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the One HD show this morning had the benefit of being heavily edited anyone got a link to footage of Liuzzi's big off?

yes, quite a nice rally sesh across the grass. prolly copped radiators full of mud and grass good on Rubinho looks like Grandmaster Bern could well get his wish of the season going right down to the wire at Yas Marina

So it is. I reckon I'll just stick with the Quali on 1HD at around 9:30am Sunday and the 6am race on Monday, if it's all the same to you. lol

there is no 'centre diff' in a GT-R; the back of the gearbox has a massive housing on the right side for the ATTESA clutches which drive the small prop shaft back to the front diff. it just works out much easier to just use a RB25T gearbox than to try and modify the GT-R gearbox for use in a RWD floorpan the strength of both actual gear sets is pretty much the same

little 2nd place trophy next to Alonso's two whopping great WDC muthas. ha who knows what the future'll bring; but i reckon there's a good chance 2008 was as close as Massa will come to getting his hands on the main prize...

I'm in Sydney like you: yourtv.com.au reckons 6am broadcast start on One HD for Sydney, which will be the same for Melbourne looks like I'll be getting up an hour earlier on Monday

well, He did almost win a WDC last year and good on Brazil for being twelvty hours behind Aussie time- Interlagos race start, 6am monday morning on One HD

Will probably be their last year anyway. Do the kind of people that buy their cars new give a toss about their F1 program? Is 7 years worth of mediocre results anything to promote? Unrelated, but looking forward to those ghey wheel covers finally being banned from next season.

CAN POLYPHONY HURRY UP AND RELEASE GT5 ALREADY DAMNIT!!!

I had the issue of CAR magazine that featured that group test back in about '97? Go the R33

'that...makes no sense'

Okay, let's play that game: If we go with the 'what if Renault hadn't cheated?' scenario, if Massa had have received a drive-through penalty for driving off down pit lane with the fuel hose (like He should have); then adding the drive through time to the time lost by the pit crew retrieving the busted fuel hose from the car, there is no way He would have finished in the points anyway. What's more (and worse for Ferrari fans), is that Hamilton started P2. First and second placed Alonso and Rosberg quite clearly benefited from Junior's shifty self-pwnage (they started 15th and 8th respectively). So if Lewis had have finished in P2, He would have collected 2 extra points (or possibly 4) for that race. So loser-boy finishes the season at Interlagos 3 points (or possibly 5) behind Hamilton, rather than 1 But it still would have been at least 1 point any way you care to slice it Now can all the bleeding-heart Massa fan-bois finally s.t.f.u about this? Probably not I'd suppose, but it'd just be ignorant of the facts to keep crapping on about it...

don't need anything else unless you are looking to drive for an actual competetive race team. L2S licenses only cover you for club drive days, which CAMS classes as 'driver training days', hence why no actual door-to-door racing takes place

post-mix diet coke from the drive through at Hungry Donald's; large size fits perfectly in the cup holder in my work car but since GT-R's don't have cup holders...

silicone doesn't 'balloon' under high pressures like nitrile rubber hoses do. this is one of the reasons standard hoses frequently 'blow off' when you up the boost pressure- the constant expansion and contraction of the standard hoses contributes to this. this is especially annoying when it's the intercooler inlet/outlet pipes. over-tightening the clamps to compensate won't help silicone hoses with proper constant-tension clamps are a must if you're chasing big power with high boost levels but for N/A, probably largely a rice mod...

Days Of Thunder spec- "racin' is rubbin', son..." lol it's one thing to have an advantage into the braking zone, it's another to come steaming in too shallow and too hot and just jam your nose into the other dudes rear quarter not that i really care for the team affected (or any of 'em really), but it's the principle of the matter, y'see...

the advertising to content ratio was woeful as usual- "here's 90 seconds of pacecar, now for 5 minutes of the same fkn ads you're already sick of seeing"... i thought the shot of the back of the front brake rotor was a pretty interesting camera angle though. nice to watch the sparks fly at the end of conrod didn't watch enough of the broadcast to catch all of the no doubt numerous dodgy moments, but Murph def should have got a drive through for that effort, really

aside from the fact that trying to fit a Ford engine to a Nissan is probably classed as a crime against nature under international law, the front diff and steering components would cause one helluva headache with regards to exhaust routing

Murph's argy-bargy passing move was more than a bit, er, marginal. V8 stockcars must be employing F1 race stewards...

yeah, I was playing that game at work last week. lol nothing. Toyota's own telemetry shows Glock was going as hard as he could on his dries, and Hamilton just had better pace on inters.

What's even more hilarious is when he overtakes a Toyota driver on the last corner of the last race to become the WDC, and makes little Brazillian girls go all teary. Now THAT'S funny

that would be just ace

will be fun to watch the inevitable ego-driven implosion of Team Jihad next year

Why does a GTS-t need an Attesa switch?

nice pics- but why is that R34 so damn high? edit: nvm, just read point 6