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He was on Skyspotys weekly F1 show. Basically said its all a beat up. People need to move on it was a nothing racing incident. "storm in a tea cup"

Murray Walker on the Hamo-Rosberg situation...1000% right. Wish the rest of the English media were more like Murray. My god, did i just say that

Do you have gauges or oil pressure, water and oil temp? I never used to let that stuff get hot. As long you know your oil pressure is good then I was always comfortable leaning on it. LOL, then I removed my dash logger and operated on the ignorance is bliss theory. Hey, it worked too. What killed my engine was sittinng in day to day peak hour traffic when a coolant hose under the inlet manifold got a split and dumped all the coolant in traffic and overheated. Fixed and drove it for another 6 or so months but the head gasket was making it miss at idle etc. Point being....as long as you are being sensible about the abuse, keeping an eye on things....just enjoy it A $2 coolant line in traffic can kill it pretty quick. I say a GT35 setup could be a fun thing. The more I think about it though I think E85 woudl help wonders with regards to controlling any inclination the engine may have to detonation when you start running decent ignition and boost. They need ignition to get them going

Ok...my take...since nobody asked I suspect Alonso will see McLaren as about as good a bet as Ferrari. Why move to a team further down the grid, with probably a worse campaign ahead of them in their first year with the new Honda engine and headless McLaren? Vs Ferrari, the team he knows. Is comfortable with and the car isnt too bad. Engine not too bad. It wasnt James Allisons car and after a 1.5 seasons Allison doing his thing I am tipping Ferrari with an engine catch up will be in the hunt next year. So for me. Alonso is no chance of going to McLaren next year. He may, but I still doubt it sign an agreement with them that McLaren have first option on him for 2016 if they place top 3 in the 2015 WCC. But I dont see him going to McLaren...but his thrist for a 3rd WCC means it would be smart (and he is that) to sign a LOI with performance clauses. I put it at 10% chance Now Vettel, makes more sense. I question whether part of his perforamance this year is him falling off the ball. Been with the same team now since 2009 and the RB folk for even longer and along with the family it could just be getting a little stale. So I can see him needing a new challenge to motivate himself and I can see RBR saying Dan is doing a good enoguh job to cover the whole (if any) that he may leave and their Jr program wont struggle to promote an STR pilot alongside Dan. So wont try to meet his cash demands etc. So I can see Vettel walking , RBR is his home...but Newey is going....he was there during their peak....move on and catch the next team on the up and McLaren is a fair bet. So , I thiink with Vettel under contract. He will sign for uber Honda-McLaren bank but will be for 2016 and will see out his 2015 contract. IMO that will give McLaren a good option to pick and choose for 2015. With Honda they could still be very strong but nothing like race miles and competition despite dyno and factory work Mercedes will continue to be strong next year with little change in rules. RBR will eb stronger with improved Renault engines and ditto Ferrari. Honda-McLaren will just be giving too much away starting with a poor car from 2014 and a new engine. LOL, now this means with Vettel locked in for 2016, they can experiment next year. If Button (and he will) continues to be outqualified and raced by a rookie then he will get the hatchet. Magnussen is doing an impressive job as a rookie considering the car he has. So (it always coems back to this) Romain will be called in on a 1 year contract with performance clauses to get extensions. Romain wll go head to head with Magnussen in 2015. He will smash Magnussen and McLaren will start the 2016 season with Vettel and Romain. You read it here first!

Well in first and 2nd gear often. I used to wring its neck to make sure it fell back into the meat of the power band for the next gear. So 3rd used to get 7,800 or so....4th about the same...i just shifted based on the shape of my power curve. So my rule of thumb was revs + boost + power kills engines. So I woudl just take whichever two options I needed on a given day. For instance Winton I use to take boost and power and dropped the rev limit to under 8,000rpm. At Sandown I would drop the boost to about 18psi and take the revs to get the thing out of the slow corners. If you truly want the engien to hang together then I think as long as your tune is good and you are running 18psi then 8,000rpm is not a concern for the motor if you are under 300rwkws. Depending on what you are trying to achieve beyond that I guess its all a balancing act LOL...this was 9,600rpm in 3rd gear on a motorkhana run through some witches hats But the engine had a leaky head gasket so I upped the pain threshold I was putting on that engine

I will add , plenty of other setups will work better and make for a quicker car...but I have never had the fastest car etc but I tell you what just about everyone who drives my car loves it (when it has functioning, matched brake setups on it ) So, I think it can work better than it is and shoudlnt be too expensive to get the most out of it. If you dont mind popping the engine then just keep it, because hwen sorted you are going to have a 350rwkws setup and I am not sure how long std RB20s last at that power with those revs and boost. LOL, I can vouch for 22psi, 8,800rpm and 310rwks

Look, provided the foundation of what your trying to work with is sound (manifold works, gate is decent...your exhaust doesnt have a collapsed muffler or cat etc) then I say forget these knockers. I get it... MY 310rwkws RB20 hammered. When I put the TD06 on it in 2002 everyone knocked me saying they are crap etc. Fark em...I did it anyway and loved the 11 years of enjoyment it has given me So...do it....you obviously dont mind lag for the fun hit of power....but I like you cant see why that turbo isnt working miles better. Based on what a TD06H-25G does on an RB20 (similar but a tad smaller then GT35) I would say you should be able to get 20psi by 5,300-5,500rpm. Rev the thing to 8,500 and its still a pretty good power band On a turbine as big as the GT35 I think you can go down to a 0.63-0.72. I woudl try to get it in the 0.6X range but dont know whats available. People will say its restrictive etc but remember you are only using 2L to spin it. If you have the chance then throw E85 at it. It just dumbs everything down and you can just throw ignition and boost at it reliably until you are happy. Make sure you have cam gears, and dont mess with the inlet manifold or cams. Leave them std Easiest thing to do is drop the exhaust on the dyno and just run the dump pipe. Remove and blank the wastegate with a blanking plate and give it a few dyno pulls increasing the revs 500rpm at a time. Run it to 4,000rpm and see what the boost curve looks like. Then 4,500rpm, etc etc. You will get an idea of what theboost curve is without worrying about whether the exhaust is a restriction, wastegate creeping etc. LOL, the GT35 will be lazxy so easily able to control it without a gate and not fear overboosting the engine. I would also put a cheap pressure gauge on the pre intercooler and post intercooler. You have not mentioned the cooler you are running and can easily be the cause of a few psi going walk about etc. If you are fault finding its is very possible a number of small things compound the main problem. When you have a GT35 on an RB20 its only going to exacerbate the small problems.

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.