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Sonntag, 31. Juli 2011
Hamilton on top again in Hungarian Grand Prix practice
Lewis Hamilton was on top in practice for the Hungarian Grand Prix once more as the 2008 champion registered a time of 1.21.018 to lead the way from Fernando Alonso who was second and his McLaren team-mate Jenson Button in third. Having shown his hunger to go quick in the morning session, Hamilton repeated the [...]
1964 Chevy Suburban
Hello everyone, This is a 1964 Chevy Suburban custom. It was made out of a Revell 64 C-10 fleet side pickup truck. I used sculpting clay to turn it into what you see, not the best way but I had it lying around. This is the first model I've made in almost 6 years and the first one I've ever modified to this level. I know it's not flawless but do hope you guys like it, sure was a blast making it. Paint used for the body was Testors Bright Aqua Pearl and one coat lacquer White Lighting for the stripes. Interior seats done with Krylon Almond Satin. Rims are resin Hurricane wheels bought on eBay. 
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The crack on the fender happened just before I finished sanding it and is the reason I stopped working on the back end. I was sanding the back lost my thought for a split second and the front end broke off. I was able to repair it with two tooth picks modeling glue and some Testors contour putty. Here's the repair from under side. After that I decided to glue the fire wall in. It made it more difficult to add the wiring and brake lines but it added a little more strength to it.
All the body work was done I sprayed flat white (Wal-Marts cheap paint, so bad it's all but indestructible).
It's final color of Bright Aqua Pearl sprayed on using the 2 part spray paint tutorial here. A big thanks for that very helpful tutorial.
And heres the finished product. Hope you guys like it.
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I'll post more pictures of it tomorrow if anyone likes it. Thanks for taking time to look at this, opinions welcomed. I hope I put this in the right category if not I'm sorry and will be more than happy to move it to a more appropriate category. I've seen a couple trucks and wagons here so I hope its ok with everyone. If not just let me know, Thanks again. :)
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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. [...]
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1/24 Die Cast Danbury Mint Cars
If you are interested in Danbury Mint die cast cars email me....
I cleaned out a basement for a friend of mine and there are 40 cars all different types still in the boxes.
You can email my wife at silentpartners@comcast.net. Or you can call my wife Lisa at 978-466-6022
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Vettel back to the front in Hungary | 2011 Hungarian GP practice three
Sebastian Vettel put Red Bull back on top of the times in final practice at the Hungaroring.
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Samstag, 30. Juli 2011
Bahrain F1 Grand Prix 2010 Race live on Sunday BBC Start Time
Sebastian Vettel will take the pole position in the Bahrain F1 Grand Prix on Sunday March 14, 2010. The two Ferraris will be running after his car and you can catch all the race day action live on BBC.
March 14, 2010: Sunday Live Race Day
Bahrain F1 Grand Prix 2010�? 11:10 (Red Button, BBC1�and online) (12:00)
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March 14, 2010: Sunday Live Race Day
Bahrain F1 Grand Prix 2010�? 11:10 (Red Button, BBC1�and online) (12:00)
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Infiniti JX teaser no.4 released
Designed to appeal to active families, the crossover has a prominent grille, recessed headlights and plenty of chrome trim.Source: http://feeds.worldcarfans.com/~r/worldcarfans/Jxfz/~3/YOTJJker-OA/infiniti-jx-teaser-no4-released
Honda NR 750
The kit decals had been water damaged, but I was able to soak most of them off the paper and use them. Sometimes it took almost an hour for them to release, with a little prodding.
The base color is a gray I mixed with Testors enamels. The C/F and Honda decals are from the kit. Some of the decals were just too well ingrained with the paper and unusable, but fortunately I had a partial sheet that contained those most of those elements. Interestingly the color was different between the sheets, but that worked to my advantage since I am going for a semi-distressed/used look.
The Kevlar decals are from Studio 27. After the composite material decals were applied I tinted them, (and the gray), by airbrushing Smoke to accentuate some of the shapes and recesses. The chrome fasteners are BMF, except for the ones on the fuel filler, just hand painted silver for them…
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Freitag, 29. Juli 2011
Honda NR 750
The kit decals had been water damaged, but I was able to soak most of them off the paper and use them. Sometimes it took almost an hour for them to release, with a little prodding.
The base color is a gray I mixed with Testors enamels. The C/F and Honda decals are from the kit. Some of the decals were just too well ingrained with the paper and unusable, but fortunately I had a partial sheet that contained those most of those elements. Interestingly the color was different between the sheets, but that worked to my advantage since I am going for a semi-distressed/used look.
The Kevlar decals are from Studio 27. After the composite material decals were applied I tinted them, (and the gray), by airbrushing Smoke to accentuate some of the shapes and recesses. The chrome fasteners are BMF, except for the ones on the fuel filler, just hand painted silver for them…
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Live: 2011 Hungarian Grand Prix first practice | F1 Fanatic Live
Follow the 2011 Hungarian Grand Prix first practice session on F1 Fanatic Live.
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Who remembers this crash from the Hungarian Grand Prix?
It is the Hungarian GRand Prix this weekend and Felipe Massa will be driving for Ferrari once again. He has some bad memories of Hungary though as the below video shows. The Brazilian suffered a horrific crash in 2009 and he will be making an emotional return to the circuit this weekend. Good luck Felipe. [...]
Some thoughts on the news in F1
I took a look on the Web this morning, to see if there is anything interesting out there relating to Formula 1 and found very little. OK, we are heading towards the holidays and in “the real world” things are moving towards the traditional “duck on skateboard” silly season, but F1 is still flat on [...]
Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/some-thoughts-on-the-news-in-f1/
Robert Kubica Hospitalised Following Rally Accident
UPDATE ON KUBICA’s CONDITION: �http://wp.me/p3uiu-11K Renault Lotus F1 driver Robert Kubica has been airlifted to hospital following a car accident while competing on a rally. The incident, described as a high speed accident, left the Pole injured and he had to be airlifted to hospital. �His co-driver Jakub Gerber was uninjured in the incident. While [...]
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Donnerstag, 28. Juli 2011
AMT 55 NOMAD
I have begun building this amt 55 nomad and so far i have done the chassis and part of the motor. as i am lazy at sometimes it will probrably take quite a while to build it. anyway here are a few pics of it so far.
The wheels and tyres are from the AMT 55 belair street machine
so is the engine manifold,carburetor and air cleaner and the rocker covers are parts box.
let me know what you think.
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Warmer weather awaits teams in Hungary | 2011 Hungarian GP weather
After a cold weekend in Germany, better weather awaits the teams at the Hungaroring.
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Tweeting Around The Circuit: Paul di Resta in the wars, Jake Humphrey defends Vettel and more
Following the frenetic action at the German Grand Prix on Sunday, Formula1fancast is here to bring you best reaction from the world of Twitter as the best and brightest from the grid express their delight or displeasure in no more than 140 characters! ?Great job by Lewis and the team for another win! Tough day [...]
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Q1: Tyre games
Felipe Massa set the fastest time of the Q1 session at the Nurburgring in cold conditions on Saturday afternoon. The Ferrari driver was well clear of Adrian Sutil, with Nick Heidfeld third and Michael Schumacher fourth. Paul di Resta was fifth. The times were of little value as some drivers decided to use more tyres [...]
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How do you beat Vettel?
At Silverstone
Sebastian Vettel surveys Formula 1 serenely from a dominant position at the top of the world championship as he heads into this weekend's British Grand Prix, where the Red Bull driver is the hot favourite to win for what would be the seventh time in nine races.
The German's record has been rooted in the dominance of the Red Bull car and it is expected to be as tough to beat as ever at Silverstone, where the track layout could have been designed to suit its superb aerodynamics.
But Vettel is not unbeatable - as McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button have already proved this year. If the German is going to be stopped this weekend, or at any other race this year, this is how it is likely to happen.
CHANGE THE RULES
Undoubtedly the biggest talking point ahead of the British Grand Prix is the decision to ban the use of off-throttle blowing of diffusers. This is a technology with which teams blow exhaust gases over the rear floor of their cars even when the driver is not pressing the accelerator, smoothing the airflow and increasing downforce and stability in corners.
This ruling will affect all the leading teams, and it remains to be seen whether it will change the pecking order. Intriguingly, though, it may also affect Vettel in comparison to to team-mate Mark Webber.
Red Bull and engine partner Renault were the pioneers of the technology last year, when they introduced it mid-season. But the run of form that put Webber top of the championship, including dominant back-to-back wins in Spain and Monaco, was achieved before it was introduced.
At that time, Red Bull were blowing their exhausts over the diffuser, but not when the driver was off the throttle, a practice that can lead to instability as the downforce comes off the car just when the driver needs it most - when he lifts off to enter the corner.
Webber found a driving style that minimised the effects of this more effectively than Vettel managed.
The Australian admitted to me that this "might have been a small part" of the reason why he was stronger than Vettel early last summer.
I asked him if he felt, therefore, that the new ruling could work in his favour in his attempt to beat Vettel for the first time this year.
"I don't think it can hurt," he said. "We're going to have a big change in how the cars are probably going to behave - I don't see that as a bad thing, mate."
Vettel adapted incredibly well to the new Pirelli tyres this season, while Webber has struggled to get on top of them - it is one of the reasons the German has dominated so far.
But as Webber says: "It's another start for both of us. You hope it's the other way around for me so I go, 'Bosh'. I might drop on to this a bit nicer than he might."
GET AHEAD OF HIM AT THE START
Vettel has based most of his wins this season on a simple strategy -put the car on pole, lead from the start and control the race.
The only way to stop him doing this is to either out-qualify him - as only Webber has managed to do this year, and then only once - or beat him off the start.
This was achieved by the McLarens in China - a race Hamilton went on to win - and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso in Spain.
Do that, and Vettel is suddenly out of his comfort zone.
The limiting factor in races this season has been the sensitivity of the new Pirelli tyres - they lose grip quickly and if you abuse them, you are in trouble.
So leading at the start allows Vettel to treat the tyres gently while building up a small cushion.
He seeks to build a lead of about five seconds to enable him to respond to any attempts by rivals to use what is called "the undercut" - pass him by making an earlier pit stop and using the pace advantage of new tyres to get ahead.
This was demonstrated in Spain - where Vettel twice tried to undercut Alonso when running second to him in the early stages of the race. It failed at the first pit stops, but succeeded at the second, demonstrating the difficulty any driver in front of Vettel will have keeping him behind when he has a faster car.
But it doesn't always work like that.
In China, Vettel was beaten away by both McLaren drivers. He easily had the pace to stick with them during the first stint, but a decision to do a two-stop strategy rather than the three of McLaren backfired - the extra grip in Hamilton's tyres in the closing stages of the race made Vettel a sitting duck.
HOPE RED BULL MAKE A MISTAKE
As well as China, this also happened in Monaco, where a mix-up at his first pit-stop put Vettel on the wrong tyres and forced him into a strategy that would have lost him the race had it not been for a later safety car.
Without that, the advantageMcLaren's Jenson Button built from what would have been a better strategy would have seen him win the race.
Even in the situation that did unfold, Red Bull's strategy might not have paid off - Vettel headed into the closing stages of the race with Alonso and Button right behind him and pressuring him hard on much fresher tyres.
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McLaren believed Vettel's tyres would wear out to the point of him becoming defenceless before the end of the race, but then Vettel had what they call "the luck of champions". A late safety car led to a red flag and he was able to change to fresh tyres for the final eight laps.
DON'T MAKE MISTAKES YOURSELF
Leaving the Spanish Grand Prix in May, the chances of Vettel facing a challenge this year still looked pretty good.
Vettel had won in Barcelona, but only after fending off a clearly faster Hamilton in the closing laps - only the difficulty of overtaking at the Circuit de Catalunya had prevented the McLaren winning.
Coming up were two races on tracks where Hamilton fancied his chances - Monaco and Canada. But instead of beating Vettel, these events turned into a disaster for the Englishman.
A decision to do only one run in qualifying in Monaco led to him qualifying ninth when he had hopes of being on pole, and in the race he collided with two people on the way to sixth place.
In Canada, Hamilton's judgement seemed to have been clouded by qualifying only fifth. After making an impromptu visit to Red Bull team principal Christian Horner to discuss his future that evening, he collided with two cars in the space of three racing laps on Sunday and retired. As Button later proved, it was a race Hamilton could have won.
So Hamilton could have been looking at a total of three - maybe four - wins instead of just the one, in which case Vettel would not be anything like as far ahead in the championship.
PRESSURE VETTEL - HE'S VULNERABLE
The vast majority of Vettel's F1 victories have come when he has dominated from the front, a situation in which he is supremely comfortable.
He is much less at ease having to make up positions or fending off pressure - as was proved in the thrilling climax to the Canadian Grand Prix this year.
After dominating in Montreal throughout, Vettel lost the win on the last lap, half-spinning while being pursued by the flying Button, who stormed through to a brilliant win.
This was not the first time he has made a mistake in a pressure situation, although in Vettel's defence, he was flawless under attack from Hamilton in the closing stages in Spain in May this year.
Nevertheless, Vettel - like anyone - can crack if pushed hard enough; it's getting into that situation that has been the difficulty for his rivals so often this season.
As Hamilton says: "You can push people into mistakes, and as long as you continue to apply pressure that's what you hope they're going to do. But for us to win this championship we have to be finishing ahead of them."
MAKE YOUR CAR FASTER
All of the above is all very well, but the reality is that Vettel's pursuers are fighting a losing battle as long as he has a fundamentally faster car.
"It is difficult to think about how to beat Vettel without a big improvement in our car or in McLaren's car for Jenson and Lewis," says Alonso, the man who was narrowly beaten to the title by Vettel last year.
"Their car so far is too dominant. It is a dominant position that maybe we don't remember since 2004 and Michael (Schumacher)'s time.
"Hopefully here in Silverstone we can see a turnaround of this situation in terms of performance. There is always the motivation to win a race but we need a step forward."
Alonso was not the only man at Silverstone on Thursday to liken Vettel's domination this year to Schumacher's seven years ago, when he won 13 races on the way to the most dominant of his seven championship victories.
So what does the great man himself think? Can Vettel be beaten this year?
"Difficult," Schumacher said.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2011/07/how_do_you_beat_vettel.html
Six hours and 20 minutes after the race?
GrandPrix+ is Formula 1′s original e-magazine. Started in 2007, it is still the fastest magazine in Grand Prix racing, coming out around six hours after each F1 race. Averaging 80-pages, the e-magazine arrives in your computer in PDF format, allowing you to create an electronic archive which you can take anywhere. For the annual subscription [...]
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Tittle-tattle from the F1 paddock
It has been a busy few days (and the next week is going to be much the same). The race in Germany was a terrific performance by Lewis Hamilton and by the McLaren team, which bounced back in style after a very poor British GP. It was a fascinating three-way battle and produced the fourth [...]
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Mittwoch, 27. Juli 2011
Circuits weigh into engine row
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After months of drawn-out and occasionally bitter wrangling, Formula 1's switch to 1.6-litre turbo engines for 2014 was rubber-stamped on Wednesday by the FIA world council, the sport's legislature. In theory, that should be the end of the matter.
But it may not be that simple. It has emerged in the last few days that many of F1's circuits share F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone's concerns about the new engines.
He believes the ear-splitting screech of the current 2.4-litre V8s is a critical part of the spectacle of F1 and that the introduction of the new engines, which will have a different and probably more muted sound, will reduce the sport's appeal.
Those with long memories in F1 have raised an eyebrow about Ecclestone's new concern for trackside spectators. This is a man who, until this latest political battle, appeared to some observers to have an eye only for the TV audience, from where much of the sport's income comes.
The circuits, though, are a different matter. Because of their contracts with Ecclestone's companies, the only way they can raise revenue out of F1 is through paying spectators. Costs are high and margins are tight. So if numbers will fall, they have a problem.
The circuits had already expressed their concerns privately to the F1 teams and the FIA but their worries became public courtesy of an article in a Sunday newspaper.
It claimed all the tracks apart from China and Korea had signed a letter to the FIA saying they would consider dropping F1 in favour of IndyCars if the new engines were adopted.
The story appeared in a newspaper to which Ecclestone often speaks, was written by a journalist who has close links with him and featured quotes from Ron Walker, chairman of the Australian Grand Prix Corporation, who, you guessed it, is close to Ecclestone.
Neil England - the non-executive chairman of Silverstone, who deals with Ecclestone regarding the British Grand Prix - described the report as "a slight misrepresentation of the situation". Silverstone had not, he said, been signatories of any letter but they had made clear their discomfort about the new engine rules.
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England does, he says, see the "media value" of the new engine - Ecclestone himself has described it to me as "PR" - but says he would prefer to focus on the "things that make a difference".
He agrees that the noise is a large part of F1's spectacle and, while Silverstone support attempts to reduce F1's carbon footprint, they feel a bigger impact could be made in other ways, such as producing co-ordinated travel plans for spectators and teams.
England denies he has been lobbied or manipulated by Ecclestone. "He's concerned and has an awareness that it's a potential issue," England says. "I don't feel manipulated and I don't think that's what happened."
Someone on the other side of the argument had a succinct response to that. "Of course they've been pressured by Bernie!" he said. "They've read all his nonsense about engine noise for weeks and weeks and weeks!"
As I said, the argument has got a bit heated.
The new engines were the brainchild of the F1 teams and they have been enthusiastically embraced by FIA president Jean Todt - with whom, incidentally, Ecclestone does not see eye to eye.
The idea behind them was two-fold:
- to popularise and make 'sexy' a direction road-car manufacturers were already heading with their engines
- and to insulate F1, in a world of diminishing fossil fuels and climate change, from charges that it was wasteful by playing a role in the increased development and sales of more efficient road cars.
The idea is that, by using these engines in F1, the public will increasingly understand that an exciting car can have an efficient, small capacity engine and regenerate as much energy as possible. In addition, it will speed up the development of the technology by exposing it to the white-heat of F1 competition.
Those in favour of the engines, then, say that to dismiss the new rules as having only "media value" somewhat misses the point.
It may be true that persuading spectators to get more buses and trains to a grand prix rather than driving their private cars would reduce carbon emissions more effectively than changing the engines in the F1 cars themselves. But it could also be said that if a significant proportion of the world's car users switched to more efficient vehicles, the effect of that would be exponentially larger again.
Those backing the new engines counter the arguments about noise as follows:
- F1 previously used turbo engines of almost exactly the same size as those being introduced in 2014 back in the 1980s (1.5-litre turbos as opposed to 1.6-litre turbos). No-one complained about the noise then. In fact, that time is remembered as a golden era.
- Audi and Peugeot use turbo-diesel engines at the Le Mans 24 Hours sports car race and have done for several years. These sound infinitely less dramatic than the new F1 engines will do - they are diesel, for a start, and they rev much lower - but spectator numbers at Le Mans haven't reduced. The event still attracts around 250,000 people.
- Many of the 'rebels' are old romantics who hark back to the glory years of the 1970s and the sounds of some of the engines used then. But they forget that the supposedly evocative Matra V12 and Ferrari flat 12 revved to no more than 12,000rpm, exactly what had been the initial limit imposed on the new turbos.
- No one knows whether spectators will object to the sound of the new engines because no one knows what they will sound like. That's because they haven't been in a car yet.
Following the intervention of the circuits, the rev limit of the new engines has been raised from 12,000rpm to 15,000rpm.
According to someone intimately involved with the negotiations over the new engines from the very beginning, this was done in response to the concerns about the noise, "even though we were quite confident that the sound was not going to be anything like as bad as most people feared".
It remains to be seen whether this will assuage the concerns of both the circuits and Ecclestone, although the fact England called for a "period of consultation" suggests not.
But there are many in F1 who believe Ecclestone is devoting his energies and concerns in the wrong direction.
As Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn put it: "There are many considerations we have to make when we are changing the power-plant in F1. Obviously the technology in the automotive field is changing and the big question is how relevant do we need to be and how relevant do we want to be?
"The technology we're working on with these new engines is the technology that is going to become commonplace in road car engines in the future: small capacity, turbocharged engine, direct injection, special Kers systems.
"We don't want to end up as a dinosaur in five or 10 years."
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2011/06/circuits_weigh_into_engine_row.html
Maserati's future lineup gets detailed
Maserati has ambitious plans to increase their annual sales to 50,000 units and new details are starting to emerge about the products that will lead this massive growth.Felipe Massa - classic F1
Ferrari's Felipe Massa is the latest driver to choose his five all-time favourite grands prix for BBC Sport's classic Formula 1 series. The idea of this series is to whet your appetites for the race coming up. And, for better or worse, the Brazilian will always be linked with the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Massa produced one of his best performances at the Hungaroring in 2008. An intense battle with Lewis Hamilton ended when the Englishman's McLaren suffered a puncture, seemingly handing victory to Massa. But, with only three laps to go, the engine in his Ferrari failed. The points from that win would have made the Brazilian world champion that year, rather than Hamilton.
The following year, Massa suffered a terrible freak accident in qualifying for the same race. He was hit on the head by an errant spring from the car of his friend, Brawn driver Rubens Barrichello, and taken to hospital in, what doctors called, a "life-threatening but stable condition". Amazingly, he made a full recovery, returning to Ferrari for the start of the 2010 season.
Massa, like many Brazilians of his generation, grew up idolising the late Ayrton Senna, so it comes as no surprise that three of his five choices feature the former world champion. The other two reflect key moments in Massa's own career.
Massa's choices are as follows, in chronological order:
The 1991 Brazilian Grand Prix.
It was a quite brilliant drive from Senna, who was recording his first victory in his home race. He held off the faster Williams of Riccardo Patrese despite spending a significant portion of the grand prix struggling with no fourth gear. He also lost the third and fifth gears in the final two laps.
After taking the chequered flag, Senna had to be lifted from his car, exhausted and in agony. When he finally did make it on to the rostrum, his face contorted by a mixture of pain and unadulterated joy, he sent fans - and the country that loved him - wild.
This was the race in which Senna brought to an end Nigel Mansell's dominant start to the season, although the Briton would go on to claim the championship.
At Monaco, like the five races before it, Mansell and the ground-breaking Williams-Renault FW14B were controlling the race before a late pit stop caused by a loose wheel nut put him behind Senna. Mansell tried everything to pass in the closing laps but was beaten by Senna's guile and experience in the tight confines of the track.
The one race that has come to epitomise Senna - and therefore the inevitable choice by any driver who is a Senna fan.
The race at a wet Donington Park has passed into F1 folklore. A quite brilliant first lap lifted Senna from fifth at the first corner to first by the last - and he proceeded to drive at a higher level to the rest of the field on his way to one of the greatest of his 41 wins.
This was Massa's first F1 victory, an impressive and dominant performance from the front after taking pole position ahead of Ferrari team-mate Michael Schumacher.
Dig below the surface, though, and it was not quite as impressive or dominant as it looked. This race is often held up as evidence that Massa was occasionally fast enough to get on terms with Schumacher, who was in the final year of his first F1 career.
That's what it looked like from the outside. But Schumacher would have beaten Massa to pole, despite a higher fuel load, had he not made a mistake on his qualifying lap.
In the race, too, Schumacher was on target to win until the advent of the safety car meant Ferrari had to 'stack' their drivers in the pits. The German rejoined behind Renault's Fernando Alonso and failed to get past the Spaniard for the rest of the race.
Massa has chosen this because it was his first win at home - and it was a victory that was as dominant as it looked. He took a comfortable pole and never looked like losing the race, winning by 18 seconds from Alonso, who claimed his second consecutive title.
The action was all behind them - and it centred on Schumacher, for whom this was the last race before retirement. The German, whose faint hopes of winning the title ended when he suffered an early puncture, fought back from 18th to fourth to end what turned out to be his first F1 career in style.
Highlights of the race, not broadcast since the day itself, are embedded below. Beneath them are links to short highlights of last year's Hungarian Grand Prix.
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CLICK HERE FOR LONG HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 2010 HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX
The classic grands prix will be available on the BBC red button in the UK as follows:
Satellite and cable viewers will be able to watch them from 1500 on Wednesday 27 July until 0850 on Friday 29 July.
On Freeview, they will be shown from 2200 on Wednesday 27 July until 0600 on Thursday 28 July, from 2110 on Thursday until 0245 on Friday 29 July and again from 0435 until 0600 on Friday.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2011/07/felipe_massa_-_classic_f1.html
Life in the pit lane
 The Mercedes pit crew prepare for Michael Schumacher in Singapore |
These are not select millionaires but up to 16 ordinary, yet gifted, guys; team mechanics who have worked their way up the system and often migrate from team to team, are paid real-world wages of between �30,000 and �50,000 a year, are drilled to perfection ? and whose split-second synchronisation brings their teams huge rewards.
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Ryan Gosling in Drive - A car movie with art-house cred [video]
Stylish heist film about a stunt man who drives a getaway car won the director an award at the Cannes film festival.CUP: Crew-Chief Carousel Spins Wildly
Teams mounting late-season offensives in search of Chase?
Source: http://nascar.speedtv.com/article/cup-nascar-sprint-cup-series-crew-chief-carousel-spins-wildly/
Dienstag, 26. Juli 2011
Revell ' 57 Bel Air - Saskatchewan Special
So I decided that from now on I'm not gonna post anything as a w.i.p.
until I at least get to this stage, where body and chassis are joined
without me destroying anything in the process. 
Having built nothing since my ' 62 Impala last fall except for a Revell
' 55 Chevy American Grafitti diecast, I was kind of in a bit of a slump.
Building a tri five seemed somewhat therapeutic, so since I'd yet to tackle
the Revell Bel Air kit I chose that one.
I wanted to do a nice box stock build of an austere Bel Air, like the kind
you would have seen around here back in the day, without the extra bright
work around the windows and as plain looking as could be.
Since the lip for the rocker molding was part of the body and I didn't feel
like sanding it off, that was the one exception I made with the trim.
We'll call it "dealer installed" in this case, he he.
I had just enough Model Master Tropical Turquoise left from the One Fifty
I built a couple of years ago to give the body a few coats, paint both sides
of the firewall and the dash, and POOF! that was it for that can. Since I'd
ordered it by mail which is the only way I could get some, I ended up
doing the rest of the interior with Boyd's Pacific Blue, which is close enough
that you'll never see the difference. I lucked out with the dark turquoise by
finding some Duplicolor Bright Aqua at the auto supply store, and it's just
about a dead on match for the factory color. It's just too bad the kit decals
are gray and not black, which would have made the whole interior color combo
factory correct.
I cut out the grill and sprayed the bumper with Alclad, as I'll be using the
photo etched pieces from my last AMT ' 57 Pro Shop kit for this one.
Lot's to do yet, but I'll get there before too long hopefully.
And finally, note the added clutch pedal. Yep . . . . I hadn't even got the
interior done before the whole notion of box stock went right out the bloomin'
window. 
More to come . . . . . . .
Regards,
sfd 
Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/968230.aspx
Massa threatened with jail over team orders
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?A public raised on a diet of Emerson Fittipaldi, Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna were simply appalled and saddened in equal measure by Massa?s apparent lack of ambition.?
Source: http://blogs.espnf1.com/paperroundf1/archives/2010/11/massa_threatened_with_jail_ove.php
Marussia Virgin Racing Launch Their 2011 Car
Marussia Virgin Racing have launched their car to take on the 2011 world championship in a lavish London ceremony. The Marussia name now preceeds Virgin following a major tie up with the Russian sportscar manufacturer and the team at the end of 2010. �It has led to the new car being designated as the MVR-02. [...]
Source: http://f1fanatics.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/marussia-virgin-racing-launch-their-2011-car/
Six hours and 20 minutes after the race?
GrandPrix+ is Formula 1′s original e-magazine. Started in 2007, it is still the fastest magazine in Grand Prix racing, coming out around six hours after each F1 race. Averaging 80-pages, the e-magazine arrives in your computer in PDF format, allowing you to create an electronic archive which you can take anywhere. For the annual subscription [...]
Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/coming-soon-6/
1950 Chevrolet Deluxe Convertible
This one is going to be near and dear to my heart!! In the summer of 1972, My Mom and Dad were out for a drive near Smith Falls, Ont. They used to drive the back roads looking for old cars, specificly a 1951 Chevrolet Convertible to match the 1951 2dr sedan that has been in the family since it was new. My Mom spotted what she thought was the roof of the elusive '51 'vert sitting in a farmers grain field. (to this day, I hold out it was me that kicked her from within
) The car turned out to be a 1950... sunk six inches into the muck and holding it's share of rust. $300 changed hands, and the car was towed home. Fourteen years later it hit the road again, good as new. The restoration was not as a show car, but as a driver. It has toured with the VCCA and local car shows for years...
I have wanted to build a model of it for years now, but have put it off due to my inexperiance, and inability to find the right parts. Joining this and other forums has got my confidence and skill to the point that I feel I can tackle the job. I found a 1950 die cast hard top for parts, and this week the final piece of the puzzle fell into my lap... the reintroduction of this...
I am no stranger to the AMT '51 Convertible, as I have my Dad's kit from the 1970's that I rebuilt a few years back...
My goal for this model is to build the 1950 how my Dad's would have left the factory. Our car started life in the colours of Seafoam Green, with a black canvas top. When they bought the car, it had been painted over in an off-white. The restoration was done in black with a white top. I am going to do my model in the green because I already have the black convert in my cabinet, and because if the real car ever gets redone (and it needs it now!) It will likely be done factory stock...
Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/818699.aspx
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