It is a very good potential venue, should have most of the infrastructure already in place, a good location, should have lots of space to play with and shouldn't be hampered by the usual complaints whenever motorsport gets too near to cities.
The Bugatti circuit is incredibly dull and should never have been allowed to host a Grand Prix. LeMans already has huge traffic and logistics issues that racing enthusiasts find part of the fun but would be off putting, I doubt too many of F1's corporate sponsors and the jet set would see the fun spending the weekend in the motoring equivilent of a festival.
The Bugatti circuit is incredibly dull and should never have been allowed to host a Grand Prix. LeMans already has huge traffic and logistics issues that racing enthusiasts find part of the fun but would be off putting, I doubt too many of F1's corporate sponsors and the jet set would see the fun spending the weekend in the motoring equivilent of a festival.
How do you propose to check the finances of highly secretive organisations who won't think twice about breaking every rule in the book?
In case you didn't notice Peugeot also entered a souped up tractor. Few people are bothering investing big time in LMP1 and I doubt the few new privater projects will get much manufacturer backing now a petrol win is almost impossible.
12 miles to the gallon is very reasonable for circuit racing, the Focus (standard 1.6) got 13 mpg round Donington. Most race engines (even fairly standard production based ones) over 2 litres will be using a litre or more round a typical lap.
Honda made 250cc racing straight 6s in the 1960s, but it isn't really great from a packaging point of view for bikes. The LX6 has a 1.9 litre engine (I think) and certainly isn't meant to be bike derived, probably closest in characteristics to a K series or similar light and relatively highly strung 4 cylinder engine.
Honda made 250cc racing straight 6s in the 1960s, but it isn't really great from a packaging point of view for bikes. The LX6 has a 1.9 litre engine (I think) and certainly isn't meant to be bike derived, probably closest in characteristics to a K series or similar light and relatively highly strung 4 cylinder engine.
When the rules are biased towards diesel engines? Then it proves nothing, you could make a steam engine win if you tweak the rules enough.
You're talking cars (of different classes and vastly different speeds) lapping each other, not fighting for position. Some series require the faster classes to have headlights on in daylight anyway.
The standard demo is the full game, which is borderline on filling a CD, with a few extras it easily could need a DVD. There has been a 'lite' version released recently though which is a much smaller download without the (all rubbish) standard content.
I'm still not convinced it is the full version of rF. Have you installed new cars and tracks? To me it just sounds like an updated version of the demo which hasn't been activated (the serial code) online, which is required to unlock the full version.
Production car performance is defined by demand, there's no engineering issue stopping either production petrol or diesel cars from being much faster, there's just no point/demand for them.
It was a hot version of the original Clio, with a very long stroke 2 litre, very light and capable cars, rather a love hate kind of thing though. They only made a limited run so expect to pay quite a lot for an old hot hatch certainly something a little different.
What about a Talbot Sunbeam Lotus? A well sorted one will fly and you're bound to embarrass some smug Porsche drivers with it. A well sorted example should be reachable within your budget, though I'm not sure what the availability of left hand drive one is like (or if they even made them).
There are at least two Americans who have built two of the best racing cars of all time, this one is the prettiest and this one wouldn't look out of place at Le Mans 20 years after it was built.
Sure...
If you do want something RWD and a good laugh what about getting a Lada (doesn't fill any other criteria though
).If you don't want a BMW but want something that will be reasonably reliable and fun to drive then I'd seriously consider a lightish finely balanced front wheel drive car, if you want something fun and RWD (and don't want a sports car) then you probably want something older and shoddily built in the good old days of the British car industry.
I'd have said that a Mk2 Golf GTI, Mk1 Focus, Clio 172 or Williams (a bit small) would all fit those criteria pretty well.
I'd have said that a Mk2 Golf GTI, Mk1 Focus, Clio 172 or Williams (a bit small) would all fit those criteria pretty well.
Your still being selfish and giving the money for your gain. Just leave it and lighten the load on those who can't pay their bills as it is and stop wasting council money having to do unnecessary road maintenance to ensure they can't get sued by a 12 year old because it is technically illegal.
You still don't need to claim the money in the first place I don't see how spending half of it on yourself isn't selfish.
It is the legal immigrants who probably patched you up and gave you your 'I'm a brave little boy' sticker, and are paying for your hospital treatment and pocket money fund.
It has nothing to do with driving standard, which is usually (but not always) far better in club racing than with some over keen pubescent teens who think real cars are like go karts and spend half the time crashing into each other proving they really can't handle it. Club racing attracts anyone young and old who wants to go racing on a modest budget without a load of kids spinning in front of them and without misguided desires to get paid to race. Certainly the front drivers in the F4 grid would have no problem clearing up in typical entry level single seaters and did, just like most people they eventually had to accept that whilst they could win in karts and entry level single seaters there just aren't enough paid drives to be able to climb the ladder simply on raw talent.
And I stated you were wrong... Formula BMW has produced relatively few good drivers so far, most of them seem to spend most of the time upside down and the cars are far too sophisticated for there own good, other companies such as Speads produce much faster single seaters with less exotic materials for less than £30000 ready to race, they would make a far better base for a single make series than Formula BMW. As I have several times though FPA already offers a high profile championship for less than a kart season.
When you're winning F1 titles with ease you can afford to go and play with some toys.
By being there for such a retarded reason in the first place.
Do you not understand? You are over your injuries now, how ever bad they may have been you are far luckier than a lot of people, you still have a future as an able bodied person. You have cost us a lot of money for being an idiot but I am in favour of free medical care at point of access in principle so just have to accept that some people will abuse the system. Now what entitles you to a lot of money? There are a lot of better use for that money, like helping those who aren't so lucky as you for a change?
So you've already taken tens of thousands from tax payers, the council should sue you for wasting hospital time and tax payers money. It was a bit of a bump but nothing much really, you've recovered from it so get over it. I think a lot of people have a much more mature attitude to life and death and what it means than you. You're lucky in clearly not having lost some of your innocence yet. I've carried a badly injured mate into the back of an Air Ambulance, he finds the whole incident amusing now and was straight back onto the rugby pitch as soon as he could and didn't feel like suing for being high tackled or for a mistake the paramedic made (both valid cases that he could win unlike yours), instead he was eternally grateful like you should be.
That is what just pisses us off, as a cash struck student I really don't want to be paying your hospital bill let alone your pocket money fund whenever I actually manage to earn some money (or spend it).
So how did you cycle into a sign? Given your story about hitting a stone it proves your too young and immature to ride on the road given that you can't read the road surface and are incapable of controlling your bicycle when you do run something over. Imagine if it had been a car that you had launched yourself into, the poor owner would have the inconvenience of having to peel you off their car. Get a life, your OK (well maybe a bit brain damaged) now and as you have admitted have no medical bills to pay for if you actually had a serious accident you'd consider yourself lucky and get on with making the most of life.
You're incapable of running because your internals are falling about the place and you want to start throwing yourself off buildings?
Or because they don't want to loose? You seriously believe compensation specialists won't sue the council, that it what most of their work involves (although admittedly most is a little less frivolous than this).
Regardless of how badly injured you were (and I accept you might have had a bit of a bruise, possibly even a cut) you still cycled into a sign post, which was your fault, and because you weren't wearing a helmet, which was your fault you bumped your head and ran home and cried about it. At no point had the council committed some huge great crime against you, the sign was there before you and it is still there now, I doubt many other road users have issues with avoiding making contact with it. You then sued the council and are trying to wax money out of them, paid for by the tax payer, because they built some solid signs that can withstand an 8 year old not quite off his stabilisers yet (which we paid them to).
How do you come to the conclusion that you are not trying to take tax payers money?
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Take your own food, I know it's a bit inconvinent but the prices have got ridiculous, it was over £6 for a burger at a club meeting the last time I went! If you're going for 3 days you'll want some liquid refreshment, the Green Man (take the A43 Banbury way, then turn right across the dual carriageway after about half a mile) does quite good food, but you'll need to book in advance. The pubs in Silverstone village are much better for drinking in though and within easy staggering distance of the track.
Bollocks. FPA is £65000 for a season IIRC (and the BRDC have sponsored several drivers through it) Button amongst others came from FPA. Unlike in other series in a fixed format like FPA there is no way you can gain an advantage from extra testing in the car or by spending more on or running a bent car. Of course you'll come back with the usual nonsense about being able to spend a million on a personal trainer, but it is not necessary.
£250000 sounds like a lot for a season in Formula BMW, you could certainly run a competitive car in a national championship for half that and easily get a season from a tenth of that + car purchase cost. Of course people can spend a lot more on lower level formulae but they may as well just buy their way into an F1 drive, as many still do.
It is not a sport for someone wimpish enough to think he was critically injured riding his bike into a sign and then steal tax payers money.
Who are you going to sue this time anyway?
Who are you going to sue this time anyway?
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