I find that quite stunning... The only problem with LFS is the limited selection of tracks. That people can drive AS Nat at near WR speeds and then become race retards when faced with a new set of corners just defies belief.
There is no comparison to be made between left footing a real car and doing the same with your Momo.
I use my left foot all the time in simulations, but am a total menace on the road if I try it in my Peugeot. I can heel and toe a real car with ease, but have never practiced the left foot thing. Hence, if I try, what happens is that I jam on the brakes as if a toddler had just jumped into the road.
Computer controllers and real brake pedals are very different, and your left foot, used to finding the bite point on the clutch, needs a lot of recalibrating to operate the brake pedal safely, let alone trail it through a turn.
<shitstirring>...but he didn't say that cars can't accelerate past peak power, but that it doesn't make any sense to do as much. You may argue over the meaning of the word "any" if you wish....</shitstirring>
But it should be... Simple question: Do I need it? Answer: No. Therefore, do not force it on me, and do not expect me to respond with anything other than reluctant cynicism to any suggestion that it might be useful.
Yeah, fair comment... but the only response I have is: "I don't need advertising.". I would far and away prefer to have some real-life tracks, but I don't really need that either. I have GPL for that.
Yeah, I get exactly the same symptoms and have no idea what causes it. A short, daytime nap means I wake up feeling like utter crap, as if all the moisture has been drawn out of my body by some kind of sleep demon!
Let's keep that idea bubbling - I would be really into that. Last time I went was when the Jags came in first and second. Looooong time ago Its a superb event; enjoyable from the moment you drive onto the ferry!
@Maggot... Not a fan of the Peugeot's design either... Cockpit shape makes it look like something Captain Nemo would step into.
You said "over here", so I'm assuming you live on the island. I'd be interested to hear more about the general attitude of Manx residents to the race. From my perspective, you may not want this burden, but living on the island means you are the caretakers of a quite special celebration.
The TT is a kind of Dionysian festival, the likes of which are becoming rarer and rarer. Would you really want to see something so rich, so stimulating, so different from the idiocy of nine to five productivity, erased from life just because of a fear of what might happen?
I've just got back from working at the Isle of Wight Festival - there was an army of lorries with huge vacuum cleaners on the back, that cleared entire fields in less than half an hour.
It might encourage the system to be used a little more responsibly, but frankly I think it should be junked altogether. I agree with col - if you haven't seen the event, you shouldn't even be voting.
As someone has already pointed out, LFS is just as much a contributor to the "problem": all those servers, all those pcs, all those cable networks and telephone exchanges - they don't run on bio-degradeable dolphin excrement. They use energy. Mostly they use energy produced in gas or coal fired power stations. "Formula One fans" are vastly outnumbered by "people who use power"
Unfortunately, this is why the NHS is such a bureaucratic mess... Too many bosses left to their own devices. The best solution would be to rake the pyramid with gunfire, until you reach the tiers where effective and useful work is done.
But I have to take my hat off to the NHS. Just over a year ago I was given a twenty percent chance of being here to type this today. Still typing...
Or golf.... They may be called 'greens', but the amount of pesticide used to keep golf courses verdant has serious side effects on the local habitat, poisoning water courses and diminishing the variety of both plant and animal species. Not to mention the excessive amounts of water that such complexes consume.
Motorsport is not one homogeneous thing: is club hillclimbing the same as Formula One?
For instance, if we consider Iran to be part of the "developing world", then motorsport, as well as being popular, is also the site of real social debate, the likes of which are unknown over here: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/110979.html