Forgive me for being a dolt, but... if surface temperature is so meaningless, that means the only real data that is available is taken by a probe in the pitlane (inherently inaccurate too). And by extension, that means LFS' tyre model is a "best guestimate". So why not just use the "feel method" as there doesn't seem to be a more accurate method available?
Non-contact, infrared thermometers, mounted by or over the tyres are how the teams can measure this; three per tyre. I don't know how common it is, but I've heard about Le Mans teams using this kind of system.
LOL... OK, but I'm quite attuned to sarcasm and I missed it too! I think its the "I like life rough and hard" stuff that blunts the sarcasm in that post...
Anyway, I'm all for sitting back and watching the credit bubble burst. Cars or houses? Just wait a little bit and then pick up some cheap repossession items...
Personally, I don't like to work more than three days a week, and I've managed that for a good number of years now. I don't own a house and I don't have a number of the trappings of a late capitalist lifestyle, but that also means I don't have any significant debt and I do have four or five days out of seven that are mine to use as I wish.
On that one we might agree! 'Work' is the enemy. I mean that quite seriously.
By work, I don't mean "getting stuff done", but the formalised, repetitive, moralistic nonsense that is more accurately (if colloquially) known as "wage slavery".
....never advertise your intentions on a public forum. Racer Y, I couldn't agree more. But...
Or just growing up? Come on, this is just an adolescent spat. In a few years time, you (bigmanwhatever), like Ian, will just want an easy life. Then you can go to work, be too tired to bitch with your friends, leave your off-spring sucking on the cathode tit, and everything will seem 'normal'.
Precious few I imagine... I've seen Drag Strip Girl (which has Tommy Ivo in some of the scenes), but, yeah, whatever... B movie stuff... Le Mans is the stand out great race movie for me, because the circuit (or rather the event) is the real protagonist of the film.
Its been rather unfairly slated, IMO, because of the paper thin plot. View it as a very subjective documentary though and its quite entrancing. Beautifully filmed...
Nature? Nature?! We're not talking about nature here... We seem to be talking about children; the most unnatural, violent, and irrational examples of ethical vacuum that are allowed to walk the streets.
Driven all sorts, but that's not really the point. I didn't say that the A-pillar is not an obstructive piece of design, only that it interferes with your vision significantly if you can't be arsed to move your head
Sorry about the bold repetition, but I'm also speaking as a motorcyclist who has had regular need to remonstrate with 'cage' drivers...
Anyway, you agree with me: "There are few corners where I live where I really have to move my head a lot if I want to see what's behind the A-pillar."
You are part of the problem here. He acts like an insecure teenager -> you all hate him and have demonstrated as much -> he responds with more anxiety induced aggression -> you react similarly...
No one on this forum, or anywhere else, can give you a ready made solution.
Are you really, really short? I don't wish to be so intrusive and personal, but I just can't visualise how you would have to look up to an A-pillar.
I have to say that in over twenty years of driving, in various cars and vans, I can't think of a single moment when an A-pillar has been irredeemably obstructive. A recent survey showed that a third of all 'targets' went unseen by drivers, because of the A-pillar. However, this figure was significantly reduced if the driver could be arsed to move his head.
I know what you mean - I have some footage of the 65 F1 GP at Clermont-Ferrand where the overdubbed noise is irritatingly repetitive, but frankly I think you're being more than a little bit anal.
Climb Dance wasn't made in order to satisfy whatever analytical urge you have, but as an impressionistic portrait of a talented driver, in a very fast car, at a beautiful location. I think its very well edited within those parameters.
Well you did, but whatever... Stuff written in haste etc... I agree with most of what you said though, especially about tiny cars! Why the hell does a Ford Mondeo have to weigh nearly one and a half tonnes?! Start making light, and consequently lower powered cars: less consumption, more fun.
Ultimately though, if we agree that speed is not the issue, I don't see the point of arguing about power figures. We agree that training is essential, but don't confuse it with testing. My instructor (all those years ago...) was quite clear: "I'll teach you to pass the test, and then you can start learning to drive."
Probably says more about the doting nature of rich parents to be honest. Laws should not be framed around exceptions.
Indeed it is, and its one that's been in my favourites on YouTube for while... Going back a bit further, this is a fascinating document: super8 footage of saloons racing at Oulton in 1967
Paddock footage of seventies automotive excess; Baby Bertha grunting like a pig on acid and being chased down by a mutant Skoda; the incomparable Gerry Marshall commentating an onboard lap of Oulton; and action set to a porntastic soundtrack.
Whilst I understand your concern, I have to say that this is precisely the same logic that has seen the proliferation of speed cameras, and the reduction of active traffic officers on the road.
It will also be the rationale for the introduction of GPS based speed limiters.
It is simply not true to say that quicker is inevitably unsafer. Power is not the issue; awareness is. Which is why I would argue for structured and recorded, life long training before any kind of technological 'fix' (and I include as a 'fix' utterly arbitrary power limits, whether bureaucratically or mechanically enforced)
Yeah, you seem to be stuck in a logical rut of your own making ... Car control is the simple matter of making a car move without kangarooing down the road or being a danger to yourself and others. Dealing with blow-outs is just the extreme end of the spectrum.
Situational awareness has to be learnt in traffic, so there has to be a first time. If you can go out into the world of buses, cyclists, and dozy pedestrians without simultaneously running the mantra "ABC -accelerator, brake, clutch" through your head, you have an advantage over the general standard of learners.
I don't see how that can be disputed.
And I still maintain that power is irrelevant. My very first time behind a wheel was in a Kadett GTE (not a monster by any means, but not an average family hatchback either) in city traffic. The above average power wasn't an issue at any time.
OK, maybe our definitions are different - I use the term to describe something announced as available, but which subsequently fails to appear... Not ridiculous in this instance, but perhaps a harsh verdict on my part, I admit.
Hey, shoot me, I'm a bitch. But come on, Mr Kaemmer, at least show us some pictures.... I'm a consumer, and consumers buy stuff, things, products. We don't pay through the nose for promises, and we don't like paying tithes.
The process of creating these tracks seems very labour intensive and in that respect is very different from his other titles. Its not unreasonable to ask if a) is it actually going to be so fundamentally different to anything else that it will be worth paying up front with so little information on which to base a judgement, and b) will there actually be enough people attracted to this venture to fund work on tracks that are yet to be completed