ITG (In The Game, Inc) has been producing licensed hockey cards since 1998.  They are one of the best manufacturers of hockey cards within The Hobby.  Some of their patch cards are insane!!!!  I think this is the first ITG card I’ve ever used for “Card of the Day”.

Last night I dreamed a few dreams. The last dream I recall was that I was in another State, walking along a deserted street, and saw a kind of low priced clothes store. The place was in some State like Arizona or where ever there aren’t very many people living. I think they were Indians. There was a sign on the window saying $8 for really really nice dresses, that looked like they were either rayon or cotton. They were the kind of dresses that I like. There were the long flowery feminine looking styles. The particular one I saw in the window had light blue and cream colored flowered print on it. And a tie to tie it in back. So I went inside and inquired about the dresses. The store was almost empty. And the owner and clerk inside said, in broken English, that yes they did have those in stock, but that we’d have to climb down into the basement and take those dresses out. They hadn’t placed them out yet because they were so low on staff. So I and another woman climbed down an almost straight angled ladder, down into the warehouse. Where there were lots and lots of boxes full of new clothes not yet placed on the floor. So as I was down there and pulling boxes up and handing them to the person upstairs, someone ran out and crossed off the $8 and wrote $40. By the time I found the dresses that looked like the one in the window, they’d decided that I’d have to pay more for anything there.

I don’t remember how it ended or if I even bought anything. But then I remember walking in another large area where there were other low-priced stores, looking for clothes like those.

I think that the reason that there were Indians in this dream is that lately there have been a lot of programs on the PBS channel about Indians and their plight. It seems the channel’s owned by Indians. I’ve seen several shows about it now. And I don’t think it has anything to do with Thanksgiving either.

Yesterday I got a good workout at the gym. I feel a little stiff today. But I seriously have to begin that regime again, of going to the gym.

The only other thing that I did yesterday was cuddle with my bunnies and watch another flick. It was “The Reader”. I read that novel years ago. It was a good movie, but the ending was sad. I had Pinkie with me on the bed. But she was hungry I figured out, because she kept nipping me. That’s what she does when she’s hungry I realized. As soon as I put her into her cage she went for the alfalfa and began gobbling it. Poor little bunny was hungry.

Right now Priti’s hopping around the living room loose. She plops down on her tummy to rest. It’s the cutest things I’ve seen ever. I call her “little plopper”, because of her plopping over, and her plopping little round poops on the floor all of the time. I totally love that bunny. Right this minute Priti is laying on her tummy with her legs out, looking right at me. As if she’s taking a rest from her morning escapades of running around the living room. They both have their own little personalities. And then Nala likes to chase Priti. But the other bunny Pinkie prefers to chase Nala. She follow Nala around the place, hopping right behind her. Sometimes Nala turns around and takes a swipe at her, but she doesn’t run away. She just stands there and then steps forward another inch. Nala isn’t used to being bothered by a persistent bunny. Pinkie doesn’t have a fear of cats.

I made coffee and have no cream or soy milk. I can’t stand it when I run out of soy milk and other food. I want to go to the social services office and get some food stamps. But they turned me down months ago. Seriously, what the hell?

I’m going to go over and have another huge Thanksgiving dinner with Bernie at Bethany. Even though I can’t stand some of the women who are also there, I don’t need to talk to them. I’ll just bring some chips and dip and try to hold my tongue. I am sure that I’ll have something to write about tomorrow, about tonight. Oh and I told Bernie about the possible interview at the women’s shelter. She said it’s got lots of children in it, and that I have to put up with kids crying. I won’t be liking that at all. But so far the woman hasn’t sent me the email she said she’d send me, so maybe they won’t.

Today or tomorrow I really want to buy some new fabric for a new pattern I bought. And I so want to do some sewing. For some reason, I loose interest in the garments that I start, sometime after I’ve started putting them together. It’s like I get to the point where I am almost done, and then I find another pattern that I like better.

Well that’s all for now. Just me in my little apartment with my bunnies, kitty and t.v. and of course my computer.

America The Horrible

O radical, for spacious cries,
For amber waves of pain,
For rich speculating majesties
Above the poor and lame!
America! America! God shed His homophobia on thee,
And crown thy rich with hypocrisy, from tax haven to the sea.

O discriminee, for pilgrim feet
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for unlawful beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America! God showed thine ev’ry flaw;
Confirm thy soul in self ridicule, thy discrimination in law!

O homophobe, for heroes mocked
In denouncing strife,
Who more than self their country loved
But stabbed with a sharp knife!
America! America! May God thy brains define,
Till all success becomes impossible, and ev’ry law malign!

O horrible, for equality dream
That sees beyond the years,
Thine politics as pretty as dog cream
Unimproved by human tears!
America! America! God shed His fallibility on thee,
And make thy poor just poorer, stuck in shit up to the knee!

OK, so why did I write this rather radical post? Two occurences:

#1 Bernie Goldberg appeared on Fox News and tried to smear Liberals/Democrats and tried to explain why Liberals hate Sarah Palin. His brainless hypothesis: “She has 5 kids. Liberals don’t have 5 kids. One of them has down-syndrome. Liberals certainly don’t allow that to happen.” I think Jon Stewart’s response sums it up very well: “Go fuck yourself”, later adding “Eunice Kennedy Shriver [one of nine Kennedy children] founded the Special Olympics because she wanted an organized form where she could mock children with down-syndrome. Of course the Special Olympics is to winners as Fox news is to experts. If you show up, you are one”

watch the entire clip of Stewarts coverage of the Palin hype here.

#2 A 10-year-old child from Arkansas refused to pledge allegiance to the flag of the US. His reasoning? The Pledge of Allegiance states “with liberty and justice for all”. The kid thinks this has not been accomplished yet since homosexuals are still severely discriminated in the US. What happened after that? He got mobbed by his fellow students AND teachers alike. I really do love some Americans and how to oversell their patriotism. If that’s not all some (fortunately not all) posters on a Christian forum picked on him even more. Some excerpts:

“These are the types of kids who grow up to be those ultra-jerky liberals who think they are smarter then everyone else because they can articulate well. The kinds of people who take Michael Moore and Richard Dawkins seriously.”

“Eh, the little punk needs to be slapped.”

“If you can’t pledge allegiance to this country get the heck out of it, or change it.”

I think it’s sad if somebody is mocked for a true statement. And some of these idiots should consider what psychological consequences their mocking might have. But well, criticizing the truth is one of mankind’s favorite activity… I’ve got nothing more to say to this…

Albert Dupontel est le Vilain ! Pas vraiment étonnant au regard des frasques que le bonhomme se permet sur les plateaux télé en pleine promo, et surtout dans ses films. Ici, et après l’échec artistique d’Enfermés dehors, son précédent effort, l’acteur-cinéaste renoue avec la férocité de Bernie, et l’application formelle du Créateur, accouchant d’une comédie à la fois drôle (bel exploit pour une production française) et intelligente, au regard de ce que la fable mise en scène propose de discours critique envers l’immoralité de nos sociétés basées sur le profit. Dans Le Vilain, Dupontel incarne un malfrat en cavale, qui trouve refuge un peu par hasard chez sa mère (Catherine Frot, comme souvent parfaite), qu’il n’a pas vue depuis vingt ans. Celle-ci consacre le gros de sa vie à lutter contre un projet immobilier qui menace à court terme son quartier et sa maison. Une vie qui d’ailleurs semble bien chevillée à son corps, à son grand désespoir du reste. Quand son brigand de fils revient vivre chez elle, elle comprend alors que Dieu la punit d’avoir enfanté un être aussi détestable, incapable de faire une seule bonne action qui ne soit pas intéressée. Elle va alors tout faire pour y remédier.

La première qualité du Vilain est de limiter le champ de ses actions à une petite galerie de personnages. Alors que Jean-Pierre Jeunet vient de signer le film le plus creux de sa carrière, la faute à une sur-abondance de protagonistes secondaires totalement inutiles et inconsistants (la pauvre Yolande Moreau en est réduite à bien peu de choses), Dupontel fait l’inverse, et ne filme dans un premier temps que l’affrontement entre son personnage et cette mère bien décidée à se venger de tout le mal que son fils a pu commettre par le passé. Cela donne lieu à quelques gags drôles et inventifs (les pièges de la tortue et de l’escalier), où chacun essaie de mettre à mal l’autre sans pour autant réussir à parvenir à ses fins. Viennent se greffer à ce couple improbable, quelques seconds rôles sympathiques et atypiques, dont l’ancien médecin de famille aujourd’hui dépressif (Nicolas Marié, remarquable dans le comique de répétition chirurgical), un inspecteur de police pataud (Bernard Farcy), et surtout l’entrepreneur immobilier sans scrupule, qu’incarne un Bouli Lanners présent dans tous les bons coups d’un cinéma francophone versusien, c’est-à-dire engagé et enragé (un an après Louise-Michel où il se trouvait cette fois-ci du côté des opprimés). Car Le Vilain, dans sa dernière bobine, déplace son intrigue du conflit familial vers celui qui oppose le quartier au projet immobilier. Dans cette affaire, le fils indigne y voit la possibilité de voler un beau paquet d’argent avant de s’arranger une nouvelle fuite. Il finira malgré lui par associer ses efforts à ceux de sa mère prête à tout pour garder ses biens. Dupontel filme ainsi la révolte des petits face aux grands, avec une iconographie des plus simplistes mais du meilleur effet. La vieille maison de Catherine Frot sent la naphtaline, les canapés en velours, et le service à thé impeccable. Ces images d’une vieille France ne font pas fantasmer (elles ne possèdent heureusement pas le caractère nostalgique et puant de celles de Micmacs à tire-larigot ou du Petit Nicolas), mais elles laissent toute de même plus de place à l’humain que le centre commercial prévu à sa place.

Le souci majeur d’Enfermés dehors venait de sa mise en scène nerveuse, qui rajoutait une couche de burlesque superflue plutôt que de rendre le tout encore plus drôle, faisant ainsi déborder le métrage d’un trop-plein cartoonesque très vite lassant. Avec Le Vilain, Dupontel semble avoir trouvé le juste milieu, réservant ses sautes d’humeur stylistiques pour quelques occasions précises, et se contentant d’une forme plus classique la plupart du temps. Il n’en demeure pas moins que le cinéaste s’amuse, et nous avec, à filmer la confrontation entre son personnage et sa mère comme les Tom & Jerry d’Hanna et Barbera, toujours à se courir après en se dressant des pièges monstrueux et hilarants. Dupontel nourrit ainsi son scénario relativement plat (mais pas creux !) d’inventives et savoureuses trouvailles humoristiques, accouchant de l’une des meilleures comédies de l’année. Le Vilain consacre le retour, après quelques errements, d’un Dupontel en pleine forme, redevenu le clown facétieux d’un cinéma comique français en manque de références pérennes.

Julien Hairault

> Sortie le 25 novembre 2009

> Lire aussi notre dossier sur le réalisateur / acteur dans VERSUS n° 9

Bande-annonce du Vilain

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8374911.stm

… They better be. F1 see’s two back to back British champions for the first time in forty years, and also it seems that both of those British champions will be in the same British team, that’s the second oldest team in the sport. Not to mention the fact that it was an all British team (Brawn) that won both the Drivers and Constructers titles in 2009, and McLaren won the Drivers title in 2008. So it seems ridiculous to think that there may not be a British Grand Prix in 2010! Britain really is the heart of motorsport, so I hope that it all gets resolved, as the market for F1 in Britain clearly must be at a high that hasn’t been experienced for quite some time.

So in closing… Please Bernie, please don’t forget you and F1’s roots, and where it all belongs. Don’t let your ego and love for money get in the way.

Relevant song lyric of the post: Fleetwood Mac – The Chain

“Chain…keeps us together
(run into the shadows)”

Closing KoLd Quote:

“The home of motorsport is in Britain. Therefore, along with the great tracks that have such a heritage in F1, of Spa, Monza, Monaco and a few more (many not on the calendar these days, unfortunately), a British Grand Prix should be a no-brainer, a secure vote year in, year out. The majority of the true fans don’t want to see a procession around bland, Tilke-built Valencia, they don’t even want to see cars driving around a multi-million dollar Singapore or Abu-Dhabi. They want to see true, wheel to wheel racing, by the best drivers in the world, on the tracks that have proven to be the best in the world. We want to see a true battle between the best. Not a metropolis or a circus, used to distract the public from the poor racing.”

There is a quote from H. L. Mencken that reads, “Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.” Since first reading it, I’ve been struck by those words and have remembered them. Every normal man must sometimes want to throw caution to the wind and be a pirate, it says, to slit throats with abandon and claim the spoils regardless of consequence. It is tempting. But I also read a deeper meaning in it. A rallying cry, a warning, a call-to-arms. There comes a time, these words say, when every man will have to take action, make a stand, and risk everything to fight for what they value or else lose it to another’s plundering.

I’ve never read that line in its original context. Those sentiments may not be remotely near what the author intended when writing it. But a learned man once told me that what we see on our own is more important than what we are told to see. You can be taught to see more, to see better, he said, but never fully trust what you are told. So Mr. Mencken will have to pardon my conclusions; they are mine alone.

Hoist the black flag, he said. Slit throats. To war, then, and to the victor goes the spoils. It strikes me that much of American society is already busy at pirating, or was until the Big Bust of 2008. Wanting a large payoff from a smaller, somewhat riskier investment seemed to be the prevailing modus operandi. Flip houses. Flip cars. Flip companies. Trust Bernie with your money. Cheat (but slyly) on your taxes. In fact, cheat at anything if you think you won’t get caught. Score as much credit as possible. Buy things you can’t afford with someone else’s money. Lie and steal from your government, your employer, your family, your fellow man. Anything for the almighty dollar.

If you were in construction, you threw together as many buildings as possible and waited for fat profits to roll in, and who cares about the structural integrity of those houses and business spaces. So what if the floor joists won’t last five years, and the basement leaks if so much as a dog takes a whizz two doors down, and the wallboard emits poisonous gas? Sorry, buddy, you were dumb enough to sail into my harbor and your throat just got slit. Thanks for the booty. Besides, that’s what homeowner’s insurance is for.

If you were in insurance you issued thousands of policies that were useless and refused to pay claims, slitting more throats and raking in treasure chests of booty. Your house burnt? Oh, so sorry, we won’t pay for anything damaged by smoke or water or heat or any wall left standing. Tell you what, we’ll give you this month’s mortgage payment plus an extra $50. We’re feeling very generous today. A hurricane you say? Your house flooded? Oh how awful. But no, sorry, we don’t pay off on damages from storm surge. Nope, it’s not a flood, it’s a wave, and we don’t cover that. Sorry. Don’t forget, your next payment is due in two weeks. Bye bye now.

And of course there were still the usual rackets of car sales, internet companies, Wall Street, and, well, anything run by the government. Anything to make another dollar, and the less honest the better. Hey, that’s the new American Dream: getting something for nothing. From the world’s largest corporation to grade schoolers, everyone’s playing pirate.

But someone somewhere is losing. Someone is watching their house or car or savings or future circle the drain when that newest chest is drug on board the winning ship and its golden contents are revealed. With a pirate on every side wondering how they can get their hands on it next.

So what does this have to do with Mencken’s quote? I think the deeper meaning behind it says you have to be your own pirate, be prepared to fight for anything you want, and if you really want it you can’t let others stand in your way. If keeping your job means someone else goes unemployed, so be it. If keeping your house means another family goes homeless, that’s something you’ll just have to face. It is, in a way, Darwin’s evolution in action. No one ever wrote a treatise on the survival of the nicest.

The sad fact of life on this planet is that not everyone will have what they want, and many will not have what they need. And to have anything at all, you will have to fight for it. We do not live in a global utopian society, and if you do not take it you will likely die waiting for it to be given to you.

That goes for liberty as much as for anything else. If you do not fight for your freedoms, you can hardly expect anyone to grace you with them out of the goodness of their heart. Governments, for instance, were not constructed out of goodness but out of fear and desire … even our own illustrious “city on a hill.” It’s nice to stand safely on the sidelines and speak of pacifism and conscientious objections, but in reality they don’t work. At some point, the theory breaks down. Even one man sitting alone in the middle of a garden will have to fight if he wants to eat, fight weeds and animals and drought and frost. Idealism has yet to feed a hungry belly.

I think Mencken’s words reveal that life is simply one fight after another, and if you want to do more than simply survive, you’ll have to do so at someone else’s expense. Is your life more important than someone else’s? Is someone else’s life more important than yours? How can anyone possibly know? So hoist your flag, brandish your sword and pistol, and let the blood run.

yoyoyoy bla bla jeg hedder Pølle og har det for vildt!

Reference: F1.com



Also when the team quotes are out i will blog it

I will blog the fuel loads  as soon as i  can plus a fuel weight roundup from manipe f1

What a lap from lewis nearly 7 tenths quicker

Lewis 1:40:948 on POLE

Vettel pole

Rubens 3rd, Button 4th

Webber on pole

Rubens looks quick

Trulli 2nd

Lewis on pole

Rubens on pole

Trulli on pole

Jenson on pole

Rubens 2nd

Webber on pole atm

lets see who is on on previsional pole??

Buemi for pole???

Heikki lost 2nd gear

Buemi has a little off Turn 1

All drivers bar hamilton onn the track now

Q3 is go go go

Top 5 is:

1: Lewis Hamilton: 1:39:695
2: Seb Vettel: 1:39:984
3: Jenson Button: 1:40:148
4: Mark Webber: 1:40:272
5: Jarno Trulli: 1:40:373

Here is the bottom 5:

11: Kimi – 1:40:726
12: Kob – 1:40:777
13: Kov – 1:40:983
14: Nak – 1:41:148
15: ALG – 1:41:689

Hamilton tops that with a 1:39:695

Vettel into the 1:39’s with a 1:39:984

Webber, Vettel, Hamilton now top 3

Mark Webber P1 now

Kov out now as he has stopped on the circuit, as he was helped he can’t take part any more could he scrape thought??

Vettel quick in S1 now, but is losing time in S2

Lewis flying 1:40:542 on the option tyre

The Buemi with a 1:40:678

Air and Track temp down another c

1:40:983 for Kov

Kov out early on the option tyres

Ham, Kov, Bue and Webber out on the track

Kubica has a 1 year deal with renault next year ready to go to ferrari in 2011

Q2

Alonso is one of the best drivers on the grid atm out in Q1 looks like it’s not a renault circuit

timming reset all ready for Q2 – remember they run now with low fuel

The Following 5 will be out:

16: Alonso – 1:41:667
17: Luizzi – 1:41:701
18: Sutil – 1:41:863
19: Grosjean – 1:41:950
20: Fisi – 1:42:184

Option tyres not looking good atm

Lewis has got over 0.6 secs over everyone

HEI is very quick in S1

Sutil for Q3??

Jenson 6th, Rubens 8th

GRO spun again today

15th time now is 1:42:313 target lap up half a sec

Lewis 1:39:873, new target lap to get into top 15 is:- 1:42:350

Bottom 5 atm:- GRO, FIS, KOB, HEI, LUI

Lewis flying .5 sec up overal so far

Webber finally out for a lap, Kov fastest of all in S1

Webber and Vettel not set times yet

Lewis 0.3 up on the field

Kov off at turn 1

Button from Truil from Rubens atm

Bottom 5 – Vettel, Webber, GRO, Hamilton and Bue

Heidfeld fastest atm – 1:43:650

First timed lap of Quail – Alguersuari – 1:46:161

10 drivers on their first timed lap

Jenson trying to get Tyre temp

16 drivers out now

ALG out first

Q1 is go

Ron Dennis is here on the TV, nice to see him

Not long now until it starts

3 drivers have news engines both Toro rosso drivers and Luizzi

Loved that money feature Eddy

9 minutes to go

Here is my fav Team FORCE INDIA

Nico to Brawn for 2010 Woop Woop and Rubens to Williams

Williams Feature

Toro Rosso feature

Drivers love this circuit

32 minutes until quail

Abu Dhabi Preview laps feature love it – Mark and David

Silverstone deal comming soon hopefully

Sutil and Truill still keeping up the cat fight

Kimi had fuel in his eye in brazil

Expect the 2009 WDC to be with brawn next year

Save the British GP – Silverstone 2010

BBC F1 Coverage is Go Go Go

Thats a rap. A report and results blog will be live within a hour from now

Kov, Lewis, Jenson, Vettel, Kob, Buemi, Webber, Rubens, Kimi, Sutil, Nakajima

Lots of green sectors and lots of drivers improving

Vettel quickest of all in S1

Sutil up to 14th with 3 green sectors

Kov quickest of all in S2 – 42.9

Lewis out the pits

Jenson up to 2nd and still improving in S1

Grosjean up to 17 with green S3

Button green S1, S2 -0:0:44 up overalll

Kimi green S1 and S2 – up to 12th with 3 green sectors

only 5 drivers in pits now – Final runs now

Kov quickest in S1

10 drives in the pit plus Kubica a-waiting another engine

Lewis studying data read out in his cockpit and also on the radio at the same time

Kobayashi up to 3rd with the quickest S3 again

Track temp down to 32 c and Air temp 30 c

Kobayashi quickest in S3

He improves his best time to 1:41:504

Hamilton quickest again in S2 (McLaren running low downforce and/or low fuel?????)

Nakajima up to 13th

Kimi is exploring the run off again, He is loving the run off today lol

Hamilton quickest in S2 now with a 42.9

Vettel now 2nd and quickest S1 with a 17.7

Webber now 4th

The McLaren pair of Hamilton and Kovalainen remain on top of the order and are out working on race runs at the moment.

Do u set the car up with more downforce for S1 and S2 or low downforce for S2

Red Bull look like they are running at bit more wing for good S1 times

Webber quickest S1

Heidfeld on the options – up to 11th

Str of the circuit

Kobayashi  10th

Speed Trap Data:

SUT 318

BAR 315

LIU 314

BUT 313

HAM 313

KOV 313

Track Temp: 32 c

Air Temp: 30 c

Wind Speed: 2.8 mps

Webber and Rosberg green S1

Hamilton, Kov, Buemi, Rubens, Vettel, Kimi, Jenson, Rosberg, Kobayshi, Webber, Fisi, Truill, Nakajima, Alguersuari, Heidfeld, Sutil, Alonso, Kubica, Liuzzi and finally Grosjean

lots of drivers in pit – data anyasis and setup changes

Not many improving now

Rosberg up to 8th

If anyone has any comment or questions enter it into the comments

Kimi and Rosberg offline

Lots of work going on the Force India car there

Buemi and Kov in the 1:41 now as well

Kubica pulled off to the side of the with the options on – Engine blow

Lewis going even quicker with a 1:41:564

Kimi explores the run off

Sutil quickest in the speed trap as normal

Hamilton first into the 1:41’s with a 1:41:843 and now even quicker in S1

Buemi still 1st, Hamilton 2nd, Jenson 3rd, Vettel 4th, Webber 5th

Hamilton 2nd

Vettel improving up to 4th, Webber 2nd

Jenson lapping on options but not improving

Vettel 11th now

Webber 4th

Vettell now 12th

Kubica up to 12th

Rosberg and Button on options

2nd Force India Radio: Back end better

Kobayashi, Webber, Heidfeld, Nakajima, etc improving with green sectors

Red Bull of Webber is out on Option tyres spot the green band and he is now 7th

Buemi top atm with 1:42:143 then lewis (in pit) 1:42:942 then Rubens 1:43:155

My Fantasy racers 2009 team – Humphreys Racing

Sutil

Hamilton

Vettel

Buemi

STR look very quick this weekend – Could they be running lower fuel

Buemi first and then visited the run off

Buemi quickest in S1

Sutil Radio: Brake problems I’m comming in

Kov quickest now

Hamilton quickest overall and in S2

Sutil does a 180 and explores the run off – Big lock up

Oversteer is the main problem, balance is different becuase of the wind – Nakajima

Sutil quickest S2

Kubica 1:44:274

STR quick

Kov quickest with a 1:44:435

Lewis runs wide

Jenson, Mark and Liuzzi in pit atm

only Liuzzi not left pit atm

Buemi now top with Alguersuri 2nd

Vetttel slowing to get space on track

Jenson now top 1:47:116

Nakajima 1:49:231

Alguersuari 1:48:678

Then Vettel 1:48:050

First lap time of this session: Nico Rosberg – 1:47:576

12 drivers out on the Circuit atm

It will be 5pm local time when PF2 starts

Please add comments and questions to any of my blog posts and i will respond quickly

Gardening Done back to F1

Under half a hour to go will brb grass to have a trim

Thats a rap – I will be back from 12:30 with the FP2 live blog see u then, in the mean time use my blog to catch up with the lastest F1 news and views.

Top 3: Lewis 1:43:939 Jenson 1:44:035 Vettel 1:44:153

BUE P6

ALG P8

Vettel P3

Red Bull is very quick in S1

All drivers on last laps now

Vet fastest S1

Vettel p4

Rubens P4 now

Rubens P10

Sutil P5 1 sec off

Lewis quickest in S3 and P1 with 1:43:939

Jenson quickest in S3 and P1 with 1:44:035

Lewis Quickest in S2

P5 for Truill

1:44:524 for the world champion which gives him P1

Kov fastest of all in S2

Webber firstest again overall 1:44:805

Webber fastest in S1 Again

Webber fastest in S1

1:45:437 for Webber

1:44:908 for Lewis which puts him P1

Kov goes P2 and Lewis P4

Vettel goes P1 with a 1:45:372

1:45:649 for Mark Webber

1:46:093 for Robert Kubica

1:46:773 is the best time now from BUE

1:47:207 best time atm

This blog will be the current results from FP1 when it starts in just over 50 minutes. I will update the results every 5 – 10 minutes when the session starts!

Thats a rap – I will be back from 12:30 with the FP2 live blog see u then, in the mean time use my blog to catch up with the lastest F1 news and views.

Sounds like Suilt went quicker because of fresher tyres and he may have taken some wing off

Practice starts atm

No one on options yet – anyone for new tyres

Bit of dirt on vettels camera

Big lock up for Liuzzi

The big fights of the weekend between McLaren and Ferrari for 3rd in the championship and Between Vettel and Rubens for the runner up in the drivers championship

Fisi testing the Kerb at Turn 11

Toyota drivers ? – Kob and Kov

Webber fastest in S1 Again

Webber fastest in S1

1:45:437 for Webber

Sutil has break problems – Now fixed and he will be out on the circuit soon

Rubens has a little off

Stronger also

Thiner front tyres for 2010

Track Temp: 47 oc

Air Temp: 35 oc

Jenson spun – No damage done

1:44:908 for Lewis which puts him P1

Tyre Talk time!

Michael and Massa watches on from the Ferrari pit wall

Kov goes P2 and Lewis P4

Webber quickest in the speed trap with 308 km/h

Vettel goes P1 with a 1:45:372

all bar 4 drivers out now

1:45:649 for Mark Webber

1:46:093 for Robert Kubica

SAVE THE BRITISH GP

Tinted tear off for the drivers for the race

10 Drivers set a time now

Monday will be the day we find out Williams 2010 drivers – Rubens and Nico expected!

1:46:773 is the best time now from BUE

Kimi goes 4th

1:47:207 best time atm

Rosberg takes P2

Ted News: Trulli Been to the stewards again

1:49:388 for Jamie

OK the session is underway, soz for being late traffic and tech problems grrr

Just under a hour until FP1 begins, just time to test live blog.

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has revealed that he is prepared to honour his ‘promise’ to return the British Grand Prix to Silverstone, claiming that he has offered the venerable airfield circuit a new deal following the apparent collapse of Donington Park’s bid to host the event.

Having confirmed that he would not be penalising Donington for its failure, Ecclestone disclosed that Silverstone – which has staged Britain’s round of the F1 world championship continuously since 1987 – had already been offered a similar 17-year deal to that which Donington was sitting on as it strove to secure the funds needed to revamp its facilities and underwrite a radical bond scheme.

“They’ve got to tidy the whole place up a bit, but I’m optimistic they will accept [the deal],” he told Britain’s Times newspaper.

The major impasse threatening the race, however, continues to be financial, with Silverstone and Ecclestone still at odds over the cost of the deal. British Racing Drivers’ Club president Damon Hill has admitted that he is not expecting any special favours in order to bring the British Grand Prix back to Silverstone, but warns that the British Grand Prix could be lost from the calendar if a resolution to the Donington Park furore is not found soon.

When Donington’s bid first appeared to hit the rocks in early summer, Ecclestone boldly claimed that the race would return to Silverstone in 2010, but has since appeared less certain that that would be the case without a satisfactory outcome to talks with the Northamptonshire circuit.

“I want a British Grand Prix, of course, but we are not going to do special rates for Britain,” he said, “If they tone] can’t make it work then don’t do it. If that happens, there won’t be a British Grand Prix – simple as that.”

With no firm decision taken on the future of the race as yet another deadline for Donington promoter Simon Gillett to find the £135m he needs to redevelop the Leicestershire circuit passed at midnight, Hill has called on Ecclestone to keep faith with Silverstone as a long-term host.

Speaking to the BBC’s Radio 5 Live, the 1996 F1 world champion admitted that Ecclestone had a difficult task balancing the history of the sport against the clamour from countries only just waking up to grand prix racing – but possessing deep pockets – when it came to forming the calendar, but insisted that, in his opinion, it was important to retain a British round on the schedule despite the problems the 2010 race appears to be facing.

“F1 can go anywhere in the world and get a huge amount of money,” Hill conceded, “That’s what Bernie’s wrestling with – but it’s not his job to give a discounted job to the UK.

“There’s a whole load of reasons why it should happen here but, ultimately, you are competing against countries which are able to inject public money into their infrastructure and into the contract of the grand prix – and that seems to be the stumbling block here.”

Britain is currently riding the crest of the F1 wave, with back-to-back world champions in Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, and the majority of the field still being based on UK soil, but Hill accepts that that may not be enough to keep the circus from returning to Silverstone should the Donington Park bid finally be written off.

“[Bernie Ecclestone] can get a value globally that is far in excess of what he can get for the UK,” the former Brabham, Williams, Arrows and Jordan driver accepted, “We can respect that it is a difficult position for him to be in, as he has to answer to his shareholders. But there are options on the table, there are discussions taking place and I’m hopeful something can be sorted out.”

Just a day after it seemed Donington Park’s hopes of hosting the British GP were dead in the water, it now appears that all is not lost after Simon Gillett managed to raise the necessary funds.

According to the Daily Express, Donington chief executive Gillett transferred the outstanding £12million they had to pay the Formula One management company before the deadline expired.

‘Gillett contacted [F1 supremo Bernie] Ecclestone in his London office to say that he had managed to raise the funds and that the transfer had taken place, but it may have been after the banks had closed,’ the paper claims.

‘Ecclestone, the commercial rights holder for F1 and who decides where races are staged, has been expecting the payment for weeks.

‘Ecclestone declined to comment, but Gillett has used almost every minute of his time in his efforts to meet Ecclestone’s deal.’

Donington launched a £135million bond scheme earlier this month in an attempt to raise funds to revamp the track. However, the plan never got off the ground as they withdrew it 10 days later.

The paper adds that it’s still unclear where Gillett received the money

‘Where investment has come from to allow him to transfer money is not known, but it will have to be absolutely certain to encourage Ecclestone to give him the go-ahead.’

HIS LIFE OVERTURNED BIGTIME

Bernie Madoff,the man who masterminded the biggest-ever Ponzi Scheme, has swapped a cocaine snorting luxury life on the upper east side  for one behind bars where his roomates are a mafia boss and a convicted spy.The insight into the 71-year-old’s new life comes in papers filed by Joseph Cotchett, a lawyer who is representing about a dozen of Madoff’s thousands of victims. He interviewed Madoff at the Butner federal prison near Raleigh, North Carolina, in July.

Madoff’s main leisure activity is taking walks around the prison’s running track at night.It alleges that Madoff employed a member of staff from 1975 to 2003 to acquire cocaine for his workplace, an office known by co-workers as “the North Pole”

Among his companions are Carmine Persico, the convicted boss of the Colombo crime family known in his professional life as “The Snake”, and Jonathan Pollard, jailed for life in 1987 for selling military secrets to Israel.

source Thegardian

Calificación sábado a las 12:00 del día por Fox Sports, en SKY 525, Cablevisión 506

LA CARRERA domingo a las 11:00 del día por Fox Sports en SKY 525, Cablevisión 506

(la previa desde las 10:00 A.M.)

Rubens Barrichello y Jenson Button / Brawn GP Formula 1

Con el Gran Premio de Brasil sólo quedan dos carreras en la temporada y sabremos quien es el campeón de este año 2009, el cual ha estado envuelto en grandes controversias políticas, pero que afortunadamente también nos ha traído grandes carreras y un final de temporada muy emocionante.

A pesar de que Jenson Button, de Brawn GP acumuló al principio de la temporada 6 victorias, éste no ha logrado una regularidad en su desempeño, por lo que se le han acercado tanto su compañero de equipo, Rubens Barrichello, así como Sebastian Vettel de Red Bull Racing F1.  Todo apunta para que Brawn GP se lleve el título de constructores; tan sólo necesitan un punto el cual creemos que conseguirán sin problemas en esta carrera. La incognita se centra en el campeonato de pilotos.

¿Será capaz Sebastian Vettel de repetir la hazaña de Kimi Raikkonen hace dos años?, cuando viniendo de atrás ganó las dos últimas carreras en su Ferrari, para coronarse como campeón mundial del 2007. Jenson Button necesitaq uedar dentro de los primeros tres lugares en Brasil para llevarse el título de campeón de pilotos del 2009; pero su desempeño ha bajado,  mientras que el de su compañero, Rubens Barrichello ha ido en ascenso.

Esperamos una gran carrera, como las que siempre nos brinda el circuito de Interlagos en Brasil.

¡Mucha emoción y mucha velocidad, qué disfruten la carrera!