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ajp71
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Is heel and toeing acceptable for advance driving? I'd assume they'd want you to let the clutch out slowly, which isn't as good as heel and toeing but is still fine for normal driving and a lot easier to do smoothly in everyday driving.
ajp71
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Historic GT mod has been released. I'm now just waiting to find out who will deliver GTL to me first, Royal Mail or the internet

Oh yeah Niels you're making us buy a SimBin product now
ajp71
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What you've described as a '1 way' is something along the lines of a Detroit Locker, used in lots of oval cars and other more simple circuit racing cars, including V8 Supercars, not really a desirable alternative to a LSD unless you need to put a huge amount of power down with rubbish tyres.

The '2 ways' sounds like a fully locked differential, useful for drag racing and the odd circuit application like some Group C cars where a lot of power has to be put down in a car that is easy to drive, expect understeer everywhere and increased risk of breaking driveshafts.

For a normal track car a limited slip diff (partial lock power and coast) is normally the better option.
ajp71
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Quote from MAGGOT :Post 66? The Revival site has a picture of a 69 Lotus 49B on track (or in the video, I forget) and I know it was the revival site because I didn't even look at the FOS site. Although, I do recall reading somewhere on the site that they allowed winged cars with drivers looking for a more leisurely pace...

They do have tributes to a particular driver each year (presumably that was Hill's) in which they have later cars, so I guess that is what Tristan was thinking about. Everything else though is pre-66, because Goodwood closed for racing in this year and has been kept as a time warp, all the service vehicles and team transporters allowed into the main paddock have to be pre-66.

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How open is the Revival to the general public? By which, I mean how free are you to walk around the track to different corners and the like?

You can walk around the whole outfield of the track, there is good standing spectating everywhere except the chicane, AFAIK all the grandstands can be booked by the general public, you'll need to book a long time in advance and TBH you'll soon find that unless it tips it down with rain you'll rather spend time wondering around the rest of the track and paddocks than sit in a grandstand. Being an active airfield track (there are historic planes flying in and out on the day) there's very little infield spectating, IIRC the infield bank between Lavant and the Esses is for members of the GRRC only.
ajp71
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Quote from tristancliffe :I'm sure some of the static displays included slightly more contemporary machines as well (albeit limited in numbers). Either that, or I'm going mad. I do have a cold (day off sick ), which might explain my madness...

I think you're going mad, Goodwood is strictly 1966, all the post-66 transporters are made to park away from the main paddock
ajp71
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Quote from tristancliffe :Don't waste time watching the hill though - you can't see much, and most cars are barely trickling up the hill... Much better to spent time in the paddock.

Yeah wondering round the paddock is much better than the hill, don't waste money on grandstand seats and if you want to see some action the rally stage is the best bit or if you look at which cars are doing timed runs up the hill then go and watch them near the top of the hill (after the wall) on the opposite side to the rally stage, it is a bit of a trek to get there but it is uncrowded and you can get much closer to the cars.

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The Goodwood Revival is DEFINITELY worth going to though. Fancy seeing about £25,000,000 worth of privately owned, unique cars on one grid being raced hell-for-leather like they were deisnged to do? And round the paddock you'll see some amazing creations, whether it be 1960s F1 cars (still FAR quicker than ANYTHING you'll drive on the road today), 1990s LeMan prototypes, or late 80s BTCC cars when they were actually exciting...

The revival meetings I've been to have all been pre-1966

The revival is better than the FoS, though both are very good and worth doing if you haven't been to them before, and just like the FoS don't bother getting grandstand seats for the revival.
ajp71
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Thankfully this forum doesn't allow images in sigs...
ajp71
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Quote from frokki :I don't have any own pets, but I have to babysit these bastards for a few weeks now :tired:

Poor things.
ajp71
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Quote from MAGGOT :Just looking at the stats... 16 people killed there since '61 apparently (I thought it opened in 64?). 5 of them have been since May of '01, which means the first 11 deaths were spread over almost 40 years, and the latter 5 over only 7 years. That's not good at all...

It seems like a worrying trend, if you look on Motorsport Memorials there are very few fatalities in the '90s at a lot of circuits and a sudden increase in the last few years, I think largely due to a false sense of security.
ajp71
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Quote from Tango :howdy,
had a great day out but im real Knackered at the mo but couldnt resist looking at a few of my pics.the best one is easily this shot,congrats Scott Redding and what a pic if i can say so myself

That is quite a pic, bet you could get it printed somewhere
ajp71
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A bit of googling reveals a lovely entry list but bad news

Quote from http://forums.corvetteforum.com/showthread.php?p=1565999104 :Well, today was a wash.......during a late morning race, the front body work came off the Walter Wolf Can Am car, which then caused the driver to lose control and crash as he was cresting the hill on the back straight....he died at the scene....as a result, all the feature races were cancelled for the afternoon. At least he died doing something he loved. Freaks me out a bit, I talked briefly with him on Friday when I was taking pics of the car.

ajp71
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Quote from PAracer :
There really is no runoff issue at Englishtown. It's just unusual to see a car explode at the end of the track like Scott's did. Still, tragic.

I would argue that any drag strip that can't offer a way of retarding a car that is rolling before the finish relatively safely has insufficient run off. Had the car been running on a rough slightly inclined gravel trap type surface it may have rolled violently but the chances are that the guy could have walked away as has often been seen at other drag strips.
ajp71
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I have to admit the team play part of TF2 is rather beyond me, just like in BF2 there have occasionally been the odd server where for some reason everyone plays as a team, which usually results in pretty much guaranteed victory. Most of the time though it is just like a team deathmatch with maybe the odd small groups working together. The only FPS I've played where teamwork actually seems to happen and be necessary is Project Reality.
ajp71
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Quote from amp88 :What are the chances of actually surviving a ~300mph crash? Tyre walls at that speed would surely be almost as hard as a concrete wall. The same way that water is like concrete if you hit it at ~50mph.

It wasn't a 300mph impact with the wall, after it caught fire there was clearly some attempt to stop it, even if the parachutes didn't deploy correctly the car will have lost a lot of its speed. The impact speed was probably more like 150mph, which is very fast but completely survivable (there have been a few very fast head ons with tyre walls with big single seaters with drivers only suffering minor injuries) a well designed car and substantial length of impact absorbing material (there's no reason why a drag strip that can't have miles of run off road can't have a 50 foot deep tyre wall). I do think the length of stopping distance is ridiculously short at this track though, it must be pretty tight anyway.
ajp71
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I very much doubt you were banned for lag...
ajp71
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Quote from 5haz :
Perhaps the safety of drag strips should be looked into, perhaps there should be SAFER barriers?

They don't offer a very effective way of absorbing a heavy head on impact, the advantage they would have, and probably the reason why the concrete wall was left unprotected, is that there would be no risk of a car plowing under the tyres whilst on fire, which is a greater risk in drag racing, I think most people would choose to live with that risk rather than have a concrete wall.
ajp71
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I can't believe that, there is no reason why there couldn't be a deep tire wall there, which as we've seen from circuit racing is a relatively safe way of stopping a car from high speed head on.
ajp71
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LFS is just a niche game with a good community. Nobody uses it as a serious training tool, it may help a bit but we're all here first and foremost to have fun racing each other. I don't think very many actually want to take it more seriously or think that sim racing should be considered a proper sport, which is why STCC and other attempts to broadcast sims have failed and why iRacing is getting rejected by a lot of people.
ajp71
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Quote from Gimpster :Yea but the sidewalls are still single ply and designed to run at 32PSI nominal. How many performance tires in a 245mm/40%/17" size do you see that have such excessive side wall flex?

They all do, watch any car going round a roundabout too fast and even with road pressures the flex is very obvious.
ajp71
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Quote from JO53PHS :Probably...

I'm having doubts as to whether this stig I saw at Silverstone last weekend is real Big grin..

Hang on... Wherez that picture gone :S

Silverstone last weekend, MG club's big Summer bash?
ajp71
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Quote from samjh :
Alonso's dad was a factory mechanic, hardly a big earner. Michael Schumacher's dad was a brick layer. Takuma Sato's parent's couldn't even afford to buy him a kart, so he raced bicycles instead and then went to racing school using his prize money at age 19.

Don't believe the bullshit, they weren't exactly on the dole, they normally earned relatively well before hand and then went and took a load of jobs to fund a years karting where they were lucky enough to get spotted and given a sure ticket into F1 (just like Hamilton was).

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As mentioned before, Takuma Sato started at age 19; Bruno Senna started at 21; Sebastian Loeb started at 21; and there are many more examples of late-starters who are now successful drivers. Of course for F1 or other open-wheel racing you probably are too late, but for rallying you definitely are not (most rally drivers started as adults).

Sato has got where he is because he is Japanese, he had an entire team created for him just so he could stay in F1 driving a Japanese car. Bruno Senna doesn't count because his name got him in a racing car not his ability, that doesn't mean he hasn't got ability. A lot of people have said that if Damon Hill hadn't been given drives due to his name he would never have progressed into F3, yet he still had the potential to be a World Champion.

Loeb and rallying is different to single seater racing. Generally rally drivers start later and have a better chance of actually getting somewhere from club competition and it is probably one of the only routes into professional motorsport that doesn't require parents to pay for it.
ajp71
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Quote from Zen321 :As I said previously, the idea for preventing abuses is that every server would have options to allow which part of the car is tuneable and to which extent.

Currently intake and weight restrictions are able to be set on the server (through InSim), none of the servers using this are very popular are they?
ajp71
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Could you summarise (ie. without writing a book) how you intend for any kind of tuning not to result with everybody running the quickest options rendering it useless?
ajp71
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Quote from flymike91 :Is the above untrue? I'm saying there should be punishment for causing an injury crash.

Causing death by dangerous driving is a custodial offense.
ajp71
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Quote from S k i p p y :
Now I can't speak for other countries and their diesel engines so I'll just use what we have here. There are a lot of people getting 500 - 1100hp / 900 - 2200ft/lbs out of 5.9L Cummins engines. That goes for the 6.6L Duramax and the 6.0L Powerstroke available here as well. Your idea of similar cars with like capacities doesn't hold water either. Take this for instance http://www.dieselpowermag.com/ ... evelle_duramax/index.html A 1970 Chevelle with a 6.6L Duramax transplant making over 1000hp and 2000ft/lbs. That same model year car came with a 7.4L petrol only making 450hp. That doesn't mean they are all like that, it was the easiest example I could find.

7.4 litres of Detroit iron is equivalent to about 2 litres of proper engine. If you want to talk about specific power output (not a diesels strong point)
then the diesel looks pretty rubbish, the CanAm Porsche 917/30 produced well in excess of 1000bhp in race trim with a 5.4 litre engine.

If you're going for specific output though the diesel is fairly hopeless at 151 bhp/litre, most big bikes (and bike engined cars) will beat that easily and standard road cars are getting ever closer to it. True high power for capacity comes from petrol engines, the BRM V16 was producing over 300 bhp/litre 50 years ago and the BMW F1 cars produced over 650 bhp/litre.
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