WhackyWill

Nice post, good info, lots of Zeds with overheating recently.

Home Glory for Rosberg and Mercedes in Germany Nico Rosberg drove a serene race at Hockenheim on Sunday afternoon to earn his first career victory on his and Mercedes’ home soil and increase his championship points lead to 14 over team mate Lewis Hamilton. Behind him, Williams’ Valtteri Bottas drove superbly to take second place and match his career best result from Great Britain. But as those two made it home on two pit stops, it was a free-for-all scrap behind them for the final podium position as all of their rivals stopped three times. In the end it was Hamilton who came all the way from 20th place on the grid in a Mercedes that had required a new gearbox after his qualifying crash (hence a five-place drop on his initial 15th starting position), and had also had its brake material switched as a precaution against the disc that failed in Q1. Always out of kilter with the others because he started on the soft rubber, Hamilton’s afternoon was all about playing catch-up. He did well to survive contact while passing both Kimi Raikkonen’s Ferrari and Daniel Ricciardo’s Red Bull with a spectacularly opportunistic move going into the hairpin on the 13th lap, but the front wing endplate damage he sustained in a clash with Jenson Button’s McLaren at the same corner on the 30th lap lost him downforce and perhaps the chance to beat Bottas to second. When Adrian Sutil spun his Sauber exiting the final corner on the 50th lap, Mercedes - anticipating a safety car which never came - called Hamilton into the pits for a third time for another set of supersoft tyres. Had they not have done so his previous set of supersofts would have had to withstand 23 laps when previously his more durable softs had only lasted 16, but it was a crucial call that dropped him from third to fourth. When he came back out of the pits Hamilton was easily able to catch and pass Fernando Alonso, whose attempt to go through on two stops for Ferrari had to be abandoned soon after. Hamilton set fastest lap as he clawed to within half a second of Bottas, but by then his tyres were finished and he couldn’t get the speed going on to the straights to challenge the fleet Williams. Rosberg thus now has 190 points to the Briton’s 176, but for Hamilton this day was all about damage limitation and he got that job done. Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel ultimately took a great fourth place after another fabulous wheel-to-wheel place-swapping fight with Alonso, while the cudgels on that score were taken up after the final pit stops as Ricciardo likewise battled the Spaniard tooth and nail. At the flag the red and the blue cars were separated by just 0.082s, with Alonso just getting the nod. Nico Hulkenberg, like Alonso, kept up his record for finishing every 2014 race in the points, and took seventh for Force India ahead of Button whose attempt to make it on two stops also failed, dropping his McLaren from seventh to eighth. Kevin Magnussen, in the other McLaren, was lucky to recover to ninth after a racing incident in the first corner saw him tip Felipe Massa’s Williams upside down and bring out the safety car for the first two laps. Massa was unharmed but unhappy, and as unlucky as ever. The final point went to Force India’s Sergio Perez, after clashes with Daniil Kvyat’s Toro Rosso and Sutil’s Sauber. Raikkonen had another poor race for Ferrari, distinguished solely by one moment on the 15th lap when he got pincered between Vettel and Alonso during their duel, and took 11th ahead of Pastor Maldonado’s more competitive Lotus, Jean-Eric Vergne’s Toro Rosso, Esteban Gutierrez’s Sauber, Jules Bianchi’s Marussia, Kamui Kobayashi’s Caterham, Max Chilton’s Marussia and Marcus Ericsson's Caterham. Besides Massa and Sutil, Kvyat’s STR9 retired after an impressive blaze engulfed its rear end, while the unlucky Romain Grosjean saw his Lotus grind to a halt with an apparent power unit issue after a decent run. In the constructors’ stakes Mercedes moved even further ahead of their rivals, and now have 366 points to Red Bull’s 188. The big news, however, is that Williams are now up to third, having overtaken Ferrari, 121 to 116. Force India, meanwhile, moved a little further ahead of McLaren, with 98 to 94.

Hope it was the right octane..!!

Not seen this question asked on here before... (well at least for a week..!!)

Welcome to The Land of Zed..

There you go..!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Great German GP... Wont do any report on it until it's been see at 7.00pm on BBC2.

Looks a lovely job. Whats with the different size and make of wheels Grundy... :surrender:

It you get interest I would say about £350 to £400.

On BBC 2 at 7.00pm then.

Not till after the GP.. Is the F1 on? can't see it on the Sky box? ..or was it an early one and you've got it recorded? On live now Sky Sports F1 HD. Lap 16 of 67

Not till after the GP..

Here's what it looks like now covered in sand..!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well done Grundy, see you managed to wash the Beemer as well..

Nobody cleaning their Zed this weekend after the storms and another covering of Sahara sand. Doing mine after the GP.

Did say at that price it wouldn't hang about...If you like something, just go and buy it..

Looking at the mileage on it Russ, maybe Ricey is spot on at £6k, but its not for sale.... :scare: I'm just going by the fact its a gt4 and that history aswell as the overall condition which looks good. anything is for sale at the right price PM him and see if hell take £6k for it...

Looking at the mileage on it Russ, maybe Ricey is spot on at £6k, but its not for sale.... :scare:

This morning I had to pop into the office to collect something I forgot on Fri, max in traffic 20 mins no traffic on Sun morning 10 mins or so I thought 45 mins and here's why...!!! A 200 strong Cycleton...(think that's how you spell it.) Yes' at least 200 cyclists. All over the road, some with helmets, some without, some dressed as Lance Armstrong some dressed a Old King Lud. But here's the bit that really pi55ed me off, they had marshals in the compulsory high vis jackets. Cycling as far out into the road as possible, and pointing cameras at any car that dared to try and overtake them, even swerving at cars to intimidate them. And they wonder why car drivers and cyclists don't get on, 10 mins journey 45 mins I came back the long way so as not to encounter them again. Missed the GP2 race over those "muppets".. :scare:

Maybe on a good day it might fetch £6.5k, Ricey...but its not for sale... :scare:

PM Zmanalex

Happy Birthday Sam , Have a good one. (Sorry its lost in among all the others' you will probably never see it...! )

SL 55 AMG, now at a reasonable price.

Nice looking DE, best colour, wont hang about for long at that price. !

Rosberg on pole as Hamilton crashes out Nico Rosberg gave the home fans exactly what they wanted as he raced to pole position in Germany on Saturday afternoon, but Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton had another miserable qualifying session, crashing out in Q1 when his right-front brake disc failed entering the Sachskurve. Behind Rosberg, Williams claimed second and third with Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa, whilst McLaren’s Kevin Magnussen and Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo completed the top five. By the time Q1 got underway the track temperature was already way higher than the 47 degrees Celsius from FP3, nudging 55 and getting closer to the 58 seen in FP2. That made it almost certain that error-free, single-lap runs on the supersoft Pirellis were at a premium. Despite that, Rosberg, Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel, Lotus’s Pastor Maldonado and Toro Rosso’s Daniil Kvyat all had off-track moments during the session. Of course, Hamilton’s accident was the big news of Q1, occurring just after the Briton had set the second fastest time and then a pair of purple sectors on his next flying lap. A puff of smoke from the right-front tyre was just visible before the Mercedes snapped into a spin under braking. Hamilton, who was shaken but uninjured in the accident, reported over the radio that something had failed as he’d hit the brakes. After a brief red-flag period while Hamilton’s stricken car was recovered, the session resumed with Rosberg immediately beating Bottas’s 1m 18.215s to go fastest with 1m 17.631s, to the intense relief of the Mercedes chiefs. The German headed the Red Bulls of Ricciardo and Vettel, as Bottas starred as the only drive to set his time on soft rubber. Further back, Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg just squeaked into Q2 ahead of Sauber’s Adrian Sutil, with 1m 18.927s to 1m 19.142s. Jules Bianchi was 18th for Marussia on 1m 19.676s, then came Pastor Maldonado’s Lotus on 1m 20.195s, Kamui Kobayashi’s Caterham on 1m 20.408s and Max Chilton’s Marussia on 1m 20.489s. Marcus Ericsson didn’t make it out as Caterham were unable to repair his car after a hydraulic leak from the throttle. Q2 began in 56 degree track heat with Rosberg setting the fastest time with 1m 17.109s. However, the Williams duo of Bottas and Massa were right behind him, the Finn managing 1m 17.353s on fresh supersofts and on a similar set Massa improved on his previous time on worn rubber to lap in 1m 17.370s. It was a torrid session for McLaren's Jenson Button, who seemed to have done enough for 10th with 1m 18.193, only to be pushed down to 11th at the last moment when Sergio Perez improved to 1m 18.161s for Force India. Behind Button, Kimi Raikkonen also failed to get through with 1m 18.273s in his Ferrari, as did Jean-Eric Vergne for Toro Rosso on 1m 18.285s, Esteban Gutierrez on 1m 18.787s in the lead Sauber and Romain Grosjean in the lead Lotus on 1m 18.983s. Hamilton, of course, did not run. The track temperature had sidled up to 57 degrees as Q3 got underway, and once again it was Rosberg who came to the fore in his first run to secure pole position with 1m 16.540s. Bottas’s response was 1m 17.057s as Massa managed 1m 17.340s. Both Williams drivers improved on their second runs, Bottas to a superb 1m 16.759s, Massa to 1m 17.078s, but though Rosberg didn’t go quicker on his final run, his 1m 16.752s nevertheless just topped the Finn. Right at the end Kevin Magnussen jumped his McLaren up to fourth on 1m 17.214s, leaving Ricciardo to beat Vettel yet again; the Australian improved to 1m 17.273s, but the reigning champion didn’t enhance his first-run 1m 17.577s. Fernando Alonso had to make do with seventh on 1m 17.649s for Ferrari, which left him ahead of the continuously impressive Kvyat on 1m 17.965s. That left the Force Indias on row five as Hulkenberg just pipped Sergo Perez, 1m 18.014s to 1m 18.035s. Taking into account Gutierrez’s three-place penalty from Silverstone, the grid will line up thus: Rosberg, Bottas; Massa, Magnussen; Ricciardo, Vettel; Alonso, Kvyat; Hulkenberg, Perez; Button, Raikkonen; Vergne, Grosjean; Hamilton, Sutil; Gutierrez, Bianchi; Maldonado, Kobayashi; Chilton, Ericsson.