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For the complete series it would be. The biggest Irish chain of music/DVD stores still wants €90 for the whole series (although the Blu-ray set is now the same price), and it's €58 at the second hand store. It comes down to €18 on eBay.

I've mentioned the Knight Rider Historians channel on a couple of other threads. I have to admit that I haven't had time to watch many of their recent videos until this one popped up on my recommendations. Over four years after tracking down the screen-used semi and trailer, the restoration is complete. The trailer has a working ramp at the rear, and although the show was filmed on a sound stage, they've recreated the office and lounge at the front. They've replicated most of the props and borrowed a couple from a museum. The truck was unveiled at RetroCon '26 where it was displayed alongside one of the five surviving screen-used KITTs. They were joined at the show by Knight Rider stars Rebecca Holden (April Curtis) and Peter Parros (RC3). If you watch carefully, you'll spot a couple of Dukes T-shirts among the Knight Rider ones. 🙂

Unfortunately, Carlos Sainz got a 5-place grid penalty for failing to slow for yellow flags in qualifying, so started in 14th. George Russell kept his first place at the start, but Oscar Piastri got past Charles Leclerc to take second. Red Bull also showed their pace from earlier in the weekend as both Isack Hadjar and Max Verstappen quickly made up places. When Max caught Isack, the team got them to swap positions. Meanwhile, Kimi Antonelli actually lost a place at the start and took a few laps to start moving up. Aston Martin's boost a few races ago didn't last long, and both cars retired by lap 20. Lando Norris' race pace was more like practice, and he was down to seventh when he locked up at the first corner on lap 30 and lost another two places. Just one lap later, Alex Albon hit the barrier which brought out the safety car and allowed most of the field to pit for tires. At the restart, Max passed Oscar for second, but behind them Franco Colapinto hit his Alpine team mate Pierre Gasly and also took out Lando. Alpine were on for a double points finish, so the crash proved costly for the team. Arvid Lindblad also hit his team mate, Liam Lawson, but both cars were able to continue. The incident brought out another safety car. A lap after the restart, and under pressure from Isack, Oscar locked up going into turn one. Due to the field being so close together, he slipped nearly to the back of the field from third. George spent the first half of the race building a big lead, but after the restarts, Max pushed him all the way to the flag. With the leaders on the last lap, Valtteri Bottas hit the barrier, but no safety car was called. Slowing for the yellow flags, George lost turbo boost, and managed to stay ahead of Max by less than 0.2 at the finish. Isack matched his best result of the season with third. Kimi's recovery drive saw him finish fifth, splitting the Ferraris of Charles and Lewis. Kimi still has a 66 point lead over George. The race highlights are here. The next race is the Bahrain Grand Prix, but due to the ongoing situation in the Middle East it will be held this coming weekend in Malaysia.

It turns out that the race weekend is a day early because Sunday is Azerbaijan’s national Remembrance Day, and they didn't want the two events to clash. George Russell looked quick through the practice sessions with Max Verstappen and the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton not far behind. Lando Norris thought the McLarens were off the pace. In the first qualifying session, championship leader Kimi Antonelli hit the wall at turn 1 and will start tomorrow's race in 15th. Williams have finally got the upgrade they've been waiting for and Carlos Sainz will start in 9th. At the flag, George took pole by over 0.8 seconds. Charles was second just 0.001 seconds ahead of Oscar Piastri, who finally found some pace in his McLaren. Isack Hadjar returned after missing three races and took 4th, four places ahead of team mate Max who didn't get a great lap. The qualifying highlights are here.

You normally announce your absences, so I figured it was more likely to be something technical. 😉 As I'm writing this, I've just turned on my TV in time to see the end of 'Road Pirates'. Episodes with dirt bikes always remind me of you, Roger.

I've just posted a new video that came up full width. It looks like the forum upgrade converted the existing video links to embedded links. The first link below is after the upgrade and the second link is what I originally posted. Strangely, if I try to post the first link, it only shows up as a link and not a video. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/o3TQnkLHOOs?feature=oembed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3TQnkLHOOs

Did y'all know that the US uses the wrong paper size? About 95% of the world uses 'A' paper sizes. Whenever our printer at work stops printing, the most likely cause is that someone has tried to print a letter-sized document and we don't have any paper that size.

I hadn't noticed any problems with the colors in the PMs, but I want to say "Thank You" for fixing the colors in the forum. The color scheme after the upgrade just didn't work. Having the dark blue and orange back makes it feel like HazzardNet again, just like in the show when people knew they were back in Hazzard.

It's been a quiet week, mostly with just me and Skipper here, but I don't think Roger's been on for over a week. He does take a break every so often, but he normally announces them first.

You're not going to get a google link to show up as an image. I've just hotlinked the image below, so it may disappear when the Amazon listing changes. I doubt that the quality will be great on a $30 hat.

They seem to be showing the episodes nightly at 6pm through the week, but today I found that they repeat those five episodes from 7am on a Saturday morning!

Well, the verdict on the Madring after the inaugural race there seems fairly unanimous. The long pit lane discourages pit stops (only one is mandatory) and the lack of overtaking opportunities leads to dull racing. The race organizers have said they're fully open to changes for next year, but it makes you wonder who thought it was a good layout this year. Seeing as I didn't post the starting positions for the race, Lando Norris took pole ahead of Kimi Antonelli, Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton. Lando just held the lead at the start and Max got to second after initially slipping back to fourth. Because Max left the track to get ahead, his team advised him to give both places back to avoid a time penalty. Only a lap later, while looking good in third, Lewis suffered a brake failure and had to retire. At lap 15, Lance Stroll pulled off the circuit bringing out a virtual safety car. This allowed Kimi and Max a "cheap" pit stop from second and third, but leader Lando missed out due to his track position. He pitted on the next lap, but the virtual safety car had just ended, so he slipped back to third. Hoping for a second safety car that didn't come, Charles Leclerc waited until lap 49 (of 57) to make his only pit stop, dropping back from first to fourth. At the flag, it was Kimi with another victory ahead of Max, Lando and Charles. Race highlights (I use the term loosely) are here. Kimi now leads his team mate George Russell by 81 points, which is over three race wins. The next race is the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in just over a week. For some reason the race weekend is going to be Thursday to Saturday instead of the usual Friday to Sunday.

I've just noticed that embedded YouTube videos come up much smaller than they used to (on my laptop). They're only about half of the post width now. ETA. They seem to take the whole post width on my phone.

If you use a race car as your daily driver you're probably trying new parts regularly, so the car may not always be at peak performance.

This week's F1 race is at a brand new circuit - the Madring in Madrid. A couple of the drivers have described it as a "fast Monaco" due to it being a street circuit with small run-off areas. There were a few crashes bringing out red flags in practice, but all three qualifying sessions passed without incident, although Lance Stroll and Oliver Bearman failed to set a time and will start from the back of the grid. Sadly, they've said that overtaking will be difficult. I won't post the pole sitter yet as the last few minutes of the final session saw that honor change several times and finished with four different teams in the top four places. See the highlights here.