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My tyre fitter reckons it’s repairable but he’ll take it to the wheel repair people tomorrow.

Got some remarkable efficiency out of the Tesla. Did almost 50 miles with just 1 kWh.

Ok it got some assistance from Alcoholics Anonymous
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What really happened was a cvnt in lane 3 of the motorway didn’t spot me in lane 4. Just started coming over and I ...

Outgrew my little cart so I’ve ordered this as it’s so cheap that it caught my eye
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Actually has a slightly smaller footprint but is much taller. Should take a while to fill this one.

In terms of stuff uploading your data I’ve got a few good ones I’ve discovered over the years. A Meross smart switch was somehow consuming 10gb a month (apparently stuck in a firmware downloaded doom loop but I don’t believe it as it worked totally fine). A PTZ camera which recorded locally on SD ...

The Waymos are a coming

Changed the differential on the brush cutter. The dealer here wanted £1500 for the part. After ordering it from America and paying all the taxes it was £450.

F150 is also lighter. The aluminium bodied pick ups are surprisingly light weight for their size.

This evenings practice race start went well again. They have amended the start procedure by flashing a blue light a few seconds before the red lights start to come on which gives drivers time to rev the engines. The Ferrari however seems to consistently launch like a rocket with Lewis overtaking ...

That is some peak Italian engineering

Yep, which will most likely go through but it will be for the 14th race of the season. If either Mercedes or Mclaren have a rocketship it should still give them a decent advantage.

The last thing I read about the Mercedes engine made it sound much less like clever engineering and much more like plain cheating. Supposedly they do have the expanding piston design but apparently that’s relatively simple and other teams do too but their unique thing is that they have an extra ...

The onboard battery is something like 2kwh. Perhaps the 30kg weight saving should have been used to allow a bigger battery capacity… Also the battery will essentially be doing a full cycle on every straight. No idea if it’s still one of those components that has a limit but I imagine they’ll be ...

It’s a very dark silver.

Today’s traffic jam was made slightly more interesting by a Eurofighter Typhoon

Only a model though

Also there was an armoured tracked vehicle on another lorry that I didn’t photograph. I think it was an Ajax. Looked new and modern but not full tank sized.

Current Porsche 911 has a MGUH! Audi didn't want it because it made the engines too complicated :roll:
Ironically Audi road cars whilst not having a MGUH have used electrically assisted turbos for over 10 years.

So F1 have managed to go from vaguely road car relevant to so far backwards that it ...

Reading more about it seems like it’s a culmination of factors. The engines have stricter fuel flow limits and produce much less gas flow. The removal of the MGUH means there’s no way of spinning the turbo electrically.
The ICE engine is down 200bhp compared to last year!
They are still single ...

Just another thought, if cars are taking 10+ seconds to pull away briskly surely that’s going to be quite a safety concern when cars spin and stop across the track?

Just how slowly do they pull away with no pre spooling? I presume spin turns aren’t possible at all?


That’s why they have hazard ...

I’d also say go for 32gb now so it lasts a few years. If you’ve just got YouTube open these days running on windows you’ll be using 12gb of ram. And in a few other tabs and you’re churning butter.

I don’t think he has? The invite was for this weekend as Formula E was close to F1 but haven’t heard anything about it. I think FE is in a bad place in terms of popularity, they’ve opened it up to influencers and are willing to try anything to get some traction.

Wheel hub and inside face of the wheel all clean? Wondering if it’s a bit of corrosion or paint making the wheel not sit flush?