User talk:AlexJ/Archive 2009

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A long time ago...
Could you do me a massive favour and expand the lead for 1997 European Grand Prix? I'm currently setting up the portal to have selected race reports on a randomiser, but this article's entry is currently too short. Once you've done that (assuming you agree to take on this most perilous of tasks) could you update the entry? Cheers, Aptery  gial  04:43, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that's excellent. Aptery  gial  22:41, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

2008 Chinese Grand Prix
Currently up for PR here. I'm particularly interested in whether I've treated that pass fairly and neutrally. Any comments on that and the article in general would be very useful. Cheers, Aptery  gial  03:37, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * No, only GA. You're right, I don't want to undermine our FAs by sending races of this quality there. Thanks for the comments (which I haven't looked at yet). Aptery  gial  22:53, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

2008 Bahrain Grand Prix
Up for PR. Also, Darth Newdar has put 2008 German Grand Prix‎ up for PR, so you can join in my first attempt at a race report PR, if you're up to it. Aptery gial  23:48, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Shiny thing!
Well, after five PRs, I think you deserve one of these (I don't know how appropriate the sentiment offered by the barnstar itself is, but I figured I'd give you something other people don't have).

See, here's what all of the PRs are: I'll write something that I believe is largely correct, and you'll come along and say, "well, technically..." You make the articles watertight. Thanks also for writing this, you can find it linked on the F1 portal. I've replied to your comments at the Bahrain PR, but you might want to check it's all OK. Cheers, Aptery  gial  02:54, 28 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Indeed. The bot seems to be quite good, despite the fact it blanked the page a few days ago. About the PRs, I have a couple of very minor questions on the Bahrain one. It looks like on the German one my review tackled the big problems and yours focussed more on the little ones, so that worked out OK. Aptery  gial  23:10, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

2008 German Grand Prix
Hi. Firstly, thanks for your PR, it is very useful and I am just about to go and change the things you suggest :) There is one thing that I have a problem with, and that is the references. If I get rid of the three sources you suggest, that will leave me with a load of unsourced stuff. The main thing I have struggled with was finding references for this race; I have got up to page 10 on a Google search for "2008 German Grand Prix". So, I thought that those references, however bad they were, were better than none. So that's why there in the article. What would you suggest I do?

Thanks, Darth Newdar   (talk)  11:43, 1 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I have now sorted all the problems that you and Apterygial raised with this article. Would you mind having another look now? Thanks,


 * Darth Newdar  (talk)  15:12, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Safety Car
Thanks for clarification on safety car. 4u1e (talk) 18:58, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Re:'94 San Marino GP Qualifying
I don't know exactly why the lap time is so slow; presumably it was an installation lap, or a lap that was interrupted either by a pit visit or by his accident that was only completed when the damaged car was brought back to the pits and passed the start-finish line then. Both AUTOCOURSE and Forix give the same time, and there are occasional other examples of this phenomenon, such as Mark Blundell at the 1995 Japanese Grand Prix.-- Diniz  (talk)  18:28, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * If you're still interested, I found out recently that the long lap times are caused by a timing peculiarity: all drivers had (I don't know if this still happens) their first out-laps timed from the very beginning of this session. Thus Barrichello would have begun his incomplete flying lap 14 minutes and 57.323 seconds after the start of the Friday qualifying session.--  Midgrid  (talk)  15:20, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

2008 Spanish Grand Prix
After a bit of a hiatus, I've put another article up for PR, here. Fairly boring race, hopefully there shouldn't be too much to talk about. Thanks, Aptery  gial  11:42, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Just wanted to check, if you don't think you can get to it, I'll take it straight to GAN, should probably pass anyway. Otherwise, I'll keep it open. Aptery  gial  01:03, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'll take it to GAN. Aptery  gial  11:53, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

2008 Monaco Grand Prix
If you any time at all, could you please take a look at this article for me? I want to take it to FAC so I want to get everything ironed out before we get there! PR is here. Thanks, Aptery  gial  08:52, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Run to You (song) GA reassessment
Hi, the GA reassessment for this article has been open for more than three months. Do you think it can be finished soon? Regards, Dabomb87 (talk) 16:26, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * AFAIK, you did everything right. Regards, Dabomb87 (talk) 21:39, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

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