I think the simple answer is: Racetracks don't use cones, they use those flappy thingies that are bolted to the ground. Autocross does use cones though so maybe one of the RL autocrossers here can tell us something about the size.

some pics:
http://formel3.com/fotos/2007-04-29/2007-04-29-072.jpg
http://evcl.com/914/Pics/OATvsConesSm.JPG
http://www.dortmunder-motorspo ... b.de/images/slalom_23.jpg
http://www.westsideracing.no/images/Hockenheim2006_05.JPG

Last edited by J.B., Thu 17 May 2007, 07:15.

Just found it myself, nice work.

Quote from celegorm :

Finally i found some free time and worked for new McLaren helmets in photoshop. It's Fernando Alonso's 2007 McLaren helmet. Lewis Hamilton will be next.

Kwality. Are you still doing Lewis' helmet?

Completely agree with keiran here. People who say Alonso was lucky quite simply haven't bothered to look at the actual data to see who made more mistakes and who had more technical problems.

But back to the Hamilton topic. At the end of last year Paffett, Hamilton and de la Rosa were in a kind of shootout for the second McLaren seat. Does anyone here think that either Paffett or de la Rosa would be leading the WDC now, had they been chosen? Personally I don't think even Paffett would have been able to do it and PDLR wouldn't have even come close. What did he achieve when he had a few races last year?

Another thing I just noticed: how come most of the people that aren't exited about Hamilton are from the UK? Are you letting James Allen annoy into not wanting to jump on the bandwaggon?

Quote from tristancliffe :

I think I'd like to see him having to hunt someone down and pass (or at least try to) them. I'd like to see how he handles reliability problems (a la Coulthard or Schumi). I'd like to see how he copes with starting from the back or from grid penalties. I'd like to see how he reacts when a questionable manoeveur is done on him, or a questionable political decision. That sort of thing. Starting 4th and racing to 2nd because of 2 errors (reliability or driver error) is something most of the drivers could do in that car.

But I don't rate Alonso that highly either!

I see. For me he has already shown enough to convince me that he will have no problems at all to deal with the of the situations you mention. But we'll have to wait one or two seasons to get hard answers to your questions.

I don't really remember a lot of spins in GP2 but I didn't watch all the races either.

I'd be interested to know what you think he would have to do for you to consider him worthy of the hype? Is it that you're still waiting to see how many mistakes he makes? Or maybe you don't see Alonso as top line driver?

Quote from tristancliffe :

Lewis didn't do ANYTHING amazing this weekend.

Qualified 4th behind his team mates. No big deal
Got a good start - more to do with electronics than driver skill
Drove to the end of the race on his own - wow!

He might be 'winning' the championship, but that currently has nothing to do with an amazing talent, merely the fact he's just sat in the races and finished them. With his car he can't do badly.

How about he beat the current double world champion twice in four races, almost beat him in his first and hasn't made a single mistake yet? I honestly can't believe that anybody can fail to see just how amazing a job hamilton is doing. Compare his consistancy, speed and failure rate with other hot rookies. And isn't there a regulation that launch/traction control isn't allowed to kick in until 100 km/h are reached after the start?

Quote from tristancliffe :

And in GP2 didn't he win most races meaning he HAD to do comebacks.

Fixed it for you. (hint:reversed grids)

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for.

Clearly, paying the devs for the 1024 versions will be money well spent. While the 2048 versions are visibly better still, I don't think they warrant using 4 times the bandwidth of 1024 versions. If LFS was a stand alone offline game then sure, go as high as you can, but since LFS has such a great auto skin download feature file size needs to be considered.

Has anyone made in-game screenshots for direct comparison of different skin texture sizes? I couldn't find any in this thread and am too lazy to make them myself right now.

McLaren looking very good but who will be the faster of the two?

You seriously ran slicks from 1988? Maybe you're taking the whole historics thing a bit too far!

So in summary you've got 4 F3's that are all over 10 years newer than yours, 4 Formula Vauxhall-Lotus, 2 Formula X and one TFR07 (what's that?).

So basically your goal would be to beat the FVL and beating any of the F3's would be a great achievment, right? You were already less than 2 seconds slower than an F301(!) so it could get interesting.

Glad you enjoyed yourself. :up:

Thx for the report. 3 seconds in your first race with almost zero track time sounds very good to me! Is there a list of entrants somewhere so we can see what kind of cars you are competeing against?

Quote from der butz :

I've never heard anything about whistles... would be stupid, hearing a whistle blow every minute, don't you think?

They used whistles at the WRC Germany Rally. Everytime a car was close enough the marshalls would whistle a few times to make sure people were alert. Similar to the way that people race circuits are warned everytime a car enters the pitlane.

Quote from Don :

Do you think that marshalls can be on EVERY few meters of the stage? For example, the stage where this accident happened, was ~11km long. Its impossible to cover EVERY cm of stage by marshalls.

The interval between the "top" drivers is 2minutes, 1 minute is between the other drivers. Also, you can really hear the cars from very far away, so i cant imagine wtf was she doing.

That's why I asked if it was an official spectator area as I think those would be marshalled. That she didn't get scared away by the noise is puzzling though, but with so few details we canly guess wtf happened.

Couldn't find it on google but you're probably right. I only visited a rally once and from memory the wait between the cars seemed longer.

Quote from FOGlegsy :

Dont the marshalls blow whistles when a car is approaching? hear a whistle get off the track

Yes, that's how I know it. Why weren't they warned? Were there no marshalls? Were they at an official spectator spot?

And to the people who think it's silly to cross a rally track: You are aware that rally cars are seperated by about five minutes from each other aren't you? Crossing the track is a perfectly reasonable thing to do if you know there is no car coming.

And why isn't this on the autosport.com front page? This is a fatal accident at an official FIA event. I guess only racing drivers are real people in the eyes of the racing press.

Nice. The active suspension seems to be doing almost the opposite of what a passive system would do: The outside pushrod extends in corners.

Quote from Shotglass :

fission + electric motor

+111!!!!

I'm a bit surprised that the efficiency of a muscle is so poor. Would have thought that evolution would have optimized it more. In terms of efficiency electric motors are great though. And not only that: t3h rulage.

But biomechanics definatly can do some amazing stuff. For instance after over 100 years of aviation we are nowhere near being able to maneuver through the air as agile as a stupid fly.

Coffee would be nice but would also be quite a challlenge for Scawen with all the heat transfer and fluid dynamics going on there.

+1

I'd like to be able to sit at the pit wall and see timing and tv screens, with the cars blasting by in the backround.

I made a much better version. Heidfeld takes 41.16 s where Bell takes 44.80.

Using Advanced mathematical techniques we can now find that Heidfeld could have done a 6:08 which would have beaten Bellof's record of 6:11 by 3 seconds.

http://rapidshare.com/files/29 ... bell_splitscreen.avi.html
or
http://www.mooload.com/new/fil ... feld_bell_splitscreen.avi

Just made a quick part lap split-screen video of Heidfeld vs Derek Bell's 6:41. Looks like he wasn't going that slow.

Sorry for the appalling quality but since youtube has become so popular it's almost impossible to find even low quality videos.

EDIT: links removed, higher quality version 5 posts further down.

Last edited by J.B., Wed 2 May 2007, 02:30.

Well done, love your physics videos.

But I'm amazed how little regard people have for image quality: asking for youtube when you get a perfectly fine, smooth AVI file illepall In fact increasing the bitrate wouldn't even hurt as it would help remove the blockiness of the smoke.

8:34! lol

Some publicity stunt. That's as fast as a BMW M3 roadcar.