RL, Grand Prix and Peeps
Apr. 10th, 2011 07:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99Back home this weekend doing some PhD corrections. I've now reached the stage where my internal is telling me to change things back to the way they were before I made any changes. I'd be more calm about it if one of the changes hadn't been one of the three major ones my external wanted.
I have also watched the Malaysian Grand Prix.
The moment of most non-F1 fan interest was probably Petrov's short flight - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/formula_one/13028570.stm (Don't worry, he's fine.) Nick Heidfeld's start was pretty awesome too. It's interesting to see Renault doing so well, even if it makes me sad that Robert Kubica isn't driving the car given all the work he put into its development.
The Red Bull radio crew continue to be fun, I'm thinking in particular refering to the tyre wear as 'falling off a cliff'. I also like that they send their 'we have no KERS' clear instead of code. Yes, it gives the other teams extra information but it also demoralises them, Red Bull are doing that much better without the magic box. I am still intrigued by why KERS just won't work for them. They've had two years to work on it since their last attempt, you'd have thought they would have ironed out the problem unless it's to do with their aero-package/downforce issues.
And for the interest of people who are not me or F1 fans, I present photos from the Washington Post Peep Diorama contest - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/03/29/GA2010032903934.html Link courtesy of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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I have also watched the Malaysian Grand Prix.
The moment of most non-F1 fan interest was probably Petrov's short flight - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/formula_one/13028570.stm (Don't worry, he's fine.) Nick Heidfeld's start was pretty awesome too. It's interesting to see Renault doing so well, even if it makes me sad that Robert Kubica isn't driving the car given all the work he put into its development.
The Red Bull radio crew continue to be fun, I'm thinking in particular refering to the tyre wear as 'falling off a cliff'. I also like that they send their 'we have no KERS' clear instead of code. Yes, it gives the other teams extra information but it also demoralises them, Red Bull are doing that much better without the magic box. I am still intrigued by why KERS just won't work for them. They've had two years to work on it since their last attempt, you'd have thought they would have ironed out the problem unless it's to do with their aero-package/downforce issues.
And for the interest of people who are not me or F1 fans, I present photos from the Washington Post Peep Diorama contest - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/03/29/GA2010032903934.html Link courtesy of
fileg
