Sidepodcast

It was suggested in the comments during last weekends live streaming that it was about time we started a new podcast. The plan mooted was to host some form of panel show that pitted callers against each other in a battle of wills over topical F1 subjects of the day.

At first we may have been a touch reticent about the idea, however Christine bought a new domain name (which is always a good sign), and the technical bits weren’t too difficult to resolve, so against our better judgement the plan is to have a go this evening.

As ever, with so little planning, it’s anyone’s guess as what may happen, but thus far this is what we’re thinking it’ll take the following form:

• A guest host who will select subjects and chair the panel
• Two teams of callers, battling against each other
• Points will be awarded for winning an argument
• Extra points will be awarded for humour
• Christine to keep score

Bonuses will be awarded for sucking up to the scorer, and then doubled if anyone genuinely manages to compliment Franck Montagny in a subtle way. If no-one has any objections, I’ll probably chair today’s panel.

As yet we’ve no idea how many people we can manage to host on a Skype call but we’re hoping it’ll be either two or three people to a team. Anyone not involved with calling-in can still take part in the comments by associating themselves with a team, digging out facts to help bolster arguments while berating the opposition.

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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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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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The weekend that Formula 1 needed was exactly what we got, and for once, everything fell into place. This week we discuss Max Mosley, FOTA, and the race in Italy, plus catchup with Fantasy Racers and your feedback.

Intro

It rained in Monza, and 5live almost got washed out, but thankfully, we’re nice and dry!

Good Week / Bad Week

Good week for being timely, and for being the boss, but a bad week for Honda staff and the German Grand Prix.

News and Views

Max Mosley is back, says we’re stupid, and that he’s not going anywhere. Meanwhile, the FOTA get their act together, choose their leaders, and decide what they’re going to do. The big question is, when will they start doing it?

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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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Here is the first ever Parade Lap show, the brainchild of “me” and / or Steven Roy. We’re going live for an hour before the ITV build up coverage starts (in the UK), hoping to be a nice relaxing way to ease into race day.

We intend to chat for a bit, play some songs, and try and be slightly entertaining as we go about it. This is the first show, so your expectations should be realistic, just as Raikkonen’s will have to be for the race.

We’re live streaming, although it may just be the top of my head for now. We don’t anticipate this being a show you want to watch, just have playing in the background.

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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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