nah m8. it's good advice and it's often given to ski and bike racers. look where you want to go, not where you don't want to go. when things are happening too fast to think simple strategies like this are actually very helpful.
good, honest review. i feel much the same way. i like the detail in the cars. i like the weather. i like the tracks. i even like the sound. but i absolutely cannot stand the crappy forcefeedback and rediculous tire physics. i should not have to look at the speedometer at the entry of every corner. i should be able to feel whether the car has enough grip or not, and a small error should put me into a skid that i can struggle to correct, not throw me helpless into the wall.
i think a lot depends on the shape of the casing, and it's affect on contact patch. ie, not all 2" bicycle tires have a round cross section.
in my experience, 1" slick tires with 100 psi will not hydroplane at any sane speed (though this is not to say that traction isn't reduced in the wet, which it is).
however, with 2" slicks and 50 psi, i've experienced very terrifying hydroplaning at only 35-40 km/h.
you may have it here. i did do the test of going back to my old (flat) setup, adding more rear downforce, and it didn't help. i'm thinking, more downforce = more camber = less contact patch. so maybe i could make the flat set work if i played with my camber a bit, but meanwhile i went back to the new raked set and knocked another 0.2 seconds off my pb.
i noticed it the most on the flat-out twisty section of sector 2. i would normally hit 248 or so coming down the hill, lose some speed on the right hander at the bottom, and crest the hill before the hairpin at about 242. with the rear end lifted 5mm i was basically able to carry all that speed through the corner and crest the hill at 247.
maybe the explanation has to do with less tire scrubbing around that corner?
maybe the explanation has to do with less tire scrubbing around that corner?
something like this has happened to me a couple of times. the car started to sound sick, and lack power at high revs, and i thought maybe i had downshifted too fast and damaged the engine, but half-way back to the pits it returned to normal. i wasn't doing anything funky.
that's what i suspected, but it's still surprising that such a small change (which didn't seem to affect the balance of the car much at all) could have such a big affect on lap time. my old pb had stood for several hundred laps, and i wondered if i would ever match it again, let alone beat it easily (with 7 laps worth of fuel in the car, no less).
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does it affect aerodynamic drag in lfs?
last night i tried someone else's FXR/AS3 set. the set came from someone who is very fast, and it was very different than mine in every way other than steering. it was a bit wobbly in the corners for my taste, but it had 2-3 km/h more straight line speed than my set, even with me taking the corner exits slower than i normally would. i began to compare settings, looking for differences that would affect top speed.
total body and wing drag was nearly the same, so my next guess was gear ratios. i applied his ratios to my car, and it turned out that mine were actually better, so that theory was out too.
next i looked at the suspension, and noticed that he had 10mm of rake, while i had none. i lifted my rear end by 5mm as an experiment, and voila! 2 laps to warm the tires, then i put the hammer down and destroyed my pb by 0.3 seconds, with top speeds 3-4 km/h higher than i'd seen before.
so now i'm a believer in rake, but my question is, did the time come off because the aerodynamics are different with rake, or because the handling is better? because the downforce screen doesn't show any changes in drag when you adjust the suspension ride height.
last night i tried someone else's FXR/AS3 set. the set came from someone who is very fast, and it was very different than mine in every way other than steering. it was a bit wobbly in the corners for my taste, but it had 2-3 km/h more straight line speed than my set, even with me taking the corner exits slower than i normally would. i began to compare settings, looking for differences that would affect top speed.
total body and wing drag was nearly the same, so my next guess was gear ratios. i applied his ratios to my car, and it turned out that mine were actually better, so that theory was out too.
next i looked at the suspension, and noticed that he had 10mm of rake, while i had none. i lifted my rear end by 5mm as an experiment, and voila! 2 laps to warm the tires, then i put the hammer down and destroyed my pb by 0.3 seconds, with top speeds 3-4 km/h higher than i'd seen before.
so now i'm a believer in rake, but my question is, did the time come off because the aerodynamics are different with rake, or because the handling is better? because the downforce screen doesn't show any changes in drag when you adjust the suspension ride height.
i want to say Lotus Esprit, but i'm not sure about the vent above the rear quarter... 
how about if the "button" is linked to the throttle? ie, if you don't rev the engine during the countdown you get taken off the grid at the last moment?
a quick look at their site shows that it comes with a 500+ bhp V8, but they say the chassis can handle up to 1000 bhp, so i'd say yes, you could modify the crap out of it.
i think the "pre-season" races are a good idea too, unfortunately anything mid-week is bad for me due to timezone. but i suppose it doesn't matter much because i'm slow and will probably end up in the lowest division anyway! 
(unlike nacnac, who i think has a good chance of winning)
(unlike nacnac, who i think has a good chance of winning)
the perfect tire to match spinning hub caps. :slap:
nevermind, i found the info on your site.
i registered a while ago (can't remember exactly when, several days ago at least) but haven't received an email yet. is there going to be a batch mailing at the end of the registration period, or is it supposed to happen automatically upon registration?
in my world trucks are for hauling payload, not ass, but whatever, i guess some of you are bored with race cars...
go to lfsworld.net and you will find all sorts of statistics on the most used cars and tracks, as well as all of your personal best times on each track with each car. there is also a graph that shows when the most users are online.
my (very limited) understanding is that tires (and brake pads) will "out gas" when overheated, which can lead to glazing on the surface, which in turn results in lower friction, even after the tires have cooled again.
somebody correct me if i'm wrong.
for canada, usa, mexico, maybe australia?
for weekend races, the proposed time of 1800 GMT is probably fine (since that would be early afternoon here) but during mid-week those of us with 9-5 jobs wouldn't be home from work in time.
so far there have been tons of people racing on your server, so hopefully by end-of-month there will be enough people to fill several divisions.
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