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I had a job setting up a marquee at Brands for a big race, it felt weird as on normal days the track is just a wide road to get round the site.
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Mussels wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 7:25 pm I had a job setting up a marquee at Brands for a big race, it felt weird as on normal days the track is just a wide road to get round the site.
I used to always go to tracks night before I was instructing. They always let me into the pits.

Was eerily quiet.

Always had a barbies and a few cold 'uns from the camper fridge.

Coolest was always Mallory sat by the lake watching fish jumping
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Just when you thought there was nothing more you could do with an ICE engine...(swipe right to see how it works). It's either genius or bonkers (possibly both!). 500cc and a fair amount of power from a light engine. :thumbup:

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As is usually the case, it's not a new idea. Not by a long shot! Swashplate engines and variations of them have been around for donkeys years.

I've yet to find an invention which hasn't been thought of before :lol:

http://www.museum.alibaba.sk/MUSEUM/POW ... ial-IC.htm
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I reckon PET engines are the future... Positive Explosion Turbine.

Mainly because they've got a cool name.
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Yambo wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 6:32 pm
Yorick wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 5:33 pm Happy fans in the sun at Silverstone today :D
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Full house!

Respect!
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KungFooBob wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 7:53 pm I reckon PET engines are the future... Positive Explosion Turbine.

Mainly because they've got a cool name.
99% of the task to be fair :thumbup:
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My dad left everything to my mum, except this, which over 25 years ago he told me would be my inheritance I only managed to find it last week...
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 7:51 pm As is usually the case, it's not a new idea. Not by a long shot! Swashplate engines and variations of them have been around for donkeys years.

I've yet to find an invention which hasn't been thought of before :lol:

http://www.museum.alibaba.sk/MUSEUM/POW ... ial-IC.htm
It's new to me. :lol:

Interesting, if you read down towards the bottom of the article, the nearest one to this cam-plate engine, the Dyna-cam, flew for 7 hours in a Piper Arrow and access to the Internet archive on it blocked. It looks like it's been picked up again and maybe they're keeping details under wraps for commercial purposes.

Seems too good to be true though.
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Count Steer wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 8:51 pm Seems too good to be true though.
To be fair, and I'm sure this won't surprise you, you can generally tell these inventions are too good to be true cause they're all over social media rather than being somewhere useful :lol:
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Dang! I nearly had him on the brakes. :(

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Top Instagram page too :thumbup:

Two Hollywood names you've deffo heard of, but without the caption Id not have recognised either.

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Count Steer wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2023 7:04 pm Dang! I nearly had him on the brakes. :(

When I was in my teens this was one of my favourite albums...

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WTaF! :wtf: No matter how many times I look at this picture, I keep thinking, black socks with moccasins! Seriously!


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Taipan wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:45 am WTaF! :wtf: No matter how many times I look at this picture, I keep thinking, black socks with moccasins! Seriously!
Needs Crocs :thumbup:
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They don't take parking too seriously here.
Not even learners :banana-wrench:
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Is Neil Hodgson Fabio Quartararo's da? Photo from1995.

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