We’re getting close to the point were JiveHoney will give us all the ‘evidence’ we need

A 16yr old in Vegas?

He’ll love it :D

Maybe he got some tips off his mate – baby Piquet? :D

**** what have I done? How do I get out of this?

So [in your mind] was the crash coincidental? or did he plan it all along? :wink:

Hmmm. Could be on dodgy ground legally without ‘private land – no parking’ type signs.

Of course, that presumes you can identify the prankster :)

Cameron could – of course – say “no I’m not doing it”

For some reason, he doesn’t seem keen on doing it that way.
I can’t see the point in the debates but he should at least have the guts to say what he wants to do.

Just use a credit card

If it all goes wrong, they’ll refund

He got an ice pick

Of course the interesting thing is that if they had done that they wouldn’t have JB and KM racing in Melbourne, and wouldn’t have had a single experienced driver to provide feedback at the last test or during the race weekend. I’m struggling to see what could possibly happen given the current situation which would lead to Ron thinking “whoops, I wish I’d let Jenson go”.

I think Joe was putting himself in KMag’s head – so to speak.

I’m more inclined to go with Joe Saward’s take on it ……… and let’s face it, he’s forgotten more about what goes on and other F1 shenanigans than the rest of us put together know.

On the subject of Alonso

Fernando Alonso is not racing in Australia, and that has led to much inanity and conspiracy theorizing. I don’t see why there is such a kerfuffle on the subject or even about the accident. It is clear that he crashed and hit a wall. Perhaps he might have been going faster at the time but it was still a sizeable hit. He hit his head, probably on the side of the cockpit. The helmet and the cockpit surround foam did its job, but it was still a hit. He went to hospital and they said “best have a lie down and a cup of tea” so he followed their advice and stayed in hospital. Some of the team said things without checking the facts and suddenly we were in Dealey Plaza, looking for a grassy knoll. Alonso, they surmised, had been hit by a thunderbolt of electricity that had escaped the car, looped the loop, and landed on his nose. I think I even read a report blaming the Mafia. This was no doubt denied by Teflonso’s mate Flavio, who may have blamed Fidel Castro and Marilyn Monroe…

Hmm. Let’s get real here. Alonso banged his head. The doctors said “Voste te una commocio cerebral”. Fernando asked for some Nurofen. That’s it. With concussion one needs to be careful because a second impact can lead to a problem called SIS (no, not Secret Intelligent Service), which means Second Impact Syndrome, which is nasty. A second head injury causes diffuse cerebral herniation which for reasons that are still rather unclear is devastating and even healthy young people can die within a few minutes. Thus when a person is diagnosed with concussion these days they are told not to bang their head again. Now Fernando might wish to race and say “Forget the doctors” but the knowledge that insurers will almost certainly not pay out on a death cause by SIS because there was a clear warning from doctors about what could happen meant that he and the team could not risk it. On top of that, the team, and the federation come to that, in these litigious days, could not allow him to race lest there be liability claims made against them if Fernando was to die during the event.

Thus he will sit on a beach somewhere and Kevin Magnussen will get the chance to show that the team was entirely wrong to dump him and keep Jenson – all assuming that the car can be kept running for a race distance…

It will probably lower the value of the car,

It’s an Alpha, it doesn’t have a resale value

Is Annie Nightingale still there?

Sorry I’m reafing into that that McLaren would have liked him to drive- read the first para

Yep

Ours docs think he’s OK
His docs don’t

3 weeks between accident and race and yet he wont race – having seen a few websites i note the wording never actually states “because of his accident” in quotes from anyone regarding his reason not to race – for sure the Press have filled in and assumed that – but i see no direct quote that relates it to the concussion.

However, Fernando’s doctors have recommended to him that, following the concussion he sustained in a testing accident at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on February 22nd, for the time being he should seek to limit as far as is possible any environmental risk factors that could potentially result in his sustaining another concussion so soon after his previous one, so as to minimise the chances of second impact syndrome, as is normal medical procedure when treating athletes after concussions.

http://www.mclaren.com/formula1/inside-the-mtc/fernando-alonso-a-medical-update/

For A&E, GP, walk-in Centres etc.

I’d combine the lot where possible and anyone that reports to A&E would be triaged and sent the right route or given an appointment to come back later etc.

Minor injuries and ailments are strangling A&E

If I were running McL :)

I’d put Vandoorne in the car, that would seriously piss KMag off but it needs doing to see what he’s like without too much risk, at the very least I’d put him out on Friday.

They need to be looking for a special driver, not just fast but one that has something else KMag is fast but that’s it IMO.
They need to find the drivers and use them, like Kyvat and Verstappen, before long Honda will be pushing to get Matsushita in the car, which will make it much harder for Vandoorne.

mid life crisis car on a shoestring

That’d be a motorbike

They really are careful now following the Bianchi incident.

Now, can KMag beat Button :)

an Urge grommet?

During the lighter months, I do 25-35 miles before breakfast without issue, I’m not particularly fit either.

I think there’s something wrong if you’re depleted after 10 miles

I ride bikes sometimes, maybe twice a week
When I’m riding, I’m a cyclist.

I guess those that think of very little else may consider themselves cyclists 24/7

Good point! When it says 4 birth that doesn’t mean it has 4 proper seats, then.

They meant berths, ie beds

Don’t expect that area to be very warm at the beginning of April, it can be quite pleasant then but also quite cold.

Gumtree is free and often produces a result too.

What happened?

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/would-you-accept-10-to-be-silenced-classifieds-feedback

Don’t ignore the municipal sites in France, there are some crackers

http://www.camping-municipal.org

But if we’re going down that route, then listening to the radio maybe makes long-distance truck drivers work better too. Should they pay a license to listen in their cabs?

Window down at the traffic lights whilst eyeing up hammers in the hardware shop, giving the public a blast of Steve Earle.

This maybe?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/ViewHD-HDMI-Bi-directional-Switch-Switcher/dp/B006CUIVTO

A crazy plan and not worth it at any price.

The only way I’d ever contemplate it would be as a temporary measure to dig myself out of a financial problem, otherwise – no chance.

“when a mummy and a daddy love each other very much, they sometimes ……..”

Or do you have to be more inclusive these days?

Isles of Scilly?

Nobody else will bother to dress up, just go as you see fit.

We used to go to Trevella when the kids were younger, great place with easy access to most things you want.

http://www.trevella.co.uk/

Is the spare an alloy?

You can also quite easily change it yourself to an IP located pretty much anywhere in the world.

The main issues are a. Age

You’re ****

It’s close to impossible to unlearn all the survival skills you’ve acquired.

I raced at school boy and national level but still couldn’t get back into it 20 years later.

I’ve been a couple of times with Sierra and really enjoyed it, some great trail riding

F1 is not a cheap sport why do cost cutting

Without some sort of cost control, the big manufacturers and odd pop maker will out spend and drive other teams out of the business.
When they’ve had enough, they’ll simply walk away and leave nothing behind, the independent teams have to be caterered for and given the chance to compete

The HR lizards really don’t live in the same world as most of us.

The day after I got told I was getting the bare minimum they could pay me, I got an email with details of a flight to the US from work.
They’d booked me on Sunday flight so I replied that it need changing to Monday PM as I wasn’t working Sunday. My manager called me and said I was being petty 8O

Lots of places now go with the minimum they can.

I got made redundant last May after 20 years and got the minimum
They also put me on gardening leave for my 12 week’s notice rather than paying me off.

Good luck, hopefully something will turn up quickly for you.