Quote from BlueFlame :

You have to remember they didn't even shakedown the car properly before qualifying, so either the drivers are awesome, or the car is awesome. Think about it, they hadn't driven a lap in anger the whole weekend until qualifying in a car they're not familiar with, and Narain not driving an F1 car since 6years ago.. Infact, now I'm thinking to myself, when it's put like that, it does make you wonder how quick that HRT actually is....

Not really, the car is crap and HRT have no money to make it better. I really hope they keep missing the 107% so they quit the sport quicker. You're talking about not wanting teams int he sport, HRT is the worst offender.

Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :

Sorry but I agree with him more or less. If the car can get within 1.7 second of the 107% after only a few laps, with fail 2010 parts and no DRS, the package isn't hopeless.

Once they'll get the new parts and the DRS sorted I belive they can qualify and get close to Virgin.

HRT's qualifying times:

Aussie 2010
B. Senna: 1:30.526
K. Chandhok: 1:30.613

Aussie 2011
V. Liuzzi: 1:32.978
N. Karthikeyan: 1:34.293

The King of Spain is right, they are an embarrassment to the nation, and the sport. 11 other teams (2 of which joined when HRT joined) made it to Australia with a car that was ready to go, qualified, and raced. They beat Virgin last year on virtue of having three 14th places rather than just 2. The only miracle will be if HRT makes it to Brazil this season.


EDIT: Also there's nothing wrong with privateers, the sport needs them with manufacturers like Toyota, Honda, and BMW pulling out because they didn't meet some goals in whatever particular year.

Last edited by pik_d, Fri, 1 Apr 2011 20:40.

Quote from Senninha25 :

He has a point about that last sentence. Virgin has a fairly decent budget and with it they have improved their CFD technology for this year so you'd expect thay they would bring a better car out of that...but they still have a shit car that just managed to qualify for last week's race.

But I'm glad that we're being proven that entirely computer-designed machines are nowhere near the pencil and rubber art when it comes to designing racing cars.

The alternative to pure-CFD is using wind tunnels (along side CFD), not using pencil and paper.

Quote from Senninha25 :

April fools!

Of course

But on a more serious note (but still funny to me):

Quote :

HRT owner Jose Ramon Carabante has admitted his team's failure to qualify for the Australian Grand Prix was down to financial problems, insisting: "If we had the budget of the other teams, we would have come to the first race of the season with 3,000 kilometres under the belt."

HRT failed to qualify under the 107% rule, but despite that Carabante bullishly predicted that by May it would be beating the other 2010 newcomers Lotus and Virgin.

"Like last year, we began the development of the car too late due to the budget," he told Cadena Ser radio. "We were closing [sponsor] agreements that in the end did not come." He added a technical deal regarding 2011 with Toyota was "broken" at a late stage: "So we set a realistic goal with the budget that we had."

Revealing that HRT's budget for this year is €45 million, he said the team's showing in Australia was an achievement. "We did 11 laps with Liuzzi. If he had done 20, he would have qualified. Getting within 1.7 seconds without driving hardly at all is a miracle."

The team plans to have its 2011-spec front nose on the car in Malaysia, and Carabante said a whole "new aerodynamic package" will be fitted for May's Spanish Grand Prix. "It will be enough to be ahead of Lotus and Virgin," he said. "Last year we were in a worse condition than now and we ended up ahead of Virgin with twice our budget, and behind Lotus due only to one accident."

He also reacted to the strong criticisms of HRT, noting he had "not read a single criticism of Virgin in the English press".

Source

Maybe my April fools will come true sooner rather than later.

Quote from Autosport :

HRT Slips Out of Formula One

Autosport has just received news that Hispania Racing has pulled out of Formula One before the upcoming Malaysian Grand Prix, and after the Spanish King Juan Carlos blasts the team for being an embarrassment to the country. Updates to follow.

Source

Quote from matijapkc :

+1
People here are probably more interested in LFS being able to use all of the CPU cores and a few more major fixes, like the barrier bug so we could have normal layouts and maybe a possibility to damage car's engine...

LFS isn't really at a stage where it needs to use more than one core though, is it? It would probably need something major to get a lot more complex and CPU intense in order to need it, procedural damage, higher hz for physics engine (maybe), much higher poly environment/track (in terms of the physical mesh, not necessarily the graphical one), or possibly the addition of weather. I see this multithreading suggestion brought up a lot but it in itself wont really do much.

Quote from rc10racer :

They are fine...

He's just complaining he doesn't have one

Quote from dekojester :

Schedule: AS5 or AS5R.

AS5R or AS6R I think you mean, and either of these two tracks would be quite challenging with the top speed -> 1st gear turn just before the hairpin around 2/3rds of the way through.

Quote from cargame.nl :

My opinion is that people need to get used to !prs [trackname]

If that's a reply to me than that doesn't really show the information that I'm asking for.

Feature request:

In the !top [car] display, on the title line (Server best recorded laps - BL1/FO8 (6) for example) also include the current WR along with sectors.

I see a fair amount of people doing !top and !wr one after the other, would be nice to streamline it so that you can compare the !top laps to the WR without switching between the two.

I dunno what I would suggest if they simply do !top and it returns a class of cars (or worse yet, multiple classes). If it's a class of cars maybe the fastest WR among the class (maybe a configurable option to switch between current car, fastest of current class, or fastest of all cars shown in !top)?

Last edited by pik_d, Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:13.

Quote from PMD9409 :

They had written "SO5" not "SO5R", nub.

no that never happened you can't prove it

Quote from PMD9409 :

Not exactly, its reversed.

There's no images for the reverse tracks nub.

Ah hah I wish it were SO4... you may wanna change that.

Quote from ChristijaNL :

I think with 2 wheels on the road or kerb , there is no problem.

Yeah, the white lines mean nothing in HLVC.

Quote from Fras44 :

i didn't need 2 look at the whole race i was looking 4 what happened 2 my car ... i knew when it happened and it was NOT from downshifting earlier in race my car ran fine until sebs hit LOOK at my previous laps times idiots !!! Seb wins that is fine with me ... but i didn't need 2 scrutinize the race, laps 133 and 136 pretty close 2gether if u know how 2 count !!!

More AIM speak, and now calling us idiots when you're the only claiming that revving to 11k had nothing to do with you getting lapped like well... you had a blown engine. Don't get mad at me for posting proof that you're wrong when you blame someone else for your own mistakes.

What exactly do you think Seb's bump did to you? Did that somehow mess up your engine?

Quote from AstroBoy :

Well they also speak French in Canada just saying.

His profile on the FM site says Alberta, which is ~80% English as first language.

Jesus Christ you come from a country whose official language is English, can you try and not murder it so bad? It is actually mentally annoying to read that huge block of AIM-gibberish.

I actually gave up halfway through because of how annoying that is to parse.

Edit:

Regarding your damage, that happened here, before you got lapped. Yeah Seb tapped you but that had nothing to do with the fact that you destroyed your engine an hour earlier. You weren't competitive, you got lapped by Seb and Dan quite easily under green flag conditions. How could you have only noticed something was wrong AFTER getting lapped on pure pace?

Last edited by pik_d, Wed, 7 Jul 2010 05:27.

Quote from AMB :

I corrected that link.

im not correcting mine

Quote from AMB :

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ok

It owns.

You can get custom layouts from the server. Save a replay, then in the replay go to Shift+U mode, then in the lower right (press spacebar if it doesn't show up) you can save it.

I won! By 2 laps!!

Quote from kimd41 :

I got the replies I was expecting.

Haha, guess I won't try and defend you anymore. Good luck trying to rile people up since that's all you're after here.

Quote from VoiD :

According to your pb´s you´re right... todays servers are way too fast for you...

Please moan elsewhere!

Oh come on, that doesn't mean he doesn't deserve to race. That attitude isn't needed here.

Quote from baSh0r :

I ment that, will be some sorta chicane like boothy's just in reversed
nice idea though

Boothy has created a chicane for KY3R. I don't know if it's definitely in the final version but it's up on the IGTC server for anyone to test.