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$8500, complete with a number of storage compartments and benches internally, 4 wheel electric brakes with breakaway system, new tyres and wheel bearings, 240v internal lighting, 50l water tank and a 20m retractable airline. It is also internally beaver tailed, to make the loading height lower.

Picked this second hand trailer up a few years ago, I need to do something about the stickers on the side of it as they have actually melted into the paint underneath them, it's tall enough inside that I can walk around in it easily. The car itself is getting closer to being finished, I had a few little setbacks and rule changes to deal with that resulted in undoing changes that I had made to the car to make it legal for the old rules.

Funky, you will find that with a car like the radical, that an enclosed trailer is much more suitable than an open one.

Webbers problem on the Bolte is that the FIA brought in a new rule this year that allows for the removal of a drivers super license for non sporting related issues, so if Mark had exceeded the speed limit, and the police decided to prosecute him (using Victoria's draconian regs) then Mark would have most likely ended up losing his super license.

Absolute is measured from 0, whereas gauge is from atmospheric (101.3kPa, 1 bar, 14.5psi) as a base. A lot of the euro cars quote absolute for inlet pressures.

Is that an absolute or gauge pressure?

Got caught out once with the not locking the coupling into place, I now use a small padlock on the locking tab, and I leave the key, on the same key ring as the car keys, in it when hooking up the trailer. This means that I can't start the car without getting the keys out of the lock, and verifying that I have attached the trailer properly.

I have two of the same cars that Mark has!!!! unfortunately they are the X5 and the Navara...

That may have been a forensics van. The cops used to do that around the Yarra Valley, park a beater that they had gotten from the wreckers at the side of the road on a jack with a wheel off, making it look like a breakdown, until you went past and saw the camera. They stopped doing it after the local rag exposed it and proved that it was against the rules at the time.

Ii have just recieved an email back from a friend of mine, who happens to be the Michelin tyre engineer for one of the ALMS teams ( he has asked me not to say which one, but they did win one of the championships last year ) his response to this queston is that if you want the tyres to last, such as for use in the actual race, then do the slow heat cycle build up, and store the tyres for at least 24 hours, if they do not have a compound or construction change for the following race, then they bed thetyres in the previous races practice sessions and then store the tyres to allow them to totally cure. However, for outright quickest laps out of a set of tyres, then go for the green tyres, a lap or two too scrub them and then do your flyers. This will give you the quickest results out of that set, but the heat load put into them will cook the tyre too quickly and they will only come back to about 80% of a properly bedded set.

Most of the Japanese utes are like that, Toyota used to supply all of their test Hilux's with 500kg's of sandbags in the tray, to "give journalists a real world feel for the vehicles handling" but mainly to hide the stiff rear spring rates and resultant oversteer biased handling caused by not enough weight being over ther rear wheels.

The piece of armco railing pierced the car, causing most of Kubica's injuries.

Apparently the gaurd rail punched a hole through the front of the car into the passenger space.

Kubica injured in a rally crash.

Major sculpting on those sidepods. It's also interesting that they have a GoPro mounted on the rear wing.

I'll sell you my ST-R D22 if you want...

I can't release a lot of information, technically I should not have seen half of the gear that I did see. DL1, more ports and SD cards now, USB connectivity, switched output ports, new faster processor. DL1Pro, Mil spec connectors and water resistant case. DL2 has some hardware updates, more major ones later in the year. Dash 4 Pro, a fully configurable dash along the lines of the Motec MDD. There is also a number of incremental upgrades to other products in their range.

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You also have to factor in a rebuild of the dog rings and other components in a sequential shifted box every 5,000 k's or so as well, this is usually in the 2~3,000 range.

If the new tyres are capable of applying (figures used as an example) a constant moment of 100Nm to the differential and the plates can only hold 95Nm, the extra moment will be enough to overpower the friction internally within the plates and thus making the diff work more as an open unit, but worn tyres can only provide that figure at maximum Fy and Fx, thereby not providing enough load consistently into the differential to overpower the clamping force of the ramps, causing them to lock and unlock dependent on the transmitted load. When the diff is locked then it will cause under steer on turn in and over steer on exit. It may be the due to the old diff being worn out, that it was not generating full lock under loaded conditions and masking the issue.

Have you checked that the plates in the diff are setup correctly? They may have to much preload on them, making the diff snatchy in it's operation.

I have just seen the new products coming from Race Technology for 2011, if you are looking at getting a Data Logger, it might be worth waiting for a little while, I believe the the official release will be by the end of the month.

You only have to worry about those units if you have outstanding fines/warrants or rego/licensing issues.

What are your tyre temps looking like Snowy? that will give you a good idea on how the car is working the tyres.

TATA could buy HRT, and rebrand them as one of the other companies that they own, and then we would have Jaguar back in F1!