Another day, another daily! With a weekend off before we dive into to the flyaway third act, let's check out what's going on in the world!
Woz Goin' On?
How do you solve a problem like Korea?: After last year's grand prix was only just about finished in time, Korea are confident that 2011 will be a much better event. The track is unique in that it's a centrepiece for a modern city development that will rise over the next few years, changing the track from a dirty swamp circuit to a sparkly futuristic one. I have seen the official documentation and can confirm the plans for the Yeongam circuit, looking forward:
- 2014: Commercial Hub of city complete
- 2016: Parks and lake land complete; many apartments available
- 2017: Many skyscrapers loom over city, which is now a beacon of commerce
- 2018: 90% of city complete, Yeongam has a huge international population
- 2019: Bernie raises circuit fees to GDP of Spain
- 2020: Locals complain about the circuit being a financial blight and annual inconvenience
- 2022: Yeongam dropped from F1 calendar
- 2030: Yeongam residents and workers forget about F1 and wonder why all the city roads are so ridiculously twisty and stupid
- 2035: Hey, why don't we host an F1 race?
Live the 2011 season in your living room!: Codemaster's latest F1 game will be out by the end of the month and now it's more realistic than ever. Here's what F1 2011 has in store:
- Safety Car: At last, after years of pleading from fans, the safety car is available in game. This means you can now spend portions of your game time not racing. Instead you'll have to drive slowly for a few minutes, which sounds incredibly exciting!
- Live the Championship: If you don't play as Vettel, you cannot win.
- Legal Eagle: The action doesn't stop once the race is over: head straight to the courts to fight over the rights to the 'Lotus' name; argue with the stewards over your exhaust technology; argue with your boss when you're replaced for a race by Marcus Winklehock. In fact, 47% of the game will be LA Noire style conversational scenes.
- Run from Brundle: As you wait on the grid, you must avoid being caught up by Martin Brundle on his grid walk. Hide behind engineers, throw C-list celebrities in his path, pretend to need the loo - just don't get caught!
Vettel insists the title fight is now over yet: All his competitors have accepted defeat, but Sebastian Vettel says that the everything is still up for grabs. In a recently press conference he said, 'Oh come on, guys! Don't leave! Play with me! I'll tie one hand behind my back. OK, OK, two hands! No? I'll disable my KERS! I'll start from the pitlane. Anything! Don't leave! ... aw.'
No glow-in-the-dark Pirellis: Last year, Bridgestone made their tyre-type markings glow in the dark for the night race in Singapore, but Pirelli have no such intentions. Among many reasons, the most obvious that springs to mind is: it's not dark.
hehehe. brilliant, brilliant drawing mr stuart.
Love the Yeongam timeline.
and the drawing
Safety Car: At last, after years of pleading from fans, the safety car is available in game. This means you can now spend portions of your game time not racing. Instead you'll have to drive slowly for a few minutes, which sounds incredibly exciting!
Hahahah. It does sound strange people complaining about no SC in games. :)
2030: Yeongam residents and workers forget about F1 and wonder why all the city roads are so ridiculously twisty and stupid
2035: Hey, why don't we host an F1 race?
hehehe!
Your dailies are so entertaining and creative, Stuart. Love it.
I just used the voice recognition for the first time on Google translate.
So cool.
..and 'eighty' in Swedish is ÅTTIOTAL (aw tay TOL)
Coming to an iPhone near you soon [allegedly]
oh talk about handy! That could make me get an iPhone someday, budget-willing.
Rumour has it we'll know by mid-october [maybe]
I'm trying to share that playlist via Ping, but Ping is 'experiencing technical difficulties' at the mo, so I have to keep trying. That's annoying.
Ping is not the greatest
Right now it's the Pastor Maldonado of iTunes.
Probably the Yamamoto. Everyone asks: Just... why?
Great daily Stuart but surely somewhere it should have said
Yeongam residents complaints about the noise result in motor racing being banned in the city
I was going to say Liuzzi, but as far as I know it hasn't ruined 3 other things on iTunes...yet.
:lol:
You could say it's Massa. No direction
I think Stuart should send that cartoon to Derek Daly and tell him to ignore it for two days before he looks at it
:D
Someone would have to send him another drawing to analyse though
:)
It's not even getting started, stuck on the grid...
`webber?
Poor old Ricciardo, I don't think he's done enough to be dragged into this.
oh boooooooooo 'cause it's truuuuuuueeee
:`(
Let's go with that for now. :)
I was able to sign in to Ping, finally. I had published the playlist before that. Now I don't know how to find it. I've tried dragging it into the 'add songs' list, looking at my recent activity, and I don't know what else to try.
Oh noooooo
:(
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14957437
yikes :(
Ohhhh-errr... didn't know about this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Driving-Edge-Art-Science-Race/dp/190533463X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316221383&sr=1-1
This is the manual they give out at the Skip Barber racing schools.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Going-Faster-Mastering-Race-Driving/dp/0837602262/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316221635&sr=1-1
That must be horrendous. A plane hitting a grandstand at racing speeds???
I imagine the body count is only going to get higher
Never heard of that but given all the driving books that exist I am not sure Michael Krumm would be near the top of my list
The world is obviously missing an "Art of Racing" style book by Enrique Bernoldi
didn't hit the grandstand (there are videos on youtube).
Never come across that one either.
For a first serious driving manual it would be hard to beat Bob Bondurant's book
:D
I will avoid the videos but it is great news it missed the grandstand
Watching the GT1 race from Beijing - their gravel traps look really, really, really deep.
That's something at least.
long distance shot so hard to say, looks like a red bull air race shaped plane that hit the ground near a grandstand.
P51 is a WWII fighter
ah, okay. seems to be some kind of looped race and one pilot gets off line.
citizen journalism is pretty damn awesome though. amateur shots told me way more than 20 written news sources including CNN.
It's still early. Would we want solid reporting or nonsense that might end up being retracted - especially where multiple deaths have occurred. Personally, I'd much rather the latter.
NBC and CBS running with headline "plane crashes into stands", video doesn't seem to show any stands.
Did a pilot recently die in an airshow here?
Haven't seen any video, so I can't possibly comment. In saying that, CNN and NBC are probably not the most responsible outlets for news. I normally put them in the Sky News / Fox News / ABC basket for garbage reporting.
Red Arrows pilot died returning to the airport after the air show
I tend to think they (and ABC) are marginally better than Fox, and CNN Int'l is better than CNN US.
Looked like a technical fault
From what little I've seen anyway.
That's my opinion, too.
Slightly impressed at the speed of availability, not so much of the upload speed but that it was searchable already.
I've not watched it and don't plan to.
I'd forgotten that it was the anniversary of Colin McRae's accident this week, and actually didn't know it was the same date as Zanardi's a few years before.
Anyway I really liked the little tribute the Race of Champions put together, which I was lucky enough to see live (Alister giving it the full beans in the Impreza).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLpiuFIE5xA
indeed.
i'd be amazed if you can avoid it once the 24hr news start looping it.
Ahhhh... the joys of not having a TV
:)
I don't really watch it.
Not rushing to watch a video in which 12 people are killed, even from a distance.
:)
On a lighter note, this may be the best champagne celebration I have seen in a long time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwVTT13MGv0&feature=player_detailpage#t=140s
:)
Fantastic :)
A few minutes later in the middle of an interview, he got another dousing of champagne
:D
Amy got there early
http://t.co/nRwNtuu1
It is open, right?
Sorted the last of my hotels and trains for the rest of the F3 season this evening. Now to relax.
:)
Yeah, Amy unlocked the gate.
Cool, where are the venues?
I've been secretly given something very special for an upcoming event.
A golden ticket?
The ring?
Unbelievable
Donington and Silverstone, plus I'll be doing the Britcar 24 Hours at Silverstone as well
Oh...?
kill.me.
:)
That looks like the tennis equivalent of FP1 at some new track
Sounds interesting, staying up for the full 24? :)
Yep. :)
Don't want to say yet in case it falls through, I'm waiting on a call.
What's the public transport situation like for Donington? I assume the airport next door is too close to London to fly into.
I would think so. Bristol to East Midlands?
Even closer
I have to start work at 7 :( Why am I awake?
I'll take a 3/4 hour nap in the middle. I'm helping a few heads with something, so it won't just be me.
Train to Derby (about 9 miles away), then get a bus to the airport, followed by a brief walk.
Reno has cancelled the rest of the weekend's races. I don't see they could have done anything else
Ah right, still a bit of caffeine to be had I'm sure.
Not so bad. Worth a walk around some of the track if you've not been, if you can break away from the media centre.
I'm going up very early, so might have a chance to wander about.
Full moon or something? Same reason I'm still up despite being tired and having had wine. Feel awake for no apparent reason.
Well I'm going to bed anyway, eyes hurt and got stuff to do tomorrow..
Good luck!
night pat
NPR's story (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/16/140550170/plane-crashes-into-reno-grandstand-dozens-injured?ft=1&f=1001&sc=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
oh, looks like it's been updated to be more 'descriptive'. Be warned, and Mr C, you can delete that if you see fit. Sorry. The last thing I want to add to this week is more awful stuff. :(
ahh, we've given up moderation to all intents and purposes, hence the new domain. no time for deleting, carry on.
ok
I'm off folks - have a nice night
Good night.
I'm watching David Tennant narrate the story of Monty Python
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4MnhoALNNM&feature=feedf
Night Leigh
I remember when that was on TV. Really good
I will leave you this evening with this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN6s343YWJ0
:)
I am sitting here thinking my laptop speakers are really rubbish because of the loud high pitched hiss. Then I realised that what I can hear is rain battering off the ground outside like it never rained before. I don't hear vertical rain that often. How am I supposed to know what it sounds like?
hehe.
It was raining like it was the end of the world here earlier.
It just arrived. Or at least I just realised it arrived
We've had enough of it raining UP, too. :)
:D
I'm glad I had a chance to visit with you guys tonight. I haven't had much of that lately. Now time for a nice long sleep with no early qualy to get up for. I need rest.
G'night all.
Good night
Right, I need to get up for work in 2 hours. Nightmare. I'm going to turn my computer off....
Close eyes - hope
Good night
this is the first time I've ever had someone texting me from a roger press conference. Hope it doesn't take too long though, i need to go shopping!
i had to go early, my friend had to pick up her accreditation!
I only ever liked it in NASCAR Racing 2003 because it meant you had to think about Strategy :)
Yeah great stuff yet again :D
It's fine by me as long as you warn us first. I stopped reading as it's too gory. Not sure I need to see that sort of video though...
How well do you know your Formula 1 history?
The book That'll be the Day: 365 F1 Stories takes a look at significant moments or quirky happenings on this day in Grand Prix history. Can you guess what event the following describes?
Hello all, the Italian GP race edit is up
http://www.formula1.com/video/race_edits/
It includes Ross' ominous message :)
Morning everyone... Giggles Radio tomorrow! 1985!
Boom!
I meant to add 3pm *ahem*
woohoo!
Good morning (here in Spain we have lunch at 3pm, our morning is a little bit longer hehe)
How are you all?
Very good thanks. :)
Thanks to Jackie and Mav who couldn't make use of some courtesy tickets, I am going to Goodwood Revival tomorrow. :)
I'm going to bring my mum, which could be a good idea or a bad one. She's never been to a race and loves vintage things, and GR has loads of that outside of the racing.
Oooh brilliant! Hoping to see many photos :)
Are you dressing up or anything?
Well it is very short notice and I don't really have anything suitable.. Will see what I can find
Here in Barcelona they did a revival... I couldn't go, but there were many great cars over there.
And yes! There was a Delorean, from Back to the Future, and some actors :P
mojitos for all!
Hi Amy
Any good news?
Ping your Dad or Grandad?
Cheers!
Anybody has a link to watch the World Series by Renault race?
Stepdad might have something. Trying to find a way to get him along too with a spare ticket from ebay. I know they'd both love it. Was half tempted to give them the tickets and not go myself but I suspect Johnnie Walker expect blog promo in return.
You'd write a good post too.
Afternoon: I think I am addicted to this marvellous song and wondrous video
Trollololol. :P Mindless, just mindless.
Hehehehe, classic. Trololol guy ftw!
F1M ping: http://www.f1minute.com/news/hrt-confirm-narain-karthikeyan-indian-gp
need: http://vimeo.com/29017795
We're having free pizza tonight, my favourite kind of pizza!
Woah... how awesome is that?
need, need, need.
if I ever got a gopro camera im not sure jumping off a 2ft brick wall would have the same effect
super slo-mo
do a roly poly afterwards for dramatic effect
Warning! Drinking coffee while reading Stuart's Yeongam timeline is not exactly brilliant behavour.....
...You get to the year 2035 line with coffee half away down your throat and start chocking in laughter.... !
Love this post Stuart. Great reading after a crazy week of work!
Beautiful! I am going to add that video to my blog :)
Although I must say you won't never find me doing those kind of sports.
I am happy enough with my F1 tickets and my sofa :P
Say do you guys in London, England switch your clocks back an hour yet or not? I just want to know if Giggles Radio will be offset by 5 hours or 4 hours for me....
Enjoy a little something from the Sidepodcast back catalogue.
- F1 Debrief - I Hate Them All
Originally published 14 February 2010.
Not for several weeks yet
Yeah, we're still BST. I am considering suing time for suggesting it was the summer
Just showed to my dad the video MrC posted one hour ago.
He was surprised to recognize some Norway mountains! He went there 20 years ago.
Evening folks
How is everyone today?
You live in the UK. The sun is out, so it is summer. Temperature has nothing to do with it. If the season was called "Temper" then everyone would be out screaming at the top of their lungs, As the saying goes, it is called "Mad Dogs and Englishmen", so you can separate the two... as much as Welsh, Irish and Scots and everyone else in the Commonwealth begs to differ.... :P
Hi Leigh
Afternoon, Leigh.
Shocked to find the day half over, and I have let to do anything about it. (Then again, I needed the sleep....)
awesome, i'll be hitting it up too! .. not dressing up as such (never have done) but I have a Classic Team Lotus shirt to wear which should satisfy the fashion police!
.... but it may rain, so all period clothes will be negated...
The sun is NOT out. It's raining like it's literally the end of the world.
Hi Marti, Jordan (et al)
Just had dinner, which was quite nice.
:)
Dry here, but no sun, because it is the evening time.
You'll have to jump off rockall first I think.
Bah, details! I own dive gear and my friend owns a sailboat...Plus, a little dampness is not going to harm you, Alison....
Well that was an odd episode of Dr Who.
I won't get to see it until later on.
Shalln't mention anymore then
It'd certainly be a one-sided conversation
:)
missed it, but i hear frantic typing coming from christine's desk.
frantic typing here too :)
i feel the need to type something...
Ta da! http://mrschristine.com/2011/09/17/doctor-who-series-6-episode-11-the-god-complex/
spooky.
*not really
noooo I looooseee
#notcompetitive
Hahaa - I'd lose too. I'm only doing my Italian GP write up now.
:)
from which year?
#harsh
Ouch.... :)
I counter you with a ping of my own!
http://toata.co.uk/index.php/2011/09/226-doctor-who-watch-the-god-complex/
*hugs*
no idea why engadget chose this picture, but i like the crossover: http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/17/frankfurt-motor-show-2011-wrap-up/
Evening all.
That drum machine is fab Mr C. I just can't synch two different set ups in two browser windows
... wha?
You have to see what the technology can do. I have also composed a fabulous drum track I am prepared to give away to any 3 armed drummer who contacts me
hehehe. you may also like the audio effects on this demo:
http://chromium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/audio/o3d-webgl-samples/pool.html
Got a pop up box saying "No Web GL contact found"
context. I meant to write content originally and wrote contact for some reason.
odd. latest chrome?
Updated last night
strange. it's the same code at the drum demo.
Just got a green tick to say I am right up to date
Oooh. 2nd weekend upload of the year at FOM. Italy race edit is up!
http://www.formula1.com/video/
Solid music, but the actual edit felt rather... rushed. I felt they could've given a bit more time to each of the major battles.
can't explain that at all.
damn they beat debrief.
I like to cause problems
Aw. Quality over speed. :D
unreal that they have no decent angles on liuzzi's crash at all.
And nothing of the Massa-Buemi crash, either. Yup, it was rushed, all right.
Kimi to Williams? Interesting idea
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/the-real-story-raikkonen-williams-and-sutil/
sounds a bit like JV to BAR, no? why would he bother.
Nope no way joe, never ever!
(....unless they mean replacing pastor)
Was reading that just now!
Interesting idea, in theory. But F1 comebacks rarely work out anything like you expect them to - just ask Michael. Also, I don't think Kimi and Frank would get along very well, for a lot of reasons. Kimi's the kind of guy you need to pay some attention to so he'd do well. Williams has never really been known for that TLC - and that may cause clashes later on.
This is the poor man's version of that - literally; Williams don't have a lot of money to pay Kimi with.
Joe already said they won't, sadly.
But he does give the Sutil-to-Williams idea a good boost.
Would be shame for Rubens to fall one short of 20 seasons, and miss out on a Williams-Renault.
Because the alternatives are to be a second rate rally driver, do 99 NASCAR races per season or float around aimlessly.
He has seen life away from F1 and getting back into it may appeal
It would if it happened, laaaalalalala happy thoughts happy thoughts :D
Kimi is 10 years younger and has been competing the whole time he has been away. He would also be coming back in perfect time for the new tech regs
hmmm. i wanted him to save rallying, not williams.
:D i'd agree with this one. but it seems he's fallen out of love with rallying too.
he was born to go rallying. what went wrong?
Rallying needs new tech regs, cheaper cars and a lot more manufacturers
Too few truly competitive seats, and Citroen had a megastar (in Sebastien Ogier) on its hands it was never going to give up for Kimi.
Some Finns are track drivers even with the rallying DNA
Kimi was never going to save rallying.
The likes of Ogier, Ott Tannak, Martin Prokop, Aaron Burkart might though, not forgetting the return of some manufacturers to WRC.
Also, in terms of rallying Ogier is simply far better than Kimi -- and it looks like Citroen have already lost Ogier.
If anyone is interested on what the Indian circuit may roughly look like, Alan from TeamVVV has been playing it on F1 2011 (the lucky swine)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyF15y4XirE
never heard of any of 'em.
Ogier is Loeb's main challenger - the rest are Champions coming through the ranks, some of whom have made their WRC debut this year.
They have?
*Googles*
Dang. I do find it odd that Citroen would pay him so much, only to make him play second fiddle to Loeb. I do wonder how tight that contract is, though - I'm not sure Citroen will let him go so easy.
That said, didn't Ogier see the signs? For all of Citroen's wrangling, it was Loeb himself telling Ogier to stay away and go to Ford. Perhaps he should've listened the first time...
still never heard of them.
point being, kimi was a name people had heard of, why didn't he sell rally to f1 fans?
Loeb has just signed for two more years, when he was originally to retire at the end of this year.
Loeb and Ogier have had something of a falling out this year by all accounts.
On this site he is often refered to as Oggy
Because i don't think he was really interested in doing that. And Citroen never really pushed Kimi on it, either, given that Loeb was (and is) the center of their world.
I can't think of any time (off the top of my head) when that's ever worked in motor racing. Even when Mansell went to IndyCar, no one suddenly started following it over here.
i followed montoya to nascar and i'll be following danica to nascar.
I wonder what came first, this:
or this:
I suspect one caused the other here.
rally's loss i guess.
Kimi put no effort into selling anything to anyone. He was only interested in what he was doing with no interest in building anything
Hell, even I didn't follow JPM to NASCAR -- and Danica, well, it was nice knowing her
;)
The cracks started appearing last year
Why should he though - that's not his job. Jean Todt has done more for WRC this year alone than Kimi has since he started rallying.
The WRC should have used him a lot more
Which makes me worry as to whether or not he'd be a good fit with Williams. They need Kimi to keep sponsors happy just as well as driving fast. And I'm not sure Kimi would ever be willing to do that kind of legwork.
There's only room in Citroen's world for one Sebastien, apparently. :D
No reason Kimi should
Todt has a long job in front of him to get it back where it was
Pretty much. Can you imagine the meetings when they had to decide team tactics -- who goes on gravel first, etc...?
I think he fits much better in an F1 team than in rallying
I think the biggest priority for Todt must be to sort out some of the awful TV deals the WRC finds itself in.
It doesn't matter who's in it if no one can watch it.
Indeed. It was probably too much. That said, have Citroen made the right call here? Loeb can't win forever, and Ogier will keep getting better.
Like half of F1 next year. You would think the FIA would have learned enough from the WRC to put clauses in the F1 commercial rights contract to prevent this happeneing
Bigger question is who makes way at Ford? If Ogier does confirm the move then that would be a massive shift in the order.
You'd think...
From what I read, Hirvonen's contract expires at the end of this year? VW are still in need of a team leader. Although all things considered, I'd rather let go of Latvala.
I dunno. Hirvonen has been good, but not championship good (although he came so close in 2009), but Latvala has something.
His luck this year (all bad) has been shocking. It's like a different part of the car breaks at every rally.
When was the last time the commercial rights contract was up for review, though? I don't think Todt's had a chance to right Mosley's wrongs there.
Not sure Mosley would have even looked it. He was so obsessed with F1, he left many of the other categories to look after themselves - to their own detriment mostly.
Kinda like Mark Webber? :D That said, I think both drivers are close enough to equal on ability, so perhaps Ford should just do what's more convenient.
I'm talking about Steven's point on the F1 contract. :) But yes, Todt is doing a lot more for WRC than Max did - it's Todt's first love, after all.
Max's whole pitch for his vote of confidence was that he was the only person who could re-negotiate the commercial rights contract. One the vote pass he forgot about it. So Todt inherited the mandate to do it.
Max trashed the WRC, WEC etc etc
Not even like Webber - worse actually. Parts that have no relation to eachother, or parts that would normally not be stressed under rally conditions, seem to be failing once and then never again.
The junior formulae all failed under Max too. Look at what happened to F3000, F3, etc under his tenure.
But don't such contracts normally have set review periods, though? Like once every x years or somesuch?
And the only successful junior ones have been those supported by Renault (GP2, WSR).
Most are reviewed yearly and options for extensions are taken at those points; however the status of a sport at any particular time can determine its attractiveness - or otherwise - to a TV station.
You mean Max may have been lying?
GP2 was also a Bernie/Flavio project.
They also don't generally last for a hundred years and the rights are not just offered to one buyer
Bernie/Flavio/Renault, I'd say. In any case, was Max involved there?
He would have had to facilitate the technical / safety aspects in some way, but the shape of the GP weekend is all Bernie.
Indeed. In any case, Jake's last blog post is a very curious one. He deliberately mentioned the Sky bit at the end to seemingly allow commenters to post about it 'on topic'. And he's been mentioning the audience numbers a lot too - seemingly as if to make a point.
missed that. what did he say
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/jakehumphrey/2011/09/saying_goodbye_to_europe.html
FTA:
he must know better than anyone, a whole TV channel is more valuable to the nation than a single sport.
Indeed. I admire Jake's loyalty to the idea of F1 on the BBC. But he needs to be careful not to shoot the foot of his own career in the process.
hes doing the olympics, it's not like he can go to every race next year anyhow.
Exactly. The 2012 Olympics. In London. For the BBC. He'd be insane to put that on the line.
Let's not forget there's only one race on during the Olympics next year and if that happens to be on the BBC, I'll be stunned.
that isn't going to happen.
What he seems to be doing is verging on exactly that.
he'll need prep time and to cover the build up. he can't just rock up on day one.
True, but with the way the TV deal could shape, he may have lots of time beforehand to prepare
never. it's just words.
He has plenty of time. He only works two days every two weeks. Some people have weekends of. Jakes has the weeks off
They'll be in studio prepping the Olympics stuff alongside the F1 material. It's their job to be able to do 2/3 things at once.
the olympics will be the making of jake as a household name in the uk, it will set him up for the rest of his career. he will be 100% dedicated to the olympics next year. f1 is nothing by comparison. he's not stupid.
it will boil down to what arrangement the BBC has for the f1 coverage. i can easily see them deciding to cover it from London so Jake can present it. but if they opt to keep going abroad, i do see Jake missing more than 1 race.
we'll see. i don't care what he write in a blog post though, f1 has to be secondary in his mind next year.
I'd put money on them presenting it from London and just sending DC, MC, Lee and Ted to the races.
then why say it? he gains nothing by doing so.
as you said, gives people a chance to comment some more about him and fans love him for seemingly giving a damn. win/win.
*it. not him.
love this hat tip to tony fernandes getting exciting on twitter: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14960997.stm
(2:30 ish)
Great to see a manager talk like that about his chairman
can't imagine the same being said about flav.
Nor many others
All Spurs get is the clear fact they haven't been talking to each other. "Oh, well done on signing Adebayor", "We've signed Adebayor?"
Normal football communication
Great result for QPR today though
He's been doing doing for a while now, way before the Sky deal. I think it's 'there's no news' statement
Evening folks
Evening Bassano
Hello
I unfollowed Tony today. The football talk got to be too much and I don't particularly care for his business interests [as impressive and admirable as they are]
i genuinely (heart) him. he types like i do.
#affinity
Another one?
I like him too but I only really care about his F1 stuff on Twitter
Next evolution of twitter?
today: "Sime surprises coming up."
hehe.
yup, it's called google+
:D
I'm not convinced
before you've tried it? tough crowd.
it does what you ask though, shared f1 content with f1 people. dr who content with dr who fans.
I'm signed but do not use. I've given Google enough data already and I don't need an enhanced FB. Can see the appeal but it's not for me. The Social Media bubble will either burst or become a way of e-life