Start Me Up
Following up on rumours first brought to our attention by pitpass.com, regarding Lewis Hamilton’s alleged mistake during the Brazilian Grand Prix. Sidepodcast can exclusively reveal that Team Macca are seriously reconsidering their choice of technology partner for next years standardised ECU project.
This information comes on the back of news that, during the eighth lap of the race at Interlagos, Hamilton mistakenly touched his machine’s ‘Start’ button.
Immediately following the selection Lewis found his machine had frozen and failed to respond to any form of input, leaving him stranded and alone. After much delay, the system finally managed to reboot itself and after a short while came back to life, allowing said person to continue.
We have managed to obtained hi-resolution imagery showing the offending button in great detail:
After much internal testing, we at Sidepodcast can reveal that selecting a similar button on our own machine, exhibits almost identical characteristics and quite coincidentally takes exactly amount of time to reboot following a freeze. Luckily we only suffer the loss of several hours work, rather than a World Drivers’ Championship, but we digress.
In light of this new information, Team Macca are said to be attempting find a more reliable technology partner for next years campaign and will probably settle on the one that suffers zero instability problems, reboots almost instantly and curiously happens to have a half-eaten fruit for a logo.
October 23rd, 2007 at 00:23 #1 - Scott Dryden said:
This car’s very reliable, me:
http://i.techrepublic.com.com/gallery/67206-367-550.jpg
Who’s ever heard of a freezing penguin?
seewhatididthere….
October 23rd, 2007 at 00:25 #2 - me said:
hahahahahah… geek!
October 23rd, 2007 at 01:06 #3 - MadMax said:
Hahahahaaa! Didn’t Flavio say that when they tried the MicroLaren ECU, they couldn’t even get the car started…
October 23rd, 2007 at 04:19 #4 - Matthew said:
Once you go Mac, you never go back
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:54 #5 - doctorvee » McLaren unreliability not to blame for Hamilton’s problem said:
[...] Seemingly, Lewis Hamilton actually let his finger slip on the steering wheel. Apparently he hit the ’start’ button, which forced Hamilton into rebooting the system, a process which took around 20 to 30 [...]
October 23rd, 2007 at 13:53 #6 - Keith said:
I think this is what the cool kids call a ROTFLMAO.
October 24th, 2007 at 21:31 #7 - brendan stallard said:
“Once you go Mac, you never go back”,
Matthew,
There is no way back to the real world…….
brendan