Quote from Blowtus :

acing really isn't that physically demanding or anything, it's just a bunch of learned responses...

u should have come to the LFS karting event then, almost everyone came off the karts after 20 mins and they were shattered, and thats only indoor karts. proper karts can break your ribs just from going around a corner, they pull 3.5G, one lap and u would be shattered!

Quote from Leifde :

Thats until a wheel actually does come off. It's happened to me twice - first time the bearing was broken, second time my dad forgot to put something on the axle that keeps the hub on.

hehe unlucky man! but when my track-rod snapped going around B at whilton at about 70mph, i went flat out through the fence and got knocked out. i jumped out after i woke up and straightened the sidepods etc and carried on, next heat i put it out of my mind. all people who race for real do this or they will drive round being scared and i bet u went out afterwards not thinking about it either!

Quote from keiran :

Eventually my Dad went and stuck a crisp packet at the side of the track and said try brake there. I went for it and I took the corner no problem, after that I was braking later than that till I lost it and hit the pit entrance

maybe the crisp packet blew a few metres towards the corner one lap

if we got karts in LFS we could use the difference in posture of the male and female to change the weight distribution if our handling was wrong

i dont think people who race in real life have 'balls', just a trust in their ability.

for example, hit a fence, runs back to the pits and jump straight back in, knowing what went wrong and put it out of your mind. Or jeremy saying he was scared a wheel would fall off, you just go out and dont think about it and trust the mechanics.

the GP4 screenshot is silly, u cant see that much of the helmet, only the visor sticker at the very top of your vision, and i use a narrow aperature helmet. your focus is so far into the distance while u are driving so u cant actually SEE any parts of the helmet unless u focus close, if u know what i mean.

Quote from dUmAsS :

some numb-nuts forgot to put the handbrake on. there car then rolled down a slight slope and into the back of mine and dented the bumper

with a name like dumbarse, are u sure it wasnt u!?!?

anyway, you are lucky more damage wasnt caused man!!

looks good.

what about that drag race?!?! maybe u could bring it to whilton and run it there!

no, the scalextric car did 690mph and its a 1:32

Quote from NONo443 :

Forgive me if this has been done before, but what do the LFS drivers like to listen to while driving.

the engine

my go kart goes faster than that


imagine what the scale speed of that car is! around 2000mph is my guess if its a 1:10

info in a thread called LFS meet 2005, scawen and victor raced aswell

http://www.lfsforum.net/showth ... 538&highlight=karting

theres a nice video which fordman made to download

Quote from Leifde :

I'm hopefully gonna be at Wombwell in January. I race Jnr Max, IIC you can get over 70mph at Wombwell in my class so it should be fun

How did you manage that?

P.S. do you race your FA in 100 national?

nah, i have 4 motors, one rotary valve 100 national, 1 reed valve FA and 2 TKM Extremes. I wont be racing the 100 national but might be using the reed FA in 100 nat in 2007 when the homologation changes. Keiran used to race junior max aswell, with 24 kilos of lead.

did u hear about the LFS karting event we had?]

And clownpaint yes u can test without a licence at whilton

lol keiran, £210, u have it easy m8, a standard rebuild for tkm cost me £320 just a few weeks ago! And i just blew my FA up, the carb butterfly screw fell out and went into the motor lol :S Why did your engine seize?

ill send my engines up to scotland i think!

sure m8, ive got an air cooled motor called TKM that u can go on, and if u do alright ill let u have a bash on the FA, if u did go on it i would expect u to have a bash litterally its quick.

first time i ran it i was doing about 85mph at the end of the straight, went to brake and found that my brakes didnt work, the brake rod had fallen off. luckily there was a lovely soft bush to go into, fences hurt at that speed!

im at whilton in northampton in january and at shennington in oxford in feburary sometime and loads of other tracks take your pick.

i feel dissapointed that karts arent counted as real racing, ayrton senna described it as the purest form of motorsport, and the only people who say it isnt 'real' racing are the ones who have never driven a PROPER kart. The racing is harder for sure, than some domestic banger car series. For example a season in a european karting series can cost around 100k for a half decent team, these domestic car series cost maybe 30k and the drivers are alot less experienced and easier to beat.

i think 'proper' karting isnt so common as u need to get a licence, get loads of signatures to get a National A licence to race at national level. with indoor karting just turn up and race..

i think fordie is joking about the RC cars, i did it too and its not real motorsport!

Last edited by ayrton senna 87, Tue 20 Dec 2005, 17:54.

those are 19hp yamaha air cooled motors, great little engines but a little down on power for seniors

if u have 1.5k to spare u can have a day testing an FA, or u can come drive mine at whilton one day, aslong as we have that race at brummie wheels sometime!!

grats mantis9 lets get u on some 2 strokes now

try these 2 stroke indoor karts to start, then something faster!
http://video.google.com/videop ... 9810642490334&q=senna

i bet even with the PS3 it wont have damage, its all about the manufacturers

Quote from Leifde :

A couple here.

Warning: I'd be very surprised if anyone got the second one.

the 2nd one is wombwell am i correct?

Quote from 5th Earth :

DING!

I hear they're trying to improve it for spectators and racers alike... put stands closer to the track and widen/smooth the track in places so it won't be a parade. I live nearby, which is why I thought of posting it.

Here's another one... not exactly a race track, but a very famous location that's related to autosport.

thats a bobsleigh track

the T7R site says 'hacked by shadow' to me, unlucky lads

wow

playlife, u started one of these threads before

if u have any problems with someone why dont u talk to them about it first, and email victor if u still arent happy...

some of them are amazing, fountainhead are about the most professional,

www.fountainheadent.com
www.strangecompany.org
www.machinima.com

a few years ago i saw a magazine with all this stuff in and i remembered it somehow illepall