The month of January is drawing to a close, and whilst we were concerned about a particular Honda-shaped deadline approaching, a spokeswoman has told us not to panic. So, we won't, and we'll look at what else is going on in the F1 world.
- Charlie Whiting has issued some clarifications about the 2009 regulations, because let's face it, we were all getting a bit confused. There's info about engines, wind tunnels, slicks and aero, so get stuck in if you haven't already and let us know what you think.
- Red Bull have signed up to use Renault's KERS system this year. That's not really a surprise as KERS and the engine are very closely associated and why make your own if you can grab Renaults?
- The rumours about a Rome street circuit have surfaced again, which simply remind me about Quikmaps. Try your hand at a street map of your own, and share it on the drop.
That'll do it for now, there's bound to be more news later on in the day. Until then, I'll see you in the comments.
What will the big boys do with all the surplus capacity, now that windtunnel testing has been dropped to 40hours/week? All the lost jobs - some teams were running 3 shifts around the clock - seem ominous.
And there is a good article on pitpass.com about the amount of sponsorship lost this year. http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=36937
Although it doesn't mention the amount of cash each of the manufacturers are putting in, it make for interesting reading.
Would Seiko/Ray-Ban be willing to put their cash into another team, or do you think they consider the loss of Honda from F1 a bit of good luck?
Even Force India had 24/7 wind tunnel operation, so it's fair to suggest that every other team did as well...
Honda were working in 4 different wind tunnels
Yes, and that would cause a bit of a problem for redeploying staff. One would hope that they got transferred into the road car aero division, but with the car market the way it is, I suspect most of them would have ended up in the dole queue. :(
or the wiki:
http://sidepodcast.wetpaint.com/page/Quikmaps
quick plug for a new feature on f1 minute:
http://www.f1minute.com/category/f1-big-picture/
basically large formula one pictures and something of a homage to boston.com. the plan is to put up pics on weekday evenings around the time the audio podcast is released. in theory they'll be topical and news story related whenever possible.
thoughts on a postcard as always.
Brilliant idea. I like good, clean photography - and F1 related photos are the best!
Do you two ever sleep?!
Great idea and brilliant pics.
Has Christine seen these little fellas?
Ickle baby pandas.
yeah, just working together more efficiently than ever :)
oh man!
Oh my god!!
Awww. How sweet! Hahaha!
The look on your face must be golden! :D
I second that. You'll update this everyday? :)
mon-fri.
I just drop.io'd an advert on our national new site - NZLers buying a BMW this month will get free tickets to the Aussie GP!
Wow. So, Nick and Kub better do well then, or the crowd will be mad!
Bloody Bernie!
Malaysia has gone to an evening race... Great... :(
gotta link?
Autosport have the start times listed here.
cheers.
this isn't a bad thing is it?
Having to get up at 6am rather than staying up?
Ok, It doesn't really effect me as insomnia assists with overseas races...
Personally I liked Singapore being the only one. I think that makes it more special. But I don't mind that much.
it won't be dark though will it?
Possibility of a race ending at 7pm... could be getting that way.
Having to get up at 6am rather than staying up? {Flibster - 5 comments ago}
I would have preferred getting up at silly-o'-clock in the morning for the sheer magic of watching F1 in my pyjamas and sleeping bag. Can't really get away with that at 6am simce Mum regularly starts her day before then and I'd be considered lazy. (Worse, I'll get strange looks when I'm caught doing inter-Friday practise-commenting sessions when Mum wakes up...)
i haven't read all of the link yet (doing several millions things at once (sequentially obviously)), but they're not installing a lighting system are they?
Possibility of a race ending at 7pm… could be getting that way. {Flibster - 2 comments ago}
Especially if Malaysia chucks in one of its occasional monsoons...
Not that I can see. Although they'd need to do it in Australia too if they are.
True. Look at how dark it got at Brazil after the race - imagine that happening at dusk - they'd have to red flag the race.
True. Look at how dark it got at Brazil after the race - imagine that happening at dusk - they’d have to red flag the race.
Good point. And Sepang is closer to the equator than Brazil, so it goes dark quicker.
unconfirmed, but i think this site is saying renault have done a deal with HP:
http://formula1news.info/f1-hp-nuovo-sponsor-renault/
assume that just means they're supplying equipment for the new CFD building?
Well apparently...
http://www.f1technical.net/news/11510
pah! english quotes take all the fun away :)
Yep, that was great the first few times. But then Sleep became a much more precious commodity.
I really hope its purely technical - Renault have finally got a half-way decent livery and don't need a HP logo making things worse!
It could see the return of blue to the car though, so not all bad.
If ING did pull out after this season it'll be ok. Its just that blue didnt work with the ING colours in the previous livery IMO.
they'll keep total though.
red and yellow and orange and blue. i can sing a...
Signing a rainbow can be done. In your case we'd probably prefer that to singing it :)
They could conquer the children's toys market with that colour scheme.
:)
maybe the marketing department are searching for flav's pot of gold?
well there overalls already make them look like clowns :P
imagine if piquet catches a cold!
Sunset is at 7, just like Singapore - there's still tons of light at 5.
This is old news already - this was already more or less confirmed as early as November last year.
Looks like HP is optimistic about the economy then. How funny that they come back DURING a recession. ;)
by far the best time. it's a buyers market.
Either that or they have some unsold inventory to dump. What better way to hide this than a "techincal partnership"?
If it's anything like a "strategic partnership", then Renault are in trouble.
hahah XD
Afternoon all.
Indeed, since there is actually a widget for it.
What if it's absolutly chucking it down at the end of the race with no lights and its verging on dark?
:D
They have rain lights.
I've just composed myself after I managed to get my first pole posistion on BATracer.
Do they? I never knew that.
go r.g.!
Indeed, hopefully the first of many :)
Thank you Mr C and Scotty
I'm so glad I've got the 1980 season to watch at the moment - I'd be going out of my mind otherwise....
With KERS making an appearance this year, has anyone thought about the safety of the marshalls yet? Given that BMW has already hospitilised one mechanic when it discharged through him are we going to be seing marshalls wearing kinky rubber outfits or washing up gloves?
Also, why do dentists take great delight in drilling pain straight into your jaw? Is it because they are getting paid for it? *grumble grumble damn root canals grumble*
No just Max and his female companions will be donning the rubber!
Phew, breaking news from the Daily Mirror, the Pussycat Dolls approve of Lewis hamilton!
I'm so glad they had to clear that up.
excellent, i've been fretting about that for a while.
Tell me about it, a weight has finally been lifted off everyones shoulders
:P
Who?
TheRegister (tabloidy geek news site) have done rather a sarky article on KERS safety, referring to the williams system:
"All they now have to worry about is a kinetic storage device rotating at an unimaginably high rotational velocity ripping loose and flying off into the wide blue yonder like a frisbee from hell."
Article here: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/01/28/f1_readies_kers_safety_scheme/
The Daily Mirror - it's a tabloid newspaper.
THAT woman's best friends.
Riiight. :D One of the ones you can't even use a loo roll as it's already full of.... ;)
excellent caption:
real men use flywheels?
hehe :)
they're using an aerobie?
To be honest, the more I hear of the Williams system the more I start to think they've stolen a march on everybody.
There is still that doubt at the back of my mind though that we're going to see bits of flywheel flying off in every direction in a big shunt: God help anyone in the way.
complete agreement from me. which other teams have a sneaky flywheel system under development though? they've all been a bit too keen to slap those high voltage stickers to the bodywork.
Well done RG. I thought our game had gone funny but I guess your pole is in a different game
We discussed it here the day the BMW guy got zapped. Someone suggested everything would be OK so long as the car hit earthing strips and then we realised that if it stopped somewhere without earthing strips dor example upside down on a gravel trap saftety may be compromised. I am not sure Max and co have figured it out yet.
The flywheel system has to have a weight advantage over all the batteries needed to store energy. Changing kinetic energy from the flywheel to kinetic energy at the wheels has to be more efficient than changing electricity to kinetic.
Unlikely as the flywheel system weighs 24kg on it's own....
http://www.forumula1.net/2009/f1/f1-news/kers-flywheel-demonstrated-at-autosport-international/
I also notice that they have tested it to forces of 20g. Is that all? Kubica's Canada 2007 impact was 75g, Hekki's in Spain 08 was 26g....
Actually, thinking about it. David Purley survived an impact of 180g at Silverstone in 1977
Its nice isnt it lol?
Im sure they've tested it to destruction, or at least made calculations on the energies involved to make sure the outer casing is adequate.
Of all the teams, You wouldn't think Williams would run an unsafe car.
After 1994, I'm sure they'd never make that mistake again.
That is a complete exaggeration. The figure I remember was 179.8 G.
I forgot about that KERS system being at ASI. I was planning on going to have a look at it but forgot completely. The problem as it says on the article is not taking one big hit but taking a hit and the car being rebuilt then taking more hits. The fact that they have tested it to survive on hit with a load equivalent to 11% of the biggest F1 hit ever does not fill me with confidence.
I still think the batteries have to be heavier.
3 minutes till the Valencia BATracer race finishes.
Can somebody explain why the rotating flywheel doesn't cause longitudinal inertia?
That's an insane amount of G force
They haven't seemingly thought the process through, if one of those flywheels shoot off into the crowd and hurts anyone I bet Max still comes out and rubs his hands free of any blame. Is anybody starting to get a little annoyed by this KERS concept? At first i thought it sounded great but the more that's discussed about it the more it seems to be really screwing the teams over. The 'boost' button sounds like something off an Xbox game, what next? points for most aggressive driving? cars totalled, total drifting distance etc...just seems to be taking it too far in my eyes
I wonder who I Takuma Satoed this time.
Aye
Well that was mediocre
I can't....
If there was two contra-rotating then they should cancel each other out - but one.. Pass.
Even though he has come out in favour of dumping the battery systems and going for a flywheel system as standard? Probably...
Woot! I came second! yay! go Honda :P
WOW! All I'll say is the front two at the beginning of the race finished where they started!
BATracer is so frustrating soemtimes :(
Well done Alex, pole to flag win. :)
My car was only supposed to make two stops but it made three.
Congrats Alex and Lou.
I need to find away to overtake Lou. I tried for lap after lap and got nowhere.
not out loud no.
there are two aren't there?
:P
Maybe it is mounted sideways and causes latitudinal inertia. Either way it is a gyroscope. Logically if it is a gyroscope it is an aerodynamic device like an inertial mass damper and is therefore illegal.
Lou,
It is not funny
I feel your pain :(
Not looking at that picture from ASI there aren't. If you had two it would be complicated especially of they were contra rotating.
maybe not to you :P but to me the thought of a Mclaren not being able to pass a Honda makes me smile ;)
Good point.
was going on the video shown on the factory. i have a bad memory though, i'll see if i can find it.
actually, nope the video shows one as well:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=04CarbWxX4o
hmm.
Between Andronov being brilliant(ish :P ) yet inconsistant and Dave in NZL's brilliant consistancy, Toyota have quietly snuck into 3rd place in the constructors!
Well done all round though, nice to see fresh faces on the podium ;)
RG - maybe you should put "Car Magnet" in your brackets, DC would be proud of you :P
:)
Honda are only 2 points away though :P
That team name of yours is more relevant than ever!
I'm keeping my Save Croft Circuit one in. Might not work, but hell am I angry at it.
Dave had a quiet word in the Batracer team chat and suggested that it might be time for me to pull my finger out. That's teamwork for you. He didn't go blabbing to the popular press!
In writing?
Then Keep it ;)
Indeed, the race is (literally) on!
i can't answer it at all actually. at least not until i've read it in racecar engineering, and then i can repeat what they say :)
:)
Wikipedia says you can mount a flywheel on a gimbal (or gimbals) to counteract the gyroscope effect.
Doing things the Toyota way, I see? ;)
:P
Wikipedia also has several things to say about the safety of flywheels too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage#Advantages_and_disadvantages
I would have thought putting it on a gimbal is going to cost energy especially if the gimbal is on an F1 car.
Indeed. I'd not considered the gyroscope effect, so we will have to look out for Williams cars going straight on in corners more than usual...
"However, use of flywheel accumulators is currently hampered by the danger of explosive shattering of the massive wheel due to overload."
That could be seen as a slight negative
:)
LPG has just returned home with a copy of Sir Jackie Stewart's autobiography. It's the hardback edition with DVD - cost £2.49 (it's a bit damaged). :D
Other interesting quotes from the wiki article
When the tensile strength of a flywheel is exceeded the flywheel will shatter, releasing all of its stored energy at once; this is commonly referred to as "flywheel explosion" since wheel fragments can reach kinetic energy comparable to that of a bullet
Still, many customers of modern flywheel power storage systems prefer to have them embedded in the ground to halt any material that might escape the containment vessel.
It is a really good book although I am sure the bit on Fred Goodwin will sound differently now.
But on the positive side it seems the shrapnel tends to end up as "red-hot sand" inside the containment vessel, so that's alright then.
The least comforting sentence is this:
Still, many customers of modern flywheel power storage systems prefer to have them embedded in the ground to halt any material that might escape the containment vessel.
:|
Anyone seen this? http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns21135.html
2011? That's WAY too far away to speculate on. I wouldn't put too much stock on this... yet. If by the end of this year or the start of next year, the Argentine news suddenly shows Reutemann more, then we can start discussing this possibility.
What I WOULD look at from Grandprix.com is that they think the Honda management buyout is likely. The key question for their 2009 season hopes is more about money than time.
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns21144.html
Yep, that was great the first few times. But then Sleep became a much more precious commodity. {Selidor}
When it comes to early morning sessions, I do a lot of planning to make sure I get the right amount of sleep. Fuji last year was a great example of attempting to combine the maximum number of sessions with being alert enough to work on Saturday and Monday without anyone noticing anything was amiss...
Phew, breaking news from the Daily Mirror, the Pussycat Dolls approve of Lewis hamilton!
I’m so glad they had to clear that up. {Lukeh}
So it's not just THAT woman who approves of him, then?
Nice video on the history of the Internet. And no, it's NOT boring at all. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4
Valencia was a bit of a non-event for me.
Oh well...
Sounds like I should take a leaf out of your book for Melbourne ;)
promise?
Link?
Where Wizards Stay Up Late is an excellent book on the origins of the Internet.
It's not boring either.
See above. :D
it's interesting, and factually correct. not sure it's that entertaining though.
I'm sure it wasn't there before. By the way, I'm 2 days older than the Internet. :)
Awww. Oh well. I found it entertaining, in the sense that it actually presented the info in a creative manner.
good production. i was sort of expecting something like the "facts" video i think you found the other day.
While technically very good, it was a touch on the dull side.
That "Did You Know?" video was great - watched it just again now infact.
Did You Know is a VERY good vid. :D
I am about to embark on a challenge to transform the lowest team in Formula 1 into championship winners. I have an F1 management game called Grand Prix World and using a tried and tested method I used once which worked very well, I will try to turn Minardi from 1998 backmarkers to championship winners by 2007, which is when the game ends.
So, let it begin... ;)
Grand Prix World? Never heard of that one before.
the bar's be raised to high!
Veeeeery old. Still pretty good though.
I'm used to playing Grand Prix Manager 2. Shall have a look at this though
So far so good. I've signed the 2 biggest paying drivers in Pedro Diniz and Tora Takagi, design work is already underway for next season's car and partner deals are ongoing with Mugen Honda, Elf and Bridgestone instead of customer deals so I get my engine, tyres and fuel for free instead of paying for it. The first two seasons is all about saving and earning money, so even sponsors are a no go for next season.
you have 10 seasons to do that?!?! they couldn't even do it in that space of time!
Damn that looks like one hell of a challenge, good luck Scotty then.
you sure you're not in a honda?
:) At least Scott's cars will have Minardi DNA...
:D
your a funny, funny guy :P
:D
Oh dear. Run!
*doesn't look back*
I need one of these really: http://www.instantrimshot.com/
does it make a noise? its a bit lost on me otherwise.....my sound card seems to have imploded...
Meh, did it before, won a couple of drivers and constructors championships as well as plenty of wins and podiums as a result. Should work again, as long as the suppliers I'm negociating with get so far into talks with my commercial staff and then pull out right near the end of the season which means i have no time to start talks with anyone else.
If this partner engine deal pulls off, I'll be in a Mugen-Honda. Does that count? :P
Well, they are actually Minardi's. I know, shocking...
I want one....
It plays a rimshot - the traditional add-on to corny jokes everywhere.
No, you don't. They do not make good pets.
*don't
you're not having one!
oh wait... no, you're more than welcome to have one.
uh oh.
Scott has Grand Prix World? Awesome. Is it really good? I have Grand Prix Manager 2, which was pretty decent but quite buggy. Had a 2008 mod for it too.
Also Scott, added you on XBL. Notice that we have a few of the same games, such as Halo. Do you still have PGR 3?
Why thank you "me"...
I think I'd better have more than one and start planting bamboo immediately...
How much does a panda eat?....
It's probably for me the best F1 management game I've ever known and I've only played 2, the other being EA's F1 Manager.
I do, but it reeeally doesn't work! :P
I only have Grand Prix Manager 2, which I'm pretty crappy at. Lets just say BMW sauber took an awful plummet in my first game ;)
Oops. Just like me I missed that it is Lady Snowcat who wants a baby panda, not Christine. Thought there was going to be a domestic for a moment.
never. am hoping she'll keep us updated though. panda by proxy :)
not sure. probably not that much.
i heard the fur can be a problem though.
Pandas are carnivores that have gone vegan. They need an enormous amount of bamboo - the Fount of All Knowledge that is Wikipedia says up to 14kg per day.
How much does a panda eat?…. {LadySnowcat}
A lot! You'll want a good dozen acres or so, if you're planning on feeding the pair just bamboo. Also, there will need to be several varieties of bamboo as none of them provide all the nutrients a growing panda needs.
Is anyone else seeing parallels here with Batracer? :P
...
:(
...
:(
Hmmm...
Current patch is mostly for the gees so perhaps I'll have to rustle up a few more acres...
Thanks for the info Alianora...
I wonder how Christine manages?....
Another website mentions that in captivity, pandas eat other things:
In zoos, giant pandas eat bamboo, sugar cane, rice gruel, a special high-fibre biscuit, carrots, apples, and sweet potatoes.
They'll also eat small mammals from time to time.
am gonna ask a very random question, but i'm not loosing my mind, i hope. it's for my photography. I can't remember the advert that was on T.V some time ago (early '08?) which featured cars and car parts moving around the screen as if they were in one of those kaleidoscope things. Does anyone rememeber the advert and what make of car it was? or is this something that i've imagined?
Good news as I enter the final couple of races of my first season as Minardi manager. The car is done, partner deals are complete and I have the two highest paying drivers on board. Next season, the money will be rolling in, and from there I will be able to start building some solid foundations for my 10 year tenure at the helm.
Put it this way - using this method, by the time I finished the 10th season, I had about $62 million and Ralf Schumacher and Olivier Panis as drivers.
The latin name for the Giant Panda is: Ailuropoda Melanoleuca
Fantasy Racers team name anyone?
over my dead body! :D
How ya get on in the first season?
Didn't score any points but then the first two seasons are ones which are going to be quite lenient in terms of any kind of result. But the focus is giving drivers low orders so that they can at least finish the race. Finishing higher than your qualifying positions increases your team's FIA ranking and that means more funding from them.
1999 is now starting, the estimated revenue for 2000 shows as $16m already.
Wasnt this was it:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xVTv8m4I-RU
Wasnt this was it:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xVTv8m4I-RU
Also that reminds me, Iv found the the full length version of that funky tune over the BMW "see how it feels" ad:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3B_r5rVU5rw
Apparently I have to post this (was going to anyway, but anyhow I've been shoved....)
As Andy mentioned earlier, I came back from Borders with a bargain book for him. But this concerns the other 'happening' whilst there with DS (yes, I took a child to the bookshop, it was for cake and coffee....)
Anyway - sat in the starbucks (so shoot me, lol) I was earwigging the conversation of two men at the next table (as you do when other people have more interesting conversations than you are :-P ).
"I followed a link online that was talking about how Schumacher was going to buy Honda"
"Yeah right.. it'd be more likely to be bought by Jeremy Clarkson!"
There followed a discussion of who on TV would be more likely to actually be buying honda, and how Clarkson probably has more money than schumacher anyway...lol
Anyhow, eventually (i.e. some minutes later and following the conversation diversifying into books, the stupidity of people trying to be green by driving a prius - "should just go the whole hog and buy an electric car and a couple of acres for PV and a turbine or two") they get back to the matter in hand
"so where did you read that then, about schuy?"
"I followed a link on sidepodcast"
There was then a nod, as if it was the most normal thing in the world and totally obvious, and they donned their fleece jackets and left.... with DS saying "mummy those men have got bulls on their coats"
And that took so many less words to tell DP, than to tell you lot, sigh
It wasn't this one was it http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pYnyRy4-mV0
blimey!
blimey!
My goodness!
Haha thats always the way isnt it? ;)
Hmm,Was one of my comments moderated?
blimey blimey indeed.
i propose we start a sidepodcast fighting fund to buy lpg more coffee. all those in favour...
Aye!
sadly not. don't worry, it'll come to me soon enough ;)
I'd rather save Croft to be fair, but if I have enough spare cash, then aye.
oh wow, awesome :D
we need a new emicon, one with a v.wide smile!
You need "as used by the F1 industry" somewhere!
Think i've found the advert i was looking for... i'm sure it's not the exact one but never mind. for anyone who is interested in what advert it was it's this one http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xVTv8m4I-RU
and yes, my photography project is involving a bit of editting atm ;)
you can tell i'm not feeling well today, i just typed a comment in the doohickey and then is disapeared, i can't remember if i clicked post or cancel. :/ being ill makes me very very forgetful and a little scatty.
Another website mentions that in captivity, pandas eat other things:
In zoos, giant pandas eat bamboo, sugar cane, rice gruel, a special high-fibre biscuit, carrots, apples, and sweet potatoes.
They’ll also eat small mammals from time to time. {Andy Taylor - 22 comments ago}
That's a relief. Those things don't take quite so much space as bamboo...
Check the RSPCRF1 wiki. We must have researched that.
I'm just glad that my inability to ignore other peoples conversations comes in useful from time to time....
(just no one have a juicy conversation near me that they don't want me to overhear... sometimes its a useful trait, but I hear far too much about other peoples !cough!!cough! lives than I want to
“so where did you read that then, about schuy?”
“I followed a link on sidepodcast”
There was then a nod, as if it was the most normal thing in the world and totally obvious {littlepurplegoth - 16 comments ago}
Wow! Kudos to Christine and me for setting up such a widely-known and respected site :)
So sidepodcast has readers who think Jeremy Clarkson has more money that Schumacher?
has been dug out for ya, along with selidor's.
*bubble bursts*
yay! so i did click post, phew. thank you
:D
If either of the people who took part in that conversation are lurking please let us know. It helps complete lpg's data if she has names.
Check the RSPCRF1 wiki. We must have researched that. {Steven Roy - 3 comments ago}
9kg+ of bamboo every day. It depends on the size and variety of panda, but for a pure bamboo diet it's an absolute minimum figure.
Since pandas are carnivores, they could eat a completely meat-based diet and still live, but don't be surprised if they indicate displeasure at the blandness of the food unless you're careful (for example by training them from near birth to accept non-bamboo sources of food).
So sidepodcast has readers who think Jeremy Clarkson has more money that Schumacher?
Well, I suppose it's not like Sidepodcast has ever produced statistics which disprove the theory, even if the BBC is unlikely ever to pay any presenter $50m a year plus merchandising revenue.
After having been away from my computer for a while the doohickey told me I had 85 unread comments. Is this a record?
OK, this is probably the point at which I should mention quite how many people around here work there or for the sister firm and may have those jackets... but these ones were not the 'normal' jackets that you see on clutches of spotty youth in town or waiting for the bus outside the dayrealease centre ^WW opps I mean 'college' ;-)
bloomin' heck yes
And it is still working an polling away
I think they thought it as unlikely as Schumacher buying the team. Mind you, if Jezza did buy the team we'd know who one of the drivers was, well not his real name of course...
Trouble is Top Gear F1 Racing wouldn't take it seriously.
might take it out of alpha soon then.
You can guarantee the first acident would be Hammond
:) I swear that man is channelling Roy Castle. Have you seen his CBBC programme - Richard Hammond's Blast Lab? It features Hammond, his science teacher (brought back through time, so she appears 10 years old), a ninja nan and Oliver - yes, his little yellow Opel.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00gnwk7/Richard_Hammonds_Blast_Lab_Episode_1/
And there is a little boy who would *love* to visit (suitably accompanied by his parents, of course ;-) )
Re: link to Richard Hammond's Blast Lab
It's as if we are in the same room as one another....
lolol
Now we just have to remember how to use our voices... go and put the kettle on would you?
ooh tea.
He's glued to QI XL on iPlayer and isn't 'listening'....
sorry, was watching hammond on iplayer... you called?
Hammond has a leather lab coat. Is Max involved in this?
Apparently it's from Christopher Ecclestone's Doctor Who costume, but "taken in a bit" according to Hammond.
Hammond has a leather lab coat. {Steven Roy - previous comment}
He's not going to pretend to be a farrier, is he?
Lol - opening titles of the show do feature a stable door....
Hehe. It is a kids programme you know... We have an excuse.
didn't have nothing on the telly like that when i was a lad.
Best. Story. Ever.
Wow. :D
ooooooohhh! that's worrying.
If Max isn't involvded it won't be long before he will be!
That's awesome! :D