Sidepodcast

Already it seems like a very long time ago, but in fact just last weekend, prior to the start of the Singapore Grand Prix we were Tremayning.

The goal with this particular challenge was to rant in a needlessly angry way about some mundane subject or other, whilst dressed completely in black. As we did with the Champagne Challenge, for convenience and posterity here are all the entrants, arranged from best to worst as decreed by Christine.

Scott

The winning Tremaynism was Scott, who had the difficult task of going first. His rant involved the rather peculiar decision by Bridgestone to run their option tyres with a pink stripe during a recent test.

A worthy F1 winner.

Alex

The sentiment within Alex’s rant is probably something that will remain with us forever, after the man picked the FIA’s recent bizarre attitude to penalising certain drivers as his rant of choice.

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Our build up to the 2008 season continues - we’ve looked at the drivers and the teams, now it’s time to look at the regulation changes for this year.

Intro

Taking advice from the comments of this post, I’m tempted to withhold his show notes.

Good Week / Bad Week

Williams get a much needed cash boost and Super Aguri say they’ll be there, whilst Ron Dennis and Silverstone both get some bad press.

News and Views

McLaren have some unwelcome visitors to their factory and the resulting fall out just drags the espionage affair ever onward. We catch up with testing news, Vettel in a Red Bull, electronic flags and all the talk about Hamilton. Team Williams have two interesting tidbits about their drivers past, present and future.

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We all like to make predictions, don’t we? I know I do, and I love to find out what other people think too.

Before the 2008 Formula 1 season gets underway, I really want to hear your predictions for the finishing order of the first race. I’m so keen, in fact, that I’m trying to make it really easy for you.

As mentioned on this week’s show, we have a free voicemail facility idly awaiting your call and I’ve even written you a script. It goes something like this:

Hi, I’m… [your name] and my predictions for the top three finishers in Australia are:

• 3rd place… [driver name]
• 2nd place… [driver name]
• 1st place… [driver name]

So all you have to do is figure out who it’ll be!

Here’s one I made earlier:

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