...which can barely run for 5 seconds. When you've got that much power and that short a run the slight efficiency loss of a supercharger is academic compared to any lag.
If you completely redesign the engine, which you need to if you want to get the most out of forced induction then the maximum power output is pretty much limitless, although anybody who builds an engine with maximum peak power as the only design criteria is a blithering idiot. Simply bolting on a turbocharger and a supercharger is likely to result in only a minor (if any) power increase over a well set up naturally aspirated engine and will result in all manner of other issues and complications.
At best it is an uncited quote of a news article quoting a badly cited source. The Times is a dangerous thing, a somewhat opinionated cross between a broadsheet and a tabloid, which can have articles that show some spin, that isn't necessarily obvious to anybody with a braincell like it is in the tabloids.
I wouldn't believe The Times would print such an article though, and if they had it would have probably attracted some controversy.
Out of interest what bugs are people noticing? It has been flawless for me other than difficulty initially connecting to servers.
It is a beta, which is meant to be a finished working product in final testing. Any bugs with this version will not be fixed until a patch is released after release.
Reasonable numbers, it's never hard to find a nearly full server to join, probably better at US times as well.
I am fully aware of the farce that is F1, it is meant to be (and was) the pinnacle of motorsport, the cars and tracks should be as important as the drivers, currently you'll get (literally) more technical innovation and true engineering in tightly controlled stock cars racing on ovals, which have a lot more variety and require a redesign of parts of the car for different tracks. F1 should be able to go to any circuit in the world and on billion dollar budgets the teams haven't got any excuse if they can't make a car go round a fixed surface circuit of virtually any description.
A lot of the infrastructure can be put into the area relatively quickly if there is serious interest in doing so. Grand Prixs are going to be chaotic though, by their nature race circuits tend to be positioned away from civilisation. Sitting in queues is something people are used to from attending most major shows/events/race meetings in this country and I'm sure true racing fans in the States would be prepared to do the same, likewise I think most true racing fans in the US won't want to watch F1 on a largely empty oval, if Indy is dull the fans get to see the dullest part of the track, not an appealing prospect.
They have larger run off areas than street circuits and a lot of club circuits, there have been plenty of big moments in recent years that have demonstrated both that modern racing cars can get away with enormous offs at very high speed without having big impacts (was it Kovalainen at Portugal who drove into the tyres without warning at high speed?) and when they do have big impacts they generally can get away without injury (as virtually every single driver seems to have had these days, usually s a result of driver error) and it is now possible to get away by the skin of the teeth from the unthinkable (Kubica, Legge).
I absolutely love this, never actually thought it could be proved quite so literally that Republicans are stupid brainless idiots!
Pretty good fun to play, I think it lacks some of the authenticity by not attaching weapons to different sides, I suppose it balances the game for online play though. Except for difficulty connecting to servers (my connection I reckon) I've had no issues with it.
I think the US release date is highly inappropriate though.
I think the US release date is highly inappropriate though.
I think there is very good grounds for a court case, what possible defence does Speed have, he openly admitted deliberately causing a high speed crash, which every competitor is fully aware is not in anyway acceptable in motorsport. Taking someone out by being a brain dead BTCC driver is easily defendable as being negligence rather a deliberately malicous act, if you turn someone who you are not even racing into the wall then get out and openly admit you did it then there really isn't a defence.
Installing F1 spec facitlities is usually a straight forward question of getting some funds and building things, at a fraction of the cost of building a new venue. Most of them have pits which endurance racing teams seem to be able to cope with, therefore they are plenty good enough to run single seaters from, anybody who tells you otherwise is just whining for no reason. The only facilities a track needs is a good medical centre, basic security, and somewhere for the crowd to watch the race from, other than that all the hospitality suites can be brought in by those who deem them necessary (and they usually are at European Grand Prixs). Run off areas are both easy to extend and current levels are usually safe enough, I think the only major issue with those tracks is the Esses at Watkins Glen which are still very dangerous, but only really from the risk of cars ending back on the track. It has been proved by several huge accidents that somewhere like Road America is perfectly safe enough for modern single seaters and prototypes, the majority of which were caused by avoidable driver error.
The only issue with Laguna Seca is cars might have trouble physically getting through the Corkscrew, at which point the correct response is to tell them to stop moaning and use a bit of common sense to solve the challenges they are presented with. There's no such thing as a track which is too long or too short, you could quite safely run big single seaters round Brands Hatch, the Nordschleife or a hillclimb so long as the drivers take a sensible approach and forget this ridiculous notion that they should be able to have any accident they like anywhere and walk away from it. As for distance, just like in the other thread it is evident you haven't been to America and don't have a clue what you're talking about, Laguna Seca is less than 2 hours from San Francisco and even closer to San Jose, by US standards that really isn't any distance at all.
Yes because several tracks with reasonably genrous run off areas are far more dangerous than a street circuit...
Almost forgot, is there somewhere I can download Obama's speech? I fell asleep after watching McCain's, rather dull, but in fairness very honourable concession speech. The BBC has the whole thing on their website but my connection isn't good enough to stream from the BBC and I don't fancy watching it in youtube quality 
Because the current president has left the US economy in such a dire state?
Oh please, of all the reasons we've got Iraq one of them is not because we genuinely invaded on the grounds of stopping terrorists, it wasn't even the original excuse given. If you're genuinely worried about terrorists then they've worked, they pose no real risk at all, there are all manner of things that pose a greater danger and starting silly wars and panicing about them is the only way they can spark mass fear into a nation of idiots and achieve their goal.
Whilst he may be able to roll a stupid motion to invade random countries through the support of stupid people who support anything if you do enough flag waving (wasn't McCain's biggest applause after he basically said he would put his country first, as though Obama wouldn't?), the president doesn't really have any role in defence other than pressing the button if it gets bad, he should listen to his advisers who are meant to know far more than him about the specifics of war and generally not being a gunslinging wannabe war hero is quite a desirable feature. The fact so many Americans mindlessly vote Republican is startling, it almost defeats the point in having policies and open politics, just vote for your favourite mindless idiot to lead you. There seems to be no shortage of interviews of simple Southern voters who seem proud to declare they always have and always will vote Republican.
Road America, Watkins Glen, Road Atlanta, Mid Ohio and Virginia could all host Grand Prixs without being micky mouse tracks with little or no development of the tracks themselves. Given the size of the US I should imagine dealing with the logistical issues of a Grand Prix would be much less of an issue than they are in the UK.
What is wrong with it? One of the concrete sections of motorway I guess? Whilst they are uncomfortable to travel on in some vehicles they are still kept in a good state of repair and never have pot holes or broken road surface which you do find in lots of other places in the world, the road surface isn't bad enough to effect safety and any damage to the road surface usually results in emergency repairs, not so in other places in the world.
Sorry? We clearly don't live in the same country then, in the UK our roads are generally very good. With the exception of bumpy side streets and country lanes most our roads, and all the main routes and high speed sections are kept smooth and are quickly repaired when they get damaged. The general state of repair of American highways is far worse, they're often rough and bumpy, not necessarily dangerously so but not terribly comfortable to drive on. Given the nature of the States there are a lot of long straight fast roads with very little traffic passing along them, it doesn't make sense to look after them like we do. What you also find in the States is they have a lot of unpaved public highway (it's nearly half of all their roads IIRC) and even just being a bit inquisitive and turning off the beaten track on holiday you'll soon find that the dirt roads are the only way to get to a lot of places. Have you even been to the States and ventured outside of Disneyland?
If you think we've got bad roads, then look at Australia, nothing wrong with their roads, which are mostly unpaved and until very recently the major highway across the country was to. If you want to see really bad roads in the developed world then look at somewhere like Malta, the roads are simply appalling like you wouldn't believe, we found a paved road. Marked on the map as a main road connecting the North and South that was literally so broken that it was impassable in a standard car.
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Lots of shops will do it for you, I think my local corner shop has a sign up advertising phone unlocking for £5. You will be able to get a new phone when you take out a contract anyway though.
Personally I find the overly softly sprung stuff very uncomfortable to travel in, including on US roads, as soon as it starts wallowing around it's like being in a ship, maybe dampers are an optional extra on new US Fords? Apart from road surface you have to take into account that American cars are heavier than their European counterparts and equally significant a lot of their occupants are enormous. Car manufacturers have done extensive research into what ride suits the build of people around the world so in theory you should find cars from your region are more comfortable to travel in.
Isn't the limitation to stop you taking a full size graphics card likely to be because of a small form factor motherboard rather than the case?
I don't think I have ever seen a truck driver either lifting off to let another past and most seem hell bent on getting where they're going 5 minutes faster rather than sitting in the slipstream of a slightly slower lorry, which would save haulage companies a huge amount of money.
How much contact is there generally in non-contact stock rods (not the silly baby stuff)? I've only been to a couple of meetings at my local tracks (Standlake and Grimley) and seen contact penalised much more rigorously than it would be in say stock hatch circuit racing, I think last time I went only one of the non-contact cars had any substansial contact, which is less than similar circuit racing series often have and the perpetrator was promptly sent home.
I'm trying to find something to run a bio-ethanol car in, because we have a large source of possible funding if we can find something nominally green to do with it. A historic circuit racing and road rally car is out of the question because the MSA seem exceptionally slow off the mark and clueless about it, with an estimate of 18 months before they get round to drawing up a specificaion for E85 (which is a pre-requisite before it can be used other than as a single source control fuel). There is a possibility of running a car we're building for international stage rallying on bio-ethanol, but the practicality of transporting the fuel and effectively rendering the car unable to do anything in this country is unappealing.
Would be interesting to see what stock car event organisers would think to allowing a bio-ethanol car to compete, which would be pretty similar in performance to conventional petrol cars anyway and, unlike the MSA seem to think, would provide no real safety risk or huge technical challenge. Short distance oval racing would fit the bill perfectly in many ways, not using a lot of fuel, so reducing the issue of obtaining and storing pump E85 (rather than buying barrels of racing E85 at £2.70/litre) and local with entry fees lower than spectator tickets.
Well you've got a racing Mini, have raced in Juniors and are now going to race in SaxMax? That is considerably more than most children are able to do due to financial restrictions, it is a lot of money, whether you're spoilt or not is another question.
Lorries with limiters are limited to 56 mph (90 km/h). I believe anything over 7.5 tons which doesn't have a limiter has a 60 mph limit on dual carriageways and motorways, rather frighteningly this includes full sized artics that are used for non-commercial transport.
As Electric Eye posted, a short wheel base rigid truck designed to carry builders skips around town. It was never really designed to do more than 30 mph, with very short gearing and a smooth but gutless naturally aspirated straight 6 it was a pretty bad choice for the previous owner to convert to a race car transporter.
By law the driver is responsible for his load, if he doesn't at least visually check that his load his safe then he should be shot.
He went out and openly deliberately took out another car at high speed in a non-contact sport. There is no reason why he shouldn't face criminal charges and should never be let near a race car again..
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