Not to mention her Peak Antifreeze sponsorship.

http://www.peakantifreeze.com/danica_fanpage.html

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Use of Weapons is a pretty fantastic SF book.

I'm embarrassed to say I was well past halfway in the book when I noticed that the chapter numbers were all screwed up, and why. I had to go back and skim through all the chapters to put it all together.

I liked Matter even better, probably because I didn't feel so stupid while I was reading it.

To follow up on that point, once you've bought S2, you have all the content that's available, so you're done buying stuff.

Mayfield's assertion that NASCAR is out to get him is hard to swallow. Until the meth busts, Mayfield was one of the "feel-good" stories of this season - a fairly competitive team put together in little time using other teams' cast-offs.

I would think the ideal situation for NASCAR would have been to have a strict drug policy and then have everyone test cleanly.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar ... amp;prov=st&type=lgns

Quote :

Max Mosley has resisted pressure to stand again as FIA president and will back Frenchman Jean Todt to succeed him after 16 years in charge of world motorsport.

Pressure to stand again? It sure sounded to me like all the pressure was to get out of town. He's saving face I suppose.

edit: oops, sorry didn't see the same info already in the Hamilton flame thread

Quote from mookie427 :

... just bought Iain Banks's book Dead Air and also taking his book Complicity which I will be reading for about the fourth time it's that bloody good

I just recently found Iain Banks myself, both with and without the "M" - his sci-fi is really good too.

Watching the replay and hearing Busch's spotter, I think it's really the spotter's fault. He said something to the effect of, "coming high", implying that Tony had a run on him but wasn't there yet. He clearly had a fender along side at that time. If a car is already next to you, the spotter should be saying something like "car high."

It would have been interesting to see what would have happened had they stayed side-by-side to the finish.

Quote from XCNuse :

It's not even that! It's when you get old mothers with cell phones with the volume on highest and the most annoying ringers and its lost in the depths of a purse that takes years to find!

That is when phones are annoying haha

Ahh yes @angry angel, well..
I would come back with a better response but I'm a tad busy surfing the nets right now!

I was in church a few weeks ago and someone's phone went off right at the start of a long prayer. The minister took it in stride though. He started the prayer with, "Lord, we hear you calling..."

Quote from Pablo Donoso :

lol it does do damage in real life tho, the Nascar shells are just CF, or fiberglass even, that most times the front faschia of the car is where the radiator is and in Nascars, especially, all they use is vinyl sticker to cover the radiator opening. They just take some vinyl off if it's overheating, or even add more if they need more downforce.

lol those vinyl strips are only a few mm's thick tho, when the 2 cars weighing 2,000 lbs each touch for example, that little vinyl strip can't protect the fiberglass shell / frame / radiator supports. It's not built like a tank, only the structure that surrounds the driver bro, the rest is minimal, for weight issues, and also safty issues, the car has to absorb some frontal impacts by collapsing to disperse the force of the hit. lol

Probably true on the older cars, not so much on the COT. I have a COT nose in my basement (from racingmetal.com ). You can see the part where most of the air comes into the radiator is tucked back just above the splitter. You can even see the little tabs they have to pull the tape off quickly. The part of the grill that's on the surface of the nose is almost always taped shut on a COT.

I agree that the frame tubing isn't very thick between the body and the radiator (maybe 3/4"), but the radiator isn't flush with the nose of the car. For the nose to be dented back enough to affect the radiator, the damage would be pretty serious.

Sorry to bump the month-old food part of this thread...

I've seen a kebab or two in my day, but every time I hear "doner kebab", I think of the Donner party.

Quote from TexasLTU :

New fashion to create threads about someones (not) dying?

Well, we know he WILL die eventually. It's sort of like creating an F1 GP thread six months in advance.

Farah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Ed McMahon all die in the same week. Let's hope this doesn't lead to an LFS Forum pre-emptive celebrity death thread-starter war.

So Max is threatening to pull the plug on the whole deal because every else seemed to be too happy that he was leaving? And here I thought the three weeks between these two races would be boring...

So the cap is not in effect in 2010, but "regulations agreed prior to 29 April 2009" are? Off the top of my head, that means:
- KERS is mandatory
- no refueling
- the "standard engine" rules are in effect
- no tire warmers

Right? Just trying to picture the F1 landscape for next year in my head.

Quote from tristancliffe :

I don't think you can claim "victory of the graphs" by the way.

New year-end award category for 2009 - "Lord of the Graphs"

Quote from Gabkicks :

where the heck did u guys see the Koni challenge race? i went to watch it, and I saw trucks racing on an oval.

You don't have that problem when you're at the track I think Speed will show it this coming weekend.

I love low budget racing, so the TDI and ST races were the ones I had circled on the schedule. I'm not sure if you got to see qualifying for the TDI race on Saturday, but more than half the field was up on two wheels at the top of the esses, some guys almost rolled it. It looked like UF1s at Fern Bay.

Most everybody kept it under control for the race. There was a little beating and banging, but less than I expected after watching that series on Speed last year.

The first hour or so of the GS race was good, with the top Mustangs duking it out with that Turner BMW. I do like bigger fields and more variety in the cars (and lower budgets) like the ST class has though.

We did the pit walk before the ST race and that was a blast. All the drivers were signing autographs. The VW guys gave us a shirt and the #29 Honda guys let my son sit in the car on the pitlane for pictures. We lost track of time and found ourselves stuck on the pitlane when during the national anthem. I hope they cut us out of the TV broadcast.

Hey, I was there too. I was sitting in the esses most of the time, although I did a fair bit of wandering around too.

Me and my five year old camped there that night and stayed for the TDI Cup guys and the start of the Koni ST race. Good times!

Formula Federation Series = FFS
Super Team Formula Union = STFU

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If the split happens, I can only assume that Speed will cover the wrong series (the spec racer Cosworth one) or worse yet, neither. I'm sure they're chomping at the bit to add another 3 hours of NASCAR gossip shows anyway.

I was a big fan of the original STCC broadcasts, and I'm sure I'd watch these too, although not live. I hardly watch anything live anymore. If it weren't for my DVR I'd never watch any racing at all.

This may be of limited use, since it's a different tire company on different cars, but here's what Hoosier recommends for ARCA stock cars.

https://www.hoosiertire.com/arcasp09.HTM

Note that they use inner-liners at superspeedways, as does NASCAR.

Quote from Bmxtwins :

I do wish NASCAR came here. I belong to a community of Nascar Heat (a really old nascar game that is still out there) and i think a lot of people would come here. The only thing is that iRacing and other companies currently own the rights to NASCAR and I dont think LFS could get a way with it. I wish we could. Unless im mistaken.

I'd like that too. I wouldn't even care if it was offically NASCAR, but LFS just isn't built for stock car racing. No rolling starts, no full course cautions, only one oval track... They could add all those things, but there's never been an indication that oval racing is a priority for LFS.

I played Heat for a long time also, the mods really extended the life of that game. If you want to get more current, ARCA Sim Racing is the best stock car sim that doesn't require a monthly fee, IMO. It's hard to find a pick-up race, but there are lots of leagues.

Quote from senn :

... (IE cheap auto boxes with "manual mode" *vomit*)

I'd like to pick up on this point. I've been driving manual for years but my wife doesn't. On the rare occasions when I need to drive her van, I leave her stranded with a car she can't drive. So I'm thinking about getting something with a tiptronic/steptronic for my next car, probably either a Mini or a VW Rabbit.

Has anyone used one of the above trannys? Of course the downside of my wife being able to drive my car is that she might like it and leave me with the van.

It sounds to me like Barrichello is a willing victim of team orders and he's saying the right things to the press (sounding irate at the suggestion) to further conceal the fact that it WAS team orders.

Maybe I'm reading too much into it.

Quote from Byku :

What Devs should work about is tyre wear, most road cars will start to lose tyre grip after around 4-5 laps around average track.

+1

Having the grip in tires go away due to wear (rather than just heat) would add a lot to LFS league racing. As it is, as long as they don't pop, you don't even think about wear.