Inside Track - Bahrain
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One year on from our very first Formula 1 race preview video, and Sidepodcast looks at the upcoming Bahrain Grand Prix.
The asphalt may not have changed much this year but the cars certainly have. Driving without traction control on this dusty surface will be a leap into the unknown for many of the teams, so let Christine guide you through the twists and turns of this Hermann Tilke designed circuit, to see what the drivers have in store.
Special thanks to Allianz SE, Toyota Motorsports GmbH, Red Bull Racing, Honda Racing F1 and RTV GmbH for the use of their video footage and photographs.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:08 pmIan Lockwood said:
Nice video - is the embed code correct though - can’t seem to get it working on my site. Alternatively is it available on youtube/dailymotion
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:12 pmme said:
seems to work okay for me. are you getting an error or a blank screen?
it’s going up to youtube and dm right now. probably take about an hour to appear (60mb has to go up twice and then get encoded by each site).
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:25 pmIan Lockwood said:
I’m just getting the circular loading graphic and nothing else…
http://www.f1network.net/main/s111/st127411.htm
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:28 pmlou said:
I can’t seem to watch the video past 1:47 it just finishes and when i try to watch it again it just does the same. I have tried refreshing the page and it still does it?? i can watch it fine on itunes though
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:37 pmme said:
ian, looking at the source code from your site, it appears your site’s publishing platform is removing about 90 percent of the embed code.
any idea what the backend is running (wordpress, drupal etc)?
the odd thing is our video embed code is the same as the f1 minute embed code, and i can see that’s running just fine on your site.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:41 pmDank said:
I’m not too fond of Bahrain. It does have a decent track layout, but most of the run-off areas are the size of a small country so any poor driving isn’t punished. It also lacks any interesting scenery (unless sand is your thing) and to quote Mark Webber: “It’s like driving round Heathrow with some cones thrown in”
Prediction: Ferrari white-wash, as long as the reliability is there!
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:42 pmNONSENSE said:
The same - the rest is still missing.
Here’s a poem I wrote.
Let it rain, let it rain!
Let it rain in Bahrain!
It will go down the drain!
Let rain. And again am I still
On a plane???
It never rains in Bahrain or wot?
p.s. I was thinking, you guys need to sign a sponsorship deal, maybe with a company which produces hand cream or something.
Imagine: “Got blisters on your fingers from endless posting on Sidepodcast.com - try Lanosil Super F1 Edge, 1 000 posts a day guaranteed.”
It’s just an idea, all right?
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:45 pmChristine said:
Hmm, mine is okay.
I don’t know if it’s because of the sand, but there is something about it that is very bland.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:47 pmme said:
seems just fine to me too, but i’ll upload the file again, just to be sure.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:49 pmlou said:
@ Nonsense - lol that last comment gave me a much needed laugh! thanks
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:55 pmNONSENSE said:
OK, back to normal, the video worked this time. Must be my internet connection - it sucks.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:59 pmNONSENSE said:
Bahrain is quite surreal, it’s like racing on the moon, the Police might as well record a new version of “walking on the moon” - “racing on the moon”.
There’ll be no broken legs in the song then.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:00 pmme said:
seems like a remarkable coincidence you both experienced the same issue tho? i blame the server.
lou, any more luck if you try again?
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:09 pmlou said:
no…sorry…it just keeps stopping at 1:47 for some reason. Like the video has ended. How strange i have never had problems watching your videos before..
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:12 pmme said:
ian, youtube and dailymotion vids are now available:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cxpJ4i8TkqQ
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4xlev_f1-bahrain-race-preview-2008_auto
appreciate if you maybe have time at some point, to help us look into why our embed codes get all messed up. no rush, but would be nice to fix it.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:24 pmIan Lockwood said:
Thanks - all working with the DM embed code. Yes - would be good to get it sorted. I have sent your embed code to the people who host my site (and all of SportNetwork) to see if they can spot what is causing the problem - I’ll let you know!
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:40 pmbrendanstallard said:
Me,
I downloaded today at 1315 hours: and the cast was fine: no lip synch troubles at all.
brendan
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:41 pmlou said:
It works now!
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:31 pmme said:
groovy
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:55 pmbrendanstallard said:
Me/Christine/Guys and Gals,
I spotted this today:
http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/4/7579.html
Where the F1 drivers are scheduled to meet fans with three day tickets during the weekend for an autograph and yap session.
Most of the drivers are in pairs, working usually with their teams.
However: Lewis is the final driver: on his own, meeting the fans immediately prior to the race set up on the Sunday.
I’m sure there must be an entirely normal, non conspiratorial reason for this, but selecting one driver out: to meet fans: when IMO, they should have nothing on their minds but the race: seems a little odd to me.
brendan
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:13 pmAlex Andronov said:
The video stopped for me too earlier and no amount of coaxing would get it started (not sure now if it was 1:47). Never usually have any problems. And it works fine for me now…
How odd.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:16 pmme said:
glad it’s good now. i re-uploaded just to be sure, but i could watch right to the end without problems.
bound to be some teething troubles with a new server.
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:01 pmme said:
the only thing that comes to mind, is they’re all contractually obliged to do this but lewis has other commitments already. too busy for the GPDA, etc.
maybe they said “well you’re not doing nothing before the race, so you can do it then instead”?
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:19 pmNONSENSE said:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/66287
Michael Schumacher had some words of encouragement for fellow German Sebastian Vettel, despite two retirements so far for the Toro Rosso team.
“I think my German teammate Sebastian Vettel particularly will be a lot of a surprise this season,” Schumacher said.
“He is going very well despite the results. He went very well in Australia and Malaysia until retirement. In this respect I think he will be the surprise of the season.”
***
’scuse me? Team-mate? Since when, was that a hint or wot??? Bad translation maybe???
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:25 pmBruce McLaren said:
me - “it’s going up to youtube and dm right now. probably take about an hour to appear (60mb has to go up twice and then get encoded by each site).”
Okay, this helps to answer my question from a couple of days ago. I wanted to know why there wasn’t a link on the initial post to the youtube/other outlets so I could click through from my RSS feed (I try to save the bandwidth at work - the least I can do if I’m watching F1 videos on their time!). Now I realise that you don’t submit it to YouTube prior to posting the story. I will just have to continue to search your YouTube ‘channel’ to see the vid.
Living in New Zealand means that it is already up there, and all the ‘teething’ problems are ironed out, before I get to read the stories anyway.
Thanks for a great show.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:31 pmme said:
just had that exact conversation with christine. i thought he might’ve been referring to the ROC.
it’s a reuters piece syndicated to autosport, so we can’t even blame bad journalism in this instance.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:34 pmme said:
we can certainly add links after the fact, once they’re up. but we’re currently looking into some alternate solutions in case they offer something more integrated.
we try to put the very best quality versions of the video on this site, but there’s a very apparent need for speed and ease of access too.
watch this space.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:35 pmNONSENSE said:
Yeah, most definitely. A funny quote nonetheless.
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:38 pmSteven Roy said:
The vid ran fine for me. No problems at all.
As a constructive suggestion I wonder if anything is gained by going through the Malaysia results and the championship standings. I would have thought everyone was familiar with them. I like the bit about what happened last year though.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:07 amSteveintheUK said:
Lewis is also the only driver that doesn’t have a set length or finish time, I’m guessing he was put last because a lot more people want to meet him to get his autograph, If he’s by himself any driver paired up with him won’t have to sit there with no one queuing up to talk to him due to them all being in the queue for Lewis. Plus with no set finish time Lewis can stay as long as he can without holding up the next session.
Drivers should be used to talking to people just before getting in to the cars due to all the sponsors that have to meet and interviews their do just before hand, so meeting fans should be a nice change for them.
PS, Christine and ‘me’ The video worked fine for me, and worked fine via the iTunes download. Fantastic editing by the way, really looked like a fully produced, TV quality show, Great work. One question Christine, why do you stand so side on to the camera? It would be fine if you where more to the side of the frame but your fairly near the center, it may look a little more natural if you turned a little more square on, about half way between where you are in this video and facing straight on.
I’m not just saying this at random, I spent 5 year working in the Media departments of 2 colleges showing students how to film video and record audio, plus I was just wondering.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:17 amSteveintheUK said:
Although that is true, you have to remember that not everyone who comes across these SidePodCast videos on YouTube, DailyMotion etc may not, at that time, be F1 fans, so will not have a clue what Christine is talking about unless she spends a little time going over the results.
It’s one of the things that makes SidePodCast one of the best F1 blogs/podcast around, they don’t just aim for the hard core fans with the detailed technical info, they also cover the basics for the casual web stumbler who just came across them and may have never watched F1 before.
Personal I like them going over the results again as I have a really bad short term memory so seeing the result helps me to understand want Christine is talking about later on. But that may just be me
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:20 amme said:
fair point. the only thing i’d say to counter that, is the audience figures for these videos are massive. certainly compared to our audio podcasts or even F1 Rewind.
therefore, to an extent, we have to target the “casual” fan more than we usually would. and as christine often makes reference to the state of the championship throughout the show, it would be unfair to assume an intimate knowledge.
as a quick example, some current youtube stats:
Inside Track (Malaysia) = 15,306 views
F1 Rewind #2 = 375 views
now, i know inside track was released a full week before rewind, and there are probably loads of mitigating factors as to why one was significantly more popular than the other.
it is a tough balance between insulting an audience and losing them, so all feedback along these lines is a brilliant help, but i’m pretty confident we need some kind of ‘refresher’ to start the show off.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:24 amme said:
steve you wrote your reply as i wrote mine, but you said it better than me… i’ll just shush
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:28 amme said:
my fault. this week i held the script a little off-center. if christine was more to the right, where she normally stands, she’d be looking over the viewers shoulder.
much apologies, will try harder next time. take a look at our malaysia preview to see how it should look
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:01 amSteveintheUK said:
So that’s why it looked a little odd this week, Christine was just standing in the wrong place, but don’t you Gaffa taped Christine’s feet to the floor so she stood in the right place?
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:12 amJordan said:
Christine and “me”
I think I have proven myself to be a “little more “hard core”, than the average intelligent F1 fan,” (I admit I had to really dig deep to find the “Spirit” team data) but actually I like the full rundown on the race results and both championship series. Sometimes the TV feeds will break to other programmes and not get a chance to update the standings, and with my beloved Montreal Canadiens Hockey team in the playoffs, and baseball season now starting (Boston Fan here…), plus work and a few hobbies and recruiting others to bring old basement-dweling F1 teams to the Sidepodcast League, I am a little thinly spread here.
I kind of depend on Sidepodcast to keep me abreast of the “quickie” information and if I want to find futher details (like why Button was dead last) then I will look at either http://www.BBC.com or http://www.f1.com for more details but they are both usually pretty slow on my main computer.
(Bitten Heroes) Jordan (F1)
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:18 ambrendanstallard said:
“it is a tough balance between insulting an audience and losing them”
and that is the difference between sidepodcast and the rest.
thats it, writ large.
brendan
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:23 amJordan said:
Hey “me”
Before you do a the next shot involving Christine, why not “spot” the spot on the floor with “Hockey” tape. Sorry, Canadian term there I meant “Electrical” Tape so that Once you find the proper spot, Christine will know where to stand beforehand.
(Taping her to the floor at that point should be optional, but hey, I am no director….)
So do you have any outtakes of Christine wearing green in front of that green screen? I take it that green on green works the same way that a blue on blue used to work.
(Buzzin’ Hornets) Jordan. (F1)
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:02 amme said:
yup
christine stood in a perfect position, i didn’t. i might need gaffa tape too
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:07 amme said:
sadly not. we’ve already amassed hundreds and hundreds of gigs of video, filling up more and more space. so just like the beeb wiping the original doctor who master tapes, we don’t keep any video we don’t use.
yup… blog post coming on that soon. we use both blue and green screen, depending on the situation.
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:09 amChristine said:
People. I get shuffled around for an hour, and then I am told to keep dead still until we are done.
Not my fault.
However, I continue to argue that I should be facing straight on, because I like the idea that the video is a conversation, and I don’t remember the last time I talked to someone standing a bit skewed.
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:12 amme said:
and you’re wrong
the background normally counters where you stand (see the flag coming from left in malaysia preview). this week i messed up, and the flag filled the whole background, so two things worked against you this week.
but look at the malaysia video again and you’ll see the composition is good.
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:39 amme said:
on a different subject, this is worth a read:
pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_ne…
i don’t agree entirely, but i do think posts like this next one from Ed are pushing very specific agendas:
timesonline.typepad.com/formula_one…
remind me never to upset rupert murdoch… ever.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:52 pmLynch said:
I agree with that, you look a bit uncomfortable side on, you might get a crick in your neck!
Also side on looks a bit weird to me, If you stand face on you can use your hands a bit to help communicate with the viewer….
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:56 pmChristine said:
No, I shouldn’t be encouraged to use my hands too much. Did you see the Christmas video??
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:33 pmJordan.Allen said:
…And thus ends to future generations another British Cultural Icon….
(Buzzin’ Hornets) Jordan (F1)
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:38 pmme said:
ha! i’m guessing not
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:45 pmLynch said:
erm…. no… I will dig it out now you have mentioned it!
April 4th, 2008 at 12:06 amBruce McLaren said:
I thought the ’standing side on thing’ was for the American audience, to enhance your ‘eyes’.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:44 amScott Woodwiss said:
I just read on autosport.com the Thursday driver’s press conference. One of the reporters started asking Lewis Hamilton about his holiday between the two races. Later, someone from the Times asked a question that made me laugh:
“Lewis, you said you didn’t like deep water. Are you frightened of being eaten by a shark?”
What’s he planning to do - dress up as a great white and jump him before practice?
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