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15. Do you foresee any personal or professional obstacles in 2018 2026, that would keep you from creating fanworks?

As you can see by the gaps in responses, RL things keep intervening in my everything.

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Background:

As in many sports, after each Formula 1 race, the equipment is scrutinised.

In the heart of every Formula 1 fan lies a conspiracy theorist, and yes, the universe is out to get your driver or team.

So, do the scrutineers pick on any particular driver?

Methodology:

This entire project would not be possible without the FIA Docs Bot on Mastodon (fiadocsbot@mastodon.social - https://mastodon.social/@fiadocsbot) run by seppewyns@mastodon.social (https://mastodon.social/@seppewyns).

Originally, I started this last year, but things got away from me. FIA produce a lot of documents per race (normally 75-80 of them) so I lost track of the documents and I am not going back to find them. Therefore, I am restarting the project for this year.

Matters are not helped by the tests not being the same each time, which means that putting the results in is a very manual process, but there will be more about that in the post about the Chinese Grand Prix.

Results from the Australian Grand Prix

There were a total of 812 checks. If they were evenly spread, you would expect 36.9 checks per driver. I have rounded this to 37. (I am aware that this rounding will affect the numbers over the season but you can't have .9 of a check.)

Driver 5 (Gabriel Bortoleto) was checked the most, 41 times.
Driver 27 (Nico Hülkenberg) was checked the least, 32 times.

This makes me suspect that drivers that do not start the race get fewer checks.

With 21 degrees of freedom, the χ² = 2.92 value is not statistically significant.

Let's look at the deviations in one chart (thanks to R stats). This chart compares the standardised residuals for each driver. A driver with the exact number of checks performed as expected would have a value of 0.



For the 4 drivers with the largest difference to expected, 2 had slightly more checks than expected (Bortoleto and Hamilton) and 2 had slightly less (Hülkenberg and Piastri).

For Hülkenberg and Piastri this might be because they didn't start the race therefore their cars were not available for some of the pre-race tests as well as the post-race tests.

Conclusion:

At this time, no, the scrutineers are not picking on any driver. (I feel I need to add that's what I expect the end results to show too.)

14. Have you ever lost large chunks of your work in the past, due to not backing up your work? Will you change your methods in 2018 2026?

Let us not speak of the time one of my workplaces deleted 3 months of my work with a stray Linux command.

And the time some A-Level biology course work corrupted on a floppy disk and I had to re-write it in two days.

So yeah, I suffer from justified paranoid and have a Cloud backup.

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12. Will you change anything about the way you edit or rewrite in 2018 2026?

Actually writing words would help, right?

(Not really)

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10. Will you keep a record of all the fics you write and/or post this year?

Of course :)

An unfortunate tendency towards record keeping comes as standard :)

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9. Short term goals… what do you hope to complete this week or in January April?

Finish reading through, feedbacking and adding to the 3 Sentence Ficathon (which given I've got about 5 days where I won't be able to do anything and I'm choosing to pace myself at 5 pages a day does see me pretty much through to the end of April).

Once that's done, post the good 3SF stories to AO3 and post the things I have finished off in the background. I don't expect all of that (or indeed most of that) to be within April.

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Qualifying:

In things that are not important yet, but will be important by the end of the season - Norris already on 3rd and final battery. Even if they can resurrect his second battery, that's too close to maxing out the allowed number of batteries for comfort.

How much of Max Verstappen's sour grapes about this set of regulations, "I am retiring if we don't change" and so on is due to being beaten by the RB Juniors?

Pre-race:
Radio got slightly more hijinks than usual because of the delay due to repairs following one of the support races. Jack Black has noticeably better PR training than Chris Pratt, and sounded like he might have head of F1 before Jennie Gow spoke to him.

Damon Hill talking about Murray Walker commentating over his victory is adorable.

However, I disapprove of them whitewashing why the Japanese Grand Prix had to move out of monsoon season. "So we were in sakura season" indeed.

The race itself:

See McLaren, if you give him a car that works, Piastri goes fast.

I did have a full-blown mini-conniption about Bearman's leg; his limping looked like mine when I broke my leg. So glad that it turned out only to be severe bruising.

I don't think the accident is evidence that the new regulations are too dangerous, just that there is room for improvement. It's not like there aren't crashes with every set of regulations.

Also, how much of that crash was due to tyres that weren't warm?

Alice Powell gave a really good explanation around kneepads, and their painful necessity and why some drivers still don't wear them.

The incident really changed the shape of the rest of the race.

I acknowledge the race became duller after the safety car but there was racing up and down the grid and through most of the race, unlike last year's race, which, as someone described it, "could have been an email". Therefore I am still on team "I like the new regulations".

6. Which yet-to-be-started fic is first on your list?

Next thing on the "to be written" list is BBC Sherlock Holmes/Adler fic. Which I live in hope will be quick and fun to write.

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4. Do you think you’ll stop writing for a fandom in 2018 2026? Which one?

As my answer to day 3 probably showed, I don't give up on fandoms. My next X-Men fic is ... 4 years after the last. And there's likely to be huge gaps between wrestling fic, since I'm up to 2013, when all I had was TNA which is the source of pain, not fic ideas.

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I can tell if you will like this film with one simple question - does the phrase "pigeon James Bond girl" thrill some part of your soul?

If the answer is no, this is not the film for you.

If it stirs or intrigues you, you will enjoy this film.

Ignoring the pigeons (we will not be ignoring the pigeons), it's a sci-fi spy film aimed at kids with a remarkably peaceful message. The message doesn't quite work in context, but I figured out the bad guy was going to be more than just a plain bad guy when I twigged that the reason he sounded familiar was because that was Ben Mendelsohn.

When a film has stock children's film message number 3 (violence is bad), it's the detail that matters. And there was lots of glorious, silly detail.

Most particularly involving pigeons.

Someone involved with this film has the same love of pigeons I have and it made me so happy. There was such detail in the pigeons, like the scene where they're flying off through St. Mark's Square.

There's also some child-friendly body horror in the transformation sequence and exactly how difficult it would to get used to thing like monocular vision if you were used to the binocular vision humans have. (And Sterling as a pigeon gets feathers that look like a bow-tie and I'm sorry, I am the target audience for the film).

It probably doesn't quite hold up as a good film, there isn't quite enough to it, and as I said, I don't think the message quite works but ... pigeon Bond girl goes a long way with me.



(Yes, I am annoyed I couldn't find the end credits bit with her which is really done James Bond credit style. Someone involved also knew their spy references.)

(Japan, US, Italy, Mexico for the film locations data)