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No I don't I'm sorry. Just ring the WASCC (or email them) & ask. They are nice people & don't bite!!!

If you ask nicely, seeing how the year if half gone & the V8's done you may find that membership is not much different to the $115 for the remainder of the year. You get a free track day voucher with the membership. Not sure what the nomination fee is, however. Just a thought for any first time locals. Worth asking.

What worries me about Webber is his seeming inability to consistantly manage clean overtaking manouvres. How many times this year has he speared off whilst trying to outbrake someone?

His own thread? Man he has his own website - complete with forum: www.takumasato.org

Not sure I agree. Now Skaife gets to include his Sandown & Bathurst Enduro results (Or some of them anyway, the ones with Freddo don't count). That other Brock bloke won 9 of each. So should the tally be 56 to 40 (Or thereabouts?) Secondly Brocks ATCC record is nowhere near as good as his Bathurst/Sandown record. He didn't ever dominate the ATCC to the same extent he did the enduros.

To be honest for the extra coin I would recommend the RR. You can log & export data & then use it how ever you like. The attached image shows a gain in both balance & lateral grip. Obviously the circuit is anticlockwise.

The two things I found a bit wierd were Alonso swerving toward the pitlane after failing to overtake Lewis & also why wasn't he wearing the dodgy oversized "suit" that they wear at the press conference so the sponsors logos show up? I am sure both of those things will piss Ron Dennis off hugely. Bit of a dull old race other than that. Rosberg was well unhappy, as you would be. The Super Aguris showed glimpses of their blinding speed.

Well if the dorito heroes are down Saturday I hope they have sufficient manners to clean the track before Sunday. By the way Snowman it is Sandgroper, not grouper.

A few thoughts come to mind. 1. As much as I dislike Cochrane & the way he goes about things it is not his job to look after other categories. His job is to do the best he can for the V8 cricus. So aping Bernie is probably not a bad way to start. 2. As for teams not being able to afford to run - well it has been ever thus. Team Kiwi were pretty much broke last year & needed to pass the hat around before even making this years grid. BJR has always run on next to no money. DJR have been wobbly since the whole Wespoint debacle, but look to be on the mend. Holden have always preferentially tipped money into the factory team to the expense of all others. Hell I remember in the pre V8 Supercar years when HRT couldn't afford to do all the ATCC rounds, ahhh, happy days. 3. I for one would like to see more diversity in the support categories, but really what was wrong with the Eastern Creek supports? 4. Half the reason the cars are relatively affordable is that they aren't much like the road cars anymore. Project Blueprint & the way teams are forced to make the cars are two of the best things about the category. Please don't wish production car dodginess (read cheating as inevitably happens when manufacturers get involved) on anyone.

There are a total of four different units. The cheap ones you see on EBay are the oldest. The RR & SS models are the most recent. I have an RR. In short for the money they are very, very good. They can accurately give you a quarter mile time & at the same time via the downloads allow you to see (in the comfort of your lounge room) which rpm launches worked best. When used on the circuit they can allow you to pinpoint the effectiveness of different modifications you may have made to your car. I would thouroughly recommned them if you want to dip your toes into the cheaper end of the data logging world. Oh and don't bother buying the old, cheap ones. They are nowhere near as good.

Senna was in the Toleman (Later known as Benetton) in 84 - the year of the shortened race that actually allowed Niki Lauda to win his third drivers championship. The point I was trying to make was that amongst other things drivers like Clark had to contend with such things as: Crook aero. The dirty secret of the Lotus 48 was that it generated aero lift at the front end. Compare nose cones with the equivalent Brabham at the time - clearly Ron Tauranac new something that Colin Chapman didn't. As an aside if you want the classic story of bad aero check the history of the Porsche 917 Longtail. Back in the sixties & even the seventies drivers were very, very vulnerable. Having an off didn't means stalking back to the transporter whilst the mechanics got the spare ready. It meant a trip to the hospital in an ambulance (if you were lucky & if there was an ambulance) or to the morgue if you weren't so lucky. There is a reason why F1 no longer goes to such places as the long Spa circuit, or the full Monza circuit or the Nurburgring. Drivers didn't just used to do F1. They commonly did full seasons of F2, Sports cars, Can-Am, Tasman Cup, not to mention non championship F1 races. Hell Denny Hulme drove for McLaren in the Can-Am at the same time as driving for Brabham in F1 - try that now! Jim Clark was killed in an F2 race, remember. Bottom line is that it is impossible to compare champions from different era's - in motorsport as well as in any other sport (Maybe cricket aside) What makes them champions is talent, commitment & even ruthlessness - traits that are shared by all winners & traits that don't necessarilly make them nice people. So best bet is to pick someone you respect. Oh and Jim Clark never had automatic gearboxes, anti stall, anti lock brakes (At the rear the F1 cars still have this in effect). Hell he never even had seatbelts half the time, nor HANS devices or a good helmet or....

Well I was thinkig of their spanking performance in Malaysia & then Bahrain - & comparing it to the last two outings...

Reckon he might do to Kubica what Kubica did to Villeneuve. Sorry Baron, just my thoughts. Hmm, McLaren 28 points up on Ferrari & looking good for Indy. Suddenly it is all looking ugly for Maranello.

Well, not really. The guards are different heights front & rear, so the measurements are different. But really the thing is a little nose down. The other thing that less castor does is ease the load on your front upper wishbone links which are the most common wear point on the R32 R's.

Given you are in Esperence the closest/easiest events will probably be in Albany. On the long weekend just gone (Foundation day) there was the Mt Clarence Hiil Climb & the Albany wind farm hillclimb. Additionally there was a motorkharna. Check the www.speedeventseries.com website & calender for WA's statewide based hillclimb & supersprint championship which is predominantly organised by the WASCC. Collie motorplex is a long haul from Esperence & to be honest not much closer than Wanneroo. Grab yourself a level 2 Cams licence with a car club membership (You need both) & you can then enter a heap of things...

Simple answer is to dial out a bit of castor. You wont notice it miissing as it doesn't do much other than make the steering a little heavier. Am running the Whiteline/Bilsteins on my 32R. Front end is fairly stiff (relative to stock) & the back end is quite soft. Perfectly ok for the street. Heights should be 355 front 345 rear.

Try.... Perth Brake Parts. Race Brakes - Perth.

Short answer: you can't. But you can see the light on the dashboard. "There is a mode that just floats the cursor around the screen" Which is what you are after. Find the cell eg 10 across & 15 down that the cursor is in when the dash light flashes. Then go back through all the menus to find your ignition value for that coordinate. Suck a degree or two out of it. Problem should go away or reduce if you have the right cell. A word of warning. It is best to write down all the fuel & ignition values BEFORE you start. Then you can always put things back to normal. A better solution is to take it to a dyno & get it done properly. Particularly if it is WOT because you can't diagnose fueling issues on the road.

Um, well, best of luck with that.

Hey Duncan and/or Neil, what's with the hard-on about the ARDC? Haven't read that much vitriol since the last issue of Racer & Max Stahl banging on about CAMS....

You can just imagine Alonso's thought process. Massa behind me, no problem. Kimi behind me, fine. Lewis back there, sweet. Sato behind me, HOLY FK!! SATO!!! Fernando promptly dumps the thing in the kitty litter just out of fright. Hey, maybe we need a Super Aguri keyring group buy????

Pathetic isn't it? What have McLaren done for Alonso since letting him win in Monaco?

What is Spanish for piss weak? TWO-time Formula One champion Fernando Alonso said overnight he does not feel comfortable at the McLaren team which, he alleged, is giving preferential treatment to rookie teammate Lewis Hamilton. "Since the beginning I did not feel at all comfortable," he told Spanish radio Cadena Ser. "I am with an English teammate, at an English team, which is brilliant. We know that all of the help goes his way. I've understood that from the first moment and I'm not complaining about it," said the 25-year-old. Alonso switched to McLaren from Renault after winning a second successive world title last season. Hamilton, 22, claimed his first Formula One victory on Sunday at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal while Alonso, who started from second behind the Briton, struggled to compete and wound up seventh. The Spaniard, who is now in second place in the F1 world championship, eight points behind leader Hamilton, said he is unfazed by the severe criticism he got in British newspapers following his weekend performance. "We know how they are and thank God the Spanish press has more respect," he said. "I have to concentrate on going faster, not just than against my teammate but against all pilots," he added.

Sorry I meant to put Saturday, Sunday, Monday rather than Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I was a day out, but the numbers are correct. The story on the brakes according to 888 is as follows: The rotors are last years old stock. They had a drive day for sponsors yesterday & like all the other teams they use up old stock rather than new stuff. So there was a good reason for having the rotors there, but they shouldn't have fitted them. The Tony Cochrane thing was a wrong report in Motorsport News. Which is a shame because the way he has been carrying on of late I would mind seeing someone a bit more, um balanced looking after things.

According to the good book error code 13 is a fault in either of the two fore & aft G sensors. But as has been said you need to check those wires to confirm their function & to determine whether or not they have been mucked around with.