Testing was a bit underwhelming yesterday with a few showers causing problems for the teams. Ferrari decided not to venture out at all so we can all start making fun about the red cars hating the wet weather again.
- Elsewhere, it's emerged that Mallya had input in the decision for Mercedes to supply the Team Formerly Known as Honda with engines. I can't imagine he would have much say in the final decision, but he might have been able to throw his weight around a bit. What do we think?
- Pedalo has spoken out about the lack of in-season testing, suggesting that if a third driver is required in the middle of race weekend, he's going to be completely out of practice. Does this present an inherent safety risk, or is there anything teams can do to make it work?
- Despite running last for two days in a row, Piquet is adamant that Renault will be fighting at the top end of the grid. He also reckons the car has improved enormously since it's first test. And yet they're still last?
That'll do for now. I'm not sure what the forecast is for today, but we should see some more action in Jerez. Until then, I'll see you in the comments.
i just visited weather.com (ahh, it's been so long!), and it says:
so, umm, not much running expected :(
You sure they haven't moved the test circuit to Scotland?
Weather seems about right for there...
kinda looking that way isn't it? :)
never known anything like it.
Those temperatures are practically tropical compared to here.
Dunno if it's bad form for one of my first non-live comments to be OT but it is still technically off-season and I enjoyed it (and it does mention Blundell... so there's a sort of F1 link). It's a sort of travelogue blog of an NZ TV crew visiting the IndyCar test in Miami but that's not the main focus. The main thing is, it's about racing and it's funny.
http://tvnz.co.nz/motorsport-news/bob-mcmurrays-pre-season-indycar-blog-2510737
(found on the Indy Racing Revolution blog)
Okay, I'm off to bed.. On the live show MrC asked me to tell you about myself, there wasn't time during it, must remember to do that this week if yer still interested 'cos I'm hoping to stick around! Oh that sounds really presumptuous now.. And I need to get my Wii code... I should write a list.
I hope Ferrari are prepared to let Massa and/or Raikkonen get wet at some point, otherwise they'll have another virtually useless week.
yay :)
and yep we're certainly v.interested pat. glad we didn't scare you off t'other day.
you and me both ;)
Dunno if it’s bad form for one of my first non-live comments to be OT {Comment #5}
The daily post practically exists for the purpose of going off-topic. Between that and "oh-by-the-way" relevant comments, that's pretty much what an entire daily blog post is. So what you've done there is good form :D
No way - it was fun!
I've got college work (that I meant to do yesterday, and err, today.. and didn't) that I need to get done first, although knowing me it'll be the first thing I do when I'm home tomorrow...
The intro not the work, but then you go that...right?
It's also ridiculously addictive. Now I really am going.
that is a quality piece of writing, although i now have no intention of flying to the US in a hurry. madness.
If anyone is interested the F1Weekly.com podcast has an interview with Jackie Oliver. The interview starts around the 44 minute mark.
just testing something. nothing to see here.
still nothing.
testing from live comments too.
sorry. was just testing cookies again. hopefully all is in order.
le bol is at the test in jerez this week. he's uploaded some video here:
http://thewombatofthebol.blogspot.com/2009/03/piquet-jerez-rf1-march-09.html
and pictures here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dobol/sets/72157614726970142/
well worth checking out.
di resta says, 2-3 weeks before confirmation of a drive:
"...there’s still a few fine details which need to be ironed out and agreed. I should be in a position to let you all know in two or three weeks; you’ll be the first to know."
i'm amazed mercedes haven't insisted he gets a honda seat in exchange for a last minute engine.
http://www.pauldiresta.com/2009/03/02/race-for-success-starts-now/0088
well, he is not saying that Piquet will be fighting at the top end the grid, he is saying that Renault will :-)
I was suprised Mallya said that. One more team means more chance of FI scoring 0 points plus less TV revenue for him.
But one less team, and all of a sudden, they might be asked to run 3 cars each - and that's something Mallya couldn't afford at this point.
I'm just stunned by the number of comments Steven made last month .. that's 50 a day! wow .. and again WOW
Cheers for posting that - Bob McMurray was in the Mclaren team for a long time, then he retired back to NZ and became the studio pundit for TV One's F1 coverage and now the Indycar coverage. An opinion worth listening to and a great blog piece - I especially enjoyed the bit about LAX and the 'dig' at Danica ;-)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/mar/02/felipe-massa-formula-one-ferrari
Another great piece of writing about Felipe Massa. I couldn't stand him before the start of 2008 - now I think he's awesome and my opinion grows higher by the day.
The way he reacted in Brazil was truly that of a champion - the crushing defeat he must have felt and yet to act like a proper sportsman - now that's true class and not what we have become expected to see from Ferrari drivers recently!
Oooh, Danica's head getting just a wee bit too big... :P
Indeed - he's grown by leaps and bounds. That year off testing in 2003 was the best thing that ever happened in his career. Had he stayed in Sauber or some other team for 2003, he would've been dumped anyway - and probably not had a Ferrari test seat to run to.
Weirdly I have always liked him. Each year a mate and I pick out of the rookies which ones win world championships in their careers. Hard to define when the book closes but... my guesses so far have been:
Alonso, Kimi, Massa, Sato, Lewis and Vettel. Yes, yes Sato is in there what was I thinking, etc etc.
Smiley faces and one word comments count too, remember, and I have certainly provided a lot of those (whereas Steven is often a tad more insightful)...
You can blame Sato on hype and optimism, right?
Autosport just dashed my hopes quite magnificently. I see 'Montreal secures three-year deal' and smile happily...
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73520
...then notice it's NASCAR. Boo. :(
In Gone-da news:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73522
Great news, if at all true. I am awaiting the flip-flop denial story before dinner time today - just like all the others have been...
Last year's Busch race was an absolute shambles though :-(
I don't know what I blamed it on really. Sometimes when you're looking for someone near the beginning of their career you want somebody a little crazy. Certainly Massa had that and I think Alonso and Kimi in their first seasons both had an element of uncontained raw skill.
Sato had this strange style and when he arrived he had admitted that he had only been driving for a few years so he was way behind everyone else in terms of driving time. So I figured that what I was seeing was a raw talent which needed taming. Who knows what happened? Maybe it was never tamed? Or maybe the taming was too strong and he lost his forward momentum? Or maybe it wasn't there in the first place.
BBC stuff:
Photos of BBC F1 launch (I heart Lee McKenzie)
BBC to launch their brand-new F1 website this Thursday?
Aww, I really hope this isn't fake :( we've got the same old sources line in there though so we'll just have to wait.
One day we may actually hear something from the team!
Not you as well ;)
Rubens to remain at Honda: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73522
Wolf!
Well, I'll be darned. Bruno Senna off to DTM, then? Lord knows if he'll ever make it back to F1 now.
hehe.
don't forget x3 guest articles. and he's been on the phone too.
he's actually working harder on spc than we are :)
Martin Brundell?
I hope he didn't get Mark's speech patterns. :P
Stopping short of having his own blog, then? :P
i can't see how he'd have the time!
That would be a weird surprise ... and yet DTM is so boring I still wouldn't watch it, even with Tom Kristensen and Bruno Senna in it!
Interesting, though, how Barrichello and Fisichella got the nod over younger talent such as Senna and di Resta, who both end up in DTM instead. Is this a sign of the times?
that's ace. do we have any predictions of what they might do? are there any cool bbc sites out there, they should be looking to copy?
Well, that IS the rumor! It has its bright spots, for sure, but even a line-up with Kristensen, Senna, Ekstrom, and Ralf Schumacher (as well as previous drivers Alesi, Frentzen, and Hakkinen) isn't enough for them to go to the next level of popularity and prestige.
Basically the DTM cars are so well engineered, aero-reliant and fragile that they can't race wheel to wheel. Add in the fact that two fuel and tyre stops are mandatory and you get a Touring Car series with the action levels of F1 on a bad day. Completely the wrong idea in my opinion - I want to see big grunty beasts shoving each other out of the way!!!
Not to mention that only Mercedes and Audi are involved now. The worst part is that there have been unsporting incidents. In particular, there's the en-masse Audi pullout - in the middle of a race! This happened sometime in 2007. They blamed Mercedes, whose cars seemed to keep hitting theirs - and Audi got ******. Everyone else saw it differently.
The revived DTM is no better than the one it replaced, unfortunately. Yet another example of excess Technology spoiling a racing series.
- a little bit miffed
- somewhat upset
- marginally riled
- mildly angry
- a smidge cheesed-off
- all hot and bothered.
;)
Alright... can I say peeved? Your proposed replacements are rather... understatements. :P
:D
of course.
btw: cimaracing says it may not be dtm:
http://twitter.com/CimaRacing/status/1273267176
Sorry, should have removed it from the quote. Thanks for editing it :-)
Well, his single-seater options are limited. Unless it's a WSR drive, it will almost certainly be a tin-top drive. Maybe in the WTCC, perhaps?
i can't imagine?
check out the headline:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73525
can we just get through '09 already?
When else are they going to test them?
in april and may when all the teams back out of the testing ban :)
couple of testing pictures. could he look any more shifty:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/dodgy-kovi-jpg
ooops...
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/massa-in-the-gravel-in-jerez-jpg
I hadn't realised until last night that the ban on testing is until Dec 31st, not until the chequered flag is dropped in Abu Dhabi.
Rubbish, Nov to Jan is going to be a bit of a drag.
Brundle doing a straw poll on twitter: http://twitter.com/MartinBrundle
Keep the gridwalk?!!
Um, I don't know... YES?!?
check out the headline: {Comment #60}
Hooray! They've found something Pedro de la Rosa is happy about!
Ugh, I hope not.
Why not? The gridwalk in and of itself is a great concept - it's just its policy of who should be interviewed that needs changing.
I like the gridwalks. It would be nice if he could find some people who were willing to be interviewed* though - perhaps he needs to base his walks further down the grid more often?
* - I amend that. "People who were willing to be interviewed and are at least somewhat relevant to the race at hand" would be more accurate.
But the news is usually up front - they can go to the midfield a bit more often, but basing the gridwalks there may be a bit too extreme.
The gridwalk makes me uncomfortable. That is usually the time I disappear into the kitchen to make nachos.
So removing it would mean no nachos?
Definately keep it! :D
Why do you feel that way? As someone who has to stick with Star Sports, you guys are lucky that your man Brundle is on the grid - most networks don't get that kind of access.
Considering there are no ad breaks anymore, either, it could very well end up that way :)
If you take ITV's coverage as an example, I would much rather have seen more of Ted and Louise interviewing on the grid and in the pitlane. They had already found their subject, they had questions planned, it was useful.
It's all very well having live access to the grid, but if you are just going to flail around hoping that someone, anyone, will talk to you, I feel it is a waste of precious airtime. Martin does the best he can, but to me, the concept is flawed.
That's the beauty of it: the unpredictability of live coverage. Without it, we'd never have had Kimi in Brazil 2006 saying he missed Schumi's awarding because he was out having a... well, you know what I mean. ;)
That's not really something I wanted to hear, but fair enough.
If the overwhelming majority want it to stay, then I hope they keep it, Mr C will still get his nachos, and everyone will be happy.
One of the best comments ever! Brundles comeback was excellent and extremely quick
Is it a full moon today? :D
That HAS to be put on the quote of the year wiki page!
Be our guest. ;)
bit of a landslide at the moment :)
Boo. :)
test times thus far:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/f1-morning-test-times-png
not looking great for poor sutil. according to google translate:
"Force India did in the early hours of this test easy, but now is Adrian Sutil steam come. The German finished the last half hour for several stints and is now out for its test operations to prosecute."
so, umm, now you know.
I enjoy the grid walk. The biggest problem seems to be the kind of questions that Martin asks. He tends to ask closed questions like, "I see a lot of people are putting their umbrellas up, and those tires covers are looking ominous, so do you think it's likely there will be a rolling start?" Answer: "Yes" or "No".
I think it would be better if he asked questions like, "How is the weather going to affect the start?"
But I like the access and the randomness, so I hope it stays.
i blame steven.
just read on the autosport forum that any team testing 2010 tyres have been granted a 'free' day of testing. anyone know any more about that? it would at least explain why they would test next year's tyres now.
Me. Is your theory that no uk company can do hosting? I think that's what you said before.
This deal came across my radar earlier today. Don't know them though: http://www.superbhosting.net/dedicated-servers/cheap-dedicated-servers.php
No idea if 2,000 Gb per month is enough though
I realised that I've been confusing. This thought isn't related to that company which is American.
i'm lost?
Sorry...
I noticed that company... and thought I'd mention it. I then thought, "Mr C doesn't like hosting companies from somewhere is it UK" and so I posted both the question about that and the details of the company in the same comment when actually they had nothing to do with each other.
It was quite confusing wasn't it! :)
ok. but the link you provided points a us / canadian web host?
O RLY?
I think that was the point. He wasn't sure whether to share the link dependant on whether you liked/disliked US hosting.
Two parts to the comment:
1) Is it UK or US hosting you dislike?
2) If US is okay by you, check out this company.
ahh, okay. yes i prefer US hosting, more choice and better pricing.
however since the pound has fallen through the floor, our hosting costs have shot up. some are billed in dollars, and others billed in euros. either way, we pay more :(
i did, but it's too expensive :)
Thank you Christine... My brain isn't working properly :)
Aha! Okay.
mine neither. christinetranslate.com?
Hehe, I like it :)
I think the closed questions on the Gridwalk are probably semi intentional - given he has little time to actually talk to people once he's stopped them from doing final preparations / tripping over team members who are actually there for a reason, he doesn't want them to go into an open ended reply.
Me - check out the Apple online store :)
Hmmm. Good point. Give them easy questions to answer, so that they'll bother answering them. Pre-USF1, that's good enough for now.
w00t!
Indeed. By the way, the 17" Macbook Pro with anti-glare display has finall arrived in the stores. It looks fantastic.
Me, do you want to ask Nick why he's not answering? :)
I didn't say anything about the price, but it is fabulous.
I'll stick with my 17" Dell which cost around £900 less!
Feeling w00t enough to buy it, then? :P
I might submit some questions later - will keep you posted...
holy smokes. am still reeling from the shock of the prices!
That's due to the exchange rate, but the cheapest iMac is now over £900!
i'm not sure they're worth that much.
me too. cheers kathi :)
I'm shocked you can even think that, let alone post it :)
I seem to have gained the + in my name again.
soz. if you remove it. does it stay removed? did a bunch of updates last night.
Depends if they come with a tuve of KY or not. ;)
tube even - really can't type on a normal keyboard anymore.
am most disappointed in the mini. £499 is £150 more than:
a) the machine is worth
b) what we were expecting
:(
c) what we can afford.
also true. but even if we could afford it. we couldn't justify paying that much for that little.
Trying to find a car that's fun and reasonably practical to use for only 10 months is a real pain in the bot.
actually, i think it's a caching issue. i just had a similar problem on an old browser session. the only fix was to clear my cache (forced reload didn't help).
i'll try and do something on the server this evening to ensure everybody gets the latest files. apologies (again).
Mmmm... Installing my own laconi.ca server this afternoon! Should be fun :)
I'm tired of waiting for the official announcement so have added Jenson and Rubens to the Drivers List at FantasyRacers.
If that doesn't make it official I don't know what does :D
Woohoo! Well done Danny :)
Iiiiinteresting
Apple seems to have ecided that no-one uses numberpads anymore. - new iMac keyboard doesn't have one.
Strangely, that the main reason I bought a 17" laptop - it has a numberpad.
yippeee.
umm, why?
Well It's an idea I'm trying for internal status updates for my team. We need to know what we're all working on etc. And we can't have all of that out in public so an internal lanoni.ca would work a treat. That's the theory anyway.
sounds brilliant! do let us know how it goes.
my understanding is the initial install is the worst thing, but once it's running, it goes like clockwork.
not a fan of that. at least not until touch-whatever becomes more of a reality.
Turned out nice:
what did?
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/cloudysky-jpg
oooh. lovely.
It has been horrible cloudy rainy grey day here :(
:D that's just made my day :D
yay!! i can now select my fantasy racers line up :D
From yesterday, perhaps this is why he was looking so shifty this morning?
Bah. Do embeds not work anymore?
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/mondayheikki-jpeg
are you logged in?
also. isn't that why you have a preview button?
I was logged in, somewhere along the way it logged me out. Never mind.
no worries, blame wordpress, or steven.
First things first... I need to also run IIS on the same server... Hmmm...
oh.
actually, is it iis7?
6 :(
And I only just had this server commissioned for me today! Cuh!
Just testing:
w00t!
:(
7 would've let you run some pretty snazzy php extensions. 6 means you'll need to squeeze apache through another port, i'm guessing.
Hmmm... I'm going to have to do some juggling...
And Apache is running on 8080! w00t!
hehe.
I am live commenting installing a web service. I have officially passed to the other side of geek.
Not only that, but you're bringing us all with you :)
:) I do apologise:)
You'll all be writing gray and color soon :)
OH MY GOODNESS!!! BEST QUOTE EVER!!!!
"Swiss Buemi also gave a predictable preview of the Adrian Newey-designed car. "It's like the Red Bull, only in our colours!" he said."
final times:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/final-f1-jerez-times-for-tuesday-png
"That's it for today. Noted that the time McLaren has been achieved with the spoiler in 2008, once again, trying to wash the face of the team. The other times have been achieved with configuration of all the teams classification. We said goodbye until tomorrow, when a new session can be viewed in that match in both Hamilton and Alonso track. The duel will continue."
can't wait :)
I am checking out a copy of laconica from the repository using darcs which I have just installed.
Yes I know it sounds like gibberish innit?
Massa wants shorter races....he thinks they should be shortened by 15 laps....is this a "if Brazil was shorter i'd have got the world championship" type comment?
:)
if it was shorter he'd still have lost. however, less laps = less opportunity to spin ;)
*cough* geek.
are you planning to use twhirl on every desktop, or just use the web interface?
Or, or, or, make a new version of Twhirl that is ten times better and share it with us??
:D
Is this true? McLaren poped the old wing back onto the car to get their competitive laptime?
Doesn't look good if true. The very fact of McLaren having to waste time to showboat in the false way shows volumes (if this is true)
Also, is that the same wavy 'ring-wing' Dank was talking about?
Had a couple of hailstorms here. :(
:) I had to explain to one of my guys that he couldn't go and write our own version of twitter / laconica which is actually what he wanted to do. So sadly I think we'll have to go with what already exists. I'm all for letting people code their own things though.
Guten tag jeder.
Everyone one is on these twitter things aren't they. Where am I in this world?
Looking good I must say.
For quote below
Oh sweet god he didn't say that.
I think the answer is... whatever people are more comfortable using. We don't really want it to be "office chat" so... it's more likely to be the web interface, but I don't think it matters.
i think they're running a bunch of different configurations for comparison. i would assume that last year's rear wing was pretty good, and a well known in terms of data.
don't forget teams are limited to running a single car this year. in the past they could've stuck one out with and old wing and one with a new one and we wouldn't think much of it.
Hey peeps!
wow!
hullo. where are ya?
Prescott, Arizona - Altitude 5000ft
Are they allowed to have a curvy wing this year?
Upgraded the hire car at the airport and got a Dodge Challenger, is mucho fun ;)
You call that high? Actually it is. What the hell am I talking about?
what??
you are not live commenting from there?
:D
Is 1 mile high, feels like we have mild asthma
The 'wavy wing' they were running yesterday was tall and thin - so 2009 spec.
But they put the car onto 2010 tyres so the times were not comparable with everyone else.
The question is - did they run in full 2009 spec today, or another hybrid spec?
If they did put the old wing back on, then the question is: are they sandbagging, or are they in trouble?
what are you connecting with?
Going another 2000ft tomorrow. Stunning scenery, cannot recommend highly enough
That's dedication :)
neither. just learning.
7k into the air?
The library computers :D
No, Flagstaff Arizona is at 7000ft altitude
Nice. :D
Much sideways fun ;)
Uh huh, have to be careful up in the hills here - there's still snow and the temps are in the 20s in town, very odd
I am starting to wonder if Mercedes are going to announce some top secret sportscar program. I really don't understand how it can take this long to announce a program for him.
OK, point taken - we don't know their testing scheadule, and they maybe using thr 2008 wing as a basline reference. However if so, it is a bit of a strange reference. for they will never be able to race the car in that configuration.
They make me do it. They are blackmailing me.
I've said it before, but you only have yourself to blame ;)
:D
I'm having terrible trouble updating my pear :(
:o cool!
You have to wonder how many times a new touring car formula is designed then works really well for two or three seasons before aero is allowed to take over and ruin it. DTM is far too technologically advanced to produce good racing.
The BTCC used to produce fabulous racing then they allowed aero development and it got silly. Because they used a homologation formula Alfa-Romeo started fitting spacers in the rear spoilers of their road cars so that the racing team could adjust their spoiler. Fortunately they were eventually stopped when another manufacturer said that if that practise was allowed they would put a roll of aluminium and a pop rivet gun in their new cars so their racing team can fit any new pieces they could develop.
Technology ruins racing.
i hope you're taking loads of photos to show us when you get back :)
Yup, plenty
Have remembered some good advice that the key to good photos is editing!
lol :) can't wait to see them
Am trying to drop.io an image via MMS as have not set phone up for email. Don't think it's worked
Giggles, if I pass it to you can you oblige at some point please?
Absolutely!
Grand Canyon & Sedona National Park tomorrow & Thurs
John Wayne country!
Cheers matey, will buy you an Elderflower Spritzer on my return ;)
Well that makes it all worth it :)
Chat soon folks, will there be a show on Sunday?
I think its a mini series this week
Oooooh. Proper colour too. Nice and orange...
Sorry... ORANGE!
Now it absolutely looks definite Rubens is staying on!
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73535
Senna himself said:
""I'm kind of resigned to trying something else. I had a meeting today (Monday) with Ross Brawn and he cancelled,"
I feel bad for Senna of course because it seemed like he'll get the drive but I'm soooooooooo pleased Rubens at least gets another year, albeit most likely his last. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!! :D:D
Me niether, he was their top driver in the DTM last year, and they already chosen to promote Ralf, not Paul to the 2009 spec car this year.
Whoever a sportscar program will be a huge surprise. Without LeMans (and the 2009 entry has been finalised), a ELMS campin on it's own does not make sense - the ALMS does make sense - but Sebring is only days away now
That should be in the dictionary
They have good hard data on the 2008 wing. I think they will be fine. When it comes to the real thing they will be setting the pace. All they are doing is making sure their wind tunnel and CFD data tie up with reality.
Just needs a confederate flag on the roof.
Editing is a key skill - but I'm not refering to wholesale changes to the photo- but rather optimising the image so that contrast,colour balance and sharpness is correct for the mediumn on which you are displaying on (Monitor, web or print.
The KEY skil in photography is working with your subject and light.
I think Bassano might even have been talking of another kind of Editing i.e. selecting which photos to share.
didn't know these guys were on twitter:
http://twitter.com/5LiveF1/
however, it looks like maurice hamilton is not longer on the team. the account only lists:
DC, HS, AD and JS
i'm assuming JS = jason swales (the producer). presumably no more ian phillips in the box this year either?
boo :( liked him last year
me too. hope he's still around in the paddock.
i thought trouble came in three's?
Brilliant news! :D
I seem to have 3 php.inis that sounds like precisely 2 too many.
that is quite an achievement :)
Am hoping if this whole USF1 thing goes ahead, they'll sign him up. Would like to see Bruno join Honda soon, but Rubens deserves this year.
It's great to see Rubens back - but I do feel for Senna.
I gusess, with only a couple days of testing (at most) before the season, and then limited testing through the year, Ross went for a drive he could trust to develop the car.
Then again, if the car is only going to be trooling around at the back this year... could have been a good time to try out a rookie, and give him some experience.
Thanks :) I have deleted a couple - I like to live dangerously!
Great news about Rubens!!!!
It's the best decision in my opinion. The last thing 'Brawn Racing(?)' needs this season is a rookie in the car I think.
Also, it would have been horrible if Rubens didn't get a proper send off like DC did last year.
Seems like yesterday could have been a really bad day.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090303/tsc-space-rock-gives-earth-a-close-shave-50a9c9d.html
you mean you're not following these r.g.?
http://twitter.com/BMWSauberF1Team
should we be concerned it was only spotted on saturday? hardly seems like enough time to rally bruce willis and his team?
At this moment in time, RG has fainted
For-crying-out-loud! OK: Bruno is no Ayrton, but all the media attention with 'a' Senna is worth a whole lot more than any Barrichello!
All they are now is Honda with a different name. And probably a more empty car on ads than the Honda...
If it's emptier than the Williams they they will be in huge problems.
Then again, they could surprise us by announcing they have Coke or Microsoft as title sponsors...
hehe :)
Then I wonder why such a sponsor agrees to run 2 'oldtimers' rather than a big name like Senna?
The biggest threat to the human race is not gloabl warming or anything else here it is a collision with a near earth object(NEO) and there has been a movement to try to get some international government program to track them but governments don't take the matter seriously.
It is not a case as they think of if an NEO hits us but when. It has happened many times in our past and will happen again. Remember what happened to the dinosaurs? That will happen to us but governments won't fund it. There is always unlimited amounts of money to go and fight over a little bit ofrock on the planet but not to stop big bits of rock hitting the planet.
Unfortunately Bruce Willis's tactics don't work in reality nor does the normal knee jerk response of nuke it. If we know about it far enough in advance and NASA don't dealy the launch for three months the best tactic is to bolt a rocket on it and alter its trajectory by less than a degree.
Of course to do that you have to be tracking these things some of which have orbits that take them out past Pluto and you need to have a vehicle designed that can land on it and give it a nudge. Until then we are screwed.
Not drilling? Boo.
They could drill holes to put the bolts in and install rawl plugs if that makes you happy.
:D
Will Bruce Willis do it?
No-one else has a plan to deal with the situation so it may have to be him. Either that or launch Sato to crash into it.
Can Bruce do it? Yes he can :)
Is that not Bob the Builder or Barak Obama
Send a team of cats?
We can get Bob the Builder to do it? This just gets better.
We could send Christian Klien. It won't do any good but at least he can crash Franck's car if he is parked near Jupiter waiting for a big rock.
Hmmm... I'm getting Parse error: parse error in C:\xampplite\htdocs\laconica\index.php on line 19
that sounds bad to me :(
you broke it already?
'Cept... then he'd be a big hero.
Well it hasn't worked yet :(
I finished all of the configuration and then that's what it said.
That puts Monday mornings into perspective!
I don't think Senna is ready for F1 just yet, so am pleased he has been given a chance to race in some lower formulae for another year. Just my opinion, of course.
I'm also a bit miffed by Senna's attitude. He passes up opportunities to race elsewhere because he naively thinks a Honda drive is in the bag, which from the outside, it is still unconfirmed (in the true sense of the word) if the team is saved, yet alone anything else. And then he has a bit of a hissy.
What is it with these youngsters!?
oh.
anything exciting going on at line 19?
that is a very good summary :)
just watched a short story about f2 on our local news.They say it's the future of motorsport and will be the main path for new up and coming drivers to get into F1... i can't see how it's going to beat GP2 just yet though.
What worries me... and I don't know much about PHP is that the line in question 19 only contains this:
?>
Which makes me think this problem is going to be hard to debug.
Of course, Senna could have been led up the garden path. But even then, you'd have a back-up of sorts, wouldn't you?
i think bourdais played it about right.
And Bourdais playing may have actually helped him in the negotiations.
good point.
yikes! no kidding. sounds like you maybe deleted the wrong php.ini?
Well something even stranger seems to be going on... php seems to be working... which is good.
But index.php in the laconica directory doesn't have the correct number of } in it. So I guess the error is saying unexpected end of application. So I added one where I would guess that it would make sense... Then that tells me that there is another problem in one of the included files an unexpected ( which when I look at it looks to me like there is a , missing in the line above (although this is my first PHP program I'm editing so it's a bit like shooting in the dark). Both of these have got me to another error:
Fatal error: Class 'DB' not found in C:\xampplite\htdocs\laconica\config.php on line 21
and on line 21 we see require_once('DB.php'); which does seem to be missing.
But before I start chasing this down... doesn't it seem weird to anyone else that in the installed code I'm getting syntax errors?!?!
It's no coincidence, is it, that Renault were last for two out of two days, then Alonso gets in the car and they are third.
Nope, no coincidence at all. Remind me, why is Piquet in the second car again?
To ensure Alonso isn't challenged?
yes. have you tried downloading the zip file from here:
http://laconi.ca/trac/wiki/Source
radio1 are sending newsbeat's david garrido to melbourne as well:
http://twitter.com/davidgarrido/status/1275021310
pretty sure radio 1 were only ever interested in the british gp?
I didn't even know radio 1 cared about f1
But there's a difference between not challenging Alonso and plum last. :)
I've been using this: http://laconi.ca/trac/wiki/InstallationWindows
So I'll try that.
they were on site at the bgp (christine borrowed garrido's desk / power for f1 minute).
but i had no idea they'd ever show interest beyond that? am v.impressed.
i dont know what it is about him, or Radio 1 and sports reporting, i guess i have a distinct hatred for football and cricket, so that wont help
Or its the BBC trying to promote f1 even more
what's wrong with cricket?
I do find it a wee bit boring during the tests and occasionally at times the One Dayers. Football I don't understand ;)
you are asking the wrong person lol, it just bores me. i like a sport where things happen, although being an F1 fan thats possibly a stupid thing to say.
Plus it gets stopped when a drop of rain falls, which doesn't help at all.
like Nascar :P
I reckon. Drilling with an Oil Rig in space is a fantastic idea - but how would they get the drilling rig, bits, pipe and mud up there? Plus, if the topdrive breaks or something goes wrong (which it usually does), they had better be real good at fixing it!
That'd be one hell of a rig supervisor's job too!
yeah that does get a little annoying, but i certainly don't find it dull to watch probably because my parents have always watched it.
I am a casual fan, I cannot watch it on TV but it's great to go and see it...
I don't mind it, I do check Durham's results every now and then and a friend of mine (who is an absolute cricket nut) took me to a 20/20 match, which was great fun.
My god is it pouring outside.
yeah going to watch it always better :)
http://mantovani.zip.net/arch2009-03-01_2009-03-31.html#2009_03-03_14_44_15-100063171-0
Bruno Mantovani's Red Bull 2009 Caricature - brilliant!
Love the crutch. :D
That's ace!
That seems to be better... I mean all I'm getting is a never ending "loading" page but at least it's not erroring :)
I feel like Mr C must do on one of his late night coding extravaganzas. I've been up since 5:30 coding for most of the day and then switched to all this PHP fun stuff overnight! Although if it doesn't start working soon I think I'm going to be a bit cross!
I have decided to go for a, hopefully winning strategy.
I have:
a) rebooted the server
and
b) gone and fetched a beer!
:)
I've only recently got home and haven't been following your problem. But I do know that this will help. :D
Good evening boys and girls :)
25 days to go, I'll get more hyper by the day!
Bouncing off the walls already! :)
Okay, joined this identica malarky, but why on sidepodcasts page with Mr C, is two words that shalt not be named the most popular?
Evening Jackie :)
i'm exactly the same :D
Isn't it great, planning your weekend round about the F1 schedule :D
Ooh 2 pending .. I like that big grey box thing!
It is ace :)
Just think of all the good karting tracks that could be built if someone in power did the sensible thing and banned cricket on the basis that any game that takes a week and ends up without a winner is too stupid to be allowed to continue.
My first concern is surviving relegation, but when push comes to pushing someone over a cliff, I think I'm excited to see BMW cruising to a few 1-2s this season...
I can't see you :P
I found out today I'll definitely have the weekend off from work when F1 starts from holiday hours and then the amazing Rubens news! bring on Australia! :D:D
Isn't cricket just rounders for big boys? .. run!
If it is the difference between humanity being wiped out or survivng launching a few tons of metal is a fairly minor problem.
Amazing Rubens news?
he is here http://identi.ca/rg ;)
Especially when the Oil industry gets involved. When those guys have to get something done, they find the way to get it done! ;-)
That he's pretty much signed up for 2009 and Senna won't be in Brawn/Honda/Brackley :)
Has anyone said anything about Jenson yet?
Pity there isn't a dancing smiley :D :D :D I was really sad to think Rubens would go without a bye bye so that's cooooooooooooooolllll :)
So am I the only one who would rather have Senna? Strange because normally I am defending the older drivers against the onslaught of youth.
Do you rate Senna, Steven?
he'll be racing for them if they survive, i think that's been a given since the begining of this whole saga.
He has a contract.
you'd rather Senna?? why?
Then NASA will put back the launch dates ten times.
Doesn't he actually have a contract anyway?
is it signed then?
@me: What's with the grey pending box? What does it mean? Should I be concerned I have 1 pending? :)
Yes. I reckon he could be good. He missed out on ten years of karting because his father died soon after Ayrton so the family stopped him racing. Ayrton used to rave about how quick Bruno was when he was only about 10 or 11 years old. Given what he has done so far with so little experience I reckon he could be very useful.
So you won't be commenting on my most recent post then! :D
You get it when you are typing to stop the box that you are typing in from sliding down the screen. V useful on iPhones
Wot, no plug?
Cheers me dears. :)
Don't forget the PR value of having a Senna in your team...
Think so. The team were trying to keep it quiet until a second driver was signed, but that was kinda hard for obvious reasons.
http://blogf1.co.uk/2009/03/03/bruno-senna-resigned-to-stepping-back/
Essentially, I believe Bruno has approached this whole situation completely inappropriately. And now his upset. Boo hoo.
We know how good Rubens is and he is not going to get any better. I would have liked him to choose to quit but I think Bruno like di Resta is ready for F1 and putting them on hold will not help them. Too many promising drivers have missed a key step in their careers and not recovered from it. I also think it would help Button because he would have to demonstrate that he was better than Senna where if he matches Ruben that is enough.
I will have a look at it later and consider my response.
I am not sure. He put all his hopes on an F1 drive - which to be honest, I would have done the same. So what if he loses a year? He knows that he will get there eventually!
w00t!
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/laconica-gif
:)
Sadly....
well done you :)
Bruno should be in F1 this year, but Rubens should too. They are two very good drivers who were both let down by Honda this year, and that annoys me.
I am well aware of that. I also know the value of that name in Japan especially when Sato doesn't have a drive. It could actually do Honda some good politically if they are putting money into the team and giving Senna a break.
I remember saying that about Allan McNish and a few others.
Really? You'd have put all your hopes on a team that is still, as far as we know, in murky water, so to speak.
What a relief!
exactly what alex said.
you can also click the pending box to show queued messages - in case you fancy reading what people are saying whilst ya think about your own comment.
Jenson had no problems doing that though, did he?
Sweet. :)
are you working late on this, or from home?
So the beer helped then. :)
Ooh, didn't know that.
we gotta write some instructions :)
have you tried clicking the "refresh" checkbox (top right)? does the same thing if you're catching up with the conversation.
His only other sensible option was GP2 but he would have had to win that championship or his reputation would have taken a hit. Bear in mind Lucas di Grassi is doing that championship again and he did all the development driving on the GP2 car so it suits him perfectly as he demonstrated last season. Bruno losing GP2 to another Brazilian who has a technical advantage would not help his case.
I thought Jenson was already under contract. Therefore, contractually, he could little else unless, as the team stated themselves, if it all went under he would be released immediately of all and any pending duties. There's a difference.
Plus, Jense has history with the team and those people there.
I think I should try that.
It's always when you want to check commenting when no one posts for a bit I'll tell you that much, bloomin annoying, ooh wait, someone has posted.
It works, cheers Mr C (for the comment, I was waffling there)
I have been working from home all day... The transition between the two is slight in this case!
Absolutely!
ahh, ok. glad you've got it working!
He was under contract to a team that had announced its withdrawal from the sport. That is breach of contract by them and would have left him free to seek alternative employment.
Yes. I wouldn't have attempted this from the office... At the moment it is very difficult to concentrate on one thing at a time. This has been a nice context shift :)
Jense has been known to flip-flop and get out of contracts in the past though. I am sure if he really wanted to he could have joined another team by now.
That is true. Very, very true.
Of course had Honda shut the team down as they said they would have had to pay him the full three year amount an I am sure that is what he was after.
Lummy is it really 8:17?
I have been at my desk for 14 and 3/4 hours :(
I better go and take a break!
So has has been the more unfortunate with picking their teams .. Jenson or Webber?
Is Jense all about the money? I thought he was still hungry for success?
erm??
Having not seen the contract, I can't say if it's a breach. Maybe it was said at the time and I'm being too harsh. And in all likely, the team withdrawing is a breach. But like I said, Jenson knows the people who work in the factory etc... although he has remained very loyal to Honda during this process, his relationship with the team is different to Senna's.
Webber. He joined every team at the wrong time and has passed his peak already. Jenson could still do well if given a good car.
really? i didn't realise you could do that...
Jenson was kicked out of Renault. Things could have been a lot different if that hadn't happened.
And Williams (for the fat kid, too!)
soz. my bad, thought it was a given.
Fisichella. :) Whether you rate him or not is irrelevant. Minardi to Jordan - good move. Jordan - Benetton - bad move. Benetton - Jordan - Sauber, pretty much all bad. Move to Renault, goodish, but then he encountered Alonso. Bad. Renault - Force India, bad, but little choice came his way for obvious reasons.
minor upgrade to drop.io. you can now listen to audio files on a page, using the player on the sidebar:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast
not sure how useful that is, but it's an option if you're looking for an easy way to listen to a collection of dropped mp3 files.
But he had a championship winning car? Neither Jenson or Mark have had one of them.
oo just tried it, the doohickey just got cooler. :P
In a team that probably favoured one driver, and one driver only.
Of course, I meant bad from his perspective because he clearly couldn't keep up.
It's great, just tried it myself.
It's bad when your team mate wins two championships and your average finish is just below the podium. Alonso made Fisi look ordinary and effectively ended his career.
Why is there no doohickey fan club?
Also, they [F1 journo's] always said the Ferraris were only as good as Irvine and Barrichello (and Salo) made them out to be. Maybe the Renault was really only as good as Fisichella made it out to be? Just a thought.
Yes?
why sadly?
anyone else still waiting for lou's rant?
:)
haha :D am waiting for the explanation first ;)
oh yeah i have an article to write at some point don't i... hmm must finish essay quickly.
I don't think that Barrichello or Button should be race drivers for Bronda. Barrichello I think would be an excellent development driver, but other than eye candy for ladies, I can't see the point in giving Jenson another year on the grid.
There's still a lot he's perfectly able to achieve in F1?
I just stuck my head out into the real world and it is covered in snow. No wonder I don't like it.
Its been pouring with rain since I got home, how fun
Scary, ain't it. Thankfully it's just raining in the south. But still just as miserable. Best stay virtual this evening, me thinks.
.. and RG has to practice his signing voice for YMCA :P
Is he after Coulthards record for most disapointing driver?
:(
this twitter thing has just gone bananas. now following us:
http://twitter.com/Murray_Walker
:)
Unless I'm very much mistaken, I'm currently tying my shoelaces.
Oh that has to be fake.... surely?
That's not Murray!
Same here. So many. Too many. I gave up following, and may even cull a few just for my own sanity's sake.
But is it really him?
No, no, no, no, please no.
yeah, no question. still trying to figure out if the brundle one is legit though?
Unless I'm very much mistaken....
Twitter is a bit odd. A lot of links to stories or just random stuff...
have you tried tweetdeck? makes things nice and easy.
Am doubting it.
"I used to eat a whole slab of garibaldi during the ITV-F1 ad breaks. It was br-r-r-illiant."
Oh dear...
Why don't you email him and ask? Surely webmaster [at] his_official_domain would work. Getting a response though may not happen.
One of my colleagues twittered about getting rid of the JWs yesterday - they called to ask him about the bible, he replied he'd never read it as he's more of a McNab man.
Ohh why did I laugh :D
i think ms. mckenzie is already on to that.
Will it incorporate identi.ca as well? And multiple accounts on both? I have heard other good things about tweetdeck though. It's a MacApp as far as I can tell, which is a bonus.
I can't get dropio to open. The little twirly dot circle thing goes round and round like the wheels on the bus but it never reaches the bus stop
You need to press the button to make it stop. :D
who knows what he would be able to achieve in a desent car though. I mean, he's never really been in a race winning/ championship winning car. He is only 29, and from what i can see has driven really well in some utterly crap cars. Put him in a race winning car and THEN judge him. He hasn't truley been able to show his abilities in my opinion.
nope and nope. not sure if it doesn't run on adobe air (so win / mac / linux). it's good, but you probably need a whole screen dedicated to it.
Tried rining the bell but the driver ignored it.
"Murray Walker is now following you."
That's a strange thing to be told...
"a wee bit of unplanned deployments rippling through... sorry, be back up to speed in just a moment"
http://twitter.com/dropio/statuses/1275434037
Nope and nope is not good. Hence why I'm still on twhirl (*shudders*). Although I have looking for an excuse to buy another monitor...
The best one I had last year, and not a word of a lie:
Skin cancer is now following you on Twitter.
:D
it's a struggle, and we're a long way from where microblogging needs to be sadly.
what's worse is twitter has gotten more and more unstable these past couple of days.
:D Brilliant
Everyone in the bloomin worlds using it, I think the local radio's breakfast, mid-morning, afternoon and nightshift has one. Ridiculous.
It's strange when you've been using it long term. I've used it for a good year and a half and never imagined it'd ever get as popular as it is at the moment.
You see, us geeks (sorry for the blanket statement, but in this case, it's warranted) either create or find a great little thing like Twitter, or whatever. We love it and help it along. Then the big wide world finds it, uses it and promotes it and ultimately, ruins it. It's good, and bad. I guess it's life.
I blame Steven.
Fry, that is.
Now that would have worked if you spelt it Stephen ;)
Shhh. ;)
that's an interesting point. but then we still have identica.
Just to be clear, the big wide world is everybody, so everybody is to blame. It's like that perfect break that no one else knows about. Give it time, give it time...
Well keep quiet about it then. :)
LPG is suggesting that Jenson is the James Blunt of F1.
from dorset?
You mean he should have sat on his guitar and strapped his tank round his neck.
ID.ca is like a copy of Twitter though. How often is ID.ca mentioned by the BBC? Twitter was on the news not so long ago with the guy who photo'd the Hudson plane crash/perfect landing at tweeted. ID.ca won't get that promo because in the eyes of the public, it is the same service, but Twitter was first and more popular.
Ultimately, I'm saying that I'm thankful for ID.ca. Long may she remain largely unnoticed.
just had to dig out the first mention of twitter on spc:
"It might well be a fad..."
or not!
more: http://www.sidepodcast.com/2007/03/22/wittering-away/
LPG: Does the best he can with some dodgy material.
LPG: Is quite a nice bloke, but a bit bland.
Sadly Jenson isn't his own rhyming slang though.
mmmm.....
:D
That was my first approach to it as well. :)
You've heard the Mitch Benn song too then? :D
If that's the mmmmm we think it might be, it's not what LPG meant at all. :p
it's geeky enough, and ugly enough never to go mainstream :)
But Jenson is good :(
i just don't agree tis all.
"I’m not convinced about Twitter myself, so I’ll let “me” come and try and sell it to you!!"
Or maybe tell us to all to move to identi.ca. ;)
Can I just add I kept thinking: Liquid Petroleum Gas...?
Sorry, Little Purple Goth.
It all makes sense now. I'm in the right frame of mind.
Ah, the redesign makes sense now! :)
and so you should ;)
:D *rofl*
I agree though. Middle of the road noncense. Didn't deserve an album in the first place.
Mitch Benn did a great song with a line like that in it. ;)
:D
:).
Here's a link to Mitch Benn singing his James Blunt song. Warning contains naughty words.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etYvtT7q5XA
No. youtube?
He told us all to move to identica months ago.
Yes, just posted the link
As far as I remember, I wasn't told either. I had the account set up for me and was emailed my password. :D
[That is all a lie, but as much as I remember, it could have happened like that.]
The gridwalk makes me uncomfortable. That is usually the time I disappear into the kitchen to make nachos. {Comment #72}
I suppose if the gridwalk is scrapped you could make the nachos before the build-up starts, though how you'd fit that in with everything you do for us Sidepodders is anyone's guess.
dropio has gone loopy. First it had a bucket of red noses and nothing else now it says database maintenance time. I was going to dropio a pic of the bucket of red noses but I can't.
wow :D
Well, I would turn that around - will trolling around at the back of the grid for another year do Rubens any good?
He is still a good driver, but will be an asset to the team - but will he ever find his way into another front running car?
Perhaps it is time for him to look for pastures new (sportscars? IRL?)
As for Senna - a year gaining experience out of the spotlight could have been very usefull - and if he were to beat Button, people would notice.
“Force India did in the early hours of this test easy, but now is Adrian Sutil steam come. The German finished the last half hour for several stints and is now out for its test operations to prosecute.” {Comment #85}
Does anyone have a Google-English translator handy?
it'll increase his race starts totalizer thingy.
He's not the subject of a Blue Peter appeal, although that might have been a way to raise some cash to buy Honda...
That's a brilliant idea. Sponsor Rubens per race start. :)
:D
:D
i think drop.io is back.
So do we need to send him stamps or milk bottle tops or something.
Dropioed a bucket of red noses.
We were going to send him some cupcakes in the post a while back...
Either the Honda is as good as was claimed in which case Bruno can be judged in a pressure situation or the car is the normal Honda rubbish and he would get a year's experience. Either way there is no advantage to running Rubens for one more year unless the car is good enought to get podiums.
I think they made last year's Red Bull out of milk bottle tops given the way it fell apart with the slightest knock.
have seen that before, cool :)
the missing word there, was *never*.
I agree... Except that one thing you can say about Rubens is that he can bring the car home in those crazy topsy-turvy races. Last years car was not good enouph for podiums - but look at Silverstone.
Even if he only sneeks in a 7th ot 8th on that sort of race - that could be the only points the team see all year.
Button is the quicker driver, but Rubens is better at snatching the opportunity when it comes.
He can take the pressure off a new team infrastructure (possibly) by avoiding the need to develop an up-and-coming driver. Rubens is at the end of his career, not the beginning. Senna can wait until the right moment. I don't think 2009 is the right moment, especially not in a Honda(-esque) car.
Seems to be a bit of drop.io spam... :(
I've just checked my Fantasy Racers teams. My eyes boggled when I noted that my balance for La Canta Magnifico Aléman stands at minus £5.8 million. Considering I only got £40 million to start with, it seems like Messrs Sutil, Rosberg, Heidfeld, Glock and/or Vettel have increased a lot in value since I first selected them. And it's not even Melbourne yet!
I reckons Glock and Vettel might be the culprits, considering how many headlines they've got out of testing recently.
have fixed. wonder if they changed something? will keep an eye on it, cheers.
I’m having terrible trouble updating my pear {Comment #199}
If it's the sort of pear I'm thinking of, that is not a surprise. Soft green fruit doesn't update very readily.
I'm still not certain what it was / is. Something to do with PHP I think though. I needed updating though apparently!
basically a bunch of useful functions that php probably should've shipped with in the first place.
me too. hope he’s [Ian Phillips] still around in the paddock. {Comment #222}
He'd better be, considering he's second-in-command at Force India at race weekends. We were lucky he could spare a session a weekend to talk to Five Live, really...
At this moment in time, RG has fainted {Comment #234}
Oh no!
Ah makes sense! In other news I have discovered what on earth was causing my computer to use up so much bandwidth...
My virus scanner's default scan had changed to daily during an upgrade... And during an upgrade to Jungledisk they had made their virtual disk containing my backup files "more integrated with Windows". Good right? No bad... My computer was just constantly sitting there downloading files that it had already backed up to check if they had viruses on them... Because the virus scanner could no longer tell that the jungle disk was actually a network disk!
:(
i figured. i meant maurice :)
I’m also a bit miffed by Senna’s attitude. He passes up opportunities to race elsewhere because he naively thinks a Honda drive is in the bag, which from the outside, it is still unconfirmed (in the true sense of the word) if the team is saved, yet alone anything else. And then he has a bit of a hissy. {Comment #255}
Bruno won't impress anyone behaving like that.
that is a new one. i guess it's a learning curve as we all go "cloudy".
What worries me… and I don’t know much about PHP is that the line in question 19 only contains this:
?>
Which makes me think this problem is going to be hard to debug. {Comment #259}
Maybe the program is expecting something that isn't there? It can't possibly be finding something that shouldn't be there because there's nothing there for it to find (unless a question mark and a greater than symbol constitute "something").
Hope the program behaves itself soon.
i figured. i meant maurice {Comment #478}
OK, I misunderstood. Maurice deserves something good to do - I wonder if this means somebody's commisioned him to gather material for a book?
no, no. it's okay, my original comment was just nonsense :)
agreed.
ta to whoever put the F2 video on drop.io i love that corner at brands, good to see that the car isnt too slow either
oooh, not seen it. brb.
Nope, no coincidence at all. Remind me, why is Piquet in the second car again? {Comment #267}
Because some of his sponsors are helping to pay Renault's bills (particularly concerning Alonso?)
i would guess keiththemarshall uploaded it. not sure if i missed a comment somewhere. but cheers keith.
ah yes, im sure your right. it was Brands 2009 Launch today, looked quite good, they had the new Focus BTCC car too, its quite nice.
Oh, so it's on talent then. That's okay, was just checking in with reality. Thanks Alia. :)
And the missing word this time is *not*...
we're on fire tonight aren't we?
I'm always on fire when it comes to missing words. The more important the word, the more I burn! :D
:D
:)
I just stuck my head out into the real world and it is covered in snow. No wonder I don’t like it. {Comment #383}
I was watching the forecast of 25cm of snow up there and thought "Ooh-er, that's an awful lot of white stuff"...
Everyone in the worlds using it, {Cmment #417}
I'm not using it and I'm not about to start ;)
Hi All
I have just signed up with BATracer and want to join the SPC league, how do I do it?
dropio has gone loopy. First it had a bucket of red noses and nothing else now it says database maintenance time. {Comment #450}
Do I take it the Comic Relief charity gesture went slightly wrong?
I guess that is a bit further north and in the mountains. We haven't had that much snow total over the last 20 years.
Go to http://batracer.com/-cj?&D&37543
The password is bourdais
Thanks!
Which team did you sign up for?
If you are new to BATracer you may find Scott's guide very useful
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Fantasy+F1
And there I was wondering who the 'big client' that the local recycling guy was saying the local plant sent all the metal to was....