Quote from Intrepid :

“In some ways driving a Pro ... y short,” said Whincup.

lol

You're like a bloody politician with your propoganda! Ye karts are nice, end of story jeesh. I used to think, whats wrong he is just expressing his opinion, when people moaned at you. But it gets to a point...

Quote from JPeace :

Yes he was being a puss, but not as much as Hamilton. Hamilton was funny alongside, on the inside. Button just kept trying the outside, which is never going to work on schumacher. You cannot expect someone of schumacher's experience to outbreak themselves. Was stupid, dont know what Button was thinking, should have known better.

How was Hamilton Funny exactly? Were you listening to his radio? Must be a good driver to crack jokes on the first lap of an F1 race.

Anyways he made the right call to stay in 3rd and drove a good race.

Driver with the most balls was imo Alguersuari. He had a manic start and passed a load of cars and then did Hulkenberg round the outside into T1. Just a shame he ruined it with that HRT. He is becoming one of my favourite drivers though this season.

rofl, Farmville! that game is a sin

added srla to the list

updated teams list

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Track: Aston North, Clear Day
Date: Saturday 15th May
Time: 18:00 GMT

1. 1.spdoRacing
   
2. 2.My3id Gaming
   
3. 4.Sonicrealms Racing
   
4. 5.Team Inferno Racing
   
5. 7.Alternative.AXLE3D
   
6. 8.CoRe Racing
   
7. 10.Conquest Racing
   
8. 11.The Danish Racing Team
   
9. 12.Ocius Racing
   
10. 13.SimRacing-LA
    
11. 14.SpeedCore Racing Team
    
12. 15.Serbian Hell Drivers
    
13. 16.InSeRT GT
    
14. 17.Concept Racing
    
15. 18.Telmex-VTR-PER
    
16. 19.Maximum Racing
    
17. 20.mb-racing.org
    
18. 21.International Team CAPO
    
19. 22.SimRacing Lithuania Team
    
20. 23.ZION & Friends
    
21. 24.Lublin Racing Team
    
22. 25.E-Team
    
23. 26.Ministry of Speed
    
24. 27.Error Racing
    
25. 28.Team unified
    
26. 30.Smoking Team
    
27. 31.Meh Racing
    
28. 32.Race Junkies
    
29. 33.Tiger Express Motorsports
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30. 34.Deadline Team
    
31. 3.F1RST Racing
    
32. 35.ineX Racing
    

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Last edited by BenjiMC, Sat, 15 May 2010 15:42. Reason : updated to ineX

Watching the FP1 practice for spain, it seems like it actually is speed dependant on the passive system that the mercedes is using. which just doesnt make sense to me. I'm sure there is more to it than that.

Quote from RiseAgainstMe! :

I still don't understand your reasoning. under your theory, why are high-speed corners not activating the sytem? they are corners after all...'

corrrect me if Im wrong, but activating the system means stalling the wing, which means less downforce, or do I have the system backwards?

Activating the system means less downforce yes.

Downforce is for high speed cornering. For example take a look at any westhill setup or Kyoto GP Long setup and you'll see most of them will run a very high downforce level because of the extremely high speeds that 70% of the track is made from. This is exactly why you don't want the system activating through ANY corners, slow or fast.

@PaulC2K
I guess the McLaren version is different considering the chassis changes etc that other teams would have to make.

Quote from RiseAgainstMe! :

I think you've got this entire concept all confuddled up.

I would bet that they designed it to work in the high speed corners... they are high speed after all. fast air= stalled wing. slow air=not stalled. They likely designed it to activate at a certain speed, at which there is a tipping point between how much they need downforce vs. how much drag the car has.

if they designed it to activate in the corners, they would stall their wing, causing them to lose aero grip in the corners. I don't think that's what they want.

unless they have the reverse of what McLaren has, and are generating more downforce in the corners, instead of less downforce on the straights. or maybe I'm the one who's confuddled. it is a kinda counter-intuitive concept.

Read what i said again.

It wouldn't be speed activated at all, but activated by changes in air flow from cornering/going straight. Otherwise in the high speed corners the f-duct system would be in effect, and after all downforce is for the high speed corners so that wouldn't be what you want.

Quote from pearcy_2k7 :

Isn't the McLaren one controlled by the drivers knee? Then it is controlled. What i was saying was, if the air is let to run freely through the duct it will stall the wing in the corners which would make it useless, so i was asking what controls the airflow.

Like i said, it isn't controlled. I think it's how they described it on speed, air flowing differently through the corners is adjusting the air flow. No idea how though. It can't just be a matter of different speeds because the effect would happen in high speed corners too, which is where you REALLY don't want it happening.

Last edited by BenjiMC, Fri, 7 May 2010 03:32.

thats the point, the McLaren one isn't controlled by anything. Thats why when Mercedes had theirs on it was just a little disc thing on the rear wing.

If i was in that car there would be more wet stuff than just that dirty water in there.

woah, major nosedive.

Quote from 5haz :

Check out the speed at 1:12!

check out the speed at 5:52!!!

http://www.planetlemans.com/20 ... luded-sumo-power-gt-wins/

i'd rather watch it on tv tbh.

the track was never the problem, it's the bathrooms in boxes with now sinks by stowe and the muddy paths that wants fixing up.

Quote from Electrik Kar :

Yeah, bad choice of words

Also, this one,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en16i8BY4hI

Wow... what a scene

wow, how far is that grandstand on the start straight!

The Bridgestone guy that comes on bbc during free practice sessions also said the same thing in china.

Quote from Highsider9 :

Some nice Onboard Footage

veyr nice

updated with ineX Racing

better video, same car http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... M1lIQ&feature=related

Quote from Boris Lozac :

3:10 to Yuma

loved it too.