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You get rid of Cunningham, bring back Dichio, bring in Barrett, and use your 2nd team, and you win!

TFC! TFC!

I'm laughing, I would've traded him for some salsa.

Absolutely, me neither! I don't like the two groups either. They should all be in one group, even I thought this group was strong. I'm off now, it's nearing 11 o'clock, and I have to be up at 7 in the morning, so I need some time to sleep. :)

Okay, I'm watching, and I don't understand... They didn't use the start/finish line as the timing line? Wouldn't that be the obvious place to put the timing line?

Ooh... Nice. They're at the track with the ridiculously wide main straight aren't they? I might give it a watch - but I won't be able to watch all of it. Still, should be interesting to see the rest of the circuit.

I wouldn't mind, it wouldn't be too bad (more racing can only be good), but it would be fine as long as it didn't take the place of a race in Europe.

Yeah, that was right. Having read on in the story (sort of, I'm at 1983), there was going to be a GP in New York, but the race got cancelled. So instead, they held the race at Brands Hatch. Sadly, being an island there were no countries nearby, so they had to call it the European Grand Prix.

Notice that the race in Abu Dhabi next year is called the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. There's a circuit in Dubai too, which gives scope for a Dubai Grand Prix. They didn't name it United Arab Emirates Grand Prix, for instance. In 1998 though, they ran out of names again, European GP was in use, so the race at Nurburgring was dubbed the "Luxembourg Grand Prix".

Oh, okay then! Didn't I write some of those anyway (I think I wrote 2006, not sure though). I'll just sit here and let you do everything... :P I will carry on with the F1 formatting through to 2008, and then apply the formatting to the Grand Prix pages. Some wierd ones... The 1982 Swiss Grand Prix was held in the heart of France. :s There was already a French Grand Prix, and I suppose they were hesitant to use European Grand Prix at the time.

Oh... In that case, I'll leave you to it! :P I'll work on race reports for them then, since that should just be manipulating what it says on www.grandprix.com for each race.

Is that shortcut a copy and paste from wikipedia? It would be good if it was!

I will help with that over the upcoming month or so (once I've done the rest of the years for F1). I can only edit by morning though, the room with my computer becomes unbearably hot in the afternoons!

But anyway, is it a straight C & P from Wikipedia, or is there more to it?

I just realised that the F1-2008 is different from all the F1s up to 1978 I've spent all day doing! Is the F1-2008 schedule a copy and paste job from wikipedia? That table includes pole sitters, but should that be removed, to fall in line with all the others? I.e. it would be easier to remove them from one table than add them to the 58 others! What about the actual format of the 2008 page? Should the table/headers take the format of the other years that I've been doing today or not?

99 goals in MLS, but that's out of what, 5000 chances?

As soon as he got into the game (and you could've watched it actually, I'll give you a link to the match when it goes on demand), he had a pass go straight towards him, a soft one, and gave the ball away.

He gave it away on successive touches, and he had another chance in the penalty area, and played with the ball.

Probably the worst TFC player since Andrea Lombardo.

This is 9 successive games without a win in all competition.

And Maurice Edu, if he starts, that Olympic team is dead. Marvel Wynne is fast, good service into the box, good defender, but goodness his first touch is horrible.

It's fitting that Toronto has 2 Canadians and don't win the Champions League at home.

What a terrible performance.

When Philly gets an MLS team, take Jeff Cunningham away because I'm going to lose it...look at the Toronto FC thought board.

Yeah, I've noticed a few that aren't what would be expected. I get something a bit dodgy for Georgia too. I can't explain it, I think we'd have to consult Pean on this.

I've got all my flags from wikipedia.

Image:Flag_of_(insert country).svg

GB is messed up, I've notified Pean. I don't know why.

Whilst they may be redundant, I fear there may be a lot used on various pages (FIFA World Cup, F1), so it might be a bit of a problem. I've noticed that a lot of the templates may fail with the flagicon template.

Should we keep the miniflags? Some templates work with them and some don't. But the svg flags do look nicer.

Did you see that Turkey/Croatia finish?

Nearly fell off of my bed....

Thanks for the message, great work once again!

Nice job on the Italy National Team page. I would be glad to help out with National Team pages.

I'm tuning into the Liveblog of the racing, so you won't need to talk to yourself. :)

Hey, I'd like to interview you for the meet the users series. So here are the questions. 1. How did you learn about ArmchairGM? 2. Who do you think will win Euro 2008?" 3. Indy has died down since the split of IRL and ChampCar, do you think that Indy will rise to its past prominence post-unification? 4. President Bush recently said in an interview that if he had to pick one position player to be the foundation of his expansion baseball team than he would pick Chase Utley of the the Phillies. Do agree with Mr. Bush? 5. How bad, I mean good, do you think Notre Dame will be next year?

Thanks for sorting my mess out, I appreciate it :)

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I.e. for Monza, they did one lap of the road course, one of the oval, and that counted as 1 lap. You ever wondered why the main straight is so wide there, that's why, that used to be the meeting point of both laps, the oval started on the inside of the straight, and ended on the outside of it. The road course started on the outside, and then ended on the inside ready for the oval.

Nice word! You know how there is an oval inside Monza? They used to race on it at the same time as the road course for the Italian Grand Prix from the 1920s to about 1950. Whenever it rained, they still carried on. It just seems wierd that if they had technology to go on the oval in rain at Monza (which was a course you didn't need to break at in that era - even the road course), and that a multi-million dollar tyre company can't do it these days. You say the tread is only so thin, fair enough, but why can't Firestone develop rain tyres suitable for ovals where the tread is much thicker?