Delta's tea-break thingy, the lighter wassname - 2013

[terence]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

I will be back by then but would like a weekend not driving anywhere and not staring at motor cars!

Al, We are supporting a UK organiser, at least. And I go where the car goes, not that I'm complaining.......

Gordon, the weather suits me fine and am enjoying it, thanks. Already some sunburned Brits in the paddock!

Leffe is coming home intact.

I hope you got permission from Belgium to takr some of their beer into Spain Mike.

[GORDON STREETER]

Originally Posted by Chigley

Ahh, but Gordon you're a lost cause.

Fair enough but if I am "hopeless" at least I can choose to do it in the sun and not in the grey/damp UK

[Colin McKay]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

I would like a weekend not staring at motor cars!

MODERATORS! Is he allowed to say that?

[Chigley]

at least I can choose to do it in the sun and not in the grey/damp UK

that comment is below the belt and needs censoring.

[Mike Bell]

So is that Gordon and me banned then?

[Chigley]

Have you both got valid passports?

[pigs fly]

GREAT day watching V8's Supercars in Auckland, all qual and races 1and2 now back in motel watching F1 qual on tv and thinking of you poor cold people. ARE you still up to your armpits in snow, its shorts and t-shirt weather here looking forward race 3 sunday then F1 later on tv.

[zefarelly]

Suns out in Sussex . . . . its dry out there . . .going to get a few Cortinas out, cos I can . .

[gt917]

Sun out and clear blue sky here on Norfolk/Suffolk border and looking good for Snetterton.

[midgetman]

Starting to cloud over in Wiltshire. It's going to be yet another wet race day for us in Dorset tomorrow I think. I understand the test day today is scheduled to be a regatta, thankfully we are not going down until the morning.

[Al Weyman]

40 c in Chaing Mai Noth Thailand just been out on the street celebrating the Thai new year with the locals everyone armed to the teeth with water guns giving everyone a good soaking, best fun I have had for years!

[GORDON STREETER]

Originally Posted by Al Weyman

40 c in Chaing Mai Noth Thailand just been out on the street celebrating the Thai new year with the locals everyone armed to the teeth with water guns giving everyone a good soaking, best fun I have had for years!

Be careful of those Ladyboys Al
On a more serious note steer clear of the Jet ski hire people as there are a load of scams going on, even some of the police are involved so don't expect any help !

[pigs fly]

Originally Posted by Al Weyman

40 c in Chaing Mai Noth Thailand just been out on the street celebrating the Thai new year with the locals everyone armed to the teeth with water guns giving everyone a good soaking, best fun I have had for years!

AL if you want a motor racing fix or two go to Adelaide 20-21st for touring car masters or go to Warwick in Queensland for the Historics on 27-28th April. Hope to see you at Warwick.

[delta]

Here are the latest cars at Delta Stable. Arnott Formula 500 and Lola Formula 5000 could not be more different.

[delta]

Better Pic.

[terence]

Ah,so your still about then Iain,was going to get a search party together and come looking for you.

[midgetman]

Originally Posted by midgetman

Starting to cloud over in Wiltshire. It's going to be yet another wet race day for us in Dorset tomorrow I think. I understand the test day today is scheduled to be a regatta, thankfully we are not going down until the morning.

It wasn't wet! WOO-HOOO!!!! Test day was a monsoon, but we weren't there. We had cloud cover and a few spits of rain on Sunday but slicks stayed on all day - first time this year Mega!

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by delta

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Here are the latest cars at Delta Stable. Arnott Formula 500 and Lola Formula 5000 could not be more different.

Please please please can I have go in both of them!

[compte deGraves]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

Please please please can I have go in both of them!

Only the brave, the very brave, venture anywhere near a F3 500.

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by compte deGraves

Only the brave, the very brave, venture anywhere near a F3 500.

Iain's driven one! I was looking at an unclothed McLaren MP4 in the garages at Barcelona. It's just a big Formula Ford.......

[compte deGraves]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

Iain's driven one! I was looking at an unclothed McLaren MP4 in the garages at Barcelona. It's just a big Formula Ford.......

[grantp]

Originally Posted by delta

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Here are the latest cars at Delta Stable. Arnott Formula 500 and Lola Formula 5000 could not be more different.

A quick engine swap job?

[delta]

Well back at Dover blooming windy then on to hockenheim have fun at Caldwell and silverstone

[Al Weyman]

If any BTCC outfits want to hire new drivers they could do worse than go to Bangkok and take a taxi ride across town and start interviewing, they are bloody nuts! Health & Safety and Ambulance chasers have no place in that country, its nothing to see three four up on a small motorcycle or three and a small baby or even a dog, ten odd people often kids packed into the back of open pick up trucks going down the motorway at 60 to 70mph with the rear tailgate open and our cabbie feet away from them. Undertaking is the norm and they have a complete disregard for safety, no one wears seat belts and hardly any wear crash helmets on motorcycles and the road death rate is truly alarming 40 killed on the roads on the New Years (Thia New year is last weekend) get away.

[grantp]

Originally Posted by Al Weyman

If any BTCC outfits want to hire new drivers they could do worse than go to Bangkok and take a taxi ride across town and start interviewing, they are bloody nuts! Health & Safety and Ambulance chasers have no place in that country, its nothing to see three four up on a small motorcycle or three and a small baby or even a dog, ten odd people often kids packed into the back of open pick up trucks going down the motorway at 60 to 70mph with the rear tailgate open and our cabbie feet away from them. Undertaking is the norm and they have a complete disregard for safety, no one wears seat belts and hardly any wear crash helmets on motorcycles and the road death rate is truly alarming 40 killed on the roads on the New Years (Thia New year is last weekend) get away.

Don't be daft Al. Things are improving a lot, mainly thanks to the FIA.

Jean Todt's Mrs is, iirc, a "Road Safety" envoy (or whatever they call them) for the world with special responsibility for the Asian area and has bee acheiving enormous success.

I stopped off in Malaysia some decades ago on a business trip to Oz. A quick 2 day visit to see a prospective client in Kuala Lumpur. (He was actuially an Aussie but had become "Malaysian" for various reasons to do with running his company and his young wife.) Bit of a petrol head. Drove an well used large Volvo Estate but had a TR2 as a hobby car.

Anyway, on the way form the airport (he kindly offered to collect me) he described the traffic hiearachy on the 4/5 lane road into KL. Basically it was "bigger rules". No one argued with trucks, next came buses, then vans, large cars, small cars, bikes, mopeds (lots) and pedestrians just did not count.

Have "enjoyed" the traffic in KL for a couple of days (some quite wide roads to cross - best to get a taxi.) he took me back to the airport and on the drive we came across an elderly gentleman of, probably, chinese extraction lying near the concrete barriers that represented the centre of a 4 lane highway. Bags of shopping strewn around. Likely beyond help.

Quite normal apparently.

If back then the police in Malaysia implemented the same road closing investigation concepts we use in the UK the country would grind to a halt.

Things may have changed - but I doubt it.

Michelle Todt may or may not be a success in terms of road safety. Who knows how bad things might have been without her?

One wonders whether, if Bangkok won the rights to an F1 street race, they woudl bother to close the roads.