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WhackyWill

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  1. Are you kidding? Bl**dy AOL repeating old stories then. Was news to me anyway. Unless there's been another one, which wouldn't surprise me..
  2. Ron's Back... :yahoo: http://www.autocar.c...m-mclaren-group Ron Dennis has been re-appointed as chief executive officer of the McLaren Group with immediate effect. He has been charged by the company’s shareholders to “improve its on-track and off-track performanceâ€. Dennis assumes a role previously held by Martin Whitmarsh, who is also team principal of the Formula 1 outfit. Dennis was previously CEO of the Woking-based group from 1982 to 2012, when he stepped aside. He became group chairman in 2013, and was also team principal of the Formula 1 team between 1982 and 2009. Dennis said: “My fellow shareholders have mandated me to write an exciting new chapter in the story of McLaren, beginning by improving our on-track and off-track performance. “Over the coming weeks I intend to undertake a thorough and objective review of each of our businesses with the intention of optimising every aspect of our existing operations, while identifying new areas of growth that capitalise on our technologies, and where appropriate further investing in them. “During February, I will articulate a new group strategy and implement the organisational structure best suited to achieving it. I am excited by the prospect of returning to the role of group CEO and working with my many colleagues and fellow shareholders to fulfil our objective – which is to win at whatever we do.â€â€¨ Dennis will remain chairman of McLaren Automotive, the company’s high-performance road car arm. It isn’t yet clear how today’s announcement affects Whitmarsh, who last year presided over McLaren’s first winless F1 season since 2006.
  3. Welcome to the Forum Innocent, you wont be Innocent for long..!!
  4. Gave up smoking 12 years ago on New Years eve on the top of the Intercontinental Hotel in Warsaw while watching the fireworks in the square of the unknown soldier, It was -25 with a wind chill factor of -35, it was too cold to get a cigarette out of the packet without frostbite, never had another cigarette since or any patches or other paraphernalia...!!
  5. This has been kicking around for a few years. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  6. Been voted Winner of What Car of the Year.2014. http://www.whatcar.com/awards/2014/coty/winner
  7. Who knows.. Their reserve driver was not paid last year either. Lotus team owner Gerard Lopez has moved to allay fears that the team is struggling financially to such a severe degree that it might not make the grid. The Luxembourg businessman rubbished such claims and says the reason they had an asterix next to their name on the official FIA entry list, was purely because of an administration error. "We just had the wrong team name on the list, namely the one of two years ago," he told Auto und Motor Sport. "I can assure you, everything is still the same [as before]." He also addressed concerns raised by Lotus's decision to skip the first test in Jerez. "We are very satisfied with the development of our car," he said, "which will perhaps look a bit different from the others. "We believe it is better to use the next few weeks in the wind tunnel, which will give us more [benefit] than one test on the track would." Meanwhile he confirmed the team's finances are in order, despite giving up on the failed Quantum deal and even assured that Kimi Raikkonen had been "partly paid" and he "will get the rest soon." "The [Quantum] money never arrived, so we cancelled it," he added. "For 2014, our budget is complete with our new sponsor PDVSA." - See more at: http://www.f1times.c...h.jU2C3hzL.dpuf
  8. Hope they are doing this under warranty..
  9. Lovely guy, used to see him around before he got sick, lives not far from me. RIP Trig.
  10. I love these prices makes my 2006 about £11k...
  11. A little 3 year old gone missing in Scotland, hope he returns safely. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-25756633
  12. PM Zmanalex / Clark. very possible they have one...
  13. Why do you even have that Will ? :lol: Forget that I don't want to know !
  14. That's about right for a Nissan Garage, tell us which area you live in and somebody on here will point you in the right direction to somebody who knows what they are talking about. Frightening a so called mechanic opening the rad cap when hot....
  15. KY Gel works well on it as its water based...!!!
  16. Bit of speculation in the Mail. http://www.dailymail...-rest-life.html Follow up from article above. It seems an article in The Daily Mail has everyone concerned. I’m being asked what I think. Here goes. I hope we’ve all been VERY worried since the first reports of Michael’s accident. That surely is the appropriate attitude. The guys quoted in the online article I saw have taken care of patients like Michael. They have not, however, examined Michael, reviewed his scans, etc. Because their titles imply that these men are consummate professionals, I’ve no doubt that they made clear (much clearer than the Mail does) that they were speculating as to possible outcomes. Because that is what they are doing. Look, I think that we need to look at this speculation rather like the arrival time estimates of your satnav. Their initial estimate is based on some assumptions and statistics. Obviously, as you get closer and closer to the destination the estimate gets better and better. Duh. It is highly unlikely that when Michael and his family are finished with hospitals, finished with rehab centres, he will be the same Michael we had known until that Sunday. Having said that, which is admittedly saying very little that isn’t, unfortunately, painfully obvious, the range of impairment we may see spans the spectrum from mild sensory/motor/behavioral problems to more dramatic sequelae. Once again, patience, long painstaking work by all concerned, and just maybe our thoughts, best wishes and prayers will be needed. Long periods with no news are perfectly normal, and will remain so. We will likely enter a chronic phase, punctuated by (hopefully) several steps forward and (hopefully) many fewer backward.
  17. I think its you will. I think you go on it for that smiley you love using so much. What this one......
  18. We run expensive anti virus software on our servers and we still get sh!t because some of the staff will go an a restricted site, and and we end up with spy ware on the system.
  19. Was that one of the mods you did out of your Benefits...??? .. Actually 2 weeks of saving I got it done. Surprising how much good a doctors note can do you I got it done from a member on Talkaudio. Very nice guy. Not a shop or anything though. I would say double that and your doing good for a full upgrade, speakers, sub, amped, active crossover etc etc. Must be on good benefits then..or have a good doctor..!!
  20. How did you not noticeí ½í¹€? The handling must have been appalling!!! Windy is probably a good driver and drove around the problem, or didn't go fast enough to notice he had a problem..
  21. Really depends on mileage and how you have looked after you Zed, but as Alex said about !60psi on all pots would be acceptable within a few psi
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