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    Many many years ago I was involved in an attempt to max a Vauxhall Carlton on the same stretch of road. A quiet voice from the backseat just mentioned that he had worked out that with three up, luggage, camera gear and half a tank of fuel, if a front tyre let go at 185 mph the accident would stop happening in just

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    Hopefully a jury will nail them both for aggravated sucking at being people.

    And just how would this help. Massive downforce sticks a car to the smooth surface of a well prepared race track. Unsticking a high GF car into ONE corner bleeds speed. Now, check out the IOM TT course and find where this would be an advantage.

    My natural standing height, in shoes, is 6' 8'’ (keyboard has gone wierd!).

    And for those of an Anglocentric nature

    Ok, I know, it really needs the world to have lots of these,

    Like this?

    Now you do.

    I know, everyone uses electrons these days.

    Oh I do,

    All agreed. My query is, where do human beans with the reaction time of a startled ferret combined with the desire to strap a bomb to a car come from?

    50 years. And he still is trying to do the tightrope thing of being an irriot/offensive git/smartarse/bloke next door. Note to Mr Evans, even if you are an opinionted pompous twonk, the audience prefer irriots.

    Now playing

    Thank you, I had forgetten that rain is a good thing,

    so is soome peeeple

    FWD cars really are not me, I tend toward the fairly large aero engine swap thing. That Mini... I could be converted.

    by matt993fod » Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:55 pm

    Oh, such joy, YES !!!!