Archive for the ‘Motoring’ Category

Strapped to a bomb

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Written by: Top Fuel Digger

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I’ve been sat here 2 hours, I’m bored, I have cramp in my legs, I can’t feel my backside anymore, and I’m getting sleepy from being able to move the grand sum of nowhere. With a mask, goggles, helmet and neck brace on, I can’t tilt my head, move it left or right, and I can’t hear a bleeding word anyone says.

FIA replaces points with stars

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Written by: silver

 

Bernie Ecclestone has plumbed new depths of Formula 1 madness with a proposal to replace the current points system used to decide the winners of championships with a system of gold, silver and bronze stars.

 

Top Fuel Digger to test Torro Rosso

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Written by: Top Fuel Digger

www.basslinetopfuel.com

Following our previous articles on the now notorious Top Fuel Digger, it’s come to our attention that somehow, be it by fair means or foul, he’s landed himself a test drive at Formula 1 team - Torro Rosso.Reasons for this selection are still a mystery to us, but we did manage to track down TOP FUEL DIGGER and ask how he landed a drive in one of the potential front running cars of 2009.

Top Fuel Digger’s operation - the shocking truth

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Written by: Top Fuel Digger

Following our recent item revealing how CTF member Top Fuel Digger, had a deep and hidden past, we can exclusively reveal the transcript of the interview with the surgeon in a backstreet Switzerland based clinic, where the series of cosmetic operations took place.

CTF: How did the operation come about? Were you approached by TFD directly?

Top Fuel Digger in hot water over race car funding

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Written by: Top Fuel Digger

Following a mildly successful race weekend, questions have been raised about how a 23 year old PG Tips drinking bridge technician can fund a race operation with no official backing.

CTF dug a little deeper and came up with some startling revelations regarding this young upstart. If you’re easily offended, and have little patience for things deliberately fabricated to wind you up, please look away now.

Flame & Thunder 2008

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Written by: Crazy Fool

 

Mad people look rather normal, or at least that is that assumption I have made having spent a day with a young man who should be sectioned. You would assume that our man Top Fuel Digger, who goes by the alias of Jon in the real world, is a normal man, he has a job, a hair cut and a lust for ladies bottoms, but don’t be fooled. When I first met Jon, like most young men he was bragging about his car. ‘Yeah mate, I have a supercharged big block Chevy with NOS, it’s got like 3000bhp and does wheelies.’ Sure.

Flame and Thunder 2008

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Don’t forget it’s Flame and Thunder at Santa Pod this weekend. Tickets available on the gate at £20 each and you can come and see CTF’s very own Top Fuel Digger on the drag strip.

 

We also have a party afterwards so you can get drunk with your fellow CTFers.

 

Ferrari make engine row threat

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Written by: one-eyed Jack

Ferrari have threatened to review their participation in Formula One if plans to introduce a standard engine for all teams go ahead from 2010.

 

Gylen’s Reims pictures

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

See Gylen’s Reims article here

 

Finding Reims

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Read Gylen’s article about Reims…

 

The sun has already begun it’s slow dance over the horizon when we turn off the N44 in search of the old circuit. A few moments of desperate navigation from the Douglas Adams school of thought, (I may not have ended up where I wanted to go but I think I have ended up where I needed to be) are rewarded when we catch our first glimpse of the old grandstand, a few hundred metres away across some farmland.

FIA announce 2008 winners

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Written by: dougc

 

The FIA confused the world motorsport press and millions of race fans late last night by holding a snap press conference to announce the winner of both the 2008 F1 World Drivers Championship and the 2008 Constructors title, with two races remaining on the 2008 calendar.

 

Street racer to sue car maker

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Written by: AlexKP

 

Rob Bucket, 22 from Chelmsford, England, has launched a legal battle to force car manufacturer Subaru to make his car go faster.

 

North America – ‘We can’t afford a Grand Prix!’

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Written by: Gizmo

 

News has reached the CTF desk that the 2009 F1 season will not include a North American round, after the Canadian GP at Montreal joined the US GP Indianapolis on the list of tracks that Bernie Ecclestone has decided are no longer required.

 

McLaren appeal rejected

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Lewis Hamilton will not be reinstated as the winner of the Belgian Grand Prix, a court decided on Tuesday. ‘Article 152 of the International Sporting Code states that drive-through penalties are not susceptible to appeal,’ the FIA stated, conveniently ignoring the verdict for Vitantonio Liuzzi for Torro Rosso in Japan.  Hamilton was demoted after stewards ruled that he had gained an advantage by cutting a chicane.  Ferrari have uncharacteristically declined to comment on the verdict.

FIA announce new Italian rules

Friday, September 19th, 2008

The FIA have announced today that they will be publishing a new Formula 1 rule book – but only in Italian.

The surprise move was unveiled yesterday at a press conference following the Belgian Grand Prix, in which Lewis Hamilton was penalised for overtaking the Ferrari driven by Kimi Raikkonen. ‘Allowing other teams to know the rules gives an unfair advantage,’ said Max Mosley as he tried to sit down after a particularly lively thrashing.  He went on to deny that the F in FIA stands for Ferrari. 

Road magazine - issue 4 out now

Friday, September 19th, 2008

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Fuel costs drive down jams

Friday, August 29th, 2008

The soaring cost of fuel has reduced traffic jams in the UK, a report claimed on Wednesday.  Congestion was 12 percent less in the first six months of 2008, compared with January to June 2007, according to the report by Trafficmaster, a road monitoring company. In a statement of blinding obviousness, a spokesperson for the company said, ‘The upshot of less traffic is a drop in congestion levels, meaning motorists can get from A to B quicker while travelling at lower and more economical speeds.’ In London, a survey has shown that despite the introduction of the congestion charge, the level of traffic remains the same.  Transport for London (TfL) blames this on roadworks and other traffic calming measures.

Road Magazine - issue 3 out now!

Friday, August 29th, 2008

The third ever issue of the completely free Road magazine is out now.  Click here to subscribe.

 

Bimmerfest - BMW Museum

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

As some of you might have gathered, BMW opened its refurbished museum during June of this year. Porsche are doing a similar thing to their own museum at the moment, and after the last few years of booming growth and record sales, it seems that some of the German car manufacturers have decided to give something back to their loyal buyers. Or to the enthusiastic and blinkered lemmings that flock to their endlessly recycled products like lambs to the slaughter; depending on how you feel about Porsche and BMW.

A tale of two towers

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Our intrepid member loach was invited to test drive some BMWs.  Read all about it here…