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GPWizard => Introductions => Topic started by: Dare on June 25, 2007, 03:38:40 AM
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Welcome to the site,hope you all find a
new home here and return for many visits :D
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Thankyou very much. Hope to run into a few I know here and meet lots of new people too.
Love Lynda XX :)
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Have been wandering aimlessly for the last month, maybe it's time to rest these weary feet!
David
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Welcome aboard guys and gals, I'm sure we are all going to have a lot of fun!
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.oO(Well, well, other Pit Lane members...)
Hey there, old friends! :D
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Glad to have found a new forum. There have been so many things I have wanted to post on since Pit Lane went down. I hope the excitement doesn't stop now that I have somewhere to post.
I also hope or previous Admin comes and shares some of his opinions with us now that he doesn't need to referee.
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Glad to have found you lot again.
I got into a forum in desperation after Pit Lane shut down and it was a load of kids trying to outdo themselves with bad language.
Seeing who's in here from PL, I know this will be good.
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Welcome Johnbull and all the other new members....I hope you guys enjoy the lighthearted fun here at GPWizard, a great place for all things F1 and more.....
Hope you stay a while and join in.
Rom
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JohnBull!
So glad you joined up mate!
This site has a whole gallery just waiting for some of your racing pics!
David
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Hello Pit Lane Members, This is Rambler 117 now using the nick "raindancer". Good to be ground somewhere. GPWIZARD members, thanks for the invite. Hope to make it the best F1 forum ( if it is already not so)
Cheers
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Hi John, Lynda, Steven, F1 and all old pals. Good to see you all here. It was really sad to see the Pit Lane club go down. But to great be here folks.
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I got quite emotional seeing all you guys back here, and couldn't wait to get back to the office to get stuck in.
Like I said in an earlier post I have been subscribing to another forum in recent weeks but I missed the intelligent, informative discussion of Pit Lane. I hope Pit Lane admin is reading this and joins us here. I know you had some idiots trying to destroy you but you really should have stuck it out a bit longer.
Lots has happened since we were last in discussion, both in F1 and in our own racing. We got the Kawasaki ZX12R engined JBR3 finished and son Josh has taken part in 3 events. The first at Mellieha he snapped a drive shaft on the line in the first practice run. We replaced it and he got to the top all right on his 2nd practice run, and the same with the first of the timed runs. Despite being very gentle off the line and out of hairpins he was 6th overall and 2nd in class at that point - on the car's debut. He tried a bit harder on the last run and was 2nd overall at the 2nd split but broke another drive shaft a couple of corners from home.
The next round was a couple of weeks later at Xaghra Hill in Gozo - which is a smaller Island North of Malta. There the car was immediately on the pace. Josh was 3rd overall and leading his class - the present Malta Champ driving a 2 litre Alfa Romeo engined Dallara was quickest - after the 2nd practice run, held on to third improving his time on the 3rd run of the day, which was the 1st official run. Let me explain. We have 4 runs per day, an untimed practice, a timed practice, then 2 official runs of which the best time counts for the driver's result. He then improved again on the last run deposing a multiple National Champion driving a 2.2 litre Cosworth engined Chevron for 2nd overall, just 9/100ths of a second away from the overall win. We were all absolutely exstatic.
(http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/2814/joshxaghramay07xy9.jpg)
Then last weekend we were at a sprint meeting at Ta Qali and there Josh and the JBR3 were just brilliant. He was quickest throughout the day breaking his own lap record and taking great chunks out of it with every lap. This was his first overall win in only the car's 3rd outing.
(http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/2587/taqali07winnerscg1.jpg)
That's a pretty emotional Josh in the middle, with cousin Matthew (my nephew) third overall driving a Suzuki GSXR 1200 engined Van Diemen, and young Zak (Matt's cousin) 2nd overall driving a 2.1 litre Cosworth engined F3 Ralt. Zak incidentally is just 18. Our answer to Lewis Hamilton ?
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Well Pit Lane members,it's been a few
days since you joined us,what do you
think?
Hope everyone made you feel welcome
and you make this your new home
:good:
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Looks like you and the lads got the new car off to a proper start, johnbull! Good luck on the rest of the season. Hope you will keep us updated.
Cos
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Well Pit Lane members,it's been a few
days since you joined us,what do you
think?
Hope everyone made you feel welcome
and you make this your new home
:good:
Been quite good Dare.
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Well Pit Lane members,it's been a few
days since you joined us,what do you
think?
Hope everyone made you feel welcome
and you make this your new home
:good:
Been quite good Dare.
Raindancer,what part of India do you call home?
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I think a look at the post count of people like myself, Chameleon, Steven R, Raindancer, Linda, F1 Box and other pit lane exiles should answer your question.
Speaking for myself, I am very happy in my new home thank you very much. :yahoo:
But I do have a very serious dilemma this weekend. Come Saturday afternoon, 2 pm precisely our time, the MotoGp from Assen will be about to start, at exactly the same time as qualifying for Magny Cours is about to start.
Decisions, decisions. ::) ::) ::)
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Hey Johnbull, would it help to say that generally we try to get together in the chat room and discuss quali and the race whilst watching ........
Rom
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Hey Johnbull, would it help to say that generally we try to get together in the chat room and discuss quali and the race whilst watching ........
Rom
You mean I then have to do 5 things at once? - watch the bikes, watch the cars, watch the PC (bike timing) watch the PC (F1 timing) and chat with you lot too? ...... not sure if I even know how, but I'll give it a try, so long as I don't trip up in my zimmer frame. :yahoo:
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nah it's all good mate........I reckon you'll be able to handle it.....
Rom
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It's easier here in the States. Quali will be on Speed live in the morning, and MotoGP will be on CBS tape delay in the afternoon.
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Well Pit Lane members,it's been a few
days since you joined us,what do you
think?
Hope everyone made you feel welcome
and you make this your new home
:good:
For my money, it's actually been better (sorry, Red Five, but read on). The quality of discussion is as high as in the Pit Lane forum, just as much happening, everything is as good except for one thing. GP Wizard lacks the fly in the ointment that was Oongah - and that can only be good... ;)
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For my money, it's actually been better (sorry, Red Five, but read on). The quality of discussion is as high as in the Pit Lane forum, just as much happening, everything is as good except for one thing. GP Wizard lacks the fly in the ointment that was Oongah - and that can only be good... ;)
Why does everybody keep mentioning OOnga :DntKnw: Quiet Chami he might hear you and get in here.
Actually, to be quite honest I quite liked winding him up. :yahoo:
Seriously though, I am impressed with the serious discussion. Not one thread with subscribers calling others names etc. apart from the occasional discussion about zimmer frame specifications.
I suppose there must be something to be said for growing older and wiser.
Now don't say it . :-[ :-[ :-[
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I am thinking of fitting my zimmer with slicks. D'you think Max would allow it or would I have to specify grooves? Or perhaps I could take a pit stop to change from one to the other... :D
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Max and Bernie have no say on zimmers so you can have any tyres or aerodynamics you like, great for whipping round the aisles and beating the old biddies. :DD
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[quote author=johnbull
Seriously though, I am impressed with the serious discussion. Not one thread with subscribers calling others names etc. apart from the occasional discussion about zimmer frame specifications.
Seriously johnbull in the soon to be one year I've been a
member I've never seen any harsh words among members.
Were serious about our f1,but as you've seen by now we
kid aroun on other topics.
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[quote author=johnbull
Seriously though, I am impressed with the serious discussion. Not one thread with subscribers calling others names etc. apart from the occasional discussion about zimmer frame specifications.
Seriously johnbull in the soon to be one year I've been a
member I've never seen any harsh words among members.
Were serious about our f1,but as you've seen by now we
kid aroun on other topics.
Which is just how it should be, and why we're here. You stupid pr*ck. :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:
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[quote author=johnbull
Seriously though, I am impressed with the serious discussion. Not one thread with subscribers calling others names etc. apart from the occasional discussion about zimmer frame specifications.
Seriously johnbull in the soon to be one year I've been a
member I've never seen any harsh words among members.
Were serious about our f1,but as you've seen by now we
kid aroun on other topics.
Which is just how it should be, and why we're here. You stupid pr*ck. :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:
Make yourself right at home
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I am thinking of fitting my zimmer with slicks. D'you think Max would allow it or would I have to specify grooves? Or perhaps I could take a pit stop to change from one to the other... :D
I just got new tires on the van. I thought about having Bill up at Mr. Tire take some tire paint and paint one tread groove on each tire white.
It seems like the softs handle better! :crazy:
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Amazing what a white stripe can do! :yahoo:
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Well Pit Lane members,it's been a few
days since you joined us,what do you
think?
Hope everyone made you feel welcome
and you make this your new home
:good:
Been quite good Dare.
Raindancer,what part of India do you call home?
Hi Dare, I live in Hyderabad the capital of the State of Andhra Pradesh which is in South India. Hyderabad is a major I.T Hub and is the only place where Microsoft has a development Center outside of the U.S.
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I quite like it here. However the interface is a little cluttered but otherwise quite cool. Actually great to see the serious Pit lane members out here. I guess the thing with Oonga was that he was opinionated and looked like he had a grouse with the Admin. Dark hints at sinister goings on were one of his more common refrain. Anyway, this place good. I haven't been active as much as I was in Pitlane here because I have been traveling and have had a packed schedule.
Hope to correct the situation soon.
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Hello everyone,
Another Pitlane refugee, I had only just gotten into it when it closed down, was a great shame so its great to see most of the regulars have moved to this forum which seems to have the same tone.
A quick question for the ex-pitlaners, there was a link posted to a site which replayed gp's in a graphic format, showing a 2d track map and showing the cars as dots moving around the track. It was a great way to visualise what happened but I never took down the address. Can anyone remember the name of the site?
cheers,
Cameron
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That would be Vision F1. Link: http://www.visionf1.com/
It's a valuable resource for going back and studying particular drivers' fortunes during a race. They don't update it immediately after a race and it can be several days before they have the latest GP but it's worth waiting for.
Watching Vision F1 replays was how I came to respect Scott Speed as a driver - I made a study of him through last year and at each race this season and his improvement was very evident. He is twice the driver this year but had already caught and overhauled Liuzzi in the second half of 2006.
Where Vision F1 scores over Live Timing is in the possibility of following a specific driver's race. While the race is happening, we try to watch the front and as far down the field as we can manage - watch someone like Speed exclusively and you could end up not knowing who won the race! But Vision F1 replays allow you to take your time, watch carefully, and view each lap at the speed that suits you - when using it as a resource, I usually speed it up to 4 times actual speed. That's a good compromise between saving time and still being able to keep up with what's going on.
Enjoy!
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That's the one, thanks chameleon. Agree its a briliant way to watch a race, would be great if they could do it live, you can get feeling for where everyone's at rather than just the two or three that happen to be on the tv screen.
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I have never really looked at visionf1.com but the lapchart on on the live timing at www.formula1.com lets you see who is making up or losing places in real time. Point your mouse at a driver's name and his trace turns white so you can pick him out of the clutter.
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I have never really looked at visionf1.com but the lapchart on on the live timing at www.formula1.com lets you see who is making up or losing places in real time. Point your mouse at a driver's name and his trace turns white so you can pick him out of the clutter.
Interesting. Thanks for the tip, Steven.
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Glad to have found a new forum. There have been so many things I have wanted to post on since Pit Lane went down. I hope the excitement doesn't stop now that I have somewhere to post.
I also hope or previous Admin comes and shares some of his opinions with us now that he doesn't need to referee.
A quality comment, in particular the bold, endorsed by this newcomer. Are you with us, Craig??
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Yes he is, as No 5, but not quite as often as we'd like him to be.
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Thanks for inviting me to this forum. I had no where to let out my F1 talk desire to until I came upon here after the closure of the Pitlane!
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Another thing that I find particularly refreshing about this forum is that threads are allowed to wander where they will. That keeps it more like a conversation, with subsidiary topics coming and going as they pop up, and the original subject always available to be returned to when someone has something to say on it.
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Your last sentence. You don't think that's anything to do with old age, do you?
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Of course it does, John. Now, what was I saying...? :D
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this is better than Pit Lane and looking forword to gettin used 2 the ppl and the site!