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Daily: 3rd July 2009

It is young Sebastian Vettel's birthday today, so I suppose he is one year less young now. I wonder if he will ever not be "young" Seb? Anyway, the first person to mention Little Britain gets a lifetime ban from Sidepodcast (this sentence not included, obviously). Here are some of the community things happening:

• Scott's Puma fan report finally went up on their site, and it's a really great read with some fabulous photos. There was also a really good video, although that seems to have gone MIA (grrr, Bernie). If you did manage to catch the video, please join me in the call for Scott to replace EJ on the BBC.
• Gavin's been away on a trip to Norway, and took some ace photos. I do like some good holiday snaps. Also, get used to the sharing of photos, as I'm expecting to link to plenty more from those going to Goodwood. Take lots of pictures on our behalf and we'll share them with the crowd.
• Finally, this isn't directly community related, but I wanted to give a quick plug to the DarkUFO LOST Episode Cup. The competitions on this site were our inspiration to run the character and circuit cups on SPC, so props to them. Also, if you like LOST, go vote!

That's all for now. As it is Friday, let us know what your plans are for the weekend. We're not going to Goodwood, so we'll probably be around (as if we wouldn't have been anyway!). I will see you in the comments.

2009 Character Cup

Here at Sidepodcast Towers, we're both big fans of the television show LOST, and keep on eye on this blog, in particular. Although the season has just started again, during the dark winter months, the site runs a Character Cup where readers vote on head-to-head match ups until an outright winner is found.

Now, we're not adverse to borrowing an idea or two, and thought a Character Cup sounded like a great one. Whilst Formula One exists in the real world, there are plenty of "characters" around (excluding Fisichella, of course). What better way to pass some time on the blog by running our own competition?

Let's take a look at the contenders, the Class of 2009 courtesy of Animoto.

Starting very soon, we'll be putting up the first battle, pitting two drivers against each other. We trialled a polling system earlier in the year, to select the new header for the site. Now we're really going to put it through it's paces. It's up to you which way you vote and why, it may be that you think one will do better this year, maybe you just prefer someone over another or possibly you'll simply close your eyes and pick at random. We don't mind but you have 24 hours to vote on each pairing and the whole process should take about two weeks.

Just a couple of notes, before it starts. Honda are excluded at the moment, for obvious reasons, and unfortunately for Buemi, he also misses out. With no team mate selected as yet, Toro Rosso don't make a complete package and therefore aren't included. It's also to do with making the numbers add up, but let's keep that between ourselves.