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Old 25 Mar 2019, 21:22 (Ref:3893363)   #2801
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We have a Mk4 MX5 and it is considerably more edgy that the previous MK3 in my opinion

Always need to remember I am not driving the Giulietta when in the MX5 ...
I think that Paul Roddison, a well known MX5 preparer and racer, is of the same view. I think he stopped racing his and returned to the Mk3.
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Old 25 Mar 2019, 23:11 (Ref:3893379)   #2802
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I think that Paul Roddison, a well known MX5 preparer and racer, is of the same view. I think he stopped racing his and returned to the Mk3.
There is also a question over early Mk4 gearboxes which he is very familiar with according to the MX5 Owners Club forum - don't know if it is connected to his decision.

There was an interesting split personality MX5 at Sebring on the Mazda stand - photo here -
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Old 26 Mar 2019, 04:43 (Ref:3893398)   #2803
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We now have a new category of Historic Touring cars here in Aus, supporting the Winton Shannons National meeting.

For touring cars which raced in Australia in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Known as the ‘V8 Sleuth Touring Car Classic’, (V8 Sleuth is a local website run by V8 historian/ commentator Aaron Noonan who put the concept together) it is open to the V8 Supercars from the very earliest versions to around a decade ago, as well as a host of other touring cars of the day.

There will be classes for V8 Supercars from 1992 (when the V8SC concept was born) to 2002 (Falcon EB, EF, EL, and AU; Commodore VP, VR, VS, VT, and VX), Project Blueprint-era V8 Supercars from 2003 to 2007 (Falcon BA, BF; Commodore VY, VZ), Super Tourers (including cars which raced overseas), and V8 Future Tourers.

Potentially could be good. Certainly plenty of appropriate cars still around...and support seems positive....

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We now have a new category of Historic Touring cars here in Aus, supporting the Winton Shannons National meeting.

For touring cars which raced in Australia in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Known as the ‘V8 Sleuth Touring Car Classic’, (V8 Sleuth is a local website run by V8 historian/ commentator Aaron Noonan who put the concept together) it is open to the V8 Supercars from the very earliest versions to around a decade ago, as well as a host of other touring cars of the day.

There will be classes for V8 Supercars from 1992 (when the V8SC concept was born) to 2002 (Falcon EB, EF, EL, and AU; Commodore VP, VR, VS, VT, and VX), Project Blueprint-era V8 Supercars from 2003 to 2007 (Falcon BA, BF; Commodore VY, VZ), Super Tourers (including cars which raced overseas), and V8 Future Tourers.

Potentially could be good. Certainly plenty of appropriate cars still around...and support seems positive....



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Sounds good but how much will it cost to prep and run the things? As I recall from the times when we used to get reasonable TV or on line coverage of the V8s back in the day (probably up to about a decade ago) they looked somewhat specialised - just like the BTCC cars had become over the years. Deep pockets required to race even one or two events in a season.
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There are at least two running with the CTCRC in their Classic Thunder Championship. A Ford Falcon run by Andy Robinson and a Commodore run by Ric Wood. There's also a Monaro but I don't think they ran with the Aus V8s.
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Sounds great to me, and can’t see them being any more expensive to run than other categories from the same period. Wish I lived there and had one.......
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There's also a Monaro but I don't think they ran with the Aus V8s.
Quite right. The Monaro was built for Holden by Garry Rogers Motorsport (who run in VASC also) specifically to run in the GT type Procar Australia-run Australian Nations Cup, (ultimately developed to became the Aus GT Championship) and specifically at the Bathurst 24 hour race (which lasted two years only) against Lambos Ferraris etc. It ran a Corvette C5-R 7.0 litre (427 cui) developed further by GRM from the Le Mans spec engines. (Despite the fact the road going Monaro 'only' ran a 5.7 litre. There were plans for a 7 litre road car but it never materialised from a cost POV) They were ruled out of the Aus GT Championship because of the 7 litre motor.

Only four of the Monaro race cars were ever built. I know one is in the Bathurst Museum.

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A GRM built Monaro was also campaigned in British GT but that was a lot more production based with a stock displacement motor etc. From memory Aaron Slight was one of the drivers and the car did run Vauxhall branding of some kind.

I’d love to go to Winton if only to see the 92-2002 cars as I got into V8 Supercars in the mid 90s when a friend convinced me to go Calder Park for the night races.
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Something interesting arriving in the near future. Speed limited cars.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47715415

I wonder how long before there is an attempt to remove all older, un-speed controlled cars from the roads.

What will be the point of any current or future 'performance' vehicle once nanny has control?

Time for rapid implementation of full autonomy on the roads but what will be the effect on the public perception and desire for motor sport?
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We mentioned that recently Grant, and it’s hit the main media now! Apparently there’s another 50 safety ideas coming in as well.

One clarification for anyone that hasn’t read up on the tech, is that it will be possible to over-ride the limiter by accelerating. My car has a limiter when in ‘eco’ mode, but I can accelerate through it, although have to simulate a ‘kick down’ like in an auto. Also if I’ve switched cruise control on, it ignores the limiter. Don’t have to be in cruise, just have it ready to activate.

I really don’t think it’s that big a deal, but don’t like it as it will take the onus away from the driver to concentrate- which can be a problem already....
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Driver attention is already a problem. Seems some high end car makers agreed they should not kill the noise too much. If you drive a Lexus for hundreds of miles you'll see clearly that you are disconnected from the world after a while.
The electronic devices recording everything on board all rucks have already and big car fleets too. sometimes a insurance company requirement. They say…
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The only point of the speed limiter if there is a manual over-ride would be if you had to justify your actions. Therefore your GPS would sense the speeding and send a message to the authorities and you could expect a fine dropping through your door toute de suite. One could appeal with extenuating circumstances but what would be seen as supporting evidence?

Of course, if the GPS also sent the footage from your integrated dash cam then the court appearance could be circumvented if you were exonerated.

The EU wants zero road casualties by 2050, thankfully I won't be driving then so it's not my problem. We certainly need to enjoy road freedom while we have it.

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Slight change of tack, onto electric cars. My only experience with an electric car was limited, but a quick squirt on the freeway found no real engine noise obviously, but you could hear the tyre noise loud and clear. Maybe tyre brand / profile used becomes critical? Is it part of life with an electric car? I know many of you have more electric car experience than I....
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Of course, if the GPS also sent the footage from your integrated dash cam then the court appearance could be circumvented if you were exonerated.

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When Bolloré made the Blue Car, fully electric, you had an annual fee plus you had to pay for each travel. The basis sounded fine: take it where one is available and leave it in a dedicated parking lot in Paris and/or area. All helped by smartphone user friendly application. The software was brilliant and the customer service helpful and polite. The cars are horrible but ok to commute: room for 4, convenient trunk capacity, critical visibility, poor road holding, no comfort, no air co and noisy at any speed. Not a good publicity for EV's!
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Slight change of tack, onto electric cars. My only experience with an electric car was limited, but a quick squirt on the freeway found no real engine noise obviously, but you could hear the tyre noise loud and clear. Maybe tyre brand / profile used becomes critical? Is it part of life with an electric car? I know many of you have more electric car experience than I....
As the everyday user of an EV, I can confirm that with virtual silence from the drive train, tyre noise is more noticeable. But my car is still quieter than most small diesels hatches. One advantage of tyre noise is that pedestrians and cyclists hear it. As a pedestrian and cyclist I appreciate the warning! Some EVs have artificial noise up to a certain speed, but it’s really only of benefit at extremely slow speeds.

Going back to old cars, nice to see Prince Charles and Camilla pictured driving an MGTD in Cuba. But concours points lost for the modern tread pattern tyres.... And, knowing that a lot of Cuban classics are original in outward appearance only, I’m wondering if the MG had a Nissan or Toyota drive train. (Jesting- sure it would be original to justify their use for the occasion!)
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Working around the world as some of us have, the differing driving standards used to be much more noticeable than they are now. When in the UK I often see things that twenty years ago would be a surprise but now it's the norm. I can't put my finger on exactly why standards have slipped but I guess it's partly because the plod has not interest in stopping people when cameras do the work on speeding and the like.

Over here I have ours of dashcam highlighting the appalling standards here. You get carved up even when just sticking to your lane! But this project has driven significant millions of KMs and to date we have had no driving related fatalities, in fact we've had very few vehicle related accidents in all of them were non injury. We have the stats if anyone is interested.

We put this down to an in vehicle management system which beeps when a vehicle is driven over the speed limit for more than four seconds, or if there is significant weaving. All attached to GPS and a worldwide system. It's a pain in the arse and I refuse to use it but it has definitely made journeys less stressful, when being driven.
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From memory Oz is very hot on speed limits as well. Using extreme logic, if the speed limits were zero, no one would get hurt, but that’s not an option. Common sense needed, but doing anything that allows drivers to concentrate less is wrong in my book....
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From memory Oz is very hot on speed limits as well. Using extreme logic, if the speed limits were zero, no one would get hurt, but that’s not an option. Common sense needed, but doing anything that allows drivers to concentrate less is wrong in my book....
Depends where you are in Oz, cities I found were hot - particularly Adelaide, but once you're out a bit, sit back and enjoy, especially if like me you had a 5 litre Holden.
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Nice. My experience was mostly the Sydney and Perth areas!

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A good few years ago I was in Oz for a month, partly to celebrate a mate's 50th birthday, and he was generous enough to lend me his supercharged MX5 to do some touring around. On the long run back up from Melbourne to a delightful town called Bermagui on the East Coast, I got caught out by the lack of "servos" and found myself wafting along on a very low fuel level.......which was fortunate as we crested a gentle rise some 70 miles from the last township, and at least the same distance from the next (where we did find fuel ), to find a policeman eagerly pointing his radar gun at us! Given that I hadn't seen another car for at least 20 minutes I'm not sure he was making a huge contribution to road safety - and of course he was disappointed to find me being law-abiding


I will confess that on the run down from Canberra to Melbourne on the broad Hume Highway I adopted my normal practice when abroad of tagging on to a sympatico local and matching their speed, so we ended up with 3 cars cruising at a (for UK very sedate) 75mph cruise, taking it in turn to run front and rear. Nothing formally arranged of course, but some matey waves exchanged when we parted ways.....


I'm always amused when doing the Manchester airport run and picking up friends visiting from more speed-limited countries, to note their reaction to being immersed into an 80mph stream of traffic within half a mile of leaving the airport.........
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Tell me about it... I got a (camera) ticket for 42kph in a 40kph zone. Oh yeah the road is a steep downhill, dead straight and 3 lanes per side dual carriageway. At 8.00pm in the evening.

Nothing to do with safety, just revenue collection. AU$201 fine and a point. IMOH.
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Tell me about it... I got a (camera) ticket for 42kph in a 40kph zone. Oh yeah the road is a steep downhill, dead straight and 3 lanes per side dual carriageway. At 8.00pm in the evening.

Nothing to do with safety, just revenue collection. AU$201 fine and a point. IMOH.
My daughter was done for a similar speed in Sydney, something like $300 fine and a demerit.
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Changing the subject, I'm watching a delightful programme on More 4 at the moment. Called "Find it, Fix it, Drive it", it's about two eccentric guys finding classic machinery and restoring it.

Today it's a 1970s UK built Chopper (think "Easy Rider" not Raleigh). Try and find it on All 4 when you get chance.

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