#299_3 The Case for an AirFryer
Ongoing ramblings with Neville and JH, with some offbeat humour. Naturally.

Ongoing ramblings with Neville and JH, with some offbeat humour. Naturally.
Ferrari F1 failures. Is it cyclic as its happened before and the engine is crap with tyres that will not activate. Like a Vodafone SIM. 2021 cars will have big rims. Korma Chicken tonight and organic roast on the weekend. Microsoft Surface Duo sneak peek. Nvidia RTX 3000 cars pricing. Clipsal 500 date change ok its Superloop. 488 Challenge EVO so is it a poor mans GT3. Hamilton vs Bottas will a blowup be coming.
But with ChayPee away back in the South East, opening new COVID safe supermarkets, Neville steps up for a chat. You might know him from the creation of V8X Magazine back in the mid 2000s. Indy500 review discussing aero wash and stability where we further evaluate the aero at Darwin for the Supercars. The rise and rise of Apple Paid online services is like getting a currry without rice. Goat curry tricks. JoNathan and his Hasslebacks. Persian Rugs. Yeah Nah T Shirt. Apple 2T Mkt Cap. ATEM Pro. MS...
No idea whatsoever about what is inside. Enjoy.
Ten Years have passed since we started Radio HOTLAP. Hundreds of episodes. Thousands of wines and meals enjoyed. But its time to say farewell to our many loyal viewers and perhaps its also time to time to say goodbye to VW. Never fear for JP and Harty will return in November with a new podcast called HELLO VIEWERS.
Controversial is the word to describe the turn around in attitude between V8 Supercars and the Bathurst 12 Hour. We chat about what we hope will and wont happen and the fact that the Bathurst 6 Hour is now in its infancy effectively replacing what was the original 12 Hour. A bit of Jethro Tull thrown in for good measure
It was a long drive to Melbourne where as usual Harty would prepare a Roast Dinner of some kind at the house of the Z Man. However McYukkets was quick to inhale the majority of it leaving little for others which subsequently incurred the wrath within.
Having known The Shortest Man in the World for over thirty years and multiple Bathurst races it was only fitting that a Chinese lunch in Dee Why be had. From there a certain ex Ford Laser racer who way back in 1985 raced the wrong direction at Oran Park alongside David Brabham Mark Skaife and The Short One was about the become a victim of this episode. Lots of tall tales and gags are within this gem.
It was started a week after The Clipsal and added to a week later. Then everything went tits up and JP was busy with a paint brush in his hand. That forced Harty to visit Princess Datilda for a few weeks only to discover the final part of the episode was lurking on his phone. Better late than never.
Quite unacceptable really. Harty goes off to Europe via Macau and then had the audacity to come back not do a show and go directly to Dubai for the 24H race. If that was not enough insult the asshole has flown very nicely to Austria only to be almost killed by a falling overpass. Pity really. Anyway we are back. Stories from everything as you would expect. Mostly lies.
With the Daily Sports Car boss Graham Goodwin having just flown into Sydney for the Bathurst 12 Hour it was only normal that Harty bludge a ride. Driving the loaner W12 Bentley Flying Spur up and over the Blue Mountain was a perfect opportunity for the pair chat about whats happened in the last moment in time and a few other intriguing tidbits without need to stop for an apple at Bilpin but a beer and a cup of tea at Kurrajong.
Cartoonist Stonie joins Adelaide F1 and Clipsal 500 Media Manager Mike Drewer and his trusty better half Penny Gordon who despite her Putinesque management of media centres is really a big softie.
With the ADAC GT Masters season over Harty returns to sleepy Adelaide to find JP has moved onto mowing lawns and Duncs is living in a cave. The locals review a rather sensational Bathurst 1000 and generally talk a lot of tech and BBQ crap whilst Rusty Sausage snoozes below our table. Most refreshing indeed.
Having learnt the finer points of how to talk Australians JP is embarking on a ritual of morning red wine testing before he launches his own brand. We revisit Slovakiaring and look ahead to Nurburgring. Some very interesting technical stuff is hidden within the regular podcast gem.
Whilst enroute to Slovakiaring for the 5th round of the ADAC GT Masters Harty receives an invitation from a secret Hungarian admirer to visit the Lovely city of Budapest. Known only as TB and one that works on secret projects day and night meant The Viewer had no time at all to show me any of the so called Lovely Town on The Danube. Finally we have had him arrested and taken him along with a shy mysterious girl who says very little to a Lovely restaurant on the Pest side of town for interrogatio...
Despite Hashtag Snickolas questioning the validity of flouresence in his Green Chicken Curry and The Japlets disapproval of certain beepable language we continue to deliver very little in terms of motorsport news. But harken Viewers for within this Thai Restaurant special are hidden gems that shall have ye rolling like Jaffas down the aisles. Right O get on with it then...
The Z Man and his sister Niki bring along Team Reds McNuggets for a frank conversation about his new found prowess in V8 Supercars whilst inhaling a sizzling teppanyaki set D in Melbourne.
Relaxing at our French chateau about 30 minutes from La Sarthe Charlotte Frantelli and Harty have a chat about her new film called Road to Le Mans before we suddenly find ourselves transported quite nicely thanks very much back to JP and The Dogz for regular HQ comedy in sleepy old Adelaide.
Huge trouble yet again in EU the US armed forces for having an opinion about ugly women in Bavaria. Japes gives us the Aussie scene story. Nath sleeps through the whole deal. A trip to Nurnberg. eLMS and Blancpain Sprint. And the regular tech and food blab.
Despite JP turning off iMessage or installing Viber we have actually managed to get our Euro Tour Series started from a very sunny part of Germany complete with weiss wein. Nathan Morcom gets a top ten result on debut at the ADAC GT Masters. Mario and Dominik are at Laguna Seca doing TUSCC with International Pauly lurking. WEC from Spa was entertaining via an unusual delivery method. DTM Hockenhiem was huge. Chaypee on Pukekohe V8SC. Law suits and slow Haswell processors and the ubundance of por...
After an arduous journey sans luggage Harty recants his Dutch and German adventure with The Farnbachers. Nathan Morcom completes successful tests in Holland and Germany with his new GT3R. Slippery situations regarding fuel use seem to be more sensible in WEC as Porsche Toyota and Audi start their hybrid campaign at Silverstone this weekend. Lost bags. Inflight congee. CarPlay gets a start with Ferrari and 3P manufacturers. Corned Silverside done our way. Office 365 iPad apps snafu. Adobe Lightro...
Foges joins in tonight after not having a heart attach whilst playing tennis with a previously loved one and gives his 10 day later thoughts on the F1 opener and the ways of the FIA. Dario returns to Indy 500. Peugeot back in Dakar for 2015. Nathan and Harty head to Europe for ADAC GT Masters testing in Zandvoort and Oschersleben. Qantas gets on board with Nathan and HOTLAP. WEC kickstarts in Paul Ricard and Formula E gets going. A day later JP turns up and typically hides the best equipment beh...
Our adventure starts from the luxury of the Reo Beam corporate box on the inside of the Senna Chicane. It descents to the gutter with Jack Le Brocq and rises once again to the World Headquarters where a particularly excellent dinner of silverside just like Mum made has been inhaled. Featuring Niki Zuka and Maddie along with the original Hi Vis Mis himself Le Fogeaux who in all fairness gives a good snapshot of the impending F1 season. Naturally there is negativeness from Chaypee.
Look we took some time off to have a life so stop carrrying on like a PC at a JW and all will be forgiven Viewers. Nathan Morcom goes international with the ADAC GT Masters and FBR. Benny Simonsen gets the BGT gig with Hector. CL brings home the bacon for Allan at B12. Porsche 2L V4 LMP1 fuel engines. Trickyness on RBR Jnr Team. Parity in TUSCC. Zanardi back in GT Racing. Standing starts for IndyCar at Long Beach. Christina the star enduro GT female. Mac sales greater than PC. iWatch health focu...
Reflecting on a year that managed to do an uncanny job of making sure the number 13 is remembered for all the wrong reasons. FWBM Mark II arrives for dinner and extoll the virtues of Primo Estate. The Zuks reports on his Homebush woes and Harty tell tails of his week in the Middle East with The Theosauraus. Android warnings. Rolands xmas gift to HRT. V8SC gets a 6 year media deal worth 241M. New Mac Pro in the wild. F1 gets budget cap that probably wont work whilst 2014 calendar trimmed. JP give...
The V8 Supercar season closes with Jamie Whincup grabbing his 5th title whilst the Z Man is left to rue the day he ever laid eyes on the raer of Rodney Janes Dunlop Series car. Harty and Morkyn have managed to get themselves to Yas Marina without any satnav to do a show with our famous Middle Eastern correspondant Theo aka Mister Squiggle. Sitting at Stars and Bars having a coldie the dreaded hookahs appear whilst we desperately try to keep on the subject of sportscar racing.
Suddenly Harty is heading to Abu Dhabi with Nathan Morcom to have a bit of a shuffti at the Gulf 12 Hour sportscar race as part of Gulf Racing where our new hero has been named as reserve driver. The final V8 Supercar event of the year in Homebush is about to unfold and where the Z Man will run his brand new car. The appauling behavior and billing practices of Energy Australia. JP gets ready for overcooking the Xmas Roast whilst Rusty Sausage goes on holidays with The M twins.
We make a fleeting visit to Sandown to keep an eye on Nathan and Garry Holt who go onto to win the 3 hour AMChamp race along with the title. Harty gets caught in an accomodation dilemma with The Foges only to have FWBM sort the matter out. The annoyance of Adobe Creative Cloud and very ordinary pub meal round out this sudden episode.
Having spent a couple of weeks in the United Kingdom with Benny Simonsen Christina Nielsen and Nathan Morcom we get a chance to explain just what went on with everything. 888 pub lunches. Simulators with Darren Turner. GT4 testing at Snetterton. GT3 testing at Donington. The pros and cons of night racing. Harty gets a new 5S and goes mad with 120fps video. Yorkshire pudding is serves just as the cravat wearing Alistaire arrives.
There was not even the slightest chance that a show would be done today but then the phone rang and a mystery guest with a penchant for steaks arrived armed with many sories. Perhaps he was dentist in a previous life suffice to say you shall be enthralled with tales of racing tech and BBQ.