Quote from dan12s :

yeah we already do have the f1 car its called bf1 so if you want it buy s2 like G!NhO said

Yes, the current f1 car in lfs does not have grip(doubt the real thing is that bad), current f1 cars pull over 2 g's in very low speed corners and consistently over 4 g' s in fast corners. Also current F1 cars are much easier on the throttlle while getting out or corners. Full throttle at much lower speeds then is possible with bf1 of lfs. In general most likely muchhhhhh better to drive. Would be very nice if the current bf1 will be replaced with an 2008 F1 car(and all code for TC be banned from lfs! suggestion to add it again, become bannable offence )

But i want also to ad an suggestion for a car, the new a1gp car is very nice:
Rip form wikipedia:
"On 11 October 2007, A1GP and Ferrari announced a six year collaboration on the new generation of A1GP cars. The new "Powered by Ferrari" car is a modification of the Formula 1 Ferrari F2004 chassis with a V8 Ferrari engine producing 600 bhp[26]. The car was officially revealed in Southern England, and driven for the first time by John Watson in an inaugural event in May 2007. Michelin will supply the tyres for the new car[27]."

The v8 has a displacement of about 4.2 liters, it is close to F1 racing speeds and modified to make close racing posible without severe downforce loss caused by driving just behind the car in front. What i have seen from last race, these cars are indeed able to stay close in corners. Thats why they would be great for lfs, much more fun than racing then an F1 car. Who cares that the a1gp is about 5-10 sec slower each lap then the current f1 car.

Quote from Alistair :

it's not stupid look at these 2 cars
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp- ... 8hdifap_valencia_2007.jpg
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp- ... /audi_r10_lemans_2007.jpg
they fight for the le mans win and they are both diesel and the seat touring cars in the wtcc and btcc wich are winning races regularly are TDI
also the diesel cars are a lot quiker out of the corners. the power you get from a good diesel engine is relentless and theres allways the fule econamey. personally i think we should have a diesel lmp1 car in lfs
and when it comes to noise the lmps are very close to being silent but the volvo 5 cylinder turbo diesel makes a wounderfull noise

Diesels cars are only competitive, because they are allowed to have much higher turbo pressures. The famous torgue of a diesel, is just because diesels always are fitted with an turbo and petrol engines usually not. Get a standaard 2000cc petrol engine with a good (not high pressure) turbo and it will blow away any 2 liter diesel engine. Espacially in torgue in low-rev range! Al the way up to where an diesel engine would blow-up. And don' t get confused by that the diesel might have at some rev a high peak in torgue, that says nothing.

If you compare high performance turbocharged 2 liter petrol engines to high performance 2 liter diesels, the diesel can only match the torgue but will have only about 55% of the HP output of the petrol engine. So overal, the petrol is in other class of performance. Ofcourse, this will also be true for fuel usage

So what is the use for lfs to have a diesel in it? I think none! I think it is just a question/wish to have more turbocharged cars in lfs.

The volvo 5 cylinders(with ford-added downgrades), nice engines (diesel and petrol) but outdated

Scart can do both RGB and YPbPr Components. Check the settings of your player to see if it can output one of these, then there's no need for new cables.

haha: http://rapidshare.com/files/160044823/rofl.mpg

Quote from deggis :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92vbXMgUTKg

haha

I'm a big supporter of electric cars but having seen the Le Mans diesel Audi live I have to say that Motorsport definitely needs to find a way to keep them petrol engines even when some day they are no longer accepted in general automotive transport.

League would still be interesting though. And wth hasn't Top Gear done any stuff on this?

FYI. Race 2 is live on Eurosport 2 today at 14:00 CET. First time I'll be watching this series although I have seen a demo run of the car and it looked and sounded quite nice.

EDIT:looks like race 1 was on from 11:00 to 12:00. Somehow missed it when I was checking the schedule on eurosport.com.

Last edited by J.B., Sun 2 Nov 2008, 10:57.

Quote from ajp71 :

The US has a big club racing scene, lots of superb club circuits and plenty of different club level single seaters though. Given that the front running cars in F4 are built new for the American market there must be somewhere to race them. A very quick search reveals that SCCA have a series which FF2000 cars are eligible for.

Certainly does look like there is a reasonable amount of club activity but I still doubt it's comparable to the UK.

Quote from Logicalx :

LoL so basically Overal Tracks....

basic start out cost for shall we say BTCC (Touring Cars) is at least £200,000 (and thats in the low class)
thats before running costs, team, sponsership and all the other lil bits n bobs main thing i think you really need is to get "Spotted" by a Sponsership you get spotted at some of these events then you have very very good luck on ur side but alot of things come in to play trying to get into these types of things and the 1st thing is money...

Nobody gets spotted. This isn't hollywood.

Sorry, should have said UK or GB.

In Germany there is exactly one SS club racing series. It has 3 races in Germany and you have to be happy with the safety standards from the '60s and 70's (historic Formula Vee).

Quote from tristancliffe :

I very much doubt you are limited to the mentioned series/championships in total, but it depends what level of racing and investment you are after. There will be various 'club level' single seater championships throughout the country catering for many older and even contemporary chassis that will require budgets at a fraction of the level of Skip Barber et al.

You mustn't forget that England cannot be compared to any other country in the world when it comes to club racing. In most countries there's really only a handful of club series and it's quite unlikely that any of them are single seaters.

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

I think he should go to America, he would probably have a shot at IRL if he did some ALMS.

Yeah, might be a good idea.

Quote from Mackie The Staggie :

anyone know of the next kid supposedly coming through the Mclaren system. I saw an article a couple weeks ago about the Scottish boy (say boy, he's 22) whose Dario Franchetti's cousin, or some kind of relative.

As you may gather I skim read the article , or it was a Sunday articale and was still too hungover to ackowldge it.

He's not some unknown kid, he's the guy who beat Vettel very clearly in F3 euroseries, both even driving for the same team. Then, similarly to Paffett, he didn't have enough money to do GP2 so he went for a payed drive in DTM. This weekend he still has a chance to secure the DTM title and next year it looks like Mercedes may be paying for him to go to GP2 after all. And yes, he's Franchitti's cousin.

EDIT: forgot a minor detail, his name, Paul di Resta.

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

Interesting read, have to say I feel a little bit sorry for Gary Paffett, Mclaren seem to have ignored him.

Yeah, I really wonder why he failed to impress them more as a test driver. He's been ultra fast in everything he's ever done. Right now his career is going round in circles a bit. He's dominating the DTM B class which will probably lead him back into the DTM A class, which he already won in 2005...

But where can he go? At 27 he's probably too old to do a di Resta and go to GP2 and F1 teams, other than the failed prodrive, have never seemed interested. Shame.

Quote from Blas89 :

Rename the sticked out thingie.
Edit: I failed!

lol, don't give up. These two links should be all you need.
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx ... w_unhide_file_extensions/
http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/MatroskaSplitter.exe

Quote from thisnameistaken :

I think by the end of the video he's quite aware of Tristan.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

I renamed it to Accident Clip.MP4 but it doesn't change anything because when I stick it out of the RAR onto my desktop it just says "Accident Clip".

No big bother anyway, thanks for the attempted help

n00b. You need to enable file extensions in Windows. Otherwise you can't change the extension.

Quote from ajp71 :

Looking at it the blue car seemed to be traveling very slowly (for a winged car), it looks like the white (unwinged car) had decided to slot in behind it on the outside letting Tristan take the inside. Presumably he was expecting the other car to be quicker than him round the corner as well and moved sharply to the right to avoid him when he realised this wasn't the case, I'm pretty sure the blue car was taken out by the white one but it is unclear and rather academic whether that was before or after hitting Tristan.

But I wonder if the white car was even aware of Tristan? It does look like it at first but then why does he move over to right so far?

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Well that was the only one in recent months (read years) to not play. It must be a sign.

J.B, I tried your suggestion but WinRAR started having a spaz at me, so it won't play anyway.

Rename the avi not the rar.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Btw Tristan, video refuses to play for me.

The file extension is wrong. Rename from AVI to MP4. And if you can't play it then it's because you're missing either Haali splitter or ffdshow.

Cool vid BTW. Did the blue car spin by itself or did you actually domino the other one into it?

Hamilton: he already beat Alonso in his first season and can only get better.

Alonso: showed that he can be as quick and often quicker than Hamilton last year, and IMO may well be the only driver to ever do so during Lewis' career. Some great drives this year also.

Kubica: first driver ever to cause problems for Heidfeld, great pace, few errors.

EDIT: I guess I didn't really answer the question, as Hamilton and Alonso as team mates didn't really work that well. So my choice would be Hamilton and Kubica.

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I guess you could put those reactors in stationary, robust buildings instead of installing one in every car...

Maybe his way of signalling support for nuclear power without getting booed out by the tree huggers?

Quote from AndroidXP :

The devs are aware that the heating model is not finished - it's a WIP, after all. Nevertheless, it would be a lot more helpful if you'd give a bit more detail other than saying "it's wrong." Some specific examples would be nice.

WOW Finally, The lfs community accepted that the real world should not be changed as how things are in lfs. AND there is really something wrong with the tyre-temps in lfs.

Phew i am not crazy :elefant: Although i was more or less told so everytime i posted something simular to about the tyre-modelling(espacially about heating..) is not good although irl they are rarely having overheating issues with tyres.

I am really looking forward for the next patch, hopefully some serious issues will be solved in the next patch.

Quote from AlienT. :

Quote: 'Preload simply makes the diff behave as if it were locked over a certain range of torque difference between the wheels'

That's only part of the truth though. Fully locked means 100% lock. Preload makes sure that lock never gets to 0% but it doesn't do this by always making it 100%.

A good discussion is here: http://www.lfsforum.net/showth ... 831&highlight=preload

Quote from The General Lee :

Why the green stripes on the tyres?

Don't laugh. They represent the environmental awareness of F1.



LOL

Quote from Jertje :

I'll ask you again, why was Kovalainen in that position? Hint: because he had to mash his brakes and avoid his rampaging team-mate.

In videos you can see Kovalainen (and very clearly, too) brake hard after Hamilton locks up, right in front of him and only after that being able to steer right again -- I really don't see how anyone can argue that Kovalainen did anything wrong there. That's just blaming the bullet for killing someone.

Huh, so Kovalainen had a hard time to avoid a car that was in front of him that braked far too late? What does that mean?

But it doesn't really matter, the fact of the matter is that these kind of T1 incidents have never been penalized.

Hahaha, F1 is such a joke.

I went to bed after Lewis was given yet another penalty for an offense that has never ever in the past been seen as worthy of a penalty and won't be in the future (although it was a bonehead move).

Then I wake up and read about another ridiculous pro Massa decision and it doesn't even anger me, F1 just can't be taken seriously as a sport. It needs to break down and die already, public taxes are being paid for this shit ffs.

And this guy gets the prize for representing his team fittingly by behaving like a POS on live TV after seeing his driver spin an opponent around. Never seen anything like it.