nFinity eSports sign Sam "ratrug101" Holt


University student Sam Holt has signed for nFinity eSports to strengthen our campaign. After starting LFS for the first time in 2010 he shortly joined AA [part of the GenR conglomerate] and remained there ever since, until restricted seat time forced him out of contract with his desire to drive and improve at the fore front of his objectives. It's then that Sam was in contact with us and we can all gladly welcome Sam as his mentality and ability most certainly matches our own.

" So pleased to announce this. I noticed Sam a while ago and noticed he was already a great pace at the time I didn't understand why GenR didn't have him in their GT car more often and hes still able to improve! "

J. Cooper



" Great to have another signing for the LFS team in the name of Sam Holt. It's great to see our presence in LFS grow and we look forward to more racing in the future in the great, although diminishing world of LFS. "

S. Hill

Quote from ACCAkut :

@Blueflame: To make it short, you have no idea of the technology involved in both series.

OK my bad. 50kg is the weight of a feather within 15 mins its absolutely nothing at all. You wouldn't even notice it lap for lap. No way. Just lower the fuel mixture completely. You won't notice a difference in engine performance. No you just burn less fuel. GTFO

Quote from JackDaMaster :

So you're saying that reducing the fuel input would make the engine uneconomic? I'm not 100% sure what you mean here because the sentence just doesn't make sense.

I'll just go back in time and tell F1 teams that the method they use to save fuel is crap.

OMG Really? If you reduce fuel input sufficiently you're burning fuel for nothing, because energy is wasted on the cam that's not engaging the valves at the correct time.

You should know that you can't just lean out a fuel mixture without massive power deficiency and heat increase. That's quite astonishing that it's lost on you. F1 engines have a margin in which they run fuel. Anything above or below that is reducing power.


@gav
A 50kg margin is huge in motorracing. I can't believe you're throwing 50kg within a 15minute window as 'not that much'.













You win. You're clearly trolling me.

Quote from JackDaMaster :

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Next years' engines have to do 5 races including practice and qualifying. The rules were deliberately made so that the distance a WEC engine does at Le Mans and an F1 engine have to do are roughly similar. They should last 6 hours easily.

When you inject less fuel for a consistent 6hours you restrict power output by shaving the cam profile otherwise you'd have the most inconsistent uneconomic motor second only to a Lada motor. Is it really that hard to grasp?

If you think a modern F1 motor can last 6hours straight with no changes then you obviously need more education than what you're getting.


@amp88 classifying an engine block as being 'the same base engine' is quite a stretch of the imagination.

Sure enough if Ferrari do such a thing it's only because Porsche are involved again and it will have absolutely 0 to do with the F1 program. They'll no doubt learn things they can apply in F1 but they aren't gonna do a WEC basically as a testing session for their F1 program. It makes an interesting read sure but it's not gonna be the case.

Quote from JackDaMaster :

Or, you know, inject less fuel.

Which yields less power. Seriously, what do they teach you? Or do you just not listen?

You really think in an f1 engine you can reduce the fuel mixture to cater for a 6hour race without having to downgrade the cam profile? Wow. I'm actually astonished. Sure there is alot of ECU shizzle you can do these days as far as valve timing goes but for such a change you NEED to change the cam profile.

Quote from JackDaMaster :

And anyway. In case you forgot, there are two KERS systems on the 2014 engines. You can, obviously using witchcraft, just disconnect the MGU-H and VOILA, you have 1 (one) eligible engine for WEC.

Yea and as I said, how you gonna get the fuel milage out of it? You would have to restrict power out put by delaying the valve timing and leveling out the cam profile. Which would be much easier by just making a new engine. F1 engines are designed to run as little MPG as possible within a 300km window. Obviously it needs no explaination that WEC races are a bit more than 300km :P

In regards to turbo lag obviously they'll just have an ECU setup to trail throttle like they do anyway.

Last edited by BlueFlame, Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:07.

Quote from JackDaMaster :

You don't have to spool the turbo in an F1 engine. In fact I'm willing to be that 90% of the time F1 teams won't be spooling the turbo using the KERS anyway.

This is the most retarded thing I've ever heard.

The whole point of a turbine is for it to rotate increasing the pressure pulling more and more gas through the engine. You have to spool it at some point it doesn't just start rotating at a reasonable speed from nothing.

And there's multiple videos and images showing a kers system connected via the rotation of the turbine shaft. Nobody is "spooling a turbo" from a KERS system. It's the kers system that's charged via the rotation of the turbine. God knows why you even suggested that.

Last edited by BlueFlame, Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:39.

Quote from JackDaMaster :

You've got to be joking. That would exclude an F1 engine how?

I'm sure WEC regs exclude using KERS system from the turbine otherwise Audi would have already been doing it.

Yea cos an F1 engine is gonna use that little fuel..... you'd have to restrict power then, making it completely useless.

It clearly says that 2014 car must be a hybrid.

Well you ain't gonna have an F1 sister engine in WEC because the rules would exclude it. You either have a hybrid or a diesel or you FO. Basically...

Does look bizarre when that guy is staring down for ten minutes before showing each paper.

Quote from sinbad :

RBR to suffer initial poor performance in 2014 season, then with 6 successive race wins Vettel will in the final round overturn a 47 point deficit to Alonso as he gets taken out by Mald'oh.

Just another BS scenario that could so easily be played out next season. I think I'll geniunely stop watching F1. I'll keep my eye on the results but I feel it's time to protest the way F1 is headed in the only way we can control. Watch Moto GP instead guys, I garuntee it will be 10x more exciting over the course of the season.

"go pro, the original hero"

I find it weird how on the parts of the Silverstone circuit that aren't the new layout and AC version looks real and the iRacing one doesn't.

So someone has an epic race at Brazil in the rain comes back from last on the grid after a horrid qualy only to come second in Abu Dhabi and lose the championship to someone who ran away from pole position and didn't fight another car on track. Great..

Quote from Storm_Cloud :

Good. Stop posting then. If you renege on this matter of principle then all respect for you as a human being is lost.

Please stay strong.

Well I don't agree with F1 tradition being pissed on for favour of boosting selling sales.

Since when has iRacing been full of hardcores and fun races? Get real pls.

Drivers can now choose what number they have... wtf


Well I ain't watchin F1 anymore. I used to enjoy it as a sport. Now it's more similar to a pantomime or NASCAR.

Quote from NitroNitrous :

It's been explained at least twice above, and since you spend 99% of your life on this forum I wonder why you are still asking the same question.

Well if I have it's a rhetorical one. I know alot of you agree with me here : on road car vs race car but you're just a pack of arseholes that just clique together to attack my views because you're too closed minded to form your own.

Quote from MadCat360 :

Holy shit, you really are braindead aren't you? Millions of people have bought GT and Forza over the years, so yeah, lots of people want to drive road cars. Plus you can't just step outside and drive a Ferrari F40 or a Pagani Huayra. ****, even if you do own these cars you can't track them at any time you want - you have to wait for a date, pay the fee, make the trip, share the track, wait for your run group in most circumstances... if you just wanna hop in a brilliant sim with a desirable car, what the hell is wrong with that? And what's wrong with wanting to run a flag to flag race with road cars? They are fun to race, fun to throw around, and offer something different from the on-rails handling offered by most race cars.

And I don't see anything wrong with wanting our own cars in the game. I want my RX-8 in the game quite badly. Almost half my miles in GT5 were spent driving the RX-8, and that will probably be the case again with GT6. We bought our cars because we like them in one form or another and it's understandable that we would like those characteristics in a simulator too.

Since when was a Ferrari F40 or a Pagani Huyara an AVERAGE road car?


There's nothing WRONG with a different opinion. I'm just saying I don't understand WHY someone would want something that they can quite easily go outside and get instead. Which is an obvious hyperbole as costs permit for real life driving.

Quote from Scrabby :

Well, the E30 M3 is an iconical car to say the least. The Silvia... not so much. Most japanese car enthousiasts (especially drifters) would love to see this car in the game but the chances it will be a likely zero. It doesn't bring anything special compared to the other cars in the game. And they're not that great in stock form...

A GT86 would have a greater chance to be in the game then the Silvia, but would not really be a addition to the game for me. Don't get me wrong, I've driven the car for quiet a time and love the handling etc... But I find it too slow on track.

And it's also pretty cool that they stuck an E46 M3 engine into the E30, would be my choice in real life too! (or use my M3 engine)

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Quote from atledreier :

This. I don't care at all for the race cars.

Again, all you want to see is a GT86 which you own in reality. Why would you wanna waste all your free time spent not driving your GT86 driving one in a sim? :S

So you have an S13 and you would prefer if you got your own car in game over something would actually be driven and raced?

It will be a stock base model with an additional upgrade most probably but the Nissan Silvia doesn't evoke passion from the factory like the E30 M3 does. That's what Assetto Corsa seems to be about. There are many people still driving stock E30's but I honestly have never seen a stock Silvia of any description in my life.

I'd much prefer to see a time attack style Silvia than a dreary Nissan road car.

Quote from Matrixi :

TIL that I can just "step outside" to try an Alfa 4C or a GT-R and track it without any cost.

Key word : Average.


It's gonna be a stock Silvia. Why would you want that? Nobody wants it. A stock Silvia is a boring car just like any other average model from Japan. Any Silvia you see on the road has been tweaked.