We can exclusively reveal "Angry Since 1967" has been testing a new post on the Nürburgring. The heavily camouflaged post did repeated laps of the circuit over a period of several days. Insiders claim this is an effort by "Angry Since 1967" to regain its position as the fastest blog at the track. "It hit a raw nerve" claimed the source "when a post from a blog about caravanning broke the record."
The source wouldn't be drawn on the tweaks "Angry Since 1967" has made in order to achieve this goal. Indeed, despite the careful disguise, it appears the post has been completely stripped down to maximise performance, supporting rumours that the post consists of a single 6 letter word aren't far off the mark.
Our Performance Editor writes;
The new "Angry Since 1967" post looks set to smash the Nürburgring lap record for blog posts hosted on the Blogger platform.
We've read the new post and it's expected to shave a significant 5.41 sec from the previous record holder, "Caravanning Around Ireland", making Angry Since 1967 significantly faster around the ‘Ring than its competitors.
The new lap record holder has described by AS 1967 as being a development edit with technical specifications representative of the final post.
The latest six-letter word post also has a shorter word count for more urgent performance, and it weighs 6 grammes less than its predecessor when printed on an A4 sheet. No capital letters have been revealed yet, but the post will almost certainly undercut the number used in AS 1967 previous shortest post. It also has a new multi-link reading suspension for improved coherence and has a design that is claimed to offer a best-in-class performance balance for legibility.
AS 1967 set a provisional new ‘Ring record during the final phase of testing for the post, on a dry track with “optimum ambient temperature for the best type and printing performance”. The only additional modification was a 'floating' safety roll cage that AS 1967 said offered no improvements to readability. To compensate for the cage’s weight, the font was changed to courier new.
The editor for the new post, Angry Since 1967, said: “The kerning speed achieved in the new post is higher because the post features wider tracking and typeface, a longer word base, new rear multi-link synonyms and optimised adjectives improving legibility.“
As 1967 explained that this allows readers to attack apostrophe's with more pace. “Readers will typically read the comma after Metzgesfeld at around 93mph," he said "around 6mph higher than that Caravanning post can manage. So up their holes with a big jam roll!!"
