Help me, please, to understand, I can't find anything relevant in the inet.

I thought I knew how the anti-roll bars work. But I guess there is something new to learn. Correct me, please. Anti-roll bar connects the wheels of one axle and redistributes the force between theis ammortisers.

But one guy tells me that there are such bars mounted to the dependent suspensions of some trucks. I looked attentively to a scheme of a dependent suspension and can't understand where to attach an antiroll bar.

I'm not joking. Please, explain me this.

TagForce: by the way, the spoken language is difficult to understand partially because of our neglect to sounds - reducing unstressed vowels, and consonants that are not supported by vowels. Between us we pronounce Live for Speed as "Leef far speet".

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Haha, imagine driving home from work on the motorway and being overtaken by a bunch of formula cars Did the police close the roads and did the cars have to obey speed limits?

As they write, a police car was escorting the column and told everyone with a loud-speaker to free a row for them.

Night street racing, though legal. Just look at the photos. Formula Rus' transported their cars from the base at Moscow to a city racing track nearby. They decided not to load all these cars into trucks, but just asked the road police to help. A patrol escorted the column of formulas.

http://www.formularus.ru/img/995.jpg
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http://www.formularus.ru/img/1001.jpg
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Once I've posted at RSC another mad action. They planned an exhibitional race in the end of October 2003. That time the weather can be between +20 and 0, and that year they got the bad weather: 0°, snow and water on track. First their test driver tried a car with snow tyres and said "okay", then others made a race.

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Funny... Russians pride themselves in having the easiest language for foreigners to learn.

Those who do this, have never seen a foreigner to learn Russian, I'd say. Very difficult because of rich grammar. It's much easier for us to learn European languages (probably except Finnish and Hungarian), because they are quite simple. For instance, Italian for me is a piece of cake.

Here is Cyrillic test. I'd like to notice that in Cyrillic there is also a letter Ё (yo ) which is usually put aside of the other 32 letters, please, don't forget it.

[edit] added ё and Ё in the last attachment.

Last edited by detail, Fri 30 Sep 2005, 15:02. Reason : added yo

Do you mean blurred phonetics? What I like in Afrikaans and for what once upon a time I may start learning it is it's simplicity, that it is more analytical than English.

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It's not about Americans, it is about fools. Having read the posts above, at first I thought they'd tear the rear axle out of the car.

I've seen a similar thing under my windows: two (probably drunk) idiots tried to reverse their Moskvich from the parking at the house entrance. Instead of steering right to make it turn left (using the square of the parking), they wanted to turn right instantly and made the front wheels ride over high (15 cm) kerb and a pit on the lawn. The car was weak and they spent an hour hanging around and pushing it.

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"Need for Speed" is called "The Need for Speed", "need" is a noun here. When someone needs some speed, he has the need for speed.

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Well thats nothing really. In Finnish language there are words which are spelled and pronounsed the same way and have different meanings.

I'll grieve you, but this phoenomenon exists in any language. As for English, it's a problem of borrowings from French and Latin into a language of the German group. Indeed, Afrikaans would better be the universal commonly used language.

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Not bad mod. 2 years ago, suffering in the hot days of may, i made a winter mod for LFS 0.2. Then i thought about making it for all the S1, but gave up. At the first attempt I made background walls of trees just black&white. That looked poorly, because at the track colors were shifted in many places, so there were green and orange walls of wood. At the second attempt I tried to put there pine-trees wall instead of broad-leaved trees (because it's winter, yes? ), but the problems with colors were even worse, the wall looked unnatural and worse than in the old NFS1 or maybe Doom-1. Wish you success. But don't make everything more gray/white.

Here is my old movie with LFS 0.2 and winter textures.

Then, probably, they also worked with tyres suppliers to achieve steady tyres performance, to make them less dependent on rubber, less sensible to dirt (while in F1 they always try to get maximal peak performance).

So, looks like the sheikh's team made a good job. Looked at all the F1 disadvantages and solved many of them. Meanwhile in F1 Mosley and Ecclestone are constrained with tons of formal agreements with teams and can't make them move by a millimiter.

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I thought rear drag is exactly what they don't want, because it would make following/overtaking in corners harder.

Right. May be so.

Watched it on Monday on TV, fine racing, much better than F1. No need to add power, I think they'd better have make the cars even less aerodynamic efficient, with more drag to make slipstreaming easier.

I hope Rusinov will drive for Russia nex time. Vasiliev needs more training, he raced in FIA GT very long, and also is older.

LFS forum made me not forget English after many years of learning it at the school and the university.

It also made me understand what racing skill is about, when in 2003 i started to improve my times and got better and better "feeling" of car, though simulated. Also made me passionate about bodywork cars racing (DTM, FIA GT, Porsche, WRC, WTCC) instead of F1.

The delay of S2 made me start learning Italian.

Dogma #2: The Idiots

Watched the race live today. This is what I like much more than F1. No need to know who is who beforehand, it is not a soap opera, it is action! Though, the TV director could have shown others besides Ekstrom & Paffet. Too much focusing on the leaders, I think. The spectacularity of the FIA GT is that they show everything.

Interesting thing with their physics engine: Paffet almost touches Ekstrom's rear bumper at the apex of the last corner, but can't slip-stream him at the straight. A noticeable difference with LFS: there, if you are just in .2 sec from the car ahead, slip-stream starts pulling you, and you can at least come alongside with it by the end of a same long straight. But here Paffet could only side-track behind with no hope to pass.

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A thing that I recall, not connected directly, but is said quite often: for example "why i like F1" or "why the new qualifying format is cool" — because "any mistake costs a lot".

Very sad. R.I.P.

Ban the Kid. Nothing personal, just way too much noise. At least, this would save much time of both the Kid and the others.

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Would be fun with a competition where the devs/community choose the top three tracks, so the devs can add them to the game and make the correct adjustments to the tracks to.

Or another situation, after S3 is released the devs (or someone else) is in charge of a competition every quartal (I hope that is the right word) where one winner/ one track is choosen to get implemented in the game.

I don't pretend to be an "author", the ideas come to us independently, but I supposed the same idea before, couple of years ago. Good point.

Hehe, fortunately, i turned off avatars more than year ago, so i completely missed this event. Learned about this only now.

i have avatars and signatures turned off, because they just explode messages. 1 line post occupies half of the Opera's screen - no, thanks. Also avatars confuse you when people change them.

foobar2000 roxx!

@DratsaB: Zero visibility rocks! Worth to try for everyone! What's your parameter's value?

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Looks like in LFS there is always more dust and dirt than smoke, but it's quite real: you need tyre to overheat and burn to see smoke, while it's very easy to throw a lot of dust into the air.

What music does play at F1 podiums when the racers spray the champagne? This one would be nice.