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@ Rigg When I started watching at Belle Vue Hyde Road, the wooden stands had already been built, honest.

Good effort Cod. At least I know what you look like now in case I ever get to a stockcar meeting again

Hi Lads My friend who is ripping the insides of his pc out has offered me another cast off for free. At the mo I have 2x128Mb RAM chips in my pc. I seem to remember they were PC133 from when I stuck in the extra chip before. The one he has given me is 1x256Mb DDR333 Ram PC2700. Can I just swap it for one of my 128Mb chips to boost myself from 256Mb to 384Mb, or would this cause some issues? I don't know what the PC133/PC2700 thing is about but remember some kind of compatibility issues regarding this kind of thing? Thanks

LoooooooooooooooooL last time.

Crackin pics Matty - cheers m8

Very bad news re the speedway after all the effort to get them back up and running. And it doesn't help the stockcar cause there much either, like Pedz says.

He always seems a nice enough bloke off the track to me, Crash. Maybe he put you in the fecne a few too many times and it's coloured your judgement?

Brilliant. Well done Frank. Can't wait to hear all the moans about why he didn't deserve it.

Yehaaa I can't believe my luck, I drive Rover Metro and the Mother-In_law drives a Nissan Micra, so we are both ok to use the Ultra Low Cost Value Unleaded (50 RON) that is only 20p a litre. Magic, my order has been placed - cheers for the link Dino.

Crasher don't forget the match before that was the debacle against Denmark. I have stuck up for Eriksson up til now, but after last night I don't see where we are going with this team and formation - the players looked to be scratching their heads last night, I think he has lost their support. By the way, what a cracking atmosphere last night. The place was rocking the whole night long - "Is this the way to Amarillo..."! Brilliant stuff

Well done the Micks. You played us brilliantly, the first challenge you made was a freekick, that's the way to hussle a team, well done lads. Time Eriksson went now - tonight's performance and result alone should be sufficient to justify his resignation - bet the paper's will be a fun read tomorrow. Idiotic to take Wright-Phillips off - he wasn't having it all his own way, but he was the one guy things were happening around - after he went off, we were a disgrace - you idiot Eriksson!

Hi John Yes I have a manual for the motherboard which I just dug out. The motherboard is ISUS A7V-E WITH VIA Apollo KT133 cHIPSET. It has 6 PCI slots. It also has 1 AGP Slot. Is that the one where the GEForce 5200 would need to go then? Incidentally, my mate is updating his pc and he says I can have the 5200 for free once he puts the replacement graphics card in his.

Hi lads I have a Duron 850 processor with an Nvidia Geforce2 MX 32mb graphics card. I have been offered someone's Nvidia GeforceFX 5200 128mb graphics card. Does anyone know if this would be compatible with my processor or how do I find out? Presumably the 5200 card is a fair bit better card than the Geforce2MX? Ta

Worrying, Trash, though not a surprise. Let's hope the GRA don't go down that route, but the speedway has run with two thirds of the stadium out of bounds for many years, don't know about the stox and hounds but it kind of has a feel of a place living beyond it's years

Some real corkers in there Mart, eg dog turds in your confidential waste and clapping pisacchio nuts to simulate a very small horse approaching.

Congratulations to you and the other half Chevy. That's a very healthy weight for a girl - well done Mrs Chevy

Budge if you have Realplayer try watching it on that, eventually I got it going on that.

Cheers Budge - although just think of all those people who aren't going to open their virtual cards now Booo Hooo Hooo

Like Alb, I found the link to League info/signup didn't work.

Will you be performing a catwalk up and down the back straight, Chevy m8? Maybe get a bird to do it instead, might increase sales a fair bit?

And I suppose you wouldn't?

It's a shame Moz took his bat & ball home over a Skeggy track for UK Dirt/Heat as he was well on with it before a bit of criticism by a few peeps sent him into one of his classic paddies.

When my Mother-In-Law got a pc in about October 2000, I spent a couple of months surfing all the stockcar stuff as it was all completely new to me. And also buying some Nascar game and playing that. I was blown away with it all. I think it was an email on the Oval Racing newsgroup that mentioned that the UK Dirt league was about to start with a new game called DTRSC. I saw that email in December and was off Xmas shopping to Bradford (plus a few beers of course) with my other half so had a look for the game and was lucky to find a DTR/DTRSC double pack for sale in a shop. Within a week or two I was joining Bozz and a small handful of others (probably Trash too) in a test night, and before long the league meetings started. To say I was hooked was an understatement. I spent the following few months til April racing on my Mum-In-Laws pc, and she lives 10 miles away. Our daughter was only a few months old, so Grandma saw an awful lot of her I ordered a pc and when it was installed it took a while to get used to the idea of being able to just hop on for a bit of practice instead of driving 10 miles I have never really got into the setups thing, but it didn't matter so much in those early days as it was all new to everyone, so I became one of the top boys for a while. If you don't believe me having seen me getting in your way recently, have a look at Dino's brill link to the old UK Dirt site, have a butchers at the Cowdie results for 7 June - Big Al takes 2 heats, the Final and comes 4th in the GN on one lap handicap. Plus I am still convinced I scored more points than supposed top-scorer Craig round Bradford on 21 June, but that's another story

Happy Birthday MC, hope you have a great day. Two BIG guys share a birthday m8!

Great pictures AndyMek That white top old banger no.365 isn't Trav making his first appearance in F1s is it?