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Nice mods, love the washer covers, great sounding exhaust.. Black is the best colour. Needs Rays.
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Nice job. Black is hard to keep clean..especially in this sh*t weather..
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Welcome to The Forum.
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Race - Rosberg triumphs in Monaco to regain points lead In the end Lewis Hamilton was unable to challenge pole-sitting Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg as the pair sped into Ste Devote corner at the start of Sunday’s race in Monaco. When it ended 78 laps later the German was 9.2s ahead after a brave and persistent challenge from the Briton had finally faded after 65 laps when he got dirt in his left eye and lost most of that time while trying to fish it out in the slow corners. That enabled Daniel Ricciardo, once more than 12s adrift, to close in dramatically at the end as Hamilton continue to struggle with his vision. As Rosberg reeled off the final laps to take his second consecutive triumph in the Principality, and to regain the world championship lead by four points, an unhappy Hamilton just kept the Australian’s Red Bull at bay by 0.4s after a scrap which enlivened the closing stages. Behind them, a slow-burn race came alive with other late battles. On a day when Fernando Alonso could do no better than fourth in his Ferrari, Nico Hulkenberg had worked his way up to fifth place but found himself under increasingly serious attack. Having earlier overtaken Kevin Magnussen’s McLaren with a brave move at Portier, the German subsequently found the Dane in his mirrors. Then, after Magnussen reported an engine problem on the 73rd lap which enabled team mate Jenson Button to overtake him, Hulkenberg was forced to withstand pressure from the Briton. Button had earlier survived a first-lap tangle at Mirabeau which had pitched Sergio Perez’s Force India into retirement. This was, unusually, a race of attrition. Pastor Maldonado’s Lotus was the first retirement, followed by Perez, then Sebastian Vettel fell from an early third place when his Red Bull stuck in first gear. Daniil Kvyat’s strong run ended in retirement as his Toro Rosso lost power, and Adrian Sutil crashed his Sauber braking for the chicane on the 25th lap, bringing out the safety car for the second time after its intervention early on while Perez’s car was cleared away. Hamilton thought that Mercedes’ failure to bring him in for fresh tyres in the immediate aftermath of Sutil’s crash compromised his chances of getting by Rosberg, though Mercedes’ rule is that the better placed driver gets that call first. Mercedes stopped them both on the 26th, when there was a rash of stops by most of the leading runners. During this second deployment Kimi Raikkonen’s race went wrong when he was tapped by one of the Marussia’s behind the safety car, and needed a second pit stop for tyres. That dropped the Ferrari driver from third to 13th. Later, fighting back to get on terms with the McLarens, he ran wide trying to go inside Magnussen at the hairpin on the 74th lap and the two tangled before getting underway again. Raikkonen was subsequently reprimanded for the incident. After another stop for fresh rubber and a new front wing he crossed the line 12th. In between the two Ferraris, Button failed by a tenth to dislodge Hulkenberg from fifth after harrying him in the final laps, as Felipe Massa rescued seventh place for Williams after starting 16th. The Brazilian was one of the few not to stop on the 26th lap when the safety car was out and kept going on Pirelli’s supersoft tyres until the 45th lap. He dropped from fifth to 11th but battled back to seventh, within striking distance of Hulkenberg and Button. A strong run by Jules Bianchi made up for one penalty when both Marussias were deemed to have been out of position on the grid, and with the attrition he scored Marussia’s first-ever points with eighth, but with a five-second penalty to be added post-race for taking that first penalty under the safety car, he fell back to ninth behind Romain Grosjean’s surviving Lotus which was only 1.4s adrift. Nevertheless, it was a great effort from the Banbury-based team. Magnussen got going again after his incident with Raikkonen and nursed his McLaren home for the final point, to the disappointment of Caterham for whom Marcus Ericsson took 11th ahead of the recovering Raikkonen, and team mate Kamui Kobayashi. The Japanese driver was embroiled in a fight with the Finn until Raikkonen pitted for fresh supersofts with five laps to go, and was aggrieved when Bianchi had shouldered past him earlier on at Rascasse when, for a while, it seemed that Caterham might score a point. Kobayashi sustained some debilitating rear-end damage in the incident but managed to come home ahead of the second Marussia of Max Chilton who brought up the rear in 14th. The other retirements included Esteban Gutierrez, who was fighting very hard for eighth place with Valtteri Bottas’s Williams when he tagged the barriers at Rascasse with his right-rear tyre and spun. Bottas’s own run ended soon after with an engine failure at the hairpin. Jean-Eric Vergne ran very strongly initially and was fighting with Magnussen for sixth when they pitted under the safety car on the 26th lap. Toro Rosso got him out just ahead of the McLaren but it was mighty close and the Dane had to brake very hard to avoid a collision. The stewards thought the same and gave him a drive through penalty for unsafe release. That dropped the Frenchman from sixth to 13th, and during his attempt to regain lost ground his engine cried enough. Rosberg’s second victory of the season moved him back ahead in the title chase, with 122 points to Hamilton’s 118. Alonso remains third with 61, but Ricciardo vaults to fourth on 54 from Hulkenberg on 47 and Vettel on 45. Mercedes’ sixth 1-2 of the season lifts them up to 240 points, with Red Bull next on 98 from Ferrari on 78, Force India on 67, Williams on 52 and McLaren on 51.
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Happy Birthday Martin. Have a good one.
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Nice car , never seen another one..
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Take the car to JAPEX...........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...Or any good Indi as suggested...!!!! :scare:
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Mine was there as well.. !!
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Another Specsaver thread..
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F1 Historic Masters Brands Hatch
WhackyWill replied to Mikeyazure's topic in Motorsport & Track Days
F1s from Brands. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk -
F1 Historic Masters Brands Hatch
WhackyWill replied to Mikeyazure's topic in Motorsport & Track Days
Lovely day at Brands today Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk -
He in Professional Traders. Try calling him or send PM. http://www.350z-uk.c...apexs-new-home/
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http://www.japexperformance.co.uk/ Bradders, as I said previously, call Ross at Japex, he's not far from you, he 30 mins from me and you are not far from me. He is a trader on here as well, and one of the best on Zeds.
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Welcome to The Land of Zed.
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If it goes to 120 psi when warm they have a problem as well, they need a new pressure switch ... Have you checked your pressure switch easy to change, may be worth it .
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Qualifying - Rosberg error smooths path to Monaco pole The start of Sunday’s race in Monaco will be an even more tense affair than usual after a mistake by Nico Rosberg, who had set the Q3 pace on the first runs, inadvertently protected his pole position from flying Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton. The German made an error at Mirabeau on his final run, sliding up the escape road and bringing out the yellow flags. Everyone behind Rosberg - including Hamilton who had just set a personal best first sector - were thus unable to improve. After the session the stewards announced that the incident involving Rosberg was to be investigated, but after a short period of deliberation they could find no evidence that the German had committed any offence. Behind the duelling Silver Arrows, the Red Bulls of Daniel Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel took both slots on the second row, whilst the Ferraris of Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen locked out the third. Such are the stakes at Monaco that everyone bar Mercedes and Red Bull opted to run their supersoft tyres from the start of Q1, which complicated the issue by putting some unfamiliar faces in high places. Not least of these was Jean-Eric Vergne, who eventually beat the Mercedes to fastest time in 1m 17.557s as Rosberg edged Hamilton by just over a tenth. Kvyat was the first man to clobber anything seriously this weekend, when he got into a tank slapper under braking for the chicane and damaged his Toro Rosso’s nose against the inner wall. He got going, however, and redeemed himself by scraping into Q2 in 16th on 1m 18.616s. That left the Saubers out in the cold, with Esteban Gutierrez beating Adrian Sutil by four thousandths of a second, 1m 18.741s to 1m 18.745s. Jules Bianchi was unable to match his morning time and took 19th ahead of Marussia team mate Max Chilton, 1m 19.332s to 1m 19.928s. Kamui Kobayashi was 21st on 1m 20.133s, leaving team mate Marcus Ericsson 22nd on 1m 21.732s. The Swede caused the other upset of Q1 when he dived past a slowing Felipe Massa at Mirabeau, only to nudge the Williams driver into the wall as he overshot the bend. The Brazilian was not amused - his session was over despite setting the 10th fastest time - but at least he could take some satisfaction from the fact that the stewards announced an investigation into the incident. Also are under investigation are Sergio Perez and Esteban Gutierrez and Pastor Maldonado and Kvyat for alleged impeding offences. As Hamilton beat Rosberg to fastest time by a tenth in Q2, Sergio Perez squeezed into Q3 at Force India team mate Nico Hulkenberg’s expense. The German was 11th on 1m 17.846s from Jenson Button, on 1m 17.988s. It’s worth pointing out that nine-tenths covered third down to 12th! Behind the McLaren, Williams’ miserable day continued with Valtteri Bottas only 13th on 1m 18.082s, as the Lotuses of Romain Grosjean and Maldonado also failed to make the cut with 1m 18.196s and 1m 18.356s. Thus came the big showdown in Q3. Well, almost. Rosberg snuck back ahead of Hamilton with 1m 15.989s to 1m 16.048s, as Ricciardo aced Vettel 1m 16.384s to 1m 16.547s. Behind them Alonso recorded 1m 16.686s and Raikkonen 1m 17.389s. Further back, Jean-Eric Vergne capped his excellent form thus far in the Principality by taking seventh for Toro Rosso in 1m 17.540s, ahead of the two rookies. Kevin Magnussen got a great eighth place for McLaren with 1m 17.555s as Daniil Kvyat made a brilliant recovery from his Q1 crash to take ninth on 1m 18.090s in the second STR9. Perez rounded out the top ten with 1m 18.327s. Then came the second runs. Ricciardo failed to improve after a big slide, then Rosberg was already down on his sector one time from his first lap when he locked his right-front wheel braking for Mirabeau and slid up the escape road. That seemed to leave the way clear for Hamilton and Vettel to attack, but the yellow flags were still showing at Mirabeau when Hamilton arrived and though the Briton had matched Rosberg’s first-run Sector 1 time - and was by his estimate a couple of tenths up - he had no choice but to back off. The fight for pole thus ended in an anti-climax, and left one Mercedes driver smiling sheepishly and the other looking frustrated.
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Sobering reminder about trackday safety
WhackyWill replied to brillomaster's topic in Motorsport & Track Days
and come off the power and don't touch the brakes..!! Think he just ran out of talent..!! -
NO... .. It should read 60 psi at 60 MPH in 6th Gear. That's the norm, but anything around that is OK.
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F1 Historic Masters Brands Hatch
WhackyWill replied to Mikeyazure's topic in Motorsport & Track Days
A Few pics from Brands today from my mate Gary Hawkins. -
With the air con on it should put another 150 RPM on and steady the tickover, that's why you should always leave it on.
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Turn in the air con and see what difference it makes to the tickover..! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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F1 Historic Masters Brands Hatch
WhackyWill replied to Mikeyazure's topic in Motorsport & Track Days
Thought you were going tomorrow..!! You won't be able to buy me a beer in The Kentagon then..! Best day is tomorrow ..! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk