Ekona

Allan Simonsen died at LM last year in a fully enclosed and caged Aston Martin. It happens, regardless of what kind of car you're driving. It's a sport that always will, and always should, contain risks. If you engineer the risk out you remove the excitement.

They don't, LMP cars can run open cockpit if they want. They choose not to because of the 24hr races, and how uncomfortable it makes it for the drivers that they end up going slower due to fatigue. They also bizarrely still need to have space for a mythical second seat too! F1 should always be open cockpit. That's half the charm.

Excellent, I'm glad it's not just me then! I was only thinking about this as I thought I'd lost the key to the MR2 last night when I was packing for Donington this weekend, and in the middle of my panic wondering how I was going to get the wheels off to get the tyres changed that I realised just how utterly pointless is was having them on a track slag.

The more I think about it, the more I think they are. They were designed to stop people nicking your very expensive and brand-new alloy wheels, back when everything came on steel ones. These days every single car (give or take) has alloys, so unless you're running really desirable M or AMG wheels I reckon locking nuts are more hassle than they're worth. How many times do we see people on here with stuck nuts, or lost keys? Is the risk of having your standard wheels nicked that high that we need to give ourselves the ballache still? It's always a faff, trying to find the key and then transposing it across to various wheels when changing them, along with the risk of damaging the nuts themselves. I'm kinda thinking that unless you've got £3K worth of wheels on, you're better off running standard nuts all round.

It's all about the ethos of the series. F1 was (and in my opinion, always should be) fast, light, open cockpit, open wheeled single seaters.

That's the first decent-looking car I've ever bought! Most of the time I buy the ugly cars that are dynamically better/quicker: MR2 (over MX5), VXR220 (over Elise 111R), 350 ragtop (over S2K).

That comment was made in general though, not between a Zed and a Skoda.

Actually, that reminds me, I need to chase my test drive in this. Although maybe the huge delay is why they've not got back to me yet?

That's King, I think you'll find. Prince. Pfft.

Poor buggers, hopefully they're going on something else other than a Zed Still, fair play for getting them shifted, I have to admit I wasn't convinced you would.

Nothing wrong with cruising at 80mph, given the speedo inaccuracy you're unlikely to be doing more than 74mph. Hardly the biggest crime, and cameras won't snap you either.* *Probably. If you get done, it's your own silly fault.

Agreed. The Skoda is a striking design for a hatch, especially in that colour. Plus, I'd rather have a car that was fast, rather than one that looked fast.

22m for Kimi. What an utter waste of money on someone who would rather be down the pub.

It doesn't matter. Any fuel marked as Super had to be at least 97RON and of a set quality, to get the BS mark. As long as it had that, it's fine. Other than that it's just important to get fresh fuel: Stale 99 is worse than fresh 97, for instance. Believe all the marketing nonsense if you like, but you'd be just as wise to buy the freshest, cheapest super petrol you can. I do.

Lucky man, you don't get the ugly one, result! That's really poor from Nissan though, really poor.

You'd bang Charlotte, but only after a good clean out with a funnel and a bottle of Lucozade.

I couldn't think of anywhere I'd rather go less than Newcastle. I've seen Geordie Shore. *shudders*

What do you want to do? Drinking stags will be in different places from activity stags.

Possibly someone's cut down the OEM springs?

Not impossible, but unlikely. 95% chance you'll be fine, but there's always the odd car that seems to enjoy throwing as many lights as it can.

Hang on, you need a house and I need your car... Buy my house then, every one's a winner!

Great ad, but you might want to remove the bit about the VED as it's no longer transferable between owners.

Excellent, my thoughts too. I forgot about Renault, though. If you make the engine AND the car AND have full factory support, you're a works team.

Yup, definitely locked up I reckon. Seriously though, hope he's okay, any one know why he's not been on for months?

The worst part is, I can imagine you pulling that exact face!