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Windy Phillip Island musings and interesting A and B driver system makes fans even more confused. Aston Martin wins Le Mans Series and Stuart Little gets a ride. Monza throw away action. Best trackside steak sambos. Mattie the techhead makes a sudden Melbourne dash for the show and puts Le Fogeuax on the spot. Tesla and Telstra tosslers. Vodafone internationals performance. Nasty traffic. iPhone 3.1 upgrade woes and tethering snaps

BMW sold to a division of Qantas. HP copycats. Half Nelsons. Sterling Lotus positions. New MP3 player coming Zune. BGT final at Brands for Uncle Snappy. A mere tip payment for Dell. Tablet Smablet. The iWinge. Apple to destroy case manufacturers. 2X iPod Touch performance. Parallels vs Bootcamp. iMac and MacBook refreshes next week. McConkers gets a gig at Sydneys Air Traffic Control. Unions at Auto Action corner corflute.

Renault and the F1 debacle. Commercial implications. British GT finale. Foges calls in on the way to Singapore. The serenity of Nissan. Briatore gets angrier. A1GP on and off again season opener. Tsingtao phones. USB3 arrives. Torque explained with Audi and the new electric R8. HSV E2 arrives. iTunes 9.01 fix and all sorts of JP rubbish.

Overnight drama at Singapore F1 with sponsors fleeing and International Pauly has a tough job on his hands at Petit Le Mans after Scott Sharp destroyed the championship leading Acura in practice.

Patron makes an amazing recover at Petit Le Mans. International Pauly gets top marks for rebuild video. Singapore GP boredom. Get a job you useless Toyota drivers. AppleCare woes and iPhone replacement hassles. JP gets a new BBQ. Duncs shed action. New video cards and product refreshes.

Previewing the 2009 Super Cheap Autos 1000 at Bathurst. Foges catches up with Jaques at Singapore. Where will Kimi go. Microsoft shows Courier tablet concept but it is real. The classic way to travel to Bathurst is in a new HSV through the tiny towns. Apple hires Newton guru for tablet project. Mobilin MIDs explained. The Great Angus BBQ on the hill. Will you pay 99 cents for a show.

2009 Super Cheap Autos 1000 post race press conference with winners Holden Racing Team Garth Tander and Will Davison. Runners up Team BOC Jason Richards and Cameron McConville. And third place getters Team Valvoline Cummins Michael Caruso and Lee Holdsworth.

Bathurst Wrap Up whilst we drive the HSV loan TOUR3R back to Melbourne via a the Jerilderie pub. Brabs wins ALMS at Laguna Seca and International Pauly takes all the credit. T Mobile and the Sidekick platform fall over thanks to Microsoft outsoursing the SAN upgrade to Hitachi university interns and guess what viewers yes there is no back up for 100k users. Franchitti wins IRL at Homestead. HTC H2 Windows 6.5 mobile with SnapDragon and Sense explained.

Allan Simonsen flys in from a win in Japan to discuss everything motorsport and then some. The state of F1. Abu Dahbi Yas Marina success. Toyota exits F1 and also Bridgestone. Sportscars in 2010. Where is GT1 going. Al reviews his year. The latest Apple stuff and Classic Adelaide preview plus a new circuit at Tailem Bend.

The Four Days that was Classic Adelaide 2009. Come along on a marathon adventure through the Barossa and the Fleureau Peninsula. From 46C heat to 16C rainy days, we follow the circus and have a fair few laughs. Simonsen chimes in as do a few others that love the microphone. And eventually the Dane wins the damn thing after other leading drivers crash and blow up. Also, the sadness, as Gary Tierney and David Carra lose their lives on the first day. RIP guys. Never forgotten.

Useless we are says JP who had no idea about names of drivers as we head into the final chapter that was 2009. Marcus Zukanovic gets on the blower after his sesational return to racing at Sandown last weekend. Some tech rubbish with JP about iMacs and cracked screens. A preview on the Sydney Homebush finale and we talk to the new V8 Ute Champion before he wins the thing at last. Hang on that was his answering machine. Anyway stay tuned more more rubbish before Xmas with Bryce Washington.

Jack Keithy George Elsegood wins the V8 Ute Championship and we get him on the phone again and again and again. What a snorer. Tim Mc Neally the Boss of Mount Buller Sprint calls in and tells of hs IRL adventures. Sydney Olympic Park Stadium makes its V8 Supercar debut. BMW goes GT2 works LMS with expanded schedule. Silent Apple hi end updates. LaLa for USD80M for silencing. Silverstone F1 2010 to 2027 deal. Autosport Awards. Nasty local beef sends people to hospital. Bottego R Olives. And even Jack says nighty night.

Virgin F1 vs AirAsia F1 Stewardess contest. Indy Q cuts. Lotus revealed. Mosely suck the press. San Luis back for 2010. Highcroft hire Simon. Cash for Reno. Prodrive eyes 2011 WRC and expands AMR. Google Chrome for Mac. 2010 sports car calendar. ATT customer stangeholds. Rahul, Ashley Dean and Andrew join the BBQ show. Fake Steves. New core i7s. And the Foges gets a slight look in towards the end.

Richie X is on his way to Argentina for the 2010 Dakar with Bruce Garland and Harry Suzuki. But not before he stops off at The House of Linda where my annoying brother that you all met on Classic Adelaide tells us how drag racing failed on Boxing Day.

More sillyness with two French ladies and a tale of motorcycle racing from the Le Mans Bugatti track with tips from James on how to make a deluxe Caesar Salad. And Rusty Sausage. Farewell the Naughties.

Meet George Jetsoff. Mossimo T and Pepe Jeans Harty catches up with the Amarni wearing George Miedecke for lunch by the Hastings River in Port Macquarie where he reveals his 2010 plans that see him part of the Marcos Ambrose household in North Carolina. We talk about his V8 Ute form and the dilemma that has made him choose the NASCAR path over Le Mans Series. And why newcomers to oval racing are respectful. Oh and he samples shed racing in Nowra.

Martin Whittaker joins V8 Supercars as CEO brining a wealth of knowlege. Schu to test GP2 at Jerez with Super Nova today. USF1 gets extra testing. Foges joins in from the Mornington Peninsula holiday shack. Cures for awful blue cheese. Briatore gets his life back but only to find FIA appeal freezes the undoing. France Telecom exec spills his guts on the tablet. iWork multigesture in the works.

Teppanyaki dinner tales. Pedro gets and F1 gig as does The Slick Georgster. Tom Drewer joins the show to explain why he has not yet won Le Mans 24 Hour. Father of Tom provides exciting backup vocal and an excellent insight as to why Schumi is even bothered to cash such a relatively small MB cheque. Brabs gets his F3 trophy 20 years late. Tablets Smablets. Who eats what on Oz Day. JP unearths history whilst Ashley Dean makes a point. Family fun episode with the Rusty Sausage snapping in the background.

Harty is misery guts tonight with nothing going right and customers he hates hassling him. And that new bloody Apple thing. Dunno what it it is but it made him grumpy. Zukanovic suddenly calling in about the 12 Hour at Bathurst to reveal a 3rd driver helped a bit. But no. Until he beefed over the new iPad he was going to be miserable. But by the end of the show he was fine. But was Apple. Steve Jobs. Old lamb Shanks. And the iPad. Hey we nail its positioning for sure.

Valencia F1 testing. PR misery in V8SC for all teams but one. Off to Albury. F1 scoring changed. Stefan to test hairdryers at Portimao. Schu quick. AGP ticket prices. Aston ups pre LM24 events. Audi to run R15Plus at 8hr Paul Ricard HTTT LMS opener. Biela test R8LMS at Sebring. Fisi and Alesi in AF Corse F430. Dom leads Daytona 24. Lambretta returns. Jobs flames Google Adobe. 27 iMacs update. iPad to get camera. Nexus One gets multitouch. Friggin Lawyers. iPhone OS 3.13 here. Vitaly Petrov becomes 1st Russian F1 pilot