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Like every other year a Pocher wire wheel Mercedes kit, but I have a better chance of winning the lottery.

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no problem. I guess I a little more sensitive to lights and American vs. European car culture. My dad was in Germany in the 50s for a several years and worked on Porsches, he also had gone to the GM technical institute and later open an indy Porsche shop, which later spun off the fairly well known Kellymoss racing, who won all the Firehawk races in the 1980s, so that is where I know all this trivial nonsense. It really used to annoy the hell out of me how ingnorant people here in the states really are about cars in general. Jeremy Clarkson summed it up pretty well with, "People who are not good at something general don't do it, and Americans do everything else but drive when they are driving: talk on the phone, apply makeup, eat, drink, etc. So they must not be any good at because they dont drive when they are driving." In my old age I have become more tolerant of car ingnorance. Not that I am an expert or anything.

Actually I think you are the one that came off a little hard in the first place, and had very little to do with the discussion at hand. No harm no foul. Cheers

I am a big fan of HIDs, and being nearly the same color temp as daylight, but completely different concept; they are actually worse than yellow lights for what yellow light is trying to achieve. Blue and white fall at the worse end of the scale with reguards to glare and eye strain.

Yeah, the Car Talk guys are wrong, who also doesn't understand the yellow light concept. Here is a technical paper on the subject, and explains in much more detail the reason for yellow fog lamps. They are actually discussing headlamps the principle is the same, which goes back to... I donno 1936 or so. http://www.lightingresearch.org/programs/t...001-01-0320.pdf and if you are really really interested there are two more research papers at Mich State Uni on the subject, a survey that shows +90% of Americans improperly use fog lamps, and a brief explanation from lighting expert Daniel Sterns. but only if your really really interested in the truth behind yellow fog lamps.

clearly a moron.

Fog Lamps Yellow Driving Lamps White

Yes partly true. It's not about the light and what its reflecting off of. It is about how the eye deals with the light against the black background and taking out the blue by use of yellow lights lessens the workload of the eye by reducing glare. Where as blue and white was show to have up to 46% more glare than yellow, which strains the eye further. So to a degree what they are saying is true from the direction they are attacking it at, but they are wrong about the advantages because they failed to take it that additional step forward into why yellow fog lamps over white.

Yes and no. The best fog lamp was a yellow glass lens with a yellow-pass dichroic filter most often on the bulb itself. But it could be done with a couple of ways, but almost always a yellow lens with a yellow bulb with a factory type lamp. Toss out everything that should or shouldn't be with aftermarket lamps, especially the Asian attempt at dichroic lamps which deffract the light off mirrors and doesn't absorbe or filter the light. It doesn't work because you cannot direct the light where you want it to go, and there is a very specific pattern of light that makes a fog lamp most effective. In addition they only work in certian conditions. A good set of true fog lamps up until the late 80s 90s would have been yellow. A cheap set of aftermarket lamps would have been perhaps white. However not all those lamps you see are necessarily fog lamps. They could be driving lights, which are white, or what are often called auxiliary lamp. Technically any additional white lamp is to be considered a driving light. The confusion may come from the nomenclature across the A/M markets and people just not really knowing what is really what. Especially in the States: The Europeans usually do something for a specific reason whereas in the States it's done because it cool and aesthetic. Fog lamps are for a very specific condition for a very specific reason and designed in a very specific way for a very specific purpose. In the States people just toss any old yellow lamp on the front of the car call it a fog light and are always on becuase it looks cool without have any clue as if they are even a true fog lamp or how to set them up... because location is also very specific. They are for use at low speed to cut down glare in poor nighttime visibility situations. They do not cut into fog, haze or snow, you wont see any farther down the road, in fact probably less further, and don't reflect or refract the light. It has to do with the way the eye works with light across the spectrum aginst a black background.

No fuel stops, yes that is the way it used to be so it can be done. Michael driving has not been confirmed by relaible sources yet, but it is looking like it will happen.

Yeah, but the Euro look still goes back to the French and what I mentioned before. It is really the lack of good approprate bulbs that triggered all this nonsense.

Red Bull might be the only team that hasn't been upsetted in some way. AFAIK it's still on for Webber and Vettle.

I guess it should be add annouced today Lucas di Grassi and Timo Glock at Virgin Racing.

There has already been some German and English news reports he has inked a deal, and a strong indication came from Mercedes today that it was going to happen. At this ten seconds it looks like he will be back with Braun and Mercedes. Ferrari already gave the green light and stated that they wouldn't stand in his way. He could stay at Ferrari and be an icon for $7M, which he is completely bored with or drive for Merc for $5M His publisits Sabine said "it's not about the money." And he's got money, a couple years ago he gave away $200M to charity.

They have a full sized wind tunnel model, but that is about it, I don't even think they actually signed an engine deal yet. And have tentive deal with an South American drive as long as he brings at least $8m in sponcership with him.

You can blame it on the French: a long and envolved story, which is partly scentific, partly political, partly regulatory, and partly industrial/manufacturing. But basically it largely comes down to nobody doing quality "Selective Yellow" bulbs any longer, and is why you see a variety of shades. Because there was little or no demand for "Selective Yellow" bulbs (because of the French stopped requiring them for headlamps) alternate lens materials were used but often not the same as a Selective Yellow bulb. While a aftermarket company could cheat by simply making an amber lens tossing a white bulb in them and calling it a fog lamp manufacturers had stricter guildlines to follow so they made a correct white lamp fog/driving light.

I do. The past couple years you could go in kind of expecting XYZ to happen. Who knows what's coming. In addition, FIA has still been trying to court F1 teams into the WSCC

Mclaren and Mercedes are parting ways. Mercedes is inching ever closer to a deal with Michael Schummacher to drive their other car, with Nico Roseberg Button to Mclaren. Alonso to Ferrari. Kimi out altogther and signed up with a WRC Citroen JR Team. BMW is out repurchased by Peter Sauber who will run a Ferrari engine drivers Kamui Kobayashi and Bertand Baguette. Toyota out. Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen to the new Lotus Team, which said it wont be ready for the first race. All quiet on the USGP front I am not sure they will make grid. I think that they have had internal problems, Peter Windsor was in then out and now back in, they don't have a car yet or any drivers. And Renualt is expected to make an announcement tomorrow that they will make the grid with Heidfeld and Kubica or could say they are just pulling the plug. Bruno Senna to Compo. Cosworth supplying engines for 6 teams. A completely new point system. No refueling. New cars. New teams. New steward rules. It's crazy.

I agree who has worked on the real deal, and it was more gold than bronze.

Check these model engines out. Nothing like a Moki.

I can vouch for that. I had a 79 Formula Firebird with a SBC and in the rain the rear would break loose on the highway. That was probably my worst snow car ever, too. Even my Novas were better in the snow than that car. The RX 8 was pretty bad with the factory Potenzas it was stuck on flat ground in a 1/4 inch of snow. It's the tires that make all the difference in the world, and it's not tread... it's compound. A front wheel drive with good tires have always been the best and I have had many. I have only owned one all wheel drive and it was a horrible piece of junk: Jeep Grand Wagoneer.

Actually that is just not true. NASCAR peaked in the late 90s and has been declining ever since. The fastest growing motorsport in this country has been SCCA, Grand Am and AMLS.

all that sounds nice, awesome even, but doesn't sound like passion

Ah yes, the Turbocharged F1?, as small as 1 liter and making upto 1600 in Q trim.