It’s Friday Sidepodcasters, and it’s a Holiday! I suppose the Queen deserves thanks for that. While the Royal Wedding theatrics will be on the lips and minds of many, the world of racing and Formula One spins madly on. Oddly enough Charlie Whiting seems keen on handling logistics for the procession, while Jake Humphrey trades in his iPad for a chance behind a Lancaster Bomber. Yes, the very same Lancaster that will be providing aerial coverage of the royal nuptials. Maybe he’ll bring Vitaly Petrov along as his co-pilot?
Speaking of Vitaly Petrov, he is shopping for a new design for his helmet. Taking a lead from Jenson Button the Russian is handing over the creative reins to the public. For all you artistic types out there (Paging Lou) this is your time to showcase your talent. The competition is open to everyone and you have until June 1st to submit your work.
Lotus has uploaded some fantastic shots of their testing session at Duxford on their Facebook page, and it looks like the fans turned out in abundance to support the team! The true benefactors of the Caterham Takeover turned out to be the Lotus Team Drivers, as an excitable Heikki Kovalainen & a slightly more embarrassed Davide Valsecchi proved.
While Bahrain was cancelled earlier this year because of political unrest in the region, Bernie Ecclestone mused to Alan Baldwin that the race could still happen for the 2011 season. An imminent decision is expected as the organizers have until May 1st to decide whether or not to go ahead with hosting the event.
Nico Rosberg will be doing chauffeur duty this weekend for Mercedes at the DTM race in Hockenheim. This will be his first time behind the wheel of a DTM car. Maybe he’ll use the downtime in between simulator runs to tweet Paul Di Resta for driving tips?
While Robert Kubica is comfortably at home recuperating from his injuries, his Doctor has weighed in on the Pole’s possible return to Formula One in the future, and the prognosis sounds very encouraging!
In the meantime there’s lots of racing to tide you over until the F1 circus at Istanbul next weekend. Indycar stages its first flyaway race of the season and takes to the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Justin Wilson will be racing in some new colours, while prudent packer Mike Conway will look to capitalize on the surge from his maiden victory in Long Beach. Canadian rookie and part time Kimi Raikkonen impressionist James Hinchcliffe also looks to be in the hunt on a strong finish for the venerable Newman/Haas squad. Round 3 of the BTCC championship also kicks off this weekend at Thruxton, while Audi and Mercedes continue to do battle in DTM at Hockenheim.
After limited screenings in Los Angeles and New York Asif Kapadia’s ‘Senna’ will be released in Cinemas across the United States on August 12th. Justin Hyde who reviewed the film for Jalopnik revealed exclusively that the Blu-Ray Release will cater to the Senna faithful and extend to a tantalizing 2 Hours and 40 Minutes. That’s almost an hour’s worth of extra footage over the theatrical version. We anticipate with bated breath.
Badger GP’s Riccardo Monza had a go at the Brooklands Museum and from the pictures it looks like a great time was had! A visit to Brooklands is a bucket list item for any motorsport enthusiast with lots of worthwhile hardware to see in person, from the folkloric to the downright awesome.
You can always count on data guru Tony Hirst on inventing new ways to interpret the cornucopia of F1 facts and figures. His latest creation? Visualizing the Driver & Team Championships using Tree Maps. For those unfamiliar it’s essentially a Newsmap based on points standings and definitely a far more interesting presentation than your pedestrian line-by-line spreadsheets.
Speaking of maps, this little gem from Mark Webber proves that the path to Formula One is one of much resistance – And zeros behind dollar signs.
Finally, photographic proof has been unearthed that confirms what we already know: Adrian Newey does, in fact, walk on water.
That’s a wrap from me. Enjoy your Long Weekend Everyone!
Dad doesn't get a holiday :(
Thank you for the Daily, Peter :)
Great debut, Peter.
The Tree Maps look interesting
Just learning about the tornados in Alabama, shocking
Jake is flying in a Lancaster? Lucky boy. I thought he would be in something modern rather than a classic.
Valsecchi doesn't look anything like a racing driver. Until he started talking about ice cream I thought they had just grabbed the nearest person to interview.
Great post Peter
holy smokes!
fabulous daily peter, just excellent.
great stuff from mark. any idea which, if any, of those paths he took?
UK version
ah-ha. cheers. that is some kind of uber planning.
1996 F.Ford/F3
1997 F3
1998 GT racing
1999 Prototypes (including Le Mans)/F1 testing
2000 F3000/F1 testing
2001 F3000/F1 testing
So a mixture of UK and "none of the above".
can we read anything into the fact the f1 car is a benetton and flavio is/was/would become his manager?
Perfect material for a MasterCard commercial.
"A 5th place at your home GP in your F1 debut with Minardi? Priceless."
:D
Young drivers have to plan like that. Cost is an issue as is where they can find sponsorship/scholarships. They also have to consider any prize drives that championships offer
:)
Probably not, other than he was desperate for sponsorship and Flavio turned out to be the one person willing to sponsor him into F1 (after Mark decided being in two flips at Le Mans was not his idea of fun).
Usually yes
I reckon not. It was probably chosen because it was the title-winning car at the time.
I love that he had it mapped out, written down. I imagine most drivers just have it in their head or the head of their manager.
He took the UK route. FORIX says he was 2nd in 1996 British FFord. In 1997 he went to F3 (a year earlier than planned.. not sure F.Vauxhall still existed by then) where he finished 4th.
Then he diverged and went via sportscars with a factory Mercedes drive. 2nd in FIA GT with class pole at Le Mans.
3rd in 2000 F3000 with Paul Stoddart's team (with F1 tests for Benetton and Arrows). 2nd in 2001 F3000 with Super Nova (F1 test with Benetton).
F1 in 2002 with Minardi. Etc.
Probably
He skipped Formula Vauxhall, but did that sportscar diversion. In the end, he just got delayed because he spent one more year in F3000.
It's not cheap, but I'm sure he's made a tidy profit out of it already. :D
Also, he got paid for that sportscar diversion, though probably not to the tune of $600,000...
Anyone fancy filling in for me tomorrow? I'm moving house this week so I have to clean the old place and somehow dispose of 20 odd Macs and printers from the early to mid 90's. HELP! :)
Yay fow Mark Webber history. I found an MW postcard during cleanup from the days when he was sponsored by yellow pages in his Aussie career stage.
we'll see who we can volunteer during the day.
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Daily: 29th April 2011
- On This Day: 28th April 2006 - Damon Hill becomes president of the BRDC
- Daily: 28th April 2011
- Sidepodchat - That's the first time anyone's said that for a while
- Daily: 27th April 2011
Thank you
Got any space in your garage for my collection? :P
Yes, yes I have. :D Loved the Sidepodchat too.
err, no garage :)
Do you wanna buy a garage?
:)
So many Macs going to recyclers :(
Classic, Classic II, SE/30 (with Ethernet card - great dns server for many years), IIfx, IIci, LCs, Performas, Centris, Quadra, first Power Macintosh... the list goes on. Sad day.
you couldn't have ebayed them?
eBay? That kind of lineup might attract interest.
I tried forums. Out of time unfortunately. I kept hoping I could keep most of it, but Zoe was right - it's better to suffer now and then enjoy the clean start.
Enjoy the wedding folks
Take it to work, you could have a museum section
Steven Roy 29/04/2011 at 00:19:42Jake is flying in a Lancaster? Lucky boy. I thought he would be in something modern rather than a classic.
If any of you Jake Humphrey wanna-bes want to visit me in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and can blow $2625 extra Canadian Dollars I might be able to swing you a hour's flight on the other airworthy Avro Lancaster in the world..... Do not look to surprized, 25% of Bomber Command ranks was apparently Canadian during the Second World War....Just fitting that we should have one too.
Details here: http://www.warplane.com/pages/membership.html
check "Bomber Crew Membership".
We need a substantial group discount for a sidepodcast group flight.
It would definitely be worth the money but that is a lot of cash to spend on an hour
I do not know if I should let everyone in a big secret, but apparently, non-technical people can not get it wrapped around their heads that LAPTOPS NEVER GET THIRSTY.
All well, it keeps me employed as a Computer Technician.........
Only as a metaphor for running out of battery power. Laptops aren't big on metaphors...
mine had a taste for pink wine...
Great Daily! Many cool links :)
A Lancaster in flight is something i want to see in my lifetime, i've seen them static, but hearing those RR Merlins would be something else...
Jez, getting rid of my PowerMac G3 hurt when i moved too, and it wasn't even working!
Happy Day off UK-ers
Where do you live, Matt ?
Four Packard-Built Rolls-Royce engines go though a lot of fuel in a hour, Steven. It is not like you can help stretch out the distnace by going outside and pushing while the Lancaster is in flight....
You can try to prove me wrong, but I would not recommend it.....
That is always a problem with machines
Sydney, the only one we have is a static display Canberra at the Australian War Museum. still nice though.
27L Superchaged V12's don't use THAT much fuel....Ahem...
Just wondering - Would people here like it if I dumped my Avro Lancaster X pictures onto flicker ?
*raises hand*
Yes
Matt G 29/04/2011 at 02:10:15Where do you live, Matt ?
Sydney, the only one we have is a static display Canberra at the Australian War Museum. still nice though.
27L Superchaged V12's don't use THAT much fuel....Ahem...
A little bit more than they should have.... The Packards (North American built Rolls-Royce) used a little bit more fuel than the British built Rolls-Royce Merlins, even though they came from the blueprint diagram. It got to the point that if a Spitfire had a Rolls-Royce Merlin, it was an IX, if it had a Packard-Merlin it was an XVI. What was the difference ? 25 miles flying distance.... really.
Agreed it is not a P&W Cyclone radial, but still....
Just wondering - Would people here like it if I dumped my Avro Lancaster X pictures onto flicker ?
*raises hand*
Yes
Raises both hands & feet!
Odd, but points for enthusiasm right?
A bit more fuel never hurt anyone in the 40's, they were even less concerned when it was dropped into the P-51!
:) :)
Ich werde mit meinen "Lancaster" Fotos beendet....... :P
Comparing Allison engines to Rolls Royce engines is like comparing mice to spaceships! At least apples and oranges are both fruits !
I think that's all of them. At least, it is the ones I remember I have.
you got a link, chappie?
Not sure. Usually I access flickr via my link on the wiki as SPC Regulars. But try:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jordan_f1/?saved=1
ahh yes, beautiful: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jordan_f1/5667583834/in/photostream
That bouncing bomb looks smaller than I expected
tony's post was mentioned in the daily, but in the meantime, he's created even more analysis images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/psychemedia/5666595401/
I see youtube have a special wedding logo for the day. Wonder how many more sites will do the same?
never even thought about it. i'm still depressed christine isn't going to be fbfb'ing it. fancy not wanted to spend a whole day typing.
I am having nothing to do with the wedding at all so I understand
Yes, you have to remember that the cradle and and the bomb itself had to fit lengthwise into the bomb bay, Steven.
But they did have to remove the Bomb bay doors to get everything to fit.
I thought the diameter would be bigger. I knew the length was restricted because they had to put back spin on it
I thought that the backspin was need for the bomb to sink when it hit the side of the dam. For if there was forward spin, the bomb had the tendancy to climb up the side of the test dam.
There was only so much diamter the bomb could have due to the floor and ground and the cradle arms.
I think the backspin would help the bounce as well but it did help it sink.
The laws of physics can be a right pain
I think you would be more impressed with those 22,000 lbs Grand Slam bombs. Picture you normal bomb supersized to run almost the full length of the bomb bay.
Night everyone. I am off to bed.
Me too
Night all
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Daily: 29th April 2011
- On This Day: 28th April 2006 - Damon Hill becomes president of the BRDC
- Daily: 28th April 2011
- Sidepodchat - That's the first time anyone's said that for a while
- Daily: 27th April 2011
It was definitely a fun experience to write the Daily, especially in the presence of so many great writers and contributors here on Sidepodworld. Thanks again to Christine for the opportunity!
So Peter Leung isn't the Peter Leung I went to school with is he?
normally for special events i drink mountain dew out of plastic wineglasses so I'm going upmarket this time and using the crystal.
Great Daily man!
ooh mobile doohickey fail. No more comments til I'm home. Almost there!
And good morning all!
This is very cool: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/04_april/28/doctorwho.shtml
This exciting competition will give one lucky team of primary school children the chance to write their own Doctor Who mini-adventure starring the eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith, which will be filmed and then televised on Doctor Who Confidential.
The imagination fo children plus the resources of Doctor Who.
The BBC is saving Christine the bother, if that helps you feel any better...
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Live: The Royal Wedding 2011
- Daily: 29th April 2011
- On This Day: 28th April 2006 - Damon Hill becomes president of the BRDC
- Daily: 28th April 2011
- Sidepodchat - That's the first time anyone's said that for a while
I may be the only one who finds this interesting, but I've always wondered how they work: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13035979
Wow, the record is 360wpm
I've always thought thats a job I'd quite enjoy
Amazing that it's basically writing in code. I always thought it was some sort of SMS shorthand...
Looks like an interesting job.
Queen Margrethe of Denmark was there: http://jp.dk/blitz/kongelige/article2413941.ece
4od on the ipad: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/4od-catch-up/id432494037?mt=8
Oooh!
no more flash player :)
I'm so annoyed we bought a TV :)
First off, congrats on the Royal Wedding. I don't know if you guys are pro- or against Monarchy, but anyway... My country Brazil was a healthy Monarchy for quite a while, and I gotta say that I don't have anything about it. So cheers folks! Never become a Republic, 'cause it has the same problems and no charm at all.
Second, congrats on the wonderful sidepodchat about yourselves. As a fan of your work, it was nice to have some insight into the backstage. I was also happy to sse that you guys are finding this F1 season ok, I'm also delighted by it, and will not resist telling you that I think the refueling ban has everything to do with it, so keep it forever hahah!
best regards
cheers carlos :)
Jake's trending! (mind you, all the trending topics I can see are wedding-related, including the somewhat predictable THEY KISSED)...
Tonys not backwards in coming forwards :D http://twitter.com/#!/tonyfernandes/status/63958406167400449
(hearts) tony!!
:D hehe!
Emma is in Spa and she has sun. Jealous. JEALOUS.
just had time to read the daily. yaaay for Petrov's helmet competition. *puts thinking cap on* am loving all these creative comps. Wonderful daily. hope this is the first of many for Peter!
I may have just had a wager on the Turkish GP. Gooo Lotus!
Ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/the-beautiful-south
Thank you for the excellent stand in Peter, fantastic stuff and welcome! :) Gotta try out that Petrov competition without a doubt
and hello all :)
heya
I looked around me expecting you to be behind me commenting #missinglou
Although we managed to dodge a million people on the streets apparently, a job well done I'd say :)
I am impressed!
woot woot!
Hi all
#sidepodspace
The main fuel tank of the shuttle has been filled and there are no probles with it. This was the stage that all the problems with the previous mission occurred so it is good that we are past that.
The close out crew are preparing the white room where the astronauts enter the shuttle from.
The only issue just now is the weather at the three trans-Atlantic abort sites which spaceflightnow.com describes as iffy. We need at least one of those to be clear for there to be a launch.
T- 4 hours 20 minutes
I bet NASA doesn't call it iffy.
No doubt they have a series of three letter acronyms for it. So far they haven't mentioned it at all unless it was on radio before I tuned in.
I don't know if Pat still gets F1 Racing but I absolutely recommend this month's issue to him because the extensive Williams stuff in it is quite fascinating. Got proper stuck into it on the train and there's some really good Williams interviews and features in there.
also, Rubens.
Ooh I'll make a note, ta
btw hello. I've been here all day just feeling a bit dozy and sleepy and not commenty. :)
Managed to get outside for a drive and pick up some shopping.
More of a Twitter 'broadcast' mode really
PING-Shuttle launch
http://sidepodcast.com/post/live-space-shuttle-launch-sts-134
Cool!
I've finally updated my Chrome, when I try say Sidepodcast in the speech to text it comes out as 'farenheit'
Riiiight.
Hehehe!
Sounds like it's got a temperature
a fever for sidepodcast?
I hear you can get a prescription of cowbell for that
I said it a bit slower and it came up with 'Science podcast' which is a bit better.
Heikki Kovalainen = free games online
I have had it come out as all sorts of things but not that.
The oddest one I had when I was trying MrC's I'll see you in the comments challenge was 'Ben Collins' who was the Stig. How I'll see you in the comments becomes Ben Collins I don't know
oh my word I just tried that and the answer I got was X rated.
:D
I had a few of those. Same for sidepodcast. I got s_x podcast
My second one was X rated again because of the same word and my third attempt says "sophie winkleman"
I could do this all day.
something you in chinese
It is incredibly addictive. The most common response I got fo sidepodcast was facebook. Figure that out
mine aren't remotely similar. How you go from something you in chinese to alarm see you in the morning I don't quite know.
Try left hand sidepodcast or right hand sidepodcast.
I tried Kimi Räikkönen and it came out as kimi raikkonen #disappointed
Boo launch scrub. Imagine that - the astrodudes leave the office to fan fare and then get to the launch pad and then just turn around and head back. anti climax..
I guess Obama (who was going) will just tour Tornado Alley a bit longer.
hi y'all
They didn't even get to the pad.
Talk about getting organised for nothing. No doubt they were briefed before hand - just seemed odd not to hold them for a few more minutes but I guess a schedule is a schedule...
It seemed like the problem cropped up just as they left. I had not heard a hint of it until they were on their way.
Lewis's brother is a proper racing driver now
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/90996
Ping - http://toomuchracing.com/2011/04/29/start-times-30-april-1-may-2011/ - Start Times this weekend
and a reminder to please enter my game :) http://toomuchracing.com/2011/04/26/tmr-game-2011-week-14/
The new Wordpress Writing Helper is most useful for weekly posts in the same format. :)
I saw that but haven't looked into it - is it like templates?
Yeah but rather than saving a template you choose a past post from a list and it imports the whole post, complete with title, tags, categories, etc.
Ping: http://mrschristine.com/2011/04/29/bank-holiday-by-the-sea/
That's brilliant. Film Watches will be easy peasy!
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Live: Space Shuttle Launch STS-134
- The beautiful south
- Live: The Royal Wedding 2011
- Daily: 29th April 2011
- On This Day: 28th April 2006 - Damon Hill becomes president of the BRDC
Hi everyone :)
Have you, the british people, enjoyed your holiday day?
Hello there. Not bad at all.
I might've wasted mine by doing nothing, but in a sense that's good because it'll rest the brain and body which a holiday should do. :)
There will be no Friday Favourites post this week as I am working on something else. ;)
Heh, my sister in Spain has a solar-powered Queen
http://365project.org/kerrynthekerryn/365/2011-04-29?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4dbae8c70690454d,0
Where does she live?
Vigo
Oh, quite far away from where I live hehe.
Yeah :)
Bye bye everyone.
Tomorrow I'll have more spare time, I've been quite busy lately :(
See you!
See you Marti
Hello everyone. Hope everyone enjoyed their day off.
Somehow, I feel we got shortchanged in this revolution thing a few hundred years ago.
We didn't all get the day off...
Hey look, F1 on Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/29/formula-1-cars-set-to-go-all-electric-in-the-pit-lane-from-2013/
Weird.
Seeing tweets that qualifying for World Challenge at Miller Motorsports Park in Utah has been cancelled... due to snow
Uh oh. What's the World Challenge?
A GT/touring car series in the US
Does it look likely the race will go ahead? How do they decide qualifying?
It's not even snowing here
Looks like they'll set the grid by points positions, it seems like a flurry for now so hopefully it won't cover the track for tomorrow
There are usually rules that say they can use free practise times or championship positions or even the drawing of lots.
Evening.
Does anyone know what happened with Jake Humphrey today and does anyone have a link to a clip?
I know he was meant to be flying in a Lancaster
He said there were technical issues in the show but they recorded good stuff anyway and it was in the highlights, I haven't seen it though.
electrical interference, it looked like. zero signal.
It really isn't worth watching back. They tried to throw to him, he said his intro, then started to repeat it and they cut away. They went back again and the picture broke up.
Just seen it. Not the massive fail I saw it described on Twitter.
We are watching the ceremony in Danish, which is weird because I have to keep explaining to Mrs. Goat who everyone is...
It was a pretty big fail, but not his fault.
anotherf1podcast may have slightly exaggerated things :)
Just live TV innit.
the biggest issue was the delay for the flypast. nascar and superbowl have me expecting it to be timed to the final note :)
Evening all!
Hello :)
Ha!
They don't have one 60+ year old plane
Hi Lou
true :)
lancaster flypast was a highlight. the new planes were far too high and a bit pointless by comparison.
Well Jake said he had fun so that's all right by me.
Agreed
I don't think it reflected badly on him, which is the main thing.
Agreed.
I think I should have something ready in about half an hour :)
I am intrigued.
Good evening, is it safe to come out now?
Not if delayed live comments of Danish coverage of the wedding affect your safety
Might keep it to myself then - I think Bassano is a doohickeyian ;)
It's been safe to come out all day.
Keep going
You can never be too sure :)
Post away, I'm just being silly
No, no, no.
NO.
Evening. I'm drinking Guinness while listening to Kerrang while writing lots about something, posts will go up very soon
Unless you are a space shuttle electrician. Then it is best to stay under cover
we have threads, keep going.
Then if you weren't already going to lose your job you might be fired?
:)
Lou are you doing the Daily and if so what's the ETA?
Daily is another newbie, and it's scheduled.
NASA will no doubt justify the problem by saying this IS rocket science. It's not rocket science it's a heater.
ohhhhhh the DAILY!
erm... yeah. you've got ages.
Okay ta, will ping after.
Not till tomorrow. It's Friday peoples :)
wait.. it's not saturday..
OMFG!!!
I love all the newbies this week. Daily posts and interviews
i'm glad i'm not the only one...
Oh yeah. Day off confused me. :D
Should my first comment of every day just be an announcement of what day it is??
hehehehehehe
You what?!
bank holidays are confusing.
Maybe the Daily post title should say it
#affinity
So.. erm.. um.. yeah
Montoya just got pole, see that?
i think that may be a good idea.. summer is going to be awful for me, i wont even have uni to give me a vague idea!
oooh, yay!
If not here, then certainly at home ;)
Are you and Mr C related?
Can you get SU to do it every hour?
i always have problems with which day of the week it is when it's holiday. Plus i was away last night, and kept saying 'it's been a lovely weekend' it was bound to happen at one point.
I'm confused, is it neaerly midnight? the comments have gone funny for me
We need another SU with just a comment like:
DON'T FORGET, IT'S FRIDAY.
Oh that refreshed the times...
for a moment everything went back an hour but I've never seen the comments times change before like that
Perfect
as long as it doesn't say Friday each day cause that would get confusing :)
Well! Now you're asking quite a lot.
it's been a confusing time in the comments, days have been mixed up so it doesn't surprise me we're getting the time wrong now :)
:)
At the appearance of this comment, the Sidepodtime is...
:D
Yes!We need a talking clock!
Note to self: when attempting to stage a Sims 2 version of the Royal Wedding, it helps if you don't have a mod in place preventing Sims from falling in love with each other in the first place (no idea why that's there, but it has postponed the ceremony, at least until tomorrow...)
It's a shame to hear that the SETI programme has ceased
Or is it just the closure of a telescope?
It's not the whole program as far as I know.
That sounds like an Eastenders Royal Wedding.
Haha, good stuff from Pressdog
http://pressdog.typepad.com/dogblog/2011/04/rice-re-entry-could-signal-coming-hat-war.html
Two new daily peoples in a row. Ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/daily-30th-april-2011
Yay for super-subs
I bet Eastenders' problems with "inability to love" don't get resolved in 5 seconds flat by deleting the offending file ;)