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Honda’s ridiculous Gaia-sponsored Formula One car is glacially slow in final practice for the Australian Grand Prix - Honda drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello are respectively 17th and 15th out of 22 runners.
Meanwhile, environmentalism-scorning Anthony Davidson is a remarkable fourth fastest in his Honda-engined Super Aguri; teammate Takuma Sato is ninth. In other results: Kimi Raikkonen is quickest, Mark Webber is 11th, and Lewis Hamilton (“Had he made any changes in his personal life to fall into line with the eco agenda growing pervasive in F1? No, not really”) is third. Qualifying soon.
That God awful Honda looks like a flock of seagulls went to town on it. Do they park it under a tree at night?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 16 at 09:53 PM • permalinkJust watching the presentation on Channel 10. Interviews with the “celebrity racers”, in training for Sunday’s celebrity race.
Shane Jacobsen ("Kenny") is a scream:
paraphrase, missed the first bit… “Dunno why they make me wear all this fire stuff, I have a layer of fat all round me which would take about a week to burn through so I’d be pretty safe.”
on getting into the car “A bit like backing an elephant into a shoebox… ya just can’t do it, it won’t fit...” when the interviewer asked again what he’s said, he repeated the saying and then added “or putting a marshmallow in a money box.”
Is it just me or does that Gaia car bring back memories of 70s post-hippy-era vans with pictures of scantily clad women riding dolphins and unicorns airbrushed on the sides?
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 03 16 at 10:30 PM • permalinkBlair’s new emissions targets could cost UK jobs?
JOHN CRIDLAND: This is about the UK taking a strong, progressive position, but business needs other countries to come onboard, particularly China, India and America so we can invest in a green revolution without putting British citizens’ jobs at risk.
Who’d’ve thought?
Brett
Yep, they turn both ways, often consecutively. You might think of this as flip-flopping at high speed.Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 03 16 at 11:11 PM • permalink#15 kae
I’m sure it has been . . . and it probably will be for every event in order to “showcase” the host country.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 03 16 at 11:31 PM • permalinkI live only a few miles from the track and can hear the noise of the F1s loud and clear. About an hour or so ago there was an F-18 jetting about performing some terrific stunts. My appreciation was made all the better by the knowledge that somewhere, sometime a polar bear is going to drown because of the reckless addition of needless CO2 to the atmosphere.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 03 16 at 11:46 PM • permalink#18
In reality, that polar bear is much more likely to be ::ahem:: reproducin’.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 03 17 at 12:19 AM • permalink#10 Andrea,
There’s an aging hippie in my town who drives around in a crappy old airbrushed van of the nymphs-riding-dolphins variety. This car could definitely be its little brother.
Ooh, goodie:
Via the website http://www.myearthdream.com anyone who wishes, will have the opportunity to have their name on the car, make a pledge to make a lifestyle change to improve the environment and make a donation to an environmental charity.
Would pledging to spray filthy greenie peaceniks with a fire hose to wash away some of the foul crud that always seems to coat the beasts count as a “lifestyle change to improve the environment?”
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 03 17 at 12:43 AM • permalinkYou’ll be shocked - shocked - to hear that Traceee Hutchison disapproves of Formula 1 racing. As she so eloquently puts it: “Consume. Consume. Consume. Vroom. Vroom. Vroom.” It’s a crime that writing of this calibre is not eligible for a Pulitzer: a Walkley just isn’t enough.
OT, but this morning’s Age helpfully publishes the venue and itinerary of an ‘anti-war’ rally to take place in the middle of Melbourne today, in what is clearly intended to be a facilitating role. Didn’t even the ABC circulate a memo about not using pseudo-reportage to recruit for these events? And note how the headine on the Age website says “protesters rally in CBD”, at a time when no such thing has actually happened. But it will, comrade, it will.
Traceee doesn’t have to worry about Formula One. As we all learned a couple days back with Toni Collette, if your job requires it, you’re allowed to blow your carbon footprint beyond all recognition with no consequences. You simply get a free pass. As far as I can tell, driving Forumla One cars is a Formula One driver’s job. So they get a pass. They can even claim to have a very green lifestyle if they plug in a few CFL lights at home. I believe the judges would surely agree that interpretation falls squarely within the penumbra of the Toni Collette Rule.
#24 Well that’s a relief. My old job (before I quit) was driving a truck at 4 1/2 miles per gallon (don’t ask me to convert that to liters/kilometer) hauling lumber, redwood no less, and hay to contribute to bovine flatulence. I’m sure my carbon numbers were way into negative range.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 03 17 at 03:32 AM • permalinkAnd #2- That’s what I thought. Gore appears, cold weather. Gaia car runs, slow times.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 03 17 at 03:35 AM • permalinkThe driver however will have to sit on this. A genuine whale bone sled.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 03 17 at 03:43 AM • permalinkAnd the new secret fuel addative...get your minds out of the gutter!
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 03 17 at 03:57 AM • permalinkThanks again Kae. I owe you for showing me how to link.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 03 17 at 04:42 AM • permalinkwhat were 16 and 19 through 22 running on? rubber bands??
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 03 17 at 08:20 AM • permalinksteveH
I remember reading that most of the machinery during the steam era was lubricated by whale oil. It was far superior to petrolium based products of the time.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 03 17 at 06:20 PM • permalink
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Anthony Davidson probably uses polar bear oil to lubricate his machine. Beats whale oil because you don’t have to grapple with environmental activists to harvest it.