Cars, Security and a Peek into my Life
And it’s powered by the same engine as Honda’s Fit.
Not modified either, total stock. Really!
It’s a 1.5-litre 4-cylinder engine outputting 130 hp and 114 lbs.ft.
(my review for the above 2014 Honda Fit, and a few Fit animated gifs)
Got to go around the DDT track at Mosport 3 times.
Arrow – went off, twice. Too aggressive into the corners + queen of the late-brakers here.
So they kindly let me go around one more time. Got it.
I blogged everyday while competing, here’s the blog tag – Targa
Read it online at Autonet.
Imagine a historic town is shut down and roped off into a complex driving course. You drive through it as fast as you can, the police don’t care, and you do this 10 times a day. That’s Targa Newfoundland.
Total video-game courses.
Thank you sincerely, to the people of Newfoundland, for opening your province and allowing me to almost smash into your homes.
I had the best co-driver, Michel Crepault; we were an excellent match.
The Micra was stock; I kicked the crap out of it and it was fine.
Enter the lowest class.. there’s no competition, you just get to take advantage of the closed roads in your own car.
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Today is a very rare lunar eclipse, and moreover, today was part of a ‘tetrad‘ – 4 eclipses occurring in a short span of time.
Today is the 2nd eclipse of 4, that will happen over 2 years.
April 15 2014
October 8 2014
April 4, 2015
Sept. 28, 2015
Hundreds of years can pass without a tetrad occurring. Curiously, the next will happen 20 years from now.
We’re living in a peculiar time, there’s a massive, subtle shift happening… includes the internet renaissance, globalization, the soon-arrival of thought-controlled computing….
Blog tags = The Planets / Planetary Alignment
(photo credit: Mark Blinch, Reuters)
I’m not 100% on the logic behind it, something like: because the engine is so precisely tuned, imperfect shifting causes damage. Except I found it caused poor shifting.
Why: 3rds 3rd, just let me put it there, it’s the same elbow-wrist-flick forever, why is this metal stopping me, my rhythm is now broken, and attention removed from the road, and that high-pitched ding noise when it happens, awful.
Ferrari used to use them extensively, but today…
1 – Audi R8 (above)
Watching motorsports is dull. Even when you know someone to root for, meh. The start and finish of the first race are okay, then nah.
So spent Sunday on this instead.
Started pining for an ATV this summer, and this is a nice one.
And now that I own land, it’s possible.
I’m coming across a field at 40 kmh, am 300 m from homebase, when from that distance I see all the guys eyes widen simultaneously, and I instantly know, “oh no, I’ve forgotten about that second rut in the field”.
I look down, ah I’m starting descent into it, throttle throoooottle, and when I hit the water in the rut’s bottom it’s a massive 360º splash, so dramatic, think “what a missed blog photo”, bounce out keep going kk that was cutting it fine.
