Having confidence is nothing more than having a strong recollection of your previous successes. So:
Get onto the grid
The longer you prevaricate, the harder it will become
Know that you are there because you can drive
You have a right to be on the grid no matter how others may percieve your skill level. You may have to renogotiate your own expectations: you're not there to break records, you're not there to win, but you are there to race to the best of your potential. With this in mind, starting at the back and finishing a few places up is going to reinforce your feeling of having succeeded, and therefore your confidence.
Turn off the chat
There is never anything worthwhile said on the chat channel in any case. Its a distraction, but at worst it can sap your confidence if some kid from Nowheresville is telling you that "You're in my way, dude". Screw him. If he can't get past without shouting or tooting his horn, he's not a racer. You are.
Probably... But its most irritating when it happens at a chicane, particularly the one on AS club. Fast drivers hate to lift there, even if there's a car already entering the chicane.
Those three words are probably suggestive enough to imply that this season needs a chance to warm up. There's absolutely no doubt that the previous few seasons are a lot to live up to, but with the engine change this year the pack has been shuffled to a degree that means we haven't seen the nail biting duels we're used to.
Nothing wrong with trying a pass, but I think the thread is actually aimed at the snots who try a pass at a chicane, when the slower car has clearly already entered the turn. When it all goes pear shaped (since nine times out of ten it will in this situation), the would-be ace then gets all high and mighty about how the slower car was "in my way!"
In recent years, even if you're not into bikes, the racing in MotoGP has been second to none. And since I'm biased on this subject, I'm also going to recommend WSB, BSB, and as much of the Irish road racing series that you can pick up on.
Girl with black hair: "So that's where you drivers keep your petrol money!"
Him (through gritted teeth):"Use a bit more oil and you can keep whatever you find..."
LOL! I've watched far too much and know that the sixties F1 races could be as processional as today's. To a certain extent, the past seems better because, in the main, we see it via a series of highlights.
Again, I don't really understand why it matters where the lever is situated. They're drivers, and their job is to race. Being able to juggle is laudable, but .... I hate jugglers.
As a spectator, I'm not entirely convinced by your arguments. I understand what you say about the kind of skills required, but feel there are plenty of classes that allow for drivers to work with an h-gate. I don't understand why you feel its particularly important for Formula 1.
A far more convincing argument!
Whatever anyone chooses to believe about F1, it always has been a constructor's championship, as much as a driver's and therefore any neo-luddite attitude to building the cars seems out of place to me.
I can see how an H-gate increases the variables that a driver must engage with, but I would expect at the level of Formula One that missing a gear is a relatively minor addition to the list of random moments that might occur in a race.
The important part is judging when to change gear, what gear ratios to run, etc. The manner in which you actuate that change is of secondary importance, perhaps? I'm not sure since you didn't answer my question. I'm guessing that a paddle shift can link to an automatic gearbox, a semi-automatic, or a fully manual... I'm guessing its always sequential... I'm guessing that your position is not anti-paddle shift as such, but in favour of manual, non-sequential gearboxes?
I'm not much of a mechanic, so I don't really understand the anti-paddle thing... What's the problem? Why does it matter how you change gear? Is this just a Hemingwayesque masculinity issue (real men pull on a stick...)or is there an actual, mechanical reason why stick shift sequential is more competitive than flicking a paddle?
The pollution caused by racing isn't really the issue. You plainly haven't noticed that governments like to govern, and the environmental trends give politicians the licence for all kinds of authoritarian dick swinging. They love that shit, and just because a few people like to watch cars running round in circles, they won't give up any opportunity to exercise a bit of power.
Sorry to steal an idea from your other thread, but it seems to make so much more sense now. Wise words... I never criticise the branch, because it always dries it out....
Add a dub bassline to the original chords and I think we have a hit on our hands.
All I thought was, "What a way to go... With your head buried in your girlfriend's [trails off into reverie]". Missed the rest of it. What was it about?
Just ignore them. Both the chat and the vote bans are the first items I would remove from LFS. Both cause more bad feeling on the track than anything else (chat should only be available, and only be visible, when in spectator mode)
If you do get kicked by a bunch of the precious types, just jump back on and race, then leave and find another server with people who like racing and don't play games...
"A good butt-whipping and then a prayer is a wonderful remedy."
What's that a remedy for? A hard day in the office? "Hi honey! I'm home! What a day... Traffic was a nightmare. Be a darling and thrash me 'til my cheeks are like two beetroots in a bag..."
Jesus, do you people ever get tired of being so righteous? I'm sorry, but that attitude is going to see race tracks closed everywhere. Its really time for the race and drift community here to STFU about their petty and stupid differences.
The Altamont affair is the mirror of events happening everywhere: couple buy a house next door to a race track; couple don't like the noise (and they don't ****ing care if its a race or a drift event); couple complain; race track closes (or enforces ridiculous noise limits).
The couple are using an arcane argument: that the race track is disallowed by its condition of use permit to use the infield. This will affect not just drift events, but AutoX and other events too. The couple are also complaining about free concerts held at the track. In short, they bought a house next to a race track and are now complaining about the noise....
Time to grow up, because your sport is being killed, track by track.
I know this is contrary to what everyone else is saying, but don't bother messing around with setups for the moment. With the Race_S setup, its fairly simple to get into the low 30s, if you just concentrate on your line.
Look for the blue cones dotted around Westhill. They mark your approximate turning in point.