Roy

I dare say if you are that big a cock that copping internal fines from management etc etc will soon get the mechanics and crew offside and ...well I have always wondered how much car reliability comes down to mechanics who will give their life-time for you and their side of the garage. I mean Webber no doubt upset the harmony at times and dont doubt that the best mechanics, engioneers gravitated towards Vettels side of the garage. (or in part his cars success was tribute to those working on his side of the garage) Looking at Mercedes its a guess but I wonder if Hamiltion largely uses Schueys old mechanics etc and Rosberg retains his guys as some of the nonsense that went on with Schueys car seems to plague LW at the moment. Nothing intentional or sinister....but a mates school friend is/was a McLaren mechanic and he told me in 2008 that the stories about Alonso at McLaren in 2007 were largely BS. Mechanics and the team loved him. He shared his race bonuses with his mechanics etc Though the UK press beat that story up to be something silly like Alonsoi is trying to pay off McLaren mechanics to make sur ehe beats Lewis etc etc. But I do look at Alonso's amazing reliability and do wonder if it comes down to he engages his guys more than other drives and his side of the garage enjoy the spoils with them. Not to say they dont do their best anyway....but your best is sometimes better when you are gettign a cut of the guys race bonuses vs Hamilton running off back to US-Monaco and his rapper friends and popstar girlfriend. I wonder if human nature is simply that...and a very easy thing that could throw a more regular spanner in the works.

I am guessing that means no race bonus or 500k every time you are a naughty boy. Post that we will put Sam Bird in your car for Friday practice and we will see how quick you are in the race after a test driver has crashed your car on Friday and you only get 15 laps on Sat morning pre - quali

Was a nice car....now a very COOL car. Love the final touches...copies of period race cars often run the risk of being try hard BS shitboxes. Your's looks tough!

The Belgian's wheeled out their finest wenches too which was nice

But my dislike for Hamo is returning as he seems to have forgotten his more laid back persona of last year and his wanker ego is back on song now he is in the hunt for wins and WDC. Same situation that saw me barracking for Massa is back and has me barracking Rosberg.

Yeh, was it Button where he was trying to overtake and flat spotted his tyres? Rosberg has been generally a pretty clean racer and apart from the hell of a chop he gae Schuey a few years ago in the wet at Spa on the same corner and the clash where Webber put him to the sword in Malysia turn 1...I really cant recall too many accidents Britney has involved himself in. Rather clean record...but didnt cover himself in glory trying to recover. But then again, look at Hamiltons attempt in Germany where he ran into everyone and in Hungary where the rain master was damn lucky to finish the first lap after almost putting it into the tyres.

When they told Lewis about Bottas being the only car quicker...its was a bit of a fib to keep him on task. I was watching the live timing and there were a few others. But the point being the 3-4 cars that were quicker were all in the top 6. Easier to say just one driver I guess when you are faster than the 10 guys in front of you I do like the pics of when Homo wiping his wing off... its excellent tough, close quarters racing

I think Perez has done his dash. And the fact it wa Button he was alongside He can only hurt Hulk IMO. Good to see Kimi getting his head arount this years car. He still had a shocker of a quali but at least had a reliable car for the race and didnt have Magnussen running into him. Was really hoping he as going to hold onto 3rd

Button still leads Magnussen comfortably in the points but the quali record and speed of Magnussen must be a worry to an incumbent F1 WDC. Romain will wipe the floor with both of them. Along with Hulk he is the best think going, but then again Perez now has had some time to acclimatise with the team and you have to say that he is showing some interesting pace relative to Hulk. McLaren need to at least give him a test, question is woudl Lotus allow him to test for McLaren?

Yeh, obviously a slightly emotional spin on what Rosberg said according to Toto

Well Rosberg wants this championship and has copped to sticking his car in an awkardspot as he is tired of Lewis not leaving him enough room in a fight. The instance he chose was rather poor and expect in a lap or two with a more robust pass attempt Lewis would have pulled out the hatchet as usual Looking forward to lucky Lewis playing victim the rest of the year . A bit disappointed that Rosberg was so impatient....i had hoped he was going to win the WDC whilst Homo played victim. He may now have a wave to ride

Rosberg is being pretty classy with some tough questions from stupid SkyTV questions Agree that all season Homo has been driving with his elbows out with Rosberg and just like Prost and Senna that respect only goes one way for so long. Will be interesting to see how Rosberg puts up with the criticism Homo claiming he gave Rosberg room http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/115546 Rosberg still getting hot girls stopping him for pics whilst Homo gets stopped by pimply face poms

Theyhave wide and tall options. HANS isnt the wings, its a neck device that means the harness holes are positioned lower.

Eddie handled the crowd of poms very well. I agree that Homo has been throwing the hatchet at Rosbergs car everytime they had been wheel to wheel but this time it was just clumsy or Rosberg. But after driving him off the road in Hungary I guess Rosberg felt he wanted to pull Homo's chain a little

Good on DAN! And Rosberg was rather clumsy and Hamilton paid the higher price. Spent the whole race having a sook too. I can see Homo imploding from here on in

Just updating the link to the exhaust housing you need to run this on your RB25 http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Kinugawa-Turbine-Housing-STD-TD06-T3-Flange-10cm-A-R-73-V-Band-External-Gate-/281406096058?pt=AU_Car_Parts_Accessories&hash=item41851c42ba Slap that housing on the turbo and with whatever manifold you are running.....or weld the gate to the turbine housing to bolt it on to the std manifold and make a responsive 330-350rwkws on E85

So I am ready to call it. Sam Michaels is worse than Gascoyne and probably at the root of McLaren being useless He is death to any F1 team he gets given input into

LOL, Dan almost binned it proper having a go.

Can do a 6boost manifold, Turbosmart gate and cooler piping if someone wants a complete, bolt on setup.

Look for non-Hans seats. I have found HANS compatible seats usually have the harness mounts lower. My racetech seats is fine for me at 178cm and 105kgs http://racetech.co.nz/shop/RT4009HR-motorsport-seats Will have to check the tags but believe it is the wide and tall option

2.2 SECONDS!!!! Another quali where Rosberg delivers! He is really impressing me with the way he just gets the job done

Was brand new when installed and since done around 1,000-1,500kms. Only run 19psi after a few higher boost runs on the dyno. Made 325rwkws on E85 at something like 18psi. Selling it as I am soft and going back to a smaller 8cm TD06 based turbo that I have laying around and cant sell. It looks like all other Trust T67s. Currently on car so can see operating if required, Asking $1200

I am dirty . Pinkham is up the duff and its not mine

They wiped me when I tried to get a plug that goes with the switch. Told me I had to go find that model car at the wrecker and grab the plug from the loom (FARK that...want a new plug to go with my new switch Thoughts on where to get associated plugs?

What state/tracks will you be driving? What power, what suspension, what weight and what tyres ? Superspeints where you only get 4 or so laps or open pit track days where you blast around untiul you run out of fuel The std gear is pretty good and you can get good results out of it....but they can quickly become marginal if you are simply asking too much from them