol
doohickey
click on the reply of the post you want to quote, then just click on the words!
It is the number of posted comments since SPC began. We're not entirely sure what the 220k number is - it may or may not have something to do with spam comments, but Wordpress is a mystery unto itself.
ah, righty hehe. whoops, thanks for clarity-fying :P
Wow its just that simple... Thanks
also, clicking on a name, quotes the who comment.
The Who comment on here?
Awesome
:D
i meant "whole". never let me explain anything again.
Lol, thanks for the help.
i see another sidepoddictionaryentry coming :P
It's onnnlllyy teeennaage wa..
...oh. damn. got our hopes up and everything mr c! :P
No worries. Would be nice to have a bbc stream that works in the U.S. though. There's only so much Spanish commentating a person can take... ;)
...ste laaaaand.
Got caught up in the moment.
There was a time in google when you typed in The Who you'd get something like:
Sorry, "the" is a common word and was ignored.
Sorry, "who" is a common word and was ignored.
:D
D:
I'm going to give the live commenting here a shot. I've never tried it out yet so hopefully everything goes smoothly
Should be a ball. Some tips, never ever ever, say what you have just sung. It will come back to haunt you.
doitdoitdoitdoitdoit
Ahem .. I have no recollection of you singing YMCA live on air!
Most important thing to remember is that we're not crazy.
We are all perfectly sane. It's the rest of the world that are lunatics. :D
Not sure exactly what I'm doing exactly, I thought all I had to do was listen in.
The whole live commenting live thing, its alot of fun, and very addictive!
Thats not the important thing. The important thing is it is still inevitably going to happen.
Ahhh, I just meant listening in on the live audio feed.
Oh yes! :D
If you wanna look on how we do it
Brazil Race
Japan FP1 (Brazil practice was marred by the weekend we never mention)
what happened?!
Let me direct you to this page
Just here
everybodies reaction to the end of Brazil is amazing :D
toucheé
Residents of Sidepodland...
I am giving you the decision on what dessert I will make.
1) Steamed chocolate pudding with chocolate custard
2) Steamed treacle pudding and vanilla custard
The decision is yours.
Neither. Give it both to me.
Definitely
Chocolate alllll the way
RG, you have to sing for your supper ;) (or dessert)
What is it with these young upstarts and there need for a logo?
Number 2, I don't like chocolate pudding
Damn.
Whoooo are you?
Who who, who who?
Whhooooooo are you?
Who who, who who?
Well, who are yoooooou?
Who, who, who who?
I really wannna know.
Not to bad actually.
You know what I meant!
Next job interview I go to, I'm sending in a logo, a week in advance. That'll impress 'em
2 votes for chocolate and 1 vote for treacle...
But what do you fancy?
Can i vote with 2 hands?
this!
yum yumy!
Does a steamed chocolate pudding happen cos it's had too much brandy?
Awww.
I'll eat either/both. :D
I may have to go buy some cheesecake
Dammit Flibster .. I want pudding now!
You're not the only one Jackie :)
My job here is done. :D
He's got me thinking that I could go to the supermarket to get cheesecake for quali ... resistance is futile
So allegedly, and it's a big, fat allegedly considering the source - Hamilton has joined the GPDA
No, it is true
But it's on the F1-Live site, it can't be ;)
I have the stuff to make cheesecake in the cupboard/fridge...
Lemon Cheesecake... Would take a couple of hours to set - could be good for after my Alligator or Kangaroo
Damn Flibster now I want lemon cheesecake .. ggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr bit of Tremaining gggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr yum
That's it, I'm off out shopping now :P
Get me one!
Just a little update to my Australian food feast for this weekend..
I need to buy more Tim Tams - they errrr, all disapeared this afternoon.
The Vegemite has been binned as a product from Satan's bottom should be.
i'm glad you've realised :D
OK, so the Danish TV will be showing all the sessions live, and has a FIVE HOUR buildup to the GP with highlights from 1989, 1990, 1994, 1998 and 2000!!!
Bloody hell! Sounds fantastic!
There's just one catch. Can you imagine Kimi Raikkonen as a commentator? Well you don't have to - just watch it in Danish!
Add that to the inventions list along with Aerospace Blu Tac
Oh and no-one at Sidepodcast Towers should look at page 5 of Autosport. If you had mixer envy when you saw Leo's little toy this could push over the edge.
Cos Charlie will change his mind as soon as Donnelly tells him what Max wants him to do.
Hmmmmm, Tim Tams
On the BBC Red Buttonn last night was the 1994 Adelaide GP, that of the Hill vs Schuey incident
Lewis also re-iterated in the interview that he would like to stay with McLaren for his whole career. Surprising no-one is using that as a headline.
I can't imagine Branson asked Button to take th Union Jack off his helmet so their must be another bigger sponsor.
At least someone spoke to the driver this time!
Even Joe Saward forgets about Toyota :D
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/three-new-teams-i-hear-five/
Don't they make boring cars and boxy hybrids? I can't see why they'd want to be in F1???
Blimey, all my F1 feeds have literally asploded with news stories today!!!
He's also saying McLaren may have brought along a previously thought of as suspect, diffuser
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/not-so-silent-night/
(Does it have green paint on it?)
Wa-hey
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/150k-sidepodcast-comments-png
guys we did it!
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/150k-sidepodcast-comments-png
the f1 community rocks the house! thank you :)
soz for being away, just recording a podcast with joe. hopefully will be published in an hour(ish). back soon xx
*ahem*
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTT
Another one? Is Mr C getting the boot and Joe the replacement.
whoops, went a bit off screen!
i think so :)
I would have thought Davidson would be about a tenth of Wurz's cost.
If not just for free publicity
Yay!
*applauds everyone*
haha.
That is how he operates. He has spotted an opportunity to get a good return on cheap sponsorship. He didn't get involved in the space business till it was a certainty that Burt Rutan's team was a certainty to win the X Prize. He turned up stuck some Virgin logos on it and Virgin Galactic was born. Branson is a very smart operator.
Forget to say it when I came on, happy birthday Alianora.
I bet Branson uses Virgin Media's broadband campaign with some sort of "fast" F1 connotation
Most drivers and teams have performance related clauses.
Ooh, really?
Happy Burpday Alia!
Not if he has two years left on his contract. If Ferrari had done that to Kimi at the end of last season they would have to have paid him two years salary and would have been very lucky to get off that light.
If you bothered to check the Birthdays page on the wiki.
Or seen Mr and Mrs C comments at the top of the lclt ;)
No
I don't use lclt, it's so 2008 ;)
whoooops-a-doodle.....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALIA!
Too late now. We don't need you for anything now ;)
Not even when you have just logged on?
I don't know how it managed to quote a comment that wasn't there when I was writing! :(
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/the-morning-after-the-night-before/
Indeed. ;-)
Evening all.
What is this "just logged on"
Desktop Doohickey runs 24hrs at Chez Clapper
F1 preview on 5live right now.
sidepodcast (heart) joe!
Oiving Dom.
Watching 'The Mentalist'. I have a distinct impression the lead character is Nico Rosberg.
The Mentalist? Is that a programme about Nutters?
Can I have the chocolate pudding in the vanilla custard
Ooh, good. The last one was excellent. :)
Basically about a psychic (I always get it confused with psycho's)
Jackie's gone to the shops for us
Well, I asked her to get me one. Don't know how many she can carry :)
What a silly name for a programme.
Is it yet another programme about a guy who solves murders?
I'll have the treacle with no custard.
http://allenonf1.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/why-virgin-is-getting-into-bed-with-brawn/
The Brawn cars will totally dominate this weekend and the next few as well, until the others can catch up.
Pleeeeease let it be true. :D
I think the writer's must've been Ali G fans
I have toffee cheesecake now, its a bit sweet but they had no lemon
In general yes.
But I like these sorta shows.
Don't you start! :D
If you are going to the Science museum Bassano I'll bring cake
So does my wife. She watches them all the time and I can't stand them!
actually it's far too sweet, I could now be sick
Ah bless, I'm a maybe at the mo
Need to pass on some speed tape to Mr C so it's looking more likely
And it also appears to be turning into Swap Shop
I think this is a bit of an over-estimation from Mr Allen, personally
Australians are slowly taking over american tv, Alan Dale is their leader
Apologies, Australasians!
I didn't realise Mr Dale was a Kiwi
JIM FROM NEIGHBOURS!!!
I'm going to the corner shop (Morisons) to get some sweets....its going to be a long night :D
I didn't either, but TBH, to be a successful NZ'er you really should move abroad!
I don't want to get my hopes up too much, but it's getting pretty hard not to.
Nice interview with Jenson there. :)
He he, true. Like Russell Crowe
Or Bruce McLaren.
Flight of the Conchords
Five Live just said it was 8:31
Did I put my clocks forward too soon?
:)
It'll be interesting to compare the KERS and non-KERS BMWs, I wonder if they'll remain like that for the weekend?
Is that cause Kubica's had a few too many puddings
Probably, or pies :D
Puddings on the mind!
For once, it's not Steven Roy's fault
Just listening to 5Live's preview, what does everything think of the cars now we've had the new shape around for a few months now?
I'm really used to them now, the rear wing doesn't stand out as much as when we first saw them and the back of the cars look so much nicer without the crazy winglets pointing every direction under the sun. David Croft was just saying how its a case of looking at them in shock at first but soon getting used to them and I definitely agree there.
Still beautiful. Just them liveries.
Ok....so i know that i fall asleep very easily......so....to combat this i've just been to morrisons.....
i am now the proud owner of....
1 packet of Haribo Tangfest
1 packet of Haribo Super Kidies Mix
1 packet of fruit pastiles
4 packets of love hearts!!
Wooo!! Not going to sleep earlier tonight! :P
I think the the rear wing still looks a bit weedy but I'm used to them now as well
Same, but I still think they're going to look very odd when they all line up on the grid.
Wow, did you get any insulin with that lot?
That's quite a stash! I'll be buying all my 'wake up damnit' stuff tomorrow during work on my lunch. Highlight of my day aisdes from F1 ;)
I plan on getting drunk with a mate and staying up for quali, sleeping in really late on Sat and then going straight through to the chequered flag
I'm sure there's somewhere on the site that tells me, but since we're trying too get a lot of comments in, is there something I have to do to get into the live commenting?
Be here during the races.
It's what you're doing now. At some point there'll be a thread on the home page for the practice, I'd imagine
are you using the doohickey/lclt? if you are then your already doing it :D
A most likely an embedded video for whatever session is going on
The Korean GP is definitely going to happen. They have a logo. I think I will set up a logo design company. It is clearly the future of F1 to produce logos.
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns21283.html
As I said earlier, its actually a nice logo
We were talking about that earlier. I'm just going to submit a logo instead of a CV in future
I scanned all the hundreds of comments I missed earlier. I guess the logo didn't register with me. Surprising since I get so excited about logos. Maybe I need a personal logo.
DD needs a search function, I keep trying to 'cmd F' still and I've been running it for a few weeks
A few weeks? Long list of stats?
For your blog?
wow just got home, i'm so tired. So much for an early night. have i missed much this evening/ afternoon?
Nah, it gets very slow above 1300 comments and needs to be re-started
Virgin to be announced as BrawnGP sponsor apparently
i suppose money wise that's good. but the name? :/
We're avoiding that, well, most of us anyway :)
Force-Virgin-Honda-Brawn-GP-A-Team
can we just call them Brawn? it's much nicer.... soooo where is the red going to go on the livery :P
Brawny Virgins GP
Diffuser protest lodged, overturned and appeals likely. Not gonna be resolved till after Malaysia apparently
Knowing Branson - everywhere
Hopefully all over the white
Anyone notice Virgin Media's logo is Red, White & Yellow (with a bit of black shading)
http://www.cnet.co.uk/i/c/blg/cat/televisions/virgin_media.jpg
And it looks like a pringle
once Brawn pop, they just can't stop!
okay i'm off to get some sleep before practice! eeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkk!!! how i'm going to sleep i will never know, but i'm going to try and be up for 1:20.... FP1 starts at 1:30 right? eeeeeekkkk!!!! i'm literally bouncing around the room :D
G'night Lou (or not, as the case may be)
I don't want to have to deal with the McLaren/Force India thing all over again with Ferrari/Brawn GP.
Do you have school tomorrow? Cos if you do, I think your mad.
See you in 3 hours!!
That's what F1 does to you. ;)
Like I said to lou then, I wish I was that brave to stay up for that long!
I'ma go watch a DVD now and drift slowly into sleep... it always works. ;) See you guys for FP2
She gets sleep, i'm staying up till then!!!
i have a history confirence in london.... which means i need to get up earlier... so yeah i'm absolutely mad. i blame my love for formula 1 and live commenting and excitment... okay i need to go now.....
I'm not doing it. I'm not insane enough.
btw: we only need two more teams to make 400 fantasy racer entries.
Super Augri is Back is number 398!
I think that means 3 hours sleep tonight...
Yup, am definitely insane.
They've got till tomorrow night haven't they, easy!
*goes to think up another couple of teams*
;)
I haven't made one yet, but only cause I can't think of a team name!
Extra points awarded for unpronounceability
How did that happen? That is a hundred teams in less than two weeks.
Super Duper Uuper Ruper Luper Aguri?
It's really ramping up here, loads of new names tonight in the comments
But they've already finished all the roll calls so I won't get the joy of Christine freezing as she tries to read it.
i'm totally out of the loop, hi to anyone commenting for the first time! we love you.
But there'll be Top 5 or so call outs and mayber some randoms like last year
You will if your team is near the top after Australia - or any other race.
Plu, there's always the pleasure in trying to beat Mr C :)
Mr C's on the red wine or bull I'm guessing ;)
am having a really good day :)
as yet, just orange juice.
I must be close to the top there. :D
Haven't been this excited for a race in ages myself either
Yet he struggles to say his own team name quite often
Good god - the Tesla S is an absolute stunner!
$50k - damn - I may have ordered the wrong car...
http://www.autobloggreen.com/photos/tesla-model-s-live-reveal/
Tairy Hesticles? :P
I think he must be a little drunk but trying to cover it with orange juice!
"Hello, all you new people, i love you guys, i really love you" He said slurringly :P
Oh and happy birthday Alianora ;)
What is its resale value going to be? Mind you you ordered a Lotus so resale is not going to be good anyway.
But your girlfriend would then be likened to an OMD song
OMD?
You've lost me there... :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Girls
My photoshop addiction is getting a bit out of hand, here's my latest shot at a Virgin livery
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/brawngp1-jpg
Well, Mr C would've got it, Christine less likely
Either that or the virgin cola...
Anyway, hello, im one of those new names :D Thankyou for the top class podcast!
Welcome Rob and all the other first timers
Lurkers, don't be shy, we dont bite... at first
WOW thats awesome!!!
That yellow and red look so bad together but I actually quite like that livery :S
very good, but i think they're gonna go for a red on white livery, its just a feeling
yep, I agree with that.
Brillaint stuff sir, really do hope that is it. Can't see any white other than the sponsor.
I like that. Better than the white.
It's going to be roughtly 2/3 of the price of the Evora.
Battery packs can apparently be changed in 8 minutes and it can charge on good old, proper 230v in 45 minutes...
No - mustn't go over to the dark side....
And I still think it would be a specific Virgin brand than just the group as a whole, Dont they have a domestic australian airway - Virgin Blue?
I'm not really a fan of the combination myself but it features in most of Virgins logo's and isn't dissimilar to their trains. There probably wont be so much red in the real thing as Virgin isn't going to be the title sponsor anyway.
They do, but airlines are kinda struggling at the mo
I was thinking Virgin Media
But that wouldnt work when they move on, it would have to be a worldwide brand for them to maximise from it
It'll be more visible than the Henri Lloyd logo though, surely
Is Virgin Media international or just a British thing?
Just British I think
Globally, it's gotta be Virgin Atlantic or Galactic
Probably the former, hopefully the latter :P
Alrighty, SPC league member #399: Uber Super Duper Aguri.
Thank you RG.
Large share owned by Singapore Airlines on the former
The latter, not taking in much revenue these days :)
Oh, they should so go for Galactic, I'd forgotten about them. That would have to be one of the coolest sponsorship deals on the grid. :)
Not much in the way of freebies I expect
No worries mate. ;)
Just to tidy this up from last night, it seems to have appeared eventually, albeit the wrong way up and with no title!
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/picture
awesome!
That's fantastic!
Blimey that season preview took longer than predicted. I'm all worn out, I'm going to see you tomorrow.
Right, busy weekend ahead.
G'night all
Joe Saward says you guys did a quick podcast with him today? :)
Hmmm... Interesting... :D
wooo, F1 weekend!!
night!
Virgin Blue is still red
wasn't there a red/blue livery rumour before the buyout?
Night you pair.
Can't see a domestic airline sponsoring F1 though
Reports are that it's the Virgin brand [really am off now]
uploaded soon. christine working on f1 minute at the same time.
me? i'm just commenting :)
you haven't heard it yet? :)
What? You said it hasn't been uploaded yet. Now I'm all confused. :P
ignore me.
I'm so excited, and i just can't hide it.
I'm about to lose control and I think I like it? :P
Hopefully, i'm about to fall asleep and then not ignore my alarm at 1.20am. But yeah, losing control sounds fun :P
Well I might regret this but I need a nap so hope to be awake for FP1 ..ttfn
night jackie.
woooeeee ;)
I know what I want to see on the side of Brawn GP
http://www.virgindrinks.com/drink-details.asp?ProductID=61
Would that make it scotch versus vodka for the championship? (Do any other teams have alcoholic sponsors?)
That would be one way to get Kimi to away from Ferrari :D
McLaren have Johnny Walker and previously had a vodka sponsor.
You may get Brawn and red bull teaming up to form red square...
That is a team I FULLY support. Especially since that's the team that's going to help me actually stay awake for the races.
Should have the 5Live F1 Preview show uploaded to Drop.io soon. :D
ok....so your at an F1 press conference...you get 1 question to bernie, and 1 question to max....you can ask anything, but only 1 question to each...what do you ask....
Max: Was all the *ahem* exposure worth the 2 and a half grand?
Bernie: Why didn't you get rid of Thwax Mosley when you had the chance?!
nice
Max: Daddy or chips?
Bernie: Daddy or chips?
Mine would be....
"Max, you seem to be doing a great job of annoying everyone and overstaying your welcome whilst Bernie, you seem to be doing an amazing job of thinking up crackpot schemes to get FOM more money, i get 1 question so my question is this.....can we have our sport back please?"
You know I just had the same thought. Wow.
Either we're predictable or just completely AMAZING. I'll side with the latter :-)
With 2 hours to go, how many comments do we have in total, Mr C?
we beat it a while back :D woooo
Coolness! Great job! I knew it we could pull it off!
Of course :)
Bullseye in Albert Park: http://uk.redbulletin.com/articles/bullseye_in_albert_park/ :-D
Discover Simple, Private Sharing at Drop.io
oooh
what happened there
Bernie is too busy to attend the openning race in Australia - I'm sorry to hear that.
My question to Bernie: Tell us what will it take to get F1 back in north-america?
I'd give my question to Max away to Joe Saward.
what i meant to do was http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/aus-3459-jpg
so many jokes..so little time
Completely agree. :D
He'll tell you it's to get the teams to do it for him, or something to that effect. He blames them, after all. ;)
Are we going to be able to live-stream free practice like we could on ITV's site last year? If so does anyone have linkage?
Yepyep. They'll be a link before the session starts
Via F1 Fanatic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiwXaP9-BZs Brundle does his 'gridwalk' on BBC local news :-D
thats awesome..
this is also very funny...imagine if Hammond was commentating...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5RBL8Jkxn4&feature=related
soz, embeds not working yet... one day :)
lol its ok, ive never linked to drop.io before, wasnt sure what i was doing :D
have you tried the "share image" button in doohickey?
umm. no, didnt know what it did
does it download it onto drop.io and link it automatically?
got it in one.
WOW, that is tres cool. i shall try that at some point
you guys are awesome for doing all this, its amazing!!
fankuverymuch :D
anytime. much fun. we got new stuff coming later in the season.
Ooo
:) awesomenessage :D
5Live thing is finally uploading to drop.io...
Damn netbooks...
right....i'm going to have an hours nap. if i go to sleep now, then i can get up at 1.20 for FP1, then sleep between 3 and 6, then catch the last hour of FP2.
WOOOOOOOO! Sidepodexcitment!!!
I only got the last half of the season with you guys last year, this year your stuck with me for the whooooooooooooooooooole year :D :D
See you in an hour!!
conversation with joe now posted:
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/03/27/episode-98-pretending-not-to-pretend-to-sandbag/
enjoy!
see ya :)
w00t!
NO!!!! HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO ME!!!
red bull?
nada, i've just reset my alarm for 1am. man you guys are just podcast making machines....
45 minutes for sleepies!!
Just did a re-scan of the channels availabel on my laptop to get the BBC Red button channel for obvious reasons. ;) It came up with...
BBC East (West)
Errr... What?
The west bit of the east?
So London then?
That would be here then....
We are apparently bbc east (west)....
I have just realised how utterly unrealistic Star Wars is. When did Capt Kirk/Picard/Janeway ever ask the computer to do anything only to be told it needed to install a Java update. Then when they agreed they had to read the license first. Then decide whether or not they wanted a Yahoo toolbar. Then they had to shut down the software controlling the warp engine before the update could be installed. Then with the Klingons/Romulans/Borg closing in the computer says it has to shut down engines, life support, weapons so that it can re-boot itself.
You mean Star Trek of course.
Damn
Here we go people:
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/03/27/live-australia-free-practice-1/
:D
the car's ecu died today, and when it rebooted itself it said there was no fuel in the car. i was 99% confident there was, but have you any idea how hard it is to drive past a petrol station when your car insists it's out of fuel?
ECU's - always entertaining. :D
Try driving a car with an incorrect ECU from another model in the range. Black smoke, jerkyness, pops, bangs.. :D
Morning
Thank you to everyone who wished me happy birthday.
Class was a bit scrappy, but the lasagne and chocolate cake afterwards were great. Even if I only got 100 minutes of sleep before the serious business of F1 began...