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WhackyWill

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  1. Ron should never have given Whitmarsh responsibility for the F1 Team. They now spend more time and resources on their road cars than on the F1 Team. It will turn around again, its the cycle of the beast that's F1. My old mate Patrick Head is now back at the helm of Williams as Director of Engineering as he was doing a Ron and heading up the Williams Electric Vehicle Division
  2. And 67 ahead of McLaren.. :lol:
  3. Race - Hamilton Triumphs in Italy after Rosberg slip up. Lewis Hamilton fought back from a poor start to claim an emphatic victory at Monza on Sunday, moving to within 22 points of Mercedes team mate and title rival Nico Rosberg. Rosberg had led early on, but the German had to settle for second when, coming under increasing pressure from Hamilton, he ceded the lead by out-braking himself heading into the first chicane. Felipe Massa claimed his first podium for Williams in third, while team mate Valtteri Bottas fought back from his own tardy start - he dropped from third to 11th in the opening laps - to secure fourth ahead of Red Bull duo Daniel Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel. Hamilton had started the race by immediately dropping down the order as software issues hurt his getaway, enabling Rosberg to snatch the lead from McLaren's Kevin Magnussen and Massa. The Briton's fightback from fourth was aided when Rosberg made a totally unforced error in the Rettifilo chicane at the start of lap nine, which cut his lead from 3.9 to 2.3 seconds. Massa and Hamilton had already passed Magnussen on the fifth lap, with Hamilton then picking off Massa around the outside as the pair headed into the first chicane on Lap 10. After that, the chase was on. Both Rosberg and Hamilton made single stops, switching onto the hard-compound tyre on laps 24 and 25 respectively, and rejoined just 1.8s apart. Hamilton was advised to bide his time and wait for the end to attack, but decided his best chance was when his tyres were fresh and quickly set about cutting the gap, keen to put Rosberg under pressure and see what developed. The answer came on the 29th lap when Rosberg made his second error at Rettifilo, and this time Hamilton went speeding by into a lead he would not relinquish. Behind Massa, the fight for fourth was in doubt until the closing stages. Vettel seemed to have a lock on it for a while but he'd stopped for tyres as early as the 18th lap and thus was doomed when Bottas got into his stride in a great recovery. The Finn would pick off Fernando Alonso's Ferrari, Jenson Button's McLaren, Sergio Perez's Force India, Vettel and - after a fierce fight - Magnussen to seal the position. Third and fourth for Williams was a tremendous result, and moved the team ahead of Ferrari and into third in the constructors' standings. Vettel kept going in fifth but was powerless to defend when team mate Daniel Ricciardo came rushing back up the field in one of the best drives of the afternoon. The Australian had relatively fresher rubber, having pitted on the 26th lap, and took full advantage to dive down the inside of Vettel on the 47th lap. Vettel was left to fend off Magnussen, Perez and Button, the latter duo having staged an epic fight a few laps earlier. They remained locked in a tense battle until the flag, crossing in that order. Magnussen, however, earned a five-second penalty for running Bottas off track at the first chicane, and therefore dropped down to 10th in the official classification. Thus Kimi Raikkonen lucked into a sorry ninth for Ferrari on a day when team mate Fernando Alonso's car let him down mechanically, with gearbox problems, for the first time this season. Daniil Kvyat nearly snatched the final point after a super drive from 21st on the grid, but in the closing stages out-braked himself into the first chicane and only narrowly avoided Raikkonen before running straight on down the escape road, making two spectacular catches to keep his Toro Rosso out of the wall. He finished 11th, ahead of Nico Hulkenberg's Force India, Jean-Eric Vergne's Toro Rosso, Pastor Maldonado's Lotus, Adrian Sutil's Sauber, and Romain Grosjean's Lotus. Grosjean came under attack late on from Sauber's Esteban Gutierrez and the pair clashed, a collision which earned Gutierrez a drive-through penalty - which was converted into a 20-second post-race penalty. Caterham beat Marussia fair and square for the first time in a long while, courtesy of Kamui Kobayashi who was 17th ahead of Jules Bianchi. Gutierrez was 19th at the flag, having been delayed when he split his rear tyre pulling over too quickly on Grosjean. Apart from Alonso, the other retirement was Marussia's Max Chilton, who launched himself into the gravel trap and out of the race at the second chicane on lap six. Rosberg now has 238 points to Hamilton's 216 and Ricciardo's 166, as Bottas overtakes Alonso 122 to 121. In the constructors' championship Mercedes's first one-two since Austria takes them to 454 points with Red Bull next on 272. Williams are third with 177 ahead of Ferrari on 162, McLaren on 110 and Force India on 109.
  4. Its just so easy to use. Just copy and paste "direct link" into the little green box marked Image and that's it..!! :thumbs: Here's two pics from last year that are on this computer, cannot fault it..
  5. Just the same engine..That's enough.. :thumbs:
  6. Worked so much better than PB as well, also easier to find your content.
  7. Nice to keep it in the Family. :#1:
  8. It seems to work as Photobucket lost all my images on it..!!! :rant:
  9. Did Rosberg deliberately go off the track to let Hamilton through as part of the deal..!! Don't think the expected Lewis to have a problem at the start. Rosberg was fined $250,000 by the Team for the accident.
  10. Looks brilliant, and will sound the "muts nuts" . :thumbs:
  11. Nice find.. :thumbs:
  12. Really coming on Matt. Looks great. Love those wheels. :thumbs:
  13. Thanks Turboextreme :thumbs:
  14. http://www.santapod.co.uk/
  15. Happy Birthday all, Have a good one.
  16. Is there a link to the Nissan site these figures are on .
  17. WhackyWill

    TWISTED

    There you go.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=IpZqRgML1w8
  18. Welcome to The Forum.
  19. Great job Z_Lover. Love those wheels. :thumbs:
  20. I just gave my paint shop the colour code for my Kuro and they had it made up to spray my door handles, perfect match also they gave me a small pot for touching in stone chips.
  21. Will Zmanalex and Clark Motorsport put their prices up and start charging import duty... :scare:
  22. Qualifying - Rapid Hamilton Beats Rosberg to Pole in Italy. Lewis Hamilton captured his first pole position in eight Grands Prix with a storming performance at Monza on Saturday afternoon, eclipsing Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg by just over two-tenths of a second. Williams duo Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa locked out the second row, while a last-gasp flyer from Kevin Magnussen lifted the Dane into fifth and into a share of the third row with McLaren team mate Jenson Button. Hamilton set the pace from the outset, topping Q1 with 1m 25.363s as all the leading runners ran the hard-compound Pirelli tyres. Rosberg was close behind, with Massa then leading Bottas. Further down, Lotus had a tough time, with neither Pastor Maldonado nor Romain Grosjean able to progress into Q2. The Venezuelan was told to stop changing gear as the team sensed transmission problems, and having been on the bubble in 17th was therefore unable to improve upon his best of 1m 27.520s. Grosjean, meanwhile, was delayed at the start of the session and eventually slotted into 18th on 1m 27.632s. That did at least put both E22s ahead of the Caterhams and Marussias - but it was close, as Kamui Kobayashi took his CT05 round in 1m 27.671s to head Jules Bianchi's MR03 on 1m 27.738s. Then came Max Chilton on 1m 28.247s and Marcus Ericsson on 1m 28.652s. Hamilton and Rosberg each failed to improve on their first-run times in Q2, but they still set the pace ahead of Bottas and Massa. A late charge by Magnussen bumped Kimi Raikkonen down to 11th, with the Ferrari driver unable to respond as two late, scrappy efforts consigned him to a Q2 exit. He was pushed down further by Daniil Kvyat, who lapped his Toro Rosso in 1m 26.070s to the Finn's 1m 26.110s. However, the Russian will drop to a provisional 21st on the grid thanks to a ten-place penalty for an engine change. Jean-Eric Vergne wasn't far off his team mate with 1m 26.157s, as Nico Hulkenberg failed to emulate team mate Perez in getting a Force India into Q3 and was 14th on 1m 26.279s, ahead of the Saubers of Adrian Sutil and Esteban Gutierrez on 1m 26.588s and 1m 26.692s respectively. Rosberg set the initial pace in Q3 with 1m 24.552s, just below Hamilton's best from Q2, but the Briton demolished that with 1m 24.109s and set up what seemed like a great climax to the session. Rosberg duly improved to 1m 24.383s, but that was insufficient to unseat Hamilton, even though his own second run was only good for 1m 24.637s. Behind them, Bottas didn't improve on 1m 24.697s as Massa put the second Williams fourth with 1m 24.865s. Magnussen jumped Button as they annexed the third row with 1m 25.314s and 1m 25.379s respectively, while Ferrari's practice speed ebbed away as Fernando Alonso couldn't better 1m 25.430s for seventh. Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo could only manage 1m 25.436s and 1m 25.709s respectively for Red Bull, with Perez rounding out the top ten for Force India on 1m 25.944s. Thus, with Kvyat's penalty the provisional grid will line up: Hamilton, Rosberg; Bottas, Massa; Magnussen, Button; Alonso, Vettel; Ricciardo, Perez; Raikkonen, Vergne; Hulkenberg, Sutil; Gutierrez, Maldonado; Grosjean, Kobayashi; Bianchi, Chilton; Kvyat, Ericsson. Ericsson will start from the pit lane after being penalised for failing to slow down for double waved yellow flags during FP3 - an offence that also earned him three penalty points.
  23. Welcome to The Land of Zed.
  24. I have the same problem. Will try your solution .
  25. Welcome to The Land of Zed..
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