Don’t remember where we bought ours. I’m sure there’s plenty. Usually it’s possible to buy directly from the track promoters (http://www.f1belgium.com/).

I think I can get used to the rear wing, but that new front wing isn’t pretty :)

I’ve been thinking about going to Spa this year. Do you know any good resources for getting tickets?

Substantial rule changes so probably any of the more historically successful teams will take the title. I’m also afraid we won’t se as close championship as we’ve seen the last two years. KERS could introduce a gap between the teams again because a few will get it right. There’s also new ground to be made with the introduction of slick tires.

Tell me if you want to go to a race, I’ll join you!

While I agree that standard engines would be bad for the sport, I’m not all that worried. As far as I know, there aren’t any teams that are positive towards the implementation of standard engines. At least not among the big teams. I doubt it will be implemented anytime soon. Sure, for a couple of years, they’ll lower the rev limit and increase the required life expectancy of the engines, but I very much doubt they’ll go over to completely standardized engines. In 2010 or so, when the economy starts to bounce back, I think F1 will as well.

The engines were amazing in 2004, but on the other hand, the racing wasn’t all that fun. Schumi won 13 of 18 races. The last two years, I think the racing aspect of F1 has improved dramatically, regardless of regulations. The engines might have 750 horsepower instead of 950, but the races have been more exciting to watch.

I envy you for having seen Formula 1 in person. It’s something I have wanted to do for a couple of years now.

Who do you think will take home the 2009 championship? It’s difficult to predict the performance of the different teams due to the big aerodynamics changes, but I think Alonso will be hard to beat next year. He’s arguably the best at working with the engineers to perfect the car and that’s something that will be vital next year.

Cheers

My bet is that either Prodrive finds enough money to convince Honda to sell it cheep or that team is out in the cold as in the case with Super Aguri. I just don’t see how anyone would be able to find money out of the blue right now.

This economic crisis probably means an end of an era. Rule changes are going to be adopted sooner. Few years from now they will be running standard engines. I’m happy that I went to see Formula 1 live in 2004 when they were still running proper engines, well just about everyone except McLaren.

Looking forward to further reports on the domain controller failure if more information arrives.

First of all, it is indeed a sad day for Formula 1. I just hope they can get back in the game in a few years when the economy has settled down. For next year, I’m just hoping Toro Rosso can keep improving the way they did at the end of this season. And that McLaren fail of course :)

Regarding the time warp forward in time, I honestly have no idea. At first I thought it could have been me that accidentally set the year to 2009, but why September 29? It doesn’t make sense.

I don’t think running a domain controller in a virtual machine is a bad idea in general. Running ESX servers with the clock off by 10 months on the other hand, that I do not recommend :)

Why the hell did the time warp forward in time? It could be useful to know for sure. It’s also worrying that just a date change can mess up replication beyond all recognition but I’m not surprised, not at all. I could almost figure that out early on in your post that this wasn’t going to be a good afternoon for you.

It’s good that you can cope with just one domain controller because in a environment (not yours obviously) with several different sites it could have been worse off or even a forest with many domains. Don’t even want to think about it.

This is not a scenario you could possibly even think or plan for. I’m happy to learn this from someone else’s experience and not first hand. :)

This day another sad thing happened, Honda withdrew from Formula 1. Not a particular good day for Rickard.

As fellow Mac-owner-F1-fan-Atheist-Toyota-owner-Windows-admin I find it funny how many things seem to have changed during the time we last spoke, many we now share. Last time we had quite identical computers from what I remember and pretty similar views on forum software development among others.

We should hook up sometime which we never did in person. :)

Peace,
Theo alias Quizor