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After several days of speculation, Ferrari announced on Wednesday that seven-time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher will indeed replace the injured Felipe Massa in next month's European Grand Prix in Valencia, Spain. An announcement on Ferrari's Web site said that Schumacher, 40, will begin training immediately to make sure he is in shape for his comeback and that he is ready to go. Schumacher suffered some injuries during the winter after crashing a racing motorcycle, and the team needs to be sure he is fit. Regardless, the news comes as a strange contradiction to what the 40-year-old German's manager, Willi Weber, told the Daily Mail in comments published Tuesday. Webber said that he was "200 percent" sure that Schumacher would not fill the vacant seat. However, AutoWeek reported on Sunday that Schumacher topped the list of candidates for the job. Sorry, Willi. "The most important thing first: Thanks God, all news concerning Felipe are positive. I wish him all the best again," the most successful F1 driver of all time said. "I was meeting this afternoon with [team boss] Stefano Domenicali and [Ferrari president] Luca di Montezemolo and together we decided that I will prepare myself to take the place of Felipe. "Though it is true that the chapter Formula One has been closed for me since long and completely, it is also true that for loyalty reasons to the team, I cannot ignore that unfortunate situation. But as the competitor I am, I also very much look forward to facing this challenge." The European Grand Prix on Aug. 23 will mark the first time that Schumacher races alongside Ferrari's Kimi Raïkkönen, and it will be the first time that he experiences F1's new slick tires and kinetic-energy-recovery system. In his favor, upcoming races take place at tracks known to be among Schumacher's favorites: Spa-Francorchamps, Monza and Suzuka. Schumacher has not raced at Valencia, Singapore or Abu Dhabi, which also are among the upcoming events. Read more: http://www.autoweek.com/article/20090729/F...1#ixzz0Mfqs48U2

Yie. I, too, never been completely happy with a build. Well I should say that. I usually get to the middle of a build and it's not going quite perfect to what I had invisioned in my mind - so at this point I either push through and have been relatively happy with the way it turned out, but never completely satisfied. Or, like many - I have a long list, it gets shelved till I have forgotten why and start back at it. However, it quickly comes back to me why it was shelved. I don't think I have ever tossed a model completely because it wasn't perfect. I have also grown to accept what it is is what it is and all it's ever going to be and live with it. I think if you force your way through you will become a better modeler for it. Tossing or shelving it you never have a chance to work through it so the problems come up again and again and the solution is never gotten to.

Yeah, it would seem to be a bit more serious than we first thought. They are not saying anything but rumors have it he had a double or compound fracture to the skull. No, he was impailed by part of the suspension that broke off - through the visor into the head. He was pretty much killed there at the track, besides sustaining 3 seperate head injuries, he sustianed a ruptured a temporal artery - he bled out before leaving the track. In fact, that was the last Grand Prix fatality - 12 years ago.

I don't know... it looked okay to me.

60bar of brake pressure was applied at the instance he was hit, which more than a limp foot on the brakes, but not much more. The thottle was wide open. I hope he is okay. He is at AEK Hospital in Budapest ICU in an induced coma and is expect to be awoken tomorrow, but the docs say he is probably going to sit the rest of the season out (one to two months at least) but will know tomorrow what the prognoses is going to be. They did successfully do surgery to releave brain swelling, did a repair to the skull, and stitched up the cut on his forehead.

Kind of wierd full throttle but did apply full brake too.

He was hit in the head by what looks like a coil spring that came off Rubens Brawn GP during qualifying earlier today, knocked out and went straight off at corner 4.

Felipe knows how you feel.

Ebay. I think it's OOP but even aesthetically they are miles apart.

Completely different. You need to find a Italeri 911 Turbo kit. It's a 993. 934 was a group 4 race car hugely different than a 930. 930 was the old air-cooled Turbo. 935 was also a race car but group 5.

I am sure that is it. You have a $260 kit and another $650 in a super detail kit, that $900 and you'd still need to a bunch of fabrication to make it a top quality model. I don't see it happening. Sound more like one of those kits that you have to take for what it is and make the best of it without going broke or driving yourself completely mad.

That might explaine the 3 black helicopters we've seen hovering around.

That's because they don't get it. They think people will buy whatever piece junk they make because the consumer is stupid. Well that may have been the case at one time, and there still may be a portion of the car buyers out there who are stupid, but most of the general public has learnt there lessons well with GM and their BS, and just don't fall for the bannana in the tail pipe any longer. Good grief, now the Government is involved and that's going to make it all better.

If someone really wants to go green. Then buy a Porsche Turbo. It has one of the lowest emmision and is one of the most efficient cars out there. In some places the exhust is cleaner than the air that it is sucking into the engine. The Ferrari California is right up there too. If you're on a budget get a TDI. The Pruis according to Clarkson is a very expensive, very complicated, not terribly green, slow, cheaply made, and pointless way of moving around. I tend to agree. And the Volt is worse.

How in the world is a Volt ever going to compete with a Prius or Insight?

That is what they are saying, but why bother who's going to want one?

And they want to grow it bigger yet. Having only spent 7% of the trillions they already got their are some now saying it wasn't enough and are calling for more. (another $700 TRILLION). Yeah, so much for Hope and Change... we just got more of the same only on a grander scale. Obama has essentially adopted Bush policies on virtually everything and put them into hyperdrive. The few things where he's opposed to Bush he has been idle on.

The problem is they charged up $2 million on your $200 CC and handed it back. Now how do you feel about it? You'd be like, "Oh ######, now what-da I do?" And while Clinton did leave with a surplus most all road lead back to him.

I rest my case, and a lot of good came out of that besides just going to the moon and back. No no no, I know, don't worry we're Americans damit and we can make 1+1 = 3 where the rest of the resonable people in the world still only come up with 2.

I am not sure that proverb works here. How is anyone going to teach them anything that they couldn't learn in 30+ years? What part of British Leyland don't people understand. They built the worst cars ever other than the Communists. They eventually failed. And the UK auto industry never recovered from it. Reminds me of a great quote from Winston Churchill. You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, only after they have tried EVERY thing else first. When has anything the US Government done anything that you could call succesful? I was listening to some show the other day and Expert 1 says now you got to get the public to want to buy GM Car. Expert 2 says, no you don't you just have to sell a ###### load of cars. MORONS

Many Aurora tools were lost in a train wreck years ago. Could have been old stock from somewhere but I saw the big Entex Porsche RSR in the LHS a year or so ago.

Oh dear.

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Not limited to scale. I have everything from 1/2400 (yup twenty-four hundred) to 1/4 scale. I like 1/12 but have some 1/16, 1/4, 1/5, 1/7, 1/8, 1/9, 1/10, too.

Apperently FOTA hasn't made an offical statement yet so I think some are still holding there breath. Max and FIA has spoken for FOTA only to have FOTA say, "We never said that" before. I am sure they have come to some kind of agreement just interesting to see the final terms.