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    #11
    Originally posted by ThomasSoerensen View Post
    Why don't you join Mitch.

    Have you decorated your Merc with a Ring sticker?
    I've done one of those racing driver courses at Zandvoort and concluded I'm just too crap to even attempt the Ring. I like being alive.
    And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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      #12
      Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
      I've done one of those racing driver courses at Zandvoort and concluded I'm just too crap to even attempt the Ring. I like being alive.
      Just take it easy and enjoy the opportunity to use the full acceleration of your barge.
      "Condoms should come with a free pack of earplugs."

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        #13
        Originally posted by ThomasSoerensen View Post
        Just take it easy and enjoy the opportunity to use the full acceleration of your barge.
        It's a great feeling, being on the edge. Before I was a conman....I mean agent....I used to race Karts, so I like to think I know what I'm doing in most high speed driving situations. I don't drive an especially fast car (Honda S2000) - fast enough to have fun in, but it's not a ferrari or owt.... Yet the sheer speed at which solid concrete, and re-inforced metal comes flying past you, absolutely scared me sideways - especially as I'd only had the car a couple of months.

        That is a circuit which demands the UPMOST respect - it's twisty, it's complicated, and it's tricky with negative and positive cambers all around.

        My advice would be to drive WELL within your limits for a few laps - get used to a small section, and drive hard on that, and back off when you've finished that section.

        You will never learn the whole circuit in a weekend (or perhaps a year!!)
        "Being a permy is like being married, when there's no more sex on the cards....and she's got fat."
        SlimRick

        Can't argue with that

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          #14
          Originally posted by The Agents View View Post
          It's a great feeling, being on the edge. Before I was a conman....I mean agent....I used to race Karts, so I like to think I know what I'm doing in most high speed driving situations. I don't drive an especially fast car (Honda S2000) - fast enough to have fun in, but it's not a ferrari or owt.... Yet the sheer speed at which solid concrete, and re-inforced metal comes flying past you, absolutely scared me sideways - especially as I'd only had the car a couple of months.

          That is a circuit which demands the UPMOST respect - it's twisty, it's complicated, and it's tricky with negative and positive cambers all around.

          My advice would be to drive WELL within your limits for a few laps - get used to a small section, and drive hard on that, and back off when you've finished that section.

          You will never learn the whole circuit in a weekend (or perhaps a year!!)
          Nice post. However, it's "UTMOST".

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            #15
            Originally posted by The Agents View View Post
            It's a great feeling, being on the edge. Before I was a conman....I mean agent....I used to race Karts, so I like to think I know what I'm doing in most high speed driving situations. I don't drive an especially fast car (Honda S2000) - fast enough to have fun in, but it's not a ferrari or owt.... Yet the sheer speed at which solid concrete, and re-inforced metal comes flying past you, absolutely scared me sideways - especially as I'd only had the car a couple of months.

            That is a circuit which demands the UPMOST respect - it's twisty, it's complicated, and it's tricky with negative and positive cambers all around.

            My advice would be to drive WELL within your limits for a few laps - get used to a small section, and drive hard on that, and back off when you've finished that section.

            You will never learn the whole circuit in a weekend (or perhaps a year!!)
            I agree with all of that.

            I was there 3 times last year.

            I love the place and treat it with a lot of respect.

            Usually I look more in my rear view mirror to let faster guys pass then I look out front. Almost. You know what I mean.

            My super charged Z needs to be used properly once in a while - else it grows cobwebs.
            "Condoms should come with a free pack of earplugs."

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              #16
              Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
              Nope, Münster. Quietened down a bit now but still looks like tulipe outside
              Sounds like a Ruhr deal.
              "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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                #17
                Originally posted by Paddy View Post
                Sounds like a Ruhr deal.
                Taxi is waiting outside
                "Condoms should come with a free pack of earplugs."

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by ThomasSoerensen View Post
                  Why don't you join Mitch.

                  Have you decorated your Merc with a Ring sticker?
                  There is no way in a million years that I would put a sticker on my car saying 'Last week I drove the ring'.

                  It was bad enough falling out of bed and hurting my knee, without advertising the fact to the entire autobahn



                  (\__/)
                  (>'.'<)
                  ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
                    There is no way in a million years that I would put a sticker on my car saying 'Last week I drove the ring'.

                    It was bad enough falling out of bed and hurting my knee, without advertising the fact to the entire autobahn



                    Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
                    +5 Xeno Cool Points

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
                      Not only has a stinking cold just come on but its decided to chuck it down with poxy snow (and I've got slippery shoes on as well.) Flipping flip flip.
                      Shouldn't that be:

                      Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
                      (I've got slippery shoes on as well.) Flipping flip flop.
                      My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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