Wow this keeps getting more attractive all the time. Of course those are iracing $, so really you're getting is a break on the content that you have to buy to race in the series. They keep on upping the ante. I'm waiting for them to throw in free fuzzy dice and floormats before I bite.

For those of us who 1) don't made ultra-realistic mods for rfactor and 2) don't have a degree in physics, the criteria for a good mod is different. I haven't tried enduracers, but I like a few rfactor mods that haven't been mentioned in the "holy grail" category.

I look for fairly basic realism in a sim/mod. If the car pretty much reacts like I would expect a car to given my input and the environment it's in, that's ok with me. There's a little more depth to it than that. I want to see tires and brakes heat and cool in a logical way. I want setup changes to make sense. Call it "plausible-ism" instead of realism. I can appreciate people who like to get down to the smallest detail, but it's not that important to me. I realize that may earn me a flogging in the LFS community.

I believe the appropriate saying is "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride."

I spent a long-ish (for me) session on Race Center this weekend and had a lot of fun. My only complaint is that the track rotated to BL1R, which is a great track, but has the yellow flag issue. I wound up leaving early because I was getting the kick warnings and I didn't want to sully what's left of my good name.

I know it's not anything you can fix, but maybe you could take BL1R out of the rotation? I'd think only people with maxed out licenses would be willing to race there at all.

Ok this isn't an official response, so feel free to ignore it. The dedicated server for windows works great under linux using wine. There's no need for a linux version.

I'm not a big fan of open wheelers so I've not been paying much attention to nkp. Does the Abarth mean that there will be more tin tops coming to the sim? Also wasn't there a prototype of some sort planned at one time?

I am a victim of skimming. Strange that the article headline doesn't have a question mark in it.

The "three Sebastien minimum" rule has been invoked apparently...

http://www.motorsport.co.uk/fo ... tien_loeb_rss153587.shtml

Great idea! I'll try to join sometime.

It sounds like some massive changes proposed for 2010 - 3 cars per team and a new qualifying format.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar ... amp;prov=st&type=lgns

36 drivers (assuming 12 teams) on the same track, with the testing ban.

Assuming the refueling ban stands for next year, it's going to get even worse. The speed of the tire change will be the only factor in the length of the pitstop. We could see a lot of three-wheeled cars out there.

Quote from traxxion :

Maybe you were watching his second pitstop (after he lost his wheel), by the time the commercial break was over?

Nah, it was his first. FOX broadcast the race on a tape delay (~7 hours later) and did some creative editing to make it look like we didn't miss anything. That bugs me for some reason. When the races are on Speed, they broadcast them live.

Did anyone else watching the FOX coverage wonder how Alonso could be pitting in at the start of a commercial break and still in the pits 90-120 seconds later when they come out of the commercial break? With all that time they should have been able to put the wheel on right.

I'm so glad the over-dramatized, heavily edited, dumbed down, "plausibly live" FOX coverage is over for this year.

Not to mention her Peak Antifreeze sponsorship.

http://www.peakantifreeze.com/danica_fanpage.html

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Use of Weapons is a pretty fantastic SF book.

I'm embarrassed to say I was well past halfway in the book when I noticed that the chapter numbers were all screwed up, and why. I had to go back and skim through all the chapters to put it all together.

I liked Matter even better, probably because I didn't feel so stupid while I was reading it.

To follow up on that point, once you've bought S2, you have all the content that's available, so you're done buying stuff.

Mayfield's assertion that NASCAR is out to get him is hard to swallow. Until the meth busts, Mayfield was one of the "feel-good" stories of this season - a fairly competitive team put together in little time using other teams' cast-offs.

I would think the ideal situation for NASCAR would have been to have a strict drug policy and then have everyone test cleanly.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar ... amp;prov=st&type=lgns

Quote :

Max Mosley has resisted pressure to stand again as FIA president and will back Frenchman Jean Todt to succeed him after 16 years in charge of world motorsport.

Pressure to stand again? It sure sounded to me like all the pressure was to get out of town. He's saving face I suppose.

edit: oops, sorry didn't see the same info already in the Hamilton flame thread

Quote from mookie427 :

... just bought Iain Banks's book Dead Air and also taking his book Complicity which I will be reading for about the fourth time it's that bloody good

I just recently found Iain Banks myself, both with and without the "M" - his sci-fi is really good too.

Watching the replay and hearing Busch's spotter, I think it's really the spotter's fault. He said something to the effect of, "coming high", implying that Tony had a run on him but wasn't there yet. He clearly had a fender along side at that time. If a car is already next to you, the spotter should be saying something like "car high."

It would have been interesting to see what would have happened had they stayed side-by-side to the finish.

Quote from XCNuse :

It's not even that! It's when you get old mothers with cell phones with the volume on highest and the most annoying ringers and its lost in the depths of a purse that takes years to find!

That is when phones are annoying haha

Ahh yes @angry angel, well..
I would come back with a better response but I'm a tad busy surfing the nets right now!

I was in church a few weeks ago and someone's phone went off right at the start of a long prayer. The minister took it in stride though. He started the prayer with, "Lord, we hear you calling..."

Quote from Pablo Donoso :

lol it does do damage in real life tho, the Nascar shells are just CF, or fiberglass even, that most times the front faschia of the car is where the radiator is and in Nascars, especially, all they use is vinyl sticker to cover the radiator opening. They just take some vinyl off if it's overheating, or even add more if they need more downforce.

lol those vinyl strips are only a few mm's thick tho, when the 2 cars weighing 2,000 lbs each touch for example, that little vinyl strip can't protect the fiberglass shell / frame / radiator supports. It's not built like a tank, only the structure that surrounds the driver bro, the rest is minimal, for weight issues, and also safty issues, the car has to absorb some frontal impacts by collapsing to disperse the force of the hit. lol

Probably true on the older cars, not so much on the COT. I have a COT nose in my basement (from racingmetal.com ). You can see the part where most of the air comes into the radiator is tucked back just above the splitter. You can even see the little tabs they have to pull the tape off quickly. The part of the grill that's on the surface of the nose is almost always taped shut on a COT.

I agree that the frame tubing isn't very thick between the body and the radiator (maybe 3/4"), but the radiator isn't flush with the nose of the car. For the nose to be dented back enough to affect the radiator, the damage would be pretty serious.

Sorry to bump the month-old food part of this thread...

I've seen a kebab or two in my day, but every time I hear "doner kebab", I think of the Donner party.

Quote from TexasLTU :

New fashion to create threads about someones (not) dying?

Well, we know he WILL die eventually. It's sort of like creating an F1 GP thread six months in advance.

Farah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Ed McMahon all die in the same week. Let's hope this doesn't lead to an LFS Forum pre-emptive celebrity death thread-starter war.