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Fixed.

To be fair if you were a sponsor the choice between Lotus and Williams at the moment isn't a difficult one. The interesting bit is that Williams beat McLaren to the Unilever money. But times haven't changed that much - Williams seriously annoyed Canon in the early nineties when they took cigarette money instead of Canon's coin. Not sure which other teams lost out there - too long ago.

If you measure from the outside to outside across the "crush tubes" and compare it to the same measurement on the stock arm next to it you will have an answer.

Yes. Toto Wolff from Mercedes Benz.

Everything is relative - or can be. You can construct an argument that compares anyone with anyone else a six degrees of separation later you are better than the current world champion. Hard to see how Lotus screwed their chassis up so badly - or the aero anyway. Difficult to see how they are going to fix it for next year. See also Williams pinched Lotus armpit sponsor. The Rexona logo will appear on the sidepod, front wing and front wishbones of the Williams Mercedes FW37, as well as the team environment and apparel.

Bunnings Raceshop. Full of win. Just put the dash fittings as high up the sump as you can manage to fit them in. It is plenty high enough if you do that.

Oh fk no. Just when I thought things were improving for Williams. Still as long as he gives them some coin and doesn't damage too many chassis what difference does it make? On the basis of your chart JEV > Tool?

Wouldn't work with AFM's because the feed is downstream of them.

What you are describing is the stock setup for the GTR's with a Nismo can fitted.

You mean that stupid wing or the Hamilton family? Because a 4" tall number screaming past at 100mph amongst a bunch of cars in direct sunlight is going to be so much easier to read than a $5 ipad app.

No it doesn't help in the way you've described because the sump itself is where the blowby goes and where the "high" pressure is. The idea is to reduce the blowby gasses that have to go through the head - either by directing them to the catch can or around the head into the breather system (via the filler cap mod). I favour the former simply because it reduce the velocity of the gasses in the breather system and therefore makes it less likely they will entrain oil. Also you don't want the whole system pressurised as it just costs you horsepowahs. In a wet sump the only thing returning oil to the sump is gravity and the oil has to pass the blowby gasses going in the opposite direction.

Yeah the trick is not to push the blowby through the head - either by bypassing it or reducing blowby, or both. That and reducing the pooling of oil in the head is the key to it. Problem is there is insufficient room in the engine bay for a cyclone type catch can which would separate the oil/air properly. Speaking to a few people it can be the last few hundred rpm that is used that makes a big difference to the amount of oil spat out of the engine. Not quite sure why that is.

Surely its just the foam in the things that coalesces the oil spray - much like the wire cages in the stock baffles. The problem I have with the Mines baffles is they take their feed from the rear of the head which is exactly where the oil pools under acceleration which corresponds with the time you are getting the most blow by. Hence the suspicion that they don't work as well as advertised.

Suspected this was the case. Good to get confirmation.

Well given the emphasis is on poms and point score. Hamilton won more points in the last race than John Surtees did in 1964 to win the world drivers championship. Kind of tells you where the current nonsense has got to. McLaren won 15 of 16 in 1988. MB 16 of 19.

Surely Honda would be telling Ron Dennis to stfu and rehire him? Cant imagine Magnussen not getting belted by Alonso.

Hey Serge did you sell your BBS's? Richard

You forgot to add the bit about him having a cry when he fights with his missus.

Homo isn't Senna. I know he tries with the emo thing and the religion but he just isn't. Senna had actual charisma and wasn't a sookie la la and that's just for starters. If Mc can build a decent chassis (Something which appeared beyond them the last few years) then they may be on for half a good year. The Renault and Ferrari motors aren't suddenly going to be on MB's pace so you'd think Honda would have half a chance to get as close as anyone? First step is to paint the thing orange.

For me it just makes it easier. Driver I don't like in a team I don't like. Easy. Hoping Kimi finds something for next year. Been sad watching him struggle so much. Will be interesting to see how Lotus go in 2015.

With some decent tyres the kinds of line pressures you generate are enough to pretty much stop the old absent from working anyway. I can't remember the abs activating in the dry on track. Not in the wet either but it doesn't rain much over here either. Also the cycle rate is so slooooow.

That Joe Saward link had an estimate. Its shitloads. More than enough to fix everyone's problems. Feel bad for Marussia they were a good team before they got to F1 and at the end conducted themselves with a lot more dignity and professionalism than Caterham.

Just to confirm: The Emo and RX7 PCD's & centre bores the same as Nissans? 114.3 & 73mm?

For my ten cents worth a good cage is worth doing properly. Eg http://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/417823-r32-gtr-drc-build/page-1

Given the amount of money Ferrari get they have historically underperformed. I just don't buy the argument they deserve more in the way of historic payments than anyone else because "they are important to F1". Well they are, but F1 is also massively important to Ferrari and there is no other series they would get the kind of publicity F1 brings them. Shouldn't mean they get 3x anyone else.