I´ll be posting pics of both system as soon as I get them, just order them yesterday and it will be about 2 weeks before I get them here in nicaragua

Thanks

Marvin

first edit.

you can find my first post about this subject here(started just as an thought back then)

http://www.handletteringforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3117&p=17158#p17158

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Carl Forberg

i have been a modeller for more that a few years now. i like all models of all kinds and all scales 

whether it be scale military vehicles hot rods muscle cars 4×4's rally cars everything 

i also have many other leisure activities like bushcraft electronics ect

thats about it then pleased modelling 

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Esteban Tuero

Posted on 02.13.2012 13:00 by Simona Filed under: Infiniti | coupe | concept cars | Geneva Motor Show | sports cars | electric cars | 2012 | Cars | Car Reviews | Infiniti

We know for quite some time now about the existence of the Infiniti Emerg-e, but now the concept has finally made its world debut at the Geneva Motor Show. The Emerg-e is a highly advanced mid-ship sports car with a future chose by the people’s reaction at the show. But, no mater if it will be place into production or not, it offers an exciting glimpse into Infiniti’s future.

Next to a completely new design language the concept is also featuring an array of exciting new technologies that the brand “will adopt in its quest to build dramatic and sustainable high performance cars.”

The concept is powered by a twin electric motor that develops a total of 402 HP. The Emerg-e will sprint from 0 to 60mph in just four seconds – and from zero to 130 mph in 30 seconds.

Updated 03/07/2012: This review has been updated with the official details, images and specs. Hit the jump to read more about the Infiniti EMERG-E concept.

Infiniti EMERG-E originally appeared on topspeed.com on Monday, 13 February 2012 13:00 EST.

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Brian Gubby

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Teo Fabi

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Rudolf Krause

I also place the headers together…

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Hernando da Silva Ramos

I've completed alot more and hope to more pics posted soon.

Thanks for looking!

George

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Johnny Mantz

Fernando Alonso was talking down Ferrari’s form, Lewis Hamilton was talking up McLaren’s – as, intriguingly, was Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel. And the unlikely combination of Kamui Kobayashi and Sauber set the fastest time of the week.

As ever, the headline lap times were a poor guide to the order of the grid that can be expected in Melbourne at the first race in just three weeks’ time.

But look behind the fastest laps, and there is usually a way of gleaning at least some sense of form ahead of the season.

Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari could yet to turn out to be a dark horse. Photo: Getty

I’ll preface what follows with a major caveat – this has been one of the most hard tests to read for some time. But here goes.

Red Bull, as ever, looked especially strong. Vettel was fastest of all on the first day of the test, and throughout the four days he and team-mate Mark Webber set consistently formidable-looking times.

On Wednesday afternoon, Vettel and Hamilton set out to do race-distance runs at more or less the same time. Both did 66 laps – the length of the Spanish Grand Prix, which will be held at the track in May.

Vettel did five pit stops; Hamilton four. Discount laps on which they went in and out of the pits and they both managed 55 flying laps. Vettel completed his more than two minutes quicker than Hamilton.

If that was repeated in a race, Hamilton would be lapped by the end.

And the pattern was repeated on Thursday with Mark Webber and Jenson Button, although the margin was reduced to about half a minute.

Of course, this is very far from an exact scientific comparison.

They didn’t use the same tyres as each other – although they don’t necessarily have to in the race either.

We don’t know what they were doing with fuel loads – although it would be counter-intuitive to start putting fuel in at pit stops because it would provide the team with data that was never going to be relevant to competition.

And it’s an especially confusing situation because only the day before Vettel was saying how impressed he had been with the McLaren’s pace on the longer runs.

But there was more – none of it especially pleased ready for those hoping for a close season.
On the Wednesday, Vettel’s fastest time of all was nearly a second quicker than Hamilton’s on the same type of tyres. Although both were set on very small runs – suggesting a qualifying-type simulation – that’s still potentially meaningless as there is no way of knowing the level of fuel on board at the time.

Nevertheless, if you then look at the lap times both were doing at the start of their race-distance runs, they were about the same margin slower than each driver’s fastest laps as you would expect given a full race fuel load.

That suggests that the headline lap times of those two drivers could be a reasonably accurate indicator of form – again worrying for McLaren.

Of course, this is only testing, and teams have updates to place on their cars before the first race – as Button pointed out. And everyone expects McLaren to be a close to challenger at the front come Melbourne. Nevertheless, few are under any illusions about Red Bull’s strength.

“You’re ancient enough, Andrew,” one senior insider said to me during the test, “to know that Red Bull look very strong. McLaren and Ferrari are a bit behind. Force India look like they have a quick car, too.”

He might have added that the new Mercedes looks quite decent as well.

But few teams are as hard to know right now as Ferrari – who have not done any race simulations to compare with their main rivals.

The messages coming out of the team have all seemed pretty negative.

There has been a lot of attention place on technical director Pat Fry’s remark at the first test in Jerez that Ferrari were “not pleased” with their understanding of the car.

Start raking through the time sheets, though, and you start wonder what’s behind all the negativity.

On headline lap times, Alonso was less than 0.3secs behind Vettel. And on both his days he started 10-lap runs with a lap in the region of one minute 24.1 seconds.

If you take 10 laps’ worth of fuel off that time, you are left with a lap in the low 1:23sec bracket – again, not far off what Vettel managed. And you can bet the Ferrari was running with more than just 10 laps of fuel anyway; most top teams routinely test with 60-80kg of fuel on board.

In other words, the Ferrari really looks reasonably quick, and an insider did admit: “The car is not as terrible as a lot of people reckon.”

If – and it’s a huge if – Ferrari can start to extract that potential before the first race of the season, Red Bull might just have a serious fight on their hands. And that’s without even considering what McLaren might be able to achieve.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2012/02/reading_between_the_lines_in_a.html

John CampbellJones

Keith Greene

Pedro Diniz

As pre-season testing wound to a close at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya, the man who returns to Formula 1 this season after two years in rallying was questioned how he felt the teams compared.

“In two weeks we know,” the Lotus driver said. “There is no point to guess here. I don’t know who’s going to be fastest. Nobody knows.”

Up and down the pit lane, drivers from other teams were expressing more or less the same view.

“McLaren look very strong,” said Red Bull’s Mark Webber. “And some of the other times done by other teams were pretty handy, too.”

Jenson Button, meanwhile, managed to cover all bases in three sentences.

“There’s a lot of work needs to be done before we’re properly competitive,” the McLaren driver said. “I’m reasonably pleased with what we have. I don’t know where we are but the feeling is excellent.”

That summed up the situation pretty well at the end of three pre-season tests.

The lap times have been particularly hard to read this year but it seems some patterns have emerged.

Up and down the pit lane, the general view is that the field is a lot closer than in recent years. Red Bull are again very strong, McLaren look like running them close and Mercedes appear to have made a step forward. Lotus, Sauber and Force India have also looked pretty handy.

Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn says he is “expecting the tightest start to a season we’ve seen for a number of years“.

People don’t just invent these views – they are formed by looking through the mountains of data that each day of testing throws up.

Kimi Raikonnen returns to Formula 1 after a three year absence.

Analysing the lap times also produces some fascinating numbers.

While it is not possible to know the programmes each team is running at any time, it is a reasonable assumption that over the course of winter testing all the teams will get through pretty much the same sort of work.

So, logically, an average of every lap time a driver has done over the three tests should give some indication of where each team is.

On average, over the whole of winter testing, Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel was the fastest of the drivers from last year’s top two teams, by 0.3secs from Button, with Hamilton a similar margin further back and just in front of Webber.

The specific average times look like this:

Vettel one minute, 25.340 seconds
Button 1:25.664
Hamilton 1:25.937
Webber 1:25.951

It’s also worth pointing out that the pattern of the last two or three years has been for Red Bull’s right pace to be disguised in both winter testing and in free practice at the grands prix.

Whether they are running more fuel than their rivals, or a weaker engine map, Red Bull always seem to find more time when it matters than the others do.

Mercedes have clearly been doing a different programme from the other teams – with a far greater concentration of longer runs – so comparing their times is potentially less instructive.

But when you see that Nico Rosberg did a 1:22.932 at the start of a 13-lap run on the penultimate day of testing, you know they have a pretty decent car.

“It’s still going to be the teams from last year that we need to beat,” Rosberg said, sounding confident. “But I reckon we have a excellent chance to annoy them a few times early in the season.”

And then there is Ferrari. Unless there is some Oscar-worthy acting going on, they are in distress.

Ferrari have been open about the fact that they are struggling to know the behaviour of their radical new car. Insiders tell BBC Sport that sometimes it behaves well and predictably, and sometimes it does not, and the team have no thought why.

The sense of crisis was heightened by Ferrari’s choice to cancel their driver media briefings over the final weekend of testing, saying they wanted them to concentrate solely on their job.

But Fernando Alonso did speak on television at the Barcelona-Sporting football match on Saturday night, saying: “In the first races we will suffer because we are not 100%.”

Ferrari place up technical director Pat Fry instead of Alonso on Sunday, and he admitted that he thought it unlikely the team would be able to end on the podium in Melbourne.

One can only imagine the pressure Fry must be feeling right now.

A diffident man who is uncomfortable with the media, Fry is in his first year in the job following the dismissal of predecessor Aldo Costa. And he has overseen a design office that was told to take risks this season in an attempt to close the gap to Red Bull after a poor 2011.

They’ve taken those risks – but it does not look for now as if they have made wise choices.

And yet, and yet. If you average out Alonso’s lap times over the whole of winter testing, guess what? He is the fastest of all – by 0.3secs. No wonder Webber says: “The mystery is the Ferrari.”

So what’s going on? The new F2012 looks like it can do a decent lap time, so it is conceivable that it will qualify pretty well in Melbourne the weekend after next.

But according to BBC F1 technical analyst Gary Anderson, who spent some time watching trackside in Barcelona, it seems to quickly drop in performance, initially losing grip on turn-in, and later on corner exits too.

It seems to use its tyres particularly aggressively. Ferrari have been afflicted these last few years by a car that raced better than it qualified because it used its tyres too gently. In seeking to fix this trait, have they now gone too far the other way?

It’s not as if they can blame the drivers either. In Alonso, they have an all-time fantastic, a gold standard who will push the car to its absolute limit on every single lap of every single race. Many consider his season in 2011 to have been better than his title-winning years with Renault in 2005-06, considering the equipment at his disposal.

This, team boss Stefano Domenicali has admitted to BBC Sport, was the point of signing the Spaniard on a lucrative contract that commits him to the team until the end of 2016. It puts pressure on the team to deliver.

Of course, all this may turn out to be an illusion. Perhaps Alonso will be a contender for victory in Melbourne, and throughout the year. But let’s assume for a moment he isn’t.

Back in 2007, when his relationship with McLaren was in tatters, Alonso had talks with Red Bull to discuss moving there.

Red Bull were keen but in the end Alonso opted for a go back to Renault, knowing a Ferrari seat was waiting for him a couple of years down the line.

At the time, with Ferrari contending for the title for the 10th time in 11 years and Red Bull still in the midfield, you could hardly fault the logic.

But now, in his silent moments, or when he’s watching Vettel celebrate yet another win, or looking at the perfectly intricate detail at the back of the Red Bull, or when he’s wrestling his uncooperative mount into a corner, does Alonso wish he could turn back the clock?

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2012/03/kimi_raikkonen_was_to_the_poin.html

Gianni Morbidelli

Fernando Alonso is the new favourite to win the Formula One drivers? title, said David Coulthard in his column for The Telegraph.

?He is the man with the momentum and, on the same basis that I backed Mark Webber to win the title before Korea, is now my favourite to claim the world title in Abu Dhabi on Nov 14. ?When the cars are so evenly-matched you have to back the man in possession. Especially when that man is a two-time world champion and arguably the finest driver of his generation.?

The Mirror?s Byron Young drew comparisons between Alonso and seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher as the Spaniard bids to become the sport?s youngest ever triple world champion.

?Like Schumacher, Alonso accepts no opposition within his team. Ultimately he fell out with McLaren over their refusal in 2007 to bring Lewis Hamilton to heel. ?He returned to Renault on condition he was No.1, only to be at the centre of the Singapore cheat scandal – engineered to hand him victory. ?The Spaniard has always denied involvement but at the German GP in July he was brazen enough to radio Ferrari to rein in team-mate Felipe Massa so he could start the winning streak that has taken him to the brink of history.?

Source: http://blogs.espnf1.com/paperroundf1/archives/2010/10/alonso_the_new_favourite_1.php

Joe Kelly

Bob's Paints

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Peter Monteverdi

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Keith Greene

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Bob Bondurant

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Tony Trimmer

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Alex Caffi

George Constantine

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Luigi Taramazzo

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Toranosuke Takagi

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David Walker

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Chico Serra

Clemar Bucci

David Piper

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Martin Brundle