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...and therefore demand sympathies from you lot! It started as a cold and is now proper flu, complete with hallucinations of me being in the army and fighting Nazis with the help of my two cats Don't feel like eating so comfort food is out, and I can't walk straight so driving is a bit of ano-no really. Getting sloshed is still an option though I guess... /emo

Why on earth would you put 18s on an Ibiza? Must've looked like a roller-skate

It'll need a trickle charger at the very least, and I'd probably start it and take it for a 10 min drive at least once a month to avoid any issues.

So true!

You wouldn't apply the handbrake. You'd go both feet in and start praying, although engine braking would be more useful you simply wouldn't have time to think about doing that with your bum doing 50p-5p impressions. The general rule is if everything starts going wrong, jump on the clutch and brake and release the steering wheel to avoid breaking your wrists when you hit the wall.

He was only doing 95mph at the time of the crash. How many people here drive at that speed on the motorways and don't give it a second thought? Having seen and read all of that it hasn't changed my opinion on tracking cars at all. Driving cars fast is inherently dangerous, however these sort of failures can happen just as easily on the road as on the track. Track safety is all down to the marshalling IMHO, which is why I go with the same companies over and over again (Bookatrack, MSV) and avoid others that I have personal experience of being utterly sh*t (Circuit Days). You will always get one ***** on a trackday who is out there trying to prove something, but careful, quick and decisive marshalling should stop an incident before it happens. On the odd chance a marshall fails to see something that you do (overtaking on a corner), then it's up to you to go and report that person and not just sit in your car fuming: So many people I know do that instead of complaining. That said, this was just a mechanical failure that could happen to anyone at any time. It's horrible to watch, the guy was very lucky, but more accidents happen on the roads than ever happen on track.

I'd hardly call it defecting. He got sacked by the BBC and will never work for them again, he's always struggled to get a proper race seat over his career and I bet Five offered him a load of cash to come and drive fast cars on a track. This whole thing has been one giant boost for Collins, and so very well orchestrated. I'm halfway through his autobiography atm, so far he's ignored most of the TG stuff and spoke mostly about his races and his time in the forces. Really good stuff.

Depends on insurer as to whether glass cover includes a new top, but for 95% of them it doesn't.

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Eyelids = Utter, utter chav tat They're almost as bad as the bonnets that come down over the lights on Euro sh*tboxes. Tacky, ugly stuck on bits of plastic are never cool. So no, I'm not keen on them.

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Spray Finish Kare 1000p is awesome stuff. One coat per year lasts the whole year I've found, and that's with trackdays and very dusty pads.

Lucky you.

Seriously though, you do have to tell them about it.

Fair enough, what do you do for a living then? Assuming you're a police officer of some kind, I'd have expected you to know that there's a significant difference between the regular 4chan boards and /b/.

Congrats on completely missing the point. Do you spend much time on 4chan then?

4chan is paedophile heaven, you know that? No it's not. /b/ might be, but you can't tarnish the whole of 4chan by one section. Tbh the vast majority of the people on that list will have been stealing and deserve to cough up in court. Why people still think that downloading films/games/software that other people have worked hard to make is a mystery to me. 13 year old kids yes, grown adults no.

I would disagree with that. It's not a safety device, it's a failsafe for when you're driving beyond either your own or the car's limit. Cars have been around for 100 years, many with more power, worse brakes and floppier chassis than on the Zed, yet people drove those okay without the need for nannying traction control devices. It's one thing to have them on a 550bhp Ferrari which is designed to work with them to increase your speed, it's another to say they're needed on a 1.5 ton front-engined car with only 300bhp. I know you didn't exactly say that, but it's a common reaction across the board sometimes.

Alonso is an utter c*ck. Hamilton needs to learn that when you've got another 45mins of the race to go, you don't need to take silly risks. Webber needs to push on from this point if he really wants the title, and I'd love to see him do it now that Lewis is so far behind.

^^^ This.

Does it not say in the manual?

The most beautiful car produced anywhere in the last 20 years IMHO. Utterly, utterly stunning and so imposing yet so gorgeous in the flesh. I'd love one in yellow.

Never seen the point of that tbh, as it's usually the members with the highest post counts (and hence with the greatest knowledge) that have the most 'thanks' anyway, which kinda does away with the whole point of it.

In what series?