Credit: Stuart Taylor
Ecclestone School of Interview Techniques (click to zoom)
I don't know how the camp divides on this one, but I prefer Hockenheim to Nurburgring, generally speaking. Both are tamed versions of former, flamboyantly ridiculous mega-circuits, but Hockenheim tends to make for more exciting races, despite the Nurburgring having a more interesting layout.
But, here we are at Nurburgring and with all the usual elements in play and host of upgrades up and down the field, we could be in for a good'n. I'm going out on a limb and predicting another Alonso win, for no apparent reason.
This Week In F1
- Major upgrades at Lotus: Lotus have arrived in Germany with a new-spec driver that they hope will move them up the grid. The totally new pilot, rumoured to have been manufactured in India, will only be used on the number 21 car to evaluate its potential over the troublesome standard component, Jarno Trulli. This new driver, codenamed Cheeky Chandhok, has been in development at the Norfolk HQ for many months now and Mike Gascoyne's crew have finally declared it 'race-ready', having run Chandhok in the wind tunnel for 6 straight weeks without a failure.
- Webber Free to Race, almost all of the time: After long discussions between Mark Webber and Christian Horner, it has been revealed that Mark Webber is free to go head-to-head with Sebastien Vettel 99% of the time. There was tension at the end of the British GP when the team tried to neutralise Webber as he hunted Vettel down for 2nd place; Webber ignored repeated requests to hold station until Horner himself intervened. But now Webber has made the situation clear: 'We are still free to race most of the time,' he said. '99% of the time we'll be going at it, tooth and nail; and only in the 2 hour period during a race will I have to give way to Seb.'
- Ferrari Ignoring the Standings: Ferrari have had a difficult first half to the year, despite winning in Silverstone last time out. Stefano Domenicali has said he would 'give a negative score to Ferrari' based on their performance so far, so the team must be glad Stefano isn't in charge of the Sporting Directives. To avoid depression, Ferrari have admitted they don't look at the official standings, in which they have only half the points of Red Bull. Instead, they have applied a filter to all their work computers that replaces any F1 news with a picture of a Lolcat to keep morale high.
This Time Last Year
- Hamilton Baffled by Small Title Lead: Lewis Hamilton leads Jenson Button in the championship by 12 points - a fact he thinks is 'strange'. 'I've had four solid races - two wins and two second places - and yet I'm only 12 points ahead,' he said. Perhaps he wouldn't be so disappointed if he'd known that 12 months later after one win and two second places he'd be fourth, 95 points behind the leader.
- Alonso - German GP critical: In the build up to the German Grand Prix, Fernando Alonso has said that picking up points in the German and Hungarian races is 'crucial to stay in the race for the title ... I've sense a great deal of determination among the people at Maranello: we all want to return to winning as soon as possible.'
Indeed.
This Time Next Year
- Ecclestone 'been dead for years': Shock passed through the paddock this week as it was revealed that Bernie Ecclestone died several years ago. The diagnosis was administrated by a mysterious new Doctor who revealed that Ecclestone's corpse is merely wandering aimlessly, muttering repeated echoes of his final thoughts: 'FOTA is about to implode... Silverstone is rubbish... Give me more money...'. The Doctor said he could silence Ecclestone and lay him to rest, but FOTA and the FIA World Council agreed unanimously to leave him as he is.
- Major revamp for Autosport Magazine: Following an extremely positive test run to the mid-life-crisis market, Autosport have announced that they will be renamed 'Lotusport' from the next issue onwards. 'We feel now is the time to give the readers something they really want,' said new Editor-in-Chief, Danny Bahar. 'The Lotus brand resonated with the Autosport reader as a symbol of true racing engineering so we have given our publication a fresh, Lotusey new perspective.'
Articles will be written in gold text on black, Team Lotus will be referred to as Team Caterham and all race standings will be calculated from the highest-finishing Lotus (e.g. If Alonso wins and Kubica comes forth, Alonso will be classified as -3rd).
hehehehe!! great daily :)
Is it me or does Paul Hembrey kind look like the singer from Elbow?
i can see it.
also a similarity to mr gervais
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Daily: Saturday 23rd July
- Free Practice uncovered - Lotus go the extra mile
- Pump up the volume - Giving the audience control
- Germany 2011 - Free practice 2 results
- Live: Germany 2011 - Free Practice 2
that too. you could also say guy harvey looks like mr gervais too !!
true, only one of them likes to do a weird dance, and the other likes to whack a piece of metal
http://youtu.be/72Ho9I205Gg
paul is definitely more like guy
Gettings Sidepodcastland......
My car is in the shop so I finally have a chance to blog about the 12 films that I have never seen before on my blogsite
http://jdkallen.wordpress.com/
so far i have reviewed The Tuskegee Airmen and Passchendaele. hopefully by this time tomorrow I will have my reviews for The Eagle Has Landed and The Chinese Connection Connection.
Well, night everyone!
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Daily: Saturday 23rd July
- Free Practice uncovered - Lotus go the extra mile
- Pump up the volume - Giving the audience control
- Germany 2011 - Free practice 2 results
- Live: Germany 2011 - Free Practice 2
Morning Podders
Defiantly looks like Guy Garvey, especially from offset front angle.
Getting more excited to see Elbow next week now :D
Thats an awesome vid by the way, 2nd best, after the Abbey Rd performances: (warning: contains graphic metal pole whacking...) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNIXPQoz0s0
Agreed, Nice work Stuart, lots of lol's
Good morning world ;)
Good morning Marti
Ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/live-germany-2011-free-practice-3
Goodness, Blade Runner is on the iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00plcmt/Blade_Runner/
that definitely falls into 'ruined by analysing the life out of it in high school English classes' camp for me :D
Aww. I just didn't like it :)
I probably wouldn't have liked it even if I hadn't studied it, not my type of film at all. But studying it made it even worse!
Results ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/germany-2011-free-practice-3-results
Ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/live-germany-2011-qualifying
Today's comic is happening RIGHT NOW on BBC (12:27)
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Live: Germany 2011 - Qualifying
- Germany 2011 - Free practice 3 results
- Live: Germany 2011 - Free Practice 3
- Daily: Saturday 23rd July
- Free Practice uncovered - Lotus go the extra mile
Interesting article on the BBC homepage about what ever happened to podcasts: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9545533.stm
ooh, must read. before i do, i'll guess at:
- lack of innovation
- no-one truly "owned" them
- no business model
We were just having that conversation yesterday. BBC reads our minds, I swear.
:)
article doesn't conclude very much though. just sort of stops.
Oh I hate it when that happens. I'm always starting something and
:)
There's an interesting Radio Academy podcast about podcasting. Just talking to a few people about what/why they do it here: http://www.radioacademy.org/listen/podcasts/
Results ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/germany-2011-qualifying-results
Have to head off and think of what birthday present I could possibly buy my mum for christmas so I'll see you guys later.
Wonder if she'll like a preorder of F1 2011... maybe not
I obviously mean her birthday, not christmas. #pressureofshopping
Unless she is baby jesus.
Can't say I've looked at our family tree but I have a feeling their may be a lack of connection :)
Lou, I tried to open the video you sent me but I get the message that says 'the video is not in a format that Quicktime understands'. It's an mpeg file. Any ideas how I can play it, anyone?
Would this help? http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
VLC plays everything, it's fab
Thanks, Janna and Bassano. :)
i play videos through VLC, sorry forgot to mention that.
It all works great now, thank you comments. :)
yaayy! enjoy! :)
...And here by law of averages, I concluded that Lukeh's mother suceeded in meeting that 1 in 365.25 chance of actually being born on December 25th.......
I always wondered what happens to those poor people who are born on leap years.... Like do they have to wait until everyone else is 64 years old before attempting to learn how to drive if the legasl driving age is 16 ?
Ping: http://mrschristine.com/2011/07/23/taste-twenty-trial-8-lucozade-sport-energy-gel/
F1Minute: http://www.f1minute.com/news/mark-webber-takes-pole-position-for-the-german-grand-prix
Poor people? It would be completely awesome to have a leap year birthday!!
But then you would have to wait four years before you would get any presents... :(
Less birthdays would be fabulous.
Hello again! shopping is tiring.
Did you find something?
I did! I got aa big box of chocolates, some CD's of the 60's my mum loves and some stuff for her nintendo DS that she keeps hinting about and blatently asking for. Also found How I Met your Mother series 2 for £5 (Appropriate really!) so a little treat for myself too.
Christine: 23/07/2011 at 16:21:15
Poor people? It would be completely awesome to have a leap year birthday!!
Less birthdays would be fabulous.
But then surely you have to wait four times as long as everyone else to get drinking or driving or get out of school and all that....
and how do you get dates when you look like a 72 year old ? but youy have just reached your 18th birthday ? :P
Also I tweeted this earlier but it was during qualifying, I'm still really confused by it!
Earlier in the week I ordered a new microphone to use for microphoney things (eventually my mic I do own did start to work again yesterday but it was utterly awful) and it arrived today cue excitement and cheers from all involved. But when I took it out I noticed it came with a little bag for the microphone...
http://twitpic.com/5uipzq
Am I missing something here because the microphone headset is about 2/3 times bigger than the bag!
Getting older is not all that bad when you consider the alternative.... The biggest difference that I have noticed that you start to feel awful during the party instead of the morning after..... :P
Hehe, not really about getting older. Just less bothering birthdays :)
either a cable bag, or the headset folds up?
Ohhh so they doooo!
They fold up!! I've never seen that before, that's so cool.
:)
How is birthdays bothersome ? As Joe rightly pointed out, you are only one day older... It just that no one keeps score and a birthday is used as way to add the 365 to the tally that you were supposed to keep....
Oh, yeah, Happy Belated Birthday Joe! Keep the Asides coming!
Hey folks,
Haven't seen qualifying yet - shall check it out in a while. I'll have a wild guess as to which team are on pole.....
;)
IndyCar practice has just started - apparently it's sunny there, but there are still wet patches left over from yesterday
http://racecontrol.indycar.com/
Oh yeah, forgot about "Dead-man-ton....: :P today. Thanks, Leigh....
Hehee..
Completely new circuit layout (totally different), so maybe it'll be a good race this year
On one hand, I wish the series would pull its finger out:
"Dead-man-ton" has nothing to do with teh indycar track, Leigh, it is just what every Tundralander calls the city that is not native to the place.... My guess is from how easy it is to freeze your a-- off up there....
Oh OK.
Ooooh Cars!
I hope you have all been behaving while I have been fighting with my ISP. Unfortunately it will be a few days yet before they are able to sort whatever problem they have with living in the current century. Even though I have not been around I have been scanning through the comments and spotted some interesting conversations around the time of the shuttle landing on the future of space travel. Dr Kiki did a great podcast on the subject with the people from spacevidcast which I would recommend as it gives a very realistic and positive outlook and lets people know about some of the vehicles being developed by private companies. I will miss the shuttle but it is history.
http://www.twit.tv/dksh104
At last - in car starters may be on next years IndyCar
Steven!!!!
*claps*
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Good luck with the ISP and their ineptitude.
It is really good. I had no idea for example that one of the private companies is building a mini-shuttle.
I hope there's enough room for all of us.
*starts doing push ups*
who am I kidding, I get nervous and claustrophobic in a regular plane.
I'll have to be in the mission control center on the ground.
I think the size of the cheques you can write will be more important than fitness
Good point. No hope on that front. I have to save now to see if I can manage a move to England by next year...IF immigration will allow me in. Visa rules have changed recently.
Another victum er.... I mean ... volunteer - for a ride in you open-cockpit fully aerobatic bi-plane ? < evil grin...>
IndyCar practice finished:
P1: Hinchcliffe
P2-P5: Franchitti, Power, Dixon, Briscoe
P6-P10: Viso, Wilson, Castroneves, Kanaan, Meira
Notable others:
Sato (12th), Bourdais (16th), Conway (18th), Andretti (19th), Patrick (20th), Tracy (23rd), de Silvestro (26th)
Just heard about Amy Winehouse. Very sad
WHOA. Very sad - what could have been.
It certainly changes the significance of her "Rehab" song. It makes it more of a cautionary tale to me now.
Just heard. Only 27 - very sad.
I guess it always was.
A victim of hanger's on
Very good point there, Kai.
Hopefully people will see it less as an anthem, is what I mean.
Not a chance. I'm just waiting for the idiots of the world to attach her to the non-existent "Club 27" legend.
Not a chance, really? Too bad for humans, then.
Ughhh...
What is club 27?
This is how it will be sold and sadly, people will buy it. Another dead star to make money from.
I guess I just have more hope for people.
Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and others all died aged 27, but the myth has grown to consume artists that died in and around the age of 27.
ah yes, of course.
Thanks.
It's already happened on Twitter, actually.
Sad.
I generally don't... sadly
Enjoy a little something from the sidepodcast.com back catalogue.
- F1 on the iPad - F1 Racing Magazine
Originally published 02/04/2011
Former F Renault UK driver, Oli Webb, is making his début in the Indy Lights this weekend. Saw this the other day and thoughts I was seeing things.
I know it won't get through to most people. I just hope it makes some difference to someone, somewhere and can save someone's life.
@NobleF1 Jon Noble
Sebastien Buemi excluded from qualifying following fuel irregularity. Story soon
Noooooooooo
The last few race weekends have been bad for Buemi. This just adds to the list.
oooh. been a long time since we've had one of those.
a lesson from noble about how to break news on twitter. buxton take note.
Why -- what did Buxton do?
(haven't been on Twitter yet today)
caused a bit of a fuss the other day. has a whole autosport forum thread dedicated to him and everything :)
I see. Must have completely missed it.
a minor thing, he looked a bit silly, noble just showed him how it should be done :)
Oh well - everyone needs to look silly sometime in life
:)
okay then:
The stewards, having received a report from the FIA Technical Delegate that the fuel sample taken after Qualifying from Car 18 showed an increase in one given GC Peak Area of an absolute amount greater than 0.1 per cent for the component present at a concentration below 0.8 per cent, and having heard from the FIA Formula One Analytical Chemist and the Team Representatives and examined the fuel test graphs, determine this to be a breach of Article 19.8.3 of the 2011 FIA Formula One Technical Regulations and decide to impose a penalty of exclusion of Car 18 from the results of Qualifying.
I was just about to say that myself
:lol:
i thought the diffuser argument was hard to follow :)
more here: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/93301
Gas chromatograph results, I presume
Or as Chandok might say: The fuel looked a bit iffy
:)
news that i can understand:
Asian Football Confederation president Mohammed Bin Hammam banned for life by Fifa after being found guilty of bribery.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/front_page/9545990.stm
That is badly written but it looks like one of the peaks on the gas chromatograph showed that the fuel had 8 times as much of one of the minor components as it was allowed. There must be some sensible reason for one car in a team to be that far out. I wonder if it is the remnants of whatever they rinse the tank with or something like that
Hehehe chemicals are definitely easier than diffusers!
FIFA banning people for bribery? Normally they promote them for that
Depends how public they are about it I suppose
;)
You need permission?
I think it's polite :P
Oh, fair enough.
:)
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Germany 2011 - Qualifying results
- Germany 2011 - Qualifying Highlights
- Live: Germany 2011 - Qualifying
- Germany 2011 - Free practice 3 results
- Live: Germany 2011 - Free Practice 3
same.
wasn't my convo, didn't really overstep any boundaries, thought i'd ask.
I wish my happy days would last longer. Not happy days, positive days. Happy Days is a whole other Fonz-related thing.
AYYYYYYYY!
I had that t-shirt.
Like this: http://www.80stees.com/products/Happy-Days-Fonz-AAAYYYYY-T-Shirt.asp
What's sad is when I bring up the Fonz in conversation at work, there's a whole bunch of people who have no idea who or what I'm talking about
ta.
Well it is thirty years old.
hehe
Well mine was clearly superior because it was dark blue with white lettering and outline of the Fonz.
:)
Gas chromotography is just a method for separating out all the components of a fluid to check its purity or how much of each part is in the fluid. The "peak area" just refers to the amount of a component in the fluid. To basically, the FIA have said there is more of a certain component in Buemi's fuel than there was in the sample they use to reference it.
oh god. Can I get a leap year birthday, please?
That does look a bit like they've just slapped an old sticker on a t-shirt. But the concept is there :)
(it really wasn't that different. But no one needs to know that. I was 10 or something)
Whule we are on the subject of "Happy Days", can I say that Pat Morita (Arnold) rules!
You all remember him as that Japanese Karate teacher in "The Karate Kid" movies...
Older than that even
Started 37 years ago
Yeesh
any guesses as to why it's in there?
I think someone added 20 extra years into history about ten years ago
It's like Joe said, things should be allowed to be history if you have lived through them and remember them.
Something like that anyway :)
Shouldn't. Kinda changes the sentence. Jeez, I've caught what Mr C has.
heard that.
I agree.
Odd that it is only one car that is affected. Unless they tell us what the component is it is difficult to say where it came from. Assuming there was 20 litres of fuel in the car for quali 0.8% is 160ml so it is a not just a splash
I was having happy memories of John Watson's Silverstone win (1981?) then Mr C said you were not born then and ruined it. :)
hehehehehee.
hehe
Steven Roy: 23/07/2011 at 19:09:55
any guesses as to why it's in there?
Odd that it is only one car that is affected. Unless they tell us what the component is it is difficult to say where it came from. Assuming there was 20 litres of fuel in the car for quali 0.8% is 160ml so it is a not just a splash
Commerically availible "octane-booster" that you add to regualr grade gasoline to jump up its octane level to beyond the ultra grade stuff ? Buemi could use all the help he can get....
Hey, Steven, was Waston's friend Sherlock Holmes in attendence ? :P
A wild guess would be that it is a solvent like acetone that they use to rinse fuel pumps, tanks, drums etc and they did not allow it enough time to evaporate.
Running a little late, but then again I've been busy this week:
That cupcake was deeee-lish!
mmm.
Ferrari & shell pushing the boundries to see what they could get away with?
No chance. Anyone with any knowledge of GC would know that such a big error would be spotted immediately. THere is no way this is deliberate
Another F1Minute: http://www.f1minute.com/news/sebastian-buemi-excluded-from-germany-qualifying-results
Watching the Beeb pre-quali show... Man... Gotta love Bernie! So, Bernie, your head is in a noose, how do you feel? (BE) I don't know, it will work out. No, it's not in a noose. My neck will prevent it from coming apart.
Manipe says it was due to a fuel system install not done properly.
http://www.manipef1.com/news/articles/12468/
credit to the stewards for picking up on it ahead of sunday. avoiding a post-race results change in the process.
now that's what i'm talking about.
One day a supermarket is going to pick up that line and Se is going to be their 'face' of the brand. Mark my words!
*Seb. even
So according Manipe's article the error was of more than 0.1% and not 0.7% as I read it. That means an error of 1 ml/litre so if the car had 20 litres of fuel in it the error could have been as little as 20ml which could easily have been done by mistake
:)
Hello Daily, I feel safe to be here now without spoiler potential :)
Don't let anyone tell you there is a water shortage or that the Earth is the only place there is water
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/universe20110722.html
The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean
O.O
"It's another demonstration that water is pervasive throughout the universe, even at the very earliest times."
Wow. Learn something new every day.
Apparently the ALMS race I mentioned in the Q thread is actually happening tomorrow. They are often on a Saturday which confused me.
Quali on ESPN3 now.
Buemi is out? Boo. Booemi.
I'll skip that I think and finish up the BBC quali show then catch up with Tour de France.
Out of quali, no? Not excluded from the event. According to Autosport.
Yes that's what I mean
Pluto has a new moon
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14220620
Steven, this Klaus Graf comment about his crash today in practice reminds me of what you say is a typical racing driver's answer. He didn't lose the car, he ran out of road. ;)
http://www.michelinalley.com/?p=5807
yeah, it's not that interesting. I'm going on to other stuff.
If the car is sliding all over the place it has no grip and if it is not it has no power
Can you have a moon if you are not a planet? I think it more like a groopie or or something.
The problem is the track is not wide enough, not that he lost it.
hehe
I mean yes, track width could be part of it, but the way he said it was...cute. That's probably not the right word. Endearing may be better...Whatever, gotta love 'em.
That's no moon.
If I recall my Duran Duran, right, only on Monday.... :p.
(God I miss Giggles Radio!)
good evening
Micro Machines PING!
http://w.wso.li/pDsvtt
i'll raise you some html5 mario.
http://mario.fromlifetodeath.com/
Goodbye rest of the evening
How awesome!!
Omg.
It does need the music though
#fussy
ahhhh!
Agree, but wow, I'm amazed they got it into a browser
and the fact it's completely different every time! Just awesome
mclaren donuts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2gZk1ubsUc
much more donut-y than timo's car park cruising :)
bless timo.
Interesting idea I hadn't heard of before- crowd-funding books.
http://www.economist.com/node/18988946?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/anovelidea
ooh, that's a fine idea.
"Many fans want to sup with Mr Jones, despite the fact that he once exploded after eating a wafer-thin mint."
hehehe. i'd suggest selling lunch with christine, but she doesn't much like going out... or eating.
how 'bout... an email conversation with the author? can i hear five pounds? four?
sign me up! :)
damn i started too low ;)
four and a half!!
It just reminded me of the SPC community and how much we want to support your endeavors. :)
*hugs*
we're probably talking way too much about books and apps at the moment, but new things are so much fun.
I've been looking at a few things from comic con and this is definitely my favourite thing :D
I agree. Keep it up.
awwwwwww, yes!
did you hear about the guy with a sign bono gave his guitar too? (don't recall if i commented it)
I don't think so, or at least I can't remember it :(
http://dooce.com/2011/07/06/chills-i-tell-you
signs are ace.
Awwwww. What an incredible gesture! Brilliant moment with them on stage :)
mogwai are great for my productivity. and best of all, itunes festival has no swearing to mute :)
Whooooops!
I have spent way too much time here in a good way. Honestly, you guys are about as bad a time-killer as Home Depot!
Oooooh! Ball Hammers!
the trick is to be here in spirit but not in person. that way you get stuff done and still follow the comments. apparently.
Here in spirit ? Good Lord, Mr. C has fallen into a vat of alcohol ! Someone, help me save the brew before he drinks it all!
it's only wine...
Bah, pick his pockets and toss him back in....
Wow, what a battle in Le Tour the last few days :)
reading lots of tweets about it. is it always like that?
Not at all, this is the best Tour I've ever seen and the commentary said it was the tightest in 20 years or more.
The last stage (which is tomorrow) is always a bit of a celebratory run around Paris which doesn't affect the lead so it is essentially over now. Usually it is all sewn up on Thursday/Friday with the last stages climbing up the Alps, which creates time gaps in the overall standings (because climbing an Alp on a push bike is ruddy difficult). The last few days they took time out of each other which kept things close, until the race changed today to leave the mountains and instead became an individual time trial where they go one at a time for 50km instead of in a bunch for 200km. (think one lap qualifying) You get people who are better at that than others. The time trial specialist was a minute down on the mountain specialists, which was remarkable in itself because he basically did all the hard work up the mountain yesterday to maintain that gap, and today he goes and beats them all. From a minute down to 90 seconds up.
He tried the same tactic twice in the past and lost.
I want to blog it but I should wait until they finish tomorrow just in case one of the leaders crashes
wow.
please do!
First time Aussie winner and he's been trying for years. 2nd and 3rd are brothers, first time that's happened.
Gary Imlach of ITV4 was saying they should build a 4th step of the podium for another chap, who deserves to be up there too for leading for ten days when he should never have managed to keep it for a week in the Alps because he wasn't supposed to be good enough..
Crazy race.
And nobody has been thrown out for drugs
and from Twitter it looks like Takuma Sato might be getting another front row start tomorrow
:)
What a lovely surprise of a film Paul was. As much as I love Frost and Pegg I wasn't expecting much but I shouldn't have worried :)
first film of theirs i've seen, but i really liked it.
Have you never seen Hot Fuzz or Shaun?
Well that was a silly question in retrospect
:) :)
hot fuzz is on the list.