A nice, relaxing Saturday in store for Sidepodcast Towers. I intend to spend a good hour or so reading through F1 Racing before getting on with the usual weekend stuff. What are you guys up to?
- We saw the new and official Williams livery yesterday, with some new pictures released. The blue is much brighter than I was expecting, and we have yet to spot the new sponsor that was talked about last week. The big news is the flip ups by the cockpit though - how are they getting away with that?
- Kyle Busch has pondered the possibility of joining F1 for a couple of years, just to have a bit of fun, before returning to the day job. As a NASCAR man, it would take more than a couple of years to get success, wouldn't it?
- The speculation is hyping up again that the FIA are looking at the budget caps option as a way of cutting costs in the future. There's no confirmation of this, but I hope it's not true. I was in favour of budget caps before, but am now convinced they wouldn't be able to police it at all.
That should do it for now. If you were taking part in the Batracer 1986 game, you'll need the updated details for the game, which should be starting soon. Meanwhile, I'll see you in the comments.
'Fugly News' jingle please
(he said he needed a reminder)
Just what do you buy a one year old that is not exactly in need of more toys for his birthday?
Funky baby clobber I guess it is then
If anyone hasn't yet seen it
http://club.forceindiaf1.com/forceindiaf1/gallery/view_gallery.one?pid=60524709
We are getting somewhere in these liveries
Surely needed when you mention the FIF1 paint scheme :)
Yeah, closer to the toilet... I think I'm going to be sick.
No gold though, I guess that is something.
Someone explain to me why in this picture they're holding up the FA cup?
Looks like they've realised they've put the pictures up a day or so early - been taken down now! :-D
Uni work, then perhaps some Mario Kart (64 - the best!) and takeaway pizza in the evening. Good times.
It looks more like the Indian flag, so you can hardly say they've gone in the wrong direction :P
do kingfisher sponsor the team who last won it or something?
autosport have some on track pics:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73469
presumably silverstone.
Portsmouth are sponsored by Oki who make printers!
Hi All,
Its past my bedtime and considering the issues I had posting while busy at work today, I really dont think now is a good time to attempt conversation.
But I will anyway.
You may facepalm now if you like!
I miss far too many topics being covered here because I just don't get the time, so this may have been said many times before.
Can we just call 'the team formerly known as Honda' "Brackley F1" and attempt to force my thinking on everyone who visits here?
Sorry. Goodnight.
Night Jeremy
Brackley F1 is kinda catching on already I think
I still prefer Gonda ;)
yep I think it is. I've certainly tried to call them that over the last week or so. 'Honda' does slip out sometimes though.
haha, how does that work?
'Honda' & 'Gone' merged
Christine: thought you might appreciate a card I just picked up for one of the many impending birthdays on my horizon
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/panda-b-day-card-jpg
Aww, that is cute :)
Not my birthday for ages. Boo.
I know that this doesn't really have anything to do with F1 but if it might well mean I can't take part in the panel tomorrow :(
Why I will be leaving Demon Internet: http://tinyurl.com/alw6bc
This is why I speak to team leaders if my issue can't be resolved in 2 minutes
Bad news Giggles ;(
ummm, there's not a panel tomorrow.
damn i'm gonna be in trouble with christine now...
*help*
I escalated a few times on the phone to customer support. They said, "we are marking down these comments as an official complaint, there is nothing more we can do".
uh oh!
You need to speak to the contract cancellations department, they always have more swing. If they can't sort it, then they really are useless
Is it one week on, one week off till the season starts?
The contract cancellations department at Demon... Are not open on weekends!
Ah yes, they never are.
iPhone it is then
Plugged into the charger
See, there needs to be some sort of participation show now, so giggles can contribute
grr.
No no... Don't worry about me!
Sorry :D
Not to rub it in but I bought a Skype headset as well, now if I can only work out how to live comment at 35,000 ft . . .
Maybe if I ask the Captain nicely ;)
I think I just got confused...
soz, no worries. i got told off for mentioning it too soon. christine said people would get all excited and want to do it this week. i said "nahhh...".
you shoulda seen the look i just got :)
Ahhh the old "Told you so"!
She's a mystic :D
hehe.
soz about demon. although i'm amazed being a geek like yourself you don't have a t1 into the living room :)
Do you want the name of the company that does the Panda card?
It's blank so you can put whatever grovelling message you need to inside ;)
Who do you use? If you don't mind me asking!
Giggles, can't you hotwire the Crystal Palace transmitter or something?
btw alex - is this any interest to you:
http://identi.ca/sidepodcasttalk
am trying to rally support for the idea, but someone's not in the slightest bit interested :(
Not quite readable though unless you go to each link
Certainly doesn't like quotes
Funnily enough I was subscribed to it before but... um... I un-subscribed when it reapeared...
You just get too many comments now for it to make sense for me. And then I have to sort on identi.ca between comments I have seen already and comments that I haven't which were direct on identi.ca
So soz :( I'm sure the API was good fun to play with though :)
freedom2surf, but we don't recommend them.
sadly it's an llu installation, which means there's no way of leaving unless you switch off the line and get bt to install a new one. somehow, it's fallen through the offcom regulations that stop people being tied to a single isp. so we is stuck.
I use Virgin Media 10MB service but I have their Cable TV & phone too
Daytime limit is 1GB so I grab most of the big stuff after 9pm
[And I mean BIG]
great :D
just to be more geeky i have it tied to a freindfeed realtime room too:
http://friendfeed.com/rooms/sidepodcasttalk/realtime
again, there's no way of replying, by the comments arrive there uber fast.
If I exceed that during the day, I'm 'traffic managed' down to 2MB for 5 hours. Aside from that it's pretty good
just in case you've not seen it before. i love this video:
http://axisofoversteer.blogspot.com/2009/02/evolution-of-f1-timing-systems.html
I be honest, Liuzzi or Fisi don't stike me as Portsmouth fans, or even Mallya
I knew that, otherwise I'd be running in circles right now looking for questions, because my sheet looks rather blank.
Giggles: I really enjoyed your tragedy of the self mong post
http://www.gamboling.co.uk/2009/02/tragedy-of-self-mong.html
Why am I even talking about the FA Cup anyway, its Man Chu we need to be talking about.
Bit camp don't ya think boys?
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/dfi0926fe82-jpg
Thank you :)
That's the premier league trophy. No idea why Force India have it though?
Don't think so...
That's no good :(
The worrying thing is trying to work out what has been causing the issue. My worry is that it might have been the new version of JungleDisk doing something weird. Especially worrying because every download / upload means... quite a scary AWS bill!
Oooh I'll take a look :)
Columbo of Amazon :P
I use O2 broadband, which uses Be's infrastructure scince Telefonica own both. As far as Im aware, their Fair use policy is no limit, unless it affects others in which case they'll warn you to decrease your usage.
I cant believe you've been with Demon scince 1995, they should have a plaque with your name on or something ;)
Race Pro update - just in the middle of one of the F3000 contracts in Career Mode, currently racing at Macau. I've managed to find a forums which is providing setups for car and track combos for RP and I'm finding them a real help in terms of chasing faster lap times. Was online with a few friends in Formula BMWs and we had a blast running around Monza, Brno, Zandvoort and Brands Hatch with this setup I'd found for the car.
Kyle Busch is tempted by F1:
http://www.itv-f1.com/news_article.aspx?id=45181
Shame he couldn't test last year. I both do and don't want him in F1.
Scott, is there going to be a Race Pro demo any time soon? I heard not.
There was going to be one scheduled for release, but it kept getting put back so much the developers had no idea what was going on with it and eventually they must have cancelled it since it was probably only a week or so before scheduled release so there was no point. Anyway, why would they release a demo for a game that's already out?
Well indeedy! I have used Demon since 1993 which was about 2 months after they started (technically they started in 1992 I think). But I was using my father and my shared account. In 1995 I could afford to get my own account. At the time the idea of ISP independent e-mail addresses wasn't even something people considered (at least I hadn't). There was no webmail as they didn't start to appear until 1996 with Hotmail. So many of my subscribed services have as their underlying e-mail address my demon.co.uk e-mail address. You can tell that Demon was early in that they offered you your own sub domain blah.demon.co.uk on top of which you could have as many e-mail addresses and even host your own website on the static IP address.
But yes I'm somewhat tied to them because so many things direct there.
I was wondering the same, but personally I'd like one as the lack of good damage is something that could put me off. IUf it's as realistic as it sounds though, then it could be awesome. I especially like how you can do qualifying, both online and offline.
Moving along slightly, is there a mod which allows online play for GPM 2?
No, sadly not yet
Has it been brought up here that Bruno Senna is talking to Mercedes about a drive with... wait for it... DTM?
http://www.touringcartimes.com/news.php?id=3173
Interesting...
Bah.
I'm gonna go on F1 97, and change the teams and drivers to current ones. So it wiould probably be, with 97 team - 08 team
Ferrari - Ferrari
McLaren - McLaren
Williams - Williams
Sauber - BMW
Benneton - Renault
Tyrell - Honda
Jordan - Force India
Prost - Red Bull
Minardi - Toro Rosso
Arrows - Super Aguri
Stewart - Toyota
Some of the teams, like Toyota were started as an entirely new team (Toyota were IIRC), so I just randomly done those. I was thinking replacing Stewart with Honda might be better than replacing Tyrell, because Rubens was at Stewart.
Better to do Prost-Toyota, Prost left at the end of 01, Toyota came in at the start of 02. Not to mention that both were led at some point by Olivier Panis. Besides, Stewart became Jaguar, then became Red Bull.
Ah, thanks for that. Renaming is as far as I can go, but F1 97 is still the best F1 game on a console, so it'll do.
DONT DO IT BRUNO!!! YOU'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO COME BACK!! NOOO
lol
Wow, just realised that only 3 teams haven't changed identity in the last 12 years. Ferrari, McLaren & Williams
And you're surprised because...? F1 has always seen much change in such short periods of time.
Blu-Ray may not be the "bag of hurt" it once was to Apple
Blu-Ray get's cheaper
meh, still can't beat the convenience of itunes.
I don't ever think I'll buy physical media again, I've got a media player hooked up to a big hard drive for TV & film in HD
iPod and iPhone soon
Could do without the hassle of physical storage too
just need some faster pipes and drop.io is all you'll need.
And to think the government is trying to make 2MB a basic standard. If you're going to push it should be 10-20 at a minimum
Bit out of the comment loop at the moment so forgive me if this has already been mentioned!
The domain name brawnracing.com has been registered in the last few days by Honda's current legal director.
Brackley F1, Brawn Sport, Brawn Racing... all a bit naff, but hey ho.
Hmm, interesting. Thanks Dank.
So has gonda.com and the site is under construction... hmm
Though probably not by any F1 legal directors, I'd imagine
Oooh I like the Force India, something different. Nothing too outlandish from the car design through or so I can tell.
Now I can finally relax after an annoying day at work and read f1 racing in peace. Ahhh.
Stupid comments not appearing.
What about sensible ones? ;)
: P
True. It's changed a lot even in the past 5 years. Jordan and Minardi gone. I don't remember teams like Pacific, Simtek or Forti in great detail, but others such as Prost, Arrows and the 2 I firstly mentioned, those teams I have fond memories of.
I also got F1 Racing earlier, yay. Nice circuits poster.
Don't worry, you're not missing much!
I'm loving the poster. I thought lewis came across pretty well in the interview too.
Oh and another F1 racing comment, the stuff about Renault and how the livery is setup i found pretty fascinating, always wondered how they do the designs and put them onto the cars so I loved that feature in this month's mag.
You could say the same with Minardi for people that got really interested in the sport post-Minardi, like Christine and Lou (2005 for them IIRC? And Minardi were pretty much done by then unfortunately). Yet Minardi are like Super Aguri, pretty bad teams in terms of pace, but they had great individual moments and are fondly remembered by many fans. That's what I think anyway.
I'm only just starting the 2009 preview bit now, probably won't be reading for a little while as I'll be sat here most likely and I can't cocentrate on a book while at teh compooter. I'm wild, I know.
Minardi did have some staying power
Super Aguri.... I'll get back to you on that
(Well, maybe Davidson, I s'pose)
2003 for me, although I was barely paying attention back then.
To be fair, who was at that time. Schuey was dominating so much it was unbelieveable.
Ooops, sorry. If I remember rightly, you weren't a fan of Minardi. Which would be my point.
Eh, 2003 was a great, competitive season. Also had Minardi getting P1 in an official F1 session for the first and only time in their history.
I don't remember saying that, I don't have anything against them. I am rarely a fan of one particular team over another.
However, as you say, nothing about them stands out for me, which is your point.
It determines really if you like those underdogs, I liked Minardi, they were sorta my second team, mainly cos they were useless, but when they did something well, my god was it a special moment, like getting P1 in France 03
Meh, they only got it because both Verstappen and Wilson were the only 2 cars to get a proper dry lap in since I remember it was a bit wet that day.
And? Thats the whole point of being an underdog, you take advantage of the situation, you dont give a damn if its because everyone else did it in a wet track and yours was dry, you be happy because its gonna be one of the few times, if only, it happens
Wilson was underweight remember, so officially they only got P1. Not many times does a team end a session with their cars occupying both first and last positions.
Yeah but it wasn't earned, it was luck of the draw. In the same situation, any of the other teams could and most likely would have pulled it off. Vettel's win at Monza last year was an earned victory because he managed to drive that car faster than anyone else could in the appalling conditions that day. The France '03 was certainly a milestone, yes, but personally it doesn't deserve as much credit as Vettel's win does because it was just taking advantage of the situation, not perservering and triumphing when everyone one was effectively on a level playing field. The same can be said for Barrichello's 3rd at Silverstone - good result, but they only got it thanks to Ross Brawn's tactical thinking.
Going by the same logic as you're applying with France 03, vettel didn't earn that fully either, as he took advantage of the more-levelled playing field. See what I mean?
Qualifying wise, your right, looking through the archives, I'm yet to find the last one where that happend, closest I've got is Japan 2006, with Ralf on pole and Jarno not setting a lap, but still 19th.
Sorry, 2005
Am listening to a rather interesting cover of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" on Last.fm
http://www.last.fm/music/Giant+Drag/_/Wicked+Game
Okay, last time it happend was Monaco 2005 with McLaren, Raikkonen on pole and Montoya 18th and last.
*Tumbleweed
Well, Webber feels fine in the Red Bull
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73474
Damn, my hopes for Honda to be rebranded as Team Awesome Racing have been dashed by a biking team
http://www.teamawesomeracing.com
*shakes fist*
Looking at the records, the aint too bad.
Was reading the physical magazine of this earlier, and found the web version.
Alan Dale reckons if he wasn't an actor, being an F1 driver would be the ultimate job.
Will speak to you guys in about a week
Hope to be on the show - whatever it may be - on the 8th
I see sidepodpanda is in a TV add for hand cream or something similar.
cheers bassano.
Oops sorry me, just noticed I posted that on the wrong thread .. can you delete it please
Wouldn't it be cool if Ross Brawn read Sidepodcast and decided to call his team Wigglywigglywigglywigglywooshswoosh Racing
I might just be persuaded to support them
would that even fit on the car though? :P also, hey everyone :)
Hi Lou :D
Imagine James Allen
'AND ITS WIGGLYWIGGLYWIGGLYWIGGLYWOOSHSWOOSH WIGGLING THEIR WAY TO VICTORY WITH BUTTON IN THE LEAD, YES.'
Good job he's stuck with his blog then
Took Autosport a while to cover that. I had it on my blog several hours before them
(smug, can you tell?)
Million dollar question though Dank. Is the new Red Bull fast?
Would that make the car the wwwww01
as you should be :)
it would make it wwws01 wouldn't it? you forgot the 'swoosh' :P
Of course but 4 w's and an s. 3 wiggly's 1 woosh and a swoosh
wwwws01
:D
Nurse! :D
Mr Brawn, if you are reading this, I think you understand the complexity of the name. Try something simpler instead.
I dunno, Team RGRules?
:D
It's very important to get the car id correct. Everyone who was around at the time remembers the Jordan 191 which was the first Jordan F1 car as one of the best looking cars of all time. Unfortunately it was first lanch as the 911 rather than 191 and Porsche to great exception and contacted EJ to express their displeasure.
But as a compromise, EJ managed to bag use of a Porsche 911 as his company car for the whole year :D
If EJ fell in a sewer he would come out with a salmon in his pocket.
He was a wiley old fox when it came to negotiations.
Speaking of the loveable Irish rogue... He'll be interviewing Bernie at every race this year as part of his role at the BBC. Wonder how long it will be before he upsets him and finds he's banned from the paddock? :-)
I have told the story 100 times about when he got stopped speeding in his youth towing his race car. He thought he was going to get the book thrown at him and when he got back in the car his mate asked what happened. EJ says 'Yer man is collecting the car on Wednesday.' Not only had he talked his way out of the ticket but he sold the cop his car.
I'm giving the over - under of four races.
I'm giving one race before the BBC decide that wasn't the best option.
haha that's awesome. there seems to be alot i don't know about eddie jordan. but then again i only really know that he ran an f1 team... so i suppose there is much to learn.
Is he doing the grid walk or Brundle still doing it?
You should try to read the book he wrote last year.
Brundle will do it, surely?
You must know about the wig, right? That makes 2 things you already knew.
i'll put it on my list for after exams/the summer holidays ;)
the wig?
As far as I know Brundle is doing the grid walk and EJ and DC will be in an onsite studio.
Brundle made the grid walk what the grid walk is.
Everyone knows about the wig,
We obviously haven't met then
erm...i don't...
haha :D
I thought my F1 Career Challenge disk was dead, but I just stuck it in after cleaning the laser lens and it works, YEEEEEEESSSSSS! Superb F1 game. It was unique to others, in that you played 4 real seasons, from 1999 to 2002. Started in 99, you have to pass tests to get your Superlicense. Depending on how well you do, you'll get different teams offering you a race seat.
When you get a drive, you'll be told before the race where your team expect you to finish, e.g. "we expect you to finish 7th". The better you do, the more your reputation increases, with better teams gving you offers. All the driver changes that happened from 1999 to 2002 happen here too, such as Salo for Schumi, Alsono comes in 2001, and even Arrows stop showing up for races near the end of 2002. The chief pit guy on your radio sounds just like Paul Stoddart too. You can buy upgrades with points you earn during the race, upgrades like engine performance, perfect reliability and others. I'll stop now, but it's fantastic
I'd say Scott has probably played it.........have you, Scott?
It's a wig!
I hope so. Then again, I don't watch the races on the BBC.
I'm just wonder who is going to be doing for Speed since Windsor is up to something.
Yep. EJ wears a chest wig.
Windsor said in the latest F1 Racing that he'll still be doing his usual Speed work, so no worries for you there mate.
I still play it and love it. It is amazing how much better that game was compared to the previous EA version. It is amazing what you can do when FOM's lawyers aren't crawling all over the place.
...
Did we really need to know that?
Mr. C, I'm having a problem with the lclt. I click post and nothing happens. I've often had this happen, but I thought I'd mention it (that and Lou was insistent that I say :P). I did have it say that there was an error earlier, but it didn't mention what the error was. Usually when I try to post it, it won't post the comment, but no message appears saying about an error or anything. I'm using Firefox 3 and am on XP btw.
What??? Will he still be doing the press conferences at the end of the races?
Starting a team and reporting at the races. I think he is going to earn a couple of free trips via air miles.
On his head.
:D:D
Checking on my lclt
!!!!!
.....
you're joking right?
:D
He's speculating. ;)
that's an odd one. any probs with doohickey?
oh. okay.
It's been a slow news day. :P
It's true I tell you. I read it somewhere
our fav news agency?
Nah Mr.C. Dookickey's no problem. First time I've used it, excellent I must say. Well done on it, how do you and Christine keep up with all this? You should charge us or something to be honest : P
Donation button's on the homepage :)
:)
lclt is a bit of a cut 'n shut job at the moment, it's due for an update next week. doohickey is about 20x more stable right now.
Subtly done
can't say i've had much time to notice. Curse my teachers for giving me so mcuh work and curse the head of drama who has all that are involved in the school musical coming into school every sunday for the next 3 weeks! :/
Ssshhh!
:D
Indeed, curse Tottenham for getting into the Carling Cup final and Leeds for winning the Super League to get into the World Club Challenge. And whoever thought it would be funny to make me play a game at 12:45, in Blyth.
Can't believe nobody has mentioned its Bourdais birthday today.
on thursday i was asked to remind the girl to enter it into the daily post.
have you any freakin' idea how much trouble i'm in now?
:(
Enough to cost you a whole Milky Bar?
several :(
Nah, I forgot Franck's birthday too. To remember anyone else's would be favouritism.
next time somethin' a needs a remembering... ask r.g :)
I'm off now, night!
before you go... anyone's birthday tomorrow?
night sir.
next f1 drivers birthday i know of is glock's and that's on the 18th (i don't know all the drivers birthdays before you ask, it's on my calender)
:)
how old is bourdais anyhow?
Thirty.
That's probably got you into more trouble
that's older than steven!
30.
That's older than I will be for many, many years.
:D
actually speaking of birthdays, i've been commenting for well over a year now and never once seen a mention for Mr C's birthday. I think remember Christine's is around June/July kinda time (sorry if that's wrong). so happy birthday to Mr C whenever you're birthday is/was... :D
I find it funny that Bourdis has just one season behind him is 30, and Alonso isn't even 30 yet.
Bourdais, woops. I usually look over messages before I send them, honest.
Bourdais did champ car or something though didn't he?
hehe. thanks u.
Yeah but he was a rookie last year and he was 29. Alonso had 2 titles by then, infact, I don't know if he's 29 yet.
July 29, 1981 = 27.
He won that championship 4 years in a row before he moved to F1.
Alonso is 28 i think.
However Alonso's qualifying performance was good, at his first race he out-qualified team mate Tarso Marques by 2.6s. At the fourth round at Imola he outqualified both of the Benettons, a feat he repeated later in the season.[6]
In September, his manager Flavio Briatore had begun planning to place Alonso at Benetton. Briatore considered promoting Alonso for 2002, in place of his race driver Jenson Button, but instead chose to take Alonso on as a full-time test driver for 2002.[6] At the final round of 2001 at Suzuka he finished eleventh — five places outside the points but ahead, on merit, of Heinz-Harald Frentzen’s Prost (with a Ferrari engine), the BAR-Honda of Olivier Panis, the two Arrows and Alex Yoong (his new team mate).[6] Four years later, his team boss from the Minardi days, Paul Stoddart, described his race as "53 laps of qualifying".[9] He scored no points in the season.
Don't remember any of that but eh, nice.
i don't either. might have to dig through some of those videos.
wonder if the minardi featured on tv much?
Good call, I dunno. I like to think I'm a good F1 historian, but times like these remind me that I could be a lot better.
2.5 seconds over a team-mate though, that's even worse than Sato-Ide at Australia 2006!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyBcR_5h5C0
See how young he looks : O
I have indeed and I do own it on PC, where it's called F1 Challenge '99-'02. Still rate it highly ;)
it's past midnight, must be time for honda news...
"There have also been suggestions back in the team has managed to land a title sponsorship with the rumours saying that this could be Emirates Airlines"
is this the first mention of an emirates link?
source: http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns21213.html
Did anyone else notice how RG managed to get Mr C into trouble and then immediately go to bed?
:)
:D
that i know of yes.
:D
Think so.
James Allen used the Arsenal - Emirates deal as an example as said TTFKAH could name the team after a sponsor, like Arsenal did with their stadium.
ahh, sneaky. must read that blog more carefully.
First I have heard
I'd hate for it to be something like Emirates F1, or even to have the sponsor in the title.
I be honest, Liuzzi or Fisi don’t stike me as Portsmouth fans, or even Mallya {Comment #50}
Fisi definitely isn't (he prefers AS Roma), Mallya's team is Queens Park Rangers and I have no idea what team Liuzzi or Sutil support (Liuzzi's because the information doesn't seem to be on the internet and Sutil because his site (which may or may not have the information) is not working at the moment).
I don’t remember teams like Pacific, Simtek or Forti in great detail {Comment #85}
I remember Forti, largely because there was a predictions game in the BBC Magazine with a budget and I used Forti to balance my budget. I quickly learned that cheap isn't always good...
To be fair, who was at that time. Schuey was dominating so much it was unbelieveable. {Comment #92}
I was - it was the first year I made sheets with information about what had happened to each driver through the race and kept them in one place for future reference. I'd been experimenting with the idea for the previous two years, but that was when it became serious. It's a habit I've kept and expanded ever since.
Eh, 2003 was a great, competitive season. Also had Minardi getting P1 in an official F1 session for the first and only time in their history. {Comment #94}
It was nearly a 1-2 until Justin Wilson's car failed a weight test...
Speaking of the loveable Irish rogue… He’ll be interviewing Bernie at every race this year as part of his role at the BBC. Wonder how long it will be before he upsets him and finds he’s banned from the paddock? {Comment #132}
I don't think EJ will get a ban from the paddock from Bernie. I could envisage the BBC temporarily banning him mid-season (or at least obliging him to apologise) when he forgets to watch his words and says something unprintable live on air, but other than that I think he'll be doing that job until he sees something that he decides is more exciting... ...which given his love of talking could be a long way off!
next time somethin’ a needs a remembering… ask r.g {Comment #182}
Or type out the entry at the time when you remember it (works better if you devote a whole entry to the topic) and time it to appear at midnight on the appropriate day. Then everyone can completely forget about it and the entry will still appear.
I find it funny that Bourdis has just one season behind him is 30, and Alonso isn’t even 30 yet. {Comment #194}
He nearly got into F1 at the end of 2002, at which point he would have been in the normal range for being an F1 rookie (23 in his case). Still older than Alonso, but since Fernando reached F1 when he was 19, that's not surprising.
Or forget about Apple and get a Windows PC and use the calendar to remember things for you.
:D
Well, thats the fun part.
Or forget about Apple and get a Windows PC and use the calendar to remember things for you. {Comment #222}
I bet the average Apple computer has a calender if you look hard enough. The iTouch certainly will, if it has an alarm facility.