Friday, 30 September 2011

Vodafone rewards its customers as Jenson performs in Manchester (+Photos)

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Colin Davis Jimmy Daywalt JeanDenis Deletraz Birabongse Bhanubandh

WIP: "SAMSON" Monster Truck

I know, don't adjust your monitors, I am building a Monster Truck! I took my son with me to work one morning, and we got to surfing the 'net and came across Samson's awesome website. There are tons of high res chassis shots, action shots, trucks under construction, everything. At first I knew I wanted to try and build one, then after researching for a week or two, I decided to actually attempt to do Samson.

Here's a few pics of the real Samson to give you an idea of what I'm up to here.





Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/974545.aspx

Luki Botha JeanChristophe Boullion Sebastien Bourdais Thierry Boutsen

Vettel underlines title credentials with sublime drive

At Spa-Francorchamps

Sebastian Vettel and his Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber finished one-two in the Belgian Grand Prix after drives that can compare with many of those that have entered the annals of Formula 1 history from the famous Spa-Francorchamps track.

The two men went into the race on Sunday well aware of their team's concerns that their front tyres could fail.

Red Bull design chief Adrian Newey said it was "one of the scariest races I've been involved in", and the mind boggles as to the bravery of the drivers in that situation.

Spa's high-speed sweeps are arguably the biggest challenge a grand prix driver can face. Although safety has improved immensely at the circuit in the modern age, it remains an old-school race track, on which there are places "you wouldn't want to go off," as Webber put it in his BBC Sport column last week.

The drivers sounded phlegmatic about it after the race, but they were well aware of the potential seriousness of the situation. "We took quite a lot of risk," Vettel said. But, he added, "when there is a chance to win, we go for it".

Of all the many qualities that make grand prix drivers different from ordinary mortals, this has to be one of the most striking.

Call it bravery, call it lack of imagination, but Vettel and Webber went into the race, committed themselves to the 180mph rollercoaster ride through Eau Rouge, having put their lives in the hands of calculations by their engineers about how long their tyres would last.

The height of concern was in the early stages of the race, when the cars were running on tyres that Newey said Pirelli had told them "were very marginal and at five o'clock yesterday they wouldn't say after half a lap or five laps but they were going to fail".

Vettel and Webber's one-two in Belgium continued Red Bull's domination of this year's championship. Photo: Reuters

Red Bull's engineers had calculated that they could be pretty sure Webber's tyres would last two or three laps, and Vettel's five - which is when the two men made their first pit stops.

Red Bull were not the only team to suffer blistering, but theirs was worse than any of their rivals.

The situation caused controversy because they were running their cars with a greater degree of camber - lean away from vertical - on their front tyres than supplier Pirelli recommends.

Pirelli motorsport chief Paul Hembery chose his words carefully after the race, but I understand there were strong words between Pirelli and Newey before the race, and that there may be less tolerance of any team who choose to go beyond Pirelli's advice in the future.

It is yet another example of how Newey pushes every parameter to the limit, an approach that allied with his genius for aerodynamic design, has led him to create so many dominant cars, of which this year's Red Bull RB7 is just the latest in a long line.

With everything that was involved - the bravery, the tyre management, racing and overtaking Fernando Alonso's Ferrari, it has to rank as one of the best of Vettel's 17 victories.

Both Newey and team principal Christian Horner described it as a "mature" drive, and, as Newey pointed out: "Mark's race was every bit as good."

Webber was compromised first by a poor start, caused when his anti-stall kicked in, and then by a radio miscommunication that meant he did not follow his team-mate into the pits under the safety car period that followed Lewis Hamilton's collision with Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi.

That committed him to a long middle stint on the slower 'medium' tyre, at the beginning of which he showed bravery of a different but no less remarkable kind.

On lap nine, Webber passed Alonso on the outside going into Eau Rouge, pulling alongside on the hill down from La Source, nosing in front, and refusing to concede.

The two men are good friends, and they always race hard but fair, giving each other just enough room in such situations, but this incident was right on the edge.

"That boy must have some balls to do that - on the outside into Eau Rouge," Horner said. "Phenomenal. Pass of the day.

"Fernando was professional and gave him enough room to work with. Mark was always going to brave it out around the outside. I think we all closed our eyes."

Of course, Vettel and Webber's one-two was facilitated by the huge performance advantage of their cars.

Alonso appeared to be in the running for victory until his team chose not to stop under the safety car, but he insisted that was an illusion, saying Red Bull had a pace advantage of "one second per lap, maybe towards the end of the race even more, 1.5 seconds".

This is quite a turnaround after Red Bull failed to win any of the previous three races, where McLaren and Ferrari both showed Red Bull-beating pace.

Newey ascribes this to the "very cool conditions and slightly abnormal races" in Britain, Germany and Hungary.

"Hungary we were actually quite competitive in the dry and in those early laps on the intermediate tyres we suffered," he said.

"Germany it was exceptionally cold and we suffered in [tyre] warm-up. Silverstone we were compromised because we believed we had cold blowing (of the diffuser) allowed but it was taken away on Sunday morning."

This does not bode well for what were admittedly faint hopes that one of Vettel's rivals might have a chance of stopping his relentless march to the championship.

Although Alonso starred in the early stages in Spa, the car closest on pace to the Red Bull would seem still to be the McLaren, judging by Jenson Button's remarkable drive through the field to third place on Sunday, which was full of clinical and elegant overtaking moves.

As Button pointed out, though, McLaren's weekend in Belgium was compromised by the mistakes that have characterised their season, and which they desperately need to cut out.

In Button's case in Belgium, that was a "miscommunication" over how many laps he had left in the second period of qualifying that left him stranded in 13th place.

Lewis Hamilton, meanwhile, made another of several mistakes by himself and the team this season which have made it impossible to challenge Vettel.

Without them, he would be in the fight, rather than where is now, which is 113 points behind Vettel with only 175 still available, and his title hopes over.

Alonso, who after his fourth place in Spa is in a marginally better position but still 102 points adrift of Vettel, said he would keep battling until it was mathematically impossible to overhaul Vettel.

But even he, F1's most relentless fighter, admitted Ferrari's hopes were "not in our hands, and Red Bull need to make big, big mistakes, and have big problems if we want to win the championship".

Barring a disaster of catastrophic proportions, then, Vettel will win a second consecutive world title this year, and long before the end of the season.

After performances such as that at Spa on Sunday, and many others this year, he fully deserves it.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2011/08/vettel_underlines_title_creden.html

Lucien Bianchi Gino Bianco Hans Binder Clemente Biondetti

Why are the FIA bringing out their toolkits?

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Fred Agabashian Kurt Ahrens Jr Christijan Albers Michele Alboreto

Thursday, 29 September 2011

Honda NT700V


The Honda NT700V touring bike won’t scream intimidation to high heavens, but it can take you from point A to point B in a trendy and fashionable way.

The rich pearl black and silver polished finish of the NT700V makes for an attractive two-wheeled ride, and when you combine that with an impressive 680cc liquid-cooled 52� SOHC, four-cylinder V-twin engine that produces tidy horsepower, then you have the perfect everyday commuter. The bike also comes with a 41mm telescopic fork front suspension and a single shock with remote spring pre-load adjustability rear suspension plus dual 296mm front disc brakes, and a single 276mm rear disc brake.

The NT700V also features a fully-equipped fairing, interlinked saddlebags, a 45-liter rear trunk, an inner bag-trunk, a lower rear trunk pad, a wind deflector set, a knee pad set, heated grips, a tank pad, and an outdoor cycle cover.

It’s not the most powerful bike on the market, but as far as everyday commuting on a two-wheeled cruiser is concerned, the Honda NT700V has all the elements to make for a no-frills everyday bike that you can take anywhere you want to go.

Honda NT700V originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 29 September 2011 23:00 EST.

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Source: http://www.topspeed.com/motorcycles/motorcycle-reviews/honda/2011-honda-nt700v-ar113472.html

Eugenio Castellotti Johnny Cecotto Andrea de Cesaris Francois Cevert

dads 55 almost done

not sure if this is the place to do this one at but this is it so far. alot more work to do.

was a stock 55 kit, put in a somewhat wired chevy BB, wheels are off a 66 chevy kit. black chevy paint and chevy spiced orange. i only use auto piants.  gotta get the rest of the chrome on but turnin out so far so good. heres some pics now, What you'll think?

 

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Eddie Cheever Andrea Chiesa Ettore Chimeri Louis Chiron

More on Walter Brun + Another racing Circuit I?d never heard of...

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Ivan Capelli Piero Carini Duane Carter Eugenio Castellotti

Alonso the new favourite


Fernando Alonso is the new favourite for the title © Getty Images
Fernando Alonso is the new favourite to win the Formula One drivers? title, said David Coulthard in his column for The Telegraph.
?He is the man with the momentum and, on the same basis that I backed Mark Webber to win the title before Korea, is now my favourite to claim the world title in Abu Dhabi on Nov 14. ?When the cars are so evenly-matched you have to back the man in possession. Especially when that man is a two-time world champion and arguably the finest driver of his generation.?
The Mirror?s Byron Young drew comparisons between Alonso and seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher as the Spaniard bids to become the sport?s youngest ever triple world champion.
?Like Schumacher, Alonso accepts no opposition within his team. Ultimately he fell out with McLaren over their refusal in 2007 to bring Lewis Hamilton to heel. ?He returned to Renault on condition he was No.1, only to be at the centre of the Singapore cheat scandal - engineered to hand him victory. ?The Spaniard has always denied involvement but at the German GP in July he was brazen enough to radio Ferrari to rein in team-mate Felipe Massa so he could start the winning streak that has taken him to the brink of history.?

Source: http://blogs.espnf1.com/paperroundf1/archives/2010/10/alonso_the_new_favourite_1.php

Franco Comotti George Connor George Constantine John Cordts

Saying goodbye to Europe

Welcome to this week's blog, the final blog from a European race for 2011, which feels very strange indeed.

I can scarcely believe I'm writing that; where is my life disappearing to?

Firstly, let me apologise for the lack of a blog after the Belgian Grand Prix.

The only holiday I've managed to grab this season was the week after Spa and I would have been in serious trouble with Harriet, my wife, if I'd spent the first of our five days away writing a blog.

Anyway, back to last weekend, and the end of my love affair with a truck for another season. OK, you're probably thinking a love affair with a lorry is rather strange, but it's more than that, it's our European home.

You see, for the grands prix that are referred to as 'fly-away' - the long-haul races outside Europe, that is - the circuits provide the hospitality suites for the teams and the production offices for the television stations.

It is essentially to cut down on costs so the huge team 'paddock palaces' aren't transported the other side of the world.

But at the European races, we take a truck, which we occupy from the first European race in Spain to the last one in Monza.

It's a dressing room, edit suite, production offices and kitchen all rolled into one. It has even been known to accommodate the odd overnight stay if someone's working particularly hard and late in Monaco and can't face the drive back to our hotel on the way to Nice.

But now our European adventure is at an end for another year and so it was with a heavy heart on Sunday evening that we waved off Pete D'Lemos and the trusty silver truck he looks after; we'll see him next in Spain in eight months.

It feels like two minutes since I walked into that truck for the very first time in 2009. It was the same one ITV had been using, but their presenter Steve Rider's office had been turned into an edit suite so I couldn't quite say I was walking in his shoes.

Talking of getting his job, remarkably it is three years ago this week that the then BBC head of F1 Niall Sloane offered me the chance to be the presenter, and what a learning curve it has been.

I can still remember the fear and apprehension as I walked into the F1 paddock in Australia for the first time, and the nerves as I started listening to 'The Chain' down my earpiece, hoping the words would come out in the right order.

The good news is that doing this job never becomes 'normal' or mundane and I still cherish every moment.

For that reason, I asked someone to follow me with a camera this weekend as in years to come I'll fondly look back on what it was like to share the pit lane with Eddie Jordan and David Coulthard as a 30-something guy, lucky enough to see the world and follow the sport I love.

Fans at a gate to trackside at Monza, during the Italian Grand Prix

I managed to capture Paul di Resta's Force India while taking this shot of the Monza track from a gate near the pits

I've posted a selection of pictures with this blog. Have a look through and see what you think. The one I'm most proud of is the one directly above - and it doesn't actually feature much apart from a big silver gate!

You see, one of the oddities of this job is that I very rarely see a car actually on the track.

We must be out of the pit lane with 15 minutes to go before qualifying and the race and so by the time the cars are track I'm in the paddock and there is nothing to see.


Eddie Jordan, Jake Humphrey and Ted Kravitz prepare to go on our for the Italian Grand Prix

An hour before we go on air and Eddie Jordan, Ted Kravitz and I have to cram ourselves between Ferrari and McLaren's motorhomes to get our gear on for the show

One of the most common requests I get is from people who have tickets to the race asking to get into the paddock. I tell them they would soon be bored of sitting around drinking coffee and would see more in the grandstand.

Anyway, in Monza on Sunday, I walked out of the paddock and along the back of the garages and the photo is testament to how tricky it is even for me to get to the track during the action - I always say that in front of the TV you get the best seat in the house and this is proof!

And why am I so proud of the photo? Well, Paul di Resta's Force India is passing by me at full speed and somehow I managed to press the button at just the right time - trust me, it was far more luck than judgement.

Talking of luck, some people may well think that Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel has had his fair share of it over the course of the year, but perhaps in Monza he finally put the doubters to bed by doing something a few were questioning - pulling off a cracking overtake!

Vettel knew he had to get past Fernando Alonso's Ferrari for his race strategy to work, he managed it really early on, then delivered the lap times and the consistency to take another win.

I think that perhaps it was the race that finally broke his challengers and since then we've seen a few of Seb's rivals declare that he has now won the title.

Spa and Monza were the races where McLaren and Ferrari were expecting to challenge Red Bull, but Vettel won both. As for Seb's team-mate, Mark Webber, well, he only managed to collect 18 points to Vettel's 50.

So, with that in mind we had a meeting back at BBC HQ on Wednesday to discuss how we tackle the Singapore race weekend.

Our mantra is 'fail to prepare, prepare to fail'. With that in mind, we need to fly into Singapore fully ready to do justice to Vettel if he manages to win the title there.

I always enjoy Singapore. And if you want to read about how strange it is for us as a production team, as we stay on European time, which is eight hours behind where we are, my blog from 2009 will tell you about the perils of trying to get dinner when the city is asleep.

Before I sign off, I'm sure that there will be plenty of people reading this who are keen to know about our plans for the 2012 F1 coverage.

As soon as there is something concrete to announce, I know that the BBC will do that. However, I can tell you I am committed to helping the BBC make its F1 coverage next year as compelling as it has been for the last three years.

And thanks for your continued loyalty - all 5.8m of you who watched the race with us on Sunday.

Jake.

Eddie Jordan, Lee McKenzie and Jake Humphrey

Lee McKenzie looks on as EJ and I check comms. It involves talking to each other while the team in the gallery talk at the same time to make sure the sound levels are workable

Roger Bines, BBC Sport's rigger, and Jake Humphrey

Roger Bines, our rigger, is our unsung hero. We wouldn't be on air without him and I've spent the past three years with him in the pit lane. He retired after 15 years in F1 on Sunday. We'll miss you, Rog!

Jake Humphrey chats to Ferrari engineer Rob Smedley

Two minutes to on-air and Rob Smedley, Felipe Massa's race engineer, pops over to say hello and have a chat.

Jake Humphrey notes down the finishing order after the Italian Grand Prix

Post-race and I am busy noting down the race finishing order, the championship standings and any other notes I need close at hand for 45 minutes of unscripted, unplanned post-race analysis

Jake Humphrey and Eddie Jordan on air during the Italian Grand Prix programme

I love this snap.. Eddie Jordan doing what he does best... having an opinion!

Jake Humphrey and David Coulthard chat to Toro Rosso driver Jaime Alguersuari

Whil you at home are watching the top three drivers' interviews, we decamp to the paddock, where Toro Rosso's Jaime Algersuari pops over to see what we thought of his charge into the points

Jake Humphrey, Eddie Jordan, David Coulthard and Martin Brundle after the Italian Grand Prix

This photo sums up the job for me, and I love it. The team, all four of us, owning the paddock as we go looking for stories. On screen it just seems to flow

The Monza banking

The last photo I took on my way out of the circuit. The Monza banking is a reminder of how much has gone before us, and that F1 will continue to evolve long after we've left

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/jakehumphrey/2011/09/saying_goodbye_to_europe.html

Luca Badoer Giancarlo Baghetti Julian Bailey Mauro Baldi

Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Dr Dre isn't the only chap to have his own branded headphones...

Source: http://www.metrof1.com/blogs/metrof1/2011/09/dr-dre-isnt-the-only-chap-to-have-his-own-branded-headphones.html

Geoff Crossley Chuck Daigh Yannick Dalmas Derek Daly

Rally WRX.. Finished 9/25/11

Bought this kit back in 2007 when I was in Korea, never started it till now.. well, a few weeks ago.. Its the Tamiya Rally WRX, and its basically box stock with some minor color changes

Some WIP pics of the interior:

 

 

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Pedro Matos Chaves Bill Cheesbourg Eddie Cheever Andrea Chiesa

Red Bull RB7 launch pictures (1st of February)

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Art Bisch Harry Blanchard Michael Bleekemolen Alex Blignaut

Jeff Gordon wins the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Phoenix International Raceway

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Ernesto Brambilla Vittorio Brambilla Toni Branca Gianfranco Brancatelli

MattHT takes Predictions Championship lead with perfect score | Predictions Championship

MattHT leads the F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship by a single point.

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Chris Craft Jim Crawford Ray Crawford Alberto Crespo

Vettel underlines title credentials with sublime drive

At Spa-Francorchamps

Sebastian Vettel and his Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber finished one-two in the Belgian Grand Prix after drives that can compare with many of those that have entered the annals of Formula 1 history from the famous Spa-Francorchamps track.

The two men went into the race on Sunday well aware of their team's concerns that their front tyres could fail.

Red Bull design chief Adrian Newey said it was "one of the scariest races I've been involved in", and the mind boggles as to the bravery of the drivers in that situation.

Spa's high-speed sweeps are arguably the biggest challenge a grand prix driver can face. Although safety has improved immensely at the circuit in the modern age, it remains an old-school race track, on which there are places "you wouldn't want to go off," as Webber put it in his BBC Sport column last week.

The drivers sounded phlegmatic about it after the race, but they were well aware of the potential seriousness of the situation. "We took quite a lot of risk," Vettel said. But, he added, "when there is a chance to win, we go for it".

Of all the many qualities that make grand prix drivers different from ordinary mortals, this has to be one of the most striking.

Call it bravery, call it lack of imagination, but Vettel and Webber went into the race, committed themselves to the 180mph rollercoaster ride through Eau Rouge, having put their lives in the hands of calculations by their engineers about how long their tyres would last.

The height of concern was in the early stages of the race, when the cars were running on tyres that Newey said Pirelli had told them "were very marginal and at five o'clock yesterday they wouldn't say after half a lap or five laps but they were going to fail".

Vettel and Webber's one-two in Belgium continued Red Bull's domination of this year's championship. Photo: Reuters

Red Bull's engineers had calculated that they could be pretty sure Webber's tyres would last two or three laps, and Vettel's five - which is when the two men made their first pit stops.

Red Bull were not the only team to suffer blistering, but theirs was worse than any of their rivals.

The situation caused controversy because they were running their cars with a greater degree of camber - lean away from vertical - on their front tyres than supplier Pirelli recommends.

Pirelli motorsport chief Paul Hembery chose his words carefully after the race, but I understand there were strong words between Pirelli and Newey before the race, and that there may be less tolerance of any team who choose to go beyond Pirelli's advice in the future.

It is yet another example of how Newey pushes every parameter to the limit, an approach that allied with his genius for aerodynamic design, has led him to create so many dominant cars, of which this year's Red Bull RB7 is just the latest in a long line.

With everything that was involved - the bravery, the tyre management, racing and overtaking Fernando Alonso's Ferrari, it has to rank as one of the best of Vettel's 17 victories.

Both Newey and team principal Christian Horner described it as a "mature" drive, and, as Newey pointed out: "Mark's race was every bit as good."

Webber was compromised first by a poor start, caused when his anti-stall kicked in, and then by a radio miscommunication that meant he did not follow his team-mate into the pits under the safety car period that followed Lewis Hamilton's collision with Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi.

That committed him to a long middle stint on the slower 'medium' tyre, at the beginning of which he showed bravery of a different but no less remarkable kind.

On lap nine, Webber passed Alonso on the outside going into Eau Rouge, pulling alongside on the hill down from La Source, nosing in front, and refusing to concede.

The two men are good friends, and they always race hard but fair, giving each other just enough room in such situations, but this incident was right on the edge.

"That boy must have some balls to do that - on the outside into Eau Rouge," Horner said. "Phenomenal. Pass of the day.

"Fernando was professional and gave him enough room to work with. Mark was always going to brave it out around the outside. I think we all closed our eyes."

Of course, Vettel and Webber's one-two was facilitated by the huge performance advantage of their cars.

Alonso appeared to be in the running for victory until his team chose not to stop under the safety car, but he insisted that was an illusion, saying Red Bull had a pace advantage of "one second per lap, maybe towards the end of the race even more, 1.5 seconds".

This is quite a turnaround after Red Bull failed to win any of the previous three races, where McLaren and Ferrari both showed Red Bull-beating pace.

Newey ascribes this to the "very cool conditions and slightly abnormal races" in Britain, Germany and Hungary.

"Hungary we were actually quite competitive in the dry and in those early laps on the intermediate tyres we suffered," he said.

"Germany it was exceptionally cold and we suffered in [tyre] warm-up. Silverstone we were compromised because we believed we had cold blowing (of the diffuser) allowed but it was taken away on Sunday morning."

This does not bode well for what were admittedly faint hopes that one of Vettel's rivals might have a chance of stopping his relentless march to the championship.

Although Alonso starred in the early stages in Spa, the car closest on pace to the Red Bull would seem still to be the McLaren, judging by Jenson Button's remarkable drive through the field to third place on Sunday, which was full of clinical and elegant overtaking moves.

As Button pointed out, though, McLaren's weekend in Belgium was compromised by the mistakes that have characterised their season, and which they desperately need to cut out.

In Button's case in Belgium, that was a "miscommunication" over how many laps he had left in the second period of qualifying that left him stranded in 13th place.

Lewis Hamilton, meanwhile, made another of several mistakes by himself and the team this season which have made it impossible to challenge Vettel.

Without them, he would be in the fight, rather than where is now, which is 113 points behind Vettel with only 175 still available, and his title hopes over.

Alonso, who after his fourth place in Spa is in a marginally better position but still 102 points adrift of Vettel, said he would keep battling until it was mathematically impossible to overhaul Vettel.

But even he, F1's most relentless fighter, admitted Ferrari's hopes were "not in our hands, and Red Bull need to make big, big mistakes, and have big problems if we want to win the championship".

Barring a disaster of catastrophic proportions, then, Vettel will win a second consecutive world title this year, and long before the end of the season.

After performances such as that at Spa on Sunday, and many others this year, he fully deserves it.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2011/08/vettel_underlines_title_creden.html

Kurt Ahrens Jr Christijan Albers Michele Alboreto Jean Alesi

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

After You Dashley LePew!

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Tom Bridger Tony Brise Chris Bristow Peter Broeker

Felipe Massa: ?He could have caused a big accident?

Felipe Massa was furious after the Singapore GP after once again his race was compromised by a clash with Lewis Hamilton. Massa picked up a puncture in the incident, but was able to recover to ninth place. The two had … Continue reading

Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2011/09/25/felipe-massa-he-could-have-caused-a-big-accident/

Felice Bonetto Jo Bonnier Roberto Bonomi Juan Manuel Bordeu

Ford launches Fiesta Metal special edition (UK)

Based on the Zetec-S, the Metal features a unique exterior with silver accents, a reduced ride height and 17-inch alloy wheels.

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Julian Bailey Mauro Baldi Bobby Ball Marcel Balsa

Hello from Maine

Hi my is David I am 39 and been building models for about 30 years.. I like to build anything automotive but light to heavy duty is my favorite.... I have been watching this forum for awhile and like what I'v seen so far!    

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Tony Brise Chris Bristow Peter Broeker Tony Brooks

Vote for your Singapore GP driver of the weekend | 2011 Singapore Grand Prix

Who was the best driver in Singapore this weekend? Cast your vote.

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Chuck Arnold Rene Arnoux Peter Arundell Alberto Ascari

Monday, 26 September 2011

Sauber: Perez salvages a point from hectic race | 2011 Singapore GP team review

Contact with Michael Schumacher and Bruno Senna failed to keep Sergio Perez from the top ten.

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John Cannon Eitel Cantoni Bill Cantrell Ivan Capelli

Karthikeyan Makes Surprise F1 Return With HRT

Narain Karthikeyan has made a surprise return to Formula One after being announced as one of Hispania HRT’s drivers for the 2011 season. The Indian driver was unveiled as the first racer to be working with the Spanish based squad, who look likely to enter into a second season of racing despite on-going financial concerns. [...]

Source: http://f1fanatics.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/karthikeyan-makes-surprise-f1-return-with-hrt/

John Cordts David Coulthard Piers Courage Chris Craft

F1: Alonso: 2011 tyres will hurt top teams

Alonso: 2011 tyres will hurt top teams By Matt Beer Monday, February 28th 2011, 19:07 GMT Fernando Alonso says he is not in favour of the move towards less durable tyres for 2011, as he fears this will end up penalising faster cars. Related posts:
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Source: http://doxcar.com/f1-alonso-2011-tyres-will-hurt-top-teams/

Tom Belso JeanPierre Beltoise Olivier Beretta Allen Berg

Justin Bell visits No Fenders...

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nofenders/zbjv/~3/qf_SnppArhQ/justin-bell-visits-no-fenders.html

Slim Borgudd Luki Botha JeanChristophe Boullion Sebastien Bourdais

Sunday, 25 September 2011

CORRECTION: No Fenders Bobbles over the Two Adams

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nofenders/zbjv/~3/0g_mM-fVJjg/correction-no-fenders-bobbles-over-two.html

John CampbellJones Adrián Campos John Cannon Eitel Cantoni

Singapore Grand Prix Race Reaction: Massa fumes at Hamilton, Button Bemoans backmarkers

Sebastian Vettel all but wrapped up the world title for the second year running with victory at the Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday. The German needs just one point from the final five races while his nearest rival Jenson Button must win every race and hope Vettel fails to finish in the points. Elsewhere Lewis [...]

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Formula1Fancast/~3/w_Kz_39WihM/singapore-grand-prix-race-reaction-massa-fumes-at-hamilton-button-bemoans-backmarkers

Philippe Alliot Cliff Allison Fernando Alonso Giovanna Amati

Chevy Camaro ZL1 launch control gets previewed [videos]

The Camaro ZL1 is still several months away from hitting dealerships, but Chevrolet has launched a new promotional campaign which highlights the car's advanced technology.

Source: http://feeds.worldcarfans.com/~r/worldcarfans/Jxfz/~3/3reHSakfCH4/chevy-camaro-zl1-launch-control-gets-previewed-videos

Keith Andrews Elio de Angelis Marco Apicella Mário de Araújo Cabral

Ciao for now, Europe

Source: http://www.metrof1.com/blogs/metrof1/2011/09/ciao-for-now-europe.html

Enrico Bertaggia Tony Bettenhausen Mike Beuttler Birabongse Bhanubandh

Force India VJM04 Launch pictures ( 8th of February)

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/F1InsightAFormula1Blog/~3/SqxTd3BYrII/force-india-vjm04-launch-pictures-8th.html

Carlo Abate George Abecassis Kenny Acheson Andrea de Adamich

Renault R31 launch pictures (31st of January)

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/F1InsightAFormula1Blog/~3/7EFQv-5Iy78/renault-r31-launch-pictures-31st-of.html

Hans Binder Clemente Biondetti Pablo Birger Carlo Abate

Saturday, 24 September 2011

SSM Manager Dies...

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nofenders/zbjv/~3/QeHeHNF7Dwk/ssm-manager-dies.html

Duane Carter Eugenio Castellotti Johnny Cecotto Andrea de Cesaris

FP3: Webber fastest

Mark Webber set the fastest time of the Saturday free practice session in Singapore, lapping just a fraction faster than Jenson Button’s McLaren. The pair were two-tenths of a second ahead of Sebastian Vettel, with Fernando Alonso right behind him and then a gap to Lewis Hamilton, who had a troubled session, going up an [...]

Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/fp3-webber-fastest/

Tom Belso JeanPierre Beltoise Olivier Beretta Allen Berg

Nissan R390 GT1-WIP

My latest project is the Nissan R390 GT1 race car from Tamiya. This is the 1997 version that raced at LeMans, and I will be replicating the number 21 Clarion car that sat on the pole.

 

First step was to sand the body and primer it. I sprayed it with Tamiya Italian Red straight from the can.

 

While that was drying, I took all the parts off the trees and painted them with their proper basecoat and then brush detailed them. Alot of parts to be sure! Laugh

 

More to come....

Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/978429.aspx

Jorge Daponte Anthony Davidson Jimmy Davies Colin Davis