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Piastri may well have signed for McLaren as soon as Alpines option on him expired. Or else he and Webber are still negotiating with Mclaren and are just clarifying their contractual position. Looks like McLaren will be in court again over driver contracts. They have already poached champ Alex Palou in Indycar from Chip Ganassi to start a dispute.

GR63 Pole Position. Fantastic. Car problems put Hamilton 7th Verstappen 10th and Perez couldn't get out of Q2. Sunday then? Ferrari must be favourites from P2 and P3 on the grid, but let's just hope George can fend them off.

RedBull Porsche deal looks on. Germans proposing 50% buy in.

Romanian wheeled white goods update. 8000km done and it's still just OK, fingers crossed it remains free of the UK market reliability woes, but after 10 months it's clear that I prefer my ancient Seat Toledo (née Rapid) 1.0 TSI. The engine, handling, and especially the perceived quality are all superior in the old-tech VW product. And both cost me the same brand new, so Dacias volume models dont now seem so cheap really. The saving grace for the Dacia is the price of LPG, 50p a litre with the Spanish Government fuel rebate until the end of the year.

Well I had to go and look him up. Able to pay for extra works cars at Ford and Toyota, his impressive World Level motorsports career includes: WRC wins - 0 WRC podiums - 0 WRC points - 12 ( over a period of 8 years) (And 14 local rally titles) Clearly hes much much faster than me and talented too, but it seems that money can buy anything in the Middle East these days... the Football World Cup being an obvious example.

I think the new FIA president didn't appreciate being challenged or ignored by the drivers or teams immediately after his appointment. I mean, he had a massive strop and threatened to ban Hamilton from racing for not attending the FIA prizegiving. He also didnt like the teams forcing the sacking of race director Masi. Its clear to me where these clampdowns on trivial rules are coming from. The head shed, whose name I forget since he's not remotely as famous in motorsports as Balestre, Moseley or Todt.

Interesting afternoon. Red Bull completely unable to run at LeClercs pace at one of Max' favourite tracks. Did he pass him 3 times or 4? Stewarding getting really intrusive in some cases though. I mean, fining all the podium trio? endless track limits policing? penalties for daring to race other drivers? Nanny-state rubbish.

Lucky it was the first lap and the car only cleared the tyre barrier. At full speed that could clearly have got through the debris fence into the crowd.

At least they have a differently able presenter (#BillyWhizz), and the new pitlane guy maybe ticks more than one minority box?

Seeing a lot of double race winners this season. The racing is just so much more predictable with no ballast, and no tyre compound options. Really hard to say this but BTCC is getting boring. Get rid of the hybrid junk Mr Gow. It's ruining your product. Need the scrutineers to find out just how the Dynamics Honda was so much faster than everything else too... The rest of the season will be exceedingly dull if Flash is able to hold on to that performance advantage.

That's as maybe but I've seen him on screen this year working for Ziggo Sport, the Dutch TV channel. Certainly had their logos on his shirt

Isn't he working for a foreign channel now?

Pre 2015 facelift you need the external aids listed, or Carista. Post 2015 it can be done in the Head Unit menus.

Lol. Daddy says Max should be allowed to win! Which RedBull was faster in... FP1? Perez FP2? Perez FP3? Perez Qualifying? Perez Best Race Lap? Perez 25 points to Checo without any argument I think. I wonder if any teammate has ever wiped the floor with Max like this before?

Jos Verwifebeater is now bitching that Red Bull should have let Max win in Monaco. Well if his boy had actually driven faster and overtaken the Ferrari in second place maybe that could have happened? Even notorious race fixers like the Schumacher years Ferrari team would have had trouble getting another team's car out of the way.

Perez faster than Verstappen all weekend. Now Mexicos🇲🇽 most successful F1 driver (Whilst wearing a Pedro Rodriguez tribute helmet too)🇲🇽 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼. Posted after Ferrari's protests failed.

Water ingress dates back to 2012/14. My 14 plate retained water in the front doors till I trimmed the drain rubbers. The dealer fix was done around 2014 too. My 67 plate doesn't at all.

Ferraris early season advantage has gone. Max still wins even with an off and a broken car. This season could be really dull now.

It is a very noisy engine to be fair that 1.4 triple.

I've had 2 with climate for 8 years. If set to AUTO, It does its own thing with adjusting the fan speed according to conditions and temperature. If you manually set the fan that cancels AUTO function and the speed should be constant. I don't think AUTO ever gets the fan to max speed.

Are those the countries that also have the raised ride height?

225/45 just Too Big Factory 17 inch wheel for Rapid is 7x17 ET46 5x100 with 215/40R17

Arrived here about the same time as your Spaceback. Still got our second one,( and a Dacia.) Good luck with the MG.

There are some quite different 1.2 engines in the Rapid. Find out what you have first.

Copeys Rapid looked like that when it was very low. Look back in Rapid Projects for a Blue saloon.