[Leica] The Wait

[FRANK DERNIE]

The cars only run between 2 and 2.5 hours per day. The rest of the time is adjustment discussion and repairs.Probably only journalists make phone calls whilst the cars are actually running, team members are wearing radio headsets to communicate in the garage. 


     On Tuesday, 5 May 2015, 17:35, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
   
 

 It would seem you'd need noise cancelling headphones to plug into your
iPhone to have a decent phone conversation.


On 5/3/15 3:18 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote:

> It is a big change.When I first started traveling to Formula 1 races as a team
> member in 1976 we never used a telephone, none were available anywhere near
> the garage (probably just in the press office) and anyway the prices of a
> phone call were budget bustingly high.By the time I stopped at the end of the
> 2009 season the chief mechanic may well phone the team manager several times
> per day even when they were only 100 yards apart, incurring two international
> phone charges. Just as well the income became so much more.My iPhone is no
> better, in fact probably worse, as a phone than the original one, but my what
> a lot of other things it can do (though I would rather it was still the better
> phone).
The mobile phone has completely changed personal interaction hasn't
> it? Any photograph in town will have several people in it referring to a
> miniature screen just in front of their face. Something I would never have
> expected.
Frank D

 


    On Sunday, 3 May 2015, 1:49, Lluis Ripoll
> <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:
  
 

 Thank you Jim!

When I watch
> a ³old² film and the persons needed to find a public phoneŠ or they are asking
> for a long distance callŠ now this made me smileŠ

Cheers
Lluis


El
> 02/05/2015, a les 21.53, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> va escriure:

>
> Nice one!  Now, what did we do before we had smart phones?????
> 
> Jim
> Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> 
> On 5/2/2015 2:47 PM, Lluis Ripoll wrote:
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>> Thanks for looking, your c&c are
> welcome
>> 
>> Saludos cordiales
>> Lluis
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