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[Insider]

No c#ckpits - I take Kimi's position wholeheartedly. Renault alternators? They never used to be a problem. Then there was KERS.....

I'm sure one of the tech heads here can find a link between the two.

[Rainmaster]

Jake Humphrey is moving from BBC to host BT Vision's push into sport. No problem with this (hey, it's a career move) but his tweets are just a little bit off to me. 6th September: "Why is twitter suddenly awash with rumours & people convinced I'm joining @SkySportsF1. Is someone spreading a scurrilous rumour??" - Oh, some terrible rumour you are joining Sky when you were clearly negotiating/likely signed with BT Vision at that time.

6th September: "“@kingoscotland: @mrjakehumphrey I heard you were signing for SKY is that true ?” >>I can confirm I'm not in discussions with them...". My God, what a smug b#####d. Why even bother to reply to that at all, other than to get some kind of weird kick out of saying "no I'm not in discussions with them" whilst thinking "hah, little does he know I am going to BT Vision"!

I know, it's a complete non-issue. But it just seems like the tweets of an utter twot. And Twitter does have a habit of revealing such people. Anyway, it's a big loss for the Beeb, twot though he may be he is an extremely good presenter, much smother than Sky's main man.

[Rainmaster]

Other non-issue of the day? The BBC chose Singapore 2008 as a 'classic' race

[Massa]

Non-issues, hmm, let's hit a really large issue: is it my eyes or did you do some kind of highlighting wizardry there?

[Rainmaster]

I did a copy/paste and it left a highlight mark which I couldn't be bothered to fix.

Edit: Please don't ban me!

Edited by Rainmaster, 18 September 2012 - 09:20 PM.

[Massa]

I don't know if I can do that, George.  In this mediocracy, I will only accept brown text on beige highlight.

[Quiet One]

And now for something completely different. This has to be the worst idea ever for a TV show:

http://www.jamesalle...lavio-briatore/

[Rainmaster]

Massa, on 18 September 2012 - 09:59 PM, said:

I don't know if I can do that, George.  In this mediocracy, I will only accept brown text on beige highlight.

Noted!

Quiet One, on 18 September 2012 - 10:04 PM, said:

And now for something completely different. This has to be the worst idea ever for a TV show:

http://www.jamesalle...lavio-briatore/

Well, the British version is some of the most watch-able reality TV over here, mostly because it's so incredibly cringe inducing and because Alan Sugar has some funny one liners. But with Flavio? I can't even.. I mean, is this his answer to Berlusconi's bunga bunga parties?

[Quiet One]

Rainmaster, on 19 September 2012 - 03:17 PM, said:

Noted!



Well, the British version is some of the most watch-able reality TV over here, mostly because it's so incredibly cringe inducing and because Alan Sugar has some funny one liners. But with Flavio? I can't even.. I mean, is this his answer to Berlusconi's bunga bunga parties?

I can see where this goes:

"Tonight, on a very special 'Blossom'...Kimi Raikkonen..."

[Rainmaster]

I'd watch that

[Rainmaster]

Gotta love Jim Bamber's latest creation for Autosport's 'Bamber's Week' feature:

 Jim Bamber.jpg   178.74K   3 downloads

[The Shadow]

Quiet One, on 18 September 2012 - 10:04 PM, said:

And now for something completely different. This has to be the worst idea ever for a TV show:

Whenever the words "And now, for something completely different" are said in the beginning of a tv program, there can be no way that it is a bad idea.

[Insider]

Looks like Massa will stay at the Scuderia according to Blick magazine. If he does, they have a screw loose at Maranello, IMHO. They will never win a WCC without a reliable No.2 who doesn't need to be babysat around the track by his engineer. Webber was a good call. He talks and thinks Tarzan but comes up as a great Tonto for all his Crocodile Dundee bravado. He'd have been perfect. Button already passed a year ago and he would have upset the apple cart - no doubt about it. So, what have we? Glock? Heidfeld? Kovi? [Sorry, they've obviously discounted that particular option], Sutil? Luizzi? Algersuari? The last name is a particular favourite of mine and he obviously speaks spanish and reasonable italiano. What's the thinking here? I can't figure it at all.

[Massa]

F1 has gotten into the business of making regulations not just based on competition, and not just based on safety, and not just based on "excitement," but now based on aesthetics.

(Don't be misled by the headline; stepped noses are not banned.  It is just optional to hide them with some type of panel).

http://www.crash.net...drs_banned.html

There's nothing particularly harmful about making a rule to make the cars look better, but it does strike me as bizarre.

I do think banning Double DRS is harmful.  I was only able to excuse DRS because it at least gave teams something else to exploit and innovate around...and now that it can't, I really see no merit to it (to be fair, I see no merit to it even with Double DRS, but I can at least pretend Double DRS is some great wonderful innovation we always needed).

[Quiet One]

Twist and Shout:

http://www.gpupdate....t-mclaren-wing/

[freaky2]

Bah, we'll see... In the meantime, am I the only one that reads Whitmarsh's comments in Ron Dennis's tone of voice? Too much explanations over such a 'small and everyday' issue.

[Rainmaster]

I am certainly biased towards Perez but surely this article is a load of rubbish? http://www.jamesalle...lead-the-media/ Normally James Allen's blog is pretty much on the money but what on earth is he on about here? How many times have we seen teams and drivers "mislead" the media on contract negotiations? The media has NO right to such information and every driver and team almost always denies that they're in talks with other teams, it's standard practice and a sign of respect for each party. Not one of his better articles.

[Quiet One]

Rainmaster, on 04 October 2012 - 11:13 PM, said:

I am certainly biased towards Perez but surely this article is a load of rubbish? http://www.jamesalle...lead-the-media/ Normally James Allen's blog is pretty much on the money but what on earth is he on about here? How many times have we seen teams and drivers "mislead" the media on contract negotiations? The media has NO right to such information and every driver and team almost always denies that they're in talks with other teams, it's standard practice and a sign of respect for each party. Not one of his better articles.

I think you might have misinterpreted Allen's intentions there.

JA then says that at McLaren these kind of things will have much more repercussion. Imagine Lewis or Alonso saying something similar. The big letterhead on the news "LIEGATE III"!!!! Forums filled with people saying that these guys are cheaters and that they will stop watching F1 and Bernie will miss them in the next race and FFS!

I think JA accepts that it would have been stupid from SP to admit the contacts, but somebody has to teach him how to properly avoid those questions so as not being cornered into a blunt lie and also as to not to have to admit it on a second conference.

More of a advice on how to handle the media t han a scorn for lieing. IMHO.

[Rainmaster]

Ah yes, I see that now. That makes sense. I suppose the point is not the "lie" but rather the way he didn't avoid the question. Although I think he does go a bit far when he says Perez would be "embarrassed" by it, which I somehow doubt. I just thought James Allen was being unnecessarily critical at first, and I was going to have to stop watching F1 and quit using the internet.

[Massa]

I think it's a blend of mostly what Andrés says, and a tiny bit of paranoid, journalistic butthurt, because I'm sure we all thought James Allen was a rumor-mongering slob when Pérez denied there were McLaren talks.

Or maybe there wasn't any of that at all and I'm just so used to U.S. American NASCAR journalists who, being what they are, are inherently paranoid and vaguely self-rigtheous.

Allen's blog is good and so is Windsor's, for information everyone already knows.  As soon as I have less to read for school, I'll give Racecar Engineering more attention so I can pretend I understand things I really don't understand.  Hey, I already pretend I know everything about how drivers decide where to drive and how sponsors market through F1 and how U.S. Grands Prix should be conducted, may as well be a self-proclaimed technical expert, beginning by explaining that tires are round and the gearbox might be on the ***-end of the car, but I don't really know for sure.

[Quiet One]

Well. It is true that even if it's a good advice to give to Sergio, the way Mr.Allen presented it could certainly have been made with a lower profile as well. He could have just told Sergio about it, instead of making everybody aware of Sergio's slip of tongue.

Both would benefit of some good advice.

[brambilla]

There are days when I wish somebody would b#tchslap Helmut Marko for speaking out of the orifice in his rear-end. This is one of those days :

http://www.f1zone.ne...-mclaren/16132/

Edited by brambilla, 10 October 2012 - 05:08 PM.

[Quiet One]

brambilla, on 10 October 2012 - 05:07 PM, said:

There are days when I wish somebody would b#tchslap Helmut Marko for speaking out of the orifice in his rear-end. This is one of those days :

http://www.f1zone.ne...-mclaren/16132/

He has a natural instinct to make himself hated by friends and foes.

[Insider]

Massive rumour came to my ears today - Jaime to Ferrari. Apparently, LdM wants Massa gone and the young Spaniard is considered a 'no-threat team mate for Alonso and a better points gatherer than Felipe. I don't see it but nothing will surprise me.

[BradSpeedMan]

Insider, on 10 October 2012 - 05:59 PM, said:

Massive rumour came to my ears today - Jaime to Ferrari. Apparently, LdM wants Massa gone and the young Spaniard is considered a 'no-threat team mate for Alonso and a better points gatherer than Felipe. I don't see it but nothing will surprise me.

Insider, on 10 October 2012 - 05:59 PM, said:

Massive rumour came to my ears today - Jaime to Ferrari. Apparently, LdM wants Massa gone and the young Spaniard is considered a 'no-threat team mate for Alonso and a better points gatherer than Felipe. I don't see it but nothing will surprise me.

well, Jaime said he definately has a seat for next year...hmmmm

[Rainmaster]

Jaime did indicate he had a seat. Yet Massa's driving points to him fighting for his seat. Something doesn't quite match up here.

He was one of the first "2013 only" names that came to my head when we first started thinking about replacing Massa, though.

[Massa]

I read somewhere that Alguersuari said in a Spanish interview (too lazy to find the interview itself) that his new team "regularly scored points" and was between "fifth and seventh" in the WCC.  If that's true, it's obviously Force India or Sauber.

Also read on SPEED (but it may have just been SPEED using a BBC article and passing it off as their own, which is funny, since SPEED and Sky are owned by the same company) that Hülkenberg will go to Sauber if he doesn't go to Ferrari.

So it seems to me we have a bunch of drivers who are going to both Ferrari and Sauber, when you consider that Massa and Kovalainen had also been linked to both teams in the past.

[Quiet One]

I am no good at maths, but I think that unless some of these guys are wrong about their chances, F1 seats will get awfully crowded with two or more guys per car.

[Insider]

You have to believe that Massa and Kovi are probably out of the game, Eric. I agree that my own money would be on Jaime going to Sauber or SFI but who knows. Lot of driver for a few seats again.

[LabradoRacer]

Honda open to rejoining the F1 circus. Hmm, interesting.