And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, December 15, 2025
Bob will never forget his first trip round the Nurburgring
I just finished the latest James Bond book (by a writer commissioned by the Fleming estate). Several chapters devoted to Nurburgring race course in 1957. Wasn't bad, wasn't great.
Once he overcooked the tires in the first corner and whacked the guardrail that we saw at the start, he was just a passenger. That repair is most of $60K (if it is fixable at all). He damaged the front frame horns pretty well. Too fast into the corner and he likely ahs the wrong line and simply had too much energy for his tires to redirect. Or maybe he locked the brakes. An expensive lesson he will remember for the rest of his life.
That's a really good caption!
ReplyDeleteOuch! There goes 20 grand in repairs.
ReplyDeleteI would think 200 grand would be closer. Ever had a fender repaired these days?
DeleteBOB !!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteBob will never forget this day. No matter who hard he tries.
ReplyDeleteIn later years, he will speak of this day. Often to his therapist. Or Bartender.
DON'T TEXT AND DRIVE!!!
ReplyDeletePretty sure that was Roland ... and Roland ... and roll and rolled on.
ReplyDeleteToday's prize goes to you!
DeleteShiny side up NOT the greasy side.
ReplyDeleteeh. Just another day for a typical BMW driver in traffic.
ReplyDeleteI just finished the latest James Bond book (by a writer commissioned by the Fleming estate). Several chapters devoted to Nurburgring race course in 1957.
ReplyDeleteWasn't bad, wasn't great.
F=MA and that was a pretty big A!
ReplyDeleteBob's having a rough day - first the skiing and now this...
ReplyDeleteOnce he overcooked the tires in the first corner and whacked the guardrail that we saw at the start, he was just a passenger.
ReplyDeleteThat repair is most of $60K (if it is fixable at all).
He damaged the front frame horns pretty well.
Too fast into the corner and he likely ahs the wrong line and simply had too much energy for his tires to redirect. Or maybe he locked the brakes.
An expensive lesson he will remember for the rest of his life.
Not an expert but it sure looked to me like he lost his RF tire at the turn, and couldn't break the resulting understeer which took him into the rail.
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