Bahrain: Free Practice 2
Moving swiftly on then. After a short break, Formula 1 cars return in anger for Free Practice 2. Again, as it’s Friday it’ll be a 90 minute session, this time starting at 2pm local time (12pm BST).
We didn’t learn a lot from FP1 that we couldn’t have surmised for ourselves. The circuit clearly suits the Ferrari’s, with Massa looking particularly comfortable and leading a large part of the first session. McLaren appear to be playing catch up, but as they didn’t take part in any pre-season testing that’s to be expected.
BMW, specifically Heidfeld, ended up farther back than was expected, while Honda looked to be playing it extremely cautiously. Excluding Super Aguri (who may as well have not bothered turning up), Barrichello managed the least number of laps with only 12 tours of the track.
ITV will very kindly be broadcasting pictures online, although their efforts earlier were frankly laughable, we’re hoping to see a bit more than a blank screen this time round. Live timing is as always… available.
Do say “hi” if you’re around, Christine has decamped to her office and may not be able to see visuals, so we’ll be her eyes for this session.
April 4th, 2008 at 11:56 amlou said:
Hey yah im back and ready to enjoy another session!
April 4th, 2008 at 11:57 amChristine said:
I’m here too.
April 4th, 2008 at 11:58 amScott Woodwiss said:
me too
April 4th, 2008 at 11:59 amme said:
hi all.
williams team were just saying the wind has moved slighted, and it’s now a headwind. although live timing seem to disagree.
April 4th, 2008 at 11:59 amScott Woodwiss said:
so, initial predictions for this session? wonder if BMW will be any better this time. I say Ferrari are favourites to be quickest, even though I’m a McLaren guy
April 4th, 2008 at 12:01 pmChristine said:
Toro Rosso and Toyota out first again. They are keen.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:01 pmlou said:
Is anyones video working? mine just says that it will be broadcast at 12. Maybe it needs a reboot.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:01 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Toyota the first to move, both cars coming out
April 4th, 2008 at 12:01 pmlou said:
oh no its working…but only just its so jumpy
April 4th, 2008 at 12:02 pmme said:
i think it’s about time RBR did something, they’ve had a relatively anonymous day so far. hoping they’ve not compromised speed for reliability this race.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:02 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Is it me or has the audio quality gone down a bit on the live feed?
April 4th, 2008 at 12:03 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Glock dropping it already
April 4th, 2008 at 12:03 pmDank said:
Here we go again! Will only be able to watch proceedings until 1pm as I’ll have to dash off to work! Noes!
April 4th, 2008 at 12:04 pmme said:
glock gets it all wrong, ends up going in the opposite direction.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:04 pmlou said:
yeah it seems to be struggling
April 4th, 2008 at 12:05 pmChristine said:
I’m still waiting for Alonso to do something spectacular, too.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:05 pmme said:
bourdais is registered as stopped, but i still see him going round. ignore live timing on that one.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:06 pmScott Woodwiss said:
I got my screen setup nicely: live feed in top left, live timing bottom left, live comments rest of the page
April 4th, 2008 at 12:07 pmlou said:
Rubens on track!
Hondas solved the earlier problem?
April 4th, 2008 at 12:07 pmDank said:
Bernie seems a bit irked on Radio Five! Very defensive!
April 4th, 2008 at 12:07 pmNelson said:
Morning guys. Is there something wrong with the ITV feed? I just woke up and it’s taking forever to get in.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:08 pmlou said:
lol im exactly the same!
April 4th, 2008 at 12:08 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Good to see Davidson out earlier this time.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:09 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Wow, no-one’s beating Bourdais yet, not even Heikki!
April 4th, 2008 at 12:10 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Hah! Fisichella quicker than Heikki too :L
April 4th, 2008 at 12:10 pmChristine said:
Sutil is slooooow.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:12 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Looking at the sector times, that’s pretty impressive by Le Seb in S1.
Good to see Heidfeld quicker as well, although his onboard audio wasnt working.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:12 pmme said:
nick jumps le seb, first sector made the difference.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:14 pmChristine said:
Hamilton not even doing an installation lap?
April 4th, 2008 at 12:14 pmScott Woodwiss said:
I laugh at Alonso getting out of shape - not such the world champion driver without TC it seems. I know the car’s not up to scratch either. That Renault is quite tail-happy.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:16 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Just noticed the live timing is a minute ahead of the live feed.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:16 pmme said:
massa’s out lap is already looking quick. but kimi goes quicker. both ferrari drivers looking to put in a good lap.
kimi’s 1st sector on his first flyer is purple, as is his 2nd sector.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:16 pmChristine said:
Raikkonen’s putting in the purple sectors.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:16 pmlou said:
Jenson on track - have only just noticed
April 4th, 2008 at 12:16 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Aha, we have a Ferrari on track, I see.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:17 pmlou said:
Steler lap from Kimi!
April 4th, 2008 at 12:17 pmme said:
much flexing coming from ferrari sidepod wings. look likes they’re make of paper.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:17 pmScott Woodwiss said:
29.7 in S1 for Hamilton! Hell yeah!
April 4th, 2008 at 12:18 pmlou said:
Sorry i meant steller. I will be pleased when we ahve that edit button
April 4th, 2008 at 12:18 pmScott Woodwiss said:
What a lap from Lewis! That’s more like it!
April 4th, 2008 at 12:19 pmme said:
hamilton goes quickest. live timing is almost instant, itv feed behind, and 5live even farther behind that.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:20 pmChristine said:
Wow, are my eyes playing up or is Bourdais in third?
April 4th, 2008 at 12:20 pmScott Woodwiss said:
What on earth have Toro Rosso done to Bourdais’ car? It’s Flying!
April 4th, 2008 at 12:20 pmDank said:
Trulli having a lot of problems with the wind in Bahrain. Kubica saying the same as well - changed direction 180 degrees.
Bourdais saying that the track is in terrible condition and can’t give STR an idea when it comes to balance.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:20 pmme said:
yup, that’s where he is.
on merit
April 4th, 2008 at 12:21 pmlou said:
Hondas are much faster!
They have sorted out their earlier problems then 
April 4th, 2008 at 12:21 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Rosberg just said the rear of his car was locking up.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:21 pmme said:
gonna be a fun race then. is the lack of TC hurting this week then?
April 4th, 2008 at 12:22 pmScott Woodwiss said:
I don’t get it - Bourdais says the track is terrible, yet he’s third. I’m confused :S
April 4th, 2008 at 12:23 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Purple S2 for Hamilton, he broke into 1’32s.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:23 pmme said:
keeps nipping into the pits, i think he’s practicing qually laps (his achilles heel), so he’s lighter than others.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:23 pmDank said:
Believe Seb Bourdais remarks where from FP1.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:24 pmScott Woodwiss said:
67.2 S1 for Raikkonen? What’s that all about?
April 4th, 2008 at 12:25 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Another purple S2 from Hamilton, while DC doesn’t like the aero on his car.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:28 pmScott Woodwiss said:
With the sectors he’s producing, I’d be willing to put money on Bourdais being in Q3 tomorrow.
By the way, has anyone noticed, from the TV cameras, the McLaren sounds like a cat mewing when it changes down. Haha.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:28 pmme said:
you heard that? sounded like he was underwater!
April 4th, 2008 at 12:29 pmChristine said:
Yay
April 4th, 2008 at 12:30 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Yeah I heard it, even though the audio quality has gone down somewhat
April 4th, 2008 at 12:32 pmDank said:
Rosberg complaining about rear-locking. Same for DC, saying it is totally unstable. Seems the drivers don’t like the track too much!
April 4th, 2008 at 12:33 pmme said:
it’s a bit exposed, being in the desert n’all. without the electronic gizmos to catch them, the drivers are having to work for a living.
me likes
April 4th, 2008 at 12:35 pmScott Woodwiss said:
BMW team radio saying they’re going with lower downforces on Kubica’s car.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:35 pmme said:
kubica has agreed to go one step less on downforce. on plus side he can’t crash here, on the downside you might pity his poor tyres in the corners
April 4th, 2008 at 12:36 pmChristine said:
Massa fastest now.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:36 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Massa’s now quickest, just over a tenth quicker than Lewis.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:36 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Oops, looks like Davidson forgot where the track was going!
April 4th, 2008 at 12:37 pmme said:
video showing davidson apparently wanting to drive home.
he missing the apex, the corner, the track and then almost the run off.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:38 pmme said:
vettel in trouble in 20th. 11 laps under his belt but slow, especially given le seb is in 3rd.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:39 pmlou said:
Wow there is about 4/5 seconds difference between the fastest and slowest times!
April 4th, 2008 at 12:40 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Button 8th quickest now, while Kimi looks like he’s on the same pace as Massa now
April 4th, 2008 at 12:42 pmScott Woodwiss said:
The live feed looks like it’s cleared up now, nice and smooth
April 4th, 2008 at 12:45 pmlou said:
mine is still a little jummpy but its better than it has been.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:46 pmme said:
neither renault looking special right now. alonso best in 15th, while piquet only just ahead of sato in 18th.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:48 pmme said:
rosberg in 17th, goes purple in sec 2, jumps to 6th. good show.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:48 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Hamilton must be trying out the harder tyres for the race. Rosberg’s just done purple sector in S2, and is now 6th.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:49 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Vettel getting to out of shape quite a bit, but he did very well to catch it. Some nice car control there.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:50 pmSteven Roy said:
Did that Renault engineer say they have just found Alonso’s 6/10 in the camera mount?
April 4th, 2008 at 12:50 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Looks like Kimi’s experimenting on harder tyres too.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:51 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Alonso would probably claim more.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:52 pmme said:
hahahaha
April 4th, 2008 at 12:52 pmSteven Roy said:
Nakajim P4
April 4th, 2008 at 12:52 pmChristine said:
Nakajima P4.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:53 pmme said:
on boards showing more mclaren frontwing flexing, ron would call it “feathering” mind you.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:53 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Button team radio: Struggling in turn 13, also feels like he’s locking the rears when braking.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:53 pmme said:
good lord. there’s more speed in the track then!
April 4th, 2008 at 12:54 pmlou said:
Wow some interesting radio from Jenson!
April 4th, 2008 at 12:54 pmSteven Roy said:
I thought tyre warmers were supposed to be banned
April 4th, 2008 at 12:54 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Sutil looks like he’s finding some speed, he’s up to 14th.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:54 pmChristine said:
Is Vettel still having problems from earlier, then?
April 4th, 2008 at 12:55 pmScott Woodwiss said:
….while Fisichella’s losing speed locking up like that.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:55 pmme said:
from next year… maybe.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:57 pmme said:
he seems to pop out of the garage and straight back in again.
says “rear tyres are dead”
April 4th, 2008 at 12:59 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Not sure, he’s out on track and only just started posting sector times.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:00 pmSteven Roy said:
Is anyone else having video problems? ITV has frozen
April 4th, 2008 at 1:00 pmlou said:
My live video feed has frozen/ is being jumpy…..again. Im guessing lots of people are watching it on their lunch break.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:00 pmChristine said:
Rosberg snuck into P3 when I wasn’t looking.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:01 pmScott Woodwiss said:
my live feed has frozen.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:02 pmme said:
le seb still hanging on in 6th. surprised kovi can’t better him.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:02 pmSteven Roy said:
Vettel has done about 8 green sectors in the last three laps and hasn’t moved forward at all.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:04 pmSteven Roy said:
I thought Toyota were meant to have a huge advantage because they tested here.
Video’s back
April 4th, 2008 at 1:04 pmChristine said:
Very disappointed in Alonso today. Unless he’s working on something in particular.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:05 pmlou said:
MY live feed keeps resuming from where it frooze…which makes it soooooo behind! Then it appears to fast forward abit. Is it just my connection?
April 4th, 2008 at 1:05 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Kimi with a purple S1
April 4th, 2008 at 1:05 pmSteven Roy said:
He’s working on getting a transfer to Ferrari. The slower the Renault is the more chance of a transfer
April 4th, 2008 at 1:06 pmme said:
renault have just gone backwards during this session.
having said that piquet jumps into 7th!
April 4th, 2008 at 1:06 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Green S2 for Kimi
April 4th, 2008 at 1:06 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Kimi jumps to 2nd
April 4th, 2008 at 1:06 pmme said:
nahh, itv just aren’t up to this. methinks bernie knew that already
April 4th, 2008 at 1:09 pmScott Woodwiss said:
I think he trusts BBC more already. I know a lot of people would be watching right now, but this is ridiculous.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:09 pmSteven Roy said:
The video feed is now 9 minutes behind the live timing and it has frozen again
April 4th, 2008 at 1:10 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Wait, it’s caught up again.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:10 pmme said:
if you reload the page it’ll catch up again. mine’s 30 secs behind.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:11 pmScott Woodwiss said:
I think something’s up with Fernando today. His car’s been very oversteery and I think he’s having problems setting the car up to cure it and in the process, it’s affecting his lap times.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:11 pmSteven Roy said:
There is still a gap. There must be someone at ITV who realises that seeing the vid after you know the sector time is utterly pointless. Presumably someone there has heard of live timing
April 4th, 2008 at 1:12 pmScott Woodwiss said:
my live feed is just under a minute behind the live timing.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:13 pmSteven Roy said:
How can Alonso be 1.5s behind Piquet??
April 4th, 2008 at 1:14 pmChristine said:
It’s awful that the Super Aguri boys are basically three seconds behind Massa.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:15 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Uh oh, here we go again!
April 4th, 2008 at 1:16 pmme said:
yeah, i don’t remember even the really bad minardi being that far behind.
nico, falls off the track.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:16 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Rosberg’s having a end-of-practice excursion.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:17 pmSteven Roy said:
Before the 107% rule there used to be much bigger gaps than that.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:19 pmScott Woodwiss said:
To be honest, this has been kind of a dull day of practice. There hasn’t been any stoppages or incidents of any kind. I’d like to see something a little more lively.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:20 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Heikki’s jumped Lewis.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:21 pmme said:
lewis flies off!!
April 4th, 2008 at 1:21 pmSteven Roy said:
Lewis off
April 4th, 2008 at 1:21 pmScott Woodwiss said:
WOW! Big shunt for Hamilton!
April 4th, 2008 at 1:21 pmlou said:
accident for lewis!
April 4th, 2008 at 1:21 pmChristine said:
Nothing major happened, but a lot of little things to note.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:22 pmSteveintheUK said:
Hi again all
Finally got home from the bank, 95 minutes to pay some money in.
Hamilton justed crashed, oops, maybe I should off stayed in the bank
April 4th, 2008 at 1:22 pmSidepodcastfan said:
Hamilton off!
April 4th, 2008 at 1:22 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Well, that worked, didn’t it! Shame it was Lewis, though.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:22 pmChristine said:
Oooh, what happened? What happened?
April 4th, 2008 at 1:22 pmSteven Roy said:
I guess the McLaren mechanics have just cancelled their plans for tonight
April 4th, 2008 at 1:23 pmme said:
classic replay, marshall looking the other way as all his mates leg it.
that woke him up.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:23 pmSteveintheUK said:
Glad to see that the run off area did a great job at slowing Hamilton down before the barrier did….
April 4th, 2008 at 1:23 pmChristine said:
Where was he on the track?
April 4th, 2008 at 1:23 pmSteven Roy said:
He got too high on a kerb on the exit of a corner and the back end overtook the front and he hit the barrier side on
April 4th, 2008 at 1:24 pmme said:
loads of work for them there.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:24 pmSteven Roy said:
Sector two
April 4th, 2008 at 1:24 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Ron doesn’t look too impressed, but then neither would you if one of your drivers wrote off their car. I imagine he’ll be having words with Lewis later about that.
Looking at the onboard, it looks like he simply got too much kerb and dropped it. That’s not like him at all.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:25 pmSteveintheUK said:
He must of slowed by at least 5mph
What is the point of having run off areas the hugh if they don’t actually do anything?
April 4th, 2008 at 1:25 pmChristine said:
I see that. Just curious which corner.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:25 pmme said:
corner 6 going into 7. exit of 7 he jumped kerb and flew off into the barrier at 8.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:25 pmChristine said:
Surely a run off area can only do so much.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:26 pmScott Woodwiss said:
He crashed just after the sweeping corners at the beginning of Sector 2.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:27 pmSteven Roy said:
That run off looks like it is one grain of sand thick on top of tarmac. Utterly uselss.
He had everything locked and the sand acted as a lubricant.
I blame Max.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:28 pmlou said:
do they do have a spare car? - cause they have 1 don’t they? or do they not have any??
April 4th, 2008 at 1:29 pmSteveintheUK said:
True, but a good old fashioned sand trap would have slowed him.
Maybe they should have a tarmaced run off area, with a small sand trap outside that before the barriers
What was the fastest lap time in FP1, sorry bad memory
April 4th, 2008 at 1:29 pmScott Woodwiss said:
HAHA! Fisichella and Alonso collide!
April 4th, 2008 at 1:30 pmSteven Roy said:
They are not allowed spare cars any more. Another pointless Max rule. They have all the bits to make new cars though.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:30 pmScott Woodwiss said:
DAMN! What a lap from Massa! 1′31.420! All purple sectors!
April 4th, 2008 at 1:31 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Sorry, it wasnt Fisi, it was Sutil.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:31 pmSteveintheUK said:
Run off areas here are just made of compacted sand.
Think that was in Christine Preview video.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:31 pmScott Woodwiss said:
That’s it, practice is over, while Lewis discusses his shunt with his engineers.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:32 pmSidepodcastfan said:
Alonso took over Massa’s role cornering Fisichella lol!
April 4th, 2008 at 1:33 pmme said:
who’s to blame there then, cause alonso messed it up under braking, but sutil didn’t give any quarter?
alonso ends up 12th behind his teammate… oops!
April 4th, 2008 at 1:34 pmSteven Roy said:
I heard or read they were compacted sand but you can see tyre tracks every time someone has gone off. They are a few mm deep and then there is something solid as a base.
For a run off to work it either has to be all loose like gravel or sand or sealed like tarmac. An F1 car with 4 wheels locked up would slow on either but that run off did nothing
April 4th, 2008 at 1:34 pmScott Woodwiss said:
I think it was just a racing incident, both were on laps, both got in each other’s way, although I suspect Fernando will be quick to pin the blame on Adrian.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:35 pmlou said:
thanks bit of a memory blip there! so many new rules and regs!
Have they confirmed anything about quali being tweaked yet?
April 4th, 2008 at 1:36 pmme said:
tis true. although given how far the barriers are from the track the risk is pretty low.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:36 pmSteveintheUK said:
How comes with all the laps Vettel has done today he is still so slow? Bourdais was nearly 1.6 secs quicker than him
April 4th, 2008 at 1:37 pmSteven Roy said:
There are a few odd times in there
DC 0.7s ahead of Webber
Kubica 1.1s ahead of Heidfeld
Piquet 0.5s ahead of Alonso
April 4th, 2008 at 1:37 pmSteven Roy said:
Oh and Massa 0.9s ahead of Kimi
April 4th, 2008 at 1:37 pmSidepodcastfan said:
Another potential candidate for Massa’s seat could very well be
this guy… Nico Hülkenberg.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:38 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Just seen a quick onboard of Nakajima, he was nearly halfway out the cockpit before braking!
Also, Hamilton shook his fist at a Force India, I think.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:39 pmSteven Roy said:
Does he not have a Williams contract?
April 4th, 2008 at 1:39 pmme said:
yeah, he almost fell out of view when he stamped on the brakes.
visibility issue there?
April 4th, 2008 at 1:40 pmme said:
car problems. issues at the rear, similar to problems faced in malaysia.
bourdais finishes inside the top 10 though. impressive.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:41 pmSteven Roy said:
Got to go back to work now.
Look forward to FP3.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:43 pmbrendanstallard said:
Hmmmm, looks to me as if Hamilton was trying to hard to keep up with Kovalainen.
brendan
April 4th, 2008 at 1:45 pmSteveintheUK said:
Cheers, thats the problem about only seeing the last 15 odd minutes you don’t know whats going on, unless of course you use the Live comments at SidePodCast.com
I’ll have to read over the earlier comment after getting some food.
The mt server seems to be posting comments and refreshing the page a lot quicker than during FP1.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:46 pmSteveintheUK said:
Guess I shouldn’t have said that, the server timed out twice trying to post that comment.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:47 pmme said:
button did well compared to rubens. both toyota’s faded in this session though.
massa’s final run was stunning, and kovi had just gone ahead of lewis before the crash.
i forgot to check back, but did kubica stick with his lower downforce setup in the end? either way 5th versus 17th gives us the biggest split in the order.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:48 pmme said:
did it? oooh. well (mt) have an alert out to say they’re experiencing intermittent outages. yesterday it was flaky but i thought today all was well.
we can’t solve that issue, they’re just (slowly) working on it. but when it stays up the server feels faster to me.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:50 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Just left a voice message for you guys about free practice 2
I do get a little confused near the end about Nakajima 
April 4th, 2008 at 1:50 pmme said:
i’d agree with that. radio5live suggested he was a little bit rattled after kovi’s malaysian performance. we’ll have to see how that pans out.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:50 pmme said:
hehe, cheers sir. much appreciated
April 4th, 2008 at 1:51 pmme said:
cheers steven, we’ll be here tomorrow from 8:30am (ish)
April 4th, 2008 at 1:52 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Just to ask, you’re the guy who does the podcasts with Christine, yeah? Your name’s escaped me lol
April 4th, 2008 at 1:53 pmChristine said:
He doesn’t have a name, that’s why he’s called “me”.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:55 pmScott Woodwiss said:
haha
April 4th, 2008 at 1:57 pmlou said:
Right im off! I look forward to the podcast later! Hope you got some lunch in the end Christine!
April 4th, 2008 at 1:58 pmSteveintheUK said:
Sorry think this time it was my end. Doesn’t look like my ISP, VirginMedia, where to happy with me watching streamed video during the day, Should make for an interesting time during Quial tomorrow.
April 4th, 2008 at 2:00 pmme said:
i don’t know about anyone else, but i especially enjoyed the last 10 minutes of that session
we’ll be hanging around for a bit longer (in truth we never really leave) and then it’ll be the same again tomorrow morning for FP3 and then qualifying.
thanks again one and all for joining in, as ever it makes the coverage really enjoyable. don’t forget to check out christine’s podcast later on today when she wraps up the days running in her friday show.
April 4th, 2008 at 2:20 pmme said:
another non-racing, but important, aside… ed gorman’s quote regarding max earlier today:
that’s pretty much what we’ve been expecting too. whether it be more info from the same event or a different episode altogether, if he was followed for two weeks, who knows what else was discovered?
April 4th, 2008 at 2:31 pmNONSENSE said:
Hi guys!
Promising Friday, young Lewis is nervous again?
Couldn’t post during the session - was busy. And it’s damn hot right now in Portugal, probably as hot as in Bahrain so I’m feeling lazy, I need to buy enough supplies of Red Bull or a cheaper substitute to keep me going thru the weekend. And ice!
April 4th, 2008 at 7:02 pmChristine said:
Scott, your voicemails are wonderful!! More please
Have included edited highlights in today’s F1 Digest, and we’ll probably discuss other bits in the Sunday show as well.
(Had to edit, cos your second voicemail was longer than the F1 Digest show itself
Love it!!)
April 4th, 2008 at 7:19 pmScott Woodwiss said:
Aww, thank you Christine! I’ll send you ones after practice and qualifying tomorrow!
April 4th, 2008 at 7:43 pmJordan said:
…And if we called “me” the Man with No Name, people will mistaken him for “Clint Eastwood”
Cue “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly theme here>”
(Bitten & Hisses) Jordan (F1.)
April 4th, 2008 at 8:48 pmbrendanstallard said:
“if we called “me” the Man with No Name, people will mistaken him for “Clint Eastwood”
Jordan,
No one uses wheelguns any more:) (gun nut phrase)…. nowadays Clint would use a Desert Eagle .50.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFJjaj7pXsA
I do admire the way she kept the pistol pointing down the range:)
I do think that we should call him something. I’m thinking of awarding a prize for the best name.
Join me brothers and sisters in the righteous struggle to insist upon proper nomenclature for our techboy!
brendan
April 4th, 2008 at 10:32 pmJordan said:
Well, how’s this for a moniker for “me”
“The Geeky Guy with With No Name”….
“Claude”
If anyone knows the horsepower or Power done by a human heart, we can can copy Ferrari old trick of naming F1 cars. IN this case “me” would become:
“SPCR (Side Pod Cast Racer) 2008 4-valve V-8….
This way Christine will have alot of car-related jokes to toss at “me”.
Yogurt ==> The Yoda paradoy from Mel Brook’s moive “Spaceballs”.
Christine’s “Super Best Friend” (From Speed Television nickname of “Super Aguri”
Or Grip or Grippy. From the title of people who push the cameras and dollies around at movie/TV Show sets ==> “the Grips.”
Or finally “Schaffer” <Clint Eastwood’s character name from the movie Where Eagles Dare”, as right now, Sidepodcast F1 DOES seem to be an “All-British Operation”….
Jordan.
April 4th, 2008 at 10:50 pmbrendanstallard said:
“Sidepodcast F1 DOES seem to be an “All-British Operation”
Jordan,
Nice new autobiography:
Er, Christine is German, I’m sure I’ve seen her in lederhosen, banging spoons about:)
Claude will be a fine name for the techfiend, he reminds me of Claude Lebel, dangerous, quiet and gets his man in the end:
yes: excellent……..CLAUDE!
brendan
April 4th, 2008 at 11:47 pmJordan said:
Well, if she is German, she will not have too much of a problem saying “Schaffer”, right? And if that is the case, well, just I gonna start working on that tunnel out of the “Kooler” that I just placed myself in….
Funny: how no-one can really take any credit of rcertain ideas. I picked “CLAUDE” because out of the four ghosts from PAC-MAN, because I can not remeber one of them, SUE, would not work and PINKY just did not sound right….
Darn, OI was just about to suggest “GoFer” (Go fer this, G0 for that” too!
Jordan.