Ignore karting if you can't afford other forms of wheel to wheel racing. The only way go karts can compete at £20 + petrol level is 30 minutes in a rental kart, not exactly the same thing. The same money will buy you a day of competitive motorsport in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere in a car rather than a souped up lawnmower.
Skip Barber is only good value compared to other forms of racing, still looking at thousands an event.
If you can't afford racing and want something with a competitive element then look at sprints, road rallies and auto solos. All of which you can do in a standard road car with nothing else for a pretty nominal club sub and entry fee. Alternatively there is some quite good non-contact short oval circuit racing in the UK, I'm sure there will be plenty of production classes in the US at low cost.
If you can't afford racing and want something with a competitive element then look at sprints, road rallies and auto solos. All of which you can do in a standard road car with nothing else for a pretty nominal club sub and entry fee. Alternatively there is some quite good non-contact short oval circuit racing in the UK, I'm sure there will be plenty of production classes in the US at low cost.
Magnesium wheels are still the best available and used in F1 and almost all serious competition, but are far too expensive to filter into road cars.
Turbos were used in road cars long before they ever became successful in racing. You might find that some of the rally anti-lag systems have been put into road cars and of course rallying gave us the Gatso.
Other than that there could be a (very) tentative argument that Mercedes Grand Prix cars of the 1950s pioneered fuel (diesel derived and I think direct) injection in petrol engined road cars, with the 300SL. Other than that you could argue that the Miller racing cars of the 1920s developed front wheel drive.
Done street luge, we don't really have the climate for ice sports in the UK (though it sure feels like we do this morning!). Fantastic fun, definitely grab any opportunity to do such activities when you can 
I think disc brakes were widely used on aircraft before racing cars. Possibly the concept of monocoque construction (by a 1920s French racing car which someone else may be able to help you with). Various aerodynamic and engine developments. Some safety improvements (seatbelts?). Not to mention no shortage of new materials and (largely historical) advancement in testing rigs/wind tunnels/car setup/simulation etc.
The new version is getting really useful. I think there is little (if anything) that a full 3D package can now add for the average track over BTB, especially since we know laserscanning input is in development for it.
One thing I'm not too sure about though, is it best to create terrain (and get the infield points connected) before applying elevation to the track?
One thing I'm not too sure about though, is it best to create terrain (and get the infield points connected) before applying elevation to the track?
Millions in karting? You've got to be having a laugh. There's no doubt it is possible to buy a seat in F1, anybody will take you if you put enough cash upfront, especially in an economic down turn. It simply doesn't make sense putting silly amounts to win one particular formula.
Of course racism can go both ways. In this case however it was a clear cut case of a white British family of idiots giving prolonged racial abuse to their perfectly legitimate muslim neighbours, that was established in court. Obviously anybody in such a position is going to have anger, which may or may not be racially motivated, and unfortunately the scum got what was coming to them.
It is still a crime that can never be justified, but by giving such provocation they only bring it upon themselves.
The car that attacked was not owned by someone on the BNP list, they simply lived in the same street.
Unfortunately inciting racial and religious hatred is going to upset people and some will turn violent, there has already been a case of one of these racist bigots getting murdered by a neighbour who couldn't stand his abuse.
Which is precisely the argument for the abolishment of capital punishment...
Do you deny that the BNP wish to abolish the human rights act? Read their own literature for once.
Can you not comprehend that the full Sharia criminal justice system is blocked by the human rights act?
Therefore the BNP is the only major political party that has policies which could allow for Sharia law? The reasons they want to abolish the human rights act is to allow corporal punishment so whilst a party that dishes out religious hatred to muslims like there's no tomorrow is unlikely to impliment Sharia law they are effectively wanting the controsversial bits that offend people anyway.
Of course one can drive a similar car on a completely different track (most likely an airfield seeing as there are very few totally independent circuits). The cost of doing so would be huge and there would probably be about as much benefit as doing a track day in a road car or playing with one of your pedal karts. This is not going to be the only route into F1 and those with large wallets will still be able to buy a drive in the best car in conventional formulae and then put enough up front to get themselves into an F1 drive, like countless others have done before them.
I agree that the headline totally blows it out of proportion, hopefully we'll see him back soon.
Yeah but I bet he won't sue...
Yeah but I bet he won't sue...
Invading random countries was not a published Labour policy.
It is pretty easy for the FIA to ban people from testing at FIA certified venues. I know of a pair of Formula BMW drivers being banned from taking part in an endurance event in a GT car on a different layout of a track which Formula BMW had a round at.
If you start getting silly with building carbon copies of cars (because Williams sure as hell are not going to sell you one) and using private test tracks it would be far easier to just buy a drive in F1.
If you vote for a party you're voting for whatever is most significant to you about that party, if unsubstantial promises of change out weighs blatant racial hatred and an inconvenient history, then yes you are a mindless bigot.
In general I agree with the sentiment that academic higher education is not for everyone. However, I don't agree with the concept of national service, in the UK there's plenty of opportunity to sample the armed forces through cadets and various liaison opportunities (all free and all voluntary). Joining up is also no bar to going to university, quite the opposite really there's plenty of financial support for those wishing to do so.
This year the F1 drivers championship was won with 98 points, Nascar with 6684. Notice how one system favours simplicity whilst the other just produces big numbers because they impress people who can't count?
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It really shouldn't be funny but can't he do better than arguments such as crime committed by white people is actually committed entirely by Turks and Albanians, who are not white in his eyes, therefore they are obviously automatically practicing muslims...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsA_Xko4tqM&NR=1
This is even better though, we're not 'Nazis' we're a national socialist party...
People are talking about the picture of the bike lower down the thread, not the OPs rather blurry attempts
No one is going to want to buy those photos, few people would be interested if you gave them away for free. Photographing major events is a bad idea if you intend to sell your pictures because, apart from the issue of permissions, lots of other photographers will have taken far better pictures, some of which will usually be available for free. If you want to make money from racing photos then take photos at local events and sell them directly to drivers at the next meeting. They will need to be of a high quality, nothing like the ones you've posted, and nicely printed if you expect to sell any. If you want to save some money up get a paper round.
Just got CoD 5, loving it but completely baffled as to what to do on the sniper mission? It seems the other sniper fires as soon as he appears and always knows exactly where you are.
In exactly the same way some stupid Americans complain about Mexicans being prepared to work harder for less than them we get the same idiots complaining about the Poles...
In qualifying trim it will last several laps, so a lot longer sustained heat and stress than a drag racing engine. Producing huge outputs from engines for relatively short periods of time is possible but not terribly desirable due to the enormous costs associated with it and relatively small list of applications for such engines. Turbo and supercharging are inefficient methods of forced induction, if you want maximum output and no lag at all then using constant pressure forced induction is the way to go. There have been very few serious attempts at this, Nick Mann has a hillclimb special powered by a 1700 BDA with a Wessex (helicopter) providing forced induction, the power output is somewhere over 400bhp and with no lag and four wheel drive this car is incredible to watch off the line, I've never seen (or heard) anything like it. Now in the nicest possible way this engine was designed on a beer mat and built in a shed, probably without any real science being applied at any point with a very good, but old engine that wasn't intended for constant pressure forced induction and a 'turbo' which wasn't intended for this purpose. With proper investment and ground up design there must be huge potential in a system like this.
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