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Quote from tristancliffe :

Within about 100 laps I think most here would be well within 10 seconds, the better few getting close to 5 seconds.

never EVER would that happen, to be within 10 seconds of an F1 drivers time would be AMAZING. Most people could manage about 1 lap in an F1 car before they were KNACKERED.

Most people would be around 5 seconds off in a KF1 kart, and manage about 5 laps.

I drive regularly, the 1st time i drove a KF1 I was 2 seconds off and shattered within 10 laps. I'd be happy to be within 20 seconds on my 1st test, before i got too tired to drive (after about 2 laps)

Quote from danben7 :

That's all there is to it, I don't think anyone wants to take anything away from the drivers, but what if there was a Mr X who didn't have enough money to get into racing, but then somehow the costs got lowered and he was the greatest you'd ever seen? You never know if you're missing out on these people.

If he was the greatest ever, he would have the determination to do something about it.

On track when things are hard, someone who makes excuses would just give up. someone who has battled for every cent would try hard and never give up, thus making him the greatest.

senna was a SUPER SUPER rare example of having money, talent and determination

good for u man

glad to see people doing something to improve their lives!
and example to the rest of us

the guy who made that, is a guy i know from karting's brother!!

massive coincidence when i found out

ok! it must work then, if people have done it before/still doing it!

ive never seen it in karting before

imagine how much space a car could have

Hey Fellas,

As many of you know racing is a very expensive business, so I have decided to think of a new way of getting sponsorship.

Instead of 1 BIG sponsor i was advised to get many small ones. One day the idea popped into my head of selling passport photo sized blocks which individuals or companies can buy for £10 each. Companies who want more exposure can buy 10 blocks (or however many) for a larger logo!

I have already raised a lot of media interest with this new idea, Anglia TV are coming to do a news article on me and my unique scheme soon and I keep in close contact with the local newspaper!

I’m selling 400 passport photo sized blocks on my racing kart which will gain a lot of exposure, on my own site and www.karting1.co.uk (which recieves over 5,000 unique hits per day worldwide) on TV and in newspapers.

In 2007 I was seeded the British #12 in my 1st year of competition with a budget around 10 times less than my competitors, due to the fact that I pay totally for myself.

What do you fellas think of the idea, and would anyone be interested in having their face on my kart? :P Surely the devs would love to see an LFS logo on the kart??!!

Ive been lucky enough to enjoy a bit of racing success, and get up to some cool stuff, all thanks to the team i have behind me!
http://www.willdendy.com/index ... latest-news&Itemid=50

Check out my site www.willdendy.com for news and updates!
ciao x

Last edited by ayrton senna 87, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 19:57.

Quote from ajp71 :

Ever thought it might just be a perceived advantage? Lots of people spend hours looking at their data logging in a totally nonconstructive illogical manner, just like people who will tell you a car feels better after you tell them you've changed it.

very true! but the ones who make full, logical use of data and find a 'system' to implement it on track can find HUGE advantages!

Quote from tristancliffe :

I'd be very very disappointed if my annual budget went into five figures. We aim to spend a lot less than that (which is why my racing career isn't going to be a multi-decade one, but a multi-month one )

hi tristan,
do you use data logging??

believing in luck is just an easy excuse as to why something didn't (or did) happen.

luck is a mix of preperation and taking advantage of that opportunity. why was schumacher always 'lucky', and DC never is?

its all in the head

Paul Ricard in France

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Oh great, so we've got a punch-up organised now have we?

Grow up ffs.

no not atall, im just looking forward to meeting someone who can give it mouth on the internet suggesting i should kill myself, then will be ridiculously shy when it comes to meeting in real life.

Quote from Shotglass :

is that really the best retort you could come up with in half a day? and being the interweb you cant even blame it on esprit d escalier

No, I don't need to think up with any 'comeback' because i have given reasoned argument, you choose to ignore my points you cant disagree with in your 'examinations' of my posts, such as "it seems to me you started this thread off on a tangent by suggesting i should throw myself off a bridge."

I don't need to come up with anything more accurate than, you sound like a twat because:
"youd be gobsmacked how much more loud and obnoxious than what youve seen so far i can be" that very much sounds like a twat to me.

I meet a few twats in life, and you are certainly one of them. Look forward to meeting you at the LFS event m8.

Becky raced Perry and Damon.

Last edited by ayrton senna 87, Fri 16 May 2008, 17:15.

Quote from Shotglass :

if you would be able to put a cheque in the mail it just might happen... and no im not usually that mouthy but if i have a crowd that im comfortable around with and that is able to thow some good points back at me (ie not you) youd be gobsmacked how much more loud and obnoxious than what youve seen so far i can be

you sound like a twat then

it seems to me that you were the one who started this thread off on a tangent, when you suggested i should make a difference and throw myself of a bridge to test my immune system.

until that point it was a sensible discussion, with some radical views i must admit.

I cant be bothered to speak to someone who will not listen to or accept people's views, brings up totally irrelevant points (such as the content of my signature and the fact I cant put 2 quotes in one post) and obviously has something against me, your 1st post in this thread saying I should jump off a bridge.

I sure do hope to meet you in real life one day, and I'm willing to be you wouldn't be so mouthy then.

Last edited by ayrton senna 87, Thu 15 May 2008, 21:26.

your very 1st point, fair enough. but where in my signature does it say i have won any rental kart races? Even if it did, why would that matter to this particular thread?of course I would love to be a racer, but I realise I do not have the money available to 'make it' and that my chances of being a professional driver are slim to none. Once again, where do my ambitions matter in this thread, which has now become about human evolution?

you are resorting to personal insults and put downs.

my point regarding the double posting is, that just because we cant do something does not make us 'chumps.' I dont find the need to call people chumps because they are unable to operate something as well as me, so where's yours?

Are you a 'chump' because there are people out there who can probably talk English better than you? of course not, you havnt learned the language. I havn't learned the language of HTML to make more than 1 quote, and I have no desire to.Intelligence and knowledge are 2 different things

Quote from Shotglass :

except that all you are is a mediocre karter and i am a rather quite good at engineering... youll accomplish nothing of value in life and im halfway to there to make some useful contributions to my field of science
dont even try to pull that sort of crap on me... especially not if youre unable to do it without double posting making you look like more of a chump than you already are

the fact is that you, or none of you know who i am, you dont know what i do, you dont know how good i am at racing. and that isnt my life ambition.thisnameistaken, you just resort to name calling 'stupid' etc rather than listening to points. Where have i shown that im 'stupid'? I agree with nihil's post now ive read it, showing i am open to LISTENING to ideas. 99% of the people on this forum would and DO carry on arguing blindly when a good point has been made, on either side of the 'argument'

The fact is that most people arguing with me now have openly admitted in the 'wasted their life' thread that all they do is sit on the computer all day and waste their time. what would u post about if there were no arguments? get a life.

And shotglass, unlike you I havnt wasted my life on forums. I am unaware of how to post 2 quotes in 1 message, in what way does this make me a 'chump'? you have played a racing game for MANY hours and u are still crap, does that make you a 'chump'? no.

Hyperactive, im sure that natural selection used to pick who lives and who doesnt nowdays that simply isnt the case.

Quote from Shotglass :

i know what you mean and im not even creative at all... in the last year or two ive somehow managed to completely lose all ambitions (largely thanks to siemens and some messed up crap at uni) and now i spend my days mostly drifting through life trying to barely hold onto the scraps of determination that will somehow have to suffice to carry me through however many years of work while indulging myself in tons and tons of pointless waste of time tv shows

written by you only a few days ago
u are exactly the type of waste of space of which i spoke

Quote from nihil :

And that is an assumption based on ground so unstable that it takes rare arrogance and common naivety to turn it into an assertion.

It assumes there is a cohesive "we" in the first place. It assumes that evolution has a goal that can be diluted. Taken in conjunction with your previous comments, it assumes that social, co-operative activity is a lower evolutionary strategy than antagonistic competition. It assumes there is a golden age of fitness that can be returned to. It attaches an unsubstantiated importance to conditions of austerity. I could go on but don't have the time....

good point

Quote from Shotglass :

make a difference then... jump from a bulding and lets see how your immune system copes with that

i love the irony of accusing a whole bunch of people for being useless while idolizing another bunch that does do nothing of value wasting tons of fuel in the process

immune systems don't counter-act falls from height

Quote from nihil :

So when did you last go out hunting for food? Where is the land that is available for us to gather berries and shoot deer? How can you, sitting in front of your computer, define intelligence so blithely when people who actually study intelligence for a living disagree on how to define it?

I ask you again, which are you: a fascist or an idiot?

did i say that i was any better than anyone else?

i saw WE are a watered down race

im not talking about poverty in other countries, because its something i do not know much about. all i do know is that they are not watered down, they have to travel a long way to get water, their immune systems are strong.im talking about the type of chav in this country, who just sit infront of the TV contributing nothing

In the last 100 years, food and medical attention has become available for ALL. everyone is helped no matter what is wrong with them. survival of the fittest?

Intelligence is a part of genetics, and these criminals/scum tristan talks of are spreading. maybe one day we will have 2 races? chavs and people.

100 years ago, the death rates among new born children was very high, because they were weak. Now, because all of our food is readily available, no-one knows how to hunt or provide for themselfs, we just sit infront of computers all day. we have become a totally watered down and useless race!

u wont make it