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Remember Red Bull are only in it for the publicity, something that signing Alonso is sure to generate. Dunno why MB went cold on Webber. It is only speculation but I would guess he may have told them what he thought of their Le Mans prototype.... I can't see BMW releasing either of their two drivers, least of all to go to Mercedes Benz!

I think you should go and see whomever gave you this "advice". And slap them. It is so wrong as to be laughable.

I tried the kit on the track at a sprint event for the first time on Sunday. If it wasn't for my complete lack of talent I may have even cracked the top ten. They work very well, indeed. So thanks to Gary/Matt.

I reckon you should go as a sumo wrestler wearing an Australian flag as a mawashi.

Well it makes sense for Red Bull to swap Alonso for Webber. McLaren gets a no bullshit driver who can actually drive. Red Bull gets a shed load of publicity & an excellent driver who may stop whinging because 1. Perhaps, possibly, maybe, potentially he may have learnt to shut his pie hole. 2. He will have a slower team mate than him. It makes more sense than much of what else has been speculated as: 1. Would McLaren really allow Alonso to return to Renault & potentially get them back in the main game? 2. They already have had one newb throw away a championship, do they risk two? 3. Who the fk would want to drive for Toyota, shedloads of cash aside? Lastly is Gary Parfitt any relation to Rick of Status Quo fame?

Well firstly, well done. Winning anything (A race, a round) is hard enough these days. A series is very good work. Just out of interest whose is the GT40?

You could always just go and buy the current issue of Wheels magazine.

Bugger it, I may as well say something border line controversial. Most of Nissans Le Mans engines sucked wang. Infact their efforts from the mid eighties were a border line joke. There, I have said it now.

It is not rocket surgery, have a look at the spec sheet for the 38. Wins hands down.

Upside down Miss Jane. Lowering the front will tend to generate more initial & indeed midcorner understeer. Raising it will tend to allow the car to turn in better. Sometimes it is a matter of balancing the turn in with the mid corner grip.

You rate Bourdais? Personally I think he will snap like a twig when he gets F1 style pressure put on him.

I would like to see Alonso at RBR. Just so Webber could punch him repeatedly in the head when Alonso throws a tanty after being hosed by Webber. I would even go buy a carton of Red Bull to celebrate with - Alonso getting punched, that is. Hang on I think I would buy one just to see him GTFO of McLaren.

Well far be it for me to point out the similarities between the two groups of supporters.

Bump. Still looking for some.

It allows people to ignore the tyre diamater. Just about every Skyline ever built is running something different. They may only be 10mm out or whatever but it is enough to make a nonsense of the measurement. Unfortunately it makes the camber settings influence the result where previously they would not.

Been looking at the telecast details. We get a highlights package at 1 am tomorrow. Then one the following day. Great.

It was probably always destined to turn pear shaped after Hamilton showed he was as quick as Alonso. Not many evenly matched drivers who are in the same team and are championship contenders get along. I can't actually think of any at the moment. Maybe Andretti & Peterson.

I didn't say they cheated. Your argument appears to be that because a bunch of mindless rock apes who don't know enough about F1 to differentiate an engine from a pair of tits support the only team they have heard of the governing body should allow Ferrari to get away with blue murder? Presumably punishing others for being competitive aswell. It is bad enough that they keep shovelling money at them. I used to support Ferrari. When Prost went there to drive the John Barnard designed 640 (Surely one of the prettiest F1 cars ever built) I was more than happy to see him win races & somewhat crestfallen when he couldn't bag the championship. Unfortunately after they sacked Barnard & then Prost it went downhill. In fact, any lingering integrity they may have had went into terminal decline when they signed all those dodgy bastards from Benetton. F1 doesn't need Ferrari anymore than any other class or category of racing needs any one team or car company. F1 has survived the departure of Alfa Romeo, Mercedes Benz, BMW, Honda, Jaguar, Ford, Renault, Lamborghini, Maserati to name but a few. It has survived the loss of great teams like Lotus, Brabham, Cooper, Alfa Romeo (again), Tyrrell, BRM. It has over the years survived the downsizing of the entries from anything up to 40 cars to less than 20. It has survived the loss of brilliant drivers like Clark, Rindt, Peterson, Villeneuve, Senna amongst a host of others. F1 would easilly survive Ferrari departing - something you couldn't say of Ferrari. Tifosi is basically the Italian translation for bogan. Funny how the FIA investigated what Stepney had to say about McLaren, but couldn't be arsed lifting a finger to do anything about what he said of Ferrari. Bottom line is all the teams routinely expend a great deal of time & effort finding out what the others are doing. Ferrari included. Apparently the appeal is set for November 15. I don't hold out any hope that the FIA will reach a proper verdict.

You can put a manual gearbox at the rear in the same way you can put the DSG back there. Porsche have been doing it for years - atleast they did when they built front engined cars.

GT-R's have always been horribly nose heavy. Why would this one be much different, gearbox location aside?

The floor was ruled illegal by the FIA. Otherwise everyone would be using the locating system now. I am of the view that the rules are there to be followed. Deliberately engineering a way around the testing system by using pre-buckled (Not sure what the exact term was in the end) locators in obvious contravention to the rule (just passes the test, obviously violates the intent) is a pretty shabby way of going about things. Ferrari have gotten away with this sort of shit too much in the past few years. It is not the 1980's anymore. Whatever peoples view of the floor, the way Ferrari happilly used their disregard for the rules to try to prove their claim (In collusion with the FIA) that McLaren brought the sport into disrepute was disgraceful. After all these are the same people who convinced the FIA (at a critical stage of last years championship) that Renault's mass dampers (located inside the bodywork) constituted an aerodynamic device.

Just out of interest Turboedsloth how heavy is all that stuff? I have heard all sorts of varying estimates.

This heap of sh!t below is the "Mode Door Actuator". It if from an R32 GT-R & resides in the drivers side footwell on the left behind the trim panel that sits below the instrument cluster. Anyway is there a part number & how much is it? Because I am sick of have no mode door actuation. Thanks in advance.

The part the hoses plugs into (Don't know what it is called, sorry) can and does suffer from corrosion. This has the same effect as having a restrictor in the rubber hose. So maybe change it for a known good one. Also a stock R32 ECU doesn't have a MAP feed. Strange but true. If you have a stock ECU it is not an ECU problem.

Just make some up out of some plate....