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Don't want to drive it just for the sake of driving it?

Ouch. Nasty incident! Very cheap and very easily installed dash cameras would help massively here too. That is if they're allowed. Have I read somewhere that they're not permitted in Germany?

Meh. w*****s, the lot of you.

It's flown by, nine weeks now! Think yourself lucky, this started out at over 30 minutes long, I hacked it all right back. It was a mix of both, they each do pretty much the same amount on mine. A decent prod of the throttle with an abrupt lift over 3k and off it goes. They are! They will...

...some random thoughts, and a new t-shirt just for @Christopher :up:

"ACCESS - your flexible friend" - I haven't seen that logo for a loooong time. That makes me feel really very very old!

They're fine. If my rears didn't look like that after a track session i'd check I hadn't suddenly grown a vagina.

Is it rubber pick up? If it was wouldn't it be all over the tyre instead of gathered on one side only of all the tread blocks?

Donnington's clockwise and that rear tyre just looks to me like you were having a lot of fun. Working the back when they're hot will roll/wear some of the surface across to the edge of the tread block. Other than cutting your session times down a little as said above I see nothing on those...

That wasn't 1hr 20min non-stop was it? You had breaks to cool everything down every 15-20 mins or so?

Any thoughts on Netgear Arlo Pro? It's been personally recommended to me and seems a good solution.

I've not done a wet day for a good few years now but driving around a soaking Goodwood in my 172 Cup on A032 tyres taught me a huge amount about being gentle with the throttle and building it up slowly through a corner. Look at the day as an opportunity to learn?

There's very few cars I've ever owned where I've gotten into it and been on it straight away. They all take time to learn. Pedal positions, responses, pressures, all vary so much. It's only recently, at 3k miles in my RS, that I can honestly say I've been getting more of the shifts right more...

Anything from 5mm top this one with a monster 40mm lift! http://www.mishimoto.co.uk/ford-focus-rs-pedal-spacer-2016.html?gclid=CJj40cXB_tQCFUVmGwodFzAKYg I would so love to try that one out...anything other than the gentlest braking and the throttle pedal would be level with half way up your shin!

It was my birthday over the weekend and that meant me getting my annual new item of clothing. Expect a different t-shirt to feature soon.

Flapz and stickers make me 😢 Other than that, great choice! Get miles on it, power hard out of turns, get stupid grin stuck to your face.

I'd stick with silver, and a basic rattle can job for track only wheels is surely good enough. One of the sets I had for my 172 Cup I brush painted, badly, with bright yellow Smoothrite! Why not go loud with a blue or red?

They look good!

That's annoying...I'm going to have to watch Love Island now!

Not at all! That won't stop me recording, calculating, graphing, and moaning about it all in minute detail though :tongueout:

Nice, flat, good sight lines, you can get a good run up at the cyclists!

Latest effort here...I'm sure I'll uipset a few that swear by pedal spacers but meh. Oh and noise, oooohhh the noise...

That's good to know...although as I hear mine, ahem, working, far too much I struggle to see them making it that far. The RS doesn't have too much power, far from it, its mechanical grip and immense traction and undramatic power delivery, at times, make it feel a bit ordinary. As for the...

Not too quick, no, you can get it moving about without doing anything license losing. Good try! I think I worked out the driving like a c**t thing last night...it's because the RS, unlike my ST in any of its three guises (standard, MP215, MR230) is very very keen to rev out. The Fiesta was...

Nope! I'm more than happy enough...but day to day the ST is such a good thing to drive, there's a connection that's missing in the Focus unless you're at six tenths and above. Driving the Focus in 15 mpg mode is soooo good though. It's incredible how well it makes progress. I've started playing...

So having run through a couple of tanks at or below 20 mpg I've now worked out how to keep it above 25 and nearer 30 mpg...basically I just have to stop driving it like a c**t. The trouble with that is that it's so hard. Without the pops and bangs, and without feeling the 4WD working, it really...

That sounds likely...he said, as he was giving me his spiel, that it spent most of its time with the press. It was on 40k or something too so has been around a bit!

Yep that must have been me! I was on my way home from Thorpe Park...I remember seeing a 650 and thinking "big engine" LOL

Exactly this. It's effortless...and not covered with one million adverts for sh*t you don't need.

FLOL at both Hitler and spacers! Brilliant. I'm ready to get back to work now.