Rubystone911

@SeasideChris @fast_upp Surely the roofline is too tall for an Imp?

@fast_upp That was my thought.

Identify the car. Not that one.

@financefraz @SaltofEngland Ever thought of changing career? Don't bother about being an accountant...tax advisor though, spot on 👌

@SaltofEngland I don’t earn enough for NI to be paid…so removing that leaves us with the 20%, the first £1000 can be used as trading allowance so percentage wise never works out as 20% over the year Can check my tax returns if you want? They’ve always been to the penny for the last 7/8 years

Did Amazon Flex again tonight 🚗📦 (No AI in the pic tonight 😛) £55 for 2.5hrs and I was back home before they even stopped paying me 🥳 Only 14 parcels tonight and about a 30 mile round trip, so MUCH better than Thursday 😅 After petrol/tax etc I reckon roughly £40 of that will go straight into my ISA and compound away 📈 That one evening’s work alone could be worth around £13k in 5 years if consistently invested over time. Little side hustles really do add up.

@FatBloaterFX Did you own one?

@FatBloaterFX Great cars. I drove this in France recently. Seriously grunt in this later car. Mercedes 129 SL derived hood is a weak point though.

@FJB19 @thespafixer @SportsandGT Neither can I. But conversely given the degree of control he liked to have, perhaps the staff wanted to keep it from him? The FIA was actually never able to prove he was aware.

@Rubystone911 @thespafixer @SportsandGT I can’t believe, knowing the level of control Ron had at his team, that he would not have known what had gone on.

Clearing out my late uncle’s house and found this letter from Ron Dennis of McLaren F1 relating to the “difficult period” that the team were having. I think it was Alonso paired with Hamilton in his debut season but can anyone shed more light?

@FJB19 @thespafixer @SportsandGT When Mosley launched his book, I was fortunate enough to sit at his table. Obviously I asked him whether he believed Ron knew about the leak and he was very vociferous about Ron's guilt in his eyes.

@Rubystone911 @thespafixer @SportsandGT It’s a fascinating episode, such a shame that his inside account has been lost. It would make a great movie.

@FJB19 @thespafixer @SportsandGT Nope

@Rubystone911 @thespafixer @SportsandGT Jean T.

@thespafixer @SportsandGT No. He had nothing bad to say about Ron. The person in question is shorter than Ron.

@Rubystone911 @SportsandGT Probably sensible... Shame he presumably predeceased them. Was their first name Ron? 😀

@thespafixer @SportsandGT Naturally I asked whether he'd go into detail about the Ferrari situation and he said he was going to wait until a certain person had died before he published it because otherwise he'd 'sue my arse off'.

@Rubystone911 @SportsandGT That would have been an interesting read.

@thespafixer @SportsandGT Yes. When Nigel was running Henry Barczynski's Gigawave GT team he told me he was intending to write a book about his motorsport career, warts and all. 4 years after that he was dead. The book unpublished.

@SportsandGT Spygate scandal. McLaren and Mike Coghlan were alleged to have benefited from information provided by Nigel Stepney of Ferrari. Something about documents allegedly copied in a copying shop where Coughlan's wife worked.

According to @RAF_Luton The Duke of Richmond-Charlie March at the time-gifted this to Russia-the Soviet Union at the time-after it took centre stage in front of Goodwood House at the very first Festival of Speed. The aircraft theme was of course dropped for subsequent years

@financefraz @adrianjustone How much extra does insuring the car for work use, delivering parcels cost? Do Amazon cover the insurance cost of the packages you cover? Do you have to get public liability cover too? Genuinely interested, not trolling!

@adrianjustone The £50 going straight in to my S&S ISA says different next week?? Fuel and insurance is a factor yes, insurance is minimal, tax, water, snacks I would pay for at home, would never buy them out

Earned £49 last night as I went back to doing Amazon Flex deliveries for the first time since April 2022 🚗📦 If you’ve never heard of it, you basically deliver Amazon parcels in your own car using their app for navigation + parcel scanning. Really simple once you get going. The algorithm gods sent me miles away though, so it ended up being about a 50 mile round trip ⛽️ Still, £49 for 2.5hrs with guaranteed money isn’t bad compared to food delivery where you can sit around waiting for orders. That now puts me on £80 extra this week 💰 Probably keep £30 aside for petrol/tax and put £50 straight into investments 📈

@SeasideChris It's a 'feature'

If you are the software developer who came up with this piece of shit message, I hope you were satisfied with your days work

@modernheroestv Is that BCA Chelmsford?

Let’s goooo

@modernheroestv I do like these. What's the battery health at 70k miles? Presumably non range extender? What are you likely to retail it for?

@SeasideChris @GLB_88 Surely he'd only freeze if he ate the cream cake in the freezer?

@GLB_88 Eat the cream cake, but not in the fridge, you’ll freeze.

Do I eat a cream cake in the fridge or go to sleep! 🧐

@3c3p3d I've always done that with people who admire my cars. This disabled boy & his parents were looking at the 575 at Italian Car Fest at Brands a few years ago when I was working with track safety team. I happened to be walking by, opened it up & said, enjoy. His face made my day

I did this on a few occasions

@Tesco I hear the @barnardos charity shop in Bishops Stortford is to lose the generous support you gave it in favour of an @GreggsOfficial . I'm disappointed and as both an ex @barnardos boy and soon to be expensive @Tesco shopper, I'm hoping that you might reconsider

Weren't the '70s great?

@gerry_c_blaney @autosport Indeed. All that outfits did was line Flav's pockets, but to be fair to him, it kept Viry afloat too. I do firmly believe that this initiative is absolutely designed to build a franchise model. Ultimately we'll see big job losses in F1 as every component of a car is spec

@Rubystone911 @autosport I keep forgetting that sarcasm doesn’t with on the Internet. 😄 But the cry for “simpler engines” harkens back to earlier days when F1 tried to go backwards.

Talk over the next F1 power unit era goes beyond technology 🪫 With F1 becoming wealthy and financially independent, the FIA and Liberty aim to reduce the manufacturers’ influence, paving the way for simpler engines that are accessible to independents ✍️ autosport.com/f1/news/behind…