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Re Lewis farking up by trying to start the race in the wrong mode... LOL, the story of the front spoiler? I suppose they could see the stroke of the front shock change indicating loss of downforce on the front...but i suspect its another example of the team protecting the driver. Just like it was the teams fault not to call Lewis in when at China he had fark all grip, they could see the tyre was farked....no doubt Lewis said the car was still drivable, wait to see what the weather was doing...and oops! Fark Up! But the team wore that mistake !

Well talking to a McLaren mechanic in Melbourne, Alonso was liked by his mechanics, and Alonso was only guilty of letting some things be heard outside the team. Lewis is loved by the team, but was not innocent. At the end of the day Alonso is gone and i have it on good authority that Lewis was no more innocent then Alonso, only Alonso lost out in the eyes of the media.....I didnt get any insight on why that was the case but one could hazard a guess and say that so much F1 media is British, and secondly that he was the golden rookie...but was clever enough to cry foul publically but behind close doors conduct business in a different manner. Re todays press release, McLaren are doing a good job of protecting their drivers. Perhaps Flavio needs to take a leaf out of their book. Every time there is a problem its a team letting the driver down.

Bet it smokes me

One day i will get a proper colour match for my front bar. At the moment in fadign light you can se it has too much pearl in it Well, new bar at end of month and grill etc all get installed to tidy the car up

But at the same time. I quite liked the HKS Hyper II a friend had in his car. They have sonce improved with a newer series. And Ant is doing really well with them in his GTR which apart from the coilovers is completely std in the suspension dept. Just gettign some decent coil overs does allow you to spend the money on actually driving/racing the car rather then leaving it parked at someones workshop getting work doen...which is no guarantee that you will go any quick,er as you are still chasing the times the car could have been doing before. Just another thing to consider

teh cage in my pic could easily be legal. The design of the cage is legal, however it is not legal in my car. To make it legal i need to fully removed the rear seat, rear seat belts and take the car to Vic Roads and have it registered as a two seater. No engineering required provided you get the correct paperwork when it is made. Brow Davis in Bayswater are in a good position to help you get your carge legal as not only does David sit on the CAMS Safety Review Committee, but is also a consultant to Vic Roads. But the rules are the same for everyone and any experienced cage builder will be able to guide you when selecting your cage and ensuring its is still legal on the street

Personally i would have scrapped the horizontal bar in the main hoop and gone for a harness bar. I would have thought that since you run a race seat and harnesses they would have given you a means to more safely mount your harness. Also, for a club car, i find the horizontal bar in the main hoop and diagonal in the main hoop restricts access to the back seat. Even if you dont have a back seat, its always handy to be able to put rims, tool boxes, backpaks etc back there for the trip to the track/away. CAMS accept the diagonal in the main hoop or between the rear legs, both comply So not saying one is better then the other, just a few things i considered when i got my cage that others may want to consider. Your cage with teh exception of the lack of harness bar is a little more serious then mine...but i wanted to maintain a level of practicaloty from mine. And keeping access to the back seat was a big part of keeping it practical This is like what i am talking about

Maybe he took it back with him. Be interesting to see if McLaren continue to be line ball with BMW and behind Ferrari!

Dont wasye your time with the Cusco. A friend had it in his STi and they were not bad...but a long way from good. Also, the Type S seem to be a similar sort of thing. You knock the Super Street, but Giant was gettign excellent results with them for a long time before completely losing the plot with major mods on the R32. I know of quick GTRs using Flex, Super Street. Rock up to a track and look at what the quick cars are running

Looks like Hammo has copped a reality check. OUt of the last 6 GPs. he farked up good and proper in China. Very next race threw away the championship because of stupidity in Brazil, now had a Barry in Bahrain. Thats 3 bad races out of 5. If any other top driver had made three silly errors like that head will be rolling. Massa throws the car away in one GP in Malaysia and everybody is on his case. The Aus GP move on DC was legit.... Come on Heikki And good work by the BMW crowd.

So was the Count running through the streets naked with champas in hand? Red Bull look slow, so a long nigh ahead Hopefully the Worlds most Beatutiful man can take out the race!

I read that he has switched to the spare tub. I think they have banned spare cars, but you can still cart a spare tub as its only a component. Albeit a major one. I think Sutil did the same thing is Aus when he damaged the Force Idia chassis in practice and had to use a new tub

Who cares how it looks./ Its got an OS Giken 3L with HKS T51!

Well a word of warning re RDAs. I dont think they are heat treated and in turn like the extremes of track work that well. I think the secret is not using too racey a pad. It seems pads like Endless CCX, whilst great pads, like killing rotors. So rather then band DBA, RDA etc rotors as rubbish, i think we all jsut need to consider that if your car is being tracked, you have some decent power and grip and starting to crank some respectable times....well cheap rotors just wont do the job Have to say CSC/B-Spec and G4 seem to be the best value upgrades. That said, young Johny Boy as Unique Autosports in Sydney is the guy to speak to. He is selling the 2pce Stoptech rotors in 324mm http://www.nismo.com.au/pricelists/pricelist_gtrbrakes.htm If you look down the page you will also see the DBA rotors which are curved vane with fish hook slots like Alcon and AP use. I woudl rate these above the usual DBA range

Nathan, if you chose to enter your car in both classes, (switch of tyres) is it teh std entry fee or can a few percent be cut off entry? Also, have you spken to Speedweek(SBS) about getting the event covered?

Re $? LOL, ifi i add up the spend on my little R32 GTSt and it would be about 30k plus the purchase price. To date i have only done a 1:38.1, but have only done about 10 laps of the place. Silly Dutton format, and that 38.1 was being held up by a 430 Ferrari. So over the 9 years of GTSt ownership i have spent what i see as stupid money to get a car that is capable of 36s at Winton. And let me be the first to say, if i was as smart as i am fat that i would have a far quicker car. Its not about the money spent on the car or the sum of the parts. But the nouse of the guys swinging spanners and developing the car. So hats off to Sam as the cars he works on seem to be at the pointy end of what the cars shoudl be capable of. Not many workshops can make that claim with many cars fallign well short of what you woudl expect their performance to be. LOL, doesnt Sams brother have a VL track car? Or used to? Any ideas of the sort of time sit used to/does?

The easist thing to do is play with tyre pressures. Especially as you have an AWD car and running different tyre types front to rear which is never a great idea if you are chasing good balance. I think until you get your head around the car then just leave the shocks as they are and get tyre pressures right. I too foudn that once i started running grriipy tyres that my suspension that was great on low grip tyres started to struggle with body roll and pitch. BEst place to start is same tyres all round then make sure your ride heights are ok. Since you are about to hit the track...i stay stick with tyre pressures, start high and work your way back as generally street tyres like pressure. Or at least i found

Massa is quick again. Only he cant translate his practice and quali pace to dominant race performances. One to two races a season isnt going to cut it On a good note, Louise binned it Looked tol be a bit of a silly mistake. It will be interesting to see if he cxan get back in teh seat and qualify well in the spare tub. Hopefully he qualifies a few spots down so it will help make for an interesting race

I can get a goole page, another forum etc. But at the same time lots of pages dont seem to want to open and just crash.