Yannick Dalmas

[FMecha]

Hello,

When I look on Yannick Dalmas' article I think it need an update.

This is what I find on Yannick Dalmas article:

2001: Will race at Le Mans and subsequent ALMS or ELMS rounds in ORECA Chrysler Dallara with Beretta.

It has not been touched for a while.

Jamie, Enoch, can you take a look on this and give a update on Dalmas' later sportscar results?

[eytl]

It's a possibility but please don't hold your breath for it!

I doubt anyone's been reading our site since we started back in 1999, so let me fill in a bit of site history. Back then, before the days of having real jobs and - in my case - a family, we put up (at a guess) about 60-70 profiles in the first 18 months or so. Then we went back and realised they were all a bit amateurish, so we went back and re-did all of them. We started in 2001 and it was a project that lasted a year or two or more. It just so happened that Dalmas was the first one we re-did, and the first one we put into our current format. And yes, that was some 10 years ago now.

We soon realised that we had profiled many drivers who still had active careers. This presented a dilemma - do we keep updating the profiles or not? In the end, we decided not to do so, because we would otherwise end up being stuck rewriting the same profiles again and again and again. We thought we'd prepare new profiles instead, as well as keeping up the race reviews. Our way around it was to include the "last updated" date, to leave readers in no doubt when the profile was last done and to lamely excuse our inability to keep refreshing them.

There have only been two exceptions to that principle. One was Alex Zanardi because the life-changing events of September 2001 meant that his story deserved a full rewrite. The other, of course, was Luca Badoer. Other than that we've avoided the temptation to keep adding to the profiles of drivers who still raced. It also means not having to constantly keep up with their careers, as much as I'd like to do so. Which is just as well, because these days churning out the race reviews (and now doing a fair amount of the dodgy HTML work myself), with maybe 3-4 new profiles or articles a year, is about as much as I can manage.

[DanielPT]

Perhaps is a bit wide of the mark as an idea, but what if you guys let someone from the forum to update those active drivers post Formula 1 results using only brief descriptions (and not a complete history)?

[eytl]

We have thought of doing dot-point updates but at the time we thought it looked a touch messy and would still present the challenge of having to keep up with that driver's career. Once you start doing that you kind of have to keep going.

[Bleu]

I think it would be good if summary page would be updated regularly.

[wmetcalf68]

It's a possibility but please don't hold your breath for it!

I doubt anyone's been reading our site since we started back in 1999, so let me fill in a bit of site history. Back then, before the days of having real jobs and - in my case - a family, we put up (at a guess) about 60-70 profiles in the first 18 months or so. Then we went back and realised they were all a bit amateurish, so we went back and re-did all of them. We started in 2001 and it was a project that lasted a year or two or more. It just so happened that Dalmas was the first one we re-did, and the first one we put into our current format. And yes, that was some 10 years ago now.

We soon realised that we had profiled many drivers who still had active careers. This presented a dilemma - do we keep updating the profiles or not? In the end, we decided not to do so, because we would otherwise end up being stuck rewriting the same profiles again and again and again. We thought we'd prepare new profiles instead, as well as keeping up the race reviews. Our way around it was to include the "last updated" date, to leave readers in no doubt when the profile was last done and to lamely excuse our inability to keep refreshing them.

There have only been two exceptions to that principle. One was Alex Zanardi because the life-changing events of September 2001 meant that his story deserved a full rewrite. The other, of course, was Luca Badoer. Other than that we've avoided the temptation to keep adding to the profiles of drivers who still raced. It also means not having to constantly keep up with their careers, as much as I'd like to do so. Which is just as well, because these days churning out the race reviews (and now doing a fair amount of the dodgy HTML work myself), with maybe 3-4 new profiles or articles a year, is about as much as I can manage.

Can't you just copy the original profile, paste it, and then make the edit's?