17/05/2012 at 13:05:31
Richard Vass of Bhutan Data Centre Services stated; "The Eco Tile was a doddle to install. The lack of any skilled labour locally was a huge concern. However, having completed the first section myself, I realised it was so easy that I handed over to some of my team, normally engaged in building servers!
The product looked great, and the interlocking "dovetails” pulled the tiles together firmly so, despite a rather poor quality screed, the EcoTile covered a multitude of imperfections. The overall effect was that of a professionally laid floor with no raised edges. On top of this, we are confident that we have a high performance anti-static flooring where many other data centres would overlook this important feature”.
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21/05/2012 at 13:42:40
After a weekend largely dominated by Porsches – save for the Aston Martin win in the first race – Duncan Cameron overcame two 997s to record the first win of the season for MTECH and the Ferrari 458.
Starting the car from fifth place on the rolling start Cameron’s teammate Matt Griffin was one of many drivers surprised by Joe Osborne’s dive down the inside into turn one. In one move he passed Griffin, Michael Caine’s Motorbase Porsche and Jonny Adam’s race one winning Aston, the pass on Adam completed around the outside turn two as he was briefly held up on the inside line by Richard Westbrook.
After his electric start Osborne started to fade becoming the head of a train of cars containing most of those he had jumped at the start. Caine, Adam and Griffin concertinaed up behind the Porsche, Allan Simonsen and Tim Harvey closing in on the tail. Caine escaped into third place, his pace pulling away from Osborne – 1.6 seconds in a single lap – proving that the former GT4 champion was holding up those behind.
Adam searched for a way around the Porsche with no luck, allowing Griffin to down the inside of turn one with a diving move of his own. He sailed past Adam before running slightly wide through the right hander, pushing Osborne wide leaving a space of an opportunistic Adam to pull alongside exiting turn two and ahead on the short straight towards turn three.
The Porsche 1-2-3 that had developed at the front had fallen into comfortable gaps, Nick Tandy, who led easily into turn one at the start of the race steadily pulling away from Westbrook, who in turn was pulling away from Caine.
With a slow stop as Caine handed the car to Daniele Perfetti the no.11 crew fell back, dropping to fifth after all the pitstops had been completed. That had let Duncan Cameron up into third place, not that he knew that, as he told The Checkered Flag after the race;
"It was one of those where I didn’t really know where we were in the race and I didn’t want to ask but I could see when I left the pits there was a Porsche but it was a long way in front of me. All weekend we’ve not been good against the Porsches, they’re massively quick in a straight line which round here seems to make a big difference so the first time I saw him the first time I saw him I didn’t think I was going to catch him that quickly but within two of three laps I was on him and got past him relatively easily and then I could see another one and that was David and I though the same thing – maybe this is for third place so I’ll push.”
"I caught him really quickly, I think I made 3.5 seconds on one lap which was a surprise. Compared to the Porsches we were really good on the brakes, hopeless in a straight line but then the Ferrari is just about the slowest GT3 car in a straight line at the moment, but on the brakes we were mega so I just went down the inside into turn seven and he didn’t really put up much of fight. The last three of four laps of the race I was sitting there thinking ‘I don’t want to ask, I don’t want to ask’ so I sat and waited for the checkered flag out and when it came out for me I thought ‘that’s it P1.”
With Cameron out in the lead Perfetti was gaining on David Ashburn in second, taking three seconds out of the past champion to close in with to just three-tenths with only a few minutes in the hour left. Perfetti’s drive after his lap one spin in the first race had made him one of the stars of the meeting, and now on Ashburn’s tail he was pushing for second place – groping for an opportunity around the outside of the hairpin on both the penultimate and final laps, running wide on the final lap as the battling pair started their journey back up the hill.
Perfetti’s last chance to claim second place came at the chicane, Ashburn taking the defensive line accordingly, forcing Perfetti into looking around the outside. While initially unsuccessful Perfetti might have been able to use the momentum from the wider line to pass into the final corner but a slide from Ashburn exiting the chicane brought him onto Perfetti’s line, stopping the Swiss driver from gaining the necessary momentum and leaving the Motorbase driver in third place.
"The team did a superb job,” said Perfetti. "Michael did a great job and very had a very consistent car throughout the race which is what I think so of the other teams were struggling with. My pace was good at the end and I managed to make up a little bit more ground and in the end the Trackspeed car was giving me a hard time, he wouldn’t let me through and we tried everything so this time round he won it, It was a good battle, we had fun and we both finished.”
After dropping behind the Ashburn/Westbrook combination in the pitstops and being passed by both Cameron and Perfetti in his stint Steve Parish brought the second Motorbase car fourth after co-driver Nick Tandy had led the entire first stint.--
21/05/2012 at 13:36:05
Following a strong showing at Oulton Park last month, Motorbase
Performance is preparing its pair of Porsche 911 GT3Rs for an assault
on Germany's Nürburgring in round two of the 2012 Avon Tyres British GT
Championship on 18th-20th May.
Almost twelve months ago, the team tasted Nürburgring victory in the Porsche Carrera World Cup with Tim Harvey; something it is keen to emulate during its 2012 visit.
If the opening round in Cheshire is anything to go by, the Kent-based squad can look forward to a solid performance in Germany. The #11 pairing of Michael Caine and Daniele Perfetti currently lie fourth in the championship standings following impressive fourth and sixth place performances, while after securing a deal to compete just days before the start of the season, Steve Parish and Nick Tandy overcame a qualifying crash that relegated them to the back of the field to steer the #10 Porsche to sixth and 11th.
Although
Tandy's British GT appearance was initially a one-off deal, the
Porsche expert will be reunited with Parish again for the
championship's first Nürburgring event. The Ahrweiler circuit holds
fond memories for the 27-year-old, who clinched victory during the
Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland's visit there in 2011 en route to
securing the overall title.
The British GT Championship will be contesting two hour-long races as part of the support package for one of the world's most prestigious endurance races – the 24 Hours Nürburgring – marking the series' first outing on the 3.2-mile Grand Prix circuit.
Motorbase Performance Team Principal David Bartrum commented: "We brought home some very credible results in terrible conditions at Oulton Park and we hope to continue this form at the Nürburgring. Michael and Daniele did an excellent job in the opening round and it's great that Nick will be back in the car with Steve for another outing.
"Nürburgring is a new track for British GT and it's a place where we've had success as a team in the past, so it'll be interesting to see how the Porsches compare to the other marques in the field. It will be an exciting weekend for the 200,000 spectators that are expected to attend and hopefully we will continue on our journey to being a British GT team to be reckoned with!"
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04/05/2012 at 10:59:56
SMT Hybrid Packaging is Europe´s leading event on System Integration in Micro Electronics. Meet the industry's leading companies for SMT-Equipment, Components and SMT-Services from 8 - 10 May 2012 in Nuremberg, Germany. With 32% foreign exhibitors, the event offers not only a wide, but also an international spectrum. The perfect platform to get the latest information on newest trends and developments!
Antistat are set to exhibit with their German distributor, Horl. Please visit us at booth **6-127.
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04/05/2012 at 09:35:17
Plastic Shores (www.plasticshoresfilm.com) is a non-profit educational film about the effects of plastic debris on our marine ecosystem produced by La Mode Verte.
Due to be released in 2012, the feature aims to make people think about our use of disposable plastics and what happens to them after they have been thrown away. From the shores of Hawai'i to California, Cornwall to Grand Cayman, the film tracks plastic pollution across the Atlantic and Pacific and explains what effects this pollution has on the marine environment, as well as human health.
To find out more, please click here.
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28/02/2012 at 15:11:58
Antistat, recently appointed supplier of EcoTile interlocking ESD flooring systems, have shipped their first order for a new and exciting project for a flagship IT development, Thimphu TechPark in the Kingdom of Bhutan.
Working closely with Burland Technology Solutions to build an impressive new data centre, Antistat utilised their in depth knowledge of both static problems and solutions in mission critical, electronic environments.
Richard Vass, MD of Burland Technology Solutions explained: "Completing the data centre construction and delivering materials to this Himalayan Kingdom has been a challenge from the outset. When we came to discuss speciality flooring finishes and ESD consumables, the criteria had to be performance, quality & longevity of the product, the skill levels required to install and also maintenance and upkeep of the product. I wasted no time in appointing Antistat as experts in this field.”
Bearing in mind the required criteria, the interlocking floor system was selected because of its availability and ease of shipping. The tiles can be installed with minimal experience utilising local labour and is virtually maintenance free which suits the modular growth strategy for this new centre.
Having completed the first shipment, Antistat will look at a further 2 shipments to complete this large-scale project.
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