I suspect Bridgestone to accidently mixed up their delivery and therefor F1 is currently using endurance tires. Anyway, I think Hamilton showed that you can push the tires quite a bit and that they won't break down (could be weather / track related though) instantly after you push for more than 2 laps as everyone suspected in Manama. That the soft compound lasts the whole race and is still faster than a tirechange is the other issue that should be looked at.

Btw, I think more people would have pitted if there wasn't the 60 km/h (thank you Charly Whiting) pit limit. If people would loose less time in the pits another strategy would actually make sense...

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/82372

Good thing we had some bits of water for the first laps to cause a bit of carnage and some sliding cars.

BUT, I think this race was in the most aspects the same as the first one as it showed that everything else that the one obvious mandatory stop for the tire change is the better strategy due cars not being able to overtake each other. The winner pitted on lap 6, changed to the soft compound and finished without having any tire trouble. I don't think that should be possible, even with a car being very easy on the tires. Hamilton was over 1,5 secs faster than Kubica when closing up and couldn't pass and he was about 1 second faster when closing up on Alonso at the end. Sure both are good drivers but with that speed difference it should be at least possible to make a move...

Congrats to Button for being the first with balls and dry tires and winning it while Red Bull might invest some more money for QM

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isnt it comforting to know that there a companies out there that make decisions to their customers benefit?
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1611067220100316

Thanks Shot... you just broke my irony detector.

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I have seen Tron again, a visual masterpiece considering it was done in the early 80's.

Quote from boothy :

I think Morgan is referring to the amount of drivers in the spdo db, though not all will be S2.

And not all will be listed. The usual rules for statistics do also apply to the spdo one
(Some might stopped playing lfs a long time ago)

On topic: Apparently it does, otherwise they would either charge more money or go out of business. And it's not really ours to know the figures either.

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Quote from Scawen :

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At the moment we are gradually approaching 60,000 S2 licenses.

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Happy birthday Victor

The problem are that the tires are lasting to long... if they would just last around 100 km drivers would be forced to pit and they'd push since there is no sense about saving the tires anymore. Having that said the difference between the 2 tire sorts should be bigger like the softer compound being 1 sec faster but le'ts say only lasts 80 km. That would spice it up a bit.

But the way we have it now is that the "hard" tire seems to be an endurance tire which kills the racing for sprint cars...

Boring race. People still not able to overtake each other unless one car has a problem and tires last way too long to make it interesting. Driving on a parking lot didn't help either.
Looking at the result the main reason for the new point system is to give the average team points as well. (2 Fer, 2 Mer, 2 McL, 2 Rbr).

Next race please.

+1 for wider tires and less aerodynamics

Thanks for the update @ Scawen
Just out of interest, do you get any outside help with creating the tire model in terms of understanding how it works and assumptions that can be made or do you really try to do it on your own with lots of books?

Apart from that and I really do know how this sounds, but is there any way to release just a content update (GTR cockpits as example) from Erics side? I realize that the plan is to get the physics update done first, but as far as I understand your post that might be "some" time away still.

What happened is that it's not just changing a few lines of code here and there and everything else will still work but quite the opposite apparently. Scawen coded a new tire model to find out that the old model for tire wear and heat couldn't be used anymore so he had / has to recode that too. The Scirocco comes with limited Setup options so the basic setup needs to be "realistic" to drive. And as todays cars have from what I think a more sophisticated suspension than the current LFS model can simulate it needed to be redone as well. Not speaking of that one system affects the other.

If that all justifies the time it's been taking so far is another matter, it's definatly not an easy task.

I don't know why but I'm waiting for / expecting the follow up article stating that someone is suing Nintendo for making a gun shaped controller...

Though I hope that the poor parent has learned his lesson.

Overtaking will be close to impossible, not even speaking of the curbs and the chicane after T1 which will cause epic carnage once the first car of a group hits the tire stacks...

Rest might be fun

Isn't it kinda sad that you can alreday tell by the thread title alone that it happend in the USA?

Leaving a gun alone in the living room and open for any children to play with... can you behave even more stupid?

If you don't take the driver and track into account then probably yes. But as each driver has a different driving style there is no perfect set that fits all. A driver prefering understeering sets will be slower in an oversteering set etc. Also different tracks require different settings (bumpy vs. flat). It's not just doing 2 + 2

billy idol - dancing with myself

Quote from AndroidXP :

It's like if you're a master cook, preparing your most renowned meal for a big gala evening and then invite Michael J. Fox to handle the salt shaker.

that's just mean

My point is that it is unrealistic and the option should be removed as it will / can be exploited with the use of macros or whatever.

A clutch should only be applied to an axis of a controller.

I never understood the reason for the button clutch option anyway.

Quote from shaun463 :

EDIT 2: It was my dad's laptop it turns out. One of the files was the same damn one he got. I have to fix his laptop every week - he really is that bad.

Maybe you should not give him an administrative account for normal usage then, eh?

Book of Eli

Rather disappointing, nearly the whole world (well... american) population dies and nearly all who survived are either criminals or religious kooks. To add that people aren't able to maintain the places they are living in and prefer housing in something that looks like it has just survived a hurrican (note: the event in question happend 30 years ago)...
Only worth watching because Denzel Washingtion is looking cool as usual.

Team Name: Triple 7 Racing
Number: 25
Car: FZR
Drivers:
cmckowen, C. McKowen, GBR
Tomhah, T. Østgaard, NOR
three_jump, J. Grüner, GER

#25
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=1308041#post1308041

As the topic says I need some help in finding the correct replacement motor for my good old dfp...

Vendor appears to be Johnson (Electric?)

190159-1000
3F0842 30

Does anyone have some more infos / spec about this or what I could replace it with?

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What kind of car he left with the pits ??


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this movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Lebowski

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