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F1 News & Discussions => General F1 Discussion => Topic started by: cosworth151 on January 16, 2019, 04:53:00 PM
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F1 has released the start times for the 2019 races. They will all still start at 10 minutes after the hour as a nod to the TV broadcasters. France will move back to it's normal 3:10 start time. Last season it was an hour later due to a soccer thing. Abu Dhabi and Bahrain will start late in the afternoon & finish under the lights. Singapore will still be a night race. As always, FP1 & 2 will be on Thursday in Monaco. Friday is a market day there.
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.session-start-times-revealed-for-the-2019-f1-season.6t0BuBTGN04o3sMVa5QfBJ.html
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Thanks Cosworth :good:
I love it....soccer thing :DD You mean the World Cup hehe and on a day when England actually won 6-1 hehe
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Sorry Cos!, but that has to be phrase of the day "Soccer Thing" = Word Cup Football. (a "genuine" world cup, where ... oh yeah, the world actually take part!!) ;) :D
Can we use the label for your wee american game as "that Handball Thing" = Super Bowl. :DD :DD :DD
Best Regards,
Cal :)
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I remember a very, very highbrow* show where a character once said the following about American Football:
"I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby."
I found it amusing and a little accurate, although I get the 'hits' are huge in the American version of the game.
*The show was Buffy the Vampire Slayer :-[
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I hope my post above is taken in the good spirit it's intended?? "Banter". On other forums, I would probably have been blocked from forum activity for 6 months!! :stop: :-[
Being Scottish, I am a fan of the cult comedy Still Game, where I remember an episode when Jack and Victor come over to Toronto to visit Jack's daughter. Anyway, they go to an Ice Hockey match and a player slams into the glass. It shatters and after the old guys wipe all the debris from their jackets, Jack pipes up "... would you look at that, they're all padded and everything!!!".
Best Regards,
Cal :)
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Only 6 months? Seems lenient!
I cannot get into Still Game, I tried it and wanted to like it, but I think being a half Scot who never lived North of the border, some of the humour is lost on me.
Maybe I could try to watch a bit of an episode in the 10 minute delay to the start of the races :o I did find it odd adjusting last year, it's only 10 minutes but it felt a lot longer.
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When comparing sports this made me laugh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=163&v=P89Xe0dMZI0&fbclid=IwAR1rlx3PiXQn3FzZPG_4MENqDNd_0qTuxWQEhlCimc3od9jIF2VpU7ZVHg4
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When comparing sports this made me laugh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=163&v=P89Xe0dMZI0&fbclid=IwAR1rlx3PiXQn3FzZPG_4MENqDNd_0qTuxWQEhlCimc3od9jIF2VpU7ZVHg4
Nice relaxed/composed explanation there Andy! :DD
I did like this quote in the comments though .... "The only thing tougher than rugby is war!!!!!!" :good:
My brother in law played Rugby in the Navy (Rosyth, Portsmouth and everywhere in between). Some days when he came to visit with black eyes, stud marks, wounds .... he looked like he'd been in a war!!!!
Best Regards,
Cal :)
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Used to love watching my son play rugby, it might have only been under 14's but when he went in there was no mercy, an animal, but he could take it as well, he got taken out so hard once it totally winded him, the ref stopped the game to check on him, all he said to the ref was, "I'm ok thanks sir, that was a heck of a tackle wasn't it." Then he got up and carried on running.
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If the average rugby player was 250-300lbs, you might see them using protective gear as well ;)
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If the average rugby player was 250-300lbs, you might see them using protective gear as well ;)
My thoughts as well...I'm glad a Canadian Swiss
said it :good:
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If the average rugby player was 250-300lbs, you might see them using protective gear as well ;)
I wouldn't waste any time assessing what he was wearing, I would be RUNNING LIKE HELL!!! in the opposite direction (oh yes!! ... while screaming like a little girl). :DD
Best Regards,
Cal :)
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"Screaming like a little girl" has a bit of special meaning for me; are you by any chance a fan of the TV show "Chuck"?
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When comparing sports this made me laugh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=163&v=P89Xe0dMZI0&fbclid=IwAR1rlx3PiXQn3FzZPG_4MENqDNd_0qTuxWQEhlCimc3od9jIF2VpU7ZVHg4
:DD :DD Loving it Andy
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"Screaming like a little girl" has a bit of special meaning for me; are you by any chance a fan of the TV show "Chuck"?
Not familiar with it Lonny, sorry! :DntKnw:
Best Regards,
Cal :)
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If the average rugby player was 250-300lbs, you might see them using protective gear as well ;)
In the early history of American football the teams would use 'formation plays' where the players literally locked arms, so a flying wedge wouldn't be the impact of a single 250 lbs linebacker, but in fact the total mass of 11 college men. Death was common in these early football games; I'd wear protective gear too.
Also, for those who don't quite understand the point of the pads: they're there to protect the person DELIVERING the hit, not the person taking the hit. The part of the body being hit in football is rarely padded. Just like boxing gloves are intended to protect a boxer's hand, not their target's face.
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I wondered why I got 15 replies to the race start time.
Around here, we don't call it soccer, either. We call it Ballerina Ball. A couple of years ago, the owner of the Columbus "Major" League Soccer franchise insisted that the city government use eminent domain to destroy Columbus Speedway (which as been there since 1946) so that he could his training facility. I'd attended races there for 60 consecutive seasons. I raced there back in the day. The city rolled over like a cur dog & did it. A year later he demanded a new, taxpayer funded stadium or he'd move the team to Austin, TX. (They already have a custom built soccer stadium in Columbus) That's why I have such a high opinion of it.
Also, I love rugby. I played rugby as an intramural sport back at Ohio University (a.k.a. Harvard on the Hocking or Berkley in the Boonies.)
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I love your analogy on football there Cosworth :good: You are right they do act like ballerina's. Some of them like Ronaldo are right....mmmm...winkers hehe
Rugby is soooooo much a better sport :D
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I have a feeling that this topic could end up discussing table tennis or how do you like your steak? :DD
In my first couple of years here in Western Canada, I was down stairs doing some kind of DIY/Reno and had the TV on in the background. It was some kind of north American chat show with Enrique Iglesias as the special guest. Between my work, I heard the female presenter say "well, you would know this Enrique, you follow "SOCCER". He calmly moved onto the edge of his seat and said something like "you have just offended 90% of the world by calling Football soccer!" .... yes, I stood up and cheered uncontrollably at the TV - I'm not even an Enrique fan, honestly!!! :DD
Best Regards,
Cal :)
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You can't beat a bit of tenis de mesa :D
When it comes to steak it's got to be 'well done'
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Have any of you seen the film "Concussion"? I doubt anyone would complain that the use of protective gear implies invirility in an American footballer after seeing it; it's about a doctor who finds that the standards of protective gear (at least in the first decade of the 2000s) were insufficient to protect from consistently early deaths from cumulative subconcussive impacts.
I don't have much time for any variant of football; indeed I'm generally only interested when Nazionale Piloti are playing or my local team is getting demoted again (it's happened twice in the last three seasons, and it might happen again this year. We'll run out of leagues if we're not careful).
Table tennis is not a game I know much about, though I did give a colleague an "instant table tennis pack" for Chrismas in the Office Secret Santa.
I like steak cooked and not burnt. (I'm not picky).
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Table tennis (a.k.a. ping pong) is great fun. It was very popular around these parts when I was growing up in the 60's.
Now we have another, similar game that is very popular here in the hills: Beer Pong.
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How on earth did you guys end up talking about Table Tennis and how you like your Steak??? :DntKnw: :DD
Best Regards,
Cal :)
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Some of us are old, sometimes we go off topic in the middle of a sentence.
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Some of us are old, sometimes we go off topic in the middle of a sentence.
I think you should isolate the person who created the diversion in the first place!!! :DD
Best Regards,
Cal :)
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I have a feeling that this topic could end up discussing table tennis or how do you like your steak? :DD
Best Regards,
Cal :)
Isolation sounds like a great idea.....some peace at last :yahoo: hehe
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Some of us are old, sometimes we go off topic in the middle of a sentence.
And some of us young 'uns do the same. I like to call it "creative linguistics" ;)
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Yeah, I sometimes veer off topic, talk about one thing and then ooh, my washing is finished, time to hang it up!
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Veering off is sometimes fun Cal, there are 1 or 2 members who hate it so it's fun to wind them up now and again, not nastily though I hasten to add. :DD
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Speaking of going off topic Ian, where is Neil.P??? Did he marry Miss Prodworthy? I would be surprised the things he used to make that poor woman do :nono: :tease:
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It has to do with the fact that many of us spend a fair portion of the day wondering, "What did I come in here for?" :confused:
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Veering off is sometimes fun Cal, there are 1 or 2 members who hate it so it's fun to wind them up now and again, not nastily though I hasten to add. :DD
You may have to read my post close to the top of this page Ian. I instigated the "off topic" direction with the mention of Table Tennis and Steak. It was tongue in cheek (Scottish satire, if you like). So, once it had gone completely off topic (due to my devilish humour) ... I then called up the "off topic police" to isolate the person responsible for the event .... ME!!! :DD :DD :DD :DD :DD :DD
If you haven't noticed it yet, I can be as serious as a Chess Championship Finalist, or as Crazy as a Lottery Winner, who has just discovered that they are holding the winning ticket, while enjoying a fun afternoon on a bouncy castle with numerous tubes of glitter bombs!!!
See!! ... I'm just a normal guy (at least that's what the figure in the mirror suggests).
Best Regards,
Cal :)
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Calman the unofficial GPW motto has always been "You don't have to be crazy to belong here - but it sure helps" :D
In answer to your comment Cossie …….. Errh! :-[
- well it was on the tip of my tongue a minute ago. :P
Never mind there's a man called Trump on TV, I've got to watch. ……
Judd Trump - it's snooker not ping pong diplomacy. :D
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Never mind there's a man called Trump on TV, I've got to watch. ……
Judd Trump - it's snooker not ping pong diplomacy. :D
Now you are talking my language John!! :good:
I'm playing catch up with the UK Championship Snooker in good old York!!!! ... so I am avoiding internet news for snooker, as like any of us, I HATE SPOILERS!!!!
Best Regards,
Cal :)