A1 Team Ireland are the A1 Grand Prix champions for 2008-09.

G’wan the Carroll! ’nuff said.

Getting There

It all seemed fine up until about five minutes ago when I found out that the Dublin-Cork timetable is a little fecked up this weekend because of “engineering works“. So as to hopefully not get caught up in that shit, I’m going to leave Dunboyne on the 1015 (my only other choices are two hours earlier or later – thank you very much Dublin Bus and your shitty service!), which should be in town before 1115 (as it has to go back to Dunboyne at that time).

From there it gives me 45 minutes to either walk, or find a 90/91/92/whatever to bring me down to Heuston. From there it’s the 1200 train to Cork, which should arrive for around 1450, and from there find some mode of transport to the airport. Although I am hoping there will be others on that train as well!

Although all this does mean I will have to forego watching the A1 qualifying from Kyalami, where Adam should continue our run of dominance!

Staying There

At this stage, I’m not too sure what my plans are for this. I never managed to book a room at the hotel, mainly due to how expensive they were, even with the special discount for those of us attending the Awards. However, I think I’ve been promised room on Darren Byrne’s floor – although, I believe about 20 others have also been promised the same… I think it’ll be a tight squeeze.

Just make sure to leave some room for Baby Bear!

Coming Back

Getting back, I have absolutely no plans at all. The trains after, and including, the 1230 from Cork are running fine. But my main concern is the A1′s live video stream from 1145 through to 1430. While I can handle missing the qualifying, I am not missing the race! I already missed Malaysia where we dominated the Feature Race, and I’m not planning on missing out again! Even with Germany back, we’ll still take the spoils…

You know what I just realised as well… this post is probably a heaven for any of my stalkers out there, if they even exist. I’d be surprised if some people consider me stalker material, where there are other more lucrative targets (i.e. everyone on my links page)

The Links

Sinéad wants some non-bloggers that read blogs to fill out her survey! Help her out!

The Blog Pound is taking Oscar predictions!

Seriously, if you are on Twitter, click this, and update! Do I have to start putting it in 600% font size?

And don’t forget the A1 this weekend! Support Team Ireland and Adam Carroll and hopefully we can keep the championship lead!

The Pics

There haven’t been many pics lately… so here’s today’s xkcd.

The Vids

Ever tried microwaving an African-American light?

The Shit

A1GP has a bit of win and a bit of fail. Germany won’t be back until South Africa, but Adam Carroll goes through a steering wheel so you can see what he does to kick ass

Now this looks to be a great WP plugin – mainly when you both blog and Tweet! Via Smashing Magazine.

TeenCamp Ireland confirmed for this Saturday, filmbase, 1-7pm. The 1-7 fails…

The Pics

Two very… inappropriate comics:

And top it all off with a way to give kids many nightmares.

The Vids

IIAGITMT nukes a Nintendo Zapper. Wait, a Nintendo what?!?!

It’s a really old video, but it just has to be posted!

Yahtzee gives awards. Well in fairness, who doesn’t?

First off, the A1GP ended last weekend with the thriller at Brands Hatch. Well, it would have been MORE thrilling had we (as in A1 Team Ireland) not lost our front wing early on in the Feature all because Narain "lost it" in the corner. At least Adam did a stellar job getting the car back to 13th, and scoring fastest lap after having to run half a lap with no front wing and a front-left puncture. At least we managed to take 6th place in the overall standings, but it could have very easily been 5th were it not for that incident, since South Africa finished 11th(?) and only ended up 2 points in front of us at the end…

Plus, next weekend is the end of the Premiership. Although it’s going to be a huge weekend with Man U and Chelsea tied at the top, it’s still going to be disappointing being the last of the football for three months. And don’t say that Euro 2008 counts as football. With Ireland not taking part in it, I don’t plan on watching any of it, even if it is taking place at a GMT friendly time!

IndyCars are on a bit of break "in preparation" for the Indy 500. Alright, I acknowledge it’s a very important race, but do you really need to take a month to prepare for it? I really would prefer to see at least one road course race taking part on an old Champ Car track during this month off. It’s not like Indianapolis is THAT hard to drive. If it was, I wouldn’t have been able to win at it in NASCAR 08…

And speaking of NASCAR, there really hasn’t been much of that recently either what with the All-Star race in a couple of weeks and next week’s Darlington race being a Saturday night race. Night races are not fun when it means I’d need to be up until around 4am just to watch them live (and that’s also dependant on if there was a stream available to watch it on!) At least the coverage won’t be on FOX anymore in June, and I think that’s what is stopping Setanta Sports from showing the races live over here.

Not being able to see stuff like this live on TV is not fun:

It’s not going to be a nice couple of weeks sport-wise. It’s one of those things that gaming cannot replace.

PS: Watching Sky Sports News over and over also doesn’t really help. It just makes me hate the presenters!