Thursday Thoughts
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By Mr. C.
Earlier today, Christine published our plans to keep people entertained during the off-season. However, we weren't expecting anyone to find themselves at a loose end already.
One or two people, it seems, are beginning to suffer from the lack of on track action, and the conversation in the comments turned to what to do on a quiet Thursday evening. Ideas were bounced around and we've settled on a plan to group-blog a specified F1 subject once a week and all publish our posts at the same time.
We don't want this to be a Sidepodcast exclusive thing, it should be decentralised and open to anyone. This post is merely the jumping off point. As yet we don't know how the specific subject will be chosen, but we do have one for today. If you're interested in joining in the fun, all you need to do is blog your thoughts on the following subject:
Who Should Be Awarded Title of 2009 F1 Team Principal of the Year?
The idea for the post was inspired by the Professional MotorSport World awards, but you don't have to take your cue from those, all you need do is describe in as many or as few words as you like, who should be awarded the title and why.
To help you on your way, here's who you have to choose from:
| Team | Principal(s) |
|---|---|
| Ferrari | Stefano Domenicali |
| McLaren | Martin Whitmarsh |
| Williams | Sir Frank Williams |
| Renault | Flavio Briatore / Bob Bell |
| Toyota | Tadashi Yamashina |
| Red Bull | Christian Horner |
| BMW Sauber | Mario Theissen |
| Toro Rosso | Franz Tost |
| Force India | Vijay Mallya |
| Brawn GP | Ross Brawn |
If you title or tag your post Thursday Thoughts, your favourite search engine should do the rest. I think the plan is that everyone will schedule blog posts to publish around 9pm GMT on a Thursday. We've missed that deadline today though, so just jump in as and when you can.
If you're joining in, by all means leave a comment here, or on another blog taking part and hopefully we can contrast and compare after the fact. If you don't have a blog, guest posts are always welcome here, and I'm sure other bloggers will extend the same invite. Just yell and we'll sort you out.
Any questions?
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just to clarify. there was suggestion that there should be a word limit. however, if you're blogging from a mobile phone or similar, it may not be possible to tell how many you've written.
to keep things simple, lets just go with a specific week day, and specific time.
if that's okay with everyone?
Sounds good to me. Working on mine right now!
..Or are unable to keep it simple.
Nearly done actually, just gotta add what the eck im doing and think of a suitable title
didn't add this to the original post, but will update now. 2009 team principles:
Ferrari - Stefano Domenicali
McLaren - Martin Whitmarsh
Williams - Sir Frank Williams
Renault - Flavio Briatore / Bob Bell
Toyota - Tadashi Yamashina
Red Bull - Christian Horner
BMW Sauber - Mario Theissen
Toro Rosso - Franz Tost
Force India - Vijay Mallya
Brawn GP - Ross Brawn
or principals sorry.
It is a good idea. I have done something like this before. The questions have to be well-chosen and the bloggers reminded but the advantage of originating on SPC is that there is a large contingent of bloggers and a large contingent of reminderers.
Here is my Thursday Thoughts
http://gridwal...principa-of-the-year/
Damn you Pinger!!
:)
So it's just team prinicipal now then?
Allright, I'll give it a go for the sake of SPC but I am tired and drunk :(
Well, thoughts and opinions here
http://thenort.../11/highest-step.html
Kept to a nice conservative 407 words (minus the explainy stuff)
you know you want to :)
Can I whinge at you tomorrow for feeling knackered?
always.
You've changed it....
Tough I am going to post on your initial request....
sorry, and no problem :)
Who Should Be Awarded Title of 2009 F1 Team Principle of the Year?
Well initially I thought this was about the Team Principal.... which would have to be Toyota’s John Howett. He who loudly acted as Deputy Head of FOTA and proclaimed that he was trying to sign Kimi and Kubes when he was actually doing a great rendition of “The Boy Stood on The Burning Deck”.... and no-one knew...
OK ... everyone guessed, but he was still pretty convincing!
But NO... it’s about Team Principles.... and I vote for “If at First You Don’t Succeed Try Try Try again”! A great PRINCIPLE I am sure you’d agree.
Why is it Principle of the Year?....Well, for a number of reasons but mainly for Rubens Barrichello. Ha... that surprised you... as you thought I was talking about Jenson!! And truthfully I could have been but I think Rubens epitomises the Principle to a far greater extent.
Success comes in many forms and I am sure some would say he succeeded at say, Stewart and then at Ferrari.... However for a F1 driver only the WDC is real success. Anything else can only be as good as second and in the words of F1’s most famous non knighted Brit “Big Ron”... “Second is the first of the losers”.
Not only did he carry on driving after playing a celebrated second (second again!) fiddle to the least generous of team-mates, but he then endured several years in a dog of a car being generally outperformed by a younger guy in the same car and still he didn’t give up. Everyone was telling him to quit and writing him off.... especially his fellow Brazilians....
And then it looked as though his fairy godmother had come calling (although some may say it was a Fairy Bear) and instead of a glass slipper he had the fantastic Brawn motor.... and additionally he was gifted the best prancing horses around although they were silver and not red, in the form of the terrific Mercedes engine rather than the Honda lawnmower bred equivalent.... and what more could a guy want?
Well he wanted to win of course... and could he win?.... Sorry Rubens, you just couldn’t! Did his head go down? Did he sulk? Did he throw his toys out the pram? Actually, yes he did, but then.... he remembered the Principle and tried, tried, tried again until he finally stood on that top step.
Of course, as it was Rubens, the fairy godmother alighted on a better prospect and he didn’t become WDC. Indeed he was cruelly brought down to earth at his home GP. Furthermore Lady Luck preferred a younger model for second place as well .... (well wouldn’t you??)
But rather than calling it a day Rubens still dreams of winning the Blue Riband and dusts himself off and follows his Lucky Star (known as Frank to his friends) to once again try his hand. This time he’ll have a new compatriot who looks for “all the world” like Cinderella to Rubens’ Buttons... But does Rubinho care?.... Of course not....
He’s going to Try, Try, Try Again.....
The F1 Principle of 2009.......
Oops... not sure which thread this should be in...
I have decided on Whitmarsh...
Here is my post to tell you why ;)
http://f1rundo...12/thursday-thoughts/
Should i repost my Post as a comment here?
Im not sure it really gets the same level of attention being on my own blog?
Quick comment on Thursday thoughts - it would be most appreciated if you could announce the topic on Thursday morning so I can blog it on the way home ;)
Post it as a comment if you like but remember to put a link in so people can comment on your blog
am commenting like crazy all over the place at the moment :)
That is true... but really do neglect my blog :P
Thanks for the comments though guys :D
Oops. I thought I'd got the hang of this, posted a blog entry on "Thursday Thoughts"... ...and then discovered I was supposed to answer a specific question and have therefore missed the entire point.
Oops. Feel free to laugh.
Easily done :-)
It's an easy mistake to make when the idea appeared and was implimented immediately. This week some people will miss the oint or miss it entirely but once it is established that won't happen.
The whole point of the idea is to get people to post and plug and you have done that.
agreed, and i commented. never going to knock one's enthusiasm.
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