Tuvok....a friend

One of the joys of being an adult, is having to do adult things, and make decisions you hate, but you know are right.

Tuvok my lovely male shepherd was past his best, but he never stopped talking from the first day we got him, and up to the last minute had something to say, for the last 8 months he has woken me with a comment between 3 and 4 am, for a little while I think I will miss this. He was big, strong, lovely and loyal. His tail lost it's wag, and his legs would'nt obey in the end, but I will allways remember him for following me up the "calf" rock on Ilkley moor, and then I had to get us both down, laugh out loud...

We were lucky to have had him share our lives, luckier still that we had the choice to let him go with dignity, it was a privilege, and a joy to know you Tuvok, you can play with Sasha again now.

Sheik Mohamed Bin Sulayem - Renault F1 Crash - Dubai Autodrome

http://www.dumpbase.net/Videos/videodirectlink/173-sheik-mohamed-bin-sulayem-renault-f1-crash-dubai-autodrome/

Crash is near the end of the video

** What would have happened if he needed to turn corners!!

Dont think we will be seeing him in F1!! (Nelson Piquet's seat is looking a bit safer!)

Buckmore....

They have new Karts at Buckmore! specifically Sodikarts, with a Honda 390cc tuned to around 15 ponies, everything is adjustable which means giants like me can drive them with ease, if not skill.

A slickegos team, along with 26 others, lined up for the first enduro, I can,t tell you enough what a pleasure it was to drive something around the'park that was so stable, consistent in all areas, and while not as gutless as the previous wrecks they had, they were gutless. However, we won, with the peril setting a 49.6 in the process, speedy, and I were in the 50.20's. Because of the stability our strategy worked, and we managed to complete the 3 hours with 3 stops.

They had a snapper for the evening, and a Pic of the Peril leading the pack should be on the B'more website.....The bad news? these Karts have 2 settings, pro, and 'sport', our Kart, and at least 2 others were on the wrong setting, it was a Pro event, so they allowed us the win, but scrubbed the times...not our fault, but there's allways something at Buckmore!!

Now we have to do it all again in the six hour.....

Ramblin'

Lewis won...the nail-biting way....now comes the real challenge, winning more c'ships..mmm..we'll see. Not posted for a while...last bash at Buckmore was on a day that never saw temperatures above 0degrees, we would have had 6th, if not for a moment of red mist by me, which dropped us to 8th.....had better luck at the PPIK xmas race, although the entertainment called 'Back to the Future' screamed 8o's music at us wearing a pair of black panties, and a bustierre, all whilst 7 months preggas will stick in my mind forever!!!.....finished 19 secs behind the winners...2nd jan went to Elvington on a track day with Spit, and Two Fists, in the MX5, spit has really got it sorted the mazda was showing a clean pair of heels to a lot of very expensive machinery, in spit's hands  anyway, temp never got above zero, but the sun was shining. I got behind the wheel and managed to spin it 3 times, spit got a black flag for ignoring yellows, nothing new there, then...later he got the marshall to black flag me just to even it up!!!... had a few good races since then...started 17th a couple of weeks ago, got my team into a comfortable 2nd, only to watch Andreas drop us all the way back down to 17th...I went home for my tea...Autosport show was cool, won a track day...need a car...Nonda won't be playing for a while, I had hoped they would have all seen sense at least 6 months ago, and curbed the spending, now they have to, and Williams is just hanging on,.... this economic problem is created by people with no experience, being supervised by people with lots of experience, who should have known better!! how the Fuck can banks get to be so stupid.....

But now they are showing the new F1 cars...almost skeletal in comparison to previous years

Dark Days

This is a serious time for nail biting if your a fan of motorsport. This economic climate is taking a hefty toll on some of the biggest teams, championships, drivers and manufacturers. Heres a lil run down:

Honda - Out of F1!!
Formula 1 - Facing some seriously ugly cars in 2009
Audi - Out of ALMS and the LMS!
Seat - Out of BTCC and scaling down WTCC teams
LMS - Facing shorter races
WRC - Cost cutting imminent
SUBARU!!! - OUT OF THE WRC!!! SHOCK HORROR!!
Suzuki - Another team out of WRC
Le Mans - Cancelling the Official Test Day in May
Britcar - No more 24 Hours at Silverstone! Now a 6 hour.

theres more but this is all i can bare to put down

Whey!

All slip and sliding at Buckmore! If not on the track the up and down the timing screen.
Started well with the change over bein in 4th but then various probs ( crap karts!) slipped down to an eventual 8th. but we Loved it so who cares lol. ( me ) lol.

Week 2 GO

In just a week We take part in yet another 6 Hours of duelling at Buckmore. Lets hope it goes more smoothly than last time lol

Saw this on Utoob, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOGFNENPrtQ... Thought of  Stallion, and also realised how it sums up a season where the gods of F1 did their best to make the season finale a cliffhanger, most notably at Spa.... I for one would have been very disapointed had Louie not gained the championship, mostly because of the very dubious penalties in the latter half of the season, even when he back-ended Kimi in the pits, there was a question as to how 2 cars were allowed to be parked alongside each other, when the rule is line astern, does'nt remove the idiot's mistake, but would that particular mistake, and the subsequent penalty, have occurred at all?......

Kimi could never be discounted, but I liked the fact that he was never really in a position where he  had to back up Massa, either he is much smarter than the media suggests, or lucky, I would go for smart....A lot of these dubious decisions also cost Mclaren the constructors championship, not helped by Heikki's poor race performance of late, but Mclaren, and Ferrari were close enough to suggest that penalties were a major factor, next season they will be alongside each other, so they won't need a 'spygate' to copy each others tech....

Speaking of Tech, wider front wings, much narrower rear wings, all the horrible aero bits diminished or removed, engines to last 3 races, and the KERS device, all should provide fun, and games next season, best of all......Noriyuki Haga on a Ducati(just a personal thing!)

Comments are welcome, unless they disagree with the author,LOL.....  

OVER !!

9 Years of hardship and injustice are over. Not even the stewards today could take the title from Lewis or Mclaren!!!

Hard Core Fans

This weekends Formula One race in Japan will bring out the Hard core fans being up 4:30am 2moz. With the Championship at stake, Lewis on pole and Massa fighting from 5th - it should be an interesting one.

Honda is waiting for Alonso to join the team. Firstly - Why would Alonso want to go to Honda - they are towards the back of the grid. Especially as Renault have improved a lot over the last few races. Secondly - Who would be leaving Honda if he arrives. One would assume that it would be Barry who would have to retire? or a Alonso, Button swap? (Button back to renault? I doubt it!)

I found while watching the Qualy a very interesting point. 'It is so close with regards to times for grid positions'. This is true but its never really that tight during a race with overtaking.

Looking forward to the new rules of 2009. A lot of changes - esp with coverage on BBC. Brundle and Coulthard to head the line up pundits. With Brundle being the only current ITV guy to sign up for BBC. Also last race of the season will be on 15th Nov. Stretching the season even further - Nice one. Looking forward to 2009 but not the off season. I hate the off season!!

Weird too....

Go........

This strange group of men were seen on a Silverstone camp site, in a little tent village.......then they were spotted, relieving themselves under headlights........weird shit was happening....As dawn broke, the weirdness continued with much piss taking, and farting, Speedy burnt, breakfast, and had to be forcibly restrained from eating, blackened stumps, laughingly called sausage..... Stallion determined to be a fashion Queen, wore two hoodies, and a woolly hat, on the hottest day of the year...lol.lol.

The Pink Palace, or my tent, had emergency repairs, almost immediately, the pot of chili, and the 500 burgers were wolfed down in a delirium of manly excess...we took beer home, and laughed doing it...we did'nt care, slickegos at the Britcar 24....we'll do it again.  

The Good The Bad And the Weird

Good = Britcar 24 Hour, what a weekend! More than anyone could eat, and not enough to drink!!! Weekend for memories.

Bad = Lewis loosing his Spa appeal. It was coming though. You cant have the FIA backing anyone but Ferrari could we. T.W.A.T.S!!

Weird = An image of Britcar!

Awesome Hamilton....

What fantastic driving from Hamilton, from 15th to 2nd, only 1.5 sec behind Vettel on his first stop, who had already pitted earlier!!! His only bad luck was the weather forecasters got it wrong...But there is no taking away how amazing his drive was, the rest of the field were in a different race, with a potential win only a rain shower away, love him or loathe him, this kind of ability is rare......Purely from a personal point of view, I am looking forward to the last 4 races with great anticipation, With both championships up for grabs, and at ALL of the remaining circuits, a strong possibility of bad weather, the drivers championship could swing between Lewis, and Felippe, either taking wins, or good points at any of the 4 tracks, but there is a precedent for the outside chance...Robert could slip under the wire, at any point, who can write off Kimi? 
This is very Exciting, especially with the manufacturers trophy very close. It can only be good for the 'sport' Bring it on!!

Broken Rules.....

The ruling is "if a driver gains an advantage by going off the track then rejoining the track, they must immediately or at a place where it is safe to do so, hand the advantage back to the driver he gained advantage off". so when lewis went round the outside to try and overtake raikkonen, at the time he left the track he was half a car behind at most, having rejoined, he gave kimi the advantage back by a full car plus a metre or two. 
what the ruling does not say is how much advantage a driver should give, or indeed when they can resume racing at full throttle after giving the advantage back, therefore my friends, hamilton should never have been under investigation as he followed the ruling. the subsequent ban had nothing to do with rules being broken, as there is none written. so maclaren have every right to appeal, and, using this argument, should be reinstated as race winners. These are not my words, but Quoted from the Rulebook, there is also some interesting footage on you tube where Schumi, and de la Rosa are fighting for position, and guess what? Schumi cuts the corner, and DOES'NT give it back, with no penalty. Stallion, take note, this is not a position to defend, the Stewards have applied a penalty that has no justification according to their rules, hamilton did all the rule book required of him, and if one of the greatest drivers could get away with it, and it is on video, then how the hell could other drivers not expect the same?

PS; And did'nt Heidfeld do well......poor BMW, what a dilemma,lol..........PPS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnPeyzc...

Spash around at Spa???

One hopes that this weekend at Spa will be a wet race. (Especially as the forecast in England appears to be pretty bad). I have just been getting my daily F1 fix on itv.com and felt the need to express ones self! after reading the headline

'Nick Heidfeld is under pressure to prove he deserves to keep his BMW seat next year'

I know we have already had some discussion on here about the BMW team, especially after Canada. Can people not remember what Nick did with a pretty crap BMW over the last few years. He is only 14 points behind Kubica (Steve would say it should only be 10 points behind as they gave Kubica the win at Canada instead of Nick). Anyway - Im just trying to say that I think Nick is a pretty good driver. I wouldn't want to see that Spanish idot in the BMW that is for sure. (However a BMW Vettel would be pretty sweet).