During some of the Hubert announcement reaction montages shown on the Sky Sports F1 coverage last week, I’m sure I saw a quick clip of a reflective Norbert Haug, wearing a long-sleeve shirt sporting both the FIA F2 and F3 logos - that’s if it was indeed Haug...
... anyone able to confirm? Could it have been a race director type role for F2/F3 possibly?
Source: https://youtu.be/-fWHfkmyr3c?t=256 (It's in Spanish)
For not Spanish people: Antonio Lobato was the F1 commentator on Spanish TV from 2004 to 2016 and it's been one of the closest friends of Fernando Alonso since then. He had many exclusives regarding Alonso, so it's not a crazy guy on a YouTube channel.
He literally said: "If one day Alonso confesses everything that happened in 2007 and especially with Norbert Haug... I can only tell he, in specific moments like the Turkish Grand Prix of that year and in presence of more executives of McLaren, threated Alonso to manipulate his engine to lose more than 1 second".
Remember, the Turkish Grand Prix was the next one after what happened in the Hungarian Grand Prix...
I work at Siemens. We're hosting the STAR Global Conference next week in Berlin which is about CFD and other physics based simulation software. The keynote speaker is Norbert Haug who was VP of Mercedes-Benz motorsport that was a key figure in getting them to re-enter F1 in 2010. He'll be talking about the importance of computer simulation in motorsport.
Unfortunately I won't be able to attend (since I work in America) but a colleague of mine will be there, and interviewing Norbert. My colleague doesn't follow F1 and has asked myself and some others for interesting and insightful questions to ask, especially regarding his time in F1 and about technology in motorsport.
I kind of follow F1 but thought I might be able to get much better questions from the community here, so let's hear your ideas! I'll pass your questions on to my colleague and of course I'll post the answers here if I can get them.
Like many of you, I enjoy listening to Beyond The Grid. No other F1 podcast can consistently bring on the level of reputed guests from the F1 world of past and present. The insights and anecdotes found in this podcast are second to none. That being said, there are times when uninteresting or average episodes are delivered. But when it’s good, this pod is very very good.
I've gone back and finished every episode that has come out in 2021 and ranked them. Here are the tiers and the rankings. The episode number and the guest featured in that episode, are placed in the following tiers as such:
| Tier | Episode |
|---|---|
| S | 125 Brackley Boys, 143 Jock Clear, 144 Patrick Head, 150 Ruth Buscombe |
| A | 126 Jarno Trulli, 127 Jos Capito, 128 Paddy Lowe, 131 Olivier Panis, 135 Ivan Capelli, 138 Norbert Haug |
| B | 124 Kamui Kobayash, 133 Roberto Moreno, 140 Peter Collins, 145 Bertrand Gachot, 147 Phil Hill, 154 Jean-Eric Vergne, 156 Valtteri Bottas, 160 Kimi Raikkonen |
| C | 122 Sergio Perez, 123 Andreas Seidl, 129 Monisha Kaltenborn, 130 Romain Grojean, 134 Jeff Gordon, 136 Jacques Laffite, 137 Christian Horner, 139 Charles Leclerc, 141 Danielle Audetto, 146 Mick Schumacher, 148 Jackie Oliver, 151 Emanuele Pirro, 153 Daniel Ricciardo, 158 Fernando Alonso |
| D | 132 Yuki Tsunoda, 142 Nicolas Latifi, 149 Nikita Mazepin, 152 Lawrence Stroll, 155 Tommy Bryne, 157 Danny Sullivan, 159 Pedro Diniz |
Do note that this is my subjective list, I would’ve enjoyed some episodes more than others and vice versa. But overall, I do think my opinions are in line with the views of most other users here based on discussions I’ve had and read regarding the episodes.
If you haven’t given this podcast a go, or maybe missed certain episodes, hopefully this tier list will be of some use to you and you can jump straight into the better episodes. None of these are bad episodes by any means (well maybe some were quite boring); each guest has something to talk about and share that is unique to only them.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
They’re on standbi
Buenosdillas
Pilot on me!!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
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You take away their little brooms
