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wev

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I nearly fulfilled the dream by getting to the interview stage of a "Web Content Producer" job with Red Bull (which would have seen me doing photos, videos, interviews etc for their website), but didn't get it in the end :( Just as well in some respects, as being a McLaren fanboy I'd have struggled to hold in the customary jeering whenever some misfortune befalls Vettel, so I'd probably have been unceremoniously stripped of my paddock pass and dumped just outside a remote racetrack in some hostile foreign clime!

Funnily enough, Mercedes were advertising a job a few weeks back, can't remember for the life of me what it was for but there was no chance I'd of got it and even if I did I wouldn't have been able to get to work every day.

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I nearly fulfilled the dream by getting to the interview stage of a "Web Content Producer" job with Red Bull (which would have seen me doing photos, videos, interviews etc for their website), but didn't get it in the end :(

I know a lad who worked on the onboard and analysis software for the Red Bull car. As far as I know they never took him to a race :lol:

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kiroquai

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My mate has been at BAR/Honda/Brawn/Merc since 2004 and has only been to one race (Monza 08). I would chuckle but he is one of two people running their simulator, which he regularly uses to gather data. Thus he's pretty much able to drive as close as anyone can get to driving an F1 car without actually sitting in one pretty much every working day.

Git!

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kiroquai

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Schumacher must hate coming to the UK to check the simulator leaderboards!

Haha! He never runs it at all anymore - just pops in to say hello (allegedly he's a very nice guy). Nico does a bit here and there - their main drivers are Ant Davidson and Sam Bird.

I am trying to see if I can get a go... don't think I'll be in luck seeing as when they rent it out it costs £6,000 per half day!

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DarthSquirrel

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I am trying to see if I can get a go... don't think I'll be in luck seeing as when they rent it out it costs £6,000 per half day!

Who/What on earth do they rent it out for? Don't you need a physics dregree to understand all the buttons on the steering wheel before you can even successfully navigate a slight bend? When Coulthard did that piece on the Red Bull(?) simulator a few races back my immediate thought was "OMG! Want!" But by the end I thought it looked like a massive hassle and no fun at all (Unless he didn't mention the EA sports mode where all you need to worry about is stop/go, left/right)

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I love F1 and thoroughly enjoy the BBC's coverage, but if it is that expensive to host then it really does make sense to drop it.

That's from an objective point of view though. I pay my licence fee and watch precious few things on television, but F1 is one of them. I'd rather the money went on that than the infinite number of reality/cooking/DIY/house buying/costume drama shite that makes up a large proportion of the Beeb's current output.

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I'd rather the money went on that than the infinite number of reality/cooking/DIY/house buying/costume drama shite that makes up a large proportion of the Beeb's current output.

BBC 4's content is pretty good I think, if less popular. Get rid of BBC 3 instead!

It's all going Murdoch's way isn't it :(

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Time to fire up that old satelite dish nailed to the side of my house.

Call me ignorant but I've never watched anything on BBC4, the demise of which I would happily see if it meant that F1 remained on the beeb.

Not Itv, anything but that... <_<

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They have to cater to the lowest common denominator, sadly. Fuck.

Last night there was an ad for Mr T's Crazy Fool's or something like that, a Youtube clip show, on the fucking BBC...

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I'd rather send £50+ a year directly into Bernie's pocket to get uninterrupted coverage than pay money to Sky and get adverts or watch it on ITV. We can't be that far away from that sort of scenario can we? Lots of TVs are getting internet connections these days aren't they?

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I didn't even know where was a BBC 4! Just looked. There's nothing on it. Just a black screen? I'd rather have F1 thanks.

It's an evening channel with lots of highbrow documentary style programmes. It's actually very good, though in terms of value not a great deal better than F1 (50p per viewer iirc). In terms of broad appeal though, much better.

F1 shouldn't be watched with adverts :(

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