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I get rocking on my rolling road. I wonder if it's to do with wheel profiles, the rollers and side play. Most locos are fine once on the track and perform better. The mass of the loco acts a bit like a flywheel and smooths out the performance.

The Christmas Channel has arrived in the Didcot household. My Wife loves Christmas. But Christmas films are as predictable as this year's F1 season. The scenario is young executive is sent to a failing hotel/shop/family business to take over or shut it down. Young executive meets a single parent/widow/family who own said business and fall for them. Working against a Christmas Eve deadline to shut down the business as blizzard blows in preventing them leaving and concluding the deal. Come Christmas day they tell said business owner they love them and quit their own job thus saving the business. Cookies are usually baked at some point and the tree decorated to the mellow sound track of oboes. Plenty of snow is seen and actors are clad in thick layers of clothing despite it really being mid June when the light and lack of visible breath gives it all away!

Sky covered the whole plank saga quite well this weekend. As I understand it teams have to submit set up data to the FIA. The FIA can also monitor the cars vertical movement from the sensors fitted to measure porpoising. From this info they have a good idea as to which cars are running low. It was also noted during the race that both Leclerc and Hamilton appeared to be bottoming out. So with that and the set up data they became prime suspects as it were. The FIA have to removed the titanium skid block to measure it. Hamilton was apparently 0.05mm or 2 thou out of spec. That's about a fag papers thickness. Asked why they didn't test the whole grid the FIA stance was it would take 5 hours to do all 20 cars. But from the aforementioned data they had prerace they could predict who would be out of spec.

I thought Proxxon did a kits of parts for a conversion, but probably expensive.

Scenes of Red Bull and Ferrari fans fighting in the stands. Disgraceful behaviour. Leclerc being booed in the interviews. Nothing he could do in a Red Bull sandwich. Lewis gets a good reception.

K Mag ouch! Rear left suspension failure. Where were the marshal's? Clearly winded and takes an age for someone to get to him!

Dick of the day awarded by the first corner! Which funnily enough I predicted.

I forgot to make a note of the company!

They must like Pasties as my Thunderbolt set arrived in a box previously packed with them.

Surely preventing your rivals from exiting the pits whilst you wait for track position is rather unsporting, especially if you leave with only enough time for yourself to get round!

Today's job was salvaging an old baseboard to make the drop down for the viaduct. Even though it's a lightweight baseboard it's rather unwieldy. Job for tomorrow, locating dowels.

Mine!

Make luv like a Man - Def Leppard

Well if he had been a team player rather than a brat Checo would have been 2nd last year. What goes around......

You shook me all night long - AC/DC

Black Velvet - Alana Myles

Back in Black - AD/DC

The Life of Riley - The Lightning Seeds.

Max went to see the eye vet today. Poor chap has uveitis possibly cause by the urine infection. But in turn it has caused glaucoma. The white half moon is white blood cells. Got drops and back for a check up tomorrow. Eye pressure was 80 when it should be 20!

Mia really is the daftness cat.

It's arrived and wow, absolutely stunning. Done a quick run up and down my test track. The slow running is incredible as is the sound. It's put a big smile on my face.

Crashtappen, Norris and Sainz I think. Rather conveniently Perez extends his lead over Hamilton.

Unbelievable!

Good result for Hamilton. Another lap or earlier pit and I think the crowd would have been cheering more. So close for Lando too.