Quote from DeadWolfBones :

For the record, Danica finished that race about as well as JPM finished his first race there.

and he's pretty flat chested as well

Quote from JohnPenn :

Limerock is still my favorite track,VERY challenging to race, easy to hotlap.

My tips for Having fun in Iracing if your starting out.

1: Never chase fast laps let them come to you as descibed in number 4.
2: practice practice practice first ..then race.
3: dont worry about what others are doing or not doing,( unless there wrecking ).
4: Don't hop from car to car,Don't rush to move up, find a car you like and stick with it, keep driving it until all those frustrating corners normally accompanied with massive sawing at the wheel on the exit suddenly feel like you have all the time in the world to make them, its a slow/fast almost effortless feeling and its worth the practice.

5: enjoy it, it's not a job

+100

an extra hint is to remember TTs, although they only measure your time over a certain number of laps dependant on circuit, do actually run for a full 30 mins, try and run the whole 30 mins at a reasonable pace without any incident points. if you can manage this then you're a long way to completing a race succesfully.

finally remember the idea of rookie races is just to learn to survive races, wins etc can come later, just get used to watching and avoiding other drivers and their accidents as iracing is a lot less forgiving of damage than LFS especially as you go higher up the ladder.

simple answer would be to give campos and usa a 4 race amnesty, then let stefan run the first 4 races. after 4 races if as seems likely one or both of the two missing teams don't show up stefan can carry on. if both turn up then the team(s) in last place in the constructors championship and the 2 latecomers have to pre qualify with the fastest 2 teams on combined driver's best laps being in the race. this should give stefan the advantage to ensure they stay racing and it should weed out which ever team is way off the pace. after a further 4 events the prequalifying would be for the 4 teams that were lowest in the championship.


as an added bonus it would give us something exciting to watch on friday and in fact it could be turned into a 10 lap sprint qualification with once again the agregate team results deciding who gets into saturdays qualifying, the grid for this decided by fastest times in an early 30 mins practice.

one further bonus is that it would also give the teams that were at the bottom of the championship some extra track time and some publicity

Quote from wild :

They had no other choice but to withdraw, Williams would not let them use a "customer car" and they didn't have sufficient time to build their own before the seasons started. So they had to withdraw, which is a shame really it would have been nice to have seen them on the grid.

which was of course purely because williams, the team that likes to project itself as thinking that racing is more important than results, were worried that they would be beaten, ignoring the fact that frank williams' first attempt at a team used customer cars !

Quote from hyntty :

O fak

i'm impressed by how in the second one he can urinate right through that water butt

plus you get to practice how to educate people and not getting frustrated by trying to explain to niles why he's better off now than with the old sub system

Quote from DevilDare :

I missed it. Thought it will be boring like usual, now regret it.

if you read this in time there's a repeat on sky sports about midday today (sorry cant remember exactly when / which channel ) hopefully they'll edit out the red flag bits

it is a bit worrying, if it was just about drag it wouldn't be an issue (and don't forget an 80's VW van was more aerodynamic than a porsche 928 ) but the name of the game is airflow management and simple really doesn;t cut the mustard (or the aair) these days.


in their favour they may have gone for making sure they have no packaging issues that can affect reliability at first and then be looking to improve the aero once they can get some mile son it. also the fact they use a wind tunnel means they are using proven tech, if virgin find they are struggling they may have difficulty in correcting any aero faults just by CFD when it was the CFD that generated the design in the first place

the thing with luge / skel bob is that it's normally a fairly non fatal sport as your not sharing the track with a great big lump of heavy equpment like the normal bob so as long as you stay within the track confines you probably will just slide to an eventual rest. like motor bikes it's not the falling off that kills but the sudden deceleration if you hit something, obviously you can get the odd freak broken neck etc but usually it's just limbs that get damaged. i see they're now going to raise the ice wall there to keep the competitors on the track if they have an accident.

i think one reason that this video and bike videos are so shocking is that you see the person, if it's a fatal car or plane crash you generally don't see the body hit

"the new car - named T127 - carries the colours used by the legendary team back in the 1905s and 1960s."

never knew lotus were that old

why don;t they send an email to each member saying when the site's going to be down/ they have an email address for everyone. ok a lot wouldn't read it or would loose it in their spam filter but at least it would show an effort to inform their users

FFS, don't they realise that the pre season vids on you tube etc all help get us more excited about the coming season and as a result they help his viewing figures.

if they provided their own testing coverage online i could understand it but since they don't this is just a total "my toys and you can't play with them" by bernie

well said tris

what i'd possibly be more concerned about is if they'd actually managed to do a lap at something close to max pace. hopefully not because their fastest lap was about 10 secs off the pace.

edit: you have to expect something to get broken on a virgin's first time

i see they have confirmed that they will be using the new arena section of silverstone for the gP

could be worse imagine how you'll feel if you get taken out after 190 laps

Quote from AlienT. :

Good stuff Keith, I hope you enjoy it. Remember to come and say hello in the Celtic club forum. We need all the help we can get to wrestle the Western European chamionship from the dastardly English :P

Oh and I'm Struan Robertson btw.

ah thats who you are / he is

im the guy who's always moaning he cant last a race due to post viral fatigue syndrome AKA kev newnes

acording to bbc text, campos are "trying to save workers jobs"


doesn't sound very promising

a lot of cars have audible wear indicators, they're just spring metal that touches the disc when the pads are worn down and these could be what you're hearing. however since you say the AVS is activating as well there is the possibility that the noise is because the friction area of the pad has gone completely. this means that brake will be doing less so the duty of slowing the car is spread amongst the other wheels raising the loads on the tyres, this can result in one or more of those becoming close to lock up, hence the ABS activating. heavily warped / worn discs can have the same effect.

whatever get the brakes looked at, not being able to go is inconvenient, not being able to stop can be far more serious.

EDIT: when you say the ABS is activating, do you mean you're getting a warning that it is or is it just the pedal that is vibrating? if it's just the pedal then it may actually be warped discs that you're feeling

as sam says don't be surprised to see the front and rear wings etc. change in the last tests, once the teams know that the aero data is matching the real life results they can afford to hide away the best bits till the last test or even the first race. additionally when you get mclaren averaging one newly designed component on a car every 20 mins durring a season it's a fair bet to say that cars will change a lot before the first race

when i saw the title i though he'd found some unknown gossip about secret gay love amongst the apollo astonauts

not sure if i'm relieved or disappointed

bring back prequalifying. make it so for the first 6 races all the new teams and those who want to join prequalify like they did in the early 90's, fastest 3 teams (regardless of how fast their second driver is) get the garages for the proper practice / qualifying. that way we might see them giving at least one seat to someone who's fast rather than the driver's with the most cash.

after 6 races make it that it's the teams with the lowest championship scores that prequalify. next season it's the teams that finished lowest plus any more new teams for the first 6 races. apart from anything else it would soon weed out the teams that weren't serious and / or underfunded

heidfeld will certainly up the preasure on rosberg even more, not only does he need to prove he's at least close to the speed of schumacher but he now has to prove he's quicker in testing than another experienced german that whilst not being the fastest driver, is known for his ability to get the car to the finish.

only problem i've got so far is it keeps detecting my wheel / pedals as a joystick and wont let me deselect the choices of controls so it tries to follow the static inputs of the pedals regarding views etc. simple to cure by disconecting it but anoying all the same.

oh and the Q command isn't working

think all of my favourites like the valkyrie and mosquito have been mentioned so i'll add in the mosquito's son the de havilland hornet

http://images.google.co.uk/img ... 16GB317%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

the good old BUFF

http://www.defenseindustrydail ... s/AIR_B-52_Landing_lg.jpg

and a real odd ball which we had one of as a gate guardian at my college

http://images.google.co.uk/img ... DN%26start%3D234%26um%3D1

anyone else see the picture in some of todays papers of button and hamilton? you got to love the way that with all the official / press photographers present they still get their camera phones out to take pictures of each other with the car. (though of course the fact they are sponsored by a mobile phone network may have something to do with it)

also intersting to read that the original idea for mclaren to talk to button was hamilton's