Not a bad idea. I've been thinking about getting a nifty fifty/plastic fantastic on and off for a while, but I haven't committed to it yet.
There have also been electric motorbikes at the Isle of Man for a few years now (see: TT Zero). They're being developed fairly quickly (improvement of around 3-5 mph average speed on a ~37.75 mile lap every year from 2010 to 2013), but they still look much slower than the petrol-powered bikes (obviously because they still are), they don't make any interesting sound (a huge downside for me in any form of motorsport) and they still struggle to complete a full lap without serious speed problems near the end.
It's perhaps too early to judge them given the fact they're in their infancy, but the lack of audio stimulation really kills it for me. All-electric powered racing could work well as both a marketing tool and as a serious race series, but the question of where the electricity is coming from is totally valid. If it's still being generated by a largely coal/gas-based infrastructure then it's not really a significant improvement in the grand scheme of things.
Perhaps hydrogen powered cars where the hydrogen is produced from the nuclear-powered electrolysis of water, but actually having nuclear-powered vehicles seems like an absolutely stupid idea for any number of reasons.
It's perhaps too early to judge them given the fact they're in their infancy, but the lack of audio stimulation really kills it for me. All-electric powered racing could work well as both a marketing tool and as a serious race series, but the question of where the electricity is coming from is totally valid. If it's still being generated by a largely coal/gas-based infrastructure then it's not really a significant improvement in the grand scheme of things.
Perhaps hydrogen powered cars where the hydrogen is produced from the nuclear-powered electrolysis of water, but actually having nuclear-powered vehicles seems like an absolutely stupid idea for any number of reasons.
Do you mean over and above the Ferraris on the car and track list?
Fair point.
I have a copy of it and I'm sure there are thousands (or tens/hundreds of thousands) of F1 fans who also have a copy. Failing that, there are many ways (some legal, some technically illegal) to procure a copy. I don't believe CSF suggested he watched it live; I think that's an assumption you made.
Can you link to specific posts where CSF claims Schumacher was a better person than Senna or Prost?
Are you serious? You know, not to mention the entire field of human knowledge called History, but they had this thing called Television even back in 1997. It allows you to view events again today. It's amazing; you can see all sorts of events that happened before you were old enough to comprehend them - even events that happened before you were born. You should look into it, you might even expand your own knowledge!
It's difficult for me to single out a moment because I've had so many different experiences over the years. I remember having some amazingly close and clean FOX/MRT/UF1 battles, driving through the night until the morning with some great drivers and trying to survive the carnage of some of the crazier pub servers.
If I had to pick a single race I'd probably go for a 40 lap BF1 race at Aston GP Rev that was part of the DSR Road 2 F1 series in 2009. The race was memorable for a number of reasons (including me misjudging a lapping attempt and accidentally smashing a teammate up the rear), but the last 10 laps were what really made it. Storm Cloud (who was and still should be recognised as one of the finest open wheel drivers in LFS history) was also in the race and he'd been in a few scrapes himself throughout the race. He pitted for the last time at the end of lap 30 and exited the pits in 3rd place. I was about 5 seconds ahead in 2nd place and another teammate was in the lead a further 7 seconds ahead of me. Over the next 10 laps I drove harder than I think I've ever driven in any LFS event, trying to keep Storm behind me and chase down my teammate to take the win. I should mention that Storm had a significant amount of suspension damage, so that definitely slowed him down, but I didn't know that at the time. I was just going balls to the wall. As I said in chat after the race it was like a nightmare where someone's chasing you down an alley and you can't do anything to hold them back. Here is the race replay. Skip to about 1:07:30 to see Storm approaching the pitlane for his last stop.
If I had to pick a single race I'd probably go for a 40 lap BF1 race at Aston GP Rev that was part of the DSR Road 2 F1 series in 2009. The race was memorable for a number of reasons (including me misjudging a lapping attempt and accidentally smashing a teammate up the rear), but the last 10 laps were what really made it. Storm Cloud (who was and still should be recognised as one of the finest open wheel drivers in LFS history) was also in the race and he'd been in a few scrapes himself throughout the race. He pitted for the last time at the end of lap 30 and exited the pits in 3rd place. I was about 5 seconds ahead in 2nd place and another teammate was in the lead a further 7 seconds ahead of me. Over the next 10 laps I drove harder than I think I've ever driven in any LFS event, trying to keep Storm behind me and chase down my teammate to take the win. I should mention that Storm had a significant amount of suspension damage, so that definitely slowed him down, but I didn't know that at the time. I was just going balls to the wall. As I said in chat after the race it was like a nightmare where someone's chasing you down an alley and you can't do anything to hold them back. Here is the race replay. Skip to about 1:07:30 to see Storm approaching the pitlane for his last stop.
Sure, because securing a world championship by taking out your opponent intentionally is just racing, right? Why punish that...
He's a petty forum troll and attention whore who people can't learn to ignore. Maybe if they did his post quality would increase...
My first time shooting live music - Com Truise live @ Broadcast Glasgow last night.
Bit of background info:
I've never tried to shoot anything this dark before with a requirement to keep a relatively fast shutter speed, so it was quite a challenge. The main lighting source was stage left (the purple light source), but there were a few additional sources (such as the LEDs on the equipment and the laptop screen). The combination of those different light sources looks quite cool in a few shots.
I was shooting with my 650D and my slightly faster lens (Sigma 17-70 f2.8-4 vs my 18-135 3.5-5.6 kit lens). I stayed at the widest aperture possible through the range and around ISO 3200 and 1/100th of a second shutter for most of the time. This seemed to be a decent balance but it obviously introduced a significant amount of noise. I ran the images through Dfine 2; that removed some of the noise, but there's still some remaining. It doesn't look to be a huge problem to me though - perhaps it does to others?
Anyway, thanks for reading/looking. As before, I welcome any constructive criticism or feedback.
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Bit of background info:
I've never tried to shoot anything this dark before with a requirement to keep a relatively fast shutter speed, so it was quite a challenge. The main lighting source was stage left (the purple light source), but there were a few additional sources (such as the LEDs on the equipment and the laptop screen). The combination of those different light sources looks quite cool in a few shots.
I was shooting with my 650D and my slightly faster lens (Sigma 17-70 f2.8-4 vs my 18-135 3.5-5.6 kit lens). I stayed at the widest aperture possible through the range and around ISO 3200 and 1/100th of a second shutter for most of the time. This seemed to be a decent balance but it obviously introduced a significant amount of noise. I ran the images through Dfine 2; that removed some of the noise, but there's still some remaining. It doesn't look to be a huge problem to me though - perhaps it does to others?
Anyway, thanks for reading/looking. As before, I welcome any constructive criticism or feedback.
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The original road car is RWD.
Thanks for that information. I haven't been watching motorsport for almost my entire life, so I have no idea what's going on. I just thought they were there to have fun.
Seriously though, what the teams were doing should be considered abuse. If you run outside the recommended envelope and you use tyres on the 'wrong' side of the car you should consider that abuse. The teams obviously were doing it for a reason. They took a calculated risk that they could run outside the specifications from the manufacturer and, for some cars, they paid a penalty. What's wrong with the situation, though, is for the teams to try and point the finger at Pirelli and say the tyres are unsafe. I don't expect the teams to come out and say "Yeah, we were running outside what Pirelli told us was safe, plus we were running the tyres the wrong way round. We took a risk and it didn't pay off. It's our fault. However, they could at least have been a little less vocal with their anti-Pirelli statements. Let's see how many failures there are this weekend...
Just because they've got away with it for years doesn't mean it's not abuse. Plus, the asymmetric metallic-belted tyres they used at Silverstone haven't been around for years. As mentioned before, at Spa 2011 Red Bull pushed beyond the boundaries with their front camber and almost paid a big price for it, so the teams have flirted with failure for some time...
Lift-off/turn-in oversteer and bundles of body roll, you mean? Sounds about right...
Running the tyres outside the recommended guidelines (for pressure + camber) and on the wrong side of the car doesn't count as abuse?
It doesn't take a lot of time to find numerous reports of violence at Tea Party rallies and violent and threatening behaviour by Tea Party members and supporters. To claim they're "completely benign" is almost as ignorant as a number of their positions.
You'd be hard pressed to find any credible people who really believe that the Tea Party are the same as the Taliban. However, any reasonable study would undoubtedly find parallels (which is what I said in my post above...).
There are many parallels to be drawn between members of the Taliban and members of the Tea Party movement. Some of these include adherence to religious dogma (e.g. God/Allah says you should do this and not that) and intolerance towards others with different beliefs. There was an episode of The Newsroom from last year (1x03 - The 112th Congress) which explored this idea and made a pretty solid comparison using real world quotes from interviews and other public appearances from Tea Party members, along with some dramatisation.
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An accurate simulation of a Cadillac Eldorado will have terrible handling.
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If you read through this article you can get more of an explanation.
edit: correction, I misread part of the article.
edit: correction, I misread part of the article.
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The fact the sign on the right says Chatel-St-Denis leads me to believe it's in Switzerland.
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