Roy

Will they crack 29s?

That was Marko, dont think Horner would be so stupid to write off Button and a few others

Well Russ just punched out a 1:48 in the lil GTSt! Awesome. Still finding time every lap he does so roll on 47s with a bit of luck! Is the wite R32 GTR from Vic there? Really neat car and should be a car into the high 30s

Settle down! Nobody has died, and nobody has made me the expert. My quickest lap around there in my car is a 1:56!. : What i do know is that i have driven Russ's car, i know he is a good punter and i know where i found time in my car, a very similar car to his. Its only advice. Fark man! Turn 2 is a slow turn and you dont make time there, you can only lose it by trying to make it! How about turn 1, then turn 2, 3 is pretty important that leads you into 4 which sets you up for 5 then have to get brakign sorted for 6 as that dicates your exit and then you have to think about turning for 8, which means the sooner you wind off lock then you can get back on the power for the brief blip up to 9, then 10 leads into 11 then 12...get that all right and you shoudl be close to quick!

Hehe, good to read you are knocking on the door of 49s. The easiest place to make time is obviouly turn 1, but also turn 10 and 11. Straight line it, use plenty of kerb and try not to brake a lot for turn 10, rather wash off speed in turn 10 rather then before it, turn in late and really straight line your braking for turn in to 11. Lots of good time to be made through there and its quicker then you think....but as always, baby steps, the concrete is closer then you think and i have seen cars go in Those watching and epecially those competing...you all SUCK!

I love, two weeks with no GP and we are eating our young! Love it!

Christ! 1.31.1 is moving! Lets see how much they have left in them. Any news on the pace of the RX7s?

I do want to see the Pan Speed RX7 win. If cheater spec is the way to go then of course would love to see the Hi Octane R34 get up...or at least JFK get amongst it in the R32 GTR

He should have been back in the day Anyone that drive his cars were nuts. Sure they were quick and could win, but they could also mess you up pretty bad when they failed ! Remember the RBRs and Toyotas being investigated few years back when they flew apart in the Aus GP? I suspect you are right about what you have said. I think you are again right, innovation cannot continue at the rate it once did. It will plateau off, and with the regulations stifling innovation then we are not likely to see much more.

hehe, 10 days to go to the next GP and i just got back to my hotel room, so cool. An F1 disucssion I haven't got answers to all of what you posted but I can offer how i view things You seem to think its black and white. I see it as grey with many areas of cross over and in instances where an existing technlogy from space programs, defence programs have been utulised or accelerated giving them application in the automove field. So no development goes into the symmetrical design of wets and intermediates? The tyre compounds that are designed to last 100kms whilst being stickly should not be dismissed as beneficial for road and performance cars. When you factor in the effect of aero and the loads going through the tyres, i would think there is a cross over for performance road cars that are having to deal with the heat of sustained 250km/h speeds with 1700kg cars loading them up. I agree that a lower profile slick in a larger diameter would allow more direct transfer of technology but I dont think you can dismiss any correlation between motorsport/F1 and tyre technoogy. Tyre construction nothing alike? So te materials used in and under the rubber and their resistance to cuts and punctures at speed and temp? For the average road car or sports cars i could not see tyre manufacturers caring enough to spend the sort of coin on material science that they do. But for F1 and other motorsport, they get the PR of racing plus the tech transfer So the modelling F1 teams have used to develop safety cells, shaker rigs etc isused before they go crashing expensive prototypes and how they cycke to failure. The same modelling and testing techniques accelerated by F1 teams cross over to steel, aluminium monocoques. There are several premium cars that used carbon chassis. A deformable structure is a deformable structure to an engineer. If its the spoiler and suspension arm and nose cone or a inner and outer guard. Its numbers, loads and how to transform the energy. So you could also refer to old Mercs, superchargd MGs etc, fuel injected Corvettes in the late 50s? The Corvettes used actice suspension developed by Lotus in the 80s. Development of the systems was used up to the lates 90s, have not seen tha latest Vettes to know if they still use it. Turbos may have been aroud, but the materials used for housings, wheels, bearings etc changed with the environment which turbos were used in motorsport. You could say F1 didnt create the overhead cam engine, but i am pretty sure if gave us the 5 valve head and other combustion chamber technology that allowed performance and fuel economy to be improved and beTter understood. It wasnt that long ago i read somwhere that considering the power per litre of fuel burnt a V8 F1 engine was soemthing like 20-30% more efficient than that Fiesta or Golf or some crappy European hactch. And only burnt about the same amount of carbon dioxide per kg of fuel burnt. I also read all the other industries that Cosworth was now involved in because of its intellectual property derived from building F1 engines. Ditto some of the companies like HP and i think Vodafone who through developments in F1 have improved processing/telemetry speeds, reduced weight and heat etc So, not saying you are wrong, but i feel there is far more crossover in the detail rather then saying a given technology had to be created for F1 and that part directly find its way on to a road car. I would tend to think that there is probably more crossover between F1 and aviation these days.

But head design, port design, fuel and oil research. ABS, traction control, active suspension was on road cars and you now have things like magnetic suspension which didnt come directly from F1 but the computing power and data logging that allows it has its roots in F1. The crash design of cockpits, and energy dissipation from materials come from F1. Tyre technology comes from motorsport as a whole, mostly compunds and cut of the tyre, though not as developed as when there is a tyre war. Its not black or white, but i would tend to say that there is a lot on the background that ends up as a practice in road cars. Hell, even down to the trainin of engineers where they cycle through that part of the business where rapid prototyping rules in F1 translates to production cars.

Who knows, a guy ran a 3040 on his std Rb20 with cams in Sydney makign 280rwkws until his car had an acco. I have run 260rwkws for about 6 years and 45,000kms on a std motor (TD06-20G) Though the past two years it has not seen many kms, but still, call it 4 years and 40,000kms on a motor i got from a wrecker. And that includes plenty of track days, some drift days, some drag runs where it ran 12.9... and two Dutton Rallys. So to me that qualifies as reliable

Provided the tuner has a clue then I would say that is a good rule of thumb

What is wrong with air flow meters all of a sudden?

Sorry, if its a GTSt with std guards, even if the insides are rolled then its my experience that sized rim will not have a hope in hell of fitting on an R32 GTSt At best you will get a 9" +28 or so on the front and a 9.5" + 36 or so on the rear. Even that will fill out the guiards and probably rub depending on ride height and tyres used. A far better bet for a decent stance is 8.5" +30 fronts and 9" +30 rear. For the size tyre you want to run then they will fit that sized rubber better too. I have very heavily pumped guards on my car and here is a pic of it with 350/340mm ride height and R34 GTR rims which a 9" + 30 all round They clear nicely with no rubbing. But you are talkign rims that are about 12mm wider and with a further 10mm offset. No way i can see them fitting with std guards!

Is that from some running today? Who did the 34s? What is your Daddy's name and what does he do?

How in the hell has this car not sold for 13k? It goes well and has a brilliant body and paint!!!!!

At Jaguar I remember a big stack a Brazil in the wet on the start finish line. I remember him and Heidfeld i think coming together once. Fisi in Malaysia. I remember in the sphincter of the universe, cant remember if it was Williams BMW or Cossie but was messy back in 14th or something and tangled with Schuey. So i remember tangles with other cars, often being punted in th etough 6-10 grid positions off the start line, but never remember him throwing it off the road. I think about the only instance i remember of that is Japan last year but that was well after he left Williams. You cant make claims that he was throwing the car at scenery or having too many at fault accidents. He had accidents as he was trying his heart out in a pretty quick but mega unreliable car. The falling a few positions in races could be questioned, and fair enough if they claied his race pace was lacking rather then throwing at at the scenery. But even that claim is unfair. I think he simply made less mistakes in quali and got more 99% quali laps then those around him who at 90% right qualified behind him. Over the course of a race of 60 laps or so the genuine pace of the car over a race distance is shown and Webber never sucked there compared to Heidfeld or Rosberg. Heidfeld capitalised from tough pit call at Monaco, an acco with Fisi in Malaysia and several other times when Webbers car failed while ahead of him. So i love Williams and want to see them at the front...but with a hack like Sam Micahels steering the ship its laughable that they claim that a driver of Webbers ability was the problem. The car was never consistantly quick enough or reliable enough for them to make that statement!!!! (IMO ) If BMW thought Williams had their shit together they would not have left. If they thought it was the drivers that were the problem then they wouldnt have taken the out of contract Heidfeld with them and try to take the contracted Webber with them as well. Mario made public his respect for Webber and desire to have him in the team, but conceded contractually wasnt a possibility at the time. So again Williams, get rid of the guy who you SHOULD BLAME for the car's lack of pace. Sam Michaels, I love the guy being an Aussie and all and going to the Uni down the road from mine....but the car is simply not designed well enough! Budget may be part of the problem, but can in no way be blamed for the lack of their success, even the year Montoya won their last GP they sarked balls with a big budget for most of the year until an opportunistic win at years end. 2004 happened to be Sam Michaels first year as Technical Director at Williams, but he had held a Senior Engineering position for 3 years before that! He needs to move on, they need new blood in this area...so again IMHO and 2c worth

Will you be putting a breather can in the coolant system to try and aid bleeding or do you think with the custom cross flow radiator you will be able to get a side header tank high enough on the drivers side to still bleed it easily?

Apparantly someone used bad language at a petrol station and its been noted as a possible terrorist attack and travel advices now say to restrict all non essential travel to Australia So the Yanks are staying home

And think back to China where Seb struggled with setup until followings Marks setup and finding the speed and confidence in the car. Then the last two races it seems Webbers pace has been superior. Perhaps the RBR updates are proving a little difficult for Seb to get his head around...whilst fall right into the sweetsport for Webz?

I like Vettel, but i have to say there is a difference between disappointment and being a bitter little boy. Webber always says Seb was too quick, but i am trying to keep him honest...its a good tussle etc. Vettel says "we need to look why i was slower...problem, blah, blah..i find myself wanting stuff to go wrong with him so he goes and has a sook. Its almost like Hamo to an extent. He has had an immediate rise in the sport, straight into a team that gave him one of the quickest cars on the grid...and he seems his competitive streak may be getting the better of him. Meanwhile all the self imposed pressure that Webz used to put himself under seems gone. He seems to realise that it may have been negatively impacting his driving...but at the moment he is comfortable, confident and enjoying it. I was shocked after he binned it in Aus how he didnt seem to be talking about missed opportuity...he just moved on!>!> Not the Webber i remember who normalky pines over spilt milk....but now seems to be looking onwards and upwards Sorry i missed your call Count. Phone was in room and i was lagering up in the bar watching the pre-race.

I like Webber, turned into a fan when he showed me he was quicker then Heidfeld who i wa a fan of. Last year it was fun watching him mid season challenge or at least keep Button honest. But i never thought you woudl see Webber as a genuine challenger for the title. But this year, he was cheated in Aus by a bad stop, which without he should have taken the win after Sebs retirement. Ditto a bad pit call in China. The year was going the usual, close but small things stopping him. He has dug deep two weekends in a row now... and I am wondering with him now seemingly not beating himself as much and enjoying it....i think he has found his zone where he is jsut enjoying the driving without all his own pressure/nerves. AND, just maybe he is in with a shot ... the showdown, Seb v Webz!

What utter domination by Webber. I never thought i would see the day where he would drive with so much speed and composure and have back to back dominant weekends

Man, i am nervous