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The Parade Lap discovers its natural home during this extended edition of the show recorded prior to the Brazilian Grand Prix. Featuring weather checks, predictions, a run through the grid and the baking of a single cupcake. What more could you ask for?

The music played in this show:

• Zach Ashton, Ocean
• The Surefire Way, Brazilian Eyes
• Robert Hough, Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
• Amy Courts, Company
• Brand New Heavies, All Fired Up
• Cassandra Kubinski, I Am a Racecar
• Jack Jezzro, Brazilian Nights
• Info about these artists and more available on the music page.

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It’s the last Grand Prix of the season, and we’re hosting a two-hour bumper edition of the Parade Lap as an introduction to the deciding race. However, no one wants to talk about that pesky sport business, we all want to know how the cupcake is going.

For those not in the know, the other half of Sidepodcast, the one that doesn’t know an oven from an iron, promised to bake a cupcake in order to get two regulars onto tonight’s Sidepodpanel. This is where we find out how he got on.

We’ll also have the usual weather forecasts, race predictions, thoughts on qualifying, and chilled out music, to lead us nicely into live commenting the race itself.

We’ll be going live at 2pm GMT, but feel free to make yourselves at home beforehand, and get those cupcake-gate discussions going. See you soon.

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A whistle-stop tour through all the news and feedback that’s occurred following on from China and ahead of the season finale Brazilian Grand Prix.

Intro

There’s no such thing as an off-season in the Sidepodcast World.

Good Week / Bad Week

Good week for circuits, as Portugal will be hosting a test in December, and the Montreal officials believe they may be back on track to getting on the 2009 calendar. Bad week for Nigel Stepney as he’s in the news again, and for Ferrari because who likes bikes anyway?

News and Views

The FIA and FOTA got together to make lots of decisions and came up with two. We discuss the promise and pitfalls of all that engine business. We also take a look at what seats are left for the many drivers that want to get into Formula 1 next season, and whether Bourdais might have his seat for certain.

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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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Building up to the race of the year at Singapore, the Parade Lap settles in for an extended 90 minute chill out and chat. Topics on the agenda include who qualified where, just how poor the marshals were and of course, we try a little bit of Tremayning.

The music played in this show:

• Moloko, Sing It Back
• Dylan in the Movies, City Skies
• Di Sheldon, What in the World
• Jeff Caylor, Moving Backwards
• Ramin Streets, Traffic
• Hampshire Guitar Orchestra HAGO, Liberty Bell
• Amy Regan, Carry On
• Info about these artists and more available on the music page.

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We’re up in time for the Singapore Grand Prix, and because we’re so excited about the first ever night race, we’re going for an extra half an hour. 90 minutes of chatter and music to get you warmed up and ready for the racing action.

With a new track comes plenty to talk about, lots of unknowns: the weather, the track, the marshals, the scenery, and most of all what we have seen so far. We want to hear your thoughts and predictions, visit the Live Commenting Live… Thing (where lots of bugs have been fixed) to join in the streaming fun. We also want your calls, and especially want to encourage Tremayning. I know, I don’t really understand it either, but it sounds like a blast.

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Hot on the heels of his Champagne Challenge two weeks ago, Stuart has again suggested a task to keep us occupied during the Sunday morning before racing begins. So this weekend we’re Tremayning.

Admittedly it’s not a phrase we’d come across before, but apparently Tremayning is a popular pastime amongst paddock insiders, who ought probably be making better use of their time debating the various merits of Lewis vs. Kimi or softs vs. super-softs.

We’re in no position to make judgement on frivolous F1 activities of course, so what does Tremayning actually involve? Well, I’m glad you asked because Stuart kindly phoned in a description and a demo to get the ball rolling:

So in short, the key points to emulating the legendary David Tremayne are:

• You should dress entirely in black
• You must get needlessly angry about a mundane subject
• You must talk through clenched teeth
• You will ideally start and finish each rant with a growl

Easy right? Okay, maybe not as simple as shouting “champagne”, and certainly a little trickier than your average ITV competition, but by far the toughest thing is figuring out which tiresome subject gets your goat the most.

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It was little more than a week ago that Stuart issued the Bob Constanduros Challenge, where we were encouraged to try and exceed the track commentator’s infamous 28 second “champaaagne” shout.

We had an unexpectedly high number of entrants, so much so that we didn’t get through them all during the hour long Parade Lap and bounced a couple onto F1 Debrief later in the day. Sadly, Bob wasn’t around at 23:40 when that one finished (the lightweight), so instead the shouts were judged and plaudits awarded on length alone.

For convenience, neatness and posterity here are all the entrants, arranged from best to worst longest to shortest.

Lou

The winning entrant, with a champagne time of 25 seconds was Lou from F1 Break. It took many of us a considerable part of the day to encourage the girl to make that call, but the result was absolutely worth it. 3 seconds shy of the legend’s best ever time is nothing to be sniffed at.

Champagne Time: 25 seconds.

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Ahead of Italy, we gather together for a relaxing discussion about press releases, chicane regulations and of course, the weather. Plus there’s a champagne competition a couple of expert callers, and as always, some good songs.

The music played in this show:

• Amy MacDonald, Mr Rock & Roll
• Ingrid Michaelson, The Way I Am
• Kristoffer Ragnstam, Swing That Tambourine
• Lost in Rome, Katherine
• The Maine, The Town’s Been Talkin’
• Adrina Thorpe, Fly, Fly, Fly
• Info about these artists and more available on the music page.

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Time once again for the Parade Lap, a nice chilled out way of starting the race build up. I say chilled out, but with everything going on at the moment, it might be that we talk about more than just waffles this week. Either way, we’ll be live for an hour before the ITV coverage starts in the UK.

We’ve got some good songs lined up, a couple of topics to get through, and of course, the most important thing of all for this morning: weather watch.

There’s a live stream available of the show, although it’s more about the audio than looking at the top of my head.

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