Inside Track - Montreal
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Formula One takes an early breather from its European tour and heads across the Atlantic to Montreal for the Canadian Grand Prix. Following swiftly on from the lottery that was the Monaco weekend, Sidepodcast takes a look at what this year’s sole North American race has to offer.
Last years event was the scene of one of motorsports most spectacular accidents, when Robert Kubica bounced off of a Toyota, a kerb and two concrete walls. Safety improvements have been made this year to prevent similar incidents, so join Christine on a hot lap of the track to make sure you’re up to speed with the changes for 2008, and everything else you need to know about racing in Canada.
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.
June 4th, 2008 at 1:14 pmKris said:
Thanks as always, the video of villeneuve singing was most entertaining, and my appetite for the weekend is most definately whet.
You referred to the barriers (of kubica fame) being fixed, hinting at the problem being that they were too far from the track.
From my recollection, I thought the problem that kubica encountered was that there was a section of concrete barrier that came back towards the circuit, which he hit not quite head on at massive pace.
Any ideas what exactly they’ve done?
June 4th, 2008 at 1:36 pmAlianora La Canta said:
I’ve heard that they’ve lowered several kerbs round the place, (incidentally including the one immediately before the “Champion’s Wall”). Maybe they think that there’s less chance of anyone getting launched now - the “prevention is better than cure” method.
June 4th, 2008 at 1:37 pmme said:
cheers kris.
christine covered a bit about this last week on f1 minute. but more detail has come to light since.
they’ve added a catch-fence to prevent cars jumping the wall and hitting another vehicle coming in the opposite direction and apparently the wall has been moved / re-profiled, but we’ve yet to see any pics to confirm exactly how it’s changed.
June 4th, 2008 at 1:40 pmme said:
seems reasonable, i would’ve thought replacing a the offending wall with a tyre barrier would’ve helped too, but haven’t seen any mention of that as yet.
June 4th, 2008 at 2:28 pmmy FA fantasy said:
No Canadian drivers in F1. I thought Mercedes would promote Bruno Spengler to F1. But no, since JV left for good there are no crazy dudes from Canada doing crazy things on track. And Michael Schumacher can’t sing.
I’m depressed.
June 4th, 2008 at 2:42 pmme said:
umm, shoot. i’m not sure that was the intention of the video good sir.
was it the melancholy music?
June 4th, 2008 at 2:47 pmmy FA fantasy said:
I was joking. But I think a North American driver is missed in F1.
June 4th, 2008 at 2:54 pmme said:
yeah, i hear ya.
gp.com were saying earlier today that JV’s still up for a NASCAR drive. i guess that’s their gain and our loss.
his last couple of years in f1 were a major let down, but i enjoyed his on track battles with schumi. shame his manager was such a pollock, eh?
June 4th, 2008 at 3:47 pmJordan Allen said:
Hey Quick Nick…..
You have the order reversed. First be a champion (And the wall, oddly enough, is not picky of what you were a champion of, just ask Zonta….) Then it is quite permissable to smear it with your car’s paint and carbon fibre.
I have a funny feeling that Hamilton was deemed himself worthy at this year’s race, for winning the GP2 championship.
That’s the big deal about wildwife on the track? The real awesome wild-life can be found on Rue Cresent Street (there’s about three Universities close by, and the typical establishments that University studnets haunt line both sides of the street….
Jordan (Allen) F1.
June 4th, 2008 at 6:17 pmlou said:
Has anyone seen the new gallery on f1.com nice photos of the inside of Force Indias factory.
June 4th, 2008 at 6:31 pmme said:
wow, all of those galleries are pretty nice.
nice addition, good spot.
June 4th, 2008 at 6:40 pmCracked said:
Speaking of champions… What does everyone think of this article from f1blog?
I think its hilarious, and it also makes a good point. Oh, and I like Hamilton.
June 4th, 2008 at 6:43 pmlou said:
It’s amazing how many things you find on the internet when you procrastinate
June 4th, 2008 at 6:49 pmmy FA fantasy said:
Yeah, B.A.R. was a mistake for JV but in the end he won the title and that’s what matters. He never had a winning car since 1997 and his motivation was suffering but I guess only Schu was always motivated despite earning huge amounts of money. Look at Kimster - the guy couldn’t care less this year. I dunno why he said Barcelona 2008 was his best race or something like that, his earlier wins were much more inspired, I’m not even talking about 2003 and his demon driving style back then.
And Scott Speed had some speed in him and some potential, this Tost guy toasted his brain, he & Bergie-boy only like Austrian and German drivers, Bourdais was lucky Todt Jr. was his manager and STR had Ferrari engine supply deal, otherwise they would’ve hired another German wunderkind.
Andretti III could do it or Danica for example, American presence in F1 is currently at a zero level. It’s a shame we lost Indy & North America remains unexplored territory for F1. I mean new tracks like Bahrain/China are not bad at all but for them it’s only circus and PR, grandstands are always empty and they only know something about Ferrari. Indy F1 race used to draw big crowds, even after 2005 it was not as bad as Malaysia or Bahrain. Mr E is obviously asking too much money for his services.
June 4th, 2008 at 6:53 pmSteven Roy said:
I have just tried to run this video for the third time and it keeps dropping out in the middle of Dieter Gass’s discussion on kerbs.
June 4th, 2008 at 7:01 pmCracked said:
I’m having trouble posting again. Any suggestions?
June 4th, 2008 at 7:03 pmme said:
ooh, apologies steven, it’s all there and working for us.
you may find that if there was a connection drop out halfway through downloading the first try, that your browser thinks it’s cached the entire file, so stops looking.
could you clear out your cache and try again for us please? we’ll also get it onto dailymotion.com when we have five mins. soz.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:11 pmme said:
huge apologies cracked, i wish i knew. we had this problem before with a couple of users and apparently all we can do is teach the spam filter that you’re a nice person really.
doing me best to keep an eye on the spam box, promise.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:45 pmRich said:
Yea - but they can only enhance their reputations if they drive for either Ferrari or Macca. The fact that Bourdais is basically still struggling should be a warning, if you are not in the right car it is very difficult to get the points. Even if you are in the right car you also need the luck as put Kovi’s is finding out.Put either of the above in a Red Bull or STR and they will probably be as successful as Coulthard!
June 4th, 2008 at 8:54 pmRich said:
Did not do Christian Klein much good - I think they toasted his brain despite being Austrian.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:29 pmmy FA fantasy said:
I heard of Christian “Klien”, not sure if there ever was an F1 driver named “Klein”. Besides, Klien chose to quit Red Bull “family” and sell out to Honda before Bergie and Toastie could do anything. And in 2006 Toro Rosso situation was very different, the team was brand new, so to speak; they were using V10 and modified 2005 RBR chassis, so I doubt Klien felt interested in the team. And Mateschitz wanted Liuzzi/Speed line-up for marketing reasons. I think former F1 drivers must stay away from team ownership/management role because normally they end up ruining the whole operation (Prost, Suzuki, Lauda - I’m sure you can think of many more examples), Bergie must quit, sell the team to Todt Jr.
Scott Speed had reasons to complain, instead Bergie did everything he could to destroy Scott’s efforts. Vettel/Bourdais only pick up points when all the cars in front of them disappear during chaotic races, so did Liuzzi and Speed (well, he lost his point to DC in Australia 2006 but still). I don’t see great difference in their performance, although Bourdais seems like a nice guy, glad he’s racing in F1.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:37 pmSteven Roy said:
That is way too technical for me. How do I do it?
June 4th, 2008 at 9:47 pmme said:
sorry. you said you were using vista when you did the button helmet images right? try this:
http://www.cmu.edu/computing/firstc…/ie7.html
you might wanna skip step 4, if you’d rather keep your browsing history. the “tools” menu may be hidden, if so press the “alt” key when you have your browser open.
sorry to make you jump through all these hoops. will have the file up on a couple of alternate sites soon. facebook upload is nearly finished.
June 4th, 2008 at 10:02 pmDan Brunell said:
I don’t think either one would make it. Danica would bring the crowds but I don’t think she is good enough as a driver but is very savvy about marketing. I can see at team that needs to recruit and retain a lot of sponsors for survival (i.e. Williams, or whoever buys Toro Rosso) but I don’t see her doing well. Andretti the third hasn’t proven anything to me yet, nowhere near F1 quality so far.
If we want to get Americans to care about F1, look to NASCAR not Indy. People like Boris Said and Tony Stewart all have very solid road racing credentials, even if they are on the old side. The idea situation if some team could pry Dale Jr. from NASCAR into F1. Yeah he probably wouldn’t do well (that said, he has a pretty decent road record), but his defection would cause major waves in America. If he signed as a second driver for one of the teams, it would dominate the headlines in America and bring a major network to show and market Grand Prix
The biggest black mark in the whole BernieMax era is how they have absolutely destroyed F1 in America. I may not remember it but there was a time when America cared. We have went from two great races in two wonderful locations (Watkins Glen and Long Beach), wonderful/devoted fan base, and lots of American involvement to absolutely nothing. I hope you enjoy your 40 pieces of silver Bernie and Max. (That right, this secular went biblical on you.)
June 4th, 2008 at 10:15 pmRich said:
Apologies - dyslexia at the keyboard. I really thought Christian was shoved out of the door see the extract from Wikipedia to confirm my belief.
“In 2006, Klien was unsuccessful in comparison to his more experienced teammate David Coulthard, as the Brit scored the team’s first podium and was more consistent then Klien throughout the season. In August 2006, it was confirmed that Klien would not stay with the Red Bull team for the upcoming 2007 season, or at least as a race driver, due to Red Bull’s signing of Mark Webber. After the 2 points finishes in Bahrain and Germany, there was some uncertainty as to where Klien would go next in his racing career, speculation suggested America as a logical choice for the Austrian, but he refused a ChampCar seat in a Red Bull-backed team for 2007, preferring to chase a Formula One drive with another team. As a result, the team announced that Klien had been dropped for the last three races of the season in favour of test driver Robert Doornbos.”
Replacing your driver with your test driver before the season ends is hardly any vote of confidence.
When Force India selected their drivers, Klien did best in the testing shoot out, but the team decided to side with experience and signed Fisichella.
June 4th, 2008 at 10:17 pmmy FA fantasy said:
Could be, I saw him testing at Jerez, he was doing nice lap times.
My point is: Scott Speed/Indy could still be a part of F1 and losing the only American F1 driver of the 21st century with 2 years of racing experience/the only American race on the calendar was a mistake.
June 4th, 2008 at 10:23 pmRich said:
I had the same problems, basically the server hosting Sidepodcast is timing out, despite having reasonable bandwidth at the moment - so I used a manual download of the file which still timed out and then used Opera and the download also stopped three times but I could resume them to complete the download.
June 4th, 2008 at 10:25 pmmy FA fantasy said:
I use grandprix.com’s encyclopedia, it’s much better.
He chose to say adios to Red Bull after they signed Webber, had his car not failed in Monaco in 2006 it would’ve been him on the podium instead of DC. Although the guy is no top driver he did OK, good material for supporting role.
June 4th, 2008 at 10:32 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Has anyone seen the new gallery on f1.com nice photos of the inside of Force Indias factory. {lou - 16 comments ago}
It’s great, thanks - good to see my favourite team at work
June 4th, 2008 at 10:46 pmme said:
jeez, really? sorry about that. will upload to an alternate location asap. thought the hosting company had got over all of these issues.
update: have logged a support request and pointed (mt) at this thread. if anyone else is experiencing issues, please let us know here. thanks.
June 4th, 2008 at 11:02 pmRich said:
My point entirely, until an American driver is good enough to get into one of two teams (and has the right connections and profiles) you are not going to see a huge involvement of America in F1.
I know Danica has expressed an interest in F1 but it would be a disastrous move, she will be nowhere. If drivers like Webber and Trulli cannot get wins, there is no ways Patrick and Andretti are going to do better. This season Robert Kubica has really shone - would love to see him in the same car as Hamilton cos I think he would be beat him. With his present car there is no ways he can really compete for the championship, yet he is as good as Massa, Raikkonen or Hamilton. People make a big deal of Kimi last year - the reality is he had slightly better luck and a really small edge on Massa during the second half of the season which was enough to get the championship. This year Massa had a slow start but his Monaco performance shows that he can drive (sure he made a mistake and the tactics proved wrong) but had the rain return it could still have been a Massa victory. The reality is really small difference return really big outcomes and when you add the luck factor it can get even more magnified. An example is Heidfeld - if he had not had his qualifying in Sepang stuffed by Kovi and Hamilton, a safety car incident at Spain (where he actually recovered spectacularly from to finish ninth) and Alonso driving into him at Monaco he would be very close to Robert in the points chase. The BIG difference is Robert can get his tyre up to speed and qualify better and therefore has an option of a better race strategy. Since Heidfeld cannot get the qualifying times he always carries more fuel at the start of the race and so far this is a less good race strategy. In the race generally Heidfeld is really consistent and fast and good at overtaking, but this is not enough to overcome qualifying issues - so people are saying he is not performing (still has more points than Kovi who is in a faster car). One key to Michael Schumacher’s success was being really fast on the in-lap before the pitstop - so he saved considerable time over his competitors.
June 4th, 2008 at 11:04 pmRich said:
It has downloaded going to tlisten to it now - what I like is that you give the options and with a download manager you can get the podcast (unlike other places).
So thanks!
June 4th, 2008 at 11:09 pmSteven Roy said:
Good memory about Vista. I cleared the cache but not the history and it made no difference. I tried a manual download and got as far as Nico Rosberg talking about the wall of champions. He says it is at the end of a very… the rest of the video is simply a constant repeat of the last syllable y y y y y y
June 4th, 2008 at 11:10 pmRich said:
Still [Klien] was the fastest in the Force India shoot-out last year but did not get a seat (race or reserve).
Personally I think Klien is the better driver than Speed!
Here is my fantasy scenario - he is currently with BMW Sauber, Renault could negotiate for him to replace Piquet. We know BMW Sauber are the most reasonable teams in terms of driver contracts (Vettel and Glock) and surely he would do better than Piquet?
June 4th, 2008 at 11:14 pmRich said:
Use a download manager or Opera to give you the ability to resume a timed out connection!
ps I do not normally use Opera - I use Safari as my preferred browser!
June 4th, 2008 at 11:16 pmme said:
thanks steven. it appears that itunes can download it as that resumes well from failed downloads. but that’s the best i can offer right now.
am uploading to a couple of other services right now (amazon s3 / libsyn etc). probably take an hour or two to complete, but hopefully one of them will work.
i can’t believe we spend so long working on this, and then the server can’t complete the bleeding simple task of delivering a file.
June 4th, 2008 at 11:47 pmRich said:
I could upload an iPod size-reduced version (16 MByte) to Drop IO
@ME is that OK with you guys?
Not if you have to run through a proxy server!
June 4th, 2008 at 11:51 pmme said:
please be my guest, my bandwidth is maxed at the moment.
cheers.
June 4th, 2008 at 11:56 pmRich said:
OK will attempt an upload of a mini version to Drop.io
Will confirm when it is up!
June 5th, 2008 at 12:12 amme said:
am coming to the conclusion that actually this might be a temporary problem. can’t seem to get an alternate file up to amazon s3 and their support says:
“customers may experience an elevated rate of timeouts/503 errors due to the severe weather in US”
dailymotion is also struggling to encode the file. presumably this could all be related? will keep trying just in case it’s not.
June 5th, 2008 at 12:20 amRich said:
My attempt at upload to drop.io has not been completed so guessing it will time out.
Will try in the morning - but thanks guys - great podcast - like the touches of humour like Rosberg found the wall at Monaco!
June 5th, 2008 at 12:28 amme said:
appreciate all your efforts kind sir. i suspect drop.io is using amazon somewhere in the pipeline too. either for bandwidth or file conversion.
bit worrying that all of our services and all third party services we use go belly up, when just one company has an issue isn’t it?
update: alternate link(s) for anyone having issues:
http://www.vimeo.com/1119795
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5o5yr_f1-canada-preview-2008_sport
June 5th, 2008 at 7:56 amRich said:
In case anyone is having problems with downloading this episode or wants to put it on their iPod a reduced resolution version (6 MB) has been loaded to Drop.io.
June 5th, 2008 at 9:52 ammy FA fantasy said:
Well, F1-Live puts DC into Piquet’s seat, little Nelson supposedly goes to STR and Vettie goes to RBR. Nelson is at least good at making people’s fantasy work.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:44 pmme said:
thanks rich. (mt) couldn’t repeat the problem, and asked me for more info. i thought i’d print my response to them in full here, and if anyone has anything else to add, please do comment.
apologies to anyone if the geeky stuff annoys you. promise we’ll talk about f1 soon!
support request to mike at (mt):
hi mike,
thanks for your quick response. we’ve had the problem intermittently since we moved the site over to your platform. at first we assumed it was related to the disk issues you experienced recently, but as that problem now seems to be resolved it must be something else.
every now and then, when a user tries to download a large media file (typically over 30MB) they suffer sticking downloads, whereby the browser thinks the file has been downloaded in full, but some of it is missing. sometimes clearing the browser cache and trying again resolves the problem, other times not so.
we know there’s nothing on the web page causing this as it also happens with podcast download clients like itunes.
in the case of yesterdays problem, it’s a 75MB file and it got stuck at the halfway mark. i think one user based in south africa had trouble and another was in the uk. i couldn’t repeat it this time, but i have experienced it in the past. it normally affects several people simultaneously.
if we move the offending file to another host, for example amazon s3, libsyn or blip.tv the issue goes away, and we’ve never had trouble on this score before we moved to you guys.
i’ll see if i can dig up any more info for you. incidentally, the rest of the hosting solution is fabulous, bandwidth is great, performance is great etc.
cheers
request ends
June 5th, 2008 at 1:51 pmme said:
that’s a bit of a merry-go-round isn’t it??
the only person who gains out of that is vettel. why not just swap with dc? is it something to do with engines?
June 5th, 2008 at 7:10 pmz-baumgartner said:
We may be in for another cracking race as weather forecasts suggest that there will be thunderstorms from friday through to sunday.
Sutil for the win anyone?!
June 5th, 2008 at 7:22 pmLadySnowcat said:
As always I just love the track bit…but just tooooo much JV….
June 5th, 2008 at 8:28 pmRich said:
DC was claiming earlier this year that he had a water-tight contract - it might be one way for Red Bull to get rid of him, assuming Renault actually wants him!
June 5th, 2008 at 8:34 pmme said:
why would they? unless he has some mega sponsor to bring along, i can’t see flav being remotely interested.
June 5th, 2008 at 9:31 pmRich said:
That was my point - I cannot see Fat Flav being interested in DC. Does anyone know if he still manages Mark Webber?
June 5th, 2008 at 10:14 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Yes, Rich, Flavio still manages Mark Webber in addition to Fernando Alonso and Nelson Piquet Jr.
June 5th, 2008 at 10:27 pmSteven Roy said:
Just a quick comment to say I haave just watched the vid on daily motion and it ran perfectly. Thanks to ‘me’ and Rich for trying to help me view it.
June 5th, 2008 at 10:46 pmme said:
nice one steven. can i assume that you’re still having issues will the one on this page?
we should say thanks to dailymotion too, because they seem to be promoting us like crazy at the moment
June 5th, 2008 at 11:10 pmSteven Roy said:
I had not tried this one again. I have just run it and it ran right through with only a couple of odd stutters. Only about a second each time and nothing that would affect normal viewing. It actually sounded like Christine had wind.
June 5th, 2008 at 11:14 pmme said:
hehe, okay cheers for checking for us.
we’ll keep an eye on this problem for future videos, and we’ll be uploading a copy of every show to a separate file server so that if it happens again we’ll have us some more options. and maybe even a backup plan