As long as he continues in the WRC I don't care what else he races in :P

I miss Champ Car... that was some more or less entertaining racing. Shame the series' had to merge, I always hated IRL. I was more hoping IRL would just go away.

I didn't even know IZOD started up already, I haven't been paying attention to North American Motorsports at all.

[EDIT] 9 of 17 rounds are road courses... That's a big improvement over the first season or two after the merger IIRC... good sign. They should bring back Mont Tremblant, though.

Quote from Shotglass :

i dont think i can compete with such a well reasoned and most elloquently put argument

I laughed out loud at that one...

Quote from ACCAkut :

maybe thats why. less vibration - less reason to fail

Less vibration is the motivation for the move, indeed, and this is also noted on Mulsannes Corner:

Quote from Mulsannes Corner :

And Aston's George Howard-Chappell has indicated that there aren’t any packaging draw backs for the long 6-cylinder given the car’s wheel base (2930 mm) and the current LMP regulations and there actually are benefits from a cooling standpoint. We're also told the engine is positively tiny, and easily lifted by one person.

Quote from ACCAkut :

so a turbo 6, nice. wonder if inline or V, guess latter

It was announced a couple weeks back that it would be inline. Interesting choice... they claim it has benefits over Vs without any drawbacks, relatively speaking. I don't buy it, but it's an interesting thing none the less.

I'd also like to know so I can change some of the boring colours to the purdy sunset ones

Quote from deggis :

(goodbye fins? or another knee-jerk solution? )

Knowing the ACO... Kneejerk solution.

Quote from tristancliffe :

I enjoy the circuit. Won first time out

Video here (although the camera stops after about 8 minutes despite a near empty SD card and a nearly full battery - grrrrrr!) - http://vimeo.com/21376043

Started 2nd after a plug lead came off No.4 cylinder in practice. At the start I stayed 2nd, but realised quite quickly that I was quicker. But I stopped paying attention near turn 5 (amusingly called Hamilton - presumably a boring, characterless corner that's hard on tyres and has had the best tarmac since an early age) and put my right hand tyres on the dirt. The result was a spin, dropping me to 11th, and giving me a 16 second deficit to the leader.

Of course the leader and the chap in 2nd both thought I was out, and therefore weren't trying 100%. I was.

I passed everyone. On the last lap, with three corners to spare, I slipstreamed the leader on the back straight, and stayed ahead (covering the inside of the following bend against 'switchbacks') to win by 0.7 seconds. My fastest lap (1m50) was 3 seconds quicker than the next quickest guy.

Even better, the guy in 2nd was then disqualified for running his rear wing too high, which promoted my team mate to 3rd. I've rebuilt his car for him over the winter, and we're running him this year, so not only am I working on my own car, I'm also working on his and coaching him on how to go quicker. Hurrah!

As for the circuit - it's mostly great. The two hairpins are a bit slow, and Coram into Murray's is too hard to produce good racing there (although it might set up overtaking into the first corner). But most of it has good flow. For spectators it's ace. And for drivers it isn't at all easy. But the corner names leave a lot to be desired...

I'm back there (funds and crashes permitting of course) in October.

Congrats, mate!

Quote from justasimfan :

Graphics are ancient as the render engine still is based on dx8 and is missing real time lighting,real time reflections,hdr,bloom,3d trees/animated pit crews/spectators etc...Still there are no weather effects...

Honestly, I like LFS's graphics over pretty much any other racing title. Real-time reflections, lighting and shadows would be nice, as would weather effects, though. Animated spectators are pointless; if you're looking at the spectators you're not driving fast enough. Pitcrews would be neat if done well (which they almost never are). Bloom is unrealistic in 99% of uses (the actual real-life effect is a lot rarer to see than what is displayed in most games) and I don't think it's at all necessary. There are some 3D (and animated!) trees in LFS, though most are indeed sprites; which is still the norm for many games anyways.

In my opinion, what LFS needs is more tracks that are interesting to drive on. Aston is boring. Westhill is boring. Fern Bay is unrealistic and mostly boring. Rockingham I can't imagine to be too interesting (though the detail will make it pretty!). Blackwood is fairly nice and I quite like South City, but we need more tracks, historic type tracks like Mosport, St. Jovite and Zandvoort. Tracks with exciting elevation changes that are challenging and brilliant to drive; there are none of them in LFS, and that is what is missing most IMO. I'd be perfectly happy if the graphics engine never changes, and the physics as they are now even are still fan-bloody-tastic. I just want more exciting places to flog the cars around, and maybe a couple more classes of car (a prototype, a rear-drive touring car).

600MB of RAM? I'll stick with Chrome, then. I'm sitting at 60MB with several tabs

Quote from dyzio2206 :

you talk about sirocco being the first real car in lfs

Yep. Except the MRT5. And the Raceabout. And the BMW Sauber. And the Formula BMW.

SPEED isn't covering it this year? Must have dropped it to show more NASCAR coverage... man I hate that channel now.

What is the surface like? Is it glossy or matte? Does it have a little bit of a texture to it? Does it come in a very, very dark grey? The black will probably be too dark to look right as a tire.

[EDIT] I've found a picture of it on an Outback owner's group of some plain black treatment, it has a satin finish. Looks nice, I'll have to keep looking to see if it'll be right for me, though. Looks promising.

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Quote from delis :

One day I found this interesting car design which was made by a man whose nickname is Kaizer147 and who made it for a car design competition of a real car...

I took his design and used it on FZR... Hope you guys like the result of it
*All credits are included in skinfile.

I like everything but the anime chick. The rest is quite nice

Too narrow, and flattening it out to achieve the width won't work so well since it's molded as a tube.

Quote from Wordan :

Others do it so cross platform game development is possible.

I think the point Dustin is getting at is that those titles are more than likely designed from the ground up as cross-platform games. LFS is so far into its development (12 years now?) that it's just simply not worth throwing it all away at this point to appeal to an even smaller niche than it already does. Were LFS just getting started then it would make more sense, but not at this very, very late stage of development.

Quote from wheel4hummer :

How about hand-truck tires? Some hardware/tool stores sell them.

I need slicks at a very specific size, and I need only the tread, not the sidewalls. The wheels are being prototyped at the moment I'm just trying to find the best solution for making the plastic tires look like rubber.

I'm looking more for input on the use of these types of paints and surface treatments (does the stuff in a can actually stick? Actually work as advertised? So toxic it will kill me and my family within 25.8 seconds?).

Does anyone know about this stuff?

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

music files on desktop? why u no organize

I'll get to it. Some day.

Quick and dirty wallpaper of a quick and dirty photoshop render of my WIP thesis

Foobar sounds pretty fantastic then, I'll give it a go sometime soon when I get a chance. For now... back to thesis CAD work.

Thanks for the input!

I quite like that Foobar theme... Looks to have what I want in a player. How is it on system resources? I've been putting Songbird through its paces the last couple days and I don't mind it thus far, but it's a little system heavy (sitting just over 100 000K right now according to my processes window...)

If foobar (with that theme) runs lighter than Songbird than I shall give it a go

Quote from anik360 :

yeah you can define whatever parameter you want to sort into. I chose by album and folder name, you can choose artist, year, genre, even folder names. If there is a parameter you want to sort into, it can do it

I mean actually renaming your mp3 files and organizing them on your hard drive, not just sorting in the list within the program. iTunes and Songbird can both do this.

Does anyone have any experience with this or other sprayed rubber finishes? I'm looking for a nice solution to use for the tires on my thesis model. Normally I'd get large RC car wheels and tires but that's not an option with this project.

Simple flat paints look crap in these situations and since I'm doing an open wheel vehicle, it's important that the tires look like tires.

Any input is appreciated

Does Foobar have a feature to automatically sort and rename files in your library?