Tiger Express Motorsports welcomes its first full-time recruit in more than 10 months, as Swiss driver David “Swiss-Spirit” Jundt joins the team.



David, 21, is a former Epic Racing member. Though he started being involved in LFS rather late(November 2009), he quickly made himself a name after taking part in some of LFS’ finest leagues. Out of his most notable drives, we would mention the few points he scored in both 2010 and 2011 iTCC seasons, his 9 GTAL races for both Epic Racing(2010) and Gentles on Circuit(2011), and his overall top 5 in the 2010 Mini-FBM season. It didn’t take much time for David to become one of Swizerland’s most famous LFS driver still in activity, among names such as Kevin Leu or Kevin Egloff.

David is also known to be a massive anime fan, a passion he likes to wear on his cars. If you are seeking him on a race track, just search for a proud and loud anime-based livery - that’s probably him!

PS: We just opened on our site the TEM Media Center, showing the teams’ great moments in both photos and videos. Keep in mind that it still is highly Work In Progress, but you should already be able to find nice contents here.

I like that livery too, also they plan to run that car at the Le Mans Test Day. PR blah blah and two more pics: http://www.peugeot-sport.com/e ... for-the-908-hybrid4-.html

And hi-res pics of the AMR-One: http://www.astonmartinracing.c ... agegallery2011/amronelmp1

Mulsanne Mike's appraisal: http://www.dailysportscar.com/ ... 143-FDC9-3555EC8DEBDFEA7B

That livery is nicee

IMO, it looks a bit like Piquet's '83 Brabham.

Or the inversed colours of the 2000 Williams and following. Boring, I know someone who hoped for the Canon paint scheme from '92 for example, and me too.

This one looks like an improved 2010 paint scheme, it doesn't really look like the Rothmans one, stripes are wrong, whoever did it did never look at the Rothmans livery

Bout time, their livery for the last 5 or so years actually bugged me, when these things dont matter.

+1 i like it!

Quote from xfirestorm :

For the laughs:
XRR Skin 2

That's not bad at all. Another advice would be, to use high resolution. Minimum is 2048 x 2048. Better is 4096 (depending on your available RAM or CPU)
Further seems, in this example of an existing reallife livery, the color tone of the yellow base is too bright, which gives to me an "ugh" effect

As foir the stretching, if you have trouble to understand the issue, feel free to say something. I or someone else could make an another graphic to show whats happening there. The temnplates i made are just for the generell stretching for each car; basically everywhere where the shape of the car is curved the stretching is more or less.

Quote from Aerogyry :

just very want this skin :yummy:

Someone done this for Fo8. Try write him a private message... seems he's into the livery as well.

But posting it all over the place doesn't make, the chance to get it, any better.

E: you've done a request and that's best you can do, because that's where people go if they looking for requests ... just needs time that the right guy sees it and has the time to do it.

Last edited by JazzOn, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 16:34.

HRT my new favorite livery for Formula 1. that car is just stunning

Thanks for the comments on the Bus

HenkkaWRC requested that I adapt the Marlboro livery to fit the FXR, so here it is...

For reasons unknown to me, the FXR seems to now be known as 'The Bus'.

Here's a Stagecoach inspired livery...

A new livery from me for RAC! Based on the Pagani Zonda R 2009 car model. Hope you like it!

Picture:

Could anyone make a me livery for those three cars?

Basicly I'm looking for base:

http://image.nettiauto.com/ext ... 31_b_8e90d179e8cd5c49.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com ... 4141114220_6d310baab0.jpg

http://www.poliisi.fi/intermin/images.nsf/files/91DED8633F3AC836C2256BC200245929/$file/mondeo.jpg

http://www.ess.fi/upload/image/2009/2/23/poliisi.jpg

But instead of saying "Poliisi", it should say "Posliini" (some finnish people could get it lol) So please MTV, pimp my ride! I mean, can anyone try doing liveries for FBM, XFG and XRG looking like the cars on those pictures

Just wanna ask if someone read Hammer Session! up to Ch.14 on Mangafox. I quite like it. He may be a swindler, but a damn nice one



I think I have asked already: Anyone know a Manga with the Mazda 787B(767 up to 787 would be interesting too) in it?

I've tried, but neither éX-Driver nor Capeta mention the probably most successful Japanese racing car with one word(But the Tyrrell P34 gets a nice mention in Capeta though-.-). A shame, like Mazda NOT used the win to promote the RX-7.

It goes that far I also like the livery of the car a lot(Probably a reason I am attracted to the car that much, it looks like a patch pattern:razz.

But I'd get problems with Team Renesis, they use the pattern on all their cars

Not to mention I suck at doing skins...

I'd get away with the alternative one that was used in ALMS:

http://www.motorsport.com/phot ... alms-2005-por-rs-0979.jpg

or

http://www.roadandtrack.com/va ... daspeed-alms-race-car.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com ... 4b9f4edb.jpg?v=1195171834

Finally, I present some skins I was running in circles. The iTCC ones were made by The Joker, thanks to him, the other two were done by me.

Cookie if you can guess the characters and series(One's very obvious too). As for the FXR_ERdavidITCC, it's just a random pic(Was deemed inappropriate by the iTCC officials and had to removed, later drove with the second ER skin):

Quote from RasmusL :

The new Lotus-Renault car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Y_rAFmlEA&feature=

Did they have to add that stupid red TOTAL advert?

Don't get me wrong, I love this livery.

But if Ferrari's barcodes were too similar to Marlboro branding, then how are they allowing a replica of a JPS branded car ?

Haha love this, the "2nd Lotus a.k.a owned by Proton" agreed to partnership with Renault (New name Lotus Renault GP) so there will be 2 different Lotus teams. And the Proton stole apparently the golden/black livery concept from the Lotus owned by Tony Fernandez.

Quote from TottiGTD :

Hi!!!
this is my first skin of fzr. please vote it.
thx

You are the 3rd who did a skin with this livery, but they are all slightly different.

However, few logos are a bit low resolution, but overall it's a pretty good job

i wouldn't mind a screenshot either. That livery and car shape should fit the FXR like a glove.

After one of the most epic years of F1 we're ready to enjoy yet another one in 2011.

The 2011 Formula One season will be the 62nd FIA Formula One season. The calendar will expand to twenty rounds – the longest season in the sport's sixty-year history – with the inaugural running of the Indian Grand Prix. Pirelli returns to the sport as tyre supplier for all teams, taking over from Bridgestone. Red Bull Racing enter 2011 as the reigning Constuctor's Champions. Sebastian Vettel will be the defending Driver's Champion.


Pre-season


The pre-season testing season began immediately after the 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix with a three-day 'Young Driver Test' (for drivers with fewer than three Formula One race starts to their name) at the Yas Marina Circuit. Formula Renault 3.5 runner-up Daniel Ricciardo consistently set the fastest times over the three days, driving for new champions Red Bull Racing.

The Young Driver Tests were followed by another testing session – also held at Yas Marina – for the teams to test the tyres developed by new tyre supplier Pirelli. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso was the fastest during the tests, with many drivers declaring their satisfaction with the new tyres, particularly given Pirelli's short development window. Sebastian Vettel experienced an explosive puncture on the final day, though an investigation by Pirelli attributed the incident to debris on the circuit.


Teams and drivers


After a dispute between the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) and the FIA in the first half of 2009, a new Concorde Agreement was signed on 1 August 2009 by the then FIA president Max Mosley and all of the existing teams at the time. The new agreement provides for a continuation of the terms of the 1998 agreement, and runs until 31 December 2012.

Ferrari
Racedrivers: Fernando Alonso, Felipe Massa
Testdrivers: Jules Bianchi
Launch date: TBA

Mclaren
Racedrivers: Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button
Testdrivers: Gary Paffet
Launch date: TBA

Redbull
Racedrivers: Mark Webber, Sebastian Vettel
Testdrivers: TBA
Launch date: TBA

Renault
Racedrivers: Robert Kubica, TBA
Testdrivers: TBA
Launch date: TBA

Mercedes GP
Racedrivers: Michael Schumacher, Nico Rosberg
Testdrivers: TBA
Launch date: TBA

Williams
Racedrivers: Rubens Barrichello, Pastor Maldonado
Testdrivers: Valtteri Bottas
Launch date:

Force India
Racedrivers: TBA, TBA
Testdrivers: TBA
Launch date: TBA

Lotus
Racedrivers: Jarno Trulli, Heikki Kovalainen
Testdrivers: TBA
Launch date: TBA

Marussia Virgin
Racedrivers: Timo Glock, TBA
Testdrivers: TBA
Launch date: TBA

Sauber
Racedrivers: Kamui Kobayashi, Sergio Pérez
Testdrivers: Esteban Gutiérrez
Launch date: 31 January

Hispania
Racedrivers: TBA, TBA
Testdrivers: TBA
Launch date: TBA

Torro Rosso
Racedrivers: Sebastien Buemi, Jaime Alguersuari
Testdrivers: TBA
Launch date: February 1st


New entries process


Following USF1's inability to make the grid in 2010, the FIA opened a new selection process to find more teams to fill the grid for the 2011 season. As well as filling the 13th grid slot they are also looking for one or more possible 'reserve' entrants. They were seeking formal expressions of interest from prospective teams before 15 April 2010 with full applications needing to be submitted by June 21. The Italian media had reported that the FIA has received as many as fifteen entry bids, including World Series by Renault and former Le Mans team Epsilon Euskadi; the Belgrade-based Stefan Grand Prix, who attempted to join the grid after their eleventh-hour submission in February 2010 was rejected; highly-successful French GP2, GP3 and European Formula 3 team ART Grand Prix; Cypher, an American team made up of the remains of USF1; and Durango, an Italian GP2 team that had been forced out of the GP2 Series owing to financial difficulties, but later experienced revitalisation after 1995 Indianapolis 500 and 1997 World Champion winner Jacques Villeneuve joined with the team, which subsequently became known as "Villeneuve F1". However, ART Grand Prix and Cypher would later withdraw their entries, citing a lack of financial security, sponsor interest and insufficient budgets as their reasons for the back-out. As the number of entrants thinned out and with the anticipated announcement of the thirteenth team passing without incident, it was announced ahead of the 2010 Italian Grand Prix that the FIA felt that none of the prospective entrants met the minimum funding or engineering requirements that a team would need in order to succeed in the sport, and executed their right to leave the thirteenth grid slot vacant.

Following the confirmation that there would be no new additions to the grid for 2011, Joan Villadelprat of Epsilon Euskadi and Jacques Villeneuve of the combined Villeneuve-Durango teams both announced that they would still attempt to join the grid for 2011, exploring the possibilities of taking over an existing team. Villeneuve later admitted to exploring possibilities outside of Formula One, including extending his NASCAR Nationwide Cup campaign, or moving to Australia to pursue possibilities in the V8 Supercar Series.


Team changes

• BMW Sauber announced in July 2010 that it will reinstate the name Sauber following a season without the manufacturer. The naming arose due to complex issues involving TV rights money that would not have been paid had the team changed their name during the winter period following the departure of BMW.
  

• Lotus Racing announced at the 2010 Italian Grand Prix that they had terminated their three-year contract with engine supplier Cosworth. It was also revealed that team principal Tony Fernandes had purchased the rights to the Team Lotus name from David Hunt, with the intention of renaming the team to reflect its historical counterpart for the 2011 season. Lotus Cars launched legal action against Lotus Racing, claiming that Tony Fernandes did not have the rights to use the Lotus name because David Hunt was never in a position to sell them. On October 5, 2010, Lotus Racing announced an agreement to use Red Bull Technology gearboxes and hydraulics systems from 2011, this follows the frequent unreliability of the Xtrac systems used by Lotus during their maiden season. At the 2010 Brazilian Grand Prix it was announced that Lotus will use Renault engines from 2011. The team have also confirmed that they will use the famous black and gold livery for 2011.
  

• Following weeks of speculation about their existence beyond the 2010 season, Hispania announced several major partnerships in November 2010. Chief among these was an arrangement that will see Williams supply the Murcia-based team with transmission systems for the 2011 season, whilst forming a partnership with Spanish businessman Juan Villalonga, who was previously affiliated with Minardi as CEO of Telefónica.
  

• After sponsoring the team for the 2010 season, Russian sports car manufacturer Marussia acquired what they termed a "significant stake" of Virgin Racing, with the team changing its name to Marussia Virgin Racing. Further reports confirmed that Marussia had purchased a controlling stake in the team, securing their future until 2014. Wirth Research, the design studio that developed the Virgin VR-01 is also set to expand its capacity for computational fluid dynamics with the construction of what Wirth Research claim will be the third-fastest supercomputer in the world.
  

Driver changes

Changed teams

• On the eve of the 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Nico Hülkenberg's manager, Willi Weber, confirmed that the rookie would be leaving Williams at the end of the 2010 season. Weber claimed Hülkenberg would remain on the grid for 2011, though he did not comment on which team he would be driving for.
  

Entered Formula One

• Sergio Pérez, who finished runner-up in the 2010 GP2 Series driving for Barwa Addax, was signed by Sauber to partner Kamui Kobayashi. His signing coincided with the announcement of a partnership between Carlos Slim's telecommunications group Telmex and the Sauber team. Pérez will become the first Mexican Formula One driver in thirty years after Héctor Rebaque finished tenth in the 1981 season while driving for Brabham.
  

• 2010 GP2 Series champion Pastor Maldonado was signed by Williams after testing for the team in the young driver tests in Abu Dhabi.[23] Maldonado will become the first Venezuelan Formula One driver since Johnny Cecotto drove for Toleman during the 1984 season. Maldonado is backed by the Venezuelan state-controlled oil company PDVSA.

2011 calendar

On 16 April 2010, Bernie Ecclestone confirmed that there would be 20 races in 2011; all the races from the 2010 season and the addition of the Indian Grand Prix. A provisional calendar was announced on 8 September 2010, which was confirmed on 3 November 2010.

01 2011 FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX (Sakhir) 11 - 13 Mar
02 2011 FORMULA 1 QANTAS AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX (Melbourne) 25 - 27 Mar
03 2011 FORMULA 1 PETRONAS MALAYSIA GRAND PRIX (Kuala Lumpur) 08 - 10 Apr
04 2011 FORMULA 1 UBS CHINESE GRAND PRIX (Shanghai) * 15 - 17 Apr
05 2011 FORMULA 1 TURKISH GRAND PRIX (Istanbul) 06 - 08 May
06 FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO DE ESPAÑA 2011 (Catalunya) 20 - 22 May
07 FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO 2011 (Monte Carlo) 27 - 29 May
08 FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DU CANADA 2011 (Montreal) 10 - 12 Jun
09 2011 FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE (Valencia) 24 - 26 Jun
10 2011 FORMULA 1 SANTANDER BRITISH GRAND PRIX (Silverstone) 08 - 10 Jul
11 FORMULA 1 GROSSER PREIS SANTANDER VON DEUTSCHLAND 2011 (Nürburgring) 22 - 24 Jul
12 FORMULA 1 ENI MAGYAR NAGYDÍJ 2011 (Budapest) 29 - 31 Jul
13 2011 FORMULA 1 BELGIAN GRAND PRIX (Spa-Francorchamps) 26 - 28 Aug
14 FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO SANTANDER D'ITALIA 2011 (Monza) 09 - 11 Sep
15 2011 FORMULA 1 SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX (Singapore) 23 - 25 Sep
16 2011 FORMULA 1 JAPANESE GRAND PRIX (Suzuka) 07 - 09 Oct
17 2011 FORMULA 1 KOREAN GRAND PRIX (Yeongam) 14 - 16 Oct
18 2011 FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX OF INDIA (New Delhi) * 28 - 30 Oct
19 2011 FORMULA 1 ETIHAD AIRWAYS ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX (Yas Marina Circuit) 11 - 13 Nov
20 FORMULA 1 GRANDE PRÊMIO DO BRASIL 2011 (Sao Paulo) 25 - 27 Nov


Changes

• The 2011 season will see the addition of the Indian Grand Prix to the F1 schedule.
  

• The Malaysian Grand Prix will change its name to the Malaysia Grand Prix as part of the efforts to promote the country.
  

• The Bahrain International Circuit will revert to its original configuration after experimenting with the six-kilometre "endurance" layout in 2010, which organisers claim was originally done to celebrate Formula One's diamond jubilee, though the layout was received negatively at the time.
  

Rule changes

• 2011 will see the return of the 107% rule in qualifying. Under this arrangement, any driver who fails to set a time within 107% of the fastest lap in Q1 (the rule won't apply in Q2 and Q3) will not be permitted to take part in the race; for instance, if the fastest lap is 1 minute 40 seconds, a driver must set a time faster than 1 minute 47 seconds in order to make it to the grid. * Following the controversial 2010 German Grand Prix, the FIA has moved to increase the maximum allowable penalty ($100,000 to $250,000) that racing stewards can issue to teams after penalising Ferrari one hundred thousand dollars for the use of team orders. Former World Champion Jackie Stewart commented that "$100,000 is no penalty for a team whose budget is many, many multiples higher."
  

Tyre supplier changes

• Tyre supplier Bridgestone announced that it would not renew its contract with Formula One at the end of the 2010 season. After several months of deliberation, Pirelli was chosen as the tyre supplier for 2011 at the FIA World Motor Sport Council meeting in Geneva, in June 2010.
  

• At the 2010 British Grand Prix, Bernie Ecclestone revealed that he had been in talks with five manufacturers, but Pirelli was the only company that could be ready in time for the 2011 season. Although the Pirelli deal was more expensive for the teams than some of the other bids, the company would pay for on-track advertising meaning the teams would get some return on their investment. Ecclestone also revealed that he wanted tyres with a significantly shorter lifespan than in 2010 following the reception to the 2010 Canadian Grand Prix, where abnormally high tyre wear created unpredictable racing.
  

• The twelve teams have moved to establish "a close alliance" with Pirelli in order to prevent one team from gaining an unfair advantage through intimate knowledge of the new tyres – similar to the Ferrari-Bridgestone and Renault-Michelin relationships during the Formula One "tyre war" – following repeated suggestions that test drivers Nick Heidfeld, Pedro de la Rosa and Romain Grosjean will be in demand because of their knowledge of the final versions of the tyres.
  

Technical changes

• The maximum height of the diffuser will be cut from 175 millimetres (6.9 in) to 125 millimetres (4.9 in), reducing aerodynamic downforce. Furthermore, measures were agreed to exclude double diffuser designs.
  

• In the week leading up to the 2010 Spanish Grand Prix, a formal proposal was submitted to FOTA by British engineering firm Flybrid to supply the entire grid with a mandatory, standardized KERS unit, following campaigns led by Ferrari and Renault to see the technology re-introduced for the 2011 season. After the 2010 Canadian Grand Prix, Ferrari confirmed they would be running the KERS device on their 2011 car, but the system will not be mandatory.
  

• In order to compensate for the increase in weight brought about by KERS, the minimum weight of the car will increase from 620 kilograms (1,367 lb) to 640 kilograms (1,411 lb).
  

• FOTA have agreed to ban the controversial "F-duct" system developed by McLaren for the MP4-25 and later deployed by other teams through the 2010 season.
  

• At the meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Geneva in June 2010, an adjustable rear wing system was confirmed as an addition to the 2011 rules. It will be introduced to aid overtaking, serving as a substitute for the F-duct system. In a similar system to the KERS regulator used in 2009, the adjustable rear wing would only be available under certain conditions; namely, drivers will only be able to use it when they are within one second of the car in front, but it would not be usable within the first two laps of a race except in the case of an early safety car. The system is expected to offer drivers an additional 15 km/h (9.3 mph) when passing, and will deactivate when the driver first touches the brakes after using the rear wing. The concept, which has been negatively received by drivers and fans alike, could be dropped if it proves impractical or unmanageable.
  

• For the first time, cars will have a mandatory weight distribution, reported to be a ratio of 46:54. This is intended to prevent teams from having to make expensive changes to the internal configuration of their cars in the event of changes to tyre compounds introduced by new tyre supplier Pirelli.
  

• The number of wheel tethers – the load-bearing cables connecting tyres to the bodywork – will be doubled for 2011, in response to an increasing number of accidents where wheels have been torn free of their mountings, including the death of Henry Surtees in a Formula Two race at Brands Hatch in 2009.
  

Sponsorship changes

• On October 4, 2010, Sauber announced a partnership with Mexican telecommunications group Telmex that would include significant branding on their car for the 2011 season. The announcement coincided with the signing of GP2 driver Sergio Pérez, who is a part of Telmex's driver development program. * Dutch electronics corporation Philips, announced that they would not renew their contract with Williams at the 2010 Brazilian Grand Prix, ending a five-year relationship with the Grove-based team. The Royal Bank of Scotland will also end their association to the team.
  

Other changes

• The FIA has suggested that any driver who is caught committing road offences – such as Lewis Hamilton's "hooning" incident in Melbourne – could be punished with a loss of their Super Licence, thereby preventing them from racing.
  

• Team members deemed to be in key roles – i.e. team principal, sporting director, race engineers, team manager and technical director – will have to undergo accreditation for a "competitors' staff licence" in order to maintain their positions within their teams. This is seen as a reaction to the actions of disgraced former Renault team principal Flavio Briatore at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix and applies to all key staff in all FIA-sanctioned World Championships, including the World Rally Championship, World Touring Car Championship and GT1 World Championship in addition to Formula One.
  

All info taken from Wikipedia

Last edited by aroX123, Fri 17 Dec 2010, 09:40.

Lotus going back to a black and gold livery! About time too

And Virgin sold a stake in their team. 2011 could be interesting......

Apparently Lotus are running black and gold livery next year: http://www.facebook.com/lotusracing

At the beginning of the season Sauber didn't really have any sponsors which made the car quite simple and uninteresting so I'm attempting to replicate something more like teh livery they used in Suzuka, on Kobayashis home soil. http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp- ... /koba_saub_suzu_20101.jpg

Its not too bad, but its not high quality skin. Good effort though.


Jazzon made exactly same livery like you some time ago (for XFG and VWS aswell)

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=1384433#post1384433

im pretty sure almost everyone on the forum made some form of that livery at some point

good job though

I am the oposite opinion of eliteati.

I think for a racing livery it's pretty nice and often a simple one hits the spot

1 critism tho, the goodyear is too big and rotated(?). Fitted with a bit of space it should flow in just right.

But... where is the DL-link?

For the record Flame CZE has made a version of the 2007 WTCC Chevrolet livery a few years ago: http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=692275#post692275. It's quite similar to the Silverline livery, so maybe it could be used as a base, if Flame CZE's okay with that of course.