tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148338722024-03-25T06:09:57.072+00:00driverchrispetrol tinged ramblingChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01177257026142362945noreply@blogger.comBlogger736125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14833872.post-4236405945050543982016-05-02T17:31:00.001+01:002016-05-02T17:31:32.979+01:00Vintage ad<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">found this vintage ad for my leathers</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The comments I get when I'm wearing them are very positive and usually make some reference to the eighties. I'm afraid not. Fieldsheer Acid Worms are very nineties - here's Carl Fogarty rocking a set in 1992.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Interesting to see the price back in the day too. £599.95 in 1992 is the equivalent of £1120 in 2015 (according to the <a href="http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/education/Pages/resources/inflationtools/calculator/index1.aspx" target="_blank">Bank of England's inflation calculator</a>) and I've got the black set as well as the white ones!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love it</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Push button transmission, the textures and stampings... it must have involved so many man hours to put together for a mass produced vehicle, even if it was a premium model. And the record player! I imagine the stylus weight was pretty damn heavy to keep it tracking - wear out your records fast daddio!</span><br />
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<br />Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01177257026142362945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14833872.post-48743266745183029602015-06-02T12:06:00.004+01:002015-06-02T12:06:35.602+01:00Land speeders<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">probably the most appropriate styling for the flying car treatment...</span><br />
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01177257026142362945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14833872.post-63501023721779237862014-09-16T12:38:00.001+01:002014-09-16T12:40:27.639+01:00September 12th<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">It's hard to remember just how shocking the aftermath of Sep 11th was. For a brief while people wondered if they could make 'Action' films anymore... I mean who could seriously treat that kind of thing as entertainment again? Well the human capacity for forgetting pain is as curious as it is necessary (who the hell would have a second child?) but in the immediate days and weeks after the event people reeled and it felt as though nobody knew how or why something like this could happen and what the result might be.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Which made the analysis that Hunter Thompson wrote on September 12th (for his Sports column on ESPN) even more astounding. I read it in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Rube_(book)" target="_blank">Hey Rube</a> years later and it shocked me then. By 2001 Thompson was for many a spent force, a boorish drunk trading on a reputation from another time, but in the piece the cold hard glint of his political journalism shines through.</span><br />
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It was just after dawn in Woody Creek, Colo., when the first plane hit the World Trade Center in New York City on Tuesday morning, and as usual I was writing about sports. But not for long. Football suddenly seemed irrelevant, compared to the scenes of destruction and utter devastation coming out of New York on TV.<br />
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Even ESPN was broadcasting war news. It was the worst disaster in the history of the United States, including Pearl Harbor, the San Francisco earthquake and probably the Battle of Antietam in 1862, when 23,000 were slaughtered in one day.<br />
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The Battle of the World Trade Center lasted about 99 minutes and cost 20,000 lives in two hours (according to unofficial estimates as of midnight Tuesday). The final numbers, including those from the supposedly impregnable Pentagon, across the Potomac River from Washington, likely will be higher. Anything that kills 300 trained firefighters in two hours is a world-class disaster.
And it was not even Bombs that caused this massive damage. No nuclear missiles were launched from any foreign soil, no enemy bombers flew over New York and Washington to rain death on innocent Americans. No. It was four commercial jetliners.<br />
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They were the first flights of the day from American and United Airlines, piloted by skilled and loyal U.S. citizens, and there was nothing suspicious about them when they took off from Newark, N.J., and Dulles in D.C. and Logan in Boston on routine cross-country flights to the West Coast with fully-loaded fuel tanks -- which would soon explode on impact and utterly destroy the world-famous Twin Towers of downtown Manhattan's World Trade Center. Boom! Boom! Just like that.<br />
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The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.<br />
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It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. Osama bin Laden may be a primitive "figurehead" -- or even dead, for all we know -- but whoever put those All-American jet planes loaded with All-American fuel into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon did it with chilling precision and accuracy. The second one was a dead-on bullseye. Straight into the middle of the skyscraper.<br />
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Nothing -- even George Bush's $350 billion "Star Wars" missile defense system -- could have prevented Tuesday's attack, and it cost next to nothing to pull off. Fewer than 20 unarmed Suicide soldiers from some apparently primitive country somewhere on the other side of the world took out the World Trade Center and half the Pentagon with three quick and costless strikes on one day. The efficiency of it was terrifying.<br />
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We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or what will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say. Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Iraq, or possibly all three at once. Who knows? Not even the Generals in what remains of the Pentagon or the New York papers calling for WAR seem to know who did it or where to look for them.<br />
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This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.
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Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy.<br />
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The numbers out of the Pentagon are baffling, as if Military Censorship has already been imposed on the media. It is ominous. The only news on TV comes from weeping victims and ignorant speculators.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
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From the inital greeting at Reception (the Race School seems to run on equal proportions of grizzled racers and chirpy middle-aged ladies from the midlands in branded swag) every aspect of the day is handled in a slick professional manner. You need only turn up and sign on and you'll be kitted out from head to toe in one-piece leathers, boots, gloves and an Arai lid* then directed towards a fuelled bike. Everything is taken care of. As I mentioned at the start of this ramble inveterate trackday riders might balk at the cost but to be fair when I pondered the outlay in leathers, lids, bikes, fuel, instructors, admin, et al I started to wonder how they make a profit at all. If you want to ride on track but have felt intimidated, or perhaps your bike isn't a typical trackday ride then this could be perfect for you - in the final debrief there were big grins all round and a half dozen proud knee-down neophytes certainly reckoned it a morning well spent. I worried that as a trackday regular I might find it all a bit stage-managed and slow but I enjoyed myself immensely. What a luxury to just turn up at a track, jump on a late model bike and thrash it round a track for a morning. I had so much fun I got back on my bike and thrashed it round Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire for a couple of hours. A good bike day</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now you can start pitching DNF's into the pot, or say that this guys crew or set-up is better, but over the course of a season or especially multiple seasons you'd expect that kind of thing to even itself out or get some under-performing crew pounding sand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've seen an unprecedented four straight years in Formula 1 where the world champion and the runner up are from the same team. To say Sebastian Vettel has dominated F1 lately would be quite the understatement and his team mate Mark Weber has been squarely behind him in second position at the end of each season until he quit. Second in the world, behind somebody who's clearly a massive talent, no shame there eh? But perhaps that's not how a super competitive winner type sees things...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my mind there are two sorts of teams in F1, those that have two equal drivers given a shot at the title and those that have a number one driver and a number two. Whatever Weber signed up for at the start there was no doubt whatsoever how the team was configured at the end. Being a multiple world champion that just keeps winning gives massive confidence and psychological heft in any team discussion. Being Johnny-come-second does not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whilst not common team lockouts aren't unusual, happening around a third of the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you weren't in a Ferrari or McLaren for the dozen years from '98 to 2010 then you were facing a real battle. Those teams <b>dominated</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Similarly in the '85 </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">–</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> '97 period before that you wanted to be in a McLaren or Williams. It's a long time since either team had a good result but they had a stranglehold back then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That dominance makes Schumacher's wins with Benetton and Alonso's Renault wins during those periods even more impressive. Respective team mates not found.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The period roughly '83</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">–</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> '93 was <b>amazing</b>, it's not rose tinted remembrance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perhaps most troublesome of all looking at these results in the cold light of day is my conclusion that Stirling Moss, far from being '<i>the greatest world champion we never had</i>' (copyright UK motor journalists since forever) appears rather to be '<i>good, but not good enough</i>'. He got beaten four straight years in a row - once by a Brit who only racing fans remember, well I guess that is the reward for surviving that grisly period, and twice he lost to a team mate. So okay that team mate was Fangio - but four years of results suggest to me that he was a runner up. Sorry Stirling, you seem like a really nice geezer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And finally. If you want to be a legend, then you need to do it for different teams. <b>That </b>is what Alonso is desperately chasing with Ferrari. it inspired Rossi on a bike and it cements the legend for the likes of Fangio, Senna and Schumacher. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If Vettel stops racing tomorrow few would doubt his talent and skill, it seems like the most obvious troll in the world but there would be people willing to belittle his achievements as merely 'the best car' or 'the best team' and they'd point to four years of lockout as their proof. I wonder if he's keen to write a new chapter?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interested to hear what observations anybody else makes from this list...</span><br />
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Had the pleasure of introducing a bunch of friends to Anglesey and she delivered in spades, arguably the best track in the country, definitely the best quality riding surface. Nature put on a great show the evening before with clouds boiling down of the snowdonia peaks as we walked the track. And then we were treated to absolutely perfect conditions for a blinding trackday. Love love love it. </span></span><br />
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