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A choice of roast was offered to Stonie our local motorsport and hero cartoonist. We can not say to much. Best you just listen up. Its a goodie.

Despite the evening starting off on both a dry and tasteless note JP and Harty rise to the occasion once a pleasant Pinot Noir is unleashed only to be found the next day it scores 94 out of 100 by James Haliday thanks very much. Harty does a sudden Targa Adelaide with Ric Shaw in a Jaguar. Tony Quinn gets to meet Rust as a VIP. Crazy rule changes for dampers in Dunlop Series. Jungle Juice brewed for Nissan and Mercedes Benz. Parallels Access allow Mac OS control on iOS. Hype 2 provides clever HTML 5 animation that fits nicely into Princess Datilda plans for iBooks. JP endorses the new V8 Ute exhausts. Teslsa shining in California and Mister Squiggle becomes our latest Airport Guru surpassing the accolades once received by The Z Man who is must retrain and buy us a Full House Teppanyak deal prior to Sandown. And we continue out iOS 7 testing.

Grumpy Greg suddenly arrives in Adelaide just in time for a rather crunchy chinese chicken moment before we all head off to Melbourne for the V8 Supercar Enduros with the RH Team Vehicle perched on Grumpys trailer. We take Nathan Morcom to buy a new simulator and catch up with a few folks at the race track. But come Sunday its time for a chicken salad lunch at the never to be revealed location that is home to The Z Man. With iOS7 almost here JP goes off on cooking tangent whilst Harty gets the post race and girlfriend run down from the Good Dr Enyolds.

Amazingly JP was on time and Le Fogeaux seemed as if no heart attack on the tennis court had even occured whilst he expoused the virtues of the new Richie Cunningham movie called Rush. Meanwhile evil forces were at play in Singapore despite the fact that Bryce and Harty enjoyed the most pleasant 1974 Toyota Crown taxi ride from Marina Bay Sands to the airport. Nismo kicks ass in Germany. Real Player is back in a betting way. App controlled brewery. And barely a chance of Weekend at Bernie detention after Colonel Klink cracks it with CVC. Meat lump tips and other blabs.

There was not even the slightest chance that a show would be done today but then the phone rang and a mystery guest with a penchant for steaks arrived armed with many sories. Perhaps he was dentist in a previous life suffice to say you shall be enthralled with tales of racing tech and BBQ.

Having spent a couple of weeks in the United Kingdom with Benny Simonsen Christina Nielsen and Nathan Morcom we get a chance to explain just what went on with everything. 888 pub lunches. Simulators with Darren Turner. GT4 testing at Snetterton. GT3 testing at Donington. The pros and cons of night racing. Harty gets a new 5S and goes mad with 120fps video. Yorkshire pudding is serves just as the cravat wearing Alistaire arrives.

We make a fleeting visit to Sandown to keep an eye on Nathan and Garry Holt who go onto to win the 3 hour AMChamp race along with the title. Harty gets caught in an accomodation dilemma with The Foges only to have FWBM sort the matter out. The annoyance of Adobe Creative Cloud and very ordinary pub meal round out this sudden episode.

Suddenly Harty is heading to Abu Dhabi with Nathan Morcom to have a bit of a shuffti at the Gulf 12 Hour sportscar race as part of Gulf Racing where our new hero has been named as reserve driver. The final V8 Supercar event of the year in Homebush is about to unfold and where the Z Man will run his brand new car. The appauling behavior and billing practices of Energy Australia. JP gets ready for overcooking the Xmas Roast whilst Rusty Sausage goes on holidays with The M twins.

The V8 Supercar season closes with Jamie Whincup grabbing his 5th title whilst the Z Man is left to rue the day he ever laid eyes on the raer of Rodney Janes Dunlop Series car. Harty and Morkyn have managed to get themselves to Yas Marina without any satnav to do a show with our famous Middle Eastern correspondant Theo aka Mister Squiggle. Sitting at Stars and Bars having a coldie the dreaded hookahs appear whilst we desperately try to keep on the subject of sportscar racing.

Reflecting on a year that managed to do an uncanny job of making sure the number 13 is remembered for all the wrong reasons. FWBM Mark II arrives for dinner and extoll the virtues of Primo Estate. The Zuks reports on his Homebush woes and Harty tell tails of his week in the Middle East with The Theosauraus. Android warnings. Rolands xmas gift to HRT. V8SC gets a 6 year media deal worth 241M. New Mac Pro in the wild. F1 gets budget cap that probably wont work whilst 2014 calendar trimmed. JP gives his tip on how to overcook the Xmas roast and have the ham hanging around until February.

Look we took some time off to have a life so stop carrrying on like a PC at a JW and all will be forgiven Viewers. Nathan Morcom goes international with the ADAC GT Masters and FBR. Benny Simonsen gets the BGT gig with Hector. CL brings home the bacon for Allan at B12. Porsche 2L V4 LMP1 fuel engines. Trickyness on RBR Jnr Team. Parity in TUSCC. Zanardi back in GT Racing. Standing starts for IndyCar at Long Beach. Christina the star enduro GT female. Mac sales greater than PC. iWatch health focus. Samsung screen madness. The Clipsal preview. JP goes bonkers for Roo. F1 blabness.

Our adventure starts from the luxury of the Reo Beam corporate box on the inside of the Senna Chicane. It descents to the gutter with Jack Le Brocq and rises once again to the World Headquarters where a particularly excellent dinner of silverside just like Mum made has been inhaled. Featuring Niki Zuka and Maddie along with the original Hi Vis Mis himself Le Fogeaux who in all fairness gives a good snapshot of the impending F1 season. Naturally there is negativeness from Chaypee.

Foges joins in tonight after not having a heart attach whilst playing tennis with a previously loved one and gives his 10 day later thoughts on the F1 opener and the ways of the FIA. Dario returns to Indy 500. Peugeot back in Dakar for 2015. Nathan and Harty head to Europe for ADAC GT Masters testing in Zandvoort and Oschersleben. Qantas gets on board with Nathan and HOTLAP. WEC kickstarts in Paul Ricard and Formula E gets going. A day later JP turns up and typically hides the best equipment behind a curtain down the back of the bus. Dick Emery arrives. Dunlop V8 Supercar Series racer Marcus Zukanovic describes how different his new ex Dr Enyolds FPR racer is and Osso Bucco is put to the taste test.

After an arduous journey sans luggage Harty recants his Dutch and German adventure with The Farnbachers. Nathan Morcom completes successful tests in Holland and Germany with his new GT3R. Slippery situations regarding fuel use seem to be more sensible in WEC as Porsche Toyota and Audi start their hybrid campaign at Silverstone this weekend. Lost bags. Inflight congee. CarPlay gets a start with Ferrari and 3P manufacturers. Corned Silverside done our way. Office 365 iPad apps snafu. Adobe Lightroom goes mobile. DropBox comes to Oz. Dom quits. And FWBM2 gigives his true and honest impression of the value of a 1959 Grange along with excellent Easter food and drink tips.

Despite JP turning off iMessage or installing Viber we have actually managed to get our Euro Tour Series started from a very sunny part of Germany complete with weiss wein. Nathan Morcom gets a top ten result on debut at the ADAC GT Masters. Mario and Dominik are at Laguna Seca doing TUSCC with International Pauly lurking. WEC from Spa was entertaining via an unusual delivery method. DTM Hockenhiem was huge. Chaypee on Pukekohe V8SC. Law suits and slow Haswell processors and the ubundance of pork along with a Bavarian Chinese restauarant.

Huge trouble yet again in EU the US armed forces for having an opinion about ugly women in Bavaria. Japes gives us the Aussie scene story. Nath sleeps through the whole deal. A trip to Nurnberg. eLMS and Blancpain Sprint. And the regular tech and food blab.

Relaxing at our French chateau about 30 minutes from La Sarthe Charlotte Frantelli and Harty have a chat about her new film called Road to Le Mans before we suddenly find ourselves transported quite nicely thanks very much back to JP and The Dogz for regular HQ comedy in sleepy old Adelaide.

The Z Man and his sister Niki bring along Team Reds McNuggets for a frank conversation about his new found prowess in V8 Supercars whilst inhaling a sizzling teppanyaki set D in Melbourne.

Despite Hashtag Snickolas questioning the validity of flouresence in his Green Chicken Curry and The Japlets disapproval of certain beepable language we continue to deliver very little in terms of motorsport news. But harken Viewers for within this Thai Restaurant special are hidden gems that shall have ye rolling like Jaffas down the aisles. Right O get on with it then...

Whilst enroute to Slovakiaring for the 5th round of the ADAC GT Masters Harty receives an invitation from a secret Hungarian admirer to visit the Lovely city of Budapest. Known only as TB and one that works on secret projects day and night meant The Viewer had no time at all to show me any of the so called Lovely Town on The Danube. Finally we have had him arrested and taken him along with a shy mysterious girl who says very little to a Lovely restaurant on the Pest side of town for interrogation.