Thecrookedcap's Board-To-Board with Alex Holowczak

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. :)

It would be logical. I had no idea it wasn't until just now.

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?

It's an airport for its day job, so that would be a runway.

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.

FYI, there's IndyCar qualifying in about an hour's time (10:15 your time). Since we're on a right turner this week, it's knockout qualifying.

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.

I noticed that but hadn't really thought about that possibility. I really hope that doesn't happen though.

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".

Now of course, they wouldn't be bothered with doing that now since they seem to only want GPs in countries with wealthy oil sheiks.

That was one of those ones where they started naming GPs after nearby countries to get around the "1 GP per country rule" right? Kind of like Imola being the San Marino 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.

Wait! I'm getting a whole bunch of race reports all ready (2007 and 2008 are done).

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.

It isn't a C&P. I adapted it from from my IndyCar season pages like here. I made them all using a spreadsheet and mail merging.

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 am currently working on updating every F1 race page's results. This is a long project, but I've figured some shortcuts along the way. Check out out example so far: 2008 Australian Grand Prix

Do with it what you will. I just left it there as it was more complete than the prior table.

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?

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.

What about the Brazil flag? The white arc is only in the blue field. I looked on Wikipedia's Brazil and Flag of Brazil pages and did not find one that looked like that.

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.

They're kind of redundant now, so I guess getting rid of them would be OK.

P.S. The British flag is kind of messed up. And where did you get that Brazil one? I've never seen one with that white arc before.

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

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