We’re getting all nostalgic here at anotherf1podcast, today’s practice felt all a bit 2008, with the Ferrari’s locking the top two positions and some mercedes powered cars on 3 and 4.

But obviously, that’s not really the case, Ferrari probably haven’t got enough to actually lock off the front of the actual grid later, but there’s definitely been an improvement from the red cars.

Heidfeld was the talk of the town after thwacking his BMW into a wall, giving payback to any of his engineers who muttered “consistent” under their breath whenever he walks past.

The Brawns and Red Bulls still seem to be the cars that’ll have a good quali, and a banzai alonso…

Pos  Driver       Team                       Time               Laps
 1.  Massa        Ferrari               (B)  1:20.553           18
 2.  Raikkonen    Ferrari               (B)  1:20.635  + 0.082  22
 3.  Button       Brawn-Mercedes        (B)  1:21.050  + 0.497  19
 4.  Barrichello  Brawn-Mercedes        (B)  1:21.163  + 0.610  17
 5.  Kubica       BMW Sauber            (B)  1:21.239  + 0.686  21
 6.  Trulli       Toyota                (B)  1:21.256  + 0.703  23
 7.  Hamilton     McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  1:21.346  + 0.793  16
 8.  Glock        Toyota                (B)  1:21.377  + 0.824  26
 9.  Buemi        Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)  1:21.424  + 0.871  19
10.  Alonso       Renault               (B)  1:21.499  + 0.946  17
11.  Kovalainen   McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  1:21.519  + 0.966  15
12.  Rosberg      Williams-Toyota       (B)  1:21.594  + 1.041  20
13.  Webber       Red Bull-Renault      (B)  1:21.629  + 1.076  19
14.  Bourdais     Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)  1:21.649  + 1.096  19
15.  Piquet       Renault               (B)  1:21.685  + 1.132  18
16.  Vettel       Red Bull-Renault      (B)  1:21.689  + 1.136  18
17.  Fisichella   Force India-Mercedes  (B)  1:21.909  + 1.356  19
18.  Nakajima     Williams-Toyota       (B)  1:22.043  + 1.490  19
19.  Sutil        Force India-Mercedes  (B)  1:22.232  + 1.679  19
20.  Heidfeld     BMW Sauber            (B)  1:23.457  + 2.904  8

At last we can look forward to a Grand Prix where the result is decided as the cars cross the line. Not since the days of Sir Stirling Moss have fans been able watch a race decided at the track on a Sunday. Speaking last week in Paris as the FIA finally confirmed his 1992 championship Nigel Mansell said “I’m 72 you know”.

The best part of the appeal hearing for me is the fact that Ferrari’s legal attorney Nigel Tozzi (some jokes write themselves) QC seems to have taken it all so badly, perhaps fearing a horses head in his bed he decided to attack Ross Brawn by saying,

“Only a person of supreme arrogance would think he is right, when so many of his esteemed colleagues would disagree. Anyone with a command of English will tell you it is a hole.”

What? If you think you are right but your slower, bitter, wealthier and previously more successful esteemed colleagues disagree you should capitulate or be deemed arrogant .

Arrogance of course is a word that can no longer be associated with Ferrari after they forced the Oxford English Dictionary to change their definition of the word in 2004.

He continues “Do not let someone attempting to be clever with words defeat the express purpose of the rules.”

I have never sworn on the website before but that is about to change. FUCK OFF! You are a fucking wankstick of an attorney your job description is someone attempting to be clever with words to defeat the express purpose of the rules.

As for the holes of which you speak, they are not holes. What you can see next to Massa, Raikkonen and the teams names are in fact zeros.

Numbers can be confusing I know, and seeing as the rest of the team is now very busy re-designing the entire rear end of the car I’m going to help you, so repeat after me, zero, nothing, zip, nada, naught, fuck all, nul point, big fat zero……………

2009 Malaysian Grand Prix

After a series of technical hiccups and lying to the podcasts stewards the edited (and slightly short) Malaysian Grand Prix podcast is finally here.

Sorry for keeping you waiting but stay cool baby as Kevin and Terry discuss the rain, the liegate, the massa and the eddie jordan’s of this world.

Hamilton and Massa must be properly good friends, alway looking out for each other. Whenever Hamilton is having a bad time in the press Massa does his best to shield his mate. He did so today by not getting his seeminlgy strong Ferrari past Q1 and ending up 16th on the grid.

Button went on to prove that BrawnGP didn’t just fluke Australia (unless the diffuser is deemed illegal, but that’s another story)

A couple of grid penalties affect the final grid, Vettel down ten places from his third position thanks to hugging Kubica in Australia, and Barricello down five from 4th due to a new gearbox.

The McLaren team never made it past Q2, as expected and Beumi let his frustration known to the world as he went out despite on the way to posting a Q1 busting time.

No rain happened as feared and the Toyota’s continued their good-looking pace finishing a net 2nd/3rd.

The three world champions on the grid didn’t bother the top six, with kimi 8th, Alonso 9th and Hamilton down in 12th

GRID POSITIONS

Pos   Driver                             Q1        Q2        Q3

1.    Button
      (Brawn-GP)                         1:35.058  1:33.784  1:35.181
2.                     Trulli
                       (Toyota)          1:34.745  1:33.990  1:35.273
3.    Glock
      (Toyota)                           1:34.907  1:34.258  1:35.690
4.                     Rosberg
                       (Williams)        1:35.083  1:34.547  1:35.750
5.    Webber
      (Red Bull)                         1:35.027  1:34.222  1:35.797
6.                    Barrichello*
                      (Brawn-GP)         1:34.681  1:34.387  1:35.651
7.    Kubica
      (BMW-Sauber)                       1:35.166  1:34.562  1:36.106
8.                    Raikkonen
                      (Ferrari)          1:35.476  1:34.456  1:36.170
9.    Alonso
      (Renault)                          1:35.260  1:34.706  1:37.659
10.                   Heidfeld
                      (BMW-Sauber)       1:35.110  1:34.769
11.   Nakajima
      (Williams)                         1:35.341  1:34.788
12.                   Hamilton
                      (McLaren)          1:35.280  1:34.905
13.   Vettel**
      (Red Bull)                         1:34.935  1:34.276  1:35.518
14.                   Kovalainen
                      (McLaren)          1:35.023  1:34.924
15.  Bourdais
     (Toro Rosso)                        1:35.507  1:35.431
16.                   Massa
                     (Ferrari)           1:35.642
17.  Piquet
     (Renault)                           1:35.708
18.                   Fisichella
                      (Force India)      1:35.908
19.  Sutil
     (Force India)                       1:35.951
20.                   Buemi
                      (Toro Rosso)       1:36.107

*  demoted 5 places for gearbox change
** demoted 10 places for thwacking Kubica in Australia

2009 Australian Grand Prix

The season has finally begun. Kevin and Terry travelled at silly o-clock in the morning to watch the race in a certain pub in Guildford, with slightly less glory anticipated than the last time they were there.

Jenson Button has now officially ruined one of Terry’s jokes, the Brawn team have officially made a joke of the rest of the paddock and Barrichello comes second despite fucking up everything at every available opportunity.

We discuss how Massa is falling foul of the new ‘open radio’ rules and how Piquet Jr needs to learn how to lie better as anotherf1podcast.com discusses, dissects and devalues the Australian Grand Prix…

2008 Brazilian Grand Prix

It’s over – it’s gone to the wire again, and a couple of days on the champagne/lager/guinness/glock hangovers have faded and our boy who is not always our boy but sometimes is our boy is finally world champion.

We boo far too many people to be good sportsfans and we get hysterical as one of the better seasons of formula one goes down to the very last corner

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The official F1 website has released extra footage of three of the contentious incidents from Sundays Grand Prix watch them here. Obviously you should make your own mind up but for me the most important on board shots from Bourdais car are not shown.

2008 Brazilian Grand Prix

Kevin & Terry got up early and watched the race and then tiredly talk about this eventful Japanese Grand Prix, Alonso’s second win of the season and Hamilton using the championship lead as an excuse to fuck it all up (again)

Here is a mini bonus episode.

It’s a video podcast, a video cast, I’m going to make up a word for it… vodcast – let’s hope that becomes standard parlance.

It is a little edited version of the hilarious Massa pitstop, but made to look slightly more how we saw it.

UPDATE: Bernie took the other video off of youtube, himself, he came around to my house and ripped it off the screen.

So, it goes here instead – watch it while you can as we sock it to the man!

Massa is the pits! from terry saunders on Vimeo.

See you in Japan

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2008 Singapore Grand Prix

Kevin and Terry are eating Singapore Noodles from Marks & Spencer (with their eyes shut) to pay tribute to Formula One’s first ever night race.

And what a doozy, with Alonso become podcast hero number one, despite what we said last year. And Massa providing more comedy than either of us can manage on our circuit.

The gloves designed by Honda’s aero team, Wurz in a medical car, Piquet being reversed psychologied into the wall and Hamilton having just enough of a championship lead to still be able to fuck it up.