I,m dissapointed to hear that you even had to think about what to paint it Rubes!!!
Shame on You!!!

Yep, couldn't agree more, Well done Mark

No... just a throwaway piece of trivia...

Agree, Red Bull looks perfectly suited to SPA

Just on the throwaway trivia note, Advance Australia Fair was first sung in 1878

ItchyB, i did say a few posts later he still had a chance, and everyone would agree it didn't look good when he got a drive through, i think from memory the only other person to do so was none other than the great (Love him or Hate him) Micheal Schmarcher

Didnt Senna do it as well - was it Suzuka in 88? Or was tha the coming together with Prost? ahh - memories. Sure Senna did it as well.

Webber was indeed on fire last night....really happy for him. Hopefully that gets the monkey off the back and more wins will flow from here.

cheers

Darryn

itchy, yes he said hello to me. was very nice of him indeed.
as for my words, well i think SPC do a Alphagetti kids alphabet spaghetti. i will for sure get a tin , and spell out Mark Webber and eat them. for the vid, i dont think its that appealing to watch a slob eat .

Congrats to him, finally got his first win...did anyone else get all choked up at the emotion of the incar after he won...we had about 8 guys watching the race in our house....it all went real quiet then. also did u see the good little occa waving the aussie flag in the background as they were showing the results...guy was in tears.

He has showed much speed this year considering the little amount he spent in the car during the off season. Vettel has been spanking him for pace on most race weekends. Hopefully the Redbull can continue to be a pace setter and his win column will continue to tick over.

Nice win... Was good to see considering that he has looked likely to win a few races now only to have something go wrong (aka Williams/monaco).

As for that incident.. the drivers have been going on for years about the lack of vision in the modern F1 car and we had a second example with Kimi and Sutil. While it looked a bit harsh it wouldn't have even been thought about if they rubbed in the middle of the corner but when you thing about it the run from the start line to the 1st corner is for that 1st lap effectively one long corner.

The Brawn will likely be stronger next race and give them a run. Interesting that the Ferrari design by Brawn had the same problem.

Well Done Mark Webber.... I have been waiting a long time for this day. It was a great race, I like many others thought it was all over with the crap drive thru.

Keep up the good work!!!

you sure about that, it sounds made up, we didn't get our own anthem til the 1970's

For NOFX and Mugenville, Attention!!!!!!!!
Thought i'd help settle your little dispute and found that you guys are both kind of right!


Advance Australia Fair was composed by Glasgow-born Peter Dodds McCormick (1834?-1916), who used the pen-name "Amicus", a Latin word meaning "friend".

The first public performance is thought to have been given in Sydney on November 30th (St Andrew's Day), 1878 at the St Andrew's Day concert of the Highland Society. The singer was a Mr Andrew Fairfax.

The song was later published by W.J. Paling and Company.

It was also sung by a choir of 10,000 at the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia (1 January 1901), with a few amendments by McCormick including the addition of the words "our youthful Commonwealth".

In 1907, the Australian Government - the Commonwealth Government of Australia - awarded McCormick £100 for his composition.

McCormick died in 1916. His obituary in The Sydney Morning Herald stated prophetically:

Mr. McCormick established a reputation with the patriotic song, "Advance Australia Fair", which [...] has come to be recognised as something in the nature of an Australian National Anthem.

The copyright on Advance Australia Fair ended in 1966, fifty years after McCormick's death.

The Australian Labor Party policy for the 1972 elections included finding an alternative to God Save the Queen. The ALP won office in that election, and the Whitlam government (1972-75) announced in the Prime Minister's 1973 Australia Day address that a competition would be held under the auspices of the Australia Council for the Arts to find a new Australian national anthem.

Although a large number of submissions were received (2,500 lyric and 1,400 music entries), none were considered acceptable.

The judges recommended that one of three existing Australian songs - Advance Australia Fair, Banjo Patterson's Waltzing Matilda or Carl Linger's Song of Australia - be selected.

On April 8th, 1974, opinion polls were held by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and the government announced that henceforth Advance Australia Fair was to be Australia's anthem, but with God Save The Queen to be played when (British) royalty was present.

The Whitlam government was dismissed by the Governor-General (Sir John Kerr) on November 11, 1975, and was replaced by the Fraser (Liberal) government (1975-1983).

In January 1976, the Fraser government modified the rules governing the national anthem. Advance Australia Fair was to be used, without words, on non-regal occasions, and God save the Queen was to be used on all royal, vice-regal, defence, and loyal toast occasions.

The Fraser Government held a plebiscite, the National Song Poll, on 21 May 1977.

The results were: (from http://www.ausflag.com.au/debate/amr/amr23.html):

cool, well that also means that when Alan Jones was winning races, Advance Australia Fair was our anthem, so either someone made up that they played god save the queen or Formula 1 got it wrong

There was no dispute ItchyB, i got that info from the same page you posted

that sux's mark,,,after all the year's of you winning nothing,,i bet my kid a new bike if you won,,,now i'v gotta buy him a new bike,,,dam you ex canberra go karter ,,,webber,,,hit the wall