tornado64 – thank you. You mention your local wind farm – whereabouts are you?

i live about 3 miles from this monstrosity those shouting about ( NIMBYS ) take note of visible mileage !!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scout_Moor_Wind_Farm

i believe wholeheartedly that we are doing everything to avoid the only realistic and viable option and building nuclear power stations

eventualy once we have enough of these wreched unsightly machines we may be heading accross the atlantic

and i’m not entireley sure on them being green atall

if anything i think they are worse especialy for any output they give

most of them on the windfarm near me are stopped for 50% of the time

hell if the wind gets too heavy they are turned off

then you get to production , transportation and building costs

the winfarm near me can also be seen from miles around it is an ugly scar on a once stunning landscape

i see little bennefits from them appart from wasting time and money and later having to do what should have been done many years before and going nuclear

except then the cost to build what we realy needed will have increased 100 fold if not more !!

Yep!! Sennas death was a million to one chance, and should never have happened, what a driver in the wet and rain just like Schumaker was/is.

Lincoln .7

tragedy !!! , i was never a senna fan at the time ( firmly in the nige camp ! )

but when i look back at his driving style now he was astoundingly brilliant

he didn’t push a car to it’s racing limmits he constantly pushed it past them whilst constantly reccovering it

and in the fully anologue car world with no driver aids !!

when i look back now i can see the utter genius of his driving !!

F1 only suffers the same as other large spectator sports in the modern world

it is not looked on as the sport anymore it is mearley a money making cash cow for millionaires

the true fans are no longer a considderation

for instance at a lot of main international football games a huge percentage of tickets go to corporate people

a large percentage of those are usualy drinking at the bar with very little intrest in the game

stealing tickets from genuine supporters of the sport

it is interesting to note though that after the 1955 le mans disaster ( very much on the same scale and type as the dh 110 disaster )

that not much changed in motor racing horrendous safety breaches were being broken even two decades later as the 1975 spanish f1 gp proved

Race summaryRight from the start, the drivers who were members of the Grand Prix Drivers Association were furious that the barriers weren’t bolted together properly. Thus, they went on strike. Most of the sport’s major players refused to take part in practice. Jacky Ickx was not a member of the GPDA, and one of the few marquee drivers who did practice.

Track staff worked overnight to fix the barriers, and to make sure everything would be fixed in time for qualifying on Saturday, some of the teams sent out mechanics to help. The drivers, though, still weren’t convinced, but the race organizers threatened legal action if no race was run. This, and rumors that the Guardia Civil would seize the cars which were in the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys stadium that served as paddock, forced the drivers to call off the strike.

The defending World Champion Emerson Fittipaldi, however, was still furious. He did the minimum three laps, but at a very slow pace, then pulled into the pits. The next morning, Fittipaldi announced he wouldn’t run, and went back home. Also during race day morning, Ken Tyrrell went out onto the circuit with his spanner to make sure the barriers were how they should be.

The two Ferraris of Niki Lauda (on pole) and Clay Regazzoni qualified on the front row, but their glory wouldn’t last long. At the start, Vittorio Brambilla’s March tangled with Mario Andretti’s Parnelli. Andretti’s car hit the back of Lauda’s, sending him into Regazzoni. Lauda was out immediately, while Regazzoni took his car to the garage, where repairs were made, and Regazzoni was sent back out. Patrick Depailler also retired on the first lap because of suspension damage, and Wilson Fittipaldi and Arturo Merzario withdrew in protest.

After the first-corner madness ceased, James Hunt was shown as the leader. Shockingly, Andretti had managed to keep going, and was running in second. John Watson was in third, Rolf Stommelen was fourth, Brambilla fifth, and Carlos Pace sixth.

On lap four, the engine in Jody Scheckter’s Tyrrell blew, and the oil dumping onto the circuit caused Alan Jones and Mark Donohue to crash. Three laps later, Hunt also slipped in the oil and crashed. The top three had become Andretti, Watson, and Stommelen. Watson’s car suffered from vibrations and dropped out. Andretti’s rear suspension lasted only seven more laps before it failed, causing him to crash out of the lead. Jean-Pierre Jarier and Brambilla stopped to change tyres, whilst Tom Pryce and Tony Brise tangled. Stommelen was now in the top spot, followed by Pace, Ronnie Peterson, Jochen Mass, and Ickx. On lap 24, Peterson was out after he tangled with François Migault while trying to lap the Frenchman.

Two laps later, tragedy struck. The rear wing on Stommelen’s Embassy Hill-Lola broke, sending him into the barrier, ironically at the point that his own mechanics had worked on. He bounced off it and back into the road, hitting the barrier across the way, and flying over it. While trying to avoid Stommelen as he crossed the track, Pace crashed. Five by-standers were killed by Stommelen’s flying car with the driver suffering a broken leg, a broken wrist and two cracked ribs.

The race continued for four laps, during which Mass passed Ickx for the lead. On lap 29, the race was called with Mass the winner, Ickx second, and Carlos Reutemann rounded out the podium. Jean-Pierre Jarier finished fourth, Brambilla fifth, and Lella Lombardi took sixth. Because the race only lasted half its distance, only half points were awarded.

it is of course unfortunate that such things happen but as a rational human being when i went to watch speedway every week

i accepted the consequences of the signs that said ” motor racing is a dangerous sport , we take no responsibility for injury “

i’d rather be back in the world were things were fun because they were dangerous

i have a big enough IQ of my own to reccognise dangers and that if the worst comes to the worst several tons of aircraft hitting me .. well at the very least it is going to smart a little !!

never filled one in in my life

if the home office freely admits it can’t keep tabs on immigrants i fail to see any relevance in asking the born and bred population the ins and outs of their lives !!

very much so like many other walks of life H&S has killed the very thing it was done for thrills and entertainment

take that ellement away and you are just as well off viewing at a normal airfield or in a museum

the biggest milestone was post ramstein where regs were hugely altered

it closed many great airshows such as barton as the crowd line was shoved so far back it was no longer viable to organise as crowd numbers made it financialy unviable

if people are willing to accept the risks let them get on with it

there is a small chance i’ll get killed by a falling plane but in todays uk i’d say the odds of getting beaten up on the street are higher !!