Robbie Francevic from over your side of the tasman was farkin quick in one....

Robbie Francevic from over your side of the tasman was farkin quick in one....

and for the record, the mini is the original flying brick

while we are on car racing does anyone have a link to some footage of Juan Fangio racing the Maserati at Nurbergring in the 50's where he came 1st from midpack halfway through the race and broke the lap record like 10 times in 22 laps. I wish I was alive to be at the track at that race.

nah no footgae, but fangio was amazing for somone that didnt do his 1st race till he was 29 and didnt enter F1 till he was 36

Well no driver has ever repeated what he did and probably never will. Probably because with today's cars it simply isnt possible

It still is possible with todays cars, but the rules in place (especially for formula 1) virtually prohibit it.

No. But I do have a couple of 8min laps of the 'Gring by Rohrl in a ****hot 911 turbo if you want them. Quite captivating to watch. The Carousel. Aaaah.

And Climb Dance

Rendezvous

I went out with a girl for a while whose late father was a racing nut. They had the most beautiful big, signed photos of old Auto Unions and W series Mercs on the wall, and a garage with a '20s supercharged Vauxhall, 40's Harleys, a '50's Bentley.....
shame it didn't work out

oh and gday kotter.
Any advice on firewire AV interfaces?

for a computer? Just go to a computer fair and buy the cheapest one you can find. Ten minutes putting it in your ready to connect that camcorder/ipod up.

if you can get a hold of it theres a vid of a lotus vs a corvette round the ring. fantastic stuff. i have a copy of it floating around somwhere....

and to hook yur oldfashioned video player up?

to the computer? if you need to do that you need a video capture card or a VIVO graphics card or something with video input.

Sorry If I dont make much sense Ive just finished writing a presentation. I barely make sense to myself

for audio I use Protools
either an MBox or Digi2
so appreciate decent software and hardware.

Video is not my priority at the moment,
but I'll certainly be attempting or at least facilitating some serious captures and perhaps edits
in the future.
This is on a mac BTW and I don't really want to spend my money twice.
Whatcha reckon decent interface wise?

In the 80's, a Ferrari 288 GTO went up against a Mercedes AMG Hammer on the track. It was close, but the Ferrari driver was working it like crazy while the guy in the Merc fiddled with the radio at 100+.

I dont really know then. sorry

Good lord. Basso again. That's some serious domination. And I fell asleep at the crucial moment before pressing record again. Bugger. It's not gonna be the best highlights tape.

That's the difference between the design philosophies of the Italians and the Germans. Italians demand that their cars be driven with brute force whereas the Germans are lazy and prefer technology does most of the work for you.

Nah, that's the difference between a company with a "grand touring" philosophy and one with a "racing" philosophy.

Ferraris have always been notorious for their lack of forgiveness. You have to be on the ball all the time or they will turn around and bite you.

Isn't that what I said?

grand touring = lazy
italian's racing = crazy

British auto engineering errs on the side of ludicrous, which is marginally better than good old aussie knowhow in the field of crap

Somone told me an old 'true' story about a 'mate' on a Fireblade racing a guy in a Lotus Esprit Turbo.
Anyway, the kicker is at 150Mph they are side by side, eyeballing each other. The guy on the blade is hanging on for his life, the guy in the Lotus reaches across and picks up an apple which he starts to munch on while driving with one hand....

LOL....

mid / rear engined cars will do that to you. many porsche owner has discovered how to put their new car instantly into the spin cycle when picking it up from the dealer on a a rainy day....

Depends on the engineering, this little baby is 80 years old, if you want a challenge, try muscling this around a carpark.

https://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h145/matagi2/p1a.jpg

sorry about the image quality, I was trying to resize it to post as a thumbnail

And if you want British grand touring ........

Off to hospital for 6 week checkup tomorrow. Hopefully I'll get clearance to resume full body contact sports like cycling...


wish me luck, I'm so friggin sick of sitting around

Ill take an Aston Martin any day of the week over a merc or ferrari.