Quad lock out front here. Brayed it around Whinlatter and Setmurthy last weekend and it never moved. I do sometimes struggle to line it up and lock it first time tho.. assume user error/need to get used to it.

Absolutely buzzing for George, incredible lap that came out of nowhere! Think his closest lap prior was half a second adrift?

Shame Lewis’s DRS failed, he was looking handy in qually too. Red Bull had a shocking Saturday 🙂

Not sure if it’s been covered but Last Breath on Netflix is utterly terrifying and gripping in equal measure! A film documentary about a diving accident in the North Sea. Watched it a couple of nights ago on a recommendation from a couple of mates and don’t think I moved for the entire length of the film. Superb

Beaten to it by @eckinspain
Tremendous film and tune! My 3yr old and me regularly have it belting out in the car 🙂

“Me pilot light’s oot more than yee” recently had me howling in response to one of the lads who never comes out!

Aye, totally agree on the Russell/Perez incident. Even if it was later in the race I would have put it down as a racing incident, never mind during lap 1 chaos! I think Perez has been right on the edge of the aggressiveness line (a very tricky balance) for some time but think he overstepped yesterday and ultimately paid the price. As has been said, there was plenty room outside of Russell and he can’t just magically tighten his line mid-corner when already at the limit, if he applied more right hand lock he would’ve just drifted further out left as he understeered anyway!

I found it odd how easily Verstappen let Leclerc pass given how competitive RB were in the sprint on saturday. He has been surprisingly calm this year given his antics last season with Hamilton, when you look back at some of the 2021 moves he pulled, like running Hamilton clean off the race track (along with himself!) when trying to stay ahead.

I was a bit worried about Sainz when the camera feed watching him try to get out the car cut as he was struggling. Just as he went to jump out it started rolling back and he had to sit back down as the flames started to go round the cockpit! Not good. I would love to know exactly what failed as it looked like some fairly substantial bits of engine internals made a break for freedom through the engine covers.

Interesting enough race but I just get frustrated at how small the circuit is and the length of the straights. Awful to hear about the disgusting behaviour at the circuit, totally unacceptable for people to have to put up with abuse like that.

The rewind function on streaming apps on sky, Xbox, etc. (I’m looking at you Prime) that won’t let you rewind at anything less than what feels like 100x speed. Have to tap the button for a fraction of a second then immediately hit play and it still goes back a good minute or so. FFS 🤦‍♂️

I can’t be the only one am I? If anyone has a suggestion for this I’d be more than happy to admit user error!

Oh dear Merc! That’s the other one in the barriers now. Was really hoping they’d be right at the pointy end for the sprint tomorrow. Busy/expensive evening in the garage for them.

Absolutely wild the end of that committee meeting! Staggering

Ha! What’s he driving, a Veyron?

Interesting. I hadn’t realised the roll hoop had failed in the way it did, that picture of the car on the back of the flatbed is scary. I’m certainly of the view that it should have been more robust and not failed so easily.. but then again I am not an F1 safety engineer!

People who walk into supermarkets, usually with a trolley and number of offspring, and just stop dead immediately after going through the automatic doors blocking the whole show. I just want to punch them in the back of the **** head. Buying anything from the shop is like an SAS mission for me, always done solo with the aim of being in and out as fast as humanly possible.

Spectacular. One of the most entertaining live sports events I’ve watched in a long time!

My poor wife and daughter having to put up with me screaming at the telly as HAM went 4>3>2>3>4!

Nasty bump in the F2 race and the halo doing it’s job again. Sausage curb launched a car that went off and then ended up on top of the car they had the initial contact with. Slow mo was scary.

https://twitter.com/wtf1official/status/1543526644706689024?s=20&t=lEW4EuBV-h2obIxYZebqDg

Gotcha. So Max driving again tomorrow? I didn’t realise the IDR from a few years ago held the record, I thought it was still the Heidfeld one from donkeys ago as the IDR time was on Sat not Sun. Need to get back on Google and get my facts straight!

Either way I hope the McMurtry absolutely smashes it tomorrow.

How is glorious Goodwood OP?

Anyone watching highlights on ITV? I’ve just watched some EV fan car go up the hill in what looked like fast forward! Never seen anything like it, off the line it was utterly bonkers! It was like a rocket. Max Chilton was driving and didn’t look like he blinked at all 🤣

I’ve got some bombers that came off a Kona Pahoehoe that have been in the garage a good 15+ years.. Can’t get rid of them though because as soon as I do I’ll no doubt need to own someone.

Take some ear plugs you can pop in if it gets too loud. Especially useful in the bottom paddock (which as above is superb) as there’s constantly absolute monsters getting fired up in there!

Molecomb corner is my favourite spot on the hill and is the most popular (think there’s 3 grandstands covering this bit). You see the cars coming into the corner, hard on the brakes then up the hill disappearing under some trees. Plus someone normally always bins it there going too hot into the corner.

You’ll have an amazing time. Bit gutted I never booked up this year but hoping to get back next year!

Enjoy

Our Sky Q box on the other hand.. sweet Jesus it sounds like the supercharger on a hellcat that thing.

Doesn’t sound great TBH. I know induction hobs pulse at low/medium temps but in the 8 years we’ve had our Siemens one I can’t say I’ve really noticed it. Strangely I can only audibly detect anything at all on boost (9 plus setting) where it’s really going for it where you can hear it doing something.

Fair enough but I said getting on for not equal to.. 20 mins to near enough brim the battery compared to 5 mins to brim a tank of dino juice is not exactly worlds apart is it?

Aye you’re right, I was perhaps being a bit harsh there calling it a shit show. I think I’ve been spoiled with 150kw minimum chargers for over two years that are always available and working so when I leave that I get a shock.

I think what my journey did demonstrate was the value in the connected systems that Tesla operate. I.e. they know which cars are where, state of charge, which superchargers are on the route etc etc so can manage occupancy at chargers and ensure batteries are ready for charging. The rest of the infrastructure needs to be joined up like that too eventually.

I think I mentioned a few weeks ago on this thread that I was planning a 1000+ mile round trip in my M3P, the longest since I got it over 2 years ago.

The first thing to note is I relied completely on the car to plan the route and pull me in when it deemed fit to charge. I started looking at routes and supercharger locations but in the end decided I would just plug the postcode in for where we were going in Cornwall (from Newcastle) and let the car do the rest.

It was about 450 miles to Newquay airport where I was picking up my wife and daughter. After fully charging the night before the car pulled me in twice on the way down (Woodall and Bristol) for ~20 mins a piece. By the time I’d been to the gents and grabbed a coffee/sarnie the car was saying it was ready to continue the journey.

The Tesla infrastructure is very very impressive, the whole thing was a doddle. The car was preconditioning batteries for up to 40 minutes in some cases ready for fast charging. The chargers at Bristol were 250kW and I was clocking over 1000 miles per hour when I first plugged in. Getting on for ICE levels of refuelling that.

None of the supercharger locations were on the recent non Tesla rollout. They ranged from me being the only car on a bank of 8 to one on the way home which was fully utilised when I returned to the car (another bank of 8).

I was very early arriving at Newquay airport after having a great run down. 8 hours door to door including two stops so plugged into a 50kW GeniePoint charger at the airport. And this is where I realised how far ahead Tesla is, it’s light years. It took me 15 mins to get the thing even charging despite having already registered all my details with them and there was no pre conditioning. By the time I got it going at a much slower rate I would have nearly been ready to set off again at a supercharger.

I wouldn’t hesitate to do a journey like that again in an EV but it would absolutely have to be a Tesla. Once you’re off their infrastructure it’s a shit show, broken chargers, slow, occupied, etc. I stopped at Cornwall services and out of 4 bays there was only 1 rapid CCS connection that was functional and there was an MG on it and an iPace waiting. So that would be at least an hour before I could even plug in.

The non Tesla infrastructure has a long way to go and the rate EVs are selling I’m worried about how it will keep up. I’m positive though because once the whole lot is as good as Tesla is now it’s completely viable even for these edge cases where people tow a boat to the south of France once a decade.. 🙂

A wet FP3 has certainly made things a bit more interesting. Alonso and Vettel at the top of the time sheets and Verstappen no time set with only 10 mins left. Really hope it continues raining until qually and we get a mixed up grid for the GP.

So many things that resonate on this thread but the main one is the dishwasher.. by a country mile. If you offered my better half ten billion pounds to load the thing efficiently AND effectively she couldn’t do it. I’ve come to the conclusion it’s a pisstake and she knows it makes my teeth itch and so does it on purpose, there is no other explanation. She thinks I’m a sad man who is really interested in dishwashers (I mean I am sad but not in this way) but it’s the time cost that really gets me as I physically cannot set it away without intervening. Anyway, great opportunity to post the Jon Richardson bit about dishwashers:

This could easily be me and my wife.. and several other posters by the sounds of it!

On the toaster/kettle point above, both of ours have printed on the plug “Attended appliance. Unplug after use – fire risk”.

You haven’t mentioned it so I assume no sale receipt completed by both parties? Basically sold as seen/no guarantee templates can be found online, AA website has a good one I’ve used before. Either way he needs to be told to politely jog on.. bit awkward given he’s more senior than you at work but frankly he’s taking taking the piss. 3 and half grand car, 2 months in an he’s cracking on about clutch/AC?! Nah, wind ya neck in bonny lad. I mean AC could be anything FFS, my wifes old fiesta had a stone make a right mess of the condenser and was a fairly hefty bill to get it all sorted.

Rolling start.. boo!! Was just about to post what do ppl reckon for a standing start.

My heart sank when I saw the back of Mick’s Haas there. Glad he’s ok as it was a minute before you heard from him.

Latifi man FFS! “The car just didn’t turn”
Aye? It’s called understeer, a concept (as a racing driver) I thought you’d be familiar with!

It really is a joke. As brundle just said why is the safety car not out there doing a reccy? Gonna finish me dinner and do some gardening I think. Shite

Agreed. Heat pump should come as standard. We had to spec it on my wife’s ID3 but glad we did as it seems to make a decent difference. I was shocked to find my Mar ‘20 Tesla M3P doesn’t have a heat pump (no option to spec) but the new ones do. Bit of a pisstake that a £56k car didnt come with this useful kit as standard. My Tesla with roof bars/598s gets similar miles out of a charge as the VW. Obviously a lot of that is to do with me ruining the aero of the car with bike carrying equipment on the roof!

It’s not great is it?! Ferrari have got no answer for RB and Verstappen. Once he was past that was it. Shocking pit stop for Carlos just there.. FFS

Aye, disappointing for Russell. Car looked a reet handful mind. Cracking lap by Norris in Q2.

Who’s watching qually then?

I’m proper to excited to see how it pans out. Merc seem to have made some good improvements but P3 wasn’t a great session for them.. but who knows what fuel loads were.

Plus the circuit is pretty unforgiving. That concrete wall that Ocon and Sainz had a chat with is interesting. Martin Brundle was saying he thinks it needs something in front of it.

I reckon there could be a red 🚩 or three..

Good point about the weight. They’ll not be moving once in position that’s for sure.. they’re already a tonne weight empty as the bases are made of MUCH bigger bits of wood than required as that’s what was lying around 😬

Thanks for the suggestions on plants. Sadly no trees/plants for the lawn as there’s not much lawn space left after the extension patio. The OP on that other thread will need another home for the trees that come out the boundary.. 🤣

Cheers

Ooh interesting! I hadn’t even thought of herbs. Thanks

Garden is south facing and a real sun trap in the warmer months if that makes a difference?

Thread update and a new ask 🙂

There were a couple of old fence panels behind the shed and other random bits of timber so I decided to recycle these into some long planters for the edge of the patio as a cheap and effective solution. Probably spent just over £100 on additional timber, screws, plastic, etc. but not bad for 7 metre of planters. End result:

Now the question is what on earth do I put in them?! I like the garden and don’t mind grafting in it but I am by no means green fingered.. I think I’d like something that would return each year as it’s going to cost a pretty penny to fill them so would rather not have this cost annually, limit things to maybe 2-3 colours that repeat and have some trailing plants for the drop either side. Also not sure if I should fill completely with compost or put some pebbles of something at the bottom of them for drainage?

Any suggestions and ideas greatly appreciated

Cheers

Funny podcasts. I’m lucky to have a lot of commuting variety (train, car, WFH, etc.) but when in the car I always try and listen to something funny. Bill Burr and the Off Menu podcast both have me howling in the car. Helps pass the time and keep things nice and chill while observing the utter madness on the roads.

I run them on my Tesla M3P and they’re very good. The amount of stick they put up with is impressive, 2 tonne car, thick end of 500bhp and all the torques available from 0rpm. If you boot it in the wet from a standing start it won’t spin.. but I think there are some clever lines of code to thank for that too! The rears on mine were toast after 13k miles mins, but I think thats an alignment issue as it was inside shoulder on both (badly).

Agree with what @baser said too re. Pilot super sports, I had them on an M135i and whilst great in the dry were compromised in the wet. 4S feels like a better all rounder.

Thank you for the replies everyone. Now I’m proper confused.. 🤣 but I agree the only sensible thing to do now is buy a new bike.

The 10Nm was printed on the Saint pedals that came off.. but, I have since looked at the manual online and this is for the spindly tighteny thingy not the actual pedal! I mean if you’re gonna print a torque setting on a pedal right next to the thread shimano surely it should be the main torque for tightening into the crank. Ah well, another learning for me.. pedals are torqued more than 10Nm.

But my main learning is don’t work on bikes pissed 🙂