While I am miles away from qualifying as a mechanic, the term
"Weekend Mechanic" used to be one of favorite columns in a tech
magazine many years back (John Fisk anybody?); I thought of
reviving it in this space in some other form...

The idea is on a weekend, whenever time permits, anybody from us,
makes a small post on what ever you are cooking, I mean in terms
of motorsports, (it could be non-motorsport related too BTW :P ).

I believe, it could throw up some very interesting posts on motor
sports, or for that matter anything which goes fast while burning
fuel and rubber (ping kzer).

Game?

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Anand Nene wrote:
No thanks.
You might have better luck here:

www.getalife.com


Tri J

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 at 15:28 GMT, BigBird, wrote:
I had actually compiled a few posts on some analysis I have been
doing courtesy gpsql over the weekends, viz:

(subject)
Weekend Mechanic: The longest wait
Weekend Mechanic: Chase from back, epic races
Weekend Mechanic: Reliability, do I hear McLaren?
Weekend Mechanic: My first time
Weekend Mechanic: Williams profiled
Weekend Mechanic: The Indie-Portuguese connection

etc;

thought the title was apt, as I just get the weekend to do some
thing I really like. Besides, if I can get the veterans to pen
down even a few bits of their activity, problem in hand, it
would be an interesting read, even if OT.

You guys are such a spoil sport. Thanks.

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Anand Nene anandnNOSPAM (AT) gmx (DOT) net said:

One who works on a post 1990 manufactured automobile on a Saturday, has the
hands (and tools) the size of a rodent and no money to spend on a *real*
mechanic.

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 at 00:05 GMT, BigBird wrote:
Drivers who took the longest to get their first podium, this I further
refined to 1st, 2n'd and 3rd. I added another section for drivers who
stayed with a single podium longest / Drivers who have just 1 win etc.

What else? I will be the last person in this space to post something
non-F1 / OT.

Chase from back, epic races - refers to races where a car / driver
started from the back and brought the car home in top 5. I started
off with just top 3, but then soon realized that overtaking in F1 is
not easy as it looks and further increased the position to top 5.
Some very good races / times from the past in there, thought would
be great to revisit.

And when did I say it was it was going to be OT? You assumed, your
fucking bad.

LOL. I ofcourse meant "first race weekend."

Almost all stats you could have ever imagined on Team Williams.

2005 season, stats on Tiaga/Narain as teammates, comparing it some
other rookie pairings, while bringing in some other humorous posts
from jordan fans online

Work in progress?

LOL. You are a fucking idiot. Why do you think it as a problem?
Request you to first make an attempt to read the fine print of what
I was trying to get going here, understand it well, and then make
any comments.

Clearly you missed the point.

Bah... get outta here. Besides so very fucking easy to sit behind a
mask id (Bird) and indulge in nonsense.

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(The Renault) has all the turning ability of a Hong Kong ferry.

Anand Nene wrote:
It was probably this:

"The idea is on a weekend, whenever time permits, anybody from us,
makes a small post on what ever you are cooking, I mean in terms
of motorsports, (it could be non-motorsport related too BTW :P ). "

in your OP that caused the confusion.

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BigBird wrote:

Some of us aren't, having met up irl... :-)

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Paul-B <paul (AT) rasf1 (DOT) net> wrote:
Never been to an IRL race, Champcars, yes. ;-)

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Emma <Emma (AT) excalvehs (DOT) demon.co.uk> wrote:
In three countries, at that

pete
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pete (AT) fenelon (DOT) com "how many clever men have called the sun a fool?"

In article <57hmh5F2cbkesU1 (AT) mid (DOT) individual.net>, paul (AT) rasf1 (DOT) net says...
could come over and shoot me down. Hasn't happened yet, and also, IIRC,
he called me a fag (or somesuch) for doing the same, even though he'd
"dared" me to do it.

Weird, some people.
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