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Have you checked your brake master cylinder? A leaking master cylinder could lead to bad brake problems and exactly what you are describing.

^85 for premium.

^And its those kind of people who "need ze punishment!"

Sorry, currently "Stairs". Seriously, great stuff. It makes me miss CA again!!!

Yeah, Nazi Orgy's are usually a joke... I guess this is where at $100 mil of McLaren's money went!

Hahaha I get it....

I found this just now from my annoying West Coaster days... Yeah, definitely not!

I'm sure a bunch of you have seen this, but it just "fits" so well on this forum! A Jordan F1 car on Pepsi Max Big One!!!

^And if he can't we can just go to Ferrari and get the origional info!!! Haha just kidding man... Here is the finishing order from Malaysia: Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Pts 1 1 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 56 1:31:18.555 2 10 2 4 Robert Kubica BMW 56 +19.5 secs 4 8 3 23 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 56 +38.4 secs 8 6 4 11 Jarno Trulli Toyota 56 +45.8 secs 3 5 5 22 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 56 +46.5 secs 9 4 6 3 Nick Heidfeld BMW 56 +49.8 secs 5 3 7 10 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 56 +68.1 secs 6 2 8 5 Fernando Alonso Renault 56 +70.0 secs 7 1 9 9 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 56 +76.2 secs 12 10 16 Jenson Button Honda 56 +86.2 secs 11 11 6 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 56 +92.2 secs 13 12 21 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 55 +1 Lap 17 13 17 Rubens Barrichello Honda 55 +1 Lap 14 14 7 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 55 +1 Lap 16 15 19 Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 55 +1 Lap 21 16 18 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 54 +2 Laps 19 17 8 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 54 +2 Laps 22 Ret 15 Sebastian Vettel STR-Ferrari 39 Hydraulics 15 Ret 2 Felipe Massa Ferrari 30 Spin 1 Ret 20 Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 5 Hydraulics 20 Ret 12 Timo Glock Toyota 1 Accident 10 Ret 14 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 0 Spin 18 And the current driver standings: Pos Driver Nationality Team Points 1 Lewis Hamilton British McLaren-Mercedes 14 2 Kimi Räikkönen Finnish Ferrari 11 3 Nick Heidfeld German BMW 11 4 Heikki Kovalainen Finnish McLaren-Mercedes 10 5 Robert Kubica Polish BMW 8 6 Nico Rosberg German Williams-Toyota 6 7 Fernando Alonso Spanish Renault 6 8 Jarno Trulli Italian Toyota 5 9 Kazuki Nakajima Japanese Williams-Toyota 3 10 Mark Webber Australian Red Bull-Renault 2 11 Sebastien Bourdais French STR-Ferrari 2 12 David Coulthard British Red Bull-Renault 0 13 Jenson Button British Honda 0 14 Nelsinho Piquet Brazilian Renault 0 15 Giancarlo Fisichella Italian Force India-Ferrari 0 16 Rubens Barrichello Brazilian Honda 0 17 Anthony Davidson British Super Aguri-Honda 0 18 Takuma Sato Japanese Super Aguri-Honda 0 19 Timo Glock German Toyota 0 20 Felipe Massa Brazilian Ferrari 0 21 Adrian Sutil German Force India-Ferrari 0 22 Sebastian Vettel German STR-Ferrari 0

1988 Mercedes 190E. This thing is my baby.

Here are the qualifying positions for Malaysia. Looks like Ferrari fixed whatever it was they were doing wrong... Pos No Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Laps 1 2 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:35.347 1:34.412 1:35.748 17 2 1 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:35.645 1:34.188 1:36.230 13 3 23 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:35.227 1:34.759 1:36.613 12 4 22 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:35.392 1:34.627 1:36.709 18 5 11 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:35.205 1:34.825 1:36.711 18 6 4 Robert Kubica BMW 1:35.794 1:34.811 1:36.727 13 7 3 Nick Heidfeld BMW 1:35.729 1:34.648 1:36.753 13 8 10 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:35.440 1:34.967 1:37.009 18 9 5 Fernando Alonso Renault 1:35.983 1:35.140 1:38.450 18 10 12 Timo Glock Toyota 1:35.891 1:35.000 1:39.656 20 11 16 Jenson Button Honda 1:35.847 1:35.208 15 12 9 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1:36.058 1:35.408 12 13 6 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 1:36.074 1:35.562 12 14 17 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:36.198 1:35.622 15 15 15 Sebastian Vettel STR-Ferrari 1:36.111 1:35.648 15 16 7 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:35.843 1:35.670 13 17 21 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 1:36.240 9 18 8 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:36.388 9 19 14 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 1:36.677 8 20 18 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 1:37.087 9 21 20 Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 1:37.101 10 22 19 Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 1:37.481 9 Also, both Hamilton and Kovalainen will drop 5 places on the grid for the race tomorrow. www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/3/7542.html

*BEGIN DORKY MOMENT* The Zero-G roll is based off the heartline as you may already know. What gives the Zero-G roll its, well "Zero-G" is the fact that the heartline, and the train, make the roll over a parabola. The Inverted coaster actually makes a Parabolic curve through the Zero-G roll like the sitdowns do. Its just like cresting a hill, but you are rotating around its axis, which makes it look like it "flattens out" in the middle of the roll. *END DORKY MOMENT* No idea if that answered anything for you!

Im not sure how a team could make a tyre burst on cue. I still think that Hamilton is probably the most talented driver on the grid. Im not a fan of his, (especially as he seems to be avoiding the GPDA), but I respect his skill. I saw him race in GP2 and it was obvious even then that he had that extra something that Senna and Shuey both had. Id love to see Kovy come through well. He also has tons of talent. The tyre bust was during qualifying (Q3). He was doing well in the actual race, but he hit the limiter switch and couldn't disengage it so that cost him that race. The race before was the teams fault as the kept him out an extra lap on really REALLY bad tires, so he went off, beached it, and would have to wait for his chance in Brazil to try again (which obviously didn't happen). He is a VERY talented driver, and I don't *hate* him, but Im not a fan either. Actually, I really dislike his father more than anyone else F1 related. All of his comments like "my son is the best driver in the world" and "We are going to win it all next year!" are a bit ignorant and annoying. Yes, I'd be proud too if my kid was as good at something like Hamilton is, but making coments like that would be over the line.

Awww poor Senna, he was pretty much the most amazing driver ever. Monaco is one race I really wan't to see in my lifetime. That, Monza, and the GP of Europe are the three races I really really want to attend (plus there will be a credit there soon at the Ring!) On a different note, Ferrari believes that the ECU was the problem that caused two DNF's in the opening race. The ECU's are now standard among all F1 cars so as to better improve driver equality, but who makes them? McLaren. McLaren was accused last year of stealing Ferrari data and found guilty, fined $100,000,000.00, and stripped of all constructors points. This has started a BIG rivalry between the two teams, so something like this is not at all surprising. Oh, and Friday Practices kicks off in about 22 hours at Malaysia!

Wow, that is pretty amazing right there! I can't even begin to imagine what went in to building and programming that thing, its insane!

Its God telling you to stop looking at naughty things on the internet.

There's more chance of "rubbin" in F1 than in NASCAR! Its open wheel racing! Touch a tire to ANY part of another car, and you are pretty much screwed! ^It's almost as good as Dick Withers. He lives in Coldwater Michigan. "Do you know Dick Withers in Coldwater?"

lol, I just read on CNN Money that the FourTwo only gets 36mpg... my old Saturn can get that, and it doesn't require premium fuel! Great buy I just filled up and got 40 mpg. It varies anywhere from 36-40+.IMO, the smart is a lot nicer than most Saturns anyways. Plus you only have an 8 gallon tank. Im sure the Saturn's have atleast 14 gallon tanks, less time between fillups. Even my 20 year old car gets 25 on the highway at 3.5k rpm and its no TWO banger like the Smart. That and it actually goes 70mph!

^It's Dick Trickle! Here are the results from the Australian GP: Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Pts 1 22 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 58 1:34:50.616 1 10 2 3 Nick Heidfeld BMW 58 +5.4 secs 5 8 3 7 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 58 +8.1 secs 7 6 4 5 Fernando Alonso Renault 58 +17.1 secs 11 5 5 23 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 58 +18.0 secs 3 4 6 8 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 57 +1 Lap 13 3 7 14 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 55 +3 Laps 17 2 8 1 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 53 Engine 15 1 Ret 4 Robert Kubica BMW 47 Accident 2 Ret 12 Timo Glock Toyota 43 Accident 18 Ret 18 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 32 Transmission 19 Ret 6 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 30 Accident damage 20 Ret 2 Felipe Massa Ferrari 29 Engine 4 Ret 9 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 25 Accident 8 Ret 11 Jarno Trulli Toyota 19 Electrical 6 Ret 20 Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 8 Hydraulics 22 Ret 10 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 0 Accident 14 Ret 16 Jenson Button Honda 0 Accident 12 Ret 19 Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 0 Accident 21 Ret 15 Sebastian Vettel STR-Ferrari 0 Accident 9 Ret 21 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 0 Accident 16 DSQ 17 Rubens Barrichello Honda 58 +52.4 secs 10 Lots of retired racers, only 7 finished, but Rubens was DQ'd for exiting the pits under Red.

Well Sato is already out, and I don't know how well Nakajima is doing (commercial break!) but Kimi and Massa arn't doing well. My prediction is that Hamilton will take the championship this yeah, but I really dont like McLaren-Mercedes. I'm HOPING that Ferrari will win it again, but they need to get it together. 20 to go!

Hey TPR! Some of you may, but Im sure most of you don't know that F1 is about to kick off in Australia tonight for the first race of the season. I remember there being a little interest in the sport on here, but hey what the hell I thought I'd start a thread about it anyway! I'm gambling with the fact that some of you might be interested, but I do want to keep this a regularly updated page if its something people find interesting. So here it is for the Australian GP! Starting Grid: Pos No Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Laps 1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:26.572 1:25.187 1:26.714 14 2 Robert Kubica BMW 1:26.103 1:25.315 1:26.869 15 3 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:25.664 1:25.452 1:27.079 13 4 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:25.994 1:25.691 1:27.178 12 5 Nick Heidfeld BMW 1:25.960 1:25.518 1:27.236 16 6 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:26.427 1:26.101 1:28.527 17 7 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:26.295 1:26.059 1:28.687 21 8 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1:26.381 1:26.063 1:29.041 18 9 Timo Glock Toyota 1:26.919 1:26.164 1:29.593 17 10 Sebastian Vettel STR-Ferrari 1:26.702 1:25.842 No time 18 11 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:26.369 1:26.173 13 12 Fernando Alonso Renault 1:26.907 1:26.188 10 13 Jenson Button Honda 1:26.712 1:26.259 13 14 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:26.891 1:26.413 13 15 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:26.914 No time 8 16 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:26.140 3 17 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 1:27.207 9 18 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 1:27.446 10 19 Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 1:27.859 9 20 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 1:28.208 9 21 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 1:28.330 6 22 Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 1:29.059 Also, be sure to check out these websites! http://www.f1.com Offical F1 website youtube.com/user/F1Podcast Really awesome Australian F1 podcast! So if there is interest in this, I'll keep the page updated. If not, hey atleast I gave it a shot! Oh and go Ferrari.

WARNING! DORKY COLIN MOMENT APPROACHING! The entrance and exits of the loops on Shockwave are opposite of those on GASM so that the turn into the MCBR is less of a headbanger or something. MOMENT PASSED!

Thanks for all the comments guys, I'm glad you liked it! And yes Jahan, I am happy enough with SFMM to come again and again!

^Probably! All I know is that I won one round, which does prove that everyone on the plane was a total moron!

Okay, lets try uploading these again! West Coast Bash!!! The day started early for me, like REALLY early! I was at the park to help set up and check people in at about 6:45am! If your last name was M-Z then I probably was the one who handed you your packet! I just want to say THANK YOU to both TPR and SFMM for everything that day! It was fantastic, and I really really had a good time! On to the pictures! I destroyed Joe in Trivia (twice) and thats pretty much it! Thanks for reading everyone! The event was AMAZING AND A HALF! I was overly impressed!!! Sadly, I had to return home the next day... Ill leave you with this last shot of a Viper anti-rollback (I think). To see the rest check out the museum when it opens! How did it know that?!? This whole Sky Tower museum was REALLY well done, and it wasn't even finished yet! I was extremely impressed with how much stuff was up there! Its the truth. You can almost make out Viper and X2 in this picture. Still, I love this park at night! THIS IS NOT GASM!!!! Who wants to tell me why? Actually, I didn't even know until Dave and Cameron pointed it out to me. I was able to live my dream and press the E-Stop button. Nobody left Sky Tower for the rest of the night, oops! More museum stuff. It was really cool to see the park all light up a night. It also puts it into perspective of how MASSIVE Magic Mountain really is! And Freefall! There were a few old ride sign's like this one from Flashback. This Ninja model was awesome! After the tours were over it was time to head in to the Magic Moments Theater for the presentations by Jay, Neil and Tim. No photos!!! Afterwords, Sky Tower opened! While not very forceful, I still really enjoy this hill. I still dont even come close to Hanno! Like previously stated, Yellow group rules. Lots of dirt and LOTS of Goliath! Next up was Thomas Town! Jahan gave us a little talk before we entered the construction site. I was too lazy to wait for a train, but I liked this shot a lot. Only from the X2 transfer! You will never see this ever again! Anyways, X2 looks a ton better, but honestly it would have been awesome if it was left half painted like it was 6 weeks ago! Rollin' on my 15's like WHUT?! This AWESOME Toyota Corolla! We were lead over to the transfer area to take pictures while X2 tested. I have to admit, I was more interested in something else at the time... My god these things are awesome! Old and New. These trains are going to be saved just in case X2 fails. If that is the case, a washer and dryer are going to be bolted to where the seats currently are. The track will be painted blue and orange and sponsored by Tide. So far, the name "X3 = Spin Cycle" has been rumored. Just kidding. Tim explained to us a lot about X2. It should be testing with riders by the end of the week, but he did not gaurantee it to be any smoother. However, he did say it would be more reliable, which is a GREAT thing in this case. Some people got shots from the other side of X2 (who cares), but all of us got shots from the INSIDE of X2! Oh baby, we certainly have come along in the last 6 weeks! But first, a message sponsored by Puma. X2 should so be sponsored by Puma, it could be called "X2=Puma Coaster". That is one example why I don't have valued ideas. And now what all of you have been waiting for.... X1! Here is what was on display in the Sky Tower elevator. If you think thats cool, you should all see what is upstairs! Oh, and I now eat off of a set of those blue plates, they are awesome. Tatsu was Tatsu-ing while we were wandering around Sky Tower. Becuase it was closed, out tour had a little break and I was able to hop on Ninja in that time. Due to high winds, we would have to wait until later before we were allowed up into the Sky Tower Museum. Still, there was a little sample of what was up there in the elevator for us to look at. Next up was Sky Tower! Who's that sexy man holding that sexy sign? DJV was down for major rehab, and Jay even said they tried really hard to get it open for us at WCB! Its the thought that counts! I took this dorky shot for Cameron, but I cought Dan vogue-ing or something so it turned out okay! ...and a car that is actually faster than a DeLorean even though it doesn't have an engine (well, to be fair, Ryan's doesn't either!) ...a cover for the front coach of Colossus... ...a car from Astroworld's XLR-8... ...the front coach cover of Flashback... The things on this part of the tour included a Granny Gran Prix car... I honestly do not think I missed anything by not riding freefall! Hey Joey. Aww poor Shockwave! If there is one defunct ride that I really wish I had ridden, Shockwave HAS to be it. Soooooooo many boats! Jahan gave a great presentation for us. It was really informative and everyone enjoyed it! Our first stop was the old Psycole ride area where we would find a bunch of old ride vehicles from all over the SF chain. DJV was not operating today, but it already trumps the other two for being the last one standing! After lunch our tours started. Yellow group was obviously the best out of all of them, but everyone had a good time from what I heard. And mad props to whoever made those signs =] SFMM was so awesome today that they welcomed us to lunch TWICE! After ERT we headed over to pay respect to Jahan's baby of the past. Ryan, Wes, Jahan and I were in charge of holding down the Fortress of Solitude this morning. No Chevy's made it past us! "What happened?! Where am I? How did I end up here?!"