New Weekly Segment, Videos thats more fun than a cinnamon bun

From today onwards Wednesdays shall be about 12.23% more awesome, keep your eyes here for the weekly segment where i through a little bit of YouTube awesomeness at your face. i have watched thousands if not millions of videos and some have been good, some very poor.

i have been working on a little YouTube project of my own and soon that will take over this weekly segment and the videos i shall post will be my own, but for the time being they shall be my favorites on YouTube. i want to kick today's segment off with Mr Ryan Burns in a KF3 kart in Hooton (woop woop my local track), i have never driven a KF3 but he seems to be doing it oddly, but anyway without further ado (This was recorded with a special "SmartyCam" that is how he has the overlay of data (very useful i must say))

Be Well ----------------------- Mustafa S. Wandi

F1 POST : Mercedes Front DRS (controversial or creative?)

IT HAS BEGUN!!!!!! yes im a bit late but still, every year we seem to have a team come out with thier sexy new design that just complies to regulations due to loop holes in the rules, 2009 it was the Double diffuser, 2010 is was the F-duct and 2011 it was the Flexi-Front wing and this year its Ross Brawn again with the contoversy, thats twice in the past 3 years, ey yay yay

So what is it this year? well ill keep it as simple as possable, all F1 cars this year have a Rear flap at the back which at high speed (when downforce is BAD!! and slows you down) the driver opens the flap and reduces rear downforce and thus more speed on the straights.

Here we see the flap closed (High downforce, Good for corners, Bad for Straights)

Here we see the Flap open (Low downforce, Bad for corners Good for straights)

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Birel Chassis review (1)

I am still writing the health and fitness post so look out for that it should hit your faces around next week ish

However, i realized i have had my Easy kart for a while and i am yet to tell you wonderful people what its like, I (like some of you out there now or planning to do so) started with a cheap TKM kart (still have it) that i bought with my friends, between the three of us we each own a 33.3% share of it, and whilst it was the most amazing project to strip, repaint and rebuild it, the chassis was from an old MS KART and a bit of a hand full in the corners, but if you can get you hands on an old race kart, rebuilding it is an amazing summer project (summer is coming up so save up three of four hundred pounds if you can and DO IT, there are plenty of old
style tkm's out there.... (REVIEW IS BELOW CLICK READ MORE)

So my clutch exploded and stuff

As posted before i went to hooton park with my kart and have uploaded the pictures onto Flickr to check them out the links is:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/77033868@N03/   Racing karts are not toys! yup i learned to hard and rather expensive way, A friend of mine is rather handy with a camera (being a photography student and all) and having never driven a kart before i thought what's the worst that could happen if he was to give it a few laps. Just a quick side note and over the next few days i will be throwing some tasty new fitness and diet posts towards your computer screens so keep an eye out for that.   Now back to the main story and unfortunately the worst did happen, after a spin out our photographer was riding the throttle and brake at the same time (not knowingly of the damage it could cause ofcourse) generating a lot of heat in the clutch and eventually causing it to explode, blowing off the the blue thingy dangling off (which i later learned it to be an ignition coil) in the process. so 2 lessons 1, NEVER press the brake and throttle at the same time 2, Indoor karts and Racing karts are different animals, not everyone can drive a racing kart on the first go,   That shouldn't push anyone away from racing but try to practice on a slow kart first such as a single engined prokart or a direct drive engine. If you decide to jump right into a fancy racing kart then just remember to never push both pedals at once and don't be put off if you spin off I want to make it very clear that i do think ANYONE can drive and race a go kart and do so very well, but like any other sport you will struggle if you jump and skip a few stages, or put in a metaphor, you will struggle later on if you run before you walk. Now unfortunatly this all happened before i got a chance to shoot the video i promised you all so more delays on that but i shall keep you up to date on the karts recovery. and also in my next post ill upload some pictures of the remains on my clutch Be Well ----------------------- Mustafa S. Wandi

Modern Formula 1 Tracks boring??

If your into your formula one then you will know that the "buzz" of the sport is gone, (well... gone is such a powerfull word, perhaps shrunk) , are these modern tracks a factor?

Its no secret that the new tracks such as india, abu dhabi and korea were rather boring to watch, F1 is trying to spread and there is nothing wrong with that but this is a lenthy proccess, with the addition of the USA GP thats 4 new tracks.

The drivers seem to love the tracks, I have watched millions of videos and played endless hours of video games (as close as i can get) and the tracks are good fun but i cant help but think why not bring back the classics? why not just improve the safety of the tracks and re-introduce them.

It seems like a cheaper option in comparison to an entirely new track. F1 does occasionally need a new track to spice the season up but 4 is too many.
I leave you now with M Shumachers 2006 lap of imola (a track i am too young too know the glory of but abselutely love watching races there. ) i hope you watch it and admire how the track isnt flat, but goes up and down and theres the odd camber, and as the car drives past the grand stands just take a quick look at how packed it is.

Be Well ----------------------- Mustafa S. Wandi

The Hulk sets the pace in the 2nd day in Spain

Another young german lit up the beautiful roads of spain (the track i hope) and set the fastest time, however he was on the softer compound (super-soft) and only 2 tenths behind was 3rd place man vettel on the harder (soft) compound, full unoffical laptime below

I have always liked the hulk, i though it was rediculus of williams to let him go to the money bag that is Pastor Maldenado, the money bag has little (or none what so ever) driving skill and a bad temper (intentionally hitting Hamilton in Spa last year p.s if you believe that to be an accident then please imidiatly call your optician and have a thorough eye test) but alot of money.....

Formula 1 hitting the road again, Jerez test day one

Raikonen is back in a formula 1 car and seems to fit right in. He set the fastest lap of day one at jerez(full list below), though it is early days and this is when the big boys tend to hide, such as Red Bull McLaren and Ferrari. obviously you don't want you opposition knowing that your new innovations work early enough for everyone to replicate it. Full unofficial times below. The big boys also have nothing to prove, Lotus Renault took a big risk with raikonen, hes been out of a car for two years and this would have been a critical test of his capabilities so with the engineers and analyst breathing down his neck i would imagine Kimi wouldn't be hanging about. All the other teams gave their usuall BS about their delays or short time on the track, no surprise and the same old there......