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In breaking news.... Ron admits to mistrust between drivers Sunday, 05, August, 2007, 17:09 McLaren team boss Ron Dennis has admitted that there are tensions and mistrust between his two drivers amid their intense battle for the world championship. No, really? :laughing-smiley-014: I would have paid good money to be a fly on the wall at the debrief after qualifying. Once again the FIA have made a dogs breakfast of it, again. So McLaren had problems, but how do they get penalised when, say, Fisichella got away with his efforts in qualifying? Oh Ferrari benefitted. I understand now.

Well a Gurney bubble would only be about a third of the answer. The pedals made it half way up my shins. The other problem was there was no way known I would have been able to put on any corrective lock. Why can't they make cars to fit proper sized people, instead of just scale models? Unfortunately 40"s makes a GT-R look like a bloody people mover. For the record the 917K was even shorter. Damn it all.

Yeah well I am just bitter because after doing the engineering sign off for the GT40 below I was supposed to get in & go for a drive. Let's just say I missed somewhat. Damn tupperware tractors.

Don't you be bringing your F1 sh!t into this thread Ivan. (Only because I have only watched the first 20 laps of the Hungarian GP & have to go home to see the rest.) But yeah, the FIA screwing a team over & it accidentally helping Ferrari, wow who would have thought. On the upside now everyone will know who Marcos Ambrose is, which if he had just won the race wouldn't have happened. I have no idea how he kept his cool after the race, however. Maybe he needs a cardboard cut out of Greg Murphy to get him fired up.

Well ignoring a black flag is pretty much a hanging offense in any category. So I would expect Gordon will be in a world of pain.

And the winner is the 600 degree fahrenheit boiling point dot 4-600 fluid you can get from your friendly local Motul distributor for $25 a bottle. Motul RBF 600. At worst it will degrade to be the same as normal dot 4 fluid.

So someone who owns a GT-R is talking about bad weight distribution? Don't look down but I think your bias is showing. Or is that ignorance?

Yes Bruce McLaren was a Kiwi. He was also, variously a very good driver (GP, Can-Am & LeMans winner), a great engineer & suffered from Perthes' desease when he was a child. His Can-Am cars (one of which claimed his life) must surely rank amongst the finest race cars ever built.

By reading the McLaren press release.

My completely unbiased summary is this: McLaren the company did absolutely nothing wrong. Ferrari were the ones cheating this year.

Reckon you could fit in there, Baron?

That is the same car. Nice isn't it? Here is another oddball. Those that know their cars will love the number plate and the swing axle......

Use dot 4 fluid.

Good to see the local media have a good handle on what is happening in the world of F1. Headline in the SMH. McLaren's Melbourne F1 win 'illegal' Maybe my memory is faulty, but who won in Melbourne?

Well there are a couple of different ways of looking at it. Poor journalism. Poor policework. Now obviously the police were going to do something high profile with the media in tow. I guess labelling as hoons those responsible enough to do the right thing & go to an organised, legal event is the quickest/easiest & cheapest thing to do. Part of the problem is the media who know how much mileage they get out of "hoon" stories. So you will see rubbish like that in the Daily Telegraph not to mention some of the more grown up papers. Part of the problem is the lack of resources on the police side forcing them to do what is expedient instead of what is right. But mostly it is laziness on behalf of all those involved which means they have neither the intellect nor the imagination to understand that you can be a car enthusiast without wanting to drive like an idiot on public roads.

Um I think you got the weight distibution for the driver back to front - or atleast it should be closer to 50 - 50. Which makes it a bit worse than 61/39! This on top of the fact that I have had some work done to try & make things a little better.

Sorry man, be everyone has moved on to speculating on the Hungarian GP winner. My money is on Lewis.

C'mon Baron. Linkorban. Oh, a moderator you say. Um, ok then. Obviously that one is from your personal collection...

Whatever else you may say about Nelson Piquet, his missuses (& there have been a few) have always been stove hot.

They have a feew rims in stock & you can order from their catalogues.

Imports101.

One other point people may like to note is that the RE55's (Bridgies) make an absolute bucket load of noise on the road. The Toyo's (RA1's & perhaps the 888's) are, by contrast, civilised.

Hey, Damon is ok.

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