Quote from Shotglass :

logic?
there is such a thing as objectively good and bad taste
and windowed cases are most definitely on the bad end of the spectrum

You're so unbelievably stereotypically German.

Quote from Hyperactive :

Bathurst s defenately one of the most challenging tracks to drive consistently. It has few very difficult braking and acceleration zones and some turns are difficult to be consistent at the limit. But it is a great track once you learn it. I think it would be amazing in the late model I think .

Just like any other track then.

Quote from lrk-racer :

Go to Control options, advanced. Theres something like Steering lock, set that value to 40. Should be fine then, it is just stupid they didn't do that from the beginning and it took me some time to find that.

After setting everything up it is a very nice sim for my liking, it is just annoying that it takes so long to set it up to enjoy it.

But I don't want 40degrees steering angle :S

Theres some steering help thats impossible to switch off. Turn fully and do a donut, and you see teh front wheels turning on their own.

Quote from Crashgate3 :

http://www.eteknix.com/thousan ... ller-guess-happened-next/

hahaha, epic. One way of combating piracy.

Quote from Bmxtwins :

ground effects

Quote from Mustafur :

blown diffuser

And when was a diffuser classified as mechanical?

https://soundcloud.com/flammen-1

my shizzle

Quote from Bmxtwins :

If we remove the rear spoilers (find another way to create rear grip), would it help eliminate the blowovers that occur from spinning in a reverse direction at speed?

And tell me. How can you give more rear grip at 200mph mechanically?

Quote from Mustafur :

I meant the posters flag.

touché

Quote from atledreier :

So basically your tire cools off alot faster and heats up alot faster.

That's actually what happens in LFS right before your tyres die. The fluxuation in temp becomes alot more.

Quote from pmd9409 :

that explains why you now have a kid.

3 kids. He didn't go easy on me.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

What are you talking about. The only rubber Dennis understands are condoms.

You know, cause he has so much sex.

Cause he's a studmuffin.

He didn't use one on me.

Quote from amp88 :

It was broadcast on the world feed at the time. I have it from the Eurosport footage, but any other broadcaster covering the qualifying would have access to the same footage. It's currently also available on YouTube here (warning: fatal accident footage). The accident starts with the usual wide shot then zooms in after the contact. You can clearly see this was captured by the normal trackside camera.

Wow.. that's like watching the crash for the first time all over again


There was only the one angle I'd ever seen of this incident, which was the one I mentioned before. I honestly thought that was teh only angle... After years and years of seeing the video in related on youtube etc there was only ever the one angle.

Quote from R3DMAN :

maybe i'm misunderstanding your point here but more tread doesn't directly equate to grip..

Ignoring compounds for a second the more tread you have the less of the tyre is making contact with the track and the lower the amount of contact patch the lower the grip..

this is so basic its untrue so i cant sit here thinking you actually meant it in that way.. but i cant see how else you could of meant it..

Dennis is a racing driver. They don't understand concept of road tyres.


No, it was a race tyre he was refering to. As in, a slick tyre.

Quote from amp88 :

The entire Ratzenberger accident (i.e. from the car leaving the track to the track workers arriving at the car) was captured and shown during the broadcast from the normal trackside camera at the Tosa hairpin. When it actually happened live only the 'end' of the accident was shown (i.e. after the car had hit the wall and before it came to rest), but the full accident was replayed seconds afterwards. The full extrication was shown live from a helicopter overhead.

Where is this footage?

Not seen it before. Although if that's the case then the trashes my shit up like Pink in a hotel room.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Thats the same now, skewed because there are simply more cameras (by about 20 times) at events than there were. But there isn't much footage shown of Caterhams in comparison to Red Bulls or Benettons.

And it's still filming even if it wasn't broadcast on TV at the time or uploaded to YouTube 20 years later.

Well my point is Villeneuve when he crashed in Qualifying in 82 was deliberately filmed where as Ratzenberger some 12 years on was barely even caught on camera seemingly by accident. It was some shitty cctv camera that by luck, captured SOME of the tragedy.

Now-a-days if action surrounds a car it gets televised and that's great but in those days they barely gave a shit unless you drove a Ferrari or your name was Gehard Berger.

Quote from menantoll :

I understand that currently if I get my tyres hot I have less grip. I also understand that currently different weather settings can give me more or less grip. The accuracy of these calculations I have not given an opinion on.

I was picking you up on this assumption

If I cover your eyes with thick black paper. You become blind.


Except your not blind but the result is the same.


The track temp in iRacing is completely undynamic. Meaning it's just a static decrease or increase in grip depending on the numbered value. It's the same coding that gives grass different grip values to tarmac.

It really is not as complicated as YOU think it is.

Like I said it's just a glorified GPL.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Much like in the races - the cameras are filming even when it isn't being shown, which is why replays exist.

Well of course but to an extent it's not filming in a permanent sense if you have no intention of showing it.

In those days they wouldn't bother showing the drivers at the back. There's almost no footage of LIFE car, or the Coloni flat-12 subaru for instance. They just didn't care about it.

Even for the races where they qualified they'd much rather show Mansell or Senna at the front than Oscar Larauri dithering at the back in a euro brun. Even if he'd had a massive crash.

I mean the footage they have of Ratzenberger is dire compared with the Gilles Villeneuve footage for instance. Two drivers in qualifying, but one in a Ferrari and one not.

Quote from tristancliffe :

They were still filmed though, even if it was never broadcast.

Wasn't filmed either. That's my point. In those days you only got shown on tv or even followed by cameras if you were good.

Quote from menantoll :

Why can't you just grow a pair and admit that you went off on a rant based purely on an assumption you made from a single line of text?

You really thought they would dump all previous grip variables and replace it with just one? The thickness of the tyre?

Edit: They have made some really stupid decisions in the past (imho) but even the Canadian one can't honestly think they are that daft.

They never HAD anything before. Do you not understand? The limitations of the game engine PREVENT any of this shit from being implemented properly.

Quote from menantoll :

Well clearly. You should have thought about it a little more.

We already know that temperature is one of the factors. We also know that track temperature (well whatever the weather is set to anyway) can make a difference to grip levels. Why do you think that they would bin all the other reasons and make tire thickness the sole reason to lose grip?

Because it's iRacing that's why. It's impossible for them to actually build proper track temp or tyre wear on that particular game engine. It's just a GPL engine with better GFX. That's literally all it is.

Quote from Storm_Cloud :

So they don't drive during practice or qualifying? Mug.

In those days they didn't televise practice sessions and they rarely televised pre-qual.

Quote from IsaacPrice :

People would be talking whether he should be driving for Red Bull, not Toro Rosso...not whether he should be in F1.

Maybe that's the case. Maybe they'll get rid of Ricciardo quite soon. Who knows.

Quote from menantoll :

I read it as becoming an additional reason a tyre will lose grip.

Well clearly. I didn't.