October 28, 2004

Pro Kart Endurance Champs October 2004

Sandown park Round 8

For several reason we decided not to do round 8.

1.Two drivers would be absent due to weddings.

2.We had an awful lot of damage to repair from round 7!

3.We are allowed to drop one race for the series so this will be the one.

So there ends our first season racing Pro-karts! I thought we didnt do to bad for complete novices :) although next year we will be a force to be reckoned with! famous last words I know, but we do feel very confident with all we have learnt in 2004.

Season starts March 2005 so watch this space!

Mark...

Posted by Mark at 8:32 AM | Comments (0) | The 2004 Season

October 15, 2004

Season Wrap up 2004

Well what a year!

We have learnt so much from this little venture im not sure quite where to begin to be honest! We know we will be able to contend in the 2005 season which starts in March 05 (cant wait)

These are the final results from the 04 season..

Overall Championship results:

Position: Points: Number: Team:
1 318 54 Team X
2 282 32 Fabcar.co.uk
3 266 41 Misfits
4 256 3 Eau Rouge
5 251 85 Focus Racing
6 246 33 Gas'n'Go
7 235 7 Lakeside Karting
8 233 51 Chatburn Challengers
9 213 35 Spin Doctors
10 209 46 Team Zaremba
11 205 29 Kartoon
12 200 24 JKP Racing
13 196 23 Pogue Mahone
14 193 18 Westco
15 173 5 Grassroots
16 170 70 Appliance Maintenance
17 162 17 GTR
18 160 55 Lost Boys
19 156 67 JM Sport
20 153 77 Team TGSR March of Anger
21 152 81 Europelaw.com
22 145 48 Teamworx
23 142 63 Team Velocity
24 141 71 Rogue Racing
25 110 88 Teamtec Juniors
26 104 15 15DN
27 100 94 SCC Racing
28 93 8 Teamtec
29 88 20 Auctionmyigloo
30 82 62 Sixty Two
31 78 111 1-Eleven
32 73 27 Ambrose Racing
33 64 11 Palmer Racing
34 61 117 Stormy Normans
35 52 97 CJV Racing
36 40 21 Red Flag Racing
37 38 98 Baron Racing
38 38 57 SZR
39 37 44 DBR-McGee
40 31 47 Jerkyboyz
41 23 60 Condor
42 17 99 Meltdown
43 15 56 Noahs Ark Racing
44 15 96 Exe Racing
45 13 76 Screamincat Racing
46 13 38 Moulti-Skilled Motorsport
47 12 31 Zone Rouge
48 9 115 K.R.E. Motorsport
49 0 101 AJ Bayliss 2
50 0 118 Westco 2
51 0 75 BIZ
52 0 58 RHC Racing
53 0 34 Q
54 0 45 Team X2
55 0 43 DBR-Howland Racing
56 0 16 Roadrunner
57 0 19 Pro-Gem
58 0 12 TKR Racing
59 0 4 Bizzin Hornets
60 1 AJ Bayliss
61 74 Amego Racing
62 120 Escape

Clubman results:

Position: Points: Number: Team:
1 292 51 Chatburn Challengers
2 277 35 Spin Doctors
3 273 24 JKP Racing
4 267 23 Pogue Mahone
5 267 18 Westco
6 250 55 Lost Boys
7 246 17 GTR
8 246 70 Appliance Maintenance
9 236 81 Europelaw.com
10 231 71 Rogue Racing
11 201 48 Teamworx
12 189 15 15DN
13 184 63 Team Velocity
14 170 94 SCC Racing
15 136 111 1-Eleven
16 126 62 Sixty Two
17 121 27 Ambrose Racing
18 117 97 CJV Racing
19 109 11 Palmer Racing
20 106 20 Auctionmyigloo
21 76 117 Stormy Normans
22 60 21 Red Flag Racing
23 42 38 Moulti-Skilled Motorsport
24 35 60 Condor
25 29 99 Meltdown
26 26 56 Noahs Ark Racing
27 25 76 Screamincat Racing
28 24 31 Zone Rouge
29 21 115 K.R.E. Motorsport
30 0 34 Q
31 0 58 RHC Racing
32 0 16 Roadrunner
33 0 118 Westco 2
34 74 Amego Racing
35 43 DBR-Howland Racing

As you can see we came a credibal 12th in Clubman and 26th overall! So not a bad result for complete novices :) In 2005 we aim to win clubman!!

Mark...

Posted by Mark at 2:50 PM | Comments (0) | The 2004 Season

October 12, 2004

Uk id cards

Blunkett changes ID card scheme
- BBC NEWS

Plans to combine new compulsory identity cards with passports and
driving licences have been dropped by Home Secretary David Blunkett.
The changes to the controversial scheme comes in response to MPs who
said the plans were badly thought out.

"You will have no choice but to spend GBP35 on a stand-alone ID card,
on top of a GBP73 charge for the passport."
- Mark Oaten Lib Dem spokesman

Mr Blunkett also promised to allow the whole scheme to be overseen by
a new independent watchdog.

The legislation to allow ID cards is widely expected to be promised in
next month's Queen's Speech.

The Home Office's official response to the Commons home affairs select
committee inquiry into the project said: "When cost, implementation
and risk considerations are assessed together, we now think the option
of a free-standing card is more attractive."

The new cards will include "biometric" details of each cardholder,
such as their fingerprints, an electronic scan of the dimensions of
their face or a scan of the iris of their eye.

Approved agencies will be able to check those details against a
central database.

Phased in

The government believes the cards will help combat illegal immigration
and working, terrorism and identity fraud.

Benefits to the public, the Home Office says, will include people not
having to worry about using driving licences, passports or bank
statements to prove their identity.

If they are introduced they will be the first national ID since the
Second World War ones ended more than 50 years ago.

They will be phased in - people will get them at the same time as they
renew or get a passport - and eventually be compulsory to have, though
not to carry.

The Home Office had originally planned to phase in ID cards from
2007-2008 by bringing in new passports which would include a microchip
bearing biometric data and would double-up as ID cards.

Instead, passport applicants from 2007-2008 will get a new biometric
passport and a separate ID card.

"The majority preference in research was that the ID card should be a
separate document," a Home Office spokesman said.

Creating a single organisation to implement the scheme would also
improve accountability and possibly be cheaper, he added.

Costs hike?

John Denham, Labour chairman of the home affairs select committee,
said the changes made it more likely the "essential scheme" would
succeed, although further work on the details and costs was still
needed.

There would have to be careful scrutiny of the aims of the scheme, the
new commissioner's powers and the safeguards against misuse of the
system, said Mr Denham.

"If we can get these areas of the Bill right, the ID card scheme can
be placed on a sound legal footing," he added.

Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Mark Oaten suggested the
biometric technology to be used on the cards was not as foolproof as
the government claimed.

He argued the money would be better spent on more police and better
intelligence efforts against terrorism.

Mr Oaten said the costs of the scheme for the public were going up the
whole time.

But the Home Office said the prices remained unchanged: people would
pay either GBP35 for a stand-alone ID card or GBP77 for a passport and
ID card together.

It was not true to suggest people would be charged twice for the
biometric tests, said a spokesman.

Conservative shadow home secretary David Davis said the Home Office
should be able to introduce effective ID cards which curbed terrorism,
serious crime and the "flood" of illegal immigration as well as being
cost effective.

He added: "If these criteria can be met without sacrificing civil
liberties they should be introduced soon - not in 10 years time. The
terrorist threat is real and is here today."

Mark...

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October 1, 2004

Doom 3

Well I finished it! But I doubt Ill play it again to be honest :( So way to boring for me.

Oh look yet another passage that looks like the passage ive just been in, not to mention the previous 16 passages. Guys variety of levels is the spice of first person, well for me anyways!

The ending was so easy I laughed! Some of the earlier Demons were harder to take out! Oh well HL2 soon :)

Mark...

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