For some of you this will be time for payback, for others it'll just be another excuse to get drunk.

Sat Nov 18th.

Starting off at Bowl America off of Dranesville Rd in Sterling around 8, depending on availability of most interested parties (some of us might do dinner before that). After that it's off to Jimmy's Old Town Tavern in Herndon for operation "Matt's almost 30 let's get him drunk". Read: drunk, not pass out after puking my brains out housed. I fully intend to be able to walk out of Jimmy's, albeit with a little assistance hopefully.

Post up if you're able to make any part of the evening.

Evan & Kaan, so help me if either of you convince the bartender to make whatever the hell that was you made me at the end of the night at our party I will kill you.

We had the cops come 2 years ago after I sent off a round of 2,000 in my street but this has that beat hands down.

16,000 Firecrackers Gone in 60 Seconds

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WTF IS up with the gallery, i cant upload pics keeps giving me this BS....

"Warning: move_uploaded_file(): SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 10207 is not allowed to access /home/httpd/vhosts/mmsports.org/httpdocs/members/albums/userpics/10034 owned by uid 48 in /home/httpd/vhosts/mmsports.org/httpdocs/members/db_input.php on line 258"

Sometimes it works, othertimes it wont, and my pics will be in the required limits.

A fellow MR2 owner is part of the planning group for this and said things were on schedule with ground breaking in Jan of 07 and opening 2008. The track looks pretty sweet. 3.98 miles but apparently will be pretty flat sort of like Miller Motorsports park in Utah for those that saw the USTCC on Speed.

http://www.njmotorsportspark.com

Hey everyone...I would love to do a scenic drive before it gets too cold. It would be great to have a few cars go up 33W

Here's the link:

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DAT SUCKS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mim90zCi34Y

You have to give him props for trying...

comp #1, a nice dell tower that I upgraded and fried:
ABIT KT7E mobo w/ 1.2G AMD proc
384 meg RAM
Small HDs
DVD
GeForce 4200 (I think) 128meg AGP card
ethernet, modem, sound blah blah
Either the mobo or proc is dead IMHO due to overclocking, won't usually boot all the way now. I don't care to diagnose further

comp #2, a half size tower, 1 million+ years old:
500mhz AMD K62
VA-503+ mobo
CDrom
ethernet, modem, sound
probably some useless size HD

Dell monitor, 17 inch tube, 1280x1024, works great.

I think I have an extra CD-ROM drive, maybe a CD writer as well somewhere in there.

Make offers! Not all at once now! :lol: Parts, whole, willing to ship.

While Mikey and I were at Autopolis (Japan) for the Super GT race I took a few minutes to interview one of the NSX drivers for Temple of VTEC (vtec.net), whom I do interviews for every now and then.

I only had a small amount of time because he had just gotten done with qualifying but it was fairly cool (for me anyway) nonetheless. Here's the rough draft.

TOV: For the fans that don't really know your background could you talk a little bit about how you came up through racing and how you ended up here [Super GT].

Ralph: Started racing go karts when I was ten years old. Raced in Britain, won the Junior British championship in 1990 and the Senior British championship in '92, then moved into cars. Won the British Vauxhall Junior Championship in '93 and the McLaren Allsport Young Driver of the Year. And then two years later...three years later, '96 won the the British Formula 3 and Macau championship[Macau Grand Prix].

Moved to Japan, and won the Formula Nippon championship in 2002 and then did Formula 1 for one year with Jordan. And then came back here[Japan] and finished second in the championship last year and we're trying to win again this year. I finished second in this championship also in 2002. So the last two years I've done I've finished second so I'm trying to do one better

TOV: What made you choose Japan of all places to race?

Ralph: Oh it's a fantastic place to race. It's a very high standard of racing and the cars are obviously great and there's path for many drivers from Japan to Formula 1...and that's the reason I chose to come over here.

It seemed like a good reason at the time. And also you need one and half million dollars to race in Europe in Formula 3000, which I didn't have at the time. Over here you get paid, whereas over there you have to pay one and a half million. So anyway I chose to come over here. I've enjoyed it a lot, I enjoy being here and I've been very successful.

TOV: Good deal. So as I understand the NSX was a 3.5L naturally-aspirated unit for 2004 then you switched to a twin-turbocharged unit for last year, and then back to naturally-aspirated for this year. Why the switch to forced-induction and why the switch back to naturally-aspirated?

Ralph: Uhh, I wasn't here in 2004. Before that ever since it started it was
normally-aspirated, I don't when it first came '96 or '97 I think was the first year. I don't know why they changed it, Honda apparently decided we can get the same power and especially the drivability when you accelerate is much smoother power curve with normally-aspirated. So that's why we changed back, we thought we could be quicker with normally-aspirated.

TOV: So how exactly are the teams set up here? Obviously you're heavily supported by Honda, is it just financial support or do the [Honda] engineers work with the cars, are they on the teams, do they just provide parts? How exactly does that relationship work?

Ralph: It's a very, very close relationship. Dome is the company that makes the cars, we're actually in the works Honda racing team with two cars. But very, very close working partnership with Honda with different engines and different engine parts coming through all the time.

This year running a Honda show we're actually with the Honda people so, a lot of Honda guys here, And normally we have the Dome team...or associated with this team anyway but Honda gives support to all the teams and do a good job, it's fantastic.

TOV: How much has the car changed from the beginning of the year to now and how much input have you had in the development process. Do you say, 'Hey, we need more this, more thickness there...' how does that work?

Ralph: Obviously you're always trying to improve the car but basically at the moment we haven't had anything big come along for the last couple of races. They stopped developing the car a few races ago to basically start concentrating on next year's car. We felt this car was good and next year [is] new regulations so there's a lot of work going into that.

Obviously we're trying different dampers, different settings every day but the car is good enough to win at the moment, so it's mainly making sure you have the right set up on the day and making the most of the package you have.

TOV: Well I know you've gotta run but one last question; you've raced all over the world, [at] a lot of different circuits, if you can't name one favorite circuit could you name your favorite circuits in the world?

Ralph: OK, Monaco would be my favorite. Then Macau, a circuit near Hong Kong, it's a big Formula 3 championship race. Then it's sort of joint with Suzuka and here [Autopolis] is a fantastic circuit...a great layout, just not much around it, but it's a fantastic place to be.

There are a couple of others like Spa in Belgium as well, I think they're the main ones that are quite special to drive on.

TOV: Is there anything you'd like to say to the American Honda fans here?

Ralph: Ah well I raced in America last year in [the] A1 Grand Prix and maybe I'll be racing in America next year sometime so hopefully we'll see a lot of Honda fans over in the states.

TOV: Thanks a mil, much appreciated

Well today my '96 Impala SS stopped working while over at Squire Hills and i believe the crank position sensor to be at fault as when i took connector off it was quite oily and after cleaing it up it fired up but not long enough to drive it back here to Stone Gate.

Now in my car it takes an 8mm socket to get the one bolt out but lucky me has it on there so tight that its basically stripped and i cant get it off anybody have any ideas, cause i definitely am in need of some help...

I probably have to now take it somewhere to get bolt out i imagine