So what have you done with your Aston today?

[Y100]

AMDBSNick said:

Yes I suppose The Hawk is the Training Bra of fighter jets

I'm becoming "unsure of my position",,,,so who is flying what here,,,,

[Bincenzo]

AMDBSNick said:

Bincenzo said:

And flies a toy plane.....

Yes I suppose The Hawk is the Training Bra of fighter jets

I'll take that. I've told you before, 7 miles a minute is as much as my meagre brain can cope with. Now get on with some estimates, or whatever you do......

[AMDBSNick]

Bincenzo said:

I'll take that. I've told you before, 7 miles a minute is as much as my meagre brain can cope with. Now get on with some estimates, or whatever you do......

As you well know I do very little

[Little Donkey]

I've been out in attempt to recreate the sonic boom heard over Cambridgeshire this weekend............then spent another twenty minutes washing all the suicidal flies off the front.

[sukh_m]

AMDBSNick said:

As you well know I do very little

I'm still trying to figure out who does less in a day, me or you! It's a close one judging by the rapid email responses

[sukh_m]

Bincenzo said:

Sukh, I''ve given up flying helicopters just to cheer Nick up!

Don't please him mate!

Btw apparently we drive toy cars, funny that but didnt nick used to have a toy car to start with???

[peterr96]

I plugged in my battery conditioner in the vain hope that it may resolve the passenger window issue ...... yawn!

[Jockman]

peterr96 said:

I plugged in my battery conditioner in the vain hope that it may resolve the passenger window issue ...... yawn!

But there's nothing wrong with your battery, Pete !!!

You've turned into George

[peterr96]

Jockman said:

You've turned into George

That's fking ste

[George29]

Jockman said:

You've turned into George

He can dream I suppose

[Cockernee]

Bincenzo said:

AMDBSNick said:

Bincenzo said:

And flies a toy plane.....

Yes I suppose The Hawk is the Training Bra of fighter jets

I'll take that. I've told you before, 7 miles a minute is as much as my meagre brain can cope with. Now get on with some estimates, or whatever you do......

Still slower than the run up to Newton from Kington

[yeti]

Well last night I went with anopther 19 AMOCists to McLaren's Technology centre and had a very pleasant few hours there, wined and dined, a sit in the 12C, a look at the production line and an 'access all areas' look at the F1 cars.

When I say 'access all areas', I am not kidding. Mucky paws all over Jenson and Sergio's cars being prepped for Silverstone; techs were on a break so we jut climbed all over them and fiddled with everything. Truly amazing, at Wiliams I was only allowed to look through a window (but was allowed to sit in jenson's compnay car back then). Really a great privilege and I'm not even into F1 particularly!

No pictures allowed sadly but Trinity Tim has a group shot he'll post up later of a group of men who all decided to wear chinos on the same night

Then a cracking drive home at 10pm from Woking, via Brooklands to Putney, roof off, exhaust set to valves open and actually rather a lot of fun. Hadn't driven much recently but that more than made up for it.

[speech]

yeti said:

Mucky paws all over Jenson and Sergio's cars being prepped for Silverstone

So if anything falls off those cars during Silverstone weekend then we'll know who to blame

[yeti]

speech said:

yeti said:

Mucky paws all over Jenson and Sergio's cars being prepped for Silverstone

So if anything falls off those cars during Silverstone weekend then we'll know who to blame

A bit did get knocked off actually (just a pedal box cover)! Not by me, but it makes rather a loud noise in the deathly quiet of McLaren.

[George29]

Cockernee said:

Still slower than the run up to Newton from Kington

Newton as in the little village in Lancashire?

[gibbon]

yeti said:

Mucky paws all over Jenson and Sergio's cars being prepped for Silverstone; techs were on a break so we jut climbed all over them and fiddled with everything. Truly amazing.

I am not saying you are lieing, however i find that truly staggering to believe.

Lucky you.

[George29]

gibbon said:

yeti said:

Mucky paws all over Jenson and Sergio's cars being prepped for Silverstone; techs were on a break so we jut climbed all over them and fiddled with everything. Truly amazing.

I am not saying you are lieing, however i find that truly staggering to believe.

Lucky you.

Red Bull wouldn't allow anything like that when I've been down. I'm very surprised McLaren did.

I got to have a good look over John McGuinness and Bruce Anstey's TT/NW200 bikes, and Jakub Smrz's BSB bike recently. They are awesome pieces of kit

[gibbon]

George29 said:

Red Bull wouldn't allow anything like that when I've been down. I'm very surprised McLaren did.

I got to have a good look over John McGuinness and Bruce Anstey's TT/NW200 bikes, and Jakub Smrz's BSB bike recently. They are awesome pieces of kit

One of my best friends works for Mercedes High Performance Engines working with McLaren and Force India, I thought security was tighter than that, I mean, the engineers/mechanics often stand in the way of the cars when cameras are trying to get a close up shot during the grid walk for gods sake! Then they let a load of old Aston duffers poke around the car being finally prepped for home grand prix? Hmmm.

[yeti]

gibbon said:

I am not saying you are lieing.

I am saying that I am very glad you are not saying that.

gibbon said:

Lucky you.

Indeed. To be honest, it was absurd and enormous fun

[Y100]

Vesuvius, she left the factor this morning and is at the Harston (Lancaster Cambridge) dealership this afternoon. Going over to see her tomorrow afternoon (Julia is working in the morning), will post some pics in the evening. Is it normal for hands to shake at this point,,,