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[What's Burning?]

Singapore needs to name turn 5, Sling.

[myownalias]

Singapore needs to name turn 5, Sling.

we had the same joke last year with the turn 10 chicane; because it would sling drivers off the track...

[killem2]

over all, just as I expected. Boring race. I think all street tracks should have auto drs all the time. Just for pure speed and chance for mistakes to see skill involved.

[LewEngBridewell]

I haven't seen anything much this year to suggest that 2012 won't be any different!

Obviously not. We're still midway through the current season! Testing for next season hasn't even started!

You'll have to wait till next March for the real form to be revealed.

[Timekeeper]

I haven't seen anything much this year to suggest that 2012 won't be any different!

Obviously not. We're still midway through the current season! Testing for next season hasn't even started!

You'll have to wait till next March for the real form to be revealed.

You mean three quarters of the way through

[LewEngBridewell]

I haven't seen anything much this year to suggest that 2012 won't be any different!

Obviously not. We're still midway through the current season! Testing for next season hasn't even started!

You'll have to wait till next March for the real form to be revealed.

You mean three quarters of the way through

Ooops. Time flies!

You obviously keep track of it better than I

[Fred_C_Dobbs]

...Ooops. Time flies! ...

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
-- Groucho Marx


Explaining why he couldn't overtake MSC at Singapore, Hamilton said, "...I didn’t go ‘balls out’, basically."

Yes, Lewis, we noticed (there was no body damage to Michael's car).

[bud]

Is Balls out an 8th gear dodbsy?

[Fred_C_Dobbs]

Is Balls out an 8th gear dodbsy?

Interesting bit of trivia, that. As with "balls to the wall," the "balls" referred to in "balls-out" are mechanical, not anatomical. Both phrases hearken back to centrifugal governours, which counterbalanced the rotating inertia of weighted balls against spring tension.



When the device was operating at maximum RPMs, its balls were said to be "to the wall."

[What's Burning?]

^^ The explanation for the phrase I've always heard is that multi-engined airplanes had throttle controls with rounded balls. When pushed forward "towards the wall" they were at maximum throttle, therefor the saying.

[smokin]

The two phrases are different and have different origins - and you're both right.

"Balls to the wall" came from fighter plane controls and "balls out" refers to governors.

[What's Burning?]

I wonder where balls in your face came from.

[smokin]

Google it...

[LewEngBridewell]

ROB SMEDLEY:Hold Hamilton up as much as you can. Destroy his race as much as you can.



Well that backfired didn't it Rob?

[Hammer278]

Try saying that again Robby....now THAT's how you destroy someone's race, bust the tyre up nicely.