It's the first proper Monday back at work for F1 teams following the holiday period, so if nothing else, we're expecting some actual news worthy of discussion today. Are the rumours true, and will Honda staff learn any more about their long term future in this sport? Or are they in for a protracted and drawn out Aguri-esque lead up to Melbourne?
In the meantime, here's some discussion points to tide us over:
- Sir Jackie Stewart has blasted Bernie for having way too much power and lacking any form of succession plan. Jackie is always right so there's no discussion to be had there, however, what can be done about it, and what would happen to F1 should Bernie not witness another sunrise?
- In the comments, thoughts are already turning to future planning and Alex is considering a visit to Goodwood FoS this year. Do you already have your F1 plans in place, and if so where are you going in 2009 and why?
- Additionally, we've been debating the subject of racing induced hearing loss and whether event organisers should be held responsible for providing protection (the people behind Goodwood FoS say "no chance"). So who should be held accountable for potential hearing damage in this modern era: organisers, promoters, teams, drivers, or the fans who turn up and watch?
All of this and much more to be considered by the Sidepodcommunity in the next 24 hours. You know where you'll find us.
I think hearing loss is gonna be a problem for our whole generation. We're the first generation to enjoy ipods, ridiculously loud concerts/clubs and car stereos with subwoofers that I can fit in.
My plan is to ignore all the warnings and rely on medical science to save me when I can't hear my first born laugh.
BATRacer - now that they season has started (sorry I took so long to join in), how do we quali and race? I don't see the options on the screen. Just practice (which I've used up). Any ideas please?
Okay - I think I see it. Practice has now been activated and the quali period wil begin in the morning (NZL time), 11hr22mins hence.
nice one dave :)
I just booked my flights and accomodation for the Spanish F1 grand prix.
I love this circuit and the atmosphere of the whole race weekend.
I have been going for the last 5 years.
Can't wait now
That sounds great. And indeed the atmosphere over there always seems to be great. I'm sure you'll have a blast! :)
Ignorance is curable, not preventable. Unfortunately, common sense isn't so common.
Sorry if this comment sounds harsh, but I believe in personal responsibility. If you get hearing damage from what you do, then it's usually your fault.
Having said that, I think that there is some responsibility on the part of organisers to educate attendees beforehand as to the possible dangers.
Oh! And it turns out my team mate and I secured a one-two victory in what was quite an eventful race.
I can't believe I'm now in the lead, compared to 20th (for now!)in our Sidepodcast league :D
2009 plans include Silverstone (before it is gone for good) and Singapore (because it was great there last year and also it gives me good reason to dump Shanghai for good)
I am still considering Melbourne and can't make up my mind. But unless something smelly hits the fan I will probably go.
Wolf! Singapore again? Dang, you have quite the race line-up there.
I'm jealous! :P
can't miss the Singapore thing :-)
I think hearing loss is gonna be a problem for our whole generation. We’re the first generation to enjoy ipods, ridiculously loud concerts/clubs and car stereos with subwoofers that I can fit in. {Trig - 10 comments ago}
I don't think hearing loss is going to be a problem for me, because my ears are currently so sensitive that sometimes I have to wear earplugs in the library where I work. Still, crossing the street to avoid being deafened by some of the clubs I walk past sometimes indicates that a lot of my contemporaries are likely to suffer it. The government needs to have more rigourous noise restrictions - it's not exactly as if a disco is any worse if the sound is quieter (since the punters will either appreciate being able to hear themselves think so that they can improve their pick-up lines or will be too drunk to care).
I would have thought it was also an issue for the people who work in discos.
To be fair, motorsports events (like rock concerts, but unlike clubs and discos) do warn people that events could be noisy, but the warnings could be clearer and the means of hearing protection at the venues more accessible. Besides, they could be a profit item for the organisers - ear defenders can be customised with the appropriate logo.
BATRacer - now that they season has started {Dave in NZL - 10 comments ago}
Thanks for joining in. It was worth the wait.
I want to go to Singapore this year, but am waiting for a friend to make up her mind when she is going to get married (depending on when she times it, I may have an accomodation problem).
I'm quite pleased with my 12th of 22 in practise, especially since my team-mate went out and practised after me.
Interesting. Over here where I live, marriages are scheduled AT LEAST 6 months before, usually even earlier - 12-18 months before!
Buemi's all but confirmed at STR.
http://formula-1.updatesport.com/news/article/1231147823/formula_one/F1headlines/Buemi-all-but-confirmed/view.html
where I am going next week people can get married in matter of minutes provided they are drunk enough :-)
Autosport.com's changed the layout of it's website too. Looks pretty good.
I'll be at the final of the 2009 season at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as a guest of Ferrari and Etihad Airways! WOOHOO! Can't wait!
Jealous! :D
Ooh, that sounds good. Hope it'll be a close championship again for you.
*Fingers crossed!*
We shall see! Doubt anything could be as exciting as Brazil this year though!
10 days to go till the 09 cars begin to reveal themselves!
Crikey! Alonso's been in a plane crash!
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/72615
Unhurt, thankfully :)
I think "crash" is overstating it a bit!
I realised that once I looked back at the story and saw the word incident. That and reading the story. :P
Usually a good place to start :)
Also, allow me to say:
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday Franck Montagny
Happy Birthday to you!
Franck is 31 today :D
IS HE??
Oops.
You forgot his birthday?! Actually, I didn't know he was either until I saw so on this website I'm looking on at the moment. :P
But yes, have a good one Franck.
I didn't forget. I don't actually know when it is.
Well, I suppose I do now.
Same as me then :P
me too! i wish i never asked :D
woah! coool.
paid for content is now front and center, also mixed in with free stuff. interesting choice.
i predict 2009 to be the year of autosport online. the xmas issue was likely to be the last we'll ever buy in the shops and it looks like the company are bringing more features to the site this year.
Blimey, BATracer has finally started?!! :-p
Good luck in qualifying folks! I'm hoping to make the top 15 at least!
With a full grid too :D
Hey guys!
I was on Fantasy Racers for the last ten minutes or so and suddenly one of the Scuderia Toro Rosso drivers now show: "Sebastien Buemi" rather than the TBC shown before. I saw no news of this confirmation on Autosport but could this be a confirmation of Buemi's race seat for STR this season?
It's almost a dead cert, just the confirmation to go, I think.
Dietrich Mateschitz has suggested it.
Franz Tost has suggested it.
Gerhard Berger has suggested it.
99.9% definitely driving for them next year!
the more i look into the new autosport site, the more i'm amazed they didn't implement a daily journal system earlier.
it makes no sense to wait until thursday to read entries, and now they can respond much faster, it makes the monthly investment much more worthwhile.
Believe it or not, I just bought my first ever song from iTunes. It's a historic moment people. I feel like crying. :P
you might wanna try mp3's from amazon.co.uk too. cheaper and drm free.
have you discovered tv shows and films in itunes yet?
What was it and what made you take the plunge?
If I Could Fly by Joe Satriani, and I thought I'd give it a go since I've got my eye on an iPod Touch. :P Just bought Lights of Heaven by the same artist as well.
Viva Las Vegas? :D
WOW. Just... WOW.
Hahaha! That's what you get for asking. :P
apparently even golf can damage your hearing too:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7811143.stm
golf!
So can kissing though.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7772902.stm
You have been warned.
"A strong kiss may cause an imbalance in the air pressure between two inner ears and lead to a broken ear drum."
you couldn't make it up!
golf though? i can't imagine a quieter sport.
lol, i'll warn my parents :)
This is why I only play golf on the Wii.
<blockquote>Jackie is always right so there’s no discussion to be had there</blockquote>
I can only think of two people who disagree with that statement.
The law for industrial noise was tightened 3 or 4 years ago. I think it may have been a European thing. Before businesses had to make hearing protection available at 85dB and wearing it was compulsory at 90dB. Now the levels I think are 82 and 85. That doesn't sound a lot but dB is a logoritmic scale.
tis true, your refering to the girl who went deaf because of kissing her boyfriend lol
wow, lucky you! :D
i've not got anything finalised yet, but i'm hoping to be going to the British GP (my first GP :D ), and Goodwood FOS. Sadly i still have no idea about autosport international, dad has said we can discuss it when he gets home tonight. it's looking less and less likely though. :(
I used to live very near a golf course and the occasionaly mishit ball would land in our back garden or one of the neighbours. A bunch of irate Scottish women near a golf course can be very noisy. Needless to say few of the golfers came looking for their ball.
1 hour to go before BATracing qualifying.
oooh, final preparations then. any weather data from FOM worth disregarding?
It says sunny.
And on the subject of competitions voting fr the awards thing starts at midnight.
http://zerodownforce.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-birthday-franck-montagny.html
:D
roughly. they seem a bit worried about how their servers will stand up to the voting :)
I'm also going to post the results of every Practice, Qualifying, Warmup and Race on the Wiki for past reference so that should we do this another time either this year or next year, we can look back at what happened where, who was good and who was rubbish. :P
ahh, if only we were panelling :)
They shouldn't have picked such massive communities then :) Stick with us, I say.
Wonderful idea!
One idea I'd been going over in my head was to run another F1 2008 game (or the 2009 carset, depends) and run it alongside the real season so we could get scenarios like "Man, Kimi's pole lap was amazing. Wasn't as fast as mine though" :P
Been holding off with it though since it might pale into the background because of Live Commenting and Fantasy Racers each race weekend.
should help anyone not playing, follow the action too.
if you're not playing batracer by the way, but are passively watching the action, are you supporting any of us?
*cough aguri*
I'm starting to get an idea of why Christine picked Super Aguri
*cough*Franck*cough*
;)
You know, I can still manually start the game. Sooo....qualifying in 30 mins or right now? ;)
http://iheartfranck.com/2009/01/05/joyeux-anniversaire/
30mins. keep it regular.
Aww :P
That is the best sidepodcake I have ever seen
Ferrari plan to use the traffic lights again:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/72621
"We've analysed the mistakes made in 2008 and we've improved the system," he said. "An electronic program will prevent the car from leaving when the fuel hose is still attached."
sounds infallible :D
Of course. Computers don't get it wrong.
sounds to me like the team no longer trust their employees.
calendar news:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/72623
Well, could have easily been a lot lot worse. Any more contact with that building and it could have been devastating.
Though I do believe I watch too much Air Crash Investigation.
Bad habit of mine.
Aw crap, my public game I crashed out and I was doing soo well. Well done Alenyaa though
mweh.
Last time I said anything about Franck Montagny I got into a lot of bother. So I ain't saying a thing
Aus GP : Kimi Raikkonen goes to last after pit lights don't go green
Mal GP : Felipe Massa drives over the jack man after pit lights go green to early
Bah GP : Massa crashes into Raikkonen in SC period stop after pit lights don't go green
And so on, and on.
YAY! A new driver, hallelujiah
And Red Bull on Feb 9th too.
It's all go today. Everyone woke up.
Damn you mod queue.
Hey, that rhymes.
Surely that should be 'unveiling news' cos for a minute you made me think that the Canadian GP was back
we thought it might :)
yay :D
apologies.
All this excitement all of a sudden!
Congrats to Mr Alonso for winning the 2009 championship thanks to several points lost from ferrari pitstop errors.
;)
kinda shows how much news comes from the autosport website. they must've started back at work today, and suddenly the gmm rubbish is all forgotten.
and a big lolly pop type thing doesn't? oh dear...
Blimey, lots to catch up with today.
really? it was just taxiing wasn't it? it could've driven headlong into the control tower at that speed still not hurt anyone.
Ferrari, Renault and Toyota have been keepin their cards very close to their chest. It will be interesting to see how each of them in turn have interpreted the rules.
It only needs a little switch to be fitted. I had this discussion before (maybe here) and within 5 minutes we had about 10 different ways of making it fail safe.
No, was flying about the sounds of it.
don't remember that, but i'm sure we did and i'm sure it can be. i'm mostly annoyed that ted was wrong when he said they'd binned it :(
THEY said they'd binned it. Now they've brought it back.
pretty sure it wasn't:
"the Renault driver's plane made contact with a building before take-off"
it's a non-story. on what started as a slow news day.
ahh, that's okay then. they may continue ;)
5 minutes until BAT qualifying people :D
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/72622
Red bull launching their car 9th February.
*gets even more excited*
Also nice to see some people are getting some colour onto their helmets instead of the plain white.
I'm reading this
'AS said the plane's right wing struck a building, causing the pilot to momentarily lose control.''
Wait. I know the problem, your reading off autosport and I'm reading of F1-Live
agreed. he lost control while taxiing. they're just trying to make it sound more exciting, no?
i trust autosport more.
Qualifying is in the queue! :D
It's done! :D
Wow, interesting results there :)
Yay, Pole!
Nearly got knocked out in Q2 as well...
Happy with 14th. :)
Probs.
Perhaps. Plus I just so happend to see this at the end of the F1-Live article
Source: GMM
"Unexpected sideways moment."
Grr
yay, 12th for a honda :D
Surely he lost control before he hit something. That is the noemal order of things. Cause and effect are quite clear in these situations. Loss of control causes accident. Accident does not lose control.
I like BATracer.
:P yep me too :D
Wow. I'm not last. This must be a first.
Qualified 5th and beat my mega-experienced team mate. The high risk qualifying strategy worked.
So do we need to be online for the race?
nope.
The grid for Melbourne:
1st - Lukeh (Renault)
2nd - Selidor (Ferrari)
3rd - Alex Andronov (Toyota)
4th - Joe (BMW)
5th - Steven Roy (McLaren)
6th - Scott Woodwiss (McLaren)
7th - Alianora La Canta (Force India)
8th - Gavin Brown (Toro Rosso)
9th - Al (Toro Rosso)
10th - Dank (Red Bull)
11th - Matt Kamalsky (Force India)
12th - lou (Honda)
13th - Lynch (Red Bull)
14th - Dom (Williams)
15th - Dave in NZL (Toyota)
16th - R.G (BMW)
17th - Jackie (Renault)
18th - Alenyaa (Honda)
19th - Mr C (Super Aguri)
20th - Christine (Super Aguri)
21st - Dan Brunell (Williams)
22nd - Trig (Ferrari)
fair enough, even worse journalism then. just reading the article r.g. quoted...
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...
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Source: GMM
never gets old that one :D
http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news/detail/090105120210.shtml
i've changed my mind about my private battle with alex :(
Steven - warmup runs are done, but make sure to read the note I left in team talk before you do yours.
No need to post that surely. We all know it.
And not neccisariy. Say, a plane tags a tree, then it goes out of control, wasn't before, but was after
What about those not taking part?
Presumably the pilot was not in total control when he hit something.
Depends. If he's on autopilot, where these incidents take place, surely the plane is in full control.
And now I just shunted it in the warm up. Gah
autopilot whilst taxiing?
I was talking about it general.
The pilot shouldn't really be going at any dangerous speeds whilst he is taxiing, should be in control
Scotty. I don't think a page for each session is needed, perhaps just a page for each race weekend under the appropriate headings.
is he gunning for the most edited wiki table this week?
Good point, I'll change it.
Ooh, still second most edits on the wiki for I.
I'll do them at the end of the game. Every game gets archived and you can access the results of qualifying and the race for event.
P2 - it'll do :P
Hmm, are all the cars equal on performance in this private league?
I saw a programme on channel 4 a few months ago, i think it was called "embarrasing illnesses: teenage body special" or similar, and one of the episodes had a section on the damage teens are doing to their ears from concerts and ipods etc. They had a device that tested earphone volumes from ipods at a shopping centre, and found that a lot of the people they met had them at very high or unsafe levels.
A simulation of what it was like to have tinnitus was there, but it must have been a really bad case of tinnitus because everything was either inaudiable or distorted - probably for shock value, and it certinaly got the point across.
They also said they're expecting a much higher number of hearing aid users aged about 35 or under in the near future.
Maybe trying to get us into the top 500
I'm guessing they'll be representative of performance based on real life models.
http://batracer.com/-cC
There's a car comparison of the teams and engines but over the season I believe it changes.
Also, you're sharing the front row with me! It's on, buddy. ;)
Some how I managed to get third in the warm up but I guess that means I am guranteed 17th at worst.
What happened there? I have honestly no idea how I managed to come third!
I'm expecting a Toyota Train for the race now! Woohoo!
Hmm, both Beemers seemed to have shunted our cars :(
NOES!!!!!!!
I just done my warm-up in BATracer when this happened!
:-(
Join the club mate.
That and 'You were overenthusiastic in your last run' are the most evil messages ever.
:(
I got that twice! (although cranking up the slider at the top doesn't help!)
Indeed it is! May the best man win!
Of course, I mean the best man in a Ferrari... ;)
i am one second off of danks pace. a whole second.
so, i've done me setup. anything else need doing before tomorrow?
Set up your driving style and your race strategy with pit stops, etc?
& don't pit on the same lap as your team mate
righto.
Yup, in this carset that causes queueing, which you definately don't want.
Brundle might walk...
didn't waste any time throwing his weight around, did he?
sounds like the beeb are angling for bernie to step in and insist the driver's be more media friendly, maybe?
Such a misleading title! Arrrgh! ;_;
I hope he carries it on, it's always entertaining. Everyone loves Brundle... kind of... *looks at Max and bernie*
Oh god.
any idea why the mail mixes all those topics into one page?
they did the same here:
Thorny claim over racing champ
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1105172/Wills-Harry-alone.html
repeat after me: "grid walks can be fun".
No.
Because they're a scummy racist bunch of bigots?
(doesn't like The Mail, can you tell?)
for a second there i thought you were talking about GMM :D
Lots of love for the GMM today :P
The Mail vs GMM
Tough one! :-D
sorry. i'll let it go. it's just because autosport / grandprix.com / others have all come back into play today.
the difference is like night & day.
Yay! Interlagos to be added as new A1GP track this season
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/72626
haha
That is hardly an original story i heard that years ago.
to be honest i didn't even know there was a mystery surrounding his death. i just get confused when f1 stories appear on google with a title relating to the royal family. i spend ages scrolling around looking for a paragraph :(
axis has some plane "crash" pictures:
http://axisofoversteer.blogspot.com/2009/01/lost-in-translation-alonso-plane-crash.html
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns21072.html
Red Bull's long term plan to have VW engines
Thats hardly a building now is it.
First the Dakar, then F3, Now F1. Is there no stopping the Red Bull-VW partnership?!
That said, a new engine supplier would be welcome. :)
worst.controltower.ever!
:D
:D
Makes you wonder how they got out alive.
i tell ya, that damaged paintwork is gonna be a serious headache for someone.
it's the fence i feel most sorry for.
Does that actually count as a building?
haha :D
in the fast paced world of formula 1, every single person involved has an important role to play in the success of a team... erm, except for this man:
"Mr Boland disclosed how he struggled to live up to [Ron Dennis'] exacting demands, attending to everything from the silver-leaf fittings to the cushions on the motor-racing tycoon's private aircraft."
it's a tough life isn't it? apparently the chap is taking ron to court for unfair dismissal, despite being somewhat hopeless at his rather cushy job:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/4126784/Ron-Dennis-sacked-personal-air-steward-over-unfounded-gay-rumours-tribunal-hears.html
i dread to think what he'd have done if ron's aircraft had had an argument, with say... a fence and a garden shed.
Few more details about the goings-on at the BBC.
Thank the heavens that Peter Windsor couldn't come to any agreement with the BBC! And Charlie Webster applied but was rejected - hopefully this will be the end of her (woeful) presenting career and she'll find work on QVC or something.
lucky escapes all round. gabby logan?? phew, we got lucky we did.
any ideas what:
"No announcement expected before January 19th."
means? were we expecting anything else?
Adrian Chiles! Ugh!
he was great on working lunch.
not sure that makes for an ideal sports anchorman though.
Yeah i thought that... i cant see what else they cna fill though so maybe it'll be something red button related? We havent really heard how the BBC will produce the races concerning their massive interactive service...
Not that I'm aware of. We've got an all male sports line up.
I think perhaps it is reference to the schedule, what will be covered when/where etc.
Although, as I say that, F1 Racing had an excellent article 2 months ago or so on what the BBC can do. I hope they picked up on it.
am really hoping they don't, and instead do it all on the web.
multiple online streams of information is easier to mange than flicking a red button on freeview. and it can all be integrated into live commenting.
with the red button, you cut off anyone outside of the uk.
I never thought of that, its a good idea. The bbc have a wealth of technology behind them so we'll see what they decide to do with our money ;)
Although it doesn't affect me personally, I've heard a feew rumbles and grumbles that the bbc don't want to do F1 HD. I havent even seen it mentioned yet.
OXYMORON ALERT! :-D
on the plus side it means we don't have to buy a HD television. which is nice.
on the downside, it means f1 falls ever farther behind other sports broadcasting. football is currently experimenting with 3d technology, but you can't do that until you HD sussed.
f1 is going backwards by standing still.
they printed your letter didn't they?
I've never written to them... Oh hold on. They did feature a couple of my questions to Ross Brawn and DC.
Those where two fabulous months in the world of F1 Racing magazine.
:D
scott wrote them a letter too...
Three fabulous months...
I think Scott got a question published too
but apart from those three fabulous months, the published questions and the whole bbc interactive thing... what has f1 racing ever done for us?
They let Stuart live comment from the press box at actual races
Supplied Stuart C to this site?
ok...
apart from those three fabulous months, the published questions, the whole bbc interactive thing, and for supplying SC with all those excellent insights… what has f1 racing ever done for us?
:D
Helped with the ING F1 Survey
bugger.
With due deference to Stuart C who comes across as an articulate and intelligent guy on his posts I find F1 Racing is becoming more of a comic and less of a true monthly publication...
But perhaps I am in the minority...
(And I haven't even mentioned the cover thing....)
I blame the guy who initially mentioned f1 racing in a post for this silliness!
...wait.
:D
Just take it Mr C, your in a sinking submarine and can't get out
i think i'm gonna call dank on excellent-article-oxymoron-gate, and suggest he picks on autosport magazine instead :D
please do.
me? nooo, i torpedoed the tub. you can see me waving from the shore.
*waves*
Indeed, on Kimi possibly being bored in F1. I remember Stuart said he wanted to give me the bag for it but didn't want to seem biased at all.
It erm, it er... erm, I give up?
But then what relevance has this got on F1? Cynical ol' me doesn't believe that anybody high-up takes notice of the results of the poll. Where are the full results anyway?
did he?
:D
Future tip: use a different alias!
hehe
Why look, is that a shark?
As far as I can remember, he left a comment here saying so. Might have to go find it.
Evening all.
I can't believe Christine can have a website dedicated to her favourite Frenchman (well one of them) and not know his birthday!
Did you know that iPods and other personal music devices sold in the EU have their maximum volume limited by law?
I'm not sure about the grid walks, although they have provided us with some great live TV moments, I'd rather not know what some random celebrity who has probably never seen a F1 car before thinks about the race.
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2008/08/14/inside-track-valencia/#comment-92071
And yet there's a place on the Internet where you can get a program which can take the limiter off. Ridiculous.
Ah yeah there it is. Reading it, I thought it was because he wouldn't seem biased but the issue it featured in was the Ferrari Special with a big Kimi interview. It wouldn't really make sense or be quite logical to award the star prize to a letter that's slating him in an issue that's lauding him. Still, I didn't really care about the bag that much. Just getting my e-mail in the magazine was enough of a prize! :D
Got two quick questions about BATracer, in particular how the actual races work.
1. Selecting tyres: if I choose a set of hards, I assume it automatically selects the softer tyres when it comes to pitting? How does it know when I want to change to the softs and also which set out of three to choose?
2. Is the race over in a matter of seconds or can you follow it online lap-by-lap as it unfolds?
Not the current models, although it may be possible to get around the limit by using a device that connects via the dock connector.
a pair of amplified speakers?
:)
I just had a quick look at Fantasy Racers. 78 people have signed up and 40 of them are in our league. We have more than half the people in the whole thing.
waaay hey :)
1. Erm, I'm gonna assume you mean the tyre choices for the race. If you're planning on softs, then don't go for them. Use hards all the time in F1, softs obviously wear quicker and you'll find you'll have to run shorter stints which can lose you time due to having to visit the pits more often. But to really answer you question, say for example you want to use both the hard and soft tyres in the race. If you have both of them ticked and start on Hard, the game will switch to the quickest tyres in the best condition. So if you've got 2 sets of softs on heat cycled and one on green, the game will fit you with the green set because they haven't been used.
2. A bit of both really. When a session is being calculated, it will go in the queue for about a minute. Once that session has advanced, you can look the race lap by lap.
oooh i forgot to sign up.. will do so now.
Cheers Scott. I had a blonde-moment with my first query and sussed it out shortly before your reply :-D
It coincided with an all too infrequent article on Kimi... that was the reason....
Additionally it should be said that some of the "valued" subscribers felt somewhat differently to SC on the topic ....
I will just leave it to everyone's memory...
Although I await the next issue, and indeed all this year's covers, with some trepidation...
Hehe. The B&W Zeppelin speakers you can find in the Apple Store are very loud, but i was thinking of something that uses the line out capability of the dock.
Something I have noticed is that many people I speak to are more concerned with maximum volume rather than fidelity. :(
makes sense though. if you were interested in fidelity, you wouldn't compress the nuts out of your songs just to fit them on a flash drive. and you wouldn't be listening back to them on a device that's smaller than most decent pre-amps.
I suppose, but the top-end speaker docks sound pretty good. My personal favourite right now is the JBL On Stage IIIp - just under a hundred quid, tiny, but sounds surprisingly good.
The B&W Zeppelin sounds amazing though. A snip at £391 :)
I have to admit that I use a higher than standard bit rate on all my CD rips (192kbps rather than 128kbps) and have difficulty telling the difference between the compressed audio and the original CD. AAC is a massive improvement over MP3.
Stuck in moderation I think for mentioning expensive speaker docks
i can't either which is why i own an ipod.
but i know people who can. i've personally tested them, and every time they can spot a CD ripped to WAV over a CD ripped to AAC.
those pay upwards of £700 for just a CD mechanism and wouldn't come within a hundred yards of JBL anything :(
Do they buy "one way" interconnects that have to be "run in" for 2 weeks before first use? You know what they say about a fool and his money...
http://zerodownforce.blogspot.com/2009/01/prepare-to-launch.html
Dang, I thought you were going into space there
Me? In space? Don't make me laugh :P
The title made it sound like it
i do.
:D
Some Apple Inc. news:
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/05sjletter.html
This letter still has people asking a lot of questions but at least states clearly that if Steve were unable to continue in his job, Apple would tell the world.
good to hear.
Interesting. Over here where I live, marriages are scheduled AT LEAST 6 months before, usually even earlier - 12-18 months before! {Journeyer - 210 comments ago}
The friend in question basically can't agree with her parents over when to have the wedding - if her parents had had their way, she'd have been married last summer. She counters that she wants to get established in her career first and so does her husband-to-be. It also doesn't help that the wedding details are a bit complicated because the guest list is well into four figures (both bride and groom come from large families and tradition says that everyone both of them knows and their parents know has to be invited). The latter makes accommodation for the day itself and the immediate preparations... ...complicated.
Also, it must be scheduled between other weddings in the family. When she was at university, it seemed like there were two or three weddings a month in her extended family, most of which she managed to get out of on account of being unavoidably halfway around the world at the time. (She still had to attend about five during the summer holidays).
It's a problem for me because she's given me an open invitation to stay with her at any time, but I need to know where the house will be (otherwise I risk getting to Singapore and not being able to find where I'm staying).
Getting a hotel, at the prices likely to be charged, is not an option.
Rather traditional parents there, alia. Make that VERY traditional parents. HUGE guest list too. I really hope that they still manage to enjoy the wedding; everything just seems much too complicated for my liking.
7th - Alianora La Canta (Force India) {Scott Woodwiss}
My mechanics were so happy with this that they took to spraying champagne all over the pit garage. Luckily they cleaned it all up again before warm-up. The trouble is that someone now has to nip down to the local supermarket in case we score points tomorrow...
Hmm, are all the cars equal on performance in this private league? {Selidor}
No. They have the 2008 performance spread. The only modification to this game I can see is that there is a 75% better chance of overtaking than in the standard version.
It is and basically confirms what one US journalist wrote back in October after the Macbook launch - he was told off the record and wrote that Steve Jobs' condition was "serious, but not life threatening".
Now we can look forward to an exciting keynote - remember last year saw the launch of the Macbook Air.
with the red button, you cut off anyone outside of the uk. {me}
With the red button, you also cut off anyone whose digital signal isn't good enough to receive the interactive section of the red buttons (which is the hardest bit to get). Even if you get digital BBC and the text element of the red button, that isn't a guarantee that you get the red button interactive bit. That includes me and a lot of people in difficult signal areas. (Though it could be worse - some people two villages away get no digital channels at all).
Mind you, it shouldn't be that difficult to get the red button stuff online (though putting it on iPlayer is another matter).
Three fabulous months… {Dank}
I've had an opinion on Red Bull's 2008 chances published in there as well. Also notable because the art team managed to turn the accompanying photo from a blue blob to something resembling a plausibly human face.
And F1 Racing does good articles sometimes. In fact, my dad commented just before Christmas that he thought that F1 Racing had improved a lot this year.
Charlie's hot, though. Hahaha! And Peter Windsor isn't all that bad. :)
Interesting results for BATracer, by the way. Ferrari are their usual Italian self - one car at the front, and another at the back. :P
But if I were a betting man, I'd say McLaren will take the title. :)
1. Selecting tyres: if I choose a set of hards, I assume it automatically selects the softer tyres when it comes to pitting? How does it know when I want to change to the softs and also which set out of three to choose? {Dank}
No it doesn't. For that matter, the two-compound rule doesn't seem to apply here.
It will take whichever compound is closest to the amount of water on the circuit, excluding those compounds which you have deselected. Otherwise, it will give you the least damaged set of tyres in each pitstop, going through them in numerical order in case of a tie-break.
Just goes to show how crappy they think that rule is. :P
Grandprix.com also put up a good article on Honda's fate. They're saying an announcement isn't due until the end of January, but it looks like they will indeed race under a new owner at Melbourne.
Interesting, too, how Michael Schumacher's name was floated as a possible investor and commercial tie.
that had me worried.
And why was that? After all, Ferrari may not renew his contract, so he'd need something else to do... :)
I can modify the upgrades to make all the cars equal if you wish ;)
Rather traditional parents there, alia. Make that VERY traditional parents. HUGE guest list too. I really hope that they still manage to enjoy the wedding; everything just seems much too complicated for my liking. {Journeyer - 8 comments ago}
That's just how a lot of families tend to be round that part of the globe. They're not that traditional though, because her family is Hindu and they're happily letting her marry a Muslim man (whose own family probably isn't that traditional). But skimping on the wedding would be seen as an insult by their respective communities against the happy couple.
The huge guest list is largely a Hindu thing. It is traditional in that culture (at least as it is practised in Singapore) for, at the very least, everyone the bride and groom is on at least civil terms with to be invited. Over time, things have developed to the point where the parents of the couple treat it like a networking/social-climbing opportunity and invite everyone they know to the wedding as well. This is generally tolerated as the four of them are jointly responsible for the bill!
I suspect that the couple will find the wedding fairly stressful, but they are planning a good honeymoon and they will have their friends there to help them get through the wedding and its preparations (including me :) ). Oh, and they have managed to negotiate their way out of some of the more fiddly pre-marital preparations traditional to each culture on the basis that they're planning on having a liberal marriage rather than one tied closely to either religion to the total exclusion of the other.
noo, it's fine as it is. you tinker more than max does ;)
and i'd rather he did away from formula one :)
It gives me something to do :P
Grandprix.com also put up a good article on Honda’s fate. They’re saying an announcement isn’t due until the end of January, but it looks like they will indeed race under a new owner at Melbourne. {Journeyer - 5 comments ago}
That's good news :D
that's what he says!
I can modify the upgrades to make all the cars equal if you wish {Scott Woodwiss - 6 comments ago}
I'm quite content with my Force India the way it is - but then I would say that at the moment...
i suppose that's good, isn't it better to get some testing done soon though... ah well as long as they are racing this season i don't mind.
Oh god I'm turning into Max! Oh wait, I don't have an S&M fetish. Panic over. :P