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God I miss the 'Ring...
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I was fascinated by the central display with the views from the rear and side cameras being available, as well as having the physical mirrors as well (less excuse for not 'seeing' another car). Can you enlighten me on the drivetrain image where certain parts kept changing colour? The battery one was obvious starting of green and eventually ending up red.
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I'm pretty sure that a status display, so I very much doubt he could have done back-to-back runs in his M3P without letting the battery cool off, as it's not really built to do that - unlike a MS Plaid, which has rectified that shortcoming...
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Autos Autos everywhere... (1) 2015 Tesla Model S: (was 85D, now 90D ). Silent and deadly, and very fast... But not as fast as Ian's M3P- (2) 2002 D2 S8 Final Edition: Bulletproof and faultless: Brilliant Black with Extended (Red!) Leather. Three-times winner of Best D2 1st prize (3) 1997 Fiat Coupe 20v Turbo: Scots (! ) Green. Fragile, but beautiful. (4) 2010 Fiat Panda 100HP. White Pandamonium (Final Edition!!). Pure old-fashioned 6-speed go-karting. |
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I didn't have time to watch to the end, did he manage to complete the lap before the battery ran out of juice??
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Of course he did . If you'd not got bored so quickly you could also had read the comments to find out how much "juice" he'd used
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Autos Autos everywhere... (1) 2015 Tesla Model S: (was 85D, now 90D ). Silent and deadly, and very fast... But not as fast as Ian's M3P- (2) 2002 D2 S8 Final Edition: Bulletproof and faultless: Brilliant Black with Extended (Red!) Leather. Three-times winner of Best D2 1st prize (3) 1997 Fiat Coupe 20v Turbo: Scots (! ) Green. Fragile, but beautiful. (4) 2010 Fiat Panda 100HP. White Pandamonium (Final Edition!!). Pure old-fashioned 6-speed go-karting. |
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It got a bit squirrelly at 3.33!
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It did a bit, didn't it? Not a bad recovery though....
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Autos Autos everywhere... (1) 2015 Tesla Model S: (was 85D, now 90D ). Silent and deadly, and very fast... But not as fast as Ian's M3P- (2) 2002 D2 S8 Final Edition: Bulletproof and faultless: Brilliant Black with Extended (Red!) Leather. Three-times winner of Best D2 1st prize (3) 1997 Fiat Coupe 20v Turbo: Scots (! ) Green. Fragile, but beautiful. (4) 2010 Fiat Panda 100HP. White Pandamonium (Final Edition!!). Pure old-fashioned 6-speed go-karting. |
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No sound but tortured rubber....... seems.... odd.
I have done precisely one lap of the 'ring, early in the morning in September 2009, as a passenger in my own 1967 Vitesse 2L, driven by a very good friend who has considerable competition experience, though no 'ring experience at all. It was quite an adrenalin rush....... This was at the beginning of day 4 of our first Club Triumph 10 Countries run and we had driven up from Italy overnight having already driven the length of France, over the Pyrenees into Spain, back over the Pyrenees through Andorra and over the Alps twice, so the poor old car had already had 2,600 miles of thrashing...... Measely 120 bhp and boot full of tools/spares notwithstanding, we (he) managed a lap in just under 12 minutes. He wanted another go to improve his time but given that the brakes were already smoking vigorously and fates nose well tweaked, I figured we should quite while we still had a working car! Nick |
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