I dont seem to remember you doing anything wrong...is there something I should know about ?

Yes I have it...but I havent seen that show yet...I will look into it.

Its repeated a few times throughout the week running up to a grand prix, so you should be able to find it sometime ;)

you're really going for it aren't you sam? but its all good. i would like a technical section. there are some minute details on a f1 car i like to be explained

anyways i voted for you

First of all i just hope that the very good ideas stated above will be updated regularly and they are just good ideas. If everything goes as “planned” this is going to be a very hot section and one which i will visite every day. :D :D

But there's one thing that is worrying me, and that's the videos.
The download members group is very limited and lately it has been very difficult to become a member for obvious reasons. :(
I know TT doesn't like it and i don't know about Jabba but i think the videos could be shared on Bit Torrent.
I say this because ITV's coverage is fantastic not just during the race but also before and after the race. This is something that (from what i know) is not on the uploaded videos. ITV usually goes around every weekend meeting the teams, doing interviews, talking about the rumors, etc. This is something everyone would like to see.

I know this is not a conscientious idea. I’m not really sure why some members are against Bit Torrent but I think it is a very good tool to share videos and also to keep the cost down as everyone would be doing there bit to help. :)

Here are some of the well know sites that use Bit Torrent to share videos with there fans.
www.blizzard.com
www.3dgamers.com

now this looks much better. too many stickies before. it's a lot easier to navigate now. good job. :)

That wont be happening. All the ITV coverage has and will be uploaded for the members of the F1 / Downloaders club.

Building on my initial few examples that i set out in the moderator post, here is my plan if I were to become moderator...

A more structured race review

As this is probably the main purpose of the forum i think this should be a lot more detailed and structured. This would be in the form of a sticky, to be deleted say a week after the race has ended. It would be created friday/early saturday of the race weekend. The sticky would include the following sections for each and every race review:

:arrow: Race name, circuit name, circuit facts, circuit lap record, a link to the circuit website, time of qualifying, time of race and any relevant TV coverage that may be available.
:arrow: Any relative news that affects this particular race meeting
:arrow: Qualifying positions, times and significant events that have occured during qualifying and/or free practice
:arrow: Possible race strategies that may play an important role in the race
:arrow: The actual race review including important and decisive events that occured (with pics?)
:arrow: Full and final positions at the end of the race with any driver penalties stated and all DNF's shown


Stat tables for qualifying/race

After every qualifying and race session, stats would be updated. Stats would include qualifying times for each driver. Race times, positions, no. of stops, fastest lap etc. This would probably best implemented as a seperate sticky, to be deleted after a week.


A more detailed constructors and drivers standings table

This would be as a permenant sticky, to be updated after every race weekend.
:arrow: The constructors table would just contain the name of the team and points
:arrow: The drivers table would contain total points and the position that driver finished each race

Note on tables: As tables are pretty hard to read in forums, I suggest the best way of making this data redable would be for me to create a spreadsheet and take a screen dump of that spreadsheet. I would advise this method as apposed to a direct link to the spreadsheet as excel always takes ages to load, but this could be done if preferred


A technical sub forum

This would be, if possible a sub forum for members to ask and post different technical aspects of F1 related to tyres, chassis, aerodynamics, car set ups, what all the engineers/mechanics do and F1 rules etc.

As a frequent buyer of magazines "Racecar engineering", "RaceTech" and "F1 Racing" I can scan relevant F1 sections which contain more detail than just about any F1 website can provide although its not so complex that you have to be an engineer to understand it.

News/Multimedia Sub forum

As it works well in the porsche forum i suggest this combined topic is taken into the "new" F1 forum too. Although i suggest it is made a sub forum if possible? News would contain any relevant information about driver signings, new rules, new cars etc. Multimedia would include any F1 related photos, sounds, videos, articles and TV coverage (If jabba is allowing all members access to ITV coverage?).

Rumours Sub Forum

As a lot of F1 is rumours, which is to do with the secrecy with which the teams and governing bodies operate I think we should have a rumours sub forum. Also becuase a lot of the posts made in the current F1 forum are rumours and not neccesarily fact. When posts in the rumour forums become fact, they will be moved to the news section.

Other sections such as historical, facts and figures, and trivia sections etc i dont think will be needed as the majority of posts will be made in the above sub forums. However if many of these types of posts are being made, a couple of sub forums will be easily made although i don't see many of these posts occuring.

Best of luck to all potential moderators, i hope you take me into consideration ;)

You cant help but be impressed with everything you have posted so far 8)

hehe thank you ;) ill post any new ideas as soon as i get them

can't be bothered reading back for now

but if it hasn't been mentioned, i'd like ppl to stop making multiple threads about a race result at end of each race. either move the posts someone has started and delete(or rename heading) or only start the discussion in the results thread when the mod posts it up.

very true i was going to stop the other thread today, but the fact that I posted the results 25 min after the end of the race (watched press con.) and already another thread was opened, from now on i think i will lock the threads if a sticky topic is open on them.