{"id":251,"date":"2009-09-06T23:38:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T22:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=251"},"modified":"2009-09-06T23:38:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T22:38:27","slug":"finally-an-f1-team-using-their-loaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/06\/finally-an-f1-team-using-their-loaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, An F1 Team Using Their Loaf&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I apologise for the pun, but there has been a lack of joined up thinking from the teams in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Formula One\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.formula1.com\/\">Formula One<\/a> of late&#8230; This made me smile.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do you remember that clever Skoda advert? You know &#8211; the one where they make a giant cake version of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"\u0160koda Fabia\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C5%A0koda_Fabia\">Skoda Fabia<\/a>, which actually turns out looking better than any real Skoda we&#8217;ve ever seen? Well, some crazy <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Chef\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chef\">chefs<\/a> working for a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Singapore\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=1.28333333333,103.833333333&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=1.28333333333,103.833333333 (Singapore)&amp;t=h\">Singapore<\/a> restaurant seem to have embraced that crazy (and slightly wasteful) idea by coming up with an <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Formula One car\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Formula_One_car\">F1 car<\/a> made entirely out of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bread\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bread\">bread<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>In our sad little minds, we like to think of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Lewis Hamilton\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lewishamilton.com\/\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> driving this in the Singapore night race; pushing the roll-shaped <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Automobile pedal\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automobile_pedal\">accelerator pedal<\/a> to the floor, flicking up through the gears using his bagel <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Semi-automatic transmission\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Semi-automatic_transmission\">paddle shifters<\/a> &#8211; taking this bread-made bad boy up to speeds of 200mph and more. But then, can you imagine how soggy the doughy seats would get after a couple of hours out on the track? Yuk!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>But there is a positive story behind this, with the chefs creating the car (made from 22 different types of bread) to raise money for a local school &#8211; clearly demonstrating that the Singapore F1 race is having a positive social impact on the island city-state, which is always good to hear seeing as the sport has been through some tough times of late.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bread-car-side-450.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"681\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/bread-car-side-450\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bread-car-side-450.jpg?fit=450%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"450,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bread Car &amp;#8211; Side\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bread-car-side-450.jpg?fit=450%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-681\" title=\"Bread Car - Side\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bread-car-side-450.jpg?resize=450%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bread-car-inside-450.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"680\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/bread-car-inside-450\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bread-car-inside-450.jpg?fit=450%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"450,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bread Car &amp;#8211; Inside\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bread-car-inside-450.jpg?fit=450%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-680\" title=\"Bread Car - Inside\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bread-car-inside-450.jpg?resize=450%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Via<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orange.co.uk\/cars\/picturegalleries\/pics\/6085_1.htm?linkfrom=hp4&amp;link=secondary_pos_1_link_photo&amp;article=090902x1700x4sec1carsthef1carmadeoutofbread\" target=\"blank\">Orange Cars<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I apologise for the pun, but there has been a lack of joined up thinking from the teams in Formula One of late&#8230; This made me smile. Do you remember that clever Skoda advert? You know &#8211; the one where they make a giant cake version of the Skoda Fabia, which actually turns out looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,13,25,29],"tags":[90,291,508,1171,1776,2690,2732,2745,3184],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-formula-one","category-humour","category-photographs","category-sport","tag-90","tag-asia","tag-bread","tag-formula-one","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-september","tag-singapore","tag-skoda-fabia","tag-volkswagen","post_format-post-format-image","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-43","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}