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Quote from pearcy_2k7 :http://www.tomgarner.co.uk/uploaded_images/caterham.jpg - Maybe not so unrealistic Blackout.

That's is a much bigger dip than the South city slope, or at least it looks like it. But yes, maybe not that far, although I wonder how such box would manage the speed in real life.

Quote :Theres a picture somewhere of a modified Caterham like car at the ring with a big spoiler and body mods but i can#t find it now

Donkervoort D8 RS maybe? http://www.ultimatecarpage.com ... 69/Donkervoort-D8-RS.html

That actually has even crazier power to weight ration.
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Quote from JeffR :It would be nice to upgrade the current LX series to reflect the current Seven replicas, like the Caterhams.

A real Caterham CSR uses a 4 cylinder 2.3 liter engine and comes in 200 hp and 260 hp version. An LX4 could be 140 hp, LX6 200 hp, and LX8 260 hp, even though all would be 4 cylinder engines. With 260 hp, top speed increases from 140 mph to 255 mph.

Bias ply racing slicks for the LX8 (or LX6) would be nice and duplicate the slicks used for many Caterham based racing events. I tested the patch Z LX6 and the LX's physics has improved greatly since the S1 days. It's no longer that difficult to drive.

Yes, yes I totally agree. A beefier LX would be so awesome. I know they are not the most favorite car as it can be tricky for the beginner, but it provides awesome racing when you got to drive it with people who can.

LX8 is in the terms of internet almost epic fail. The LFS physics where not up to date when it was made and a heavier V8 doesn't suit such car at all. And of course, that the car would have been too fast for a box with the LFS physics.

LX6 with slicks and about 190 kw and power to weight ratio of 500 hp per tonne is rather awesome. And not that far from reality either as that's what the Caterham R500 is.

And of course it's mainly awesome, because it does this.

Flying car might have been too powerful, but it was still awesome.
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Quote from DevilDare :Fair enough. Lets say Kubica Vettel didnt crash and Trulli wanst penalised.
Hamilton would of been 6th. 18th to 6th in one of a shittiest cars on the track, i think i still would of been very happy. And the point i was making is that the Ferraris were laughing at him, especially when he made the comment about pushing hard in the race. And he did while the Ferraris were kissing the walls and blowing up or whatever happened to almighty Massa.

You can't laugh at Lewis without being a Ferrari. Should try I guess, because I've always wanted to be a motorcar.

You got to see the irony on the situation compared what he said last year and where he was on the grid now and stuff he said. Have some sense of humour.
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Trulli made a better job than Hamelonton. He started dead last from the pits and technically finished 3rd. But as he is not a miracle wonder boy he doesn't get any credit for it and it was pure luck. Lews did it with pure skill.
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Quote from PaulC2K :
I really do think the tyre rules are a joke though, insisting on skipping a tyre compound in order to make it shit for the drivers at some point....

Yep, and we can see how dangerous that got in the last laps.

But got to give credit for Bmnoton and Brawn GP. Amazing dominating speed start to finish. The old brazilian was a disappointment for me, had thought he had more experience than try that sort of desperate move on Kimi. Haemealton also had great finish, surprised he ended up that high, he did have some luck, but still well done for him.

The race itself looked like a noobfest at times, some good overtaking but I think all that action was down more to the bad tires they provide than new aerodynamics. It's silly and as I said, ended up plain dangerous in the end, especially those tires escaping free on the track. I doubt that the low setting sun didn't help either.

Oh, and why it took so ****ing long for the safety car to get on the track the first time? You could straight away see in how bad position Nakajima's car was, and that there was debris on the track, still it took them ages to get SC up. Plus, why on earth they didn't black flag Vettel when he tried to finish the race, that's just stupid as him defending his position in the first place and causing the crash.
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Quote from danthebangerboy :Its bloody uncontrollable IMO.

I had a few evenings in real life driving about on a muddy field in a 2.8 V6 mk2 ford granada with a locked diff and well built engine and standard 185/60/14 road tyres fitted, and i was able (after a little practice) to get that to go around corners at a decent speed.

any RWD car on tarmac should be easier to control than a car with a good 160bhp being driven on mud with a locked diff i would say.

Comparing an old beat up Ford with to a mid engine sport car doesn't work, no matter how you twist it doesn't. Two completely different things.

What makes the RAC "hard" is the lack of rear abr and the rmr layout, just as ussbeethoven mentioned earlier.

I find it much more easier car to drive than FZ5 the whaling boat, it's harder than LX6 most of the time, therefore more rewarding to drive.
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But the diffuser and rear wings are two completely separate things.

There is a clear rules for the wings that says they can't bend under set testing weight.

There is a hole in the rules what it comes to the diffuser, and it's legality is a matter of reading the book in different way. There is no way to measure if they are illegal or not.
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Team would loose the points I guess, drivers would be left untouched, I think it has been the case whenever such rulings have been made, not completely sure though. Unfortunate if that happens, having double standards and making something illegal and punishing afterwards is not fair. As that means the ruling body could just ban the winning car in the end of the season saying it was illegal because we don't like you.
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Quote from DevilDare :
I mean, this is just a sign that the diffuser problem will be brought up and Brawn, Williams and Toyota will be stripped of their wins/points. Thats what i think anyway.

Can't see them taking away the points that have been taken with a car accepted legal by the race stewards. They might ban the diffuser, but taking away points weeks after the race doesn't sound likely to me.
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Quote from senn :Boost spiking. You need to use a proper electronic boost controller and external wastegate instead of using a bleed tap and fuel cut defender


Nah TBH i have no idea, networking isn't my thing :P

He is talking about online user spikes in LFS.
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Quote from gezmoor :Maybe I'm being dumb, but looking at the F1 website how did Button qualifiy in front of Barrichello? His times are slower... even in the sector time break down he is slower in every sector than Rubinho. Guess I'll just wait to see the repeat.

Q3 is the only time which matters, and there he was the fastest. I'd bet on the dumb explanation.
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Quote from PaulC2K :Rear end problems in Q1.
Someone sounds bitter about last season though

Well, that bullshit writing was a bit irritating last season. Yeaah, rear end problems, lost drive, well, we don't know.


But Brawn GP, wouldn't have believed, and still can't. Interesting to see the fuel loads, but I doubt they were running on fumes.
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What's wrong with Hammy? He got out of his car after Q1 and didn't even try.

I'm disappointed if there wasn't anything really wrong with the car. I hope there is going to be some bs rumour mill how he's lost motivation and interest to drive like there was with Kimi last year.
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McLaren is so rubbish because they kept developing 08 for so long to win the championship and started on this car so late, this is what Kovalainen said as the reason why the car is so bad.

I think usually Ferrari has been better making their car over the season, but last year Mac had to win and they are now paying the price. Hard to say how it's going to be this year as most testing is banned the whole season. But I guess team with the most fanciest computers can get their new pieces designed.

And Kimi, it just seems that the tail happy cars suit him well. That terrible understeer is gone with the slick tires and smaller downforce at the back.
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Quote from TexasLTU :
- So f**king low engine sound (because of 18000Rpm)


I doubt they are even using that much now as it's the one and same engine for the whole weekend. Too bad providing any information about anything the car does seems to be so hard again.
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Oh they are ugly with the TV camera angles.
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A job is everything.
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Quote from evilpimp :They should strap Bernie to a chair and slap him in the face one at a time with the rulebook.

No, they should just leave him tied to that chair so he can't hurt anything.
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Quote from mrodgers :
Just a thought to help you out. Once you get out of auto or Program mode, the creative possibilities are only limited to the range of your camera/lens combinations.

Yeah, thanks. It's true that aperture mode would have been better there. Usually use it for when I need to take a picture of a person and there is a lot of stuff happening on the backround. But yeah, just learning my stuff, I think I'm usually just focusing on the two dimensions af the picture and forget the depth too often. I just like the lighting in the picture and the lens flair, which is a bit silly really.

That picture was just some quick ones I took before we left the place, the real reporter I worked with today was on the phone so I just got out of the car and took some pictures in the meantime. I'm an awful noob with this but my pictures can seen by about 7000 people on the local paper twice a week. Again, very silly.
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I took this shot at soon to be closed school today where I was making a story..well, just taking pictures. :P

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Retarded rule change. Anything worse than that would have been the medal system proposed earlier.

Retarded, simply as that. Taking away all good stuff they've tried to make racing exciting this season, which didn't probably doesn't work, but at least they tried.

I can imagine how teams will slow down and just save their car for the next round if they don't have any chances to win. And some lucky retard d goes winning half of the races plus one and then doesn't finish the rest.

Giving more points to the winner would have been better and more revarding. This is just dumming it down way too much for the retard FIA officials who can't count to 3. Retard is such a nice world damn retards.
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The superbikes do have worse coverage than MotoGP. Which is a shame because the races are really nice. The bikes are really tiny on the screen, and as said there isn't any onboard action which makes MotoGP so awesome to watch most of the time.

You could hear more noise I think, which is good!
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Quote from Intrepid :

another web video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... p;feature=player_embedded

hhmm...

Most interesting. Kubica was off the line, but still.
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This again?
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