Sidepodcast

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The second week in a row in which we feature a guest, and this time there’s some insight into turning old technologies into the future.

Intro

There’s this new idea about gathering together news stories and separating them into those that have been good and those that have been bad. Where have we heard that before?

Good Week / Bad Week

Good week for Ferrari and Takuma Sato as they’re both sorting out their drives for next year, but a bad week for Nurburgring and Valencia as the organisers have some work to do.

News and Views

A quick catchup of testing this week at Monza, which Renault’s determination to go slowly whatever the costs, and Force India possibly evaluating their drivers. We talk to Scott Woodwiss about his thoughts on this season compared to others, the regulation changes, and how F1 can get back to America.

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It’s no secret that Valencia wasn’t what we were hoping for, and yet it still seems to have created the talking point of the season.

Intro

I said it would never happen, but we go live once again.

Good Week / Bad Week

Good week for safety and for returning to the sporting action, but a bad week for thefts and for Force India’s morale.

Qualifying

Renault are still circling way too slowly for our liking, and it’s not as though they were taking in the scenery. Did Ferrari get to choose which end of the pitlane they were at? Also what is up with Valencian security, because there was litter and a man or two on the track. Oh, and Trulli was awesome.

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This week is all about Hockenheim, and thus all about McLaren as Lewis Hamilton dominated the entire weekend. We make mention of everyone else though, including Glock and his accident, plus Massa’s inability to defend.

Intro

Another sporting injury obtained a ridiculous way, but can it beat Massa in a lift?

Good Week / Bad Week

Good week for Vettel as he’s snapped up by Red Bull, although will he find himself evacuated from the factory like Webber? Bad week for Abu Dhabi because Singapore is just too good.

News and Views

Just a quick mention of BMW and their KERS technology - ready and out in the wild world. They may be implementing it at the upcoming Jerez test, along with Honda and their updates, plus Force India and their new gearbox.

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Yes, this one is all about Max, but it’s worth sticking around to be fully prepared for the EGM on Tuesday, and there’s a Feedback treat at the end of the show.

Intro

It’s all about Max.

Good Week / Bad Week

It’s been a good week for Max, and a bad week for Max.

News and Views

The Max Mosley timeline, and what we think is going to happen. Hmm. It really is all about Max.

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With the Mosley scandal continuing without an end in sight, it’s nice to have a bit of racing to take our minds off it. Here we catch up with all the news from Bahrain, and a bit about Max as well.

Intro

Too much to talk about, must get on.

Good Week / Bad Week

Good week for ticket sales and Toro Rosso, and a bad week for Hamilton and Vettel for two very different reasons.

News and Views

Ron Dennis is the keynote speaker at the Motorsport Business Forum in Bahrain, Ferrari may or may not have a new nose cone on the way, and yes, we discuss the latest in the Max story.

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Ah, finally a breather between races, but the controversy never ends. Catch up with the latest news and gossip with Episode 58.

Intro

Unfortunately, the Chain has gone, but it may be back, we’ll see.

Good Week / Bad Week

Good week for Jean Todt and money, and a bad week for Renault and pretty much everyone else.

News and Views

Force India have to use the lesser of two roads, McLaren have been forced to the back of the Bahrain pit lane, Massa and a lot of other people are unhappy with qualifying, despite tweaks, and er, there’s FIA presidency news.

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It feels like all we’ve done for the past two weeks is talk about races and racing, so for this episode of F1 Rewind we take a look at what’s been happening away from the circuit.

News

Nico Rosberg talks about his helmet design featured on that plane. Kazuki Nakajima talks about not having his helmet design featured on any plane. And Christine looks into a possible source of Jarno Trulli’s recent mood swings.

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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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Back by popular demand and thanks to the amazing amount of feedback we received from the pilot show, Sidepodcast proudly presents the first official episode of F1 Rewind.

News

This week Christine takes a look back at the recent run of testing, weighing up who’s looking good and who needs to work that little bit harder.

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Just a quick note to say that this week’s show is running a little late, due to a minor bout of ‘man flu’ coupled with Christine’s unique ability to to acquire sporting injuries whilst sleeping… seriously, she went to sleep in perfect health only to wake up the next day unable to move her head more than five degrees in any direction.

Regardless, normal service should resume later today. In the meantime we have a new addition to our podcasting arsenal in the guise of this little toy:

It’s the type of disruptive technology that’ll either take a podcast to a whole new level, or simply swallow up so much time that nothing will ever get done again.

See what happens when we have so much free time between races?