A faraonic, stupid and naive proposal
Posted: 03 Mar 2010, 00:42
Ok, I've been thinking in neutral gear in my holidays and after a dozens of block walking under the gray sky of Ushuaia I've come to this (easy, no money involved):
1) I've already belong to this community for a year or so, and I've been reading this site maybe (the truth can make corrections on me) for at least 10 years or so.
2) I'm some kind of a Thread Freezer, meaning that my answers and comments, apart from a couple of really charming guys who continually answer them, tend to have the effect of giving no conviction at all, or be rather boring, or stating the obvious (from time to time, there's also nonsense ranting for the same price), so I don't expect to have much success with this, specially if I'm starting the thread. Another reason is that, while others can download local interesting info, from here there's not much more than rumors from this corner of the world and, being Lopez dumped, I think there won't be nothing interesting to say from here for the next ten years. But, all things considered, I'll try it anyway.
3) The site is amazing in it's conception, and have the effect of congregating equals with a very interesting degree of loyalty. If only for it's cultural aspect (compilation of sport history afar from mainstream known facts), and could be a matter of serious interest with the proper inquirers.
4) The site has as an asset: at least 10 years running continually (even if the production have halts from time to time), and has a forum with constant contributors which, despite the fact of being no experts (abuse of honesty, I'm talking humble for all, but there are some of you that actually know quiet a lot about F1 & motorsport), have glued somehow a point of view and a main focus, and they could work (even if they do not understand it this way) they have worked out some rumbling, debate. Maybe some mystic.
5) The site is not open source, in almost the most strict sense.
6)... but we expect that two guys, who actually live from doing another thing, must tell us another new story about the old glories of the wrong end of the grid every month.
7) We could contribute, but, most of the time, we can only shuffle what it is on the net already, aside from genuine and amazing data translated from old newspapers.
8) Besides, somebody is doing it, paid or for free, I think W8 and Forix are something of the like (and the whole glory to those guys).
9) No one is running us in any sense, we can set the due date we want.
Idea: What if we set a date as, an example, 2015 (don't get scared, the site have ben running at least the double) to everyone of us get and insightful, site-focus oriented, interview with a driver of his own nationality (or living in his country).
I think that, it's not precisely impossible these days, 10 years before, to get an interview with an F1 driver, not counting how obscure his past was, was impossible out from the set. But things have changed somehow, besides, I've heard some ideas to the question: Whaaaaat? Me? I'm no journalist! How on earth I'll get in touch with an ex-F1 driver?
Some of them relies on having a journalist friend and giving him the forum insight but him doing the interview, minor newspapers interested on it (i don't know, sometimes a 65-years old exF1 driver with a single entry to his name, wont be precisely a diva).
I think that, maybe, the site should have to adapt itself to be a bit more respectful about drivers and teams (irony, I must confess, generated on me a huge interest on the matter, but should be incompatible to get the proper environment). Don't get me wrong, It's not a critic, I love the site the way it is, but I'm betting on the fact that the site owners have been correcting their way to express themselves in this matter (being Zanardi's profile the most obvious case, but there are others minors touches I've seen that were done silently, including Andrea Moda's profile... am I right?).
It's, previously to everything, up to the overloaded guys who own the site, but then to the commitment of all of us (the ones who want to involve in it).
I've typed it, It's not mine any more. Will fly if it get wings.
1) I've already belong to this community for a year or so, and I've been reading this site maybe (the truth can make corrections on me) for at least 10 years or so.
2) I'm some kind of a Thread Freezer, meaning that my answers and comments, apart from a couple of really charming guys who continually answer them, tend to have the effect of giving no conviction at all, or be rather boring, or stating the obvious (from time to time, there's also nonsense ranting for the same price), so I don't expect to have much success with this, specially if I'm starting the thread. Another reason is that, while others can download local interesting info, from here there's not much more than rumors from this corner of the world and, being Lopez dumped, I think there won't be nothing interesting to say from here for the next ten years. But, all things considered, I'll try it anyway.
3) The site is amazing in it's conception, and have the effect of congregating equals with a very interesting degree of loyalty. If only for it's cultural aspect (compilation of sport history afar from mainstream known facts), and could be a matter of serious interest with the proper inquirers.
4) The site has as an asset: at least 10 years running continually (even if the production have halts from time to time), and has a forum with constant contributors which, despite the fact of being no experts (abuse of honesty, I'm talking humble for all, but there are some of you that actually know quiet a lot about F1 & motorsport), have glued somehow a point of view and a main focus, and they could work (even if they do not understand it this way) they have worked out some rumbling, debate. Maybe some mystic.
5) The site is not open source, in almost the most strict sense.
6)... but we expect that two guys, who actually live from doing another thing, must tell us another new story about the old glories of the wrong end of the grid every month.
7) We could contribute, but, most of the time, we can only shuffle what it is on the net already, aside from genuine and amazing data translated from old newspapers.
8) Besides, somebody is doing it, paid or for free, I think W8 and Forix are something of the like (and the whole glory to those guys).
9) No one is running us in any sense, we can set the due date we want.
Idea: What if we set a date as, an example, 2015 (don't get scared, the site have ben running at least the double) to everyone of us get and insightful, site-focus oriented, interview with a driver of his own nationality (or living in his country).
I think that, it's not precisely impossible these days, 10 years before, to get an interview with an F1 driver, not counting how obscure his past was, was impossible out from the set. But things have changed somehow, besides, I've heard some ideas to the question: Whaaaaat? Me? I'm no journalist! How on earth I'll get in touch with an ex-F1 driver?
Some of them relies on having a journalist friend and giving him the forum insight but him doing the interview, minor newspapers interested on it (i don't know, sometimes a 65-years old exF1 driver with a single entry to his name, wont be precisely a diva).
I think that, maybe, the site should have to adapt itself to be a bit more respectful about drivers and teams (irony, I must confess, generated on me a huge interest on the matter, but should be incompatible to get the proper environment). Don't get me wrong, It's not a critic, I love the site the way it is, but I'm betting on the fact that the site owners have been correcting their way to express themselves in this matter (being Zanardi's profile the most obvious case, but there are others minors touches I've seen that were done silently, including Andrea Moda's profile... am I right?).
It's, previously to everything, up to the overloaded guys who own the site, but then to the commitment of all of us (the ones who want to involve in it).
I've typed it, It's not mine any more. Will fly if it get wings.