Duncan Pittaway on it as ever:
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Posted 28 March 2016 - 14:42
Did the number plate come with the car, or did he get it because it's a little Fireball?
Posted 28 March 2016 - 21:23
Since I remain completely incapable of posting photographs successfully upon this Forum in the manner once painstakingly taught to me, I hope these links work - in most cases a somewhat unusual record of Goodwood 74...
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All Photos Strictly Copyright: The GP Library
DCN
Edited by Doug Nye, 28 March 2016 - 21:56.
Posted 28 March 2016 - 22:25
Edited by Jack-the-Lad, 28 March 2016 - 22:40.
Posted 29 March 2016 - 08:21
Sincere apologies for the weather then...
DCN
Posted 29 March 2016 - 11:13
Even a techno-dunce such as I can manage to put a picture in a post over there.
9 down in today's Times concise crossword: hater of new gadgets (11).
Sadly, Jack, technophobe fitted better than technodunce, but I definitely think you're on to something there.
Posted 29 March 2016 - 15:02
Posted 29 March 2016 - 15:50
Paul, best of luck with the crosswords. Perhaps ""technodunce" will become a neologism in one of those irritating year-end lists. Do you have any pull with O.E.D.?
You're on fine word-smithing form today - have you bought the OED?
Posted 29 March 2016 - 15:54
I've never understood why words with the suffix 'phobe' (or 'phobic') are used to describe someone with a hatred of something. A phobia of something doesn't equate to a hatred of same (although, of course, it might lead to it - perhaps irrationally, in keeping with the concept of a phobia…).
The Edwardians' race was wonderfully entertaining; I had to content myself with watching it online, but the camera work, coverage and commentaries were good and I probably saw more of the action that way...
Posted 29 March 2016 - 17:28
Not yet. I'm reserving shelf space for the forthcoming works of Mr. Nye and Mr. Kenny.You're on fine word-smithing form today - have you bought the OED?
Posted 01 April 2016 - 08:57
Maybe it is an optical illusion but during ITV 4's coverage of the event last evening I was struck by the difference between the seating position in W196 open wheeler and the streamliner, in the latter the driver seemed to be far lower. Any explanations or theories as to why or indeed how?
Posted 01 April 2016 - 09:13
Not yet. I'm reserving shelf space for the forthcoming works of Mr. Nye and Mr. Kenny.
I'm honoured to be mentioned in the same sentence as DCN. You've got three volumes of his to look forward to now. I doubt the Straight book will see the light of day before 2019.
Posted 01 April 2016 - 12:45
Maybe it is an optical illusion but during ITV 4's coverage of the event last evening I was struck by the difference between the seating position in W196 open wheeler and the streamliner, in the latter the driver seemed to be far lower. Any explanations or theories as to why or indeed how?
Posted 01 April 2016 - 13:19
Posted 01 April 2016 - 13:38
I suspect it relates mainly to driver height. The photos below (found on this page) show that Michael Schumacher is a wee bit taller than Nico Rosberg and thus projects further out of the streamliner W196 than Rosberg does out of the open-wheeler:
https://cosmonavigat...w196-1954-6.jpg
https://cosmonavigat...w196-1954-2.jpg
The important consideration in not the standing height of the driver but the seated height.
In that photo of the two chaps standing it looks to me as if MS and NR have legs of similar length with NR's longer if anything (using the wheel as reference so far as is possible).
Posted 01 April 2016 - 15:28
The important consideration in not the standing height of the driver but the seated height.
In that photo of the two chaps standing it looks to me as if MS and NR have legs of similar length with NR's longer if anything (using the wheel as reference so far as is possible).
And no comments about either of them sitting on Brieftaschen (wallets) please...
Posted 25 April 2016 - 14:18
Whole of day 1 now on You Tube, bringing back memories of a cold but brilliant day.
Posted 25 April 2016 - 15:16
Whole of day 1 now on You Tube, bringing back memories of a cold but brilliant day.
Posted 25 April 2016 - 16:51
Thank you for the tip, but I couldn't find it, although I did locate 2014 and 2015. Could you provide a link?
Thanks again.
Jack
It's there somewhere and day 2 has joined it today. Try Goodwood 74th Members Meeting Day 1 replay.
Posted 25 April 2016 - 17:50
Posted 25 April 2016 - 19:08