Quote from pb32000 :

My biggest personal achievement was getting work featured on Smashing Magazine

Smashing is by far my favorite design mag/website. If no secret, which of your work(s) got featured?

Jack. Shit.

Neither. Save your money or ask for a gift card/cash instead if it's a present.

Yeah, it sucks to be pouring money down the toilet without wins, but it seems to me they're in F1 more for marketing/advertisement than for winning. Even if you don't win, you still get a lot of attention just because you participate in F1, and I think that's why they haven't jumped ship yet. Call them attention whores if you like. Soon they'll be quoting themselves in their own signatures, as per JJ

Well done, really enjoyed the chopping and music sync!

Hey Gills, can you try making an Aston Martin Vantage racer sound for FZR? I saw you've done it for FZ5, but I think it may be quite appropriate for FZR.
I'm really looking for that machine gun-like sound, not the high pitched whine on a DBR9.

Here's one video of Vantage GT2 @ Paul Ricard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgN_jhxawgI

And this is a vid of the street Vantage but with some Prodrive mods. Dunno if you'll need it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vidUKUB3zJU


Cheers and happy new year!

BTW, anyone noticed Mr. Squidhead didn't post in this thread yet? I suspect he may be short on nasty things to say

jeeeez, this is incredible. nothing else to say!

Was out yesterday trying some pans and other stuff. Pans are pretty hard, expecially when you're constrained for space. So a big shout out to Don for his in-focus rally photos!

Probably my fav. motion shot from the day, even though the truck got in the way
http://farm4.static.flickr.com ... 24041453_162edeb039_o.jpg

I know that most of the car is oof here, but something about the angle draws me in
http://farm4.static.flickr.com ... 24041437_e52b1e5aed_o.jpg

A triumph bike
http://farm4.static.flickr.com ... 26481374_3a656247c4_o.jpg

A BMW bike #1
http://farm4.static.flickr.com ... 26179311_ce2a42e2a0_o.jpg

#2 (much sharper :razz
http://farm4.static.flickr.com ... 26468760_b4cd1d4fdc_o.jpg

#3
http://farm4.static.flickr.com ... 26468764_24c09241d7_o.jpg

And lastly, 3 sunsets over SF Bay, some of my better shots.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com ... 24041459_2121019aca_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com ... 24041463_7aec5dce9f_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com ... 24041465_df1d367565_o.jpg

Hi Scawen,

Not sure if this requires immediate attention, but since new brake disc textures were introduced, you may want to take a look. I'm running the smokemod from keygetys. The XRG was in reverse, so the dust/gravel was flying from the rears to the front of the car, and as this dust passes through the front wheels, the disc becomes a square. The car was moving.
This doesn't show up during normal driving. The view is TV.

Same thing happens for XFG when moving forward and dust flies to the rears.


Thanks!

Quote from deggis :

GT2 will offer some consolation. Ferrari vs. Porsche vs. BMW vs. Corvette. And possibly vs. Jaguars.

Hey deggis, are there any links to speculations about the Jags? Would be interesting to follow the development.

Quote from titanLS :

Maybe it's time we see the #16 and 20 of Dyson up front again!

Just so there's no confusion, Dyson will be fielding a pair of Mazda-powered Lola coupes in 2009. Linky.

Yeh, no shit. Just hope somebody will pick up a customer RS Spyder like Dyson did in the past. Otherwise we'll just be looking at Acura (still under question) vs. Mazda in P2.

Quote from HEIZER :

New skin from me.


Original car

Skin

Surreal!! Thank you

Wicked news, thanks devs!

Quote from deggis :

That sucks. It's artificial. I don't know about Nascar, but ALMS has certainly understood this, unfortunately. It does make racing better, but in a very artificial way. Ok, maybe the tracks don't have cranes, and maybe (great) American tracks do not have so much run off areas to allow marshalls to clean the debris from the track safely after crashes but sometimes it feels like seagull poo is enough for yet another safety car perioid.

+1, especially on ALMS

Quote from Mattesa :

BTW, the SCCA runoffs are being show on SPEED again. Do you see now those guys bump and grind and spin!? LOL I wouldn't want to do that with my own car.

Almost forgot, thought you'd enjoy this.

Tdi Cup sure sounds nice, but AFAIK, it's not a "bring-the-money-and-drive" type series. I don't know what's the deal with 2009 drivers, but for 2008 VW evaluated 54 drivers (of the ones that were deemed worthy to evaluate) and picked 30, based not just on driving skill, but marketing potential as well. According to this link, it costs $35K/season just to do drive it. Add in the travel expenses, etc. and you end up with waaay more that you'd spend in a Spec Miata even if you go to runoffs. Oh, and with a Spec Miata you can actually own the car.

As Mattesa duly noted, the runoffs are shown on Speed, and with a relatively well-known (and fairly well regarded) series like SM, the front running guys do not go unnoticed by the people in higher series. I think the prize for SM championship this year was a fully sponsored drive in the Playboy Mx-5 cup.

From what little I learned by reading online, it only takes a few sanctioned trackdays/HPDEs to get a SCCA or a NASA licence to race in SE30/SM/Spec944 etc.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do and keep us updated.

Autocross, Spec E30, Spec Miata - probably in that order of cheapness.

Spec Miata has larger fields, but will ultimately cost you more (than SE30) if you want to be running near the front. ~$20K for a top running car with a "pro" motor is about right (but keep an eye out for sealed spec miata/SSM...could be cheaper due to hp restrictions on the motor that is sealed). ~$10K should get you into a pretty competitive E30 last time I checked. Not sure what the numbers are in SM, but running costs per season are/were on the order of $6-7K in SE30 not counting potential collision damage repair. I don't know of any cirtuits in immediate vicinity of NH, so you may need to travel a bit. Still, the North East SCCA/NASA division fields have plenty of cars in both series, so you should be able to get decent racing out of it if you go ahead.

All that said, I'd rather start in auto-x to learn car controll a bit better. Heck, start w/ a Miata or an E30 in stock class and convert it into a race car later on!

Quote from tristancliffe :

I like so many things Solidworks can do, but I can't get my head around the simple stuff. I'm too indoctrinated into the Autodesk way of doing things - I used to use AutoCad, but now I'm an Inventor person.

I tried Solidworks again today, simply because I read that article and loved what it produced (and I read something in Racecar Engineering the other day too), but my gosh simple things aren't simple to me!

Add me to the list! Fortunately, I don't have to do much CAD these days (more of a Matlab person), but after trying out Inventor a few months ago, SW was promptly ditched. As you say, it's the simple things that don't seem right in SW. Having said that, I hate AutoCAD with a passion

Don - fantastic as usual!
Mrodgers - nice model that one!

Got a chance to snap a few seagulls (among other things) today at a local marina. Never really photographed birds...tough stuff. Good thing they were in abundance. And no, I didn't get pooped on

There seemed to be two types of them: white ones...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com ... 74888530_caf6db2827_o.jpg
...and black.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com ... 74888528_5f819159a3_o.jpg
But white ones dominated
http://farm4.static.flickr.com ... 74888532_ba5d27d5e0_o.jpg
This bird's got something on its mind
http://farm4.static.flickr.com ... 74888538_8214f07e5c_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com ... 74888542_6699b37498_o.jpg
I hanged around till sunset and this was my reward
http://farm4.static.flickr.com ... 74891774_eca247dc55_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com ... 74888544_8a7d48f191_o.jpg
And the supermodel
http://farm4.static.flickr.com ... 74891776_c09f4fd111_o.jpg

Cheers,

If you mean uses other than those involving the any kind of software, then probably a holder for food plates and drink cups/glasses while I'm using the pc. Sometimes, I put papers on there too

Wow, superb work, keep it coming (if possible)!

Love the image, but as you said in your linked post, the perspective is the tricky thing. May I suggest lowering the viewpoint a little bit? At the moment it appears that the floor/horizontal plane of the car is at an angle to the garage floor. Do keep us updated!

Quote from Schuppor :

Speedy Pro asked for a GMAC design the other day - so here you go...



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