0/10, worst avatar ever.

Quote from Gunn :

...t's a European spectacle that vaguely resembles a motor race.

It's taken you this long to realise that that is exactly what F1 is today?

Quote from Jamexing :

It was the Williams BMW team, when Montoya and R.Schumacher were drivers there if I remember correctly. Remember the shark nosed cars with twin tusks as front wing supports and strange front suspension with upper arms longer than the lower arms? That's it.

Yes, I'd always thought of that car as more a walrus than a shark.

Quote from Jamexing :

I remember a female aero engineer was fired after only months in work because of the shark nose front end which she insisted on compromised front suspension geometry to such a horrible extent (gains POSITIVE camber under compression) that the cars just couldn't perform as the understeer was absolutely crippling. No mystery why the drivers complained so much, eh?

When was this and with which team? Do you have any links? This sounds very interesting.

Quote from duke_toaster :

FFS, the US is a potential big market for F1, it's a great race for TV in Europe.

In all seriousness, I think you are missing the point. Bernie is a notoriously tough and effective negotiator; playing down the importance of a US GP is all part of the negotiation process.

By getting your feathers all ruffled over press like this, you are simply confirming your status as an F1 "mark".

For your sake, hopefully Tony George and the IMS aren't so gullible...

Quote from duke_toaster :

What has Bernie been smoking?

Cigars made from $1000 bills, perhaps?

Quote from ajp71 :

I think the broadcasts however aren't watched by nearly as many people as it seems to be thought do.

What exactly are you basing that on? A hunch? Becky and SamH both have evidence to back up their claims. You, on the other hand, just look like a fool.

The Iraqis are quite possibly the most ungrateful people in the world.

There are over 10 million Zimbabweans who would kill for the opportunity that the Iraqis have been given (...and squandered).

How can you be old enough to drive?

You're not even old enough to type.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Might not be relevant, but: If you're taking a lot of recreational drugs, stop. That goes for drinking, too.

"...relevant, but[colon incorrect] if you're..."

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Yeah, ignore the rubbish, make up your own mind, about the great sim...

I suppose that means: It's double plus good.

"...mind[comma incorrect] about the great sim..."
"...means[colon incorrect] it's..."

Quote from thisnameistaken :

It seems so sloppy, I worry about what it looks like on the inside.

"...sloppy; I worry..." (extra points here for the humour this quote takes on when read out of context)

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Most of my mates in York work in the theatres here so there's usually a bunch of actors hanging around in the pub, but we never get Keira Knightley.

"...so there are (or there're)..."

Quote from keithano :

I bet that u're not serious, aren't you?
This is simulator for real-life racing, ever heard of this kind of system? It's your responsibility to be lapped safely or lap others safely. Ignore those idiots that don't respect blue flags(whatever yelling at others or being lapped)

Hey why not I don't see you coming up with any solutions to this probem? I'm trying to help the devs and the community and you just wanna yell at me! I bet your one of the peopel who were yelling at me on the server the other night what is wrong with my suggestion?

Quote from racemania :

i hate the "GET OUT OF MY WAY BLUE FLAG" stuff too, so i admin on my servers and anyone who says it gets a pitlane i dont care if i got to stop and type it in cause it really is annoying.

What really annoys me is that no one on the forum seems to want to talk about this issue It seems like everyoen is too scared to say anything about the blue flags because they don't wanna upset the devs.

But the devs rock and by creating this thread on blue flags I think we can let them know about this problem and then the game will get even better!

Quote from Zachary Zoomy :

I'm tired of those losers yelling blue flag too. and its only happened to me on the S2 servers.

Does you're mum yell at you to? and I'm glad you agree about teh blue flags!

ps you're sig rox!

I think we should have a staggered system of shaded flags. When a faster driver is approaching, but say they are over a kilometre away, you should get a sky blue flag. As they get closer, the flags get darker. This is the flag order system I propose:

Sky blue
Powder blue
Periwinkle
Dodger blue
Cornflower blue
Azure
International klein blue
Royal blue
Cobalt blue
Cerulean
Denim
Steel blue
Ultramarine
Sapphire
Dark blue
Indigo

I think should make the whole flag system much more informative and user friendly. Thoughts?

Last edited by sam1600, Tue 5 Jun 2007, 03:18. Reason : mum proof read it for me

Hello fellow racers!

I've been searching the forums for weeks trying to find a thread on blue flags but couldn't find anything! So I decided to make a thread dedicated solely to the issue of blue flags. It's time we got this out into the open for some healthy debate. For too long it seems everyone has been ignoring the blue flag problem. But not any more!

I was racing the other day and some idiot kept on yelling at me "blue flag! Get out of the way!" Then he rammed me into the wall! I was so mad because not only did he wreck my race but I spilled my chocolate milk! My mum was so angry, then she yelled at me too! Then other people were yelling at me to move my car back to the pits after I got crashed off the road! Why is everyone always yelling? My mum said it's because I don't listen.

I just pissed my pants.

And you call yourself an Australian?

You forgot number nine!

9. Americans can't take a joke and will get all pissy if anyone ever tries to have a laught at America's expense. In fact, they will even take silly statistics that people post in order to bolster their joke seriously and start asking for a sources!

Quote from wheel4hummer :

Americans are worse drivers then everywhere else in the world.
Americans all own guns and are right-wing war mongers.
Americans have no sense of foreign culture.
Americans don't go to other countries.
Americans are fat.
Americans are all Zionist pigs.
Americans think they are better then everyone else.

Finally, an American who's not afraid to embrace the truth!

60% chance of rain for the race on Sunday...

This could be a corker...

Quote from richo :

for my mind F1 should go back to being the pinnacle of Motorsport...

Go back to being the pinnacle of motorsport? What has replaced it?

A new little snippet of info from Mark Blundell at www.itv-f1.com

Lewis Hamilton was reported to have put in eight hours of driving a day in the McLaren simulator whilst preparing for his rookie season. Can you tell us more about the nature of F1 simulators and what it involves?

Alex
London

These are high-tech race car simulators that can be used for driving a new circuit, setting up a car, changing a part and getting feedback, and can even apply some forces that the driver will feel physically in the car on the track.

They are very much the trend at the moment and I think more and more teams will use them, as they are great to evaluate drivers and compare data without spending huge amounts of money on track testing with a rookie.

And of course there is no risk.

But at the end of the day they still don’t replace the real thing!

http://www.itv-f1.com/Feature. ... ;PO_ID=39309&PO=39309

Not really any new information, but interesting nonetheless.

Quote from tristancliffe :

...they are not driving the simulator to teach driving habits, but to aid situational practice...

Quote from tristancliffe :

...there is no way it can do accurate aero analysis (so they can't be using it for aero part development/trialling), there is no way it can do accurate tyre simulation (so it cannot be used to get used to tyre behaviour to any level of accuracy). ...it cannot possible be used to aid driver talent or a lot of vehicle development.

Do you have a source for any of this information, or should we just add it to the long list of things that you enjoy extracting from your arse?

Quote from tristancliffe :

I doubt any computer simulation will help an F1 driver ever...

Quote from tristancliffe :

I'm not denying it's USEFULNESS..

Riiiiight. I'm with you. It won't help, but it is useful? I'm glad we cleared that up.

I think you should send a memo to McLaren outlining how they have wasted up to $60,000,000 and thousands of hours of time on an unhelpful useful machine. Fax it to Attn: Ron Dennis, c/o McLaren. Oh, and don't forget to stamp it "URGENT!"

Quote from tristancliffe :

I doubt any computer simulation will help an F1 driver ever...

Well, McLaren obviously disagree.

But who are they to argue with you?

I don't think Hayden makes it into the "top tier" of MotoGP. At the moment, it's Rossi, Pedrosa and Stoner. Melandri is perhaps nipping at their heels.

I used to put Capirossi in that top tier group as well but he seems to have gone off the boil the last couple of seasons. Perhaps it was after his big accident last year?

Hayden was very lucky to win the championship last year (especially after the incident with Pedrosa!) given his level of pace.