F1 Digest - France Free Practice
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- File: digest30.mp3
- Transcript: digest30.pdf
- Torrent: digest30.torrent
Alonso was the main talk of today, with a breakdown and a fastest lap in two very different sessions. The only other notable thing was the track, but you can hear all about it in today’s F1 Digest.
Free Practice 1
A very slow start to a pretty uneventful session. Alonso had the major problem, whilst the others just seemed to struggle for grip.
Free Practice 2
More grip issues, due to a much warmer track, but that didn’t stop Alonso taking the top spot, despite his earlier problems.
Conclusions
Some unusual faces towards the sharp end of the timesheets, with Vettel showing particularly well, and very happy about it.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:59 pmlou said:
Great podcast Christine
It was especially great to hear about FP1…although by the sounds of it i didn’t miss much 
June 21st, 2008 at 12:29 amme said:
nah, twas a v.quiet session.
June 21st, 2008 at 12:47 amSteveintheUK said:
Sorry Christine I will have to listen to this episode tomorrow, but just wanted to say that my local Tesco’s in Weston Favell, Northampton has some Formula F1, T’shirts (£15) and Rugby style tops (£25) back in stock again. I did take a couple of photos of them on my mobile but as they are no where near Lou’s high standards of photography I’m to embarrassed to post them on drop.io, but may upload them tomorrow if you promise not to be rude. I’m not sure if they are the official tops or not though?
I’m going to try to get back in time for P3 but was planning to rush around in order to get back in time for an 11am start until Lou pointed out via Twitter dm that it actually finished at 11am, so will try to get back for 10am but it may be pushing it a bit. Either way I’ll see you for quaily.
June 21st, 2008 at 2:50 amShashank SK said:
a nice podcast as always..
BTW does anyone know why is the fantasyracers site not workin?
June 21st, 2008 at 7:48 amScott in Italy said:
Nice job on the podcast.
Always nice to get a mention, even if it shows how disorganised I am to not realise that yesterday was a Friday, and that this is a race-weekend
I’ll start doing my rain dance on the balcony again tomorrow…
June 21st, 2008 at 8:59 amme said:
ahh, you know we’re all nicer than that around here.
how about we promise to appreciate them, and then be rude?
seems okay for me now. can you try it again?
June 21st, 2008 at 9:35 amScott in Italy said:
I think Christine was setting up a DNS attack to stop people changing their drivers in a desperate bid to climb up the ladder
I set up a team at the start of the season, then forgot about it. I’ll try to find the password at the end of the season and see who I’m in front of….
June 21st, 2008 at 9:36 amme said:
do you remember the name?
June 21st, 2008 at 10:52 amShashank SK said:
the site seems to be workin now…
but damn the FSPORTS people .. i couldnt chnage my driver lineup before the deadline .. i dont think i’ll be doing well this time
June 21st, 2008 at 10:36 pmSteveintheUK said:
OK, sorry for the delay in getting online today, my quick 2 hour job helping to tow a friends Landrover back to his place took just a little longer than planned, about 13 hours longer to be correct.
Anyway, here’s the link to the images of the F1 mechanise I found in Tesco’s at Weston Favell, Northampton. Wide shot, Close up
Sorry, I spelt Formula wrong, and couldn’t work out how to add notes to the images so the close has a comment by me on it. I’m just wondering if these are the real Formula 1 mechanise or not?
Oh and Christine and ‘me’ congrats on already getting over 1,400 comments for these race weekend. That makes over 5,500 comments for June so far, and already beats the fantastic 5,300+ comments you got for May, which in it’s self was up from the 3,750ish comments for April. Glad to see that this site is still going from strength to strength.
And, yes, I will try really, really hard to be here for the race tomorrow. and another massive Thanks to Lou for all the Twitter updates again today. Thanks
June 21st, 2008 at 10:39 pmSteveintheUK said:
PS, tried to post the above comment using the latest version of FireFox 3 but it made the browser reboot, so using my backup of FireFox 2, is anybody else having problems posting comments with FireFox 3 or do I have to fix my computer again? Thanks
June 21st, 2008 at 10:45 pmme said:
i do believe they are, yes. at least they look identical to christine’s coat.
appreciate it sir.
i have ff3 beta and it’s fine. will upgrade to the new version and check. gimmie ten mins.
June 21st, 2008 at 10:51 pmme said:
comment test in ff3 (final version 3.0).
- preview seems okay
- post seems okay
- edit seems okay
yup, all seems well in the new version.
June 21st, 2008 at 10:53 pmlou said:
June 21st, 2008 at 10:54 pmSteveintheUK said:
Thanks ‘me’, I have being using all the beta versions and didn’t have a problem posting comments, but when I upgraded from Beta 3rc2 to the final release, it needed a Flash update to, since then it’s crashed when posting comments to sites.
It even done it when I tried to post comments on a photo on Facebook, plus on the commandN.tv site which is Typepad based. So not really sure if it FF3, Flash, or my computer? Would really like to get it sorted before the race tomorrow as your site does load a lot quicker in FF3. So thanks for checking for me.
So Thanks for checking the Formula 1 mechanised image I posted to your drop.io, wow, I have to say that I am really surprised that this is the real stuff, it was just stuck on the end display of one of the long shelving units which had sale items on both sides, With no big banners, and very under stated, not like Bernie at all.
June 21st, 2008 at 11:00 pmSteveintheUK said:
Damn, it must be me then, just posted from FF3 again and although it didn’t crash it hasn’t appeared here. This is from FF2. This reminds me why I left IT and now work part time in a charity shop.
Thanks Lou, and Thanks for putting up with my grumpy tweets yesterday after finding out Silverstone testing had sold out an hour after I found out I could have that Wednesday off. I was really looking forward to go to. We will have to make sure we pre-plan a SidePodCast meet up there next year.
June 21st, 2008 at 11:09 pmme said:
for some reason, he’s never quite fathomed merchandising. given it normally goes hand-in-hand with profit, i cannot imagine why.
found it in the moderation queue. akismet filter didn’t like the commandN link, which is annoying because we love it!
shoot. although i’m not sure it’ll be any good anyway, given 90% of the track appears to have been roped off
June 21st, 2008 at 11:14 pmlou said:
June 21st, 2008 at 11:28 pmRich said:
I have been using Firefox three with no problems on a Windows PC this week.
What I cannot get working in Firefox 3 is real player!
June 21st, 2008 at 11:33 pmRich said:
@SteveintheUK
I do not always have access to the Internet during a GP weekend and we don’t get TV coverage (other than expensive paid service) - so through Twitter Vee8 gives me SMS notices. This might be useful to you!
June 21st, 2008 at 11:40 pmSteveintheUK said:
and Bernie says that Silverstone don’t know how to market F1
Thanks for finding it.
90%?? there’s going to be a lot of people trying to get into a small space then.
Hopefully Silverstone will be able to keep F1 as there’s not really any other track in the UK that could cope with Bernie’s demands in order to get the race, I wonder if the UK based teams would stay in F1 without a UK race?
Thanks, I just turned off the Real Player video download plugin for FF so hope that this comments ends up on SidePodCast or it’s a defrag for this PC tonight.
June 21st, 2008 at 11:46 pmSteveintheUK said:
Thanks Rich, That’s how I get my F1 updates from Lou, via twitter DM to my mobile, I follow Vee8 on Twitter but Lou lets me ask her question and she twitters back with the answers, I don’t know what i would do without her? But may Thanks for the tip
June 21st, 2008 at 11:54 pmlou said:
aww shucks
June 21st, 2008 at 11:57 pmSteveintheUK said:
You weren’t meant to see that Lou, you to young to still be online and midnight on a Saturday, but Thanks
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:00 amlou said:
ahaha well ermm…yeah i don’t tend to go to bed early and i’m free from exams so ;)anyways i read the comments the next day anyway
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:00 amRich said:
@SteveintheUK I would love to meet Lou in person - very cheerful and reads everything people say.
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:12 amAlianora La Canta said:
There’s a new version of Firefox out?!? Why didn’t it tell me? Mind you, if it’s clashing with Flash, maybe I’d better wait for version 3.01…
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:13 amSteveintheUK said:
Most 16 years old’s around where I live are still out causing trouble, and that’s just the girls, the 16 year old boys are to drunk to even move. but glad your not like any of them.
So have you worked out what you are going to do for the next 4 months yet?
Will if I remember right she has her ticket for the Goodwood Festival of Speed so maybe if your going there you could all meet up with Christine and ‘me’ and cause mayhem. I’m really looking forward to see what pictures she takes there, have you seem her photos on Flickr?
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:14 amme said:
flash is fine on my ff3. no problems to report.
i think it came out a couple of days ago.
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:20 amSteveintheUK said:
Didn’t you see all the adverts about Mozilla trying to break the record for the most software downloads in 24 hours on Tuesday? They even had parties all over the world for it. Check out AmberMac from command.tv video from the party in Toronto
They had over 8 million downloads that day, and thats with a 10am start which killed their own site not long after the 24 hours started.
The final release of FF3 is a lots quicker than FF2, and the Flash update seems to be fine, I turned off the RealPlayer oneclick video download plugin and it stopped crashing when posting comments, although now of course I can’t quickly download embedded videos.
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:26 amlou said:
aha Not sure any of my friends cause mayhem
I live in the middle of no where and with no bus i kinda can’t get out of a night, even if i wanted to 
anyways i would prefer to chat about f1 on sidepodcast, as i have few friends who i can chat about it with. Having said that i am going to goodwood with one of my friends…i think dragging her along may be more appropriate actually 
but she likes cars (well kinda), knows abit about f1, and has listened to afew podcasts 
She will have to cope 
erm kinda…getting a job is high up the list…so is going out and taking lots of photos…Dad plans to start teaching me how to drive in our field…starting my A2 photography… getting exam results…watching f1…oh and relaxing (possibly enjoying any good weather we may have)
aww *blushes* your too kind
yep thats right, for the Saturday
I’ve just realised i’m going to have to buy another SD card…