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Of course not. They all know not to dis' the gloves. Useful, thank you. Is this for genuine Ford parts? Re. the air filter...this was after 16k miles, would they really still be good, flowing, and not choked up at 37.5k?!

Not yet but I think it's scheduled to happen some time soon ?

I know, it's like Groudhog Day...this one very nearly ended badly until I calmed down a little...

...and try harder I did. Desired affect achieved ?

My balls grew a little for this one although not enough it would seem ha ha. Must try harder!

After ending session two with 55 PSI in the fronts I dropped 15 PSI out of them and tried again. Unsurprisingly it felt so much better and I was hitting 130+ MPH much more consistently at the ends of the two main straights. From still going at the track like I did in my Fiesta I still left a lot...

Matt Lewis? He sells standard or aftermarket parts?

...and session 2. Still with road tyre pressures so it was a little skippy...but I switched it into the track damper setting on this one and it made quite a difference ?

That's not planned until the end of August...until then I'm back to my usual slightly more clunky self with a series of these to keep you going...

Yes I do and likewise you can have a go in the RS! Let me sort my current s**t out then we must set something up!

This is what I've read too...it's far sharper and more clinical whereas by comparison the RS is just a bit of a shouty brute. I'd like to drive one at some point but won't go out of my way for now...I've three cars lined up already and that'll take me well into September to get through. The...

Now I've finished this one I can finally get on to sorting through my Goodwood footage...until then... A year on is the Fiesta ST still as good as I remember it to be?

If I'm free I'll be there...I'll probably not run though. Or maybe I will. Hmmm, it had a trackday recently, has a good thrash loosened it a little and freed up a few more ponies?

It does seem to have evolved into this. See new car launched at Geneva under bright lights and on a turntable or see one here, running up the hill along with all other sorts of petrol head gems. I read that quite a few manufacturers have chosen Goodwood to announce and/or launch new models this...

The thing is, the standard parts from Ford are the cheapest I could find, anywhere...I guess it's all down to the fact that there's a lot of material in them...the 350mm front discs are comically large compared to what I'm used to handling. There's plenty of brake 'upgrades' available, but...

Ha ha, it was a lot of fun...but this week has revealed that fun comes at a fairly significant price. Gone are the days of 172 Cup prices, £60 discs and £80 pads from @George@RTR_Parts . This little lot I picked up today, discs, pads, and caliper bolts all round, plus an engine cover (as I've...

I've tried that with a good few setups now and determined that unless I spend a decent wedge on a decent mic...that it's not possible. I've never done it but the only way I can think of to get good in-car video with the exhaust audio is to run two GoPros, one inside and one outside, and then...

That sounds alright?!

You're going to struggle to get anything usable if you use any kind of lav mic...they're great for picking up voice from an individual but not so good at anything else. They're also really really susceptible to wind noise...even with a dead cat windscreen over it. The only way I've been able to...

Time for a bit more of an update having had a fantastic first trackday in the RS at Goodwood yesterday... All is (almost) well in RS land, it does exactly what it says on the tin...hilarious fun on track, really heavily rear biased giving some genuine LOL moments with epic power oversteer...

You wear a full face lid when driving on the road? You're far more likely to have an airbag go off than you are when on track...what's your head worth and all that ?

What flies around inside a car when you're on track? Shouldn't every single thing either be removed or tethered? For me, open face all the way. I'm not competing. I'm not setting lap times. To quote Goodwood it's a "non-competitive social event". Yeah I may be going 50mph more than I do on the...

Not Garmin, no, it's a Samsung Gear S3. I've only had it a few months but it does the job well enough.

That does look so good. I'd want to run it all the time without the front mudguards. Regardless of the legalities I'm sure it would end up ruining something...paint work or face...from all the road crap that would be thrown up.

This one has, quite literally speaking, taken me over a year to make...

Not me. Well, not while drunk at least. Only 132 is a poor effort. Ahem.

Which one?

Truth be told I only do it when I overlap braking and downshifting otherwise it's a simple blipped and rev-matched downshift while off the brakes. If I am braking and want a downshift though, I can't not do it. A non-rev-matched downshift in any car just makes me wince/cringe.

As above, I do it in everything, it's instinctive and takes no thought. My RS, my diesel C Max, the works Transit, all of them. Once you've bothered to learn it (which really isn't hard at all, I've no idea why so few people do, well, actually I do but that's a whole other conversation)...

His points in this are valid...no?