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I didn't say the bloke in 32nd would end up near the top! The point I was making was that if you stop awardsing points at, say, 10th place, then teams such as Britek, Team Kiwi, Team BOC etc probably won't get many or indeed any points at all during the year. Having points allocated so far down the list atleast allows the teams towards the back to have something to show for their efforts. Tander should have gotten a better result in chamionship terms this year. As should Lowndes & a heap of others. A DNF (More correctly, two) will kill you champrionship, whereas stooging around in 6th place every weekend will win you a trophy. That is the inherent problem with the current points system.

Whilst ever Tom Walkinshaw is involved with HSV/HRT you can be sure that the sort of dodgy stuff that went on this year will continue. You can take that to the bank.

Because if you bash the steering arm there is a good chance you will break it. The points system sucks wang. What it is designed to do is give the bloke in 32nd place something to tell his sponsors about.

To be fair, RKelly did win one race this year. Blame the points system, not the driver. RIngall shouldn't have won the year earlier (Ambrose should have, again). They have fixed it for next year, however.

You mean he was driving for another team to try & gain an advantage. That HRT stuffed up both there & at Sandown falls under the category of "You ain't much justice in the world, but there is some...."

So it is ok to win the championship by punting someone off? Because that is what was (is still) at stake. Losing third place to Kelly meant nothing. Beating Lowndes meant everything. You have to judge the penalty handed out in that context.

If Lnowdes outbraked himself, then why did Rick Kelly Liberace him???

Choose option B.

I think the problem was, as fas as GT was concerned after the issue of the first black flag he gapped Lowndes, only to fall back when he felt he was safe (ie within 5 laps) to do so. Which can easily lead to the impression that he wasn't out there racing to his own full potential. Whether or not there is anything wrong with that in the particular circumstances is another issue.

The really disapponting thing about the whole weekend is that all four of the HRT/HSV team cars ran into Lowndes at some stage. But for anyone who has followed motorsport for any time at all you have to expect that sort of thing from a team run by Tom Walkinshaw. Cheating dogs. Always have been, always will be. Having said that I do feel a bit sorry for Rick Kelly. He didn't mean to punt Lowndes. Tander was a completely different matter, however. As was Skaife on Saturday.

Nesh, I might be interested, but can you provide a photo of the right hand side of the wheel - ie the high wear bit?

How come the fastest cars in December & January (even February) go AWOL when the season proper starts?

Give the bloke a break, he may have been confused by the floor mats. Andrew, it would be a good idea to check the build number on the chassis plate. If it is a 92 the plate should read something like BNR218000 to BNR226000 (in that range.) A V-Spec from 93 onwards will have a BNR300001 - BNR314649 chassis number plus a couple of other identifiers in the model code.

Come on Duncan - it is the constructors championship that the manufacturers are after. All very well being smug when Takuma wins the drivers championship, but it won't count for anything when Spyker win the constructors now will it?

Just as there are 50 ways to leave your lover, there are many ways to kill an oil pump. I was just trying to pull him up on the seizing thing, is all.

Well, if that is out the back of WMC's Nickel refinery I wold be keeping your car as far away from it as possible. The ammonia in that place is horrible sh!t & will wreck your paint given half a chance.

Gees, where would anyone in WA take photos of their cars if not for the industrial strip in Kwinana? Nice car, nice photos. Well done.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but how fat is your arse? I am in the market for a seat because the stock R32 GT-R seat is too small for me. How does the Bride compare relative to the Nissan seat?

Hey, can I also show the world that I am not a loser? Putting aside the reality that I am one, ofcourse. Maybe Super Aguri need to team up with Beck. Now there is a winning combination. I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me....

I have a 5Zigen oval muffler & literally cannot hear it over the tyre noise. Dunno is you want it THAT quiet, however. By the way it has a JASMA plate on it starting with 92-. not sure if the 92 in some way refer to the dBA rating.

Aguri targeting wins ‘by 2008'. Despite the fact that the team has yet to score a point, never mind finish on the podium, Super Aguri managing director Daniele Audetto says he feels the team could possibly make the step to Grand Prix winners as soon as 2008. The Japanese team came into F1 at the start of the 2006 campaign running a four-year-old Arrows chassis for Takuma Sato and Yuji Ide but, having been understandably well off the pace in Bahrain, the Honda-supported squad knuckled down to the job at hand and by the season ending Brazilian GP had got to a position where Sato was able to clinch the first top ten finish of Super Aguri's fledgling career. Into 2007, the team will hope to make further progress with the addition of highly-rated Briton Anthony Davidson to its line-up, but Audetto said it was 2008 when he feels the big steps forward will be made – especially as changing regulations will allow the team to work closer with Honda and possibly even run an off the shelf Honda chassis. "We want to show the world that we are not losers," he told Reuters. "Now that we have the base of the team, mechanics and engineers, we really want to prove that we can fight for a better position. I think if we are as good as we proved to be with the old car, maybe in 2008 we can be potential winners of one grand prix. "It's true that the Honda support is very strong and with Sato and Davidson I think we have a very good couple of drivers. But to be in the middle of the grid [next year] is a big, big jump. I think we can achieve that in 2008, when the regulations really change...I think that 2008 will be the year where Super Aguri will really show all the potential. "The new rules will allow even the small teams to have the same technical support, chassis and aero as the top teams - we can share the same car - and then what will count is the drivers, the racing team, the strategy. Potentially a small team with a very good car, with good drivers and strategy and a little luck could eventually win a grand prix in 2008."

The most probable answer is that the oil pressure sender unit has failed or is suffering from an intermittent failure. Mine used to randomly change pressure & despite how ever many times you tell yourself not to worry you end up getting paranoid about it. So I fitted a new unit & the problem went away. If you are going to get it checked then it is well worth pricing up a new sender unit as they aren't massively expensive. Change it out when you next change the oil. The oil pump is directly geared/coupled to the crank so if it seizes the engine won't go round....

I was there on Sunday & there were only a few nuggets wandering around wondering why the car out on the circuit weren't getting sideways... Atleast they got to see Gary West break the lap record in his Lola.

Baron, I have a set of the Cusco castor rods & they are well built. Unfortunately, being steel they also weigh approximately half a ton. Each.

Hmm, I take the view that for the kind of money you need to spend to get 500rwhp or thereabouts & if you are opening up the engine why wouldn't you spend the extra for the rods? But like you say it can be done on an unopened motor or with crack tested rods.