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Ruaraidh McDonald-Walker

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Recovering F1 Technical Director. ❤️ EVs, racing, politics, shooting, skiing & mbikes plus some flying and sailing! Play ‘Cello, drums & bagpipes. Views mine obvs...

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Latest posts by f1ruaraidh.bsky.social on Bluesky

Should've shut your mouth like the man said!! 🤷‍♂️😉😂

01.07.2025 07:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ed says hi Daffs

30.06.2025 15:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

😂😂😂

29.06.2025 19:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You can use a guitar speaker onnthe electric kit if you want to listen in.

29.06.2025 19:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Gotcha. Marvellous progress. Ability to read percussion notation is a great (and rare) skill to have for most rock drummers.

Try some jazz too.

29.06.2025 19:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh and listen to 70s/80s Rush and the first three Police albums.

29.06.2025 19:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You literally said 14. Man I'm tired.

29.06.2025 18:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

6 months that's impressive. How old is she? Nice confident fills. Dad will soon discover the cost of cymbals..... they're an addition.

Use hi hat pull offs as an alternative and (more subtle) method of accenting mid verse. Use the crash more sparingly. Save your ammo.

29.06.2025 18:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Mine too. You love to see it.

29.06.2025 14:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I mean I'm boat racing so I can't really complain but still v hot for a Scotsman....

28.06.2025 04:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In Italy for work. Mid 30s. Grim.

27.06.2025 21:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Tbh I didn't realise they even tried. Last Intel chip I remember in embedded control was resolutely 1990s!

26.06.2025 05:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sales of Goods Act 1979 applies here so it's me vs the Dealership.

They need to send it back to me in the condition it came in and I don't care whose fault it was originally. They need to fix the car and they need to sort that out with Porsche.

Ignoring it won't make it go away.....

25.06.2025 17:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

As it appeared in the Porsche shop (£1200!) but it was already on the car when they sold it to me so no matter.

However, it went in for some warranty work (new 11kW AC charger) and when it came back out, no comfort unlock.

Pointed out it was sold to me with it enabled but no reply.

25.06.2025 17:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sold me second hand Taycan with lane keeping and innodrive turned off. They're clearly supposed to turn these options off so they can be sold again. That's fine, bought them as over the air purchases from the Porsche shop.

However, the car was sold with comfort unlock enabled, an oversight 1/2

25.06.2025 16:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Remind me to tell you the story of how Porsche ripped me off....

25.06.2025 16:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Yup

25.06.2025 15:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah let's buy a 15 foot tall SUV instead. 😂😂😂

25.06.2025 14:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Shame you don't get the estate. It's a properly useful car. When the RS6 estate version launches, that will replace my Taycan TS Cross Turismo.

25.06.2025 14:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yeah not a fan of the headlights but still not as fugly as the BMW

25.06.2025 14:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Really? That seems a massive oversight!

25.06.2025 14:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No Audi A6?

25.06.2025 14:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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More's the pity

24.06.2025 10:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh yeah definitely not. Needs a dedicated fuel sensor.

24.06.2025 10:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

E85 is the mutts!! You can get so much boost into that it's crazy.

Proper performance fuel.

You want to moan, complain about E5 or E10. All the problems, none of the benefits.

24.06.2025 07:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Looking at the rest of the house, it's a "library" designed by people who don't read. Not a book in sight.

24.06.2025 07:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Compared with when I started 7 years ago it's childsplay.

24.06.2025 07:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Perth to mid-France is easy in an EV now. Most French service stations have multiple charging providers and are well organised.

24.06.2025 07:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

The original. Was stunning and a complete shock when it first came out. Never bettered.

23.06.2025 10:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Brilliant.

23.06.2025 10:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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