Quote from duke_toaster :

Who in Ferrari's Incompetant Afficionados thought of that one - and more importantly, can I have a pint of what they just had?

No penalty for Alonso's blatant wreck on Heidfeld in Monaco, but penalising a racing incident.

Alonso and Heidfelds collision is more like a racing incident than ramming up the rear end of a car that is abiding by the rules...

The red light is on for a reason so you must stop, simple as that. The fact that Hamilton was in such a panic after losing 2 places in his pit stop he was more desperate to attack the two of them out of the pits he was paying no attention to the lights. No blame goes to his team, they aren't exactly hard to see if both Kubica and Kimi can see while battling position down the pit lane...

A racing incident in my view is where you can't really place 100% blame on the one driver, so would you like to blame Kimi for stopping

I had to laugh when Louise talked to him and Lewis said, "I don't know what happened..."

More and more it's looking like Hamilton hasn't got the head to be a champion.

Quote from Luke.S :

The euro millions is better my mum won a tenner on it

Yea, and how much money does/did she put into it before she won that tenner

Makes me laugh when someone says they won £10/20 off the lottery, yet over the weeks they've spent more money on it than they've won

Quote from pearcy_2k7 :

Something like that In the article i read (2 actually) both of them said he was revving it and lost control, how else would you rev it and loose control? Id say he was going about 30 put his clutch in, revved it, at peak revs his foot slipped off the clutch, lost control and went backwards into a hedge.... Yes

Look at the tyre marks he has left they tell you exactly how he lost it... i.e most likely trying to accelerate heavily out of a junction causing him to light the rears up.

That's not someone slipping off the clutch...

Quote from Nathan_French_14 :

Get a 306 meridian!

Seriously though, a 1.4 is'nt expensive to insure. I've not insured mine yet as its kept in the garage all the time as its having an engine rebuild, but i've done quotes and the cheapest i have got so far is £1035 a year, with the car kept in the garage. I cant remember whether thats fully comp or comprehensive though so i'll have to check.

Not expensive to insure? I'm 19, been driving for two years with no convictions and the cheapest quote I got was £860 on a 99 1.25 Fiesta Zetec. Thats fully comp.

Out of the cars you've listed Jakg I'd recommend a Fiesta. I had a Clio (R reg) as my first car and had nothing but trouble with it. Not long after owning it a wheel bearing went, then the CVDs starting clunking, then the water pump went and to top if off the same wheel bearing went again... My Dad doesn't have much more luck with his 206, luckily he used to own a garage so can sort his own car.

The Fiesta has been faultless so far, getting over 40mpg and handles reasonable. I live in the middle of know where so rack up about 260-320miles a week and so far the fiesta hasn't missed a beat!

Quote from Alias Driver :

Make of the above what you will and I don't really blame him in the slightest as any professional driver in his position would have been aiming to reduce damage and keep his own car in the race but as far as I'm concerned, Kimi _was_ targetting the back of Sutil's car....

Are you being sarcastic? Hard to tell...

Raikkonen was more concerned about keeping the car under control than aiming for the back of Sutil. At that speed trying to control 4 or 5 tank slappers he had very little control of where that car was going.

Was unlucky for Sutil but that is racing. I've seen far more deliberate/stupid moves in F1 that went unpenalized than what happened between them two. Was it 2005/6 where Sato nailed someone hard enough to roll their car on the very first lap.

It's crazy! I've a 20mile trip each way 3 days of the week to college and then another 3 days I have a 15mile trip each way to work, clocking a total of 210 miles a week. Costs me between £35-40 a week on fuel. I remember when I started driving getting away with about £25 a week on fuel and that was only just over 2 years ago...

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That sorted it, thanks Dygear

Quote from the_angry_angel :

Usually you'll get this is the server isn't configured properly. Usually it's sendmail (there could be other MTAs which I've not used that produce it, but I'm not aware of which, if any, that do) which produces these files, and it will produce them when it doesn't know how to deliver your email.

So will I have to change values in the php config to sort this?

Currently
sendmail_from = no value
and there is a sendmail_path

It's weird as it only does this with the headers set for HTML emails, if I do a plain text email it doesn't give me this message or save a copy on the server.

It does send the emails fine, just want to get rid of the message as it doesn't look very good for joe public to see.

Cheers T-RonX for the pointer .

Got a strange thing happening and I can't understand why... Using the example in the PHP manual I've created a function to send HTML mail.

Attached in the image is the message I get, the mail send fine but it makes a copy on the server and places this message on the screen.

" /home/dave/dead.letter... Saved message in /home/dave/dead.letter"

Any help appreciated, been playing with it for a while now trying to get it to stop spitting that message out to no avail.

Keiran

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wXYmzpwM6o

Never saw the GP2 race but what the hell was going on!? Two dogs on the circuit, Bruno ends up hitting one! Scary stuff that could have easily seriously hurt him...

Just wandering if anyone has one of these and what their thoughts are? My Sony Ericsson 750i's D-pad has given up the ghost so on the hunt for a new phone. If anyone does have one is it possible to connect to the internet through WiFi?

Looking at cheap contracts, T-Mobile do the above phone for free with their £15 a month contract.

Does anyone know if their is any differences feature wise between the HTC Touch and the re-branded T-Mobile MDA? Can't see any by the features list...

Cheers
Keiran

Or you end up with 20+ students pulling their hair out wandering why the hell it's referring to a electrical diagram when the next page shows a pneumatic one

Took someone 20mins to ask the invigilator what the hell was wrong... turned out the head of department assumed they'd be okay but forgot to photocopy the backs to the page.

Everyone was so pissed off, after revising for the prelim to be told we'd have to sit it again after study leave...

Tristan is right Intrepid, I loved my time racing karts and if/when I can afford to do it again I will. It's the cheapest way to go racing wheel to wheel and the racing is just so close. The sheer grip and acceleration is awesome, not to mention the fact that 90% of the time if there happens to be contact you can usually escape with little to no damage. I just can't understand why you are so adamant in pushing it every time you post. Fair enough if it is someone who thinks a real kart is a lawn more engine hire kart capable of 35mph at a push but this is Tristan. As far as I'm aware he has had a shot of a TKM so understands they are not little puny 4 strokes.

But at the end of the day I doubt you or anyone for that matter would turn down racing an older single seater.

I'm guessing there is some advantage to be had from new tyres. The person that run in Scottish Formula Ford with the company I work for used new tyres every meeting and I'm assuming many others did as well. The wear indicators show lots of tread left and they probably only did half a dozen heat cycles if that. Unfortuantley we cut them all in half and are using them around any solid objects

Big bump!

Used to use analyze for speed on my old computer with no problems but for some reason can't get it work on my new computer.

Have placed it into my LFS folder keeping the structure, have copied the contents of the SMX package on the LFS website into the folder along with the .tsf files. Yet if I try open any replay it says can't load track...

Does it still work with LFS Y?

Had to laugh when I read this comment on youtube, "seriously.. what could Button do to avoid the crash? I don't understand why Coulthard wan't punished."

Button was at least one car length behind with no gap to go for... Even if Coulthard left a gap I doubt Button would have stayed on the circuit.

If you’re vaguely serious about competing in a series which has the slightest hope in getting you somewhere in your racing then you'll most likely need to find a team that will run you. This will cost tens of thousands of pounds at least.

The karting centre I work for used to run a karting team which later formed into a team in the Scottish Formula Ford championship. The drivers they ran paid for their drives and they even had mechanics from the karting centre to run the cars yet they still couldn't finance it.

Racing a single seater is not cheap and any accidents are likely going to cost a lot of money. Someone I used to race ran in the Scottish Formula Ford championship last year and his budget got so tight towards the end of the season he was reusing his old tyres. Didn't help he rolled the car and took all four corners off it... which he had to pay the excess for.

I’d have thought the entry fees will be expensive for MSA sanctioned race, I think the MSA karting entry fee is up to £50 at my local club. So god knows what the fee will be, I assume Tristan will have a fair idea.

Quote from sam93 :

Didn't mean to go into the ****ing post, accidents happen, none of you know the facts and i'm not going to tell you all the facts, all I remember is my back end going and me coming off and skiding across the ground straight into a post, I know it was a rock as the person who seen it happen seen the rock in the rock where my bike was and as I remembered my back end going its a bit obvious to work out what caused it to go.

You have told us the facts, so we are coming to our conclusions based upon the facts you've given us.

One of these facts was the daring speed of 10-15mph, I find it hard to believe you couldn't have seen and avoided a stone at that speed. People average that on flat roads without the aid of a hill...

So technically the accident was caused by you not taking the correct precautions and taking the road surface into consideration...

Hope you get nothing out the council, otherwise it just sets the standard for other fouls to follow suit.

Your problem is your trying to make the accident sound more dramatic than it probably was but failing miserably leaving large gaps for anyone and everyone to pick up on.

Quote :

it's like saying people see a car in front of them but still go into the back of it, do they need their eyes tested because obviously they could see the car in front of them.

If someone manages to drive into a car in front of them knowing its there then yes, they do need their eyes tested.

Actually last year in `rush hour` traffic I got bumped from behind, nothing major and luckily for the lady behind no damage caused. She really pissed me off by the fact, I got out my car to check for any damage and she never even had the courtesy to roll her window down and apologize. I knocked on her window, she eventually rolled it down and said, "Do you not have something to say to me?." She said nothing so I asked, "Anything wrong with the brakes on your car?", she replied "No", "Well you need to get your £@!effing eyes tested" She seemed pretty shocked that a 18 year old was giving her sh!t

So to summarize yes people should tell anyone who manages to run into the back of them if they need their eyes tested.

Quote from sam93 :

I know the Gixer thou engines are great. Just thought why not invest for that little bit more power, but if thats all his budget can stretch to fair do's. The 1000 engine is a great engine.

Because from the numbers I can find on the web there isn't exactly a staggering difference considering the difference in cost. The money is best put towards something that is actually going to get us closer to the front such as an LSD and another 3 of these Avon tyres that everybody uses. Can never for the life of me remember what they are

Last edited by keiran, Tue 8 Apr 2008, 23:20.

Quote from sam93 :

Take this Gixer thou out and replace it with a gixer 13 thous (Hayabusa engine) The 1000 engine is a powerful engine but why not spend that extra money and buy a Hayabusa engine?

Maybe because we don't have the extra money to spend? Also as far as I'm aware a Hayabusa has roughly the same bhp... From what I've read there quoted to have around 175/180bhp...

We still need to get a fuel tank, 3 tyres and a LSD to get the car running.

Our budget is a tight one, hence why the car isn't finished with the season starting soon.

Quote from sam93 :

Well, I can sue the council because the sign was illegal, didn't meet the legal requirments.

So your going to sue because a sign was probably a few mm's out of position Last year at work I fell when a broken barrier had been left on the circuit where it shouldn't have. I landed on my chin in the middle of the circuit. Thankfully my work mate legged it to me as soon as he saw it happen and managed to get the attention of a customer on the track. Had he not I'd have been hit by a 200+kg kart doing 25mph.

Now technically I could have sued because of the fact the barrier was dangerous and should not have been there. I'm left with a big scar on my chin to go along with all the others.

End of the day accidents happen, I blame myself as much as I'd blame my work place for not moving the barrier. My manager at work got nailed by a kart flat out, has a scar all the way along his arm, 2 scars on his face and is blind in one eye after it. He never sued either.

It's sad the way society is going, everybody seems to want to sue you for anything and everything. Got a case going on at work, I told the guy off for being a twat and diving down the inside of people. He ended up breaking his kart and going through the barriers, he is now trying to sue because no one asked if he was okay... before the kart came to a rest he jumped out it .

Quote :

back wheel hits a pretty big rock when turning

If the rock was big enough to unsettle your push bike at 10-15mph might I suggest you get your eyes tested? Never have I fallen off my push bike by hitting a stone, sure I've had a few moments but generally people tend to avoid big stones...

Quote :

...down a hill at about 10-15mph...

And your seriously trying to claim to have been a great motocross rider yet you fell off a push bike doing 10-15mph

Congrats Tristan

Hopefully I'll be sprinting & hill climbing alongside my Dad in this beast (Locust kit car)! Currently car isn't ready, the 1.3 fordy cross flow is out and a Suzuki GSXR 1000cc is now mounted in it. Dad reckons it should have about 170bhp behind it now!

Has taken a lot longer than expected so not looking very likely that we'll be doing much/anything competitive with it this year. Still got the wiring to sort, fuel pump, fuel tank, another 3 tyres ... the list doesn't end.

Hopefully we can do some track days in it at least to get some mileage under our belts. I've never driven anything like this in anger so could be done with all the testing I can get!

Picture is pretty crappy, taken on a phone. Currently doesn't look like that, at the moment it's in bits!

Quote from Gizz :

yep bad race for us brits, but still some great drives...

LH left his head in bed i think today, complete washout...

as for DC... i will probablyget roasted here but closing the door that late is gona cause problems, yep buttons car was not pefectly under control and just before impact JB looks to go strait! ... but imo DC is closing the door in those situation way to late....

How much earlier did you want Coulthard to make Button aware that he wasn't getting down the inside? Coulthard left just enough space for one car from the moment he exited the previous corner. Button just stuffed it in the gap with no hope in hell.

Hamilton... what a boy. That was not what I'd call a cool head, `stalling` on the grid, rear ending Alonso, trying to take the next corner at the same speed with no wing and then putting his fist out to all the "monkeys at the back."

Quote from Jordan2007 :

I had A Test In A Formula Renault and a Formula Ford, Yeh There quick But Too Flimsy! Just need to Touch Wheels and ur in the wall!

I know of someone who did a few races in Scottish Formula Ford and I can tell you for a fact the cars are not `flimsy.` The only time the car broke on him was when he rolled it big time and took all 4 corners off it.

Also, whats with the capital letters...

Don't think this has been posted... guy at work showed me the pictures in the paper so just youtubed it to see the footage.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eV99_BIqY4g

What a mess!!

Quote from andybarsblade :

Awesome sounding car with a million wings

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v= ... fGme4&feature=related

My Dad knows that guy Graham White Jnr. I've seen that car in person! Last I knew it was/is powered by a former Arrows F1 car engine but he had too many technical problems with it so he was swapping it for a engine from a DTM car.

Quote from Tigershark :

F1 also had these kind of 'overtake' buttons for years prior to the FIA imposed revlimit of last year, the only difference to A1GP being that its use wasn't restricted by the governing body of the sport.

F1 has never had a `push to pass` button... They use/d different fuel mixtures.