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I don't think he'll be in Australian gaol for long. If he gets put into a general populace, he'll get killed. Hells Angels don't like people who bring attention down on them. Plus the fact he's a former fink, he's got no home, he'll be someones bitch before long. Is it wrong that I'm comforted knowing that he'll probably spend his last few days being violently arse-raped and stabbed?

Err... who are the older heads that predicted it? From what I understand, there is STILL contention about how he died. The information i found was varied. One theory is that the bash plate bottomed out, sending him into the air, due to a crappy track. Another, more credible theory is that Senna didn't like the height of the steering wheel, and asked the mechanics to telescope it in, so the mechanic just cut the steering column and welded it back together with some re-enforcing rods on it. Under stress, the weld broke, and he lost steering. The big problem is that the data was deleted from 1.5 seconds before impact (which is basically the whole crash in F1) The excuses vary, but the most credible is that the staff at imola circuit didn't want to lose the race, or call it off. Of course, if a driver had died on the circuit, the race would be called off, and investigated, which is why they maintain that senna and Ratzenberger didn't die on the track, but in hospital. If the lost footage showed Senna getting a bit of strut through his skull, it'd weaken their case that he died in hospital. They did the same with ratzeneberger So, I think it's hard to say with certainty what actually happened, but I think it's most likely that the steering column broke, but it's unlikely that he just missed the turn, because he was braking for almost 2 seconds, slowing the car down from 310km/hr to 218km/hr, if he could break, he would have been trying to steer, the only reason for him still going straight on a 45 degree(ish) turn is that he lost steering. So to say that he was beyond the ragged edge and paid the price is a bit off, unless you have different information from these "older heads", but for my money, I'd rather back a steering failure than Senna missing an easy corner with no real pressure on him. But hey, if the "older heads" know better, I'll listen. Senna was a loose cannon, no doubt, but he was not crazy. He drove to the edge and then tried to go faster, he was someone who drove on instinct and feel rather than mathmatical precision, which is really the difference between him and schumacher Schu was definitely a more complete, studied, disciplined and statistically superior driver, I just think that Senna had the ability to take it to another level, and keep finding faster laps. I agree with the quote that schumacher is the most complete driver, and that Senna was the fastest.

So, now we get into the semantics of what makes one great? Schu is the most accomplished driver. Does that make him the greatest though? comparing schu and senna is like comparing Michael Jackson and Elvis, Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan, Mike Tyson and Muhammed Ali, Muralithurin and Shane Warne, or Elle Macpherson and Claudia Schiffer. But, I really only started this topic to justify my argument and berate my mate, so it's been successful. I still think that both of them in their prime, in the same car, Senna would have Schumacher for breakfast. He's just crazier. He'd either whoop his arse or die trying. Literally. But back on the topic of greatness, Senna was greater because he did stuff off the track too, stopping for other drivers, visiting them in hospital, hell he donate $80 million to kids charities in Brasil! There is even a rise in Senna as a deity in some candomble ceremonies. First, there was Alexander the great, he came and conquered, and died young, now we have Ayrton the great, who did much the same, though he was not in his 20's when he died, though I have it on good authority that Alexander was a pretty accomplished chariot racer, but that might have had something to do with beheading anyone that overtook him.

Well, for a start, don't spend it all. No matter what car you buy, you'll need to spend money on it. Also, go full comp insurance. A quick look through the j-spec and they have some FC RX-7's, R32's and a soarer that look to suit, but I don't know the power to weight law if these are eligible. If you're after a fun car, go the R32, but you have already killed one, so that may not be the best of ideas. Personally, I like the FC's for the price. Definitely different, but has potential. May even get lucky and find a convertible one. The soarer is a great sleeper. With conservative paint and rims, can pass as a toorak kiddie mover, but with some tarting up they can look damn good. Like I said, I do not know which are eligible, but check out the import websites and compare to local cars.

OK, so I'm taking my R32 to Adelaide for a road trip for a mates wedding, and I haven't lived in Adelaide since I got the car, so I just had a few queries. I did a search, and my mods seem fine, but I was more worried about suburbs where I'd attract more attention than I'd like. Not that I'm going to be racing, but I'd just rather not be pulled over all the time. I'll be all over Adelaide, visiting friends in Happy Valley, the city and Ingle farm. Car is a GTS-4 with standard turbo, has 3 inch exhaust and pod, but isn't all that loud unless under heavy boost. From what I understand, SA does not have the one intake mod rule, so I'm sweet there, but what about gauges? I have my boost gauge in a pillar pod. So, yeah, if anyone can help out, or if there's anything happening between october 6 and 12, let me know.

more often than not it's cheaper to sell and buy another one.

.... sell the skyline. Otherwise, you'll just keep getting pulled over, and even remote turbos will still be noisy. They'll find it. If you're that desperate, get a NOS kit. Or better yet, strap on the rocket engines to the roof (aka myth busters) then light the bitches up! Or even better, spend the same amount that you'd be spending on mods on a CAMS license and import a race only car. That way you can drive something ludicrously fast, with a concrete barrier stopping you from running people over.

Give the bastard cancer. just send him to hospital, ask if he needs a chest X-ray, give him about a dozen, then lose the prints, so go to another hospital, and so on. Seriously, I think people who bash the crap out of women are the lowest of the low, but he then finds new levels of lunacy by shooting a guy who wanted to help her out. Of course, now we'll hear about a troubled childhood and a life of gangs and stuff. 0% sympathy from me. I've seen people with really sh!tty backgrounds turn out much better than this guy. Put him in the new test group for the mars mission. 500 days in complete isolation. Should be fun.

I'm running royal purple in my gearbox and engine, and have no worries at all. It does the job with no problems, and I think the idle is smoother, but it's hard to say with these things. Also cold starts are fine, so full endorsement. If you're in melbourne, just email royal purple directly, and they should be able to sell you some from the warehouse. I was looking at a group buy at one stage, but there was not enough interest. From what I've been told, Redline is better, but it's also much more expensive. If you're racing hard, go with redline. If you're driving normally with the occasional squirt, well, I picked Royal purple for that reason, with the bonus that if I spring a leak, I'll know about it due to the unique colour on the driveway.

i think we're all in agreement that Schumacher was a harder worker, more of a professor. He prepared himself for each race with in depth studies of the track, weather conditions and calculated minor details to the nth degree. He planned, he prepared and he succeeded by hard work and dedication. Senna on the other hand just had the raw talent. he could just do things that others could not. I'll grant you that Schumacher was probably smarter, better educated, better prepared for every race and probably worked much harder than Senna. No doubt. But why did he do it? Because he had to. Senna was able to do what he did more by passion than calculation, with more of a spiritual man/machine performance. Hell, he died with an Argentinian flag in his race suit so he could pay tribute to Ratzenberger who had died the day before, and the previous night had jumped the fence to see if Barrichello was OK after his crash in qualifying. I don't think Schumacher would have had any thoughts other than winning a race at any time, which is not a bad thing, he's just super focused. Maybe the lack of focus on the race helped kill Senna, or maybe it was the crappy weld on the steering column after they shortened it. But the point is that Senna wasn't focused on details, he just raced as a way to get himself to a new level. Things like in 92 and 93 where he stopped the car during practice to help at a crash, getting the driver out of the smashed car each time, while the other racers just drove on. Whereas schumacher hardly seems to notice the world beyond the tarmac. Things like that, the raw talent and the amazing feats cannot be taught. It's like comparing music. On paper, Elton John plays piano and has sold more songs than Mozart, but who is the better musician? Schumacher was a driving machine, but Senna was at a driving god (to steal the quote from the hamster). If you could create a robot driver and programmed it to hit every apex at the right angle, the gear shifts at the right time and drive with mathematical perfection, it'd be a metal version of schumacher, If you gave it LSD and a messiah complex, you'd have Senna.

Heh. I can just see it now. Super Aguri take aleaf out of initial D and paint their car black and turn off all their lights, so they can use an "invisible line" pass and drift around Alonso in the dark! If they do this, there are a few things that will definitely happen: Alonso will complain. The winner will say it's great. Raikkonen will just shake his head and say "No" then a big guy will tell the media to go away.

Y'know, that's one great thing about watching the qualifying on TV in the UK. there are very few ad breaks, and there is full action of all the sessions. I tell you what though, keep an eye on the BMW replacement driver Vettel. 19 years old, and he looks about 12, but he really did well. Naturally, it's a lot different in qualifying compared to racing, but it'll be interesting to see how he starts. 1 Lewis Hamilton 2 Fernando Alonso 3 Felipe Massa 4 Kimi Räikkönen 5 Nick Heidfeld 6 Heikki Kovalainen 7 Sebastian Vettel 8 Jarno Trulli 9 Mark Webber 10 Giancarlo Fisichella 11 David Coulthard 12 Ralf Schumacher 13 Jenson Button 14 Nico Rosberg 15 Rubens Barrichello 16 Anthony Davidson 17 Alexander Wurz 18 Takuma Sato 19 Vitantonio Liuzzi 20 Scott Speed 21 Adrian Sutil 22 Christijan Albers It'll be interesting to see how Hamilton does. No reason why he can't win again. It'll be even better to see how Alonso starts. He actually aborted his last hot lap to run on the 'dirty' line that went through the p2 position, just to clean it up, so he must have known that he just didn't have the speed. Either way, it should be a great race to watch, some wild rookies, some decorated vets needing to prove some things, and BMW threatening Ferrari's constructors position. Can't wait. My prediction: 1. Massa 2. Hamilton 3. Heidfeld I think Alonso will go for it form the start and probably screw the pooch again, maybe even clip Hamilton a bit or push him off the line, letting Massa through. Heidfeld is just looking good enough to stick around and sneak up. Anyway, looking forward to race time.

Amnesty international supplied this recording recovered from the cars telemetry system: Left rear wheel: This guy sucks, let's get out of here! Right rear wheel: Yeah, there's a sweet GTR over there, I'm heading that way! right front wheel: I'm coming too! Left front wheel: Me too, oh wait, forgot something. Guys,wait for me! wait! Damn, stuck under the quarter panel. other wheels: FREEDOM! Oh damn, they're after us. Roll boys! LR: momentum... fading.... RF: Damn those bastards with their self powered two legged motion. RR: Please kill me. No more. I think Amnesty international should consider the tyres attempted escape as a bid for freedom, and relocation to Australia should be something discussed at the next UN conference

Usually, I'm a McLaren fan, but Alonso just isn't someone I can get behind. My girlfriend dropped into the loungeroom during the final stages of the race (I'm in London, so it started at 6pm, not 4am) and I tried to illustrate to her how great it is that Sato, a driver from a team that's not on the top tier is going to have a crack at the reigning world champion, then when he pulled the move, I was actually ceering at the TV. She remained positive, but largely unimpressed. On Alonso though, he's stated that Hamilton is getting all the support and stuff. So what? Hamilton is a rookie, he should need the extra support. I actually like watching him race, but I am looking forward to seeing a bit more of a dogfight from him soon. Something "come from behind" It's great for him to lead from start to finish, but the best drivers always have those wins or acheivements that they just pull out of their hat. It'll be a season or two until we know how good he is, but he's got promise. Maybe it's just because I'm in London. All the press here is raving about Hamilton, with interviews from racing notables on how great he is, talks about how his dad took 3 jobs to pay for his kart racing. He's coming across as an easy going kind of kid who's doing great things. Of course, as soon as he shows one instance of something dodgy, the tabloids will be all over it. I expect there'll be some story about a torrid romance with a celebrity in the coming months. Still, he looks like he belongs in F1, so far at least.

No, he's right. The GT-R did come out in 89, but the V-spec wasn't until 93. Amend that post to standard R32 GT-R (89 model)

Yeah, but my point is that Senna did it in a time when he was competing against Prost, Hill, Mansell, Alesi and people like that, and 88 in monaco made even a legend like Prost look second rate by qualifying a second and a half faster than him. I'll agree that Schumachers record is very impressive, no doubt. He's definitely a quality driver, I just believe that Senna would always have an edge, and put them in the same car and let them loose on a track and you'd see an awesome dog fight, but Senna just has more of a "magic" touch. He did things that should never have worked and took risks others would not. On paper, Schumacher is superior, but he's the very epitome of cold and clinical in his line and technique. He studies the track really well and rarely makes mistakes, whereas Senna was more of a natural talent, who drove with emotion and passion, making him a bit of a loose cannon, but let him do stuff that no one else could do. Like lapping 5 cars in the opening lap in the wet as mentioned a few posts back. If there's an F1 track in Heaven (And let's hope) As soon as Schumacher passes on, he'll go straight to Senna and ask him "How the hell did you do it?"

Actually, I'll throw in another list, of cars pre 1990 1. Shelby cobra (427) 2. Porsche 959 (always loved these cars) 3. R32 GT-R V-spec (the one, the only)

OK, so while watching the monaco GP, a mate and myself had the above argument. He claims that Schumacher's record speaks for itself, and that he's the best ever. I insulted his sexuality and made a counter claim that despite an inferior number of wins, Senna is the best of all time, as he did it in a period with such legendary racers. He did not agree. Our points went something like this: Senna: Plus: Awesome in the wet (a great equaliser) pushed his cars to the limit. Became Prosts #2 driver and beat him in the same car with less support, unlike Schumacher who has been the #1 driver and received maximum support for 10 years. Beat Mansell, Hill, Prost, Alesi, Andretti several times Had personality Won the opening race of the new nurburgring circuit, where all drivers had similar cars (merc 190E's I think) and beat niki Lauda and other pro's in his rookie year. Minus: One crazy bastard. Died on the track (though reasons still under debate.) A loose cannon. Schumacher: Plus: Beat Senna's records dominated F1 for a long period. er... not much else. Minus: Boring to watch. Always in the dominant car. Is a confirmed cross dresser (We had been drinking heavily be now, and referenced a time when I remember seeing him leave a womens loo on the TV) only a small margin faster than times set by Senna 15 years earlier. Anyone else have an opinion on this? If you were running an F1 team and could recruit two drivers from any point in time, who would they be, and who'd be #1 and #2? For myself, I'd pick Senna at #1, and I'd put myself in #2, just so I could say I raced with him. I'd call my car "The spare part special"

I wonder if webber will finish this time. I know that the majority of DNF's have not been his fault, but how long does he have until the team expects real results from him? He's always been tagged as having "potential" but unless he actually gets some points, will he still have a ride? I hope he does well, as it's always good to see an Aussie representing, but I'm copping an absolute hiding here in London. The pommy bastards are comparing him to Hamilton as reps of their countries, and all I can rebutt with is that McLaren is from New Zealand, and that's practically Australia's unacknowledged state anyway. It's a stretch, I know, but now that the cricket is over, it's all I got.

1. Porsche 997 GT3RS 2. R34 GTR V-Spec II 3. Mitsubishi Pajero (I love 4wding in the dunes and scrub in outback NSW.) with maximum 4wd mods. And big Air Con and tow bar in case the other two need a lift.

I thought it was hilarious I have the same problem. I know what to say to my girlfriend so that she just glows inside and i can see in her head she's prancing in meadows of tulips and life is grand. BUT I also know what I find amusing. It's a constant battle for me. My first instinct is always to blurt out what I think is funny, because such comments depend a lot on timing, and waiting a heartbeat results in only pity laughter. But sometimes, what I find funny she often finds insulting or "Spoiling the mood". My solution is hypnotism. If the Hypnotist can convince my girl that dick and fart jokes ARE in fact romantic, I can forever burn down the dog house and live a life of freedom and absence of self-censorship. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen. Even worse, now when I do have those comments come into my head, sometimes I catch them in time and refrain from speaking them, but I still find them funny, and she notices I'm smirking or snickering, so she asks me to just spit it out. I have found that she really does not mean "Just spit it out" but really means "Just make up something flattering to me and make me forget you ever had a smart arsed comment ready to fire". Then again, sometimes it's worth going to the dog house to get a good laugh.

...... I am speechless. A gear knob warmer...... As Chopper would say: "Harden the f**k up" (heh, I love it. This is stefan. His name is stefan. Harden the f**k up Stefan!)

Supercharger = no lag but lower top end Turbocharger = lag increases in proportion to top end. The nissan march had a supercharger and a turbocharger, with a clutch built in to disengage the supercharger when the turbo spooled up. Personally, I like turbos. more conservation of energy (by re-using exhaust gasses). did anyone catch the episode of Top Gear where some mensa woman was doing the "Star in a reasonably priced car" bit and she asked Jeremy what the difference was between a turbo and a supercharger, and he had no idea? For a guy who gets to drive some beautiful cars, and has done so for decades, he really is clueless. Still wish I was him though. i want t veyron.

R32 v R33 is always going to be a big debate. if it's the GTS-t models, R33 is the better mechanical car If it's the GT-R, I'd go the R32 personally. Just more pedigree. If it's the GTS-4, R32 hands down for turbo as standard. If it's the other non-turbo models, well, who cares really. I went for the R32 based on the fact that I don't like the R33 rear end, but that's just me, although given the option, I'd still get an R34. I guess the reason that the R33 vs R32 debate is never solved is that they have very different "Personalities". R32 was a quantum leap in terms of sports cars. It took the world by storm, and the R33 just... didn't. It's a great car, but didn't have the success of the R32 or the R34. A big part of the R32's success is it's track record. True, the track GTR's have little in common with the street going gts-t's, but it's still the same base model. The R33's success has been largely attributed to being the R32's younger brother. In terms of modern skylines, the R33 is the middle child, between the older R32 who is the family favourite to the R34 which is the baby of the group. the next skyline will probably prompt many R34 vs (new model) GTR debates. In the end, both cars are great, but who ever keeps a skyline standard? when you pick between an R33 and an R32, all you're doing is picking the canvas on which to make your art. On a side note, I realised that I must have been damn bored to write all this. pity me.

pick a good import company. I recommend www.J-spec.com.au or Prestigemotorsport.com.au imports101.com.au is supposed to be good too, but have not dealt with them myself. Funkymunky is from j-spec and active on these boards. Just check the insurance options on shipping. On the whole though, it's pretty safe.