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I don't see how you can blame the pads. Firstly, the metal in the rotor will be massively more conductive than the pad material (Any pad material). Secondly the amount of heat input into the rotor will be defined by how hard you are braking, not by the pad characteristic. Lastly, we are talking about rear rotors here. Mine don't usually get hot enough to flash off the high temp thermo paint (The third of the three colours). But they still crack. And yeah, the DBA (lack of) warranty is piss week. The things are designed for track work but as soon as you get within 100 miles of a circuit the warranty is void. That is not that suprising, but it is still rubbish. I have had to bin rotors with no more than a few tenths of a mm wear. Which pisses me off no end.

Somewhat telling is the difference between top end speeds at the end of the main straight. By way of just one example the Ferrari had an 11km/h better terminal speed than the McLaren. What the hell are they doing at Mercedes? Did the get the F1 engines mixed up with the diesels they put into the E class taxis?????

Well I have & unsuprisingly they do say that. Pretty much the only time I can remember team members not saying things along those lines was when Frank Williams' was talking about Nigel Mansell. Or Mario Andretti about Mansell. Or Prost about Mansell. Or Senna about Prost. Or Prost about Senna. Or Mansell about Piquet. Or Piquet about Mansell. The more level the team mates the less well they tend to get on. Many of his rivals have more than a little vitriol for him aswell.

Baron, could you include me in the group buy. I am chasing a Light flywheel ($410) + freight + needle roller + pivot. For an late model R32 Gt-R.

Well I dunno. Some people maintain that you can't be both a good bloke & great at the same time. Some people say you can't be regarded as great if you aren't also a good bloke. Each to their own I guess. For my 10 cents I prefer my heroes to be from the old school - more your Alan Shearer type.

You have got to respect the job Renault did this year. Other than a couple of very public fumbles it was faultless.

You missed my point entirely. What I am saying is that (in my book) there is a difference between successful & great. Greatness requires more than just winning races or even championships. You have to include the other qualities the drivers bought to the sport. By way of an example many people consider Stirling Moss to be one of the best ever GP drivers. He never won a world championship. For that matter Chris Amon, for all his skill never even won a race. Jacky Stewart contested all of 99 GP's. Gilles Villeneuve dragged his Ferrari around many tracks & posted results that were all about him & not about the car. Different era's, different expectations.

There is a distinct difference between the "most successful" & "greatest". When you consider the achievments of some others, for example: Jacky Stewart: Three World Championships. Completely revolutionised the sport in terms of safety. Many GP drivers owe their lives to the deeply unfashionable stance that Stewart took in the early 70's. Jack Brabham. Three World championships, including one in a car bearing his own name and with an Australian built engine. Pierless integrity. Niki Lauda. Three world championships. Astonishing bravery in coming back from a terrible accident in Germany. Astonishing integrity in withdrawing from the 76 Japanese GP on safety grounds when the championship was on the line & rejecting Ferraris offers to make excuses about the car breaking. Damon Hill. World Champion. Led Williams in the wake of the trauma induced from Sennas death. Just like his old man did with Lotus after the demise of Jim Clark. If you want to measure greatness, you may want to think about those blokes achievements before talking about Schumacher.... Also, like ctjet says. Take a look at the old in car footage of the turbo cars (there will be some on you tube somewhere). Those cars had to be DRIVEN....

So which side of the limit of the law is trying to run people off the road on?

Since when is the willingness to cheat the measure of how good someone is?

Do you still have the rear stone guards fitted to your car?

How could you say he is not? Easy. Just include in the measure of greatness the requirement for even the slightest bit of integrity. More often than not he team mate was second rate. More often than not his team mate was contractually obliged to be second rate. Remember how close Irvine came to being world champion when Schumacher broke his leg? And how easily Mika Salo hosed Irvine?

No by me he won't. Ferrari will undoubtedly outlast Schumacher. Through their whole time in F1 they have always been more important than the dirvers whom they employed. The bloke replacing him is an better driver in any case. hopefully, none. The present dominating world champion. Don't much care if the door does hit him in the arse on the way out....

Welcome to my world. My rear rotors cracked on my GT-R. I was only (At the time) using Bendix Ultimates on the rears & was always careful to let the rotors cool properly. Did the cracks you have in your rotors start from the small return grooves on the outer circumference? IMHO, the best bet is not to use these rotors......

Best bet is to do a search. This subject gets covered alot. GT-R's & GTS-T's are sensitive to ride height (They HATE being set up too low) & also to differences in the front & rear ride heights (rake angle). You should find what you need.

Nice work, but I think you are being a bit harsh on the strut winged Brabham. No car with such wings looked pretty & they all had them for a time. Some of Gordon Murray's early creations with the wedge style front wings were pretty damn ugly too. Also the March (cant remember the model off the top of my head) with an oval front wing that looked like a tea tray...

Also the airboxes from the 94 season with holes punched through them... Maybe some of the less successful ground effects cars from 1980 or there abouts. The all time winner surely must be a thing from the 1972 Indy 500 called a Parnelli-Offenhauser VPJ-1. It had these wierd dihedral wings stuck beside the driver. You porbably won't find pictures of it on the net, but there is a photo of the thing in the current Motorsport magazine (Vol 82, number 9). The one with the Can Am McLaren on the front & the write up about the 956 Porsche. Dammit I want a McLaren Eagle M6B for Christmas.

How about the X wings on the Tyrrell? Reckon they might run a close second.

There is a novel thought. Taste Police. Maybe Bernie & Max could get that organised. I would be concerned for the entire McLaren pit crew however. Black leather & a German connection do not a happy combination make..... Actually, on that basis the first McLaren Mercedes would have to be burned at the stake. That horrible wing on top the air box & the pointy nose. That's before they built the fat bastard version for Nigel.

How about the dodgy front wing?

They forgot to mention the whole dodgy Ferrari flexi wing crap in Malaysia & earlier.

Yeah, I always preferred MS tightly PR scripted podium "celebrations" I thought Alonso had won as many GP's as MS this year anyway. Aside from scoring ten more points.

Sorry, Baron, can't get on the MS bandwagon. Too busy hoping Cosworth go out with a proper result. By the way, aren't you the one with the fixation on Alonso's nut sack?

Sounds like you need to talk to Kim Ledger....

How dare you insinuate that Yamamoto is not in the same league as Sato.