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Hullo,
After a long break we are back.
Terry was away up in Edinburgh for the festival during August and the great satellite podcast link up didn’t quite happen as hoped.
So now they come back with a catch up on those three races and the humdinger of the belgian Grand Prix with it’s rain, penalties and glue gun shapes
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hullo anotherf1podcasters.
We are one year old yesterday.
Look, here is the first post…
Back when the world seemed like a different place and Mosely was only draconian in his policies.
On behalf of me and kevin I’d like to thank us for our hard work in making the podcast sound more shambolic with proper recording equipment than it did when we used to record through a video camera (yes, we did).
We were planning on using some production values this year, but we plan a lot of things
Well done us
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I Crashed into a Deer in my old car and had to replace the bonnet quickly, looking at the colour scheme of the car below I now realise I must be cosmically linked to Stefan Johansson, although it’s more likely the Deers share the link.
In the British GP podcast I mentioned a thing I remembered reading in a magazine when I was a kid about Stefan Johansson hitting a deer during a race.
Thanks to this internet thing I have found the details, it wasn’t a race, but the friday practice for the Austrian GP in 1987
No pics of the incident, but look at the state of the bleedin car.
Here is a little of the facts behind it at the wonderful f1technical website
Terry causes radio controversy, Hamilton drives a blistering race and answers his critics (one of which is Terry)
silverstone and DC retire and Kevin risks Bernie taking the ultimate prize
A very tired kevin and terry discuss the controversy of the Hamilton novertaking (a new word I’ve just made up thanks to a typo – but it works) incident
And the hell that if fantasy F1
Also dangling exhausts and shuffling massas in lifts
Hamilton made a boo-boo, max survived, Kubica got a win and Coulthard lucked it
And terry and kevin have access to a mac and some music stuff
yes
Poor Poor Sutil
Kevin and Terry discuss the first exciting monaco GP for yonks, with talk of hamiltons driving, massa’s engineer and the all powerful Bernie Ecclestone.
Coulthard crashing (again)
And the old suave Graham Hill showing how it should be done
How I worked out how terrifying quick F1 is using a motorway and channel five late at night
Formula One cars rocket past at up to nearly 200mph sometimes. This is quick, but is just a number. I have been watching F1 on the telly for bloody ages now and am used to knowing how fast they go.
But the telly doesn’t really relate quite how fast this is. The cameras tend to follow the cars about cancelling out any impression of sheer speed.
I’m used to this, I know it’s nearly 200mph even if it doesn’t look it, that’s enough for me.
Then one night, bored and alone, I found myself watching NASCAR on channel five. I’m not really a fan of NASCAR, it just looks like the M25 to me.
In NASCAR a lot of the cameras are locked off trackside so when the cars zip by it really feels fast – I almost dropped my cup of tea at one point. I don’t know how fast NASCAR cars go, but I reckon it’s less quick than F1… so why does it feel so much faster?
F1 directors are so pre-occupied with helicopter shots (helicopters are pretty quick too) and super slow mo seeing something wobble over a kerb that they seem to have totally mislaid the importance of making the things look as fucking terrifyingly quick as they are in real life.
A few weeks after my NASCAR experience I was on the way to a gig in a car on a motorway. We had to stop to look for a mislaid satnav somewhere amongst the seats and I found myself standing on the hard shoulder somewhere between london and leicester. I’d never stood on a hard shoulder before. I was utterly terrified. The cars nipping past me were going horribly fast. And I know they were only going at 70mph (no faster, 70 is the law, no one would dare).
This is just over a third of the speed of what an f1 car almost goes at. And utterly terrified multiplied by three equals bloody good telly.
So come on F1 chaps – make it look fast.
The angry episode.
Kevin and Terry both get some stuff off their chests whilst discussing the turkish grand prix, namely Hamilton being ad-sucking-cock-man and the crazy frog selling out.
Also Honda are nice to the boys and in return they slag off barrichello and warm to alonso and get scared of rabid wild dogs