Australia: Free Practice 1
Something new we’ll try today, as suggested by Lou is a live comment / chat thread throughout free practice.
Lord knows if many people are planning to stay up for one or both sessions today and there’s probably a whole bunch of fabulous things we could do to make this better, easier, faster or whatever… but who’s interested in forward planning, eh?
We’ll post times, thoughts, and opinions live in the comments as the session progresses and feel free to join in the fun any time!
Oh, and try not to fall asleep, eh?
March 13th, 2008 at 10:39 pmme said:
righto, quick recap so we know where we’re at.
- uk residents can view a live flash stream on itv’s site.
- f1.com have official live timing on their site (registration required).
- yahoo weather for the event is here.
March 13th, 2008 at 10:41 pmme said:
oh, as always we’ll reference any cool stuff on the podcast, and seeing as there’s so darn many shows now, we’ll be looking for lots of really good comments
March 13th, 2008 at 10:42 pmDank said:
I don’t think I’m hardcore enough to stay up until the crack of sparrows three nights on the trot - as much as I would dearly love to!
Look forward to reading all the comments, I’m going to go have me a cup of horlicks!
March 13th, 2008 at 10:43 pmChristine said:
I’m tired already!!
March 13th, 2008 at 10:44 pmScott Dryden said:
If this works well, and you decide to do something similar at future races, it may be worth taking a look at some of the American election blogs for ideas. This may seem a little bit of a strange suggestion, but political bloggers have been liveblogging for years, and the scene’s highly developed. Over the last 18 months, or so, many of the main news organisations have jumped on the liveblog bandwagon.
March 13th, 2008 at 10:48 pmlou said:
wow i love sidepodcast! you make a suggestion and in less than 5 minutes its up!
wow!
i actually can’t wait for this. its silly because i never tend to get excited about FP but i get to watch it this time. Everything is set for this to be the best year of F1 coverage! Bring it on!
March 13th, 2008 at 10:50 pmAlenyaa said:
Oh b*gger, didn’t realise you have to be a UK resident. Ah well, better luck next time.
Have fun wtaching it, y’all!
March 13th, 2008 at 10:53 pmme said:
are you sticking around? we can give you updates, if it helps.
March 13th, 2008 at 10:56 pmChristine said:
Live timing is up.
ITV Video has started.
Go, go, go!
March 13th, 2008 at 10:57 pmDank said:
Ooooh it’s started! Though no sound on the ITV feed?
(I’m not here btw!)
March 13th, 2008 at 10:58 pmChristine said:
Mine just broke for two minutes, then came back to life with sound.
March 13th, 2008 at 10:58 pmlou said:
ooo it frooze for a sec and now i have sound! was worried for a moment there.
March 13th, 2008 at 10:59 pmme said:
it WORKS on a mac
March 13th, 2008 at 11:00 pmme said:
stick around, you know you want to.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:01 pmme said:
first criticism. tv feed is in 16:9 (widescreen), but itv’s window is 4:3 - everything looks squished.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:02 pmAlenyaa said:
I’m sticking around
So a little feed here and there would be nice
March 13th, 2008 at 11:02 pmDank said:
Houston we now have sound. Happy days!
My only gripe is the size, maximised it looks all pixelated! Anyway, Kubica and Heidfeld first out on the track. So good to hear the roar of an F1 engine again
March 13th, 2008 at 11:03 pmScott Dryden said:
I’ve not seen live video of a free practice session since F1 Digital+ was shut down. Back in the day when Eurosport held the F1 rights, I had been known to watch live free practice when I should have been elsewhere. And yes, if I couldn’t get away with a skive, I was sad enough to record three hours worth of free practice (and the one hour Friday qualifying session) and watch it all when I got home.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:03 pmChristine said:
BMW guys go out for one lap, jostle for track position, then dive back into the pits.
What’s that about?
Also, who’s blowing the whistle every time a car goes past in the pit lane?
March 13th, 2008 at 11:03 pmlou said:
i seem to hvae lost the feed! oh no!! has this happend to anyone else? it was going so well. yeah itv’s windo is too small!
March 13th, 2008 at 11:04 pmme said:
ooh, they fixed it now. how weird.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:05 pmsteve moore said:
are there any new rules for free practice this year?
March 13th, 2008 at 11:05 pmDank said:
I know it’s been a while since we’ve seen F1 cars properly, but I don’t quite remember them being this slow and ‘jumpy’?!!
March 13th, 2008 at 11:05 pmlou said:
could not agree more!
March 13th, 2008 at 11:05 pmChristine said:
I think it’s still all a bit new for ITV.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:07 pmlou said:
yes
its abit shakey sometimes, but its better than no feed at all!
March 13th, 2008 at 11:11 pmChristine said:
No sign of the Ferrari’s yet.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:12 pmlou said:
not sure if you hvae already mentioned about it earlier but what does everyone think of the new super aguri livery? might be another on that needs to grow on me.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:12 pmAlenyaa said:
Probably an installation lap, see if ewverything works the way it should
March 13th, 2008 at 11:13 pmAlenyaa said:
Unfortunately I haven’t seen it yet, would like to know what their new car looks like.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:17 pmDon Speekingleesh said:
ITV site has crashed for me. Can’t get in at all.
After I went to the trouble of finding a proxy site and all…
March 13th, 2008 at 11:19 pmChristine said:
“We’re sorry the screen’s gone blank. Due to the popularity of this service we are having temporary technical problems. But you can see the live stream of the race by clicking here.”
The link is:
http://itv-95.vo.llnwd.net/d1/broadband/itvf1/default.html
If that helps…
March 13th, 2008 at 11:19 pmScott Dryden said:
The feed is pretty poor, but in fairness this all came together very late in the day.
One of my mates used itv.com so that he could watch Everton v Fiorentina at the same time as PSV v Spurs, and he didn’t have any complaints about the quality of the feed.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:19 pmlou said:
am frantically searching for a link to an image of it, but so far am unsuccessful.
mine keeps freezing, itv underestimating the amount of people that would tune in perhaps?
March 13th, 2008 at 11:21 pmlou said:
http://www.autosport.com/gallery/photo.php/id/94672 the only photo i can find! sorry, not much use really
March 13th, 2008 at 11:23 pmChristine said:
How funny that Hamilton has someone to polish his helmet for him.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:24 pmme said:
not sure, don’t think so, am looking right now.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:25 pmChristine said:
It’s odd how the teams don’t seem quite so cagey with the cameras as they do on quali or race day.
Is this because they’re not actually competing right now?
Or do they think no one’s watching?
March 13th, 2008 at 11:26 pmAlenyaa said:
NO use really
March 13th, 2008 at 11:27 pmChristine said:
A Williams just pulled rather unhealthily into the garage, but I can’t tell which one.
The camera thing on the cars, it’s red for one driver and yellow for another. I forget which is which.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:29 pmAlenyaa said:
I suppose they’re going easy on their equipment, what with the new rules this year I can’t blame them.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:29 pmlou said:
is red driver 1? have never been able to work out the logic behind it. i’ve just learnt the colours according to each driver. although williams totally slips my mind. im gonna go red = rosberg?
March 13th, 2008 at 11:30 pmme said:
article 21.1:
“the on board cameras located above the principle roll structure of the first car must be predominantly
fluorescent red and the second car fluorescent yellow.”
March 13th, 2008 at 11:32 pmChristine said:
Ah, a Ferrari takes to the track.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:32 pmChristine said:
It was Rosberg
March 13th, 2008 at 11:33 pmAlenyaa said:
So, Rosberg indeed
March 13th, 2008 at 11:33 pmbrendanstallard said:
Boy, did ITV underestimate the demand: I haven’t seen an advert yet, so that’s rather pleasing
brendan
March 13th, 2008 at 11:34 pmlou said:
March 13th, 2008 at 11:35 pmlou said:
good piont no adverts. does this mean we may be able to watch the whole race then. no interuptions?
that would be nice! will have to wait and see i suppose
March 13th, 2008 at 11:35 pmChristine said:
No, but apparently they’ve done two laps each.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:36 pmbrendanstallard said:
those red cars “look” fast
March 13th, 2008 at 11:37 pmOut_Reach said:
Boy those Ferrari boys are fast, straight out of the packet!
March 13th, 2008 at 11:37 pmChristine said:
Everyone else looked a little bit tentative and wary, red cars just absolutely flying straight off.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:37 pmme said:
as far as i can tell, no rules have been amended this year relating to practice.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:39 pmme said:
any luck yet don?
March 13th, 2008 at 11:39 pmbas said:
how can i see formula 1 on the internet
i come from holland and itv dont work because i dont come from the uk
March 13th, 2008 at 11:40 pmbrendanstallard said:
was that kimi who kissed the dirt?
March 13th, 2008 at 11:41 pmJourneyer said:
You can watch Wheels via TVU, but they’ll only show FP2 for today, and it’ll be delayed by an hour. Otherwise, enjoy!
March 13th, 2008 at 11:41 pmme said:
we *think* you can trick the site into thinking you’re in the UK by using a proxy server. how technical are ya, it’s a bit tricky, but probably worth the effort?
although don says the site crashed for him. when he tried it.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:41 pmOut_Reach said:
I thought it was massa, in the dust
March 13th, 2008 at 11:42 pmChristine said:
It was the car with the red camera bit on, so I’m thinking yes
March 13th, 2008 at 11:42 pmlou said:
ooo and team radio too! thats great! love team radio!
March 13th, 2008 at 11:44 pmlou said:
yeah was kimi, sure he had red helmet.
although its confusing cause im sure Massa had the red camera bit last year
March 13th, 2008 at 11:45 pmbrendanstallard said:
hamilton crashed the servers:)
March 13th, 2008 at 11:45 pmChristine said:
Yea, but Kimi’s the champ!
March 13th, 2008 at 11:46 pmAlenyaa said:
Team radio is great indeed, but too bad they always filter it…
March 13th, 2008 at 11:46 pmlou said:
March 13th, 2008 at 11:47 pmOut_Reach said:
Did Lewis just touch the wall?
March 13th, 2008 at 11:47 pmlou said:
which force india driver is that? i have no idea
March 13th, 2008 at 11:48 pmAlenyaa said:
Any news on the Aguri drivers?
March 13th, 2008 at 11:48 pmChristine said:
I think that was Fisi.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:49 pmF1Punter said:
I suspect we will have adverts during the race. What we are watching now is a live stream; the race coverage is described as a simulcast.
So far… a few technical gremlins aside, I would rather have this than not.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:49 pmbrendanstallard said:
well, this is a different experience……why aren’t sidey providing a commentary?
We dunno wots goin’ on!
Huh?
March 13th, 2008 at 11:51 pmme said:
we almost could, there’s clean audio, nice engine sound too.
bernie wouldn’t be amused though.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:51 pmlou said:
I don’t think they are out at the moment. No times have been set so i assume not.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:53 pmme said:
coulthard with a soft brake pedal? lots of dust for a wheel change.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:53 pmChristine said:
Was that a Red Bull on fire? So much for reliability.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:56 pmme said:
makes sense, green track, no grip, loads of understeer.
shouldn’t be killing the tyre tho?
March 13th, 2008 at 11:58 pmme said:
is alonso doing a great job or piquet doing a bad one?
March 13th, 2008 at 11:59 pmlou said:
not sure if my live timings have updated then cause i have piquet 4th and alonso with no lap time.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:01 amF1Punter said:
Piquet a bad one. Alonso is where you would expect him to be, best of the rest. We are talking about the first F1 free practice 1 of his career though!
March 14th, 2008 at 12:01 amlou said:
thats better all up to date now. how strange.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:02 amme said:
tis true, but bourdais is ahead of his teammate
March 14th, 2008 at 12:05 amme said:
williams keeping their powder dry. playing the ferrari game, must be very confident.
no sign of renault ‘W’ wing.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:05 amlou said:
i appear to be watching a nice blank screen right now. :s
March 14th, 2008 at 12:06 amChristine said:
You keep saying this powder dry thing. I would like to know the origin of this phrase, and what it actually means, please.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:06 amF1Punter said:
One-tenth ahead and his team mate, who himself has started just 8 races and is eight years his junior!
Actually, what am I saying. It is clear Nelsinho is no Hamilton from this performance. Piquet Out!
March 14th, 2008 at 12:07 amSteven Roy said:
My ITV feed crashed and died. I was getting a very slow frame rate then a little bit of good video then it died.
Christine the reason someone blows a whistle every time a car comes into the pits is so that everyone in the pits knows there is a car coming and they don’t step in front of it. Every race meeting at every level has a marshall standing at the pit entry with a whistle or an air horn.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:07 amOut_Reach said:
yea, my screen blank too, i think the security guy in the itv offices has just turned the lights off!
March 14th, 2008 at 12:08 amF1Punter said:
My feed has gone too. I blame that Toyota we were onboard with
March 14th, 2008 at 12:08 amChristine said:
Track Status = red.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:08 amSteven Roy said:
Looks like the Ferraris have both stuck in fast laps now
March 14th, 2008 at 12:09 amAlenyaa said:
Oh please, we’ve only had one hour of practising. A bit of reservation wouldn’t do any harm.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:09 amS5tav said:
I can hardly watch it on ITV it is so jumpy and there is no sound… just keeps freezing for ages.
really anoying!!!!
March 14th, 2008 at 12:09 amF1Punter said:
Or a bit less tongue-in-cheek!
March 14th, 2008 at 12:09 amSteven Roy said:
Live timing is showing red flags
March 14th, 2008 at 12:10 amChristine said:
If the online timing says Piquet is STOP, does that mean he’s responsible for the red flag?
March 14th, 2008 at 12:10 amBen said:
looks like heidfeld and piquet have stopped out on track (in different sectors though).
March 14th, 2008 at 12:10 amIan (Growler) said:
The powder in question is gunpowder - you have to keep it dry until it is really needed - otherwise it doesn’t work.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:10 amlou said:
Barricello seems to be doing better than Button, no what i expected at all!
March 14th, 2008 at 12:10 amAlenyaa said:
Well, I’m off for the night! Look forward to you podcast on the practice sessions!
March 14th, 2008 at 12:10 amSteven Roy said:
ITV 1 is showing the preview show now. Why would you do that when you are testing internet feeds? Do they have a clue?
March 14th, 2008 at 12:11 amChristine said:
Ah, thanks Ian. Makes perfect sense now
March 14th, 2008 at 12:11 amBen said:
red flags are usually for something fairly serious… ie collision or stopped on the racing line
March 14th, 2008 at 12:11 amChristine said:
Track status = green.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:12 amSteven Roy said:
Track is green again
March 14th, 2008 at 12:12 amBen said:
anyone concerned at all with rosberg?
March 14th, 2008 at 12:12 amme said:
wow, had no idea.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:13 amOut_Reach said:
Has anyone got a video or sound feed now?
If not then i’ll see you tomorrow night, hopefully this will get better and better as they events go on.
Even with the choppiness i’m still happier than I was before I got my first F1 fix of the year.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:13 amsteve moore said:
How comes they’re allowed to use gunpowder this year?
March 14th, 2008 at 12:14 amS5tav said:
I think ITV need to sort their act out for malaysia..
i was really looking forward to watching the free practice and it seems to have all gone pair shaped
March 14th, 2008 at 12:14 amSteven Roy said:
Nakajima and Rosberg have only done three laps so they are probably planning on doing a lot of running in the second session when the track isn’t so green
March 14th, 2008 at 12:14 amme said:
so that they could pretend they weren’t doing live video and surprise us all… maybe?
March 14th, 2008 at 12:15 amSteven Roy said:
It just came back
March 14th, 2008 at 12:15 amF1Punter said:
I am back… and in widescreen!
March 14th, 2008 at 12:15 amlou said:
Didn’t you say Rosberg pulled into the garage with an ill looking willimas = problems?
March 14th, 2008 at 12:15 amOut_Reach said:
Whoo hoo, it’s back and better then before for me!
March 14th, 2008 at 12:16 amBen said:
Luckily in the U.S. they air the 2nd free practice live. So lucky ‘ol me will be able to watch it on regular tv without all this internet nonsense..
Super Aguri and Rosberg are still a no-show… Any Ideas?
March 14th, 2008 at 12:16 amChristine said:
Mine just burst into life again with Button
March 14th, 2008 at 12:16 amScott Dryden said:
The feed’s now back.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:16 amSteven Roy said:
I think Heidfeld just said his fire extinguisher went off
March 14th, 2008 at 12:17 amme said:
seeing as aguri haven’t run all winter, you’d think they’d be pounding in the laps??
March 14th, 2008 at 12:18 amS5tav said:
im back too but still very bad
March 14th, 2008 at 12:18 amChristine said:
I’m sure I saw Rosberg sputter into the pitlane right at the beginning.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:18 amlou said:
yeah im back too, and again in widescreen! much much better quality alot smoother! Came back to see Jenson in the honda. Which has just made my day.
any idea why 2 of the drivers stopped on that track? i have only just got sound back
March 14th, 2008 at 12:19 amChristine said:
Davidson did say today that they didn’t have very many spares so they were going to be limited.
I wasn’t expecting them to sit the whole thing out though!!
March 14th, 2008 at 12:19 amlou said:
haha sorry not concentrating on what i am typing.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:19 amBen said:
I know. I was expecting a near race distance from Taku as well…
They’re probably saving money, the cheapskates…
March 14th, 2008 at 12:19 amme said:
is the onboard camera position different this year. or do rbr have an odd shaped air box?
March 14th, 2008 at 12:20 amSteven Roy said:
I just got a warning from Wordpress for commenting too fast.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:20 amBen said:
Rosberg’s in my fantasy team too for this weekend…Not a good start to the season
March 14th, 2008 at 12:21 amme said:
apparently bernie’s world feed are having issues, may not all be itv’s fault.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:21 amBen said:
I haven’t seen the live pictures. RBR aren’t using that crazy shark fin are they?????
March 14th, 2008 at 12:22 amlou said:
Theres davison! is it me or since the feed has been back have they been showing the timings and usual itv pictures - eg time remaining etc
March 14th, 2008 at 12:23 amme said:
piquet lost the car under braking and caused the red flag (dangerous position). can’t see what the second stop was about.
maybe dodgy timing screens.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:24 amme said:
sorry, we’re not prepared at all for this. will look into it between sessions.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:26 amBen said:
it’s all these crazy fans pressing f5 every minute (which i’m contributing too)…sorry!
March 14th, 2008 at 12:26 amme said:
main “world feed” has timing, backup feed doesn’t. FOM use FP1/2 to sort all their tech issues and it looks like they rolled back to the video without timing.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:27 amme said:
keep it up, the server’s handling it better than we expected. it’s just the spam filter working overtime.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:28 amSteven Roy said:
Raikkonen just went P1
March 14th, 2008 at 12:28 amlou said:
oh right you learn something new..
March 14th, 2008 at 12:28 amme said:
kimi purple in sec 3 and again in sector 1, he’s on a flyer.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:29 amOut_Reach said:
This Session to kimi?
March 14th, 2008 at 12:29 amme said:
1:26:4 for kimi. wow, 4 tenths quicker!!
March 14th, 2008 at 12:29 amSteven Roy said:
Raikkonen put in a flier. 0.6 faster than Lewis
March 14th, 2008 at 12:30 amChristine said:
When the timer goes to 00:00, do they stop as in stop, or do they stop as in, you can finish your lap like in quali?
March 14th, 2008 at 12:30 amme said:
massa gonna be scratching his head over that one… 4th?
March 14th, 2008 at 12:30 amSteven Roy said:
Webber has moved ahead of Alonso and the video has died again
March 14th, 2008 at 12:31 amScott Dryden said:
I remember there was a potentially nasty incident during the GP2 race at Imola, in 2005. Pantano had pitted from the lead for the first round of stops, but as he left his pit box Enrique Scalabroni, from BCN, stepped out right in front of him. The Italian just managed to avoid mowing Scalabroni down.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:31 amOut_Reach said:
0.487 faster than Lewis could manage, if thats in any way real, this is going to be a walk over.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:31 amChristine said:
He keeps getting held up, though.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:32 ambrendanstallard said:
did friday practice mean something, at last?
March 14th, 2008 at 12:32 amSteven Roy said:
Massa P3 .01 behind Lewis
March 14th, 2008 at 12:33 amlou said:
Massa 3rd now. wow honda is looking abit better 11th… no news on what happened to Rosberg then?
March 14th, 2008 at 12:34 amme said:
damn good question. they complete the lap, by the looks of it.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:34 amSteven Roy said:
1.2 seconds from Kovalainen to Webber. Looks like a 4 horse race again
March 14th, 2008 at 12:36 amSteven Roy said:
I wonder what Trulli’s mental state is now? Toyota 8th and 10th and Glock quicker
March 14th, 2008 at 12:36 amme said:
gearbox.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:36 amBen said:
Ominous result to say the least, but practice never gives you the whole picture. Because of the lack of TC and it’s degredation on tires, most people will do quick first stints on Sunday so quali tomorrow will give you the correct picture because EVERYBODY should be on similar fuel loads…
March 14th, 2008 at 12:38 amme said:
we’ll know on sunday
March 14th, 2008 at 12:39 amBen said:
doesn’t a gearbox change result in a ten place penalty?
March 14th, 2008 at 12:39 amme said:
good point. it won’t tell us who’s eating their tyres on longer runs though.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:41 amme said:
not on friday, nope. thankfully, cause that would be crazy.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:41 amChristine said:
Right, I’m off.
Expect to see everybody back here after just two hours of sleeping
March 14th, 2008 at 12:42 amlou said:
just noticed u have about 162 responces over the FP, a success?
March 14th, 2008 at 12:43 amBen said:
well it’s only 8:43 here in the states, so I only have to stay up till 11
March 14th, 2008 at 12:46 amme said:
lou, you are a genius and we owe you one. before today our comment record was something like 59.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:46 amme said:
i’m still here by the way. trying to condition myself to melbourne time.
sidepodcast shiftwork.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:46 amlou said:
yeah im going to get some shut eye too. But will be back for at least the end of FP2 permitting i can wake myself up in time
March 14th, 2008 at 12:47 amBen said:
I’d say it was a success! Might I recommend a simple live chat script rather than using the wordpress interface. should lessen the impact in the bandwidth as well… I think there’s wordpress plug-ins out there that would work…
Anyway, I’m off for a couple of hrs… (mainly to weep and fret over Rosberg’s mishap).
March 14th, 2008 at 12:48 amme said:
good advice. i have some time to kill now!
March 14th, 2008 at 12:49 amlou said:
You have no idea how much that comment made me smile!
ahaha
March 14th, 2008 at 12:52 amme said:
just scanning through the times, what happened to sutil?
March 14th, 2008 at 12:57 amTony Hirst said:
Coveritlive offer a good interface for live blogging an event:
http://www.coveritlive.com/
The microblog tools twitter and pownce also offer up to the second text posts, across a community too
http://twitter.com/PodF1/with_friends
There are plenty of desktop clients that grab twitter updates every few seconds. There’s also an ‘official’ twitter plugin from the wordpress folks - http://wordpress.com/blog/2008/01/28/introducing-prologue/
If you fancy a live tv show, ustream and mogulus both provide a free, streaming service; Mogulus even offers you a tv studio experience
(sort of…!)
March 14th, 2008 at 12:58 amSteven Roy said:
He only did half as many laps as Fisichella so maybe wasn’t out at the right time
March 14th, 2008 at 1:03 amTony Hirst said:
Live timing on a phone - my phone isn’t on the list, but if yours is, does this ‘live f1 timing data’ service work for you?
http://live.yamigo.com/F1Servlet/phones.jsp
March 14th, 2008 at 1:07 amme said:
mine isn’t but christine’s is. will check with her at 3am.
how’d you find it?
March 14th, 2008 at 1:16 amTony Hirst said:
I keep meaning to build an automated “intelligent” commentator ( http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/006173.html ) so every so often i do a search using various combinations of terms like:
f1, formula one, live, timing, data, api, client, telemetry, streaming
Sometimes its worth throwing in computer languages, so I just came across this for example:
http://www.parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/Formula+One+Telemetry+with+Java
March 14th, 2008 at 1:23 amme said:
that’s a pretty intense presentation. not sure i can deal with it at this time in the morning, but a good find nonetheless.
March 14th, 2008 at 3:04 amOut_Reach said:
Anyone on?
March 14th, 2008 at 3:06 amme said:
lo, sorry yes. we’re rubbish at this aren’t we?
new thread here, exclusively for 2nd practice:
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2008/03/14/australia-free-practice-2/
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