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Was gutted by the result, it felt like it was a contrived ending, the race was going to be a safety car to the end and then all of a sudden it was let the cars pass and ok we are green to go. Anyway, had a walk with Mrs Woodenhead down Worsley Woods, taken in the scenery and fresh air and it's gone. At the end of the day it's not my championship so really doesnt impact me who won or how. But I do think F1 has been taken over by a group who want spectacle over racing, they should have been working to make the races spectacular but they've just let it go down to farcical decisions affecting races. If they had come down hard on Verstappen early in the season and then been consistent thereafter, the season would have been won based on the best driver be it Verstappen or Hamilton, but all that has been left is a sour taste which will rumble on. Verstappen is a very good driver, he and Hamilton are way ahead of everyone else this season, but he needs to understand there have to be rules and those rules need to be consistent to all parties. That's all I have to say about this F1 season (famous last words).

Unbelievable

I’m pacing the room, this race needs to finish.

Twelve to go …..

I can’t watch!!

Good work by Perez, if only Bottas had been able to do that for Hamilton when required

Good advert for Sky

Doesn’t matter now I can’t see people actually speaking. Big lunge there by Max

Is anyone else suffering a 5 second delay in the sound on Channel 4?

Still don't understand why only Milkmen were qualified to drive the Blue Pullman

For once I wont have to avoid this thread all afternoon for fear of seeing the result!

MV is also potentially compromised on tyre choice, flat spotting on mediums caused a change to softs and it means LH will be finishing on softs.

It's gone a bit quiet with the plan, I was meant to go out and buy the wood on Thursday, then Friday and then I started thinking again which is always bad. I've tweaked the plan a little to offer more space between the sidings and dropped a point But there is a nagging feeling that I will build it the baseboard, lay the track and find I don't like it especially with blue diesels that will mostly trundle in, stop, trundle out. As a Forest of Dean, I could parallel the tracks again and the shortness won't matter because it will all be short wheelbase 4 wheelers rather than longer wheelbase or bogie wagons in BR blue. Then in the back of my mind is that I could also do something in N in the same space that might have more potential and I have a lot of N stuff still boxed up, especially wagons or a preserved line so I can run a mix of steam engines and green diesels. So the space remains empty whilst I make up my mind on this, there's no rush apart from the artificial one I was setting myself to purchase a few blue diesels that are currently on or coming to the market and that might be a bad decision as they won't be cheap even if I sell some other stock to raise cash.

I've a couple of 47s, one is more recent than the other but the older one had to have it's wheels looked at and once I put the bogie frame back on it would ground on points - had the thing 10 years no problem, then one bit of maintenance and it would ground on every point. Tried to refit it a number of times, in the end got the file out on the covers and it's good again now.

Isn't it a Qanon member who got crowds to gather on the grassy knoll expecting a Kennedy to rise from the dead and announce he was running for President with Donald Trump in the 2024 election? And when that didn't happen he promised Princess Diana would wave from a window at a local hotel. Nuff said about that movement, however, they are dangerous in that sufficient numbers of people believe in it to storm a seat of government believing they were the saviours not the protagonists.

Edit: sorry posted before noting Andy's request. Removed

Any truth in the rumour that said perimeter chairs have had to be bolted down as the sheer mass of Heaton Lodge has created a localised gravitational anomaly and the chairs keep edging inwards from the perimeter. Or do the visitors just keep moving them as if they were a platform end trolley

I too was once sceptical of the methodology but in an imperfect world it did appear to offer a sensible way of measuring mortality rates. I take comfort in the fact that since the vaccinations began rolling out that the reported death rate using this method tumbled and has remained low ever since which proves that the methodology has a basis in fact.

With a damaged Mercedes crawling in 10th but no-one challenging him despite him being slower than everyone else.

And in the main that is what saved the human race, enough seperation of people that not everyone would catch something. The connected world we now live in through air travel means that viruses can travel at hundreds of miles per hour over thousands of miles whilst spreading to hundreds of people in one flight who disperse across hundreds of miles when arriving at their location.

I thought Royston Vasey was Glossop?

There was a bit of a problem between Salford, Trafford Councils and Peel and it got a bit sour for a bit - Peel built a lifting bridge over the Ship Canal as part of an M60 and A57 road improvement scheme but didn't sort out who was going to manage it afterwards with the councils refusing to adopt it (not helped when it had collapsed once during testing!!). That's all resolved now and clearance work for more building on the land has been ongoing for a few months, the works for the rail link have begun to progress with a land swap earlier this year between the council and Peel to let it begin https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/port-salford-land-exchange-rail-20011986 Edit and thanks for mentioning this, got me looking at the incinerator that was going to be built on the opposite bank that everyone in the neighbourhood including the councils were against but Peel won Government backing for - the land was sold in April21 to a plant hire company for offices. @Mol_PMB Did you know the land had been sold, its a weight off my mind.

It's getting bigger and a new location, it has warehousing being built and will soon be rail joined to the Chat Moss route east and west. It's name is Port Salford, right next to the M60 viaduct.

I think positions should be locked to the positions at the point the yellow flag commenced should it become a red flag situation so no-one has benefited. However, the complication may be when perhaps the yellow has been on for some time with cars circulating and then being red flagged as some cars who have swapped tyres under the yellows then find other cars have newer tyres under them - but it has to be better than yesterday's farce.

In all of this though, actually, Hamilton was always going to win - Verstappen's tyres faded badly whilst Hamilton was still putting in a fastest lap of the race with a damaged front wing.