WhackyWill

Two lovely looking cars, Rays just set it off. :thumbs:

Lovely job. Great colour. :thumbs:

Race - Hamilton defeats Vettel as Rosberg retires in Singapore Lewis Hamilton took over the lead of the 2014 drivers' championship on Sunday after a finely judged drive at Marina Bay, on a humid evening in Singapore in which everything went wrong for team mate Nico Rosberg before the race even started. The German's Mercedes developed problems with its gearshift electronics which left him stranded at the start of the formation lap, and forced him to start from the pit lane. Hamilton duly capitalised, immediately pulling away from the chasing pack to seemingly take control of proceedings. The curse of Singapore threw the race wide open however - the safety car came out on lap 31 after the front wing on Sergio Perez's Force India exploded into fragments following a collision with Adrian Sutil's Sauber. At that point Fernando Alonso had worked Ferrari into second - he jumped Red Bull duo Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo at the start, surrendered a place to Vettel having run wide and across the run-off at Turn 1, and then used the undercut to get ahead once more. Alonso lost out at the safety car, however: the Red Bull pair had just stopped to switch onto Pirelli's soft rubber, but the Ferrari man stopped again when the safety car was deployed and duly dropped behind them once more. Hamilton, meanwhile, had just pitted for another set of supersofts on the 26th lap. When the race went live again on the 38th lap, after a lengthy delay, he was faced with the need to get his head down and open a gap of 27 seconds over his pursuers in order to be sure of retaining the lead when he finally stopped for his mandatory set of softs. As the Red Bull drivers battled with Alonso - all three trying to keep their tyres alive - Hamilton sprinted away, but was growing increasingly worried about the state of his own tyres and the possibility of a failure. He was 25.2s ahead of Vettel when he finally pitted on the 52nd lap - and it wasn't quite enough. The four-time world champion went into the lead as Hamilton rejoined just ahead of Ricciardo and Alonso. But by then Vettel's tyres were well past their best, and in a totally committed move Hamilton sliced by Vettel on lap 54 before streaking away to a 13.5s victory. It was his seventh of the season, his second in Singapore, and enough to put him three points ahead of Rosberg, who was retired on the 13th lap when mechanics could not resolve his gearshift problems following his first pit stop. In the closing laps Vettel, Ricciardo and Alonso were all over each other, but none of them had the firepower to make a move. They finished just 1.8s apart as the race was ended a lap earlier than the scheduled 61 laps as the two-hour time limit ran out. Felipe Massa had a relatively uneventful race for Williams to take a lonely fifth, despite having to make a set of softs last from the 22nd lap to the end, while Jean-Eric Vergne was Toro Rosso's star as he took sixth. The Frenchman had to contend with two five-second penalties - one served as a stop and go, the other added to his race time - for exceeding track limits. After stopping on the 44th lap he made the most of fresher rubber to pull off a sensational late pass on Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and Valtteri Bottas in the second Williams. The two Finns had been locked together as Bottas preserved a set of soft tyres taken on the 23rd lap while simultaneously fighting a steering problem. He looked set for sixth place before sliding wide on the final lap and dropping down to 11th - a cruel reward after a brilliant drive. Besides Vergne, the beneficiaries of Bottas's misfortune were Force India's Sergio Perez - who made amends for the safety car-prompting clash with Sutil by carving back to seventh at the finish - Raikkonen, who took eighth, and Nico Hulkenberg, whose ninth helped Force India score sufficient points to move back ahead of McLaren in the constructors' stakes. Jenson Button had been on course for seventh when his MP4-29 quit with seven laps to go, but Kevin Magnussen did at least score for McLaren as he collected the final point in tenth, having received a five-second stop-and-go penalty for exceeding track limits and struggled with issues with his onboard water bottle overheating. Pastor Maldonado brought his Lotus home 12th ahead of team mate Romain Grosjean, as a dehydrated Daniil Kvyat struggled home 14th for Toro Rosso. Behind him Caterham's Marcus Ericsson won a great fight with Marussia's Jules Bianchi, finishing just a second ahead, as Max Chilton brought the second MR03 home 17th. Kamui Kobayashi disappeared on the formation lap with technical problems on his Caterham. The other retirements were the two Saubers, Esteban Gutierrez with electronics problems and Adrian Sutil with a water leak. Hamilton's victory takes him three points clear of Rosberg, 241 to 238, with Ricciardo third on 181. Alonso moves back to fourth on 133 and Vettel moves to fifth on 124, with Bottas dropping from fourth to sixth by staying on 122. Mercedes have 479 points to Red Bull's 305, while Williams stay ahead of Ferrari, 187 to 178.

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Always a great event Wendy. :thumbs:

Yesterday. Don't think Hamilton looks to convinced by the sincerity of it..

Maybe they were on there way to a Transvestites Convention..

Happy Birthday, Have a good one.

Just be careful she doesn't whop your ass around Brands or any other Circuit in it..

Sounds like somebody walked into it and mover it out of place by a cog, you shouldn't damage it by "gently" moving it back into position, I had the same thing and providing you don't force it back it s OK.

But soooo close. Felt sorry for Kimi who was up there and then had a problem when it mattered.

Qualifying - Hamilton pips Rosberg to dramatic Singapore pole Mercedes will start the 2014 Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix from the front row of the grid, but it was a mighty close thing not just between polesitter Lewis Hamilton and team mate Nico Rosberg, but between the Silver Arrows and the Red Bulls… Q1 went Ferrari's way, after Hamilton had set the initial mark on the soft Pirelli tyres with 1m 47.847s. Kimi Raikkonen did 1m 46.685s on the supersoft, which his Ferrari team mate Fernando Alonso failed to beat with 1m 46.889s. Hamilton ended up third on 1m 46.921s, whilst Rosberg was only sixth, unsettled after an early trip down an escape road as he was still getting used to some new brakes. Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel was also well back, in ninth, after running into traffic in the form of Daniil Kvyat's Toro Rosso. Down the back Adrian Sutil was bumped by Lotus's Romain Grosjean, the Sauber driver's 1m 48.324s lap leaving him 17th ahead of Pastor Maldonado on 1m 49.063s in the second Lotus. The Venezuelan had earlier taken a trip off the road at Turn 7. Jules Bianchi was behind Kamui Kobayashi's Caterham until the dying moments of Q1 when he decisively moved ahead for Marussia with 1m 49.440s. The Japanese driver didn't improve his previous lap of 1m 50.405s and just stayed ahead of the second Marussia of Max Chilton, who took his MR03 round in 1m 50.473s. Marcus Ericsson brought up the rear with 1m 52.287s after delays getting his Caterham out on to the track. Mercedes moved back to the top in Q2 but Rosberg had to use an extra set of supersofts to do 1m 45.825s. Hamilton's 1m 46.287s came on his one and only run, as did Alonso's third best lap of 1m 46.328s. McLaren's Jenson Button missed the Q3 cut by 0.017s to Kvyat, leaving the 2009 world champion in 11th place on 1m 46.943s ahead of Jean-Eric Vergne's Toro Rosso on 1m 46.989s, Nico Hulkenberg's Force India on 1m 47.308s, Esteban Gutierrez's Sauber on 1m 47.333s, and Sergio Perez in the second Force India on 1m 47.575s. Grosjean was the slowest of the Q2 runners, lapping in 1m 47.812s, and afterwards the Frenchman vented his frustration at the performance of his Renault engine. Williams' Felipe Massa was the surprise early pacesetter in Q3, running new supersofts for 1m 46.007s as Hamilton and Rosberg were only sixth and seventh respectively on new rubber. But as everyone bar Rosberg - who was forced to use scrubbed tyres - went to new supersofts for their second runs, the German snatched the initiative with 1m 45.688s only to have Hamilton take it away by seven-thousandths of a second with 1m 45.681s. Told the bad news over the radio, Rosberg had a one-word reply: “Dammit!†Behind them Daniel Ricciardo was third for Red Bull on 1m 45.854s as Vettel just held off Alonso's Ferrari, with 1m 45.902s to 1m 45.907s. Massa took sixth with 1m 46.000s, but Raikkonen complained of loss of power as he recorded 1m 46.170s in the second Ferrari. Valtteri Bottas put the second Williams into eighth place on 1m 46.187s, leaving McLaren's Kevin Magnussen and Kvyat to share the fifth row with 1m 46.250s and 1m 47.362s respectively. Thus the grid will form: Hamilton, Rosberg; Ricciardo, Vettel; Alonso, Massa; Raikkonen, Bottas; Magnussen, Kvyat; Button, Vergne; Hulkenberg, Gutierrez; Perez, Grosjean; Sutil, Maldonado; Bianchi, Kobayashi; Chilton, Ericsson.

Great pictures. Great Location..Thanks for sharing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Good link Thanks for sharing.

Happy Birthday all. Have a good one.

Congratulations Neil. That is roughly 60 hours of non stop typing...!!

Another cleaning session this morning following last nights storm. Heading to the Ace in a little while, it will probably rain BEFORE I get there..!! Above my house just now..!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Welcome to The Land of Zed. Lots of info on wheels on here, try the "search" function.

Welcome to The Land of Zed Tom. Lovely colour.

Welcome to The Land of Zed. Did you not read this before buying it... http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/22880-guide-for-new-memberspotential-buyers/

The other day I phoned my local pizza delivery firm and asked for a thin crusty supreme. They sent me Diana Ross :lol:

Nice videos, who was the passenger.

All kicking off in Glasgow tonight... :scare:

I wouldn't get Halfrauds to balance the wheels on my bicycle.... :scare:

Maldonado in the wall, first to do it. Now who would have thought that. RED FLAG in P2. :scare: