JYS has 3 WDCs in his trophy cabinet, Hamilton doesn't.
I hope it has no power boost facility, if you need power boosts to make the cars overtake each other you may as well allow some BTCC style nonsense like ballast, picking the grid out of a hat (on live TV), crossing the 'driver etiquette' section out of the rule book and requiring the drivers to bitch like little girls.
Personally I like the idea of insurance, yes it is expensive but it is a form of people having to take responsibility for their actions. Over here healthcare is free with the exception of road accident victims where the insurer/responsible party is expected to foot the bill. I'm sure a similar system could work in NZ.
If the rules were simply 2 litre engines powered by a commercially available fuel, with free induction design I'm almost certain you'd find a field of very highly stressed forced induction petrol cars, no one would touch diesel, hybrids or any other alternative fuels unless the rule book was specifically designed to ensure that the politically correct fuel would win. The ACO could make a 3 wheeled steam engine win LeMans if they wanted to, it would prove bugger all other than a lot of people are stupid enough to believe marketing gimmicks.
Presuambly so, N2003 still offers much better oval racing than LFS ever has.
My torrents just haven't done anything, they've just sat there at 0% with speed at ?/?. No error message and I can't find any torrents settings area.
I am trying Opera again. Overall I think I prefer Firefox, Opera is a bit overcomplicated for its own good, the smooth scrolling is a huge bonus though. I also can't make the torrents work.
Possibly build quality standards have dropped? Or maybe Ford never envisaged that customers would expect the roof lining not to spontaneously fall off after the first week? Given that both UK Fords on our drive have survived considerably bumpier roads than American highways, years of having smelly dogs and motorsports spares thrown in them and a track day without the roof linings falling off I suspect there may be a difference in build quality.
It still weighs a few tons, is very simple (solid rear axle, pushrod V8 and leaf springs?) and like all American cars is cheap and cheerful and afraid of corners.
I am well aware the Taurus X is a completely different car, I was just commenting on build quality of American cars. Funny thing is we were just having a conversation about different levels of quality between Ford USA and Europe when the roof lining fell off.
Clearly it is a strip of smooth asphalt (not ridged like in the photos someone has posted bellow). Upon closer inspection the iRacing appears to have a ridged run off like in the photos, which apparently isn't bumpy?
LFS uses sensible tire slip curves which is why it is very forgiving and doesn't need special tires for drifting, it doesn't use any of the nonsense found in GTR and typical mod tire curves.
I didn't even see the black matting in that Audi video, certainly didn't see a prototype running with its loaded wheels on the matting on the outside of the corner without any issue. Rumble strips are different and yes there should be some chance of holding a car on the matting but it should never be desirable to drive on it.
Copse, Becketts, Stowe, Club, Woodcote all roughly 90 degree nearly flat right handers and they used to make up a world class racing circuit.
Come on you're picking holes for no reason. Road America is a very good fast, smooth track with just the right mix of elevation changes and corners to make it a really good power track.
There is a glaring issue with that video though that you failed to pick up on, in typical LFS fashion it appears that taking the run off matting is the quickest route.
In a car: Sabine
In bed: no thanks
VBH just pisses me off, don't know why but I really can't stand her.
In bed: no thanks
VBH just pisses me off, don't know why but I really can't stand her.
Back in the real world the Taurus is, was designed to be and always has been a cheap and tacky, poorly built and completely unsporty car designed to appeal to the American market, something that wouldn't sell in Europe but in the US of A, where car buyers don't care for quality, fuel consumption or handling (three of the big selling points of cars in Europe) but instead for cheapness, comfort and most of all physical size. When we were in California in the Summer we hired a Tarus X, brand new, literally we had to wait at the hire place whilst they removed the delivery covers from the seats. After a fortnight of motoring the entire roof lining had shaken itself loose and was hanging off the roof, the cup holders had broken and the door trim was rubbish and looked like it was going to fall off from new. I'm sure by American standards it was fine and quite well finished but by UK (and BMW) standards it was pants, we have a 10 year old E36 on the drive with the only interior fault being the glove box no longer opens smoothly (because the friction gel they use wears off after a few years), both Ford Europe cars (8 year old Galaxy and 6 year old Focus) haven't got a single issue with the interior, between them those 3 cars have less build quality/interior issues in a cumulative 24 years of abuse than the American Ford had after two weeks.
You prefer tires that do the whole sudden loss of grip nonsense? I suggest you try driving a real car on the limit and you'll soon see why no one can reproduce GTR slip curves...
If you're not concerned about visual quality a lot of the Australian tracks and GPL conversions are really nice tracks to drive and race on.
In what way do you feel the 911 is 'glued' to the road? The 911 doesn't feel like an overpowered monster because it isn't, it is a very well balanced low power production car that is great fun to drive and race, the tires are sensible and the lateral forces are low. On the limit it does behave like a 911, particularly on lifting off. If you drive it badly it will be a handful but is normally just about controllable. If you're talking about any of the other cars, then they are mid engined and low powered so are going to be very neutral unless you're really working with them on the limit.
Difficulty is I'm off to Silverstone now, where it could be difficult not to hear the what has been happening at LeMans
CSGTs preview of their upcoming WSC mod is very promising, you get to drive four Porsches (911, 914, 906, 910), well worth a few laps in the 911 and predictable to drive.
Also you might be interested in taking a look at the EOAA DBR9 mod (including patch 1.01), I changed the tires from GTR spec to something somewhat more sensible (thanks to Niel's advice) and the developer released the new tires, the result is something completely different from any other GT car in an ISI sim, much easier to drive and the suspension and tires whilst not perfect are both a whole lot more sensible than the typical GTR nonsense.
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