I need to shut down the blog for a few days. I would rather do this than do half a job and not do things properly. I hope to be back in action later in the week.
Sorry about that.
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joeblogsf1 
Sorry for your loss Joe!
Take your time, we will still all be here when you return.
we’ll miss your insightful commentary, Joe. Hope everything is ok. Don’t go to Cape Cod; too much snow.
Hope things are OK Joe. Take care.
I’m sure everyone here understands Joe.
All the best to you and your family
Thoughts with you & yours, Joe.
Deepest sympathies Joe – forgot about work and concentrate on those close to you – including yourself
Go handy Joseph – see you soon.
Who is Joseph?
I think he means the one with the technicolour dream coat!
No, he was the first man to orbyt the earth
But seriously, sorry for your loss Joe.
I am sure we all understand Joe.
He had an interesting and full life from the little I have read.
Condolences.
Rest up well, Joe. Always best to be in the best place for one’s own self, as priority.
I know this isn’t quite the most apt or suitable moment, but I just has a thought about F1 that made me want to shut down a while also, which is the absurdity of other teams being able to decide on their rival’s future viability, as with the recent malarkey. I mean, FFS, sure thing a rival will always say you’re in the best possible shape, eh? That is so broken a idea, I wish the whole circus could be locked in a cool dark room for a month, in forced incommunicado, in Coventry. I’m convinced the actual situation is by itself defect corrupt by nature of how it is and nothing else, and I don’t know how F1 as a whole is gong to dig their way out of the legacy of things said and done in recent weeks. It may all be a storm in a teacup over a back marker team, so everyone will try to say, but this time I do not think that will be a effective brush off, I think we’re seeing everything hang out, it all on everyone’s wrists, and the whole thing is transmitting ugliness on every carrier wave imaginable. I really think recent events have been more than just jumping the shark, they have triggered a new train of dissatisfied action and reaction that is going to be pure pain for all.
Sorry, Joe, admixing such heavy but comparatively totally meaningless thoughts with the foremost concerns and considerations of life. You’ve done so much to bring clarity and focus into a over wrought, often pathetically emotional, childish, world of this sport, tried to inject so much maturity of thinking that has been oft rejected as fresh greens puked up by a junk food junkie, and I know it takes so much of you to keep on keeping on at that thankless task. It’s the absolute very least we can do to be patient and gratefully wait for your return. Meanwhile I hope you find what you need the most, and peace from unnecessary, undeserving, distractions. Until then, my best wishes, ~j
My condolences, blog shut down entirely justified for as long as necessary.
Your loyal readers will be happy to wait.
Good luck, I hope the re-engineering is successful.
AA
No problem, looking forward to your return 🙂
Joe, I don’t know what your loss has been (and why should I? we don’t know each other), from other comments I can deduce that it was someone close.
Your life (and family) is far more important than keeping us all informed and entertained, I send my condolences and look forward to your return.
Seconded.
Hope the technology does not fight back too much
Family comes first.
Thank you for warning us. All the best to you and your proches
Deepest sympathies to you and your family at this difficult time.
Joe; Take as much time as you need. I won’t be going anywhere else. All best to you.
I dont know what has happened but I gather from the comments there has been some sort of death in your family.
I know it doesnt mean much coming from me a faceless internet guy you have never met but as a long time reader of your blog and GP+ I just wanted to offer my condolences and send my best wishes to you and your family.
May this absence be a reminder that you ought to pay this man for his great work. I just bought my 2015 subscription.
+1 Renewing my blog subscription and I get a free magazine. Deal!
Very sorry to hear about your loss. A very impressive man.
Take your time, it’s only F1.
Trying to get my subs money together. Will be the best value for money I will find all year. I feel bad for not having done so sooner, but I there are genuine financial reasons for not having been in a position to do so. Nothing to do with the cost, it’s peanuts compared to the goodness that a GP+ sub provides.
Have already expressed my condolences in an earlier post so won’t repeat them, but nice to see the outpouring of gets wishes from the community here.
Take care Joe, and very sorry to hear about your loss.
I for one will be waiting for your return and can’t wait because this is by far the best place to come for F1 news (other than GP+ of course!)
I agree with all of the other contributors here. Family always comes first, and your needs you, as much as you need them right now. Best wishes to you and all your family at what is always a difficult and sad time….however, you will all be thinking of the good times you all had as a family, as you go through this period, and that will bring out some happiness and fond memories. Take care Joe and take your time too.
Please accept my apologies for this out of turn again. It’s just also lately I cannot get over how many families and employees are being mucked around this off season, I’m struggling to figure out in what way I am going to approach the new season. I’ve had a feeling of things being just very very wrong, past weeks. I don’t mean to hijack anything to do with Joe’s loss.. what I want to say could only be said in person, for the simple words be known to be all I feel, but here we are and the backdrop of this racing game seems to me to be turning into a mockery of so much that is good in life, that I have started to wonder if genuinely some important goodness has departed too many who inhabit the paddock. I think I may for the first time, actually be depressed, about the sport, in a technical sense. When I think what life Joe pours in energy into it all every day, so much so I wonder if I didn’t hold on a little more hope for him being around, well… I don’t know what to say. I know Joe is not gone, of course, but I sense suddenly the more how much he is here when he is here, and look about, hoping for some spark elsewhere, and become disappointed too quickly. Does this game deserve such love? Unimportant disconnected fan I am, my reactions are not the matter. I just want to know, somehow, very deeply, if the quiet good spirits of the paddock will show something to Joe, for all the care he too freely gives. Because we all want to know why we do whatever it is we do, and for some things we may spend forty nights willingly again. But there must be some care in return. I don’t want to hear it, I don’t want to be told it or know it. I just hope there may be that same care for who walks among them, because in the end, if the words don’t touch that deeply, there is little reason to spill them.
Very best wishes from everyone at Nik Coleman TV Joe, we await your return.
My sincere condolences for you and your family’s loss.
There are times when F1 must take a back seat (even for one as dedicated as yourself) – family comes first and this is most certainly one of those occasions.
Thank you for taking the time during your grief to explain your absence, appreciated but not required by any stretch.
Sympathy and best wishes.
No apologies necessary. Take care….
Condolencies Joe, I empathize
Best wishes, Joe.
sending the love
Don’t make it too brief, no pressure here. You’ve got a bit of an exclusive on quality so we’ll see you when you’re back. All the best to you and your family.
Absolutely no apologies necessary . Fact is in light of the circumstances I’m surprised you didn’t do this earlier . Take all the time you need . Please ! Trust me … as I stated earlier the wife and I have been dealing with this multiple times over the last five years .. and time is the only thing that does help . Till then to reiterate the old bit of wisdom ;
” You just keep on living till you finally feel alive again ” .. and you will … in time
And if I may Joe … recognizing fully that the circumstance and legalities are different on our respective sides of the pond . Fair warning . Be prepared for the mountain of paperwork etc to come after the fact regardless of how well things were taken care of legally . Sometimes honestly it can feel as if dealing with all the paperwork etc is almost worse than the loss itself
I know how you might be feeling. Take your time. Best of luck.
Condolences to you all – a great loss.
Hi Joe – I hope you and your close ones are ok. Grateful for your habit of doing the blog right – Best, Frederik.
No need to be sorry Joe. Best wishes to you and the family!
Joe,
I am sorry to hear about your loss. Please accept my condolences. In the meantime, along with everyone else here, I will be waiting patiently for your return however long it takes. Best wishes.
Take your time Joe, and no need to apologise. Our thoughts are with you and your family
It’s clear from my fellow commenters that you’ve suffered a bereavement. I’m very sorry to hear that; please take all the time you need. We will wait. Take care.
Exactly this.
All my best, Joe .
I for one will be waiting with baited breath for the return of your indelible style, and (hopefully) look forward to An Audience with Joe in Melbourne again…along with my GP+ sub. There is no one quite like you out there Joe… all the best wishes during this tough time.
I’ll be praying for you. Take all the time you need. Everyone above has said it all. God bless.
I gather from the comments that you lost a loved one. My sincerest condolences to you and their family and friends.
Chris
Thinking of you and your family God bless you all
Hi Joe, take care. I remember when my father passed away and I shut myself down for about a week. The grief isn’t over by then, in my experience. But I still own his car and know he drives along with me on the sunny days with the sunroof open. It helps me to cope and understand.
Since you haven’t announced the reason for the hiatus on this blog, I don’t know whether it’s appropriate, but I offer my condolences anyway. And, I don’t need to tell you this, but don’t be sorry for doing what you have to.
Take care Joe, we’ll keep the fire 🔥 going until you return.
I’d like to add my condolences too Joe in this difficult time. I look forward to seeing you back online when you’re good and ready.
From what I’ve read, this seems apt:
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
Andrew
So sorry for your loss.
Sorry for your loss Joe.
We all will be here waiting for you and your insightful commentaries!
Take your time.
Hello Joe
Heartfelt best wishes to you and yours.
Condolences to you and all your family, Joe
Sympathies. We will be waiting for you.
Sorry for your loss Joe with best wishes
Condolences to you and your family.
So sorry for your loss.
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Please accept my condolences and all I can say is: remember the good times. I am sorry for your loss, Joe.
My condolences to you and your family.
They live on in our hearts and memories , Joe .
I lost my mum just a few months ago .
Rest comforted that those who do so much good in their lives will live on in the hearts and memories of many .
Sorry for you loss Joe – take care.
Joe, This has helped me in the past.
Entirely up to you if you want to let it through or not.
On Death
Than Almitra spoke, saying, “We would ask now of Death.”
And he said:
You would know the secret of death.
But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?
The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.
If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;
And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
Is the sheered not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall wear the mark of the king?
Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
Only when you drink form the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
As always in these situations, Joe, I am lost for words that make sense, but my thoughts are with you and your family at this difficult time.