Whiplash

and not just the new guys having troubles keeping them straight

They did well the other week at sandown, that little mazda was well ahead of 2nd in the races. Pissed off i couldn't make it to the GP this weekend (had both GT and F1 team passes organized ). last night it got down around 25-28 over nights so it pretty un comfortable to sleep

to race in th eLe Mans series the car needs to be RWD and NA. It will not get ACO approval until it is done, which raises some issues as the cars in that series have to be production based (so no V8 like the SuperGT cars). Just ask the managers from Reiter about getting approval to run the Gallardo in RWD format. with the recent changes to the Zurich24Hr race they will be careful what they do power wise as its extremely close to the cut off point in its normal street spec, which is sad cos the days of the Alzen Porsche have ended and have been replaced by the 997RSR GT2. The Falken team have been running Nissan's for quite a few years now so if anyone i would expect them to develop the car like the 34GTR.

Webber up to 5th behind the McLaren and Ferrari boys Heidfeld is a bit further down that what i would have expected

Practice 1 http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2008/787/6479/

looks like torrents will have to do after the races

thats the new lamborghini model

the clipsal gets double that on the Thursday and there are no main game V8's out, and over 10X that for the weekend. I know its different type of event but still thats a major difference Tony Cochrane is not worried about crowd size he is more concerned about how much money he can make out of the round. Look at Bahrain around 6K for the weekend but they get paid shitloads to fly over there and circle around slower than the support categories (that have bigger name drivers than the V8's) wow the paddock pass is cheaper at the clipsal (4day pass $30) and the general admission are about the same. the average grandstand seat is $220-$250 for the 4 days. I'm glad i don't pay for tickets anymore

I see the V8's are back on 10 for the non championship round this weekend

you won't see the RSR on the streets anywhere, they are hand made purpose built racing cars (only 25 a year made). Although there are nearly more 997RSR's here in Australia than R35's ATM and we won't even start talking about the price difference

and on the 360 you can play guitar hero 1 and 2 where as on ps3 and wii there is only no3

Bright set to unveil their fist inhouse chassis at the GP as a shakedown Great to see a smile on DJ's face for a change considering what he and the family is going through I hope Morris get in trouble for the comment made over Courtney. The fact that he has openly said he will "take revenge" and " they will run out of cars before me". I personally think that this is pretty bad for the sport especially at that stage it wasn't clear on what happened in the accident

matt sorry to hear about your troubles sounds like it was a good day except for that

so thats how you measure a GTR steve ?

don't think i'll be there. might be up in QLD that weekend

djr that would be the best way to start off

i think i have arranged somewhere to live for a while, and maybe some work for the "if i can't get something else" so hopefully i will be up there in the next week or so

is there much difference between the GTs and GTST??

I'll look into it for you, can't promise anything as i don't know whats happening with work and i could be moving in the next week or so

Make sure you have a professional looking document to send out to prospective companies (not just an email asking for money) We produce 10 page pdf files to be sent to companies giving the maximum amount of information needed for them to decide whether to sponsor or not. This includes - info about the team / driver - info about the car - event dates - tv / media coverage of events - info about the series (crowd figures ect) at the end of the day if they need start asking lots of questions our "corporate sponsorship package" hasn't been done correctly. It is very important that you don't ask for set amounts of money either, no where do we mention the cost. It is up to the company negotiate the amount they are willing to spend, as setting a price up front scares some people off and can look rude to some companies. Not to mention the companies will always want more for the money they are willing to pay (drive days ect for instance) I was actually speaking about this with a few people at sandown last weekend about this topic, after they had some sponsors pull out at the last minute. I'm also in a bit of a unique situation as i get paid to sponsor cars, through my arrangement with the teams i work with hope this is helpful in some way

looks like i'm going to miss the GP again The GT's in the support category has a decent field for the round http://www.gtchampionship.com.au/downloads...3%20-%20AGP.pdf

haven't moved anywhere yet just went over for a race event, and the people in melbourne have been screwing me around so i have been speaking to someone up on the gold coast trying to sort something out up there *better Jap racing scene* George owns a company that builds cobra kit cars as well (damn good ones he is currently building 1 for Mr M Schumacher), which is why he calls himself the python. His helmet is painted in snake skin, looks different to everyone else's basic patterns i was going to say something about yours but they was busy trying to set up the car. It wasn't to happy with 18 lap races and second hand tyres cos non of the suppliers there on the weekend had any the size he needed. Oversteer isn't the best when you need to rely on getting the power down fast to hold the porkers off down the straights

pete i was down talking to George Vidovic on the weekend, he's got a few nice choopers down there. Only had a quick look as i was more interested in his cobra looked funny though in the driver car park area, there were Audi R8's Ferrari's, Porsches and a nice big matt black chopper in the middle

do they still do the all you can eat at the marion restaurant?