Sidepodcast

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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

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It’s been a while since the French GP has been eagerly anticipated, but with such a mixed up grid, today was one of those days. Tune in to F1 Digest for a recap of all the action, plus driver reactions.

The Race

A race of some serious fighting, Raikkonen battling his machinery, Hamilton trying to get through the traffic, Trulli holding off Kovalainen.

Conclusions

Whilst Honda and Force India seem to be feeling pretty low right now, Toyota and Toro Rosso are flying high. The others fall into various moods in between.

You can imagine that researching F1 Minute means I read a lot more news now than I used to. In fact, quite often, I’ll be talking to the man and he won’t know what I’m on about. Did you read that right? I’m ahead of him. Brilliant.

Anyway, I was browsing Autosport.com today, and saw the return of their traditional posts headed up Preview Quotes: #Team Name#. You know what that means, don’t you? The season is truly coming back. I was excited, I may have even whooped out loud. But then I saw that Autosport didn’t just have one post about the Previews. They’d managed to stretch it out to three posts.

I know this isn’t unusual for Autosport, we’ve certainly picked up on it in the past. I know a lot of other bloggers find their site very frustrating. I’ve been giving them the benefit of the doubt, but it’s starting to get a little bit ridiculous.

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