di resta has a strong position due to his mercedes links and he's impressed this year, even though he's spent most of the 2nd half of season being given the gamble of an unconventional strategy, the fact that it was him rather than sutil that was asked to run it possibly tells a lot about how force india see their abilities to adapt. given the rumours about a possible split between mercedes and mclaren in the future, it could make good sense for force india to take hulkenberg as well even if he doesn't bring as much money as some could.
sutil will be interesting, 7 million aprox isn't enough to get a seat at a top / high mid team, i'd suspect that if it comes down to money then petrov can out bid his way into the lotus seat but for someone like williams or lower down the field it's a substantial amount, caterham are unusual for a team towards the back in that they are in a position where the drivers money isn't important. if STR stay unchanged then it's not a good sign for a few drivers in the red bull development program.
the surprise seat could be HRT, de la rosa has obviously seen something there for him to give up a comfortable role, as a well regarded test driver who can be dropped in to any car that's short of a race driver, to risk his reputation in the slowest team, it's possible that a decent injection of funds from another driver could see them move up the grid.
having said that marussia could be very interesting now they have parted ways with nick wirth and the total reliance on CFD but the second seat so far has been a ticket to obscurity, when you hear motorsport journalists actually struggling to remember who was glock's partner this season you know the coverage has been non existant
Grosjean has been testing with BMW, so that may be hinting that he's not going to get an F1 seat
quite a few hosted races for cars like the HPD insist on a mandatory pit stop or stops, if someone doesn't stop the organiser just drops them from the results, see if you can find one of those, it's not perfect as the guy that doesn't stop will still show as a winner in the iracing event result but i've never had a problem with anyone breaking the rule in the races i've been in
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i keep meaning to try co op just because i'm a sucker for the G3 and it's a co op unlock 
the issue for kubica, apart from any mental block, is going to be his thumb and fingers, it's one thing to be able to grip a wheel again, another to perform the digit gymnastics todays F1 cars require, a good example being button's attempts to reset his KERS system in a recent race.
renault may well be able to move all the regularly used buttons / rotary selectors to the left side but there will be times in the race when multiple menu selections require both hands to be used whilst still steering and working the gear change paddles, it's possible you put both clutches on the left and make the gear change a pull push arrangement but it all increases the chances of a mistake whilst driving at the limit, that was one of the reasons the F duct was banned, the drivers felt it was unsafe to have one hand not holding the wheel yet kubica may have to rely on his injured hand / arm to steer whilst his left changes gears and adjusts brake bias, fuel map, kers program etc or deploys KERS and / or DRS all whilst battling with other cars.
i hope i'm wrong but i personally doubt he'll ever regain the absolute speed he had before his accident for anymore than a short run of laps
renault may well be able to move all the regularly used buttons / rotary selectors to the left side but there will be times in the race when multiple menu selections require both hands to be used whilst still steering and working the gear change paddles, it's possible you put both clutches on the left and make the gear change a pull push arrangement but it all increases the chances of a mistake whilst driving at the limit, that was one of the reasons the F duct was banned, the drivers felt it was unsafe to have one hand not holding the wheel yet kubica may have to rely on his injured hand / arm to steer whilst his left changes gears and adjusts brake bias, fuel map, kers program etc or deploys KERS and / or DRS all whilst battling with other cars.
i hope i'm wrong but i personally doubt he'll ever regain the absolute speed he had before his accident for anymore than a short run of laps
i think the idea of the jets is that oen of the biggest complaints about BF2 was that the jets spent all their time having to turn before they went out of bounds and that placing some targets at the edges of the maps, meant they were restricted in their potential directions of attack and as such gave the defenders an advantage.
at the moment i'm in total admiration of a group of about 6 players who kicked my teams ass yesterday on the seine crossing map, best example of teamwork i've seen in a public server despite all belonging to different clans / platoons, they just went round the map as a solid unit, covering, reviving, resupplying etc and were pretty much unstoppable.
i was also on the end of a pretty impressive team action in a conquest match on the metro map. they'd been failing all game to get up the escalators/ steps to the middle flag and it all gradually went quiet for a minute or so before they unleashed the biggest barrage of RPGs i've ever seen, the whole team had gone engineer class and pretty much fired as one, it almost worked too, there was just enough of us who survived to hold them back till the others respawned, no way you'd ever see anything like that level of cooperation in COD /MW
at the moment i'm in total admiration of a group of about 6 players who kicked my teams ass yesterday on the seine crossing map, best example of teamwork i've seen in a public server despite all belonging to different clans / platoons, they just went round the map as a solid unit, covering, reviving, resupplying etc and were pretty much unstoppable.
i was also on the end of a pretty impressive team action in a conquest match on the metro map. they'd been failing all game to get up the escalators/ steps to the middle flag and it all gradually went quiet for a minute or so before they unleashed the biggest barrage of RPGs i've ever seen, the whole team had gone engineer class and pretty much fired as one, it almost worked too, there was just enough of us who survived to hold them back till the others respawned, no way you'd ever see anything like that level of cooperation in COD /MW
ITV actually stated that they did not want F1, and there's no way C4, C5 etc would be able to come up with the budget, channel 4 just made £40 million profit in total in 2010 and channel 5's former owners lost that much financing it in the first 6 months of 2010. given that BBC had to cut their costs and given that bernie has shown before now that he's quite prepared to not make a deal rather than cut the cost of it, the sky solution is probably the best outcome that was going to happen.
any channel apart from the BBC has to directly finance the coverage somehow or run it as a loss making flagship, one of the reasons ITV stated they didn't want F1 was the amount of complaints they got over adverts which made it unattractive to premium advertisers, any program on C4 / 5 would face the same issues and they couldn't afford not to run adverts for maybe 2 hours in a weekend, sky has the finances and business model to support uninterupted coverage, even at high viewing demand times and avoid the hostility that commercial breaks cause,
radical shouldn't be too twitchy but the Brit tournament fixed set was a bit loose at high speeds, if you're using that try giving it a bit more rear wing till you get used to it, failing that ask on the radical forum in iracing, they're a friendly lot and willing to help
+1 boothy about MWM, they even said about the GM DP in June but when i mentioned it on iracing all the americans said it was a rubish idea that always got rumoured.
if you really what to know what audi think about porsche coming into the WEC, listen to the radio lemans imola practice pod casts, apparently there were blank faces in the audi pit when they were questioned just after porsche announced it followed by a lot of frantic phone calls, apparently porsche really did keep it completely secret from everyone else in the VW group and even porsche US as it was felt they were too closely linked with audi US to be trusted.
it helps of course to have a member of the porsche family, DR piech as chairman of the VW group and of course it's still not entirely clear who exactly owns who / what in the relationship given that in theory porsche holdings has a slight majority share in both porsche and the VW group even after porsches financial colapse and as such will be the majority share holder in the merged group, and who owns 10% of porsche holdings? the piech family
if you really what to know what audi think about porsche coming into the WEC, listen to the radio lemans imola practice pod casts, apparently there were blank faces in the audi pit when they were questioned just after porsche announced it followed by a lot of frantic phone calls, apparently porsche really did keep it completely secret from everyone else in the VW group and even porsche US as it was felt they were too closely linked with audi US to be trusted.
it helps of course to have a member of the porsche family, DR piech as chairman of the VW group and of course it's still not entirely clear who exactly owns who / what in the relationship given that in theory porsche holdings has a slight majority share in both porsche and the VW group even after porsches financial colapse and as such will be the majority share holder in the merged group, and who owns 10% of porsche holdings? the piech family
given how many takes it takes to get these video's together i suppose there's no surprise that block's threatening to quit the WRC unless the regs change to allow him to test more
yeah it's a great track / car combo, ran in a hosted session there the other day, got down to a 14.0 optimal on the international without chicanes so god knows how fast the experts will be but druids is epic in it
i can see what kimi will get out it, he needs to spend 12 months in F1 before there are decent drives available for 2013, but unless williams have a major turnaround in performance, i'm afraid that 2012 will go down as the year that williams were so bad that one of the fastest drivers in F1 history was unable to finish in the top 10 and as such mark the start of the end of them as an F1 team.
it's sad to say but they really do remind me of how lotus went, from a world championship, innovative team to a team that could challenge for a championship, to a team that could challenge to win races, to a team thats mid field and hires drivers depending on how much money they can bring into the team, the only difference is lotus lost their genius when chapman died, williams lost theirs when newey left. i just hope they reverse the trend
what was really sad was to see williams making a big thing on twitter about how they'd managed to gain so many places in the last race as if it was a big improvement, rather than because they couldn't get one of their cars running in qualifying and the other had been penalised for a mechanical failure that resulted in an engine failure.
it's sad to say but they really do remind me of how lotus went, from a world championship, innovative team to a team that could challenge for a championship, to a team that could challenge to win races, to a team thats mid field and hires drivers depending on how much money they can bring into the team, the only difference is lotus lost their genius when chapman died, williams lost theirs when newey left. i just hope they reverse the trend
what was really sad was to see williams making a big thing on twitter about how they'd managed to gain so many places in the last race as if it was a big improvement, rather than because they couldn't get one of their cars running in qualifying and the other had been penalised for a mechanical failure that resulted in an engine failure.
have to agree with tris on that, outside of F1 it's a warning to the slower car, not an instruction
oh BTW tris nice onboard vid from oulton park mate, especially if you run it at the same time as chris' vid
, just start yours 8 secs earlier to match the action.
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room mate is one that's hungry, flat mate is one that lost a fight with one of these
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issues to do with the heavy snow
pity the update isn't ready. they could switch it whilst everything is down then there'd be no extra loss of service
issues to do with the heavy snow
pity the update isn't ready. they could switch it whilst everything is down then there'd be no extra loss of service
nothing surprises me about cars that "stand out" not being found easily, in the late 80's a group A tarmac rally spec sierra cosworth on slicks was stolen and spent many a happy night bating the police round the north east, as far as i know it was never caught
i'm guessing there will be some serious (and frantic) re writing of the regs for next season, as i posted before it was only last week that radio lemans commented that dan had told them that the new car will be touching 400 kph / 250 mph at the faster ovals as it's so efficient through the air
doubt it, dan had been telling radio lemans last week that he expected the new car to be pushing 400 kph / 250 mph at the faster ovals as it's so slippery
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pretty damm close to results in quali,
lets see how the race goes
i think you've put your finger on it there, the maps not a true battlefiled map or even a good bad company map but it does a fine job of introducing COD players to battlefield game play and weapons.
there's every chance they'll gain COD players after they've played it whilst the normal BF fans, even if put off by the "demo" map, will probably buy the game once the full gameplay / maps etc becomes apparent
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