Monday is overwith, and there's the last in the series of Sidepodpanel for you to get your teeth into. However, if you are done with that, then there are also some good conversations going on in the comments. Topics include:
- What the BBC are going to do with their intro? Will it be anything like ITVs and will they use the Chain?
- With Hockenheim on the verge of pulling out of F1, who will be next? Will Bernie ever notice, and if he does, will he do anything about it?
- Jackie kicked off an excellent numbers game, with each number needing an F1 fact to go alongside it. At the moment, we have reached 46, so put your thinking caps on for 47. The previous numbers are collected in the wiki.
- Hamilton has selected his favourite corners to make the ultimate track. Do you agree with his choices, and if not, what would you put in there instead?
That should keep you going for a while, but don't forget that you don't have to abide by anything I've said. Feel free to bring your own topics to the table and we can all get stuck in. I'll see you in the comments.
I got 47 with the Manfred Winklehock statistic in December 1, so here's the next one:
48 - number of points Hesketh got in its existence.
This reminds me of when I did the number lists for an entire month in my blog.
49 - The number of German drivers who have competed in F1.
50 - laps Carlos Pace led.
51 - Points scored by Jody Scheckter in his championship winning season.
52 - number of races Richie Ginther did.
53 - Herbie's race number (yes I know it's not really F1 related).
im sure we relate it if we wanted lol
lol :-D
I think it's fair enough. The most recent Herbie movie starred Lindsay Lohan, and she certainly enjoys speed.
Miaow!
:-)
Although I thought it was over caffinated stuff just at the moment?
Right people, Doctor Who addiction dealt with, i'm up in 7 hours, goodnight!!!
I thought her drug was cocaine. You think you know a person.
How about 53: The amount of points Heikki earned in the 2008 championship.
54 - the number of podiums Niki Lauda got.
ooh, new flag?
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/sidepodcastflag3
55- the number of races for Jean-Pierre Jabouille
Apparently, Mr Speed has landed himself a full time NASCAR drive after exceeding expectations.
He's working with a guy who helped Montoya but was fired after falling out with the team. I know nothing about NASCAR but it sounds like there's just as much politics as F1.
they must've had exceptionally low expectations to begin with?
"McLaren confirm launch date as 16th Jan 2009 at Woking. None of the theatrics of the Valencia launch, but a twist on the format, apparently."
http://identi.ca/notice/1299709
care to speculate on what the twist might be? is bishy going to read out loud again, and will ron remember who's driving the number one car?
:D
I don't think he's done that bad Stateside, from what I can gather anyway. Watching cars turn left, left, left and then left again never floated my boat so I can't claim be an expert on the matter!
In other news, Kazuki hoping for a podium in 2009: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/72294
A touch optimistic?
haha. love this quote:
"His performances earned him a new contract with Williams..."
:D
55 - Brabham BT55 which was in effect the prototype for the almost all conquering MacLaren MP4/4 of 1988. If only they had had a V shaped engine rather than a straight 4 who knows what it could have achieved.
It was also the car in which Elio deAngelis died in testing making him the last driver to die in an F1 car prior to Imola 1994.
You still on this? Gawd.
More rumours I've cooked up today.
Michael Schumacher to race for Team Germany in next months NZ GP in the A1GP.
Kazuki Nakajima is set to be forced to pay the cost of his damages in 09, after a ridiculous amount in 08, Williams can't afford it anymore.
I only just found it. I missed the first 54 last night.
56 - Number of points Toyota scored in the 2008 season.
we're easily entertained.
you mean you don't take your sidepodcast intraveinously?
57 - HEINZ harald Frentzen
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/72290
Looks like Tom Walkinshaw is on the verge of becoming a team owner again, due to someone owing him money. Kinda ironic, really.
Might have seen this already but this looks interesting:
http://www.autosport.com/news/grapevine.php/id/72286
Imagine both of them at Honda :D Just like old times
Groan.
Just to prove that I have no artistic ability whatever I have dropioed a sidepodflag.
It has a yellow background that I nicked from Jordan's flag with a chequered flag border to represent racing. The main item on the flag is a sidepodcake surrounded by the world which sidepodcast is trying to conquer, a panda, a Drench flacg representing Christine's favourite drivers and a champaaagne bottle.
Why thank you
A French flag not a Drench flacg - whatever that is.
58 - Number of years that F1 has existed (1950 - 2008)
Also the points difference between Schumacher and Coulthard in 2001
Isn't that 59?
wow that's awesome! kudos to whoever made it :)
speaking of which, are we still playing i spy? or has that died out now?
Oh, you mean Senna and Prost? :P Took me a while to get that. Alain has a good relationship with Ferrari? That strikes me as odd, considering how their relationship went bust in 1991 (and 2001, to a lesser degree).
Heh. :P
That guy just never quits, does he? :P Next thing we know, he's bought up all the Super Aguri assets and rebadged them as Arrows. Oh, hang on a minute... :P
Hmmm. I think so, since F1 2009 will be the sport's 60th season.
58 - Career points of Andrea de Cesaris, who's done the most races without ever scoring a win.
It seems to have died but if anyone wants to keep it going I will keep telling them they are wrong until the right answer turns up. It is still something that begins with h that is smaller the the missib toolbag and as a second clue it is on the inside of the ISS.
has hub been mentioned?
or maybe a hinge?
Sorry not hub or hinge
Yowzers, this is tough stuff. I'll have to sleep on this one. ;)
Sleeping on it would be very uncomfortable. That is another clue
Sorry, I blame the cold I am suffering from, of course it's 59 years.
More BBC coverage news: they will be running a 'Grand Prix Evening' which will start on BBC 3 before transferring over to BBC 1 after Match of the Day on Saturday 28th March and then run until the start of the Australian GP.
It's expected to be a light-hearted event covering all aspects of F1 past and present.
Sounds nice.
I wonder where that idea came from?
ooh, tasty.
i do have a slight fear that they're gonna tease us with all this stuff, then realise f1 isn't a ratings winner and swiftly ditch it all again.
i guess we enjoy it while we can.
You watch - they'll bring The Chain back and soon everything's back to how it used to be ;)
but it didn't used to be very good? at least not until itv raised the bar right up.
no doubt the beeb will do the same, but for how long?
You seem to forget that technology has advanced in the period of time between BBC's coverage and ITV's. Back then, the hardware and software available was probably nowhere near as advanced as it is now. But I like to think they managed quite nicely with what they had then.
I think f1 is a ratings winner, what, 13m watched the 07 Brazillian GP, no doubt the same for the 08 GP, its a big audience in britain
hmmm. i don't agree. it wasn't a technology problem, they simply didn't care enough about f1.
how many times this year did fivelive cut to the golf or the cricket? nothings really changed. they have something to prove between now and the beginning of the season, but wait until wimbledon kicks off.
true enough. but if there really was a market wouldn't itv have exploited it?
if there was an audience willing to tune into a saturday night f1 show, wouldn't they have found some advertising, and just made one?
Thats cos five live has 2 stations, that and sports extra, and usually on a sunday race weekend, they chuck the football on extra, and usually, only the fans of the football teams will listen to extra, so they'll stick updates on the Augusta Masters on five live.
BBC only has the open, match of the day, and ski sunday (They still do that?), its not gonna impede on the big f1 tv wise is it? they have BBC1 and BBC2, audience watch both.
how many times during the season did we tune into fp1 / 2 and find nothing but that silly advert perpetually looping on sportsextra? it's not a bandwidth issue, they just weren't that bothered.
read back through the live comments this year, we spent a lot of time bitching about the radio coverage. not as much as we did about itv, but enough to suggest we'll be lucky if the beebs f1 love affair last's as much as a whole season.
Sometimes it might not be accesible to do a free practice coverage? Radio is harder to broadcast than tv. With TV you don't need sound, know who's liveries are whos and you can normally work out what is going on, it worked for me in Japan. No commentry and I could still tell Alonso would overtake Kubica at the pitstop, maybe not Bourdais getting penalised (but then, who could :D)
With radio, you have to describe anything. And with going to England v Australia in the cricket is more or less similar to an ad break. It lasts 30 seconds. AND, extra is not one you can access in most cars. So really, will you put cricket on over football?
I think thats one hell of a waffle, but y'know
:)
personally i hope you're right. they may surprise me and provide the best coverage ever for the entirety of their contract. i think we're going to need a trulliometer for auntie though.
renault launch date set for jan 20th, or alonso throwing in a red herring?
http://www.f1technical.net/news/11189
"In fact, the car we will unveil on January 20 will have nothing to do with the car that arrives in the first race."
Nobody told me Murray Walker had went down the, lets make a clip show of motorsports greatest bloopers and put it on a DVD and have it right before christmas.
For your info, Murray Walker's Motorsport Madness, out now for £11.98
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Murray-Walkers-Motorsport-Madness-Walker/dp/B001HF3NNS
I'd find it funny if, everyone does copy the Renault, Renault start with a different car, and all the others are 1 sec faster than them
wasn't he pimping that on the radio2 interview? apparently not too much modern f1 footage from mr. e. though :)
or 6 tenths.
Nowt different than you can find on youtube anyways.
Indeed, plus this compilation is unlikely to feature any fatal or near-fatal crashes, which is understandable, but presents an "A Team" like picture of the world of motorsport.
there's some awful green-screening going on there too.
flag update:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/sidepodcastflag8
anyone fancy owning up to these?
hand?
anyone fancy owning up to these? {me - 2 comments ago}
Not me!
Hunchback?
The flags are mine - it was supposed to be a slick, but I think I got the sidewall height a little thin. The colors are the most common country flag colors, the globe per your request to denote world domination, and the checkers are self explanatory. I did the second one mainly to add the black border, since without it, it looked a little like an iron cross.
Hamper?
ace. thank you :)
No and no
Heat gun
No
I strongly suspect the reason the British Grand Prix was moved forward to the 19 - 21 June from the end of June is that the BBC insisted it was moved so that it didn't clash with Wimbledon. Wimbledon runs from 22 June to 5 July and the Nürburgring GP is the 10 - 12 July.
Hairbrush
No - I never think of them having things like that but I suppose they must. I wonder how much fuel it takes to launch a hairbrush into space?
Hacksaw
No
mmm, very good thinking. unlike bernie to be so accommodating though.
He must like tennis too :)
Might be a commentator too
Random Gadgie - "And it starts to rain at Wimbledon"
Bernie - "Quick, I need an umbrella!"
Bernie can be very accommodating for £200 million and he was in a fix with itv
:D
that would make an excellent game ;)
Horace?
Hamulus?
Handspike?
Hatchet?
Helve?
hakenkreuz?
hallux?
halyard?
Someone's been on dictionary.com ;)
Aye, aye.
You know that racing game you guys had going, the one mentioned on wiki, we couldn't set up an off-season league could we?
Nope... There are these useful books known as thesaurus and academic descriptors...
Yes I actually found something on *paper*
Oh the shame
LPG (who has her nose in books more than the net anyway)
No to all of the above and a bit worried that there might be a hakenkreuz in the space station.
It was a good luck symbol long before it was misappropriated by that lot!
I thought it was only Max's family friends who called it a hakenkreuz though.
Careful.
Hakenkreuz as a name is in use back in the 13th century and possibly before that.
umm, you're gonna have to remind me?
Relentless Sidepodcast Panda-Cosworth Racing F1 :)
Ah that, yes, the script. I'm, still getting on with it...
*Runs
ahh yes. the intention always was to get it going again when things got quiet.
umm, the only thing is i'm probably not the best person to do that, as i spend my life trying to do less work :)
and r.g's just legged it!
I thought the Hindus invented it and called it a swatika. I had no idea it had a Germanic name that far back.
I can recommend Tim Ferris' 'The Four Hour Work Week' as a useful read....
that's one too many.
It has never stopped. It just hasn't had much attention recently. If you feel like adding something to it carry on. I am sure it would take much to get it moving again.
Can I find that on the wiki or is it in some other part of sidepodland?
:D
i'm busy, veeery busy.
thinking of removing the roof too. y'know to save on lighting costs.
Sorry, don't know much about it, it's before my time on sidepodcast but it sounds like it was fun. I'd need a quick resume of what was done to catch up.
No - your local bookshop, or amazon/borders/waterstones etc online if you don't do 'footfall' places ;-P
Could free up more time to spend on sidepodcast though rofl
first port of call is t'other wiki:
http://alianoralacanta.wik.is/Sidepodcast%27s_Corner/Relentless_Sidepodcast_Panda-Cosworth_Racing_F1_Project
that's the wiki alia setup before christine setup another (cause you need a minimum of two, it's internets law).
i may have to spend some time there meself.
Ah yes .. but (cry) all the pages are empty. Never mind, I wasn't meaning to scare people off.
it does that for me sometimes. a refresh or two usually fixes it.
erm, actually. i think they're just blank :(
ahh. the left nav links work for me. but not links within pages.
odd.
We decided to start our own F1 team. I think originally it was Scott's idea and everyone was either given a job or appointed themself and origianally that was all that was meant to happen but it became slightly insane after that. The best way to understand it is to read through the wiki on it because it started off in the comments but when that became unmanageable it was switched to Alianora's wiki.
THe last thing that happened is that I suggested that maybe there could be a film script in it and RG volunteered to write one. He must be nearly finished by now.
The on page links don't work but use the titles on the left hand side and you get all the info.
:D
Thank you :)
That lot will keep me reading for a while :)
oh dear:
"I hear that Honda Racing's head honcho Nick Fry has been forced to abandon the team's annual media lunch following 11th-hour concerns over how much it would have cost."
"The event, at which around 40 guests were expected, has been one of the highlights of the motor racing calendar for almost a decade and was due to go ahead this afternoon at Raymond Blanc's swish Oxfordshire restaurant Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/pandora/pandora-christmas-is-the-pits-for-f1-team-1048852.html
A team that voluntarily did not have sponsors for two seasons cannot afford to take 40 people out for a meal? I think someone's head needs to roll.
the man's a fool. if i were ron i'd be on the phone booking a table for 40 right this minute.
I am glad that no one has checked our F1 team's budget because well, it really is fun to be test firing the Anti-Aircraft missiles from Steven's Roy car......
The other good news is that the car is properly balanced and weighted for Monza....
hehe!
Don't you need someone to hold the ladder for you as "Chief Illumination Optimisation Officer?" :P ,em>
i wasn't planning on installing much, what with the open-plan roof n'all.
Ahhh, Are not the R & D labs in internal rooms?
rats!
Alinora, can you test the validity of using the the KERBs device as taser gun on the sleeping Chief Illumination Optimisation Officer over there?
Is it just me, or is there no December 3 thread yet? :)
I think this is part of Max's cost saving plan. It is like putting the clocks back an hour in autumn except we are putting them back a day and having another December 2nd.
December the 3rd does not exist on the Sidepodcastland calender expect on leap years, and with years begining numbered in Roman Numerals from the year of Christine's Birth being Year I.
what? tell me she hasn't forgotten again?
i'm on it!
Yay! (Hums while waiting) :D
I am glad that no one has checked our F1 team’s budget because well, it really is fun to be test firing the Anti-Aircraft missiles from Steven’s Roy car…… {Jordan Allen - 13 comments ago}
Ah, well, the difference for us is that RSPCRF1 has so much money in the bank that it could afford to buy the bank, which Honda F1 cannot.
Ahhh, Are not the R & D labs in internal rooms? {Jordan Allen - 9 comments ago}
Some of them are. The Panda Examination Hall is open-air because pandas developed bad tempers if they're cooped up for days/weeks at a time. Also, at least one of the R&D "labs" is cunningly disguised as a PDA...
Alinora, can you test the validity of using the the KERBs device as taser gun on the sleeping Chief Illumination Optimisation Officer over there? {Jordan Allen - 8 comments ago}
Test failed. Probably on the grounds that we're not using an electrical method. RSPCRF1 will use environmentally-friendly biological methods modelled on the panda's digestive system. One advantage is that there is no danger to anyone's health (unless there are people made out of thin air or bamboo in this blog).
We have a braking system that produces bamboo rather than heat? How?
What I meant was that the KERS system accepts air or bamboo as inputs. It then removes the energy (or at least that energy stored in the input as heat, chemistry or gravitational energy) and dispenses the remainder through a pair of tiny hatches underneath the car. It shouldn't produce heat because the heat absorption rate was 99.912% in R&D testing, and for that matter the bamboo wastage wouldn't be very high either.