There's a 15 mile version already out there, but the full 37.76 mile course is on the way. Actually, it's been on the way for ages now, but the clip on youtube looks spot on. Been driving a few laps of the real thing in preparation for the GPL version
Good to see you've joined up for the FOX race on Saturday. I see you're quite new so race practice is handy as whilst more drivers are always welcome in OWRL F1 it is important that you can handle yourself in race situations. It's not just your evening you might mess up!
Must've missed it.
The point is that F1 is something that should be experienced live because it is the pinnacle of motorsport. Drag anoraks hijacked things, and whilst they reach higher velocity they are not, by any stretch of the imagination, the pinnacle of anything. Name a drag racer that pervades the national conciousness. There aren't any, but get stopped for speeding and the policeman will occasionally say, "Who do you think you are, Stirling Moss / Nigel Mansell etc" They don't say, "Who do you think you are Gudmund Gudmundsson - Top Fuel European Champion in 1987?"
F1 has the cache and resonance that makes being there special, plus it is a spectacle just to watch a car go round the track. Most people just watch drag racing on Havoc.
The point is that F1 is something that should be experienced live because it is the pinnacle of motorsport. Drag anoraks hijacked things, and whilst they reach higher velocity they are not, by any stretch of the imagination, the pinnacle of anything. Name a drag racer that pervades the national conciousness. There aren't any, but get stopped for speeding and the policeman will occasionally say, "Who do you think you are, Stirling Moss / Nigel Mansell etc" They don't say, "Who do you think you are Gudmund Gudmundsson - Top Fuel European Champion in 1987?"
F1 has the cache and resonance that makes being there special, plus it is a spectacle just to watch a car go round the track. Most people just watch drag racing on Havoc.
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Why don't you start a drag racing thread and see how much interest you get.
They could make F1 cars made to current rules run at 300 mph if they wanted, but there's no F1 track with a 10 mile straight.
F1 car would be at least 20-30 seconds faster than a Veyron round Silverstone.
Beemer drivers can test this out. Drive down a hill in neutral at say 20 mph and the needle will move off the stop as fuel is needed to turn the engine over. Pop it into 4th 5th 6th and it moves back to 1,000,000 mpg
Also when I was driving in Italy recently I reset the fuel mpg at the top of the San Carlo pass. I then drove down (some 1500m altitude) and the average mpg didn't budge from 99.9 mpg for 20 minutes after hitting the flat.
For F1 you have to go at least once just be because it is F1. it's the fastest thing you can watch and having seen F1 cars first hand going through Becketts - wow, you just don't get the same sense on TV. There's also the sense of history; you're watching the current F1, but flick through the previous winners of the race you're watching and there's Clark, Hill, Fangio, Moss, Andretti, Piquet, Prost, Senna - fantastic.
If I can recommend one motorsport event to go to then try Misano for MotoGP. Make sure you go next year, because Rossi is not guaranteed to be there after that and to experience Rossimania in his own backyard is something beyond description.
But Rossi brings it home - 2009 World Champion.
Nice to see Osvaldo make an appearance.
Nice to see Osvaldo make an appearance.
The Queen doesn't choose who gets most of the honours per se. The lists emerge from various arms of Government and collated by the Ceremonial Secretariat (part of the Cabinet Office) so technically the PM will make the decision which is ratified by the Queen.
Some grades of honour are chosen by the Queen, so if she is a F1 nut then he might join the Order of the Garter.
Some grades of honour are chosen by the Queen, so if she is a F1 nut then he might join the Order of the Garter.
According to the logic on this thread, Nigel Mansell must be the least deserving WDC ever, as the Williams in 92 was frequently 1.5 sec per lap faster than the opposition. it was so superior that Patrese could regularly beat Senna who was driving a McLaren.
You could not possibly be more wrong if you tried.
Quite sad for Barrichello as he drives into oblivion with Williams next year that his one true chance to win the championship has passed him by.
On the other hand, happy for Jenson that he took his one and only chance to take the title.
With relative stability in the regulations over the winter Brawn will struggle to match the development pace of Ferrari, McLaren and Red Bull - all of which have caught up Brawn's performance since the start of the season even with a testing ban.
On the other hand, happy for Jenson that he took his one and only chance to take the title.
With relative stability in the regulations over the winter Brawn will struggle to match the development pace of Ferrari, McLaren and Red Bull - all of which have caught up Brawn's performance since the start of the season even with a testing ban.
Perfect result for the championship situation. I'd favour Vettel coming through the pack rather than Jenson, but probably not to 2nd.
I don't speed, but I regularly hit 100mph on the way to work. No speed limit, no law break.
Sigh,
Here's how it works....
FIA owns and controls F1. They have sold the commercial rights to F1 to the Commercial Rights Holder (Bernie Ecclestone, CVC and so on). The last deal I saw figures on was $375m for 100 years(!!). The Commercial Rights Holder then sells the media rights, usually on a geographical basis, to media companies (eg BBC). These media companies will then exploit the rights.
- The Commercial Rights Holder reserves the rights they have not sold to others. This means that if F1 is not available in your area you are still infringing on those rights.
- By watching illicit streams you are stealing intellectual property. It doesn't have to be tangible to be property.
- You do not have an inalienable right to watch F1. If F1 is not available in you area (or is only available on PPV) that is not a defence against the crime you are committing.
- "No harm" is not a valid defence in law. Just because you don't think something will affect anyone else doesn't mean that act changes from being illegal to legal. Speeding on a deserted road is still speeding. Smoking crack at home is still illegal.
I'm in work right now, so I have money and therefore have the luxury 
Good call - one of the lightbulbs isn't working. I'll get Maintenance onto it on Monday. Thanks.
Um, no.
So I can take the Crown Jewels then? I don't have the opportunity to buy them so that's okay just to steal?
Taking something (be that physical or intellectual property) or using a service that you are not legally authorised to do is illegal. End of.
Maybe all the people on here whining about not being able to afford things would find their time better spent finding ways to earn money instead of being wrong about stuff on the internet.
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Odd qually no doubt. Nobody seemed to heed the lesson that Webber gave in FP3. Kovi did it twice - sure sign of someone who is not having a good week. He must be under a lot of pressure with the Raikkonen business. McLaren will have a terrific car next year from the start and it looks like the prospect of tooling round at the back in a Campos or Manor is filling him with dread.
That's an interesting legal point. If that's okay then I'm off to hotwire a M5 as soon as I finish work, because I can't afford one of those.
And so they should. F1 is a valuable commodity to them, as witnessed by the large TV contracts that exist.
Watching "pirate" feeds is a bit like stealing your neighbour's car. Just because you don't like him and you really want to drive his car doesn't make it right.
In addition to laser scanning, I'm sure they've also realised that there is an immense amount of telemetry data that they could use from a variety of cars. When a car goes over a bump it will register as suspension movement and it cannot be beyond the wit of man to map this movement and recreate the bumps from it.
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