The Southern Cross Gliding Club’s DG-1000 two-seat glider did some acrobatics the other day. Count the loops on this video. (Warning: 5MB download. Biassed opinion: worth it!)

Hint—you’ll need more than the fingers on one hand!

Screen shot (that’s the ground at top of pic!):

Well, I’m doing something about it. What about you?

Flavio Briatore, Team Principal of the Renault F1 team, has weighed into the debate about the third part of the new F1 qualifying process. See my earlier posts, below, for my thoughts.

Flavio has an interesting and slightly different take on things. In his words:

You put as much fuel in the car as you want – [...]

Well, I’m not the only one who thinks F1 qualifying is now good-but-could-be-a-little-bit-better. Frank Williams (majority shareholder of the hardest-working F1 team) and Ron Dennis (boss of the evil McLaren team) are both quoted on the ITV-F1 site suggesting that a spot of fine tuning of the qualifying format might not go astray.

I’ve had a [...]

After what seemed like years without a Formula 1 race, Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix was a cracker. I have one-eyed comments on various aspects of the event, the coverage and a team-by-team look at the results.

It may not be live, and it certainly isn’t at a civilised time, but F1 fans will be delighted to see that Channel 10 will be showing the qualifying session for this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix.

That’s big news, because it’s been an ongoing complaint from F1 fans that qualifying, one of the most interesting parts [...]

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(Don’t ask…)

Jamie (of course).

Went for a long walk with my girls this morning (we go to church at 5.00pm). On arrival home, we decided to watch Monday night’s ep of Mythbusters, in which Adam and Jamie undertake a series of tests to determine which one is the Ultimate Mythbuster.

Needless to say, Jamie won (three tests to [...]

[Update: the referenced video is no longer available on Google Video.]

Nerds (flying or otherwise) love Top Gear. Right Neil?

I stumbled across the fact that the fabulous British TV show about cars has some episodes on Google Video. The Top Gear team, led by the ever-manic Jeremy Clarkson, made a special show with a Winter Oympics [...]