WhackyWill

Its been a while, so nice to see it again. I don't know how accurate "howmanyleft" is though.

I have amended it to take the minority into account.

Race - Ricciardo Triumphs in Hungarian Thriller Daniel Ricciardo claimed a stunning victory for Red Bull in Hungary on Sunday, passing Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso in the final four laps as a pre-race downpour and two safety-car periods created wildly differing strategies and led to a breathtaking finish. It was Alonso who had led in the closing stages, the Spaniard having worked his way to the front after some clever strategy from Ferrari and the gamble to go for Pirelli's soft tyres on the 38th lap - with Alonso producing a sensational drive to make them last to the end. Hamilton, meanwhile, had started from the pit lane, survived a spin and brush with the barriers when he was caught out by cold brakes on the opening lap at Turn 2, and was still lurking toward the back of the field - while team mate and polesitter Nico Rosberg led comfortably - when the race turned on lap eight. The big shake-up was the result of Marcus Ericsson spinning his Caterham heavily into the tyre wall exiting Turn 3. The four leaders - Rosberg, Williams' Valtteri Bottas, Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel and Alonso - were in the final corner and were thus unable to pit as the safety car was deployed, but virtually everyone else did, which changed the order massively. By the time the lead quartet were able to pit, Ricciardo had emerged in the lead for Red Bull, with Jenson Button in second. McLaren, however, were alone in having gambled on more rain, and while Button - still on the intermediates when the rest of the field had switched to slicks - was therefore able to pass Ricciardo and lead after the restart, his tyres quickly faded and he had to pit again to follow the rest of the field onto slicks. That left Ricciardo back in the lead ahead of Williams' Felipe Massa and Alonso, who'd survived an off-track moment at Turn 1 on the second lap. At this stage Jean-Eric Vergne was a terrific fifth for Toro Rosso, holding off Rosberg, Vettel and Hamilton, the latter having made up places hand over fist during the confusion. After a long first safety-car period - extended after Romain Grosjean crashed his Lotus exiting Turn 3 during the cautionary period - the second followed shortly after when Sergio Perez crashed his Force India into the pit wall after riding the damp kerb on the exit to the final corner on the 23rd lap. Ricciardo immediately pitted, which left Alonso in the lead while Vergne continued to hold back Rosberg, Vettel and Hamilton. Alonso's last stop on lap 38 put Hamilton into the lead for a lap before the Briton stopped for a set of medium tyres - intent on going through to the end - which allowed Ricciardo to hit the front once more. The order changed again, however, when the Australian stopped on lap 54 to change from one set of softs to another. That left Alonso out front and Hamilton second, the Briton quickly closed down by Rosberg, who was on a differing strategy and still had to pit again. Mercedes therefore asked Hamilton to let Rosberg through, but the Briton declined. Rosberg did stop again, on lap 56, which dropped him down to seventh, more than 20 seconds off the lead fight - a gap he would set about rapidly carving into. Try as he might Hamilton couldn't quite pass Alonso, and soon he had Ricciardo on much fresher soft rubber breathing down his neck. The Australian made a couple of attempts before finally overtaking Hamilton round the outside of Turn 2, just four laps from the finish. One lap later and he dived down the inside of Alonso at the first corner, and from then on it was plain sailing as the he replayed his success in Canada and scored the second Grand Prix victory of his career. Hamilton never did find a way past Alonso, but had to change from attack to defence in the final laps as Rosberg closed right at the end. The German attacked at Turn 2 on the final lap, Hamilton having lost momentum while braking behind Alonso at the first corner, but the Briton pushed his team mate very wide and held on, with the trio finishing 1.1s apart. Rosberg now has 202 points to Hamilton's 191, after the latter's extraordinary afternoon of damage limitation. Massa fended off a hungry Kimi Raikkonen for the second half of the race to take fifth, but team mate Bottas had to pit for fresh rubber on the 59th lap and dropped down to eighth, unable to find a way past Vettel. The world champion was in the middle of the lead fight until he also spun exiting the final turn, tagging the wall but somehow escaping serious damage. The German's gamble to try and get to the finish without a final stop paid off: he and Bottas were separated by three-tenths of a second at the finish line. After his moment in the spotlight, Vergne found his Toro Rosso undriveable as the brake temperatures went awry, but finished ninth ahead of Button who pushed him hard before dropping back and fending off Adrian Sutil's Sauber for the final point. Kevin Magnussen also started from the pit lane and had a strong race which then got derailed by the second safety car, and he headed home Pastor Maldonado's Lotus, Daniil Kvyat's Toro Rosso and the duelling Marussia duo of Jules Bianchi and Max Chilton who were separated by half a second at the flag. Besides Ericsson, Grosjean and Perez, Nico Hulkenberg's record of finishing each race this year ended after a collision with his team mate in Turn 13, while Caterham's Kamui Kobayashi and Sauber's Esteban Gutierrez succumbed to mechanical problems.

I spend a fair bit of time in Tokyo, where people cycle along at a sedate pace on the pavement (they have wide pavements) with pedestrians, The two never have a problem, you are allowed to cycle on the road within reason, but its frowned upon, someone dressed like Lance giving it large on the streets of Tokyo wouldn't last long..!! Think the taxi drivers would sort it out with their white gloves off..This whole cycling thing is about boundaries and respect for other people.. Unfortunately the majority of cyclists in the UK have neither. :scare:

Clarkson got one on his drive...

You seen 3 in one day...I don't see 3 in one month... :scare:

He is good, doesn't have anything to whinge about yet..!!

Don't let Grundy see the wheels he'll want a set..!!!

How often do you drive it...?

Somebody on here snapper off their knob at the shaft last week.. :scare:

Cracking race...

Glad you enjoyed it, the Classic is always a good weekend and welcome to the Forum.

You would have done ph7 if it was the old system. Even if you did get wished a Happy Birthday, then nobody would have found it unless they knew it was your Birthday and then scrolled through this thread. :scare:.

Welcome to The Land of Zed.

Lovely job, look good, but as GM said you need locking wheel nuts.

Totally agree Gareth..

Good luck getting anybody to answer the home phone in our house... The ringer been turned off since it was installed..

Welcome to the Land of Zed.. Just in time for Christmas. :thumbs:

I'm amazed you cannot give away 2 tickets to The Silverstone Classic..??? :scare: I would take them but I have my BRDC pass. Its a brilliant event. :thumbs:

Qualifying - Rosberg on pole as Hamilton’s hopes go up in flames 26 Jul 2014 Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg snatched pole position back from Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel on the final lap of a dramatic, rain-hit qualifying session in Hungary on Saturday afternoon. But there was yet more heartache for Rosberg’s team mate Lewis Hamilton, who, after dominating all three practice sessions, saw his Mercedes go up in flames at the start of Q1 because of a fuel leak. After his brake disc failure in qualifying in Germany, Hamilton’s latest round of unbelievable bad luck unravelled within moments of Q1 beginning, as his Mercedes rolled to a halt aflame in pit lane. His body language said it all when he trudged back to the pits as marshals dowsed his car with extinguishant. There was bad news for another big name, too, as Marussia’s Jules Bianchi bumped Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen out of Q2 right at the end as the team erroneously banked on the Finn's medium-tyre run being enough to see him through. Raikkonen thus ended up 17th on 1m 26.792s, and was joined in the list of those whose day was over by Kamui Kobayashi on 1m 27.139s for Caterham, Max Chilton, who was bothered by a fuel pressure problem, in 18th on 1m 27.819s for Marussia, and Marcus Ericsson on 1m 28.643s in the second CT05. Behind Hamilton, Pastor Maldonado was also denied his chance when his Lotus ground to a halt early on. For the record, Toro Rosso’s Jean-Eric Vergne headed the session on 1m 24.941s on soft tyres, with Rosberg second on 1m 25.227s on mediums. Rosberg revealed Mercedes’ speed in Q2 with the best lap of 1m 23.310s, but Vettel and team mate Daniel Ricciardo were within striking distance with 1m 23.606s and 1m 23.676s respectively. Further back, Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg leapt into Q3 with a late lap of 1m 24.647s, leaving Toro Rosso’s Daniil Kvyat 11th on 1m 24.706s; the young Russian then spun at Turn 12. 1m 25.136s was insufficient to haul Adrian Sutil higher than 12th for Sauber, with Sergio Perez next on 1m 25.211s in a Force India troubled by hydraulic problems. Sutil’s team mate Esteban Gutierrez was 14th on 1m 25.260s with a very unhappy Romain Grosjean 15th in his Lotus on 1m 25.337s, from Bianchi on 1m 27.419s for Marussia. Rain fell ahead of Q3, and it caught Rosberg and McLaren’s Kevin Magnussen out as they negotiated Turn 1 on their soft tyres at the start of their first flyers. Rosberg ran wide but his luck held and he made it through, but behind Magnussen locked up and hit the tyre wall, bringing out the red flags. McLaren team mate Jenson Button also slid off, but like Rosberg made it back on track safely. The session resumed after an eight-minute delay in which the tyre wall was repositioned. When things got underway again - and the rain had subsided - Rosberg set the pace with 1m 26.488s, before his time was eclipsed first by Ricciardo on 1m 25.346s and then by Williams’ Valtteri Bottas on 1m 24.259s, before Vettel had a go with 1m 23.415s. Rosberg then seized the high ground again with 1m 23.236s as the track continued to improve. There were still a few rain spots as the session drew to its close, and the positions from P2 downwards changed hands time and again, but on his final run Vettel banged in 1m 23.201s to temporarily snatch back P1 before Rosberg reasserted himself with 1m 22.715s to put things out of anyone else’s reach. In the end, Bottas took third with 1m 23.354s as Ricciardo jumped up to fourth on 1m 23.391s ahead of Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso on 1m 23.909s, Williams’ Felipe Massa on 1m 24.223s, Button on 1m 24.294s, Vergne on 1m 24.720s and Hulkenberg on 1m 24.775s. Thus the grid will line up: Rosberg, Vettel; Bottas, Ricciardo; Alonso, Massa; Button, Vergne; Hulkenberg, Magnussen; Kvyat, Sutil; Perez, Gutierrez; Grosjean, Bianchi; Raikkonen, Kobayashi; Chilton, Ericsson; Hamilton, Maldonado.

Reckon it would be a bit like Alonso and Hamilton at Mclaren

About 4 people have been wished a Happy Birthday on this thread since the 13th July. Time to scrap it and go back to the old format or something similar where its personal and not just a long meaningless thread ..!!!! :scare:

Most useless bit of cr*p gismo I ever had on my old Merc. Ended up asking my mate at Essentially Benz to disable it..

Update from today's Practice 1 and 2. Lewis Hamilton continued to head the field after Friday afternoon’s second practice session at the Hungaroring, with Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg riding shotgun. There was a fair bit of action over the 90 minutes, with Marussia’s Max Chilton and Jules Bianchi, Caterham’s Kamui Kobayashi and Marcus Ericsson, McLaren’s Kevin Magnussen, Lotus’s Pastor Maldonado, Toro Rosso’s Jean-Eric Vergne and Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo all having off-road moments, though only Kobayashi and Williams’ Felipe Massa spun. Both Mercedes drivers also had minor offs, but they set the pace on both the medium and the soft Pirelli tyres. Hamilton continued where he left off in FP1, albeit in much hotter conditions as the track temperature rose from 47 to 55 degrees Celsius. On the medium rubber he recorded 1m 26.161s, 0.386s faster than Rosberg; on the softs he lapped in 1m 24.482s to Rosberg’s 1m 24.720s. Sebastian Vettel got closest to them with 1m 25.111s, and had a pretty good afternoon as the Red Bull RB10 looked notably smooth and consistent in its track behaviour. Fernando Alonso remained a threat with 1m 25.437s for Ferrari, with Magnussen on his tail with 1m 25.580s and Kimi Raikkonen within striking distance again on 1m 25.730s in the second Ferrari. Ricciardo didn’t look his usual sparkling self but was still below 1m 26s with 1m 25.983s which left him just ahead of Williams’ Valtteri Bottas on 1m 25.999s. Jenson Button complained of braking inconsistency on his McLaren on his way to 1m 26.234s and finished ninth as a troubled Massa completed the top 10 with 1m 26.402s. Daniil Kvyat moved ahead of Toro Rosso team mate Vergne, with 1m 26.689s to 1m 26.703s, with Nico Hulkenberg 13th for Force India on 1m 26.789s ahead of Adrian Sutil’s Sauber on 1m 26.919s. Sergio Perez in the second Force India won the close-fought battle for 15th place with 1m 27.013s, but Lotus’s Maldonado and Romain Grosjean were right with him on 1m 27.019s and 1m 27.021 respectively. Then came Esteban Gutierrez in the second Sauber on 1m 27.480s. Notwithstanding his adventures Kobayashi reasserted himself with 1m 28.370s for Caterham, which left him ahead of the Marussias of Bianchi and Chilton on 1m 28.469s and 1m 28.586s apiece, and Ericsson’s Caterham on 1m 29.036s.

:lol: What !!! £9.06p on ebay free delivery aswell Buy it... :scare: