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Hey Chinth_guy, FREEZE! Local Law Enforcement! :Pericles and Shaks pull out AL badges, FBI-agent style: LOL, just kidding guys, but way to crack down on kalla-thonis.

GTAm, please tell me more about both the racing history of these two cars, the Berlina 2000 and the 600. Who raced them, the cars they beat, the tracks they ran on etc? I'd love to know.

These condos are targeted primarily at the high net worth individuals around, so none of the developers care what 'young executives' make. The bottom line is that there are plenty of people in this town who can afford an average of $300,000 for a nice apartment, and will happily put their money down. Isn't it pointless then, to analyze the costs of these condos vs. median salaries? Oh and Jith, I'm pretty convinced that you work for the guys developing Havelock City.

Nice choice, bra because the FD is such a classically beautiful shape. Please don't mutilate this one with another Dumi##a kit, because stock is beautiful.

Kazuki is very fast and highly rated at Williams, pit accident notwithstanding. He set the fifth fastest race lap at Interlagos, faster than Alonso even, and his entire third stint was run at qualifying pace, a consistent series of low 1:13s. Y'all hear about Renault being investigated now having McLaren technical data? http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns19844.html

Michael is apparently helping the team with going back to running no TC, because after all, he does have experience from that era. Pilawoos, as good a driver as Damon Hill was, he was not World Champion quality. In 1994, he got to race a full 4 races more than Michael and still couldn't get a championship lead going. Michael may have chopped up JV in 1997, but in 1994 he really was trying to stay in front when Damon put the car where he shouldn't have. Full marks for the 1996 title, but remember, he was run close by a sensational F1 rookie, Villeneuve. He was just another muse of the British press who put him on a pedestal because of his nationality and famous last name. In fact, head to head I'll bet that Jos The Boss was quicker.

LOL, GTAm, I was a big Jos Verstappen fan, the other JV in fact. Look it up - Renault F1 is different to Renaultsport, and there is practically no link between Renault F1 (based in the UK, mind you) and Renaultsport. Anyways, does anybody else think this is awesome or what? Schu stuns with MotoGP pace Posted 06 November 2007 at 07:58 GMT Michael Schumacher on Monday stunned observers at the Valencia circuit by setting competitive lap times on the saddle of Casey Stoner's championship-winning Ducati MotoGP bike. As a host of guest riders tested the grand prix machinery at the Spanish circuit following the conclusion of the 2007 season, the former Formula One seven time world champion came close to just five seconds off Valencia winner Dani Pedrosa's fastest lap at the end of his 58-lap test. Schumacher, 38, wearing a plain orange riding suit and white helmet, proved radically improved since his Ducati test in 2005; fully leaning into the corners and putting to good effect the tips of experts he consulted in the pits. "I remember the last time I was riding and I was about 15 seconds slower than what you could do, so I thought maybe if I could run within ten seconds, that would nice," he said afterwards in Spain, according to Motorcycle News (MCN). Following wild theories that he might replace Fernando Alonso at McLaren next year, meanwhile, he also fended off speculation that he could be good enough to race in MotoGP. "I'm just doing this for fun. I don't want to race," Schumacher insisted. He also played down any comparison between MotoGP and Formula One. "It is like being on earth and going to the moon," Schumacher smiled. http://www.homeofsport.com/f1/news/item.aspx?id=20612

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then. 70-odd wins and a bunch of World Championships is serious racing pedigree, especially since they were one of the few manufacturers who genuinely used F1 for technology transfer and improving the road car breed, unlike Mercedes, for example. Senna was certainly an emotional man, like most temperamental Latinos, but I also wouldn't call him a whinger. He expected nothing short of the best from his teams and Williams certainly weren't delivering. Hill only ran Michael close that year because Michael/Benetton were banned mid-season and DSQ'd a couple more times. The Williams that year was definitely second to the Benetton. Championships are anyways won by the best pairing of engine and driver and if one doesn't deliver, you're not going to win titles. But I digress. Mugen-Honda won more than just Monaco 1996. Damon Hill won Jordan's first race at Spa in 1998 and the following year, Frentzen took the championship fight to McLaren and Ferrari late in the season with 2 wins, only falling by the wayside at the Nurburgring (while leading) because of a hydraulics glitch. All I'm saying is that Honda's marketing of their racing program is well justified, because they do have the pedigree. As for Renault, their Clio 197 and R26 have absolutely nothing in common with the F1 programme apart from the name association. Actually Renault have had such cars for sometime, like the Clio Williams from the mid-nineties etc. They've actually marketed the F1 program well over the years, with lots of F1 related models, but because they've had such unpopular World Champions (Alonso, JV etc), nobody really cares.

I hardly think 5 Drivers' World Championships, 70 + GP wins and a racing heritage from the '60s is over-hyped sporting pedigree. During the late eighties and early nineties, Honda used to routinely second road car engineers to their F1 teams for 2-year stints for development and the outputs of their B and D series engines from the mid to late nineties are a tribute to that policy. Ayrton Senna cried when Honda left F1. That should tell you all about their sporting pedigree. Despite the crappy livery this year and them positioning themselves as a 'green' company, they still get good mileage from the Prost/Senna/Piquet years.

Renault looks unlikely for Fernando. Apparently a sponsorship deal that this hinged on fell through. Renault should be back on the pace this year. The only reason they fell off the pace was because they didn't have access to Ferrari's data on how to make the Bridgestones rear tires work with their chassis, unlike McLaren. Remember, both McLaren and Renault were Michelin teams last year and had to switch to Bridgestones because the FIA chose them as the sole tire supplier. If you're an F1 fan you know how important tire data is and how much of an advantage McLaren got Coughlan and Stepney. I remember how beloved Alex Wurz was to Michelin from all the testing he did with them for McLaren, which is one of the reasons why Bridgestone/Williams poached him a couple of years ago. There have even been drives decided based on tire experience, which tells you how much of an unfair advantage McLaren got. Don't believe the British press on this matter, because their judgements are all clouded by their patriotism. I honestly hope Nelson Piquet Jr., AKA Nelsinho, comes in for Renault because he is quite the wheelman and he was also Lewis Hamilton's bitter rival in GP2 last year. That'll stir things up nicely if it does happen. Heidfeld to Mercedes? He'd be returning to his roots if he did, because they funded his career upto F1 and had hopes of him being their German stalwart until Kimi Raikonnen came and scuppered that plan. But I think he is happy with BMW, as they are with him. R*D B*LL will be an interesting proposition to him, I'm sure. It'll give him a chance to develop a mid-field team around himself, much like Michael Schumacher did with Ferrari. Similar to Michael, he'll have an almost unlimited budget and one of the great engineering minds of our time in Adrian Newey. The man built World Championship winning cars for Jacques Villeneuve, Damon Hill and Mika Hakkinen so he certainly knows his beans. But honestly, IMO, his best bet is to go back to his hometown, Oviedo, and join the bull-fighting tour. As a bull.

Are you referring to the SLMCC Katu? It was cancelled.

I think they only have to make 50 units to homologate the WRC car. If I'm not mistaken, Toni Gardemeister is running one of these Lancer WRCs with the odd rear wing as a privateer this year, with sponsorship from Burger King. Hopefully Mitsubishi will commit to a proper WRC programme in the future, or at least offer serious support to the Group N guys with the new car.

I know that the Zero car runs the route ahead of the actual competitors, just to warn spectators of the impending traffic, to ensure one last time that the course is clear to run, and to let marshalls along the way know that the competitors will be coming through shortly. The Double Zero car probably runs as a sweeper, after the last competitor has already left the start.

Velocity are you sure your calculations are correct? The word on the street is that the actual figure is actually close to twice that. After all, even the IXs were brought in at a higher price. At 8 mil SLR, it would be a steal.

To paraphrase countless American political commentators who, in the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks, said 'If we stop racing, then the terrorists win'.

Who called it that? I actually saw the car today. Not a bad job by N-Motorsports Conversions. Not only do they do Evo 3 conversions but also Honda CB90 to CBR250 and Bajaj RE 2-stroke to 4-stroke. I hear they're doing a roaring business on that last number, because of the impending ban on 2-strokes.

I seriously doubt that's what happened. In ten years of going to military bases for race meets, I've never seen as much security as I did on Sunday at the Gajaba camp. In addition to checking the number of people in the car multiple times through the drive into the paddock, they individually whisked everybody entering (spectators, crew and drivers if I'm not mistaken) and also went through all the cars in detail. From what I hear we can blame Sirasa Super Star and the traditional post-Gajaba shindig.

I seem to remember the one from the car show having a fastback shape.

I think we are coming close to the point where it becomes pointless/too expensive to run high-powered cars in mass-start gravel/dirt events. Visibility is crap, grip is minimal and the potential for expensive impacts because of kamikaze moves by other drivers is many times that of tarmac events. Almost every race, an expensive GT car is badly damaged and others come away with dented panels and bodywork as well. I really wish they'd tar some of these SuperCross circuits. Forget FIA-specs, just building them for local events is fine, as long as they build adequate gravel traps and other safety mods as well.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water........ Fuel probe puts doubt on Raikkonen's title http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp...73506&FS=F1 No fuel penalties, Raikkonen's title confirmed http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp...73507&FS=F1 McLaren to appeal Stewards' decision http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns19812.html Ron Dennis confirmed a j***a$$ http://www.rondennisisajackass.com Ok, I made that last one up but the rest are for real. If they DSQ those drivers and give the title to Hamilton, it will be the biggest travesty of all time. I can't believe Ron Dennis would stoop so low. Trying to get third party teams bumped over a very minor technical infraction reeks of the desperation of a team that hasn't won a title since 1999. Plus it's not as if Quick Nick, Nico and Kubica were battling Hamilton for points. He fell way behind them because of technical issues and was massively behind them.

The best all-round driver in F1 over the last 5 years finally gets his due: a World Championship. Congratulations to Kimi Raikonnen for a thoroughly deserved title. No doubt the iceman will bust out the vodka and the gorilla suit for the mother and father of all parties. Lewis Hamilton can still be proud of one of the greatest debut seasons in F1 history. Jacques Villeneuve matched his stats in his debut season (2nd place overall finish and 4 wins) but then JV already had experience in top-flight single-seaters, having already won the Indy 500 and the CART/IndyCar Championship. Fernando Alonso? Apparently there is a vacancy at Scuderia Toro Rosso next year, and he may take that. Who would've thought that this would be decided by 1 point between 3 drivers? Great stuff.

With all the hype surrounding the three-way championship battle heading into the final round of the F1 championship, it is easy to forget that the SL GT championship is also heading into it's own season finale this Sunday with 3 drivers still mathematically eligible to win the title. However, mivec.turbo has a far bigger lead over his rivals than does Lewis Hamilton to his. Still, all the best for this Sunday machan.

The Fib#x site has many pictures of the 'conversion' being done. Google Fib#x Racing.

Pimp Status man, that sounds good. I recently saw that the Ministry of Fisheries was offering deep sea trolling for parties of 8 or whatever, from Bentota and Panadura and somewhere else I believe. They also had a Poya night deal if I'm not mistaken. Would you have any more information on this Ministry deal?

Sounds interesting. How and where do you go Ripper? Spill the beans.