Quote from amp88 :

Quick footnote for historical accuracy. Hamilton has now been excluded from this GP for he and the team deliberately misleading the FIA over the Trulli/SC incident.

That's just poor.. I had a bad gut feeling about McLaren/Hamiltons sportmanship after the whole debarcle with Alonso.. and this new report just strengthens that feeling.

Quote from Laurx :

..i wont say F00K YOU! But seriously, you should really think out of borders.

In response I would say.. maybe you should learn some social responsibility and learn to live inside some borders

Quote :

When you do graffiti, you don't do it for society, you don't give a f00k what society thinks, it's for you and other writers.

QED

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And, one more thing...if you'll ask a writer why does he do what he does, he wont really be able to explain, for a writer it's something natural, like pissing or laying a brick, you just HAVE to do it or else you feel sucky.

Then seek couselling like a responsible person would, rather than forcing the rest of society to suffer your issues. Form a self help group of "writers", rent an empty warehouse where the landlord doesn't mind you painting up the walls and create your "art" there. Hell maybe even open it to the public to be apreciated by others maybe.

Quote from keiran :

Just interested to see what peoples views are on good graffiti, do you see it as vandalism?

99.9% of the time yes. The vast majority of it is mindless shit in my opinion. What's wrong with Granite buildings anyway? Something doesn't have to be colourful and brash to be beautiful.

My main complaint with graffitti, like that which you have in the pictures is that it can no longer be considered art. It was art in the 80's when it was new and contemporary, but even then most of it was talentless. Sure it takes some skill, (in the same sense that airbrushing is a skill), but the vast majority of it is devoid of any creative talent. Graffitti has become like pop music, no worse, it's like RnB or Urban music. It's generic, there is nothing of interest in its content, it's devoid of creativity. The "form" has been done to death and now it's all just repetitive crap.

So yes 99.9% of the time it's nothing more than vandalism that does nothing to improve the look of an area and worse actually makes the area even more oppressive. It's perceived as threatening by the vast majority of people in society, and that's because it is. It's a symptom of youth who don't respect rules and boundries, which is never a good thing. Do a study on the amount of graffitti and the level of crime, (particularly those committed on the street), in an area and I guarantee you'll find a strong correlation.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Well nice.. but if you're getting a helmet custom painted why didn't you put dragons and stuff on it?

Yeah and the odd Elf and Dwarf too... could have at least thown in a Wizard !!

Quote from 5haz :

Come on, do they seriously expect anyone to believe that?

Of course not.. they've even gone out of their way to shout it out that it's an april fools joke right in the first sentence.

"In a surprise statement issued shortly after midnight on this date...."

Quote from zeugnimod :

I'm german and I say he is an arrogant ****.

Maybe that's why I don't notice it then.... all you germans seem a bit aloof to me.. so I can't tell the difference

Quote from EliteAti :

Räikkönen/Massa/Button/Barichello but here my vote goes to Räikkönen

Those would be my guesses too. The Brawns if they are lucky enough to keep their advantage. Ferrari, just because they have money and two good drivers and their car isn't that far off the pace, (allowing for incidents and reliability). I can't see that the other teams have the resourses or ability to improve enough. McLaren have the money but I think they're just too far behind. All the others have never shown themselves to improve greatly over a season in the past so there's no reason to think they will this season either. With the exception of Renault that is, who may be a fly in the oitment.

Quote from Bean0 :

Forecast is for rain...lots of rain.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/1478

Should add to the exceitement

Good for Brawn then if they do have more downforce and especially Barrichello as he's a bit of a rain specialist.

Bad for Mclaren I would say if they really do have rear grip issues.

Seriously, I've never understood the Schumacher is arrogant thing. Listen to his interviews, especially the post race ones. He never ever mentions that the win was ever only to do with him. At most he says things like "I was able to" followed by because things along the lines of...so and so did this and I got lucky or ...the car I was driving was good enough to let me. He's probably one of the most self depreciating drivers I've ever listened to in all honesty. That and the fact that he's not afraid to get involved in other things where he is very likely going to show himself up as not that great (like the football and motorcycle racing) and none of that adds up to a person that thinks they're the greatest thing ever who is afraid of looking bad.

Nearly every Brit I've heard saying bad things about Schumacher has always beed down to a couple of incidents between him and british drivers, (one in particular whom I would point out is the only Wiliams driver that Frank Williams has ever derided in public!!).

The lap records average speed is actually higher in Australia than Malaysia. Same again for the speed traps (presumably placed at the fastest part of the circuit) with Australia being a touch faster than Malaysia. So all other things being equal there isn't any real reason the faster top speed cars should have any more of a chance in Malaysia than they did is Australia as it's appears to be a slower circuit on average, (with last years cars anyway). Having said that Malaysia does seem to have more fast sweepers than Australia, so maybe they will gain some advantage over the Brawns.

Without information on the average speed through each of the sectors on the two tracks it's impossible to tell where the different cars will perform better or worse.

Just did a quick un scientific comparison. Using the F1 site info on corner speeds, (as shown on the circuit layouts) the average corner speeds for the two circuits work out to :

Australia: 183 Kph
Malaysia: 172 Kph (and thats giving the benefit of a 255 kph "turn" which is hardly a bend at all)

So it would seem according to the info to hand on the F1 site that Australia is actually better for cars with greater top speed. If that's true the Brawns could very well be even more dominant at Malaysia, (not factoring temps etc of course).

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Quote from zeugnimod :

+100, awesome song.

Amen to that..another one along the same line..(I don't mind admitting it brings a lump to my thoat everytime I hear it - :shy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTxnqUhhlIY

I guess it will only resonate if you have someone that you truely love who love you back though.

Quote from DevilDare :

So its Hamiltons fault Mclaren were smart and used KERS while others didnt....?

Seriously, I don't see where you're getting these ideas from. Where have I said that he was at fault?? Stop trying to extrapolate what I'm saying to mean something extra.

Maybe it's a language issue, but just to clarify again. I think Hamilton drove well, I just believe he was gifted some luck as well and he was smart/good enough to make best use of it. That means you can't make any objectively accurate prediction of his future performance in other races on the basis of where he ended up in this one.

Stop reacting to what you perceive as "hamilton hatred" by being just as blinkered and biased yourself. Objective critisism is just that, objective critisism. It's not rational to react to it with strawman arguments about what Ferrari or other teams have said or done.

Quote from Intrepid :

1. What could Hamilton have DONE better?

2. If other cars had tyre problems then Hamilton/McLaren made the RIGHT call

3. If other drivers were making mistakes then the track was obviously tricky. HAmilton didn't make any.

4. Doesn't matter who built the car. if it's a dog its a dog. Schumacher should have won (properly) in 05 by your defiintiion

So again what could HE have done better to make his drive EXCEPTIONAL in your opinion as you failed to answer that VERY specific question

Simple. He could have won the race by a good 5 second margin. Now THAT would have been an exceptional drive.

As it was he was off the pace (no fault of his of course) and was smart enough to avoid trouble and benefit from some people who couldn't or just had bad luck/reliability issues as well as two safety car sessions that put him up behind people that he probably would never have caught otherwise.

I would say that Hamilton drove a good race, and there is no doubt that he got the best out of the car and made the best of the opportunities that were presented to him.

But to call his race exceptional is to my mind pure exageration. If he had managed the same gain in positions in an incident free race, without the advantage of having tens of seconds of track position handed to him by saftey car sessions and people falling off the track in front of him then I would agree it was an exceptional drive. But that's not what happened.

Quote from DevilDare :

And why do you care about mine comments then? Dont like it dont read it.....

Don't read it? that's quite a dumb thing to say isn't it? How can I not read it when they're in a thread that's a subject I'm interested in. Also, I don't care about your comments, (in the sense that it makes no difference to me what your opinion on Ferrari is), I'm just curious as to whether you have any actual reason to feel that way.


To the other comments about overall lap time... well yeah duh.. but as anyone here should know, (I'm assuming we all actually play LFS occasionaly???), it's perfectly possible to keep a faster driver behind you for quite a long time, even if they are 2 seconds a lap faster than you. But only when they are in a similar powered car. All you have to do is keep them behind you in the corners and ruin their ability to get better drive out of them so they can't pass down the straight. However, give them a horsepower and straight line speed advantage over you and they're going to pass you relatively easily down the straights no matter how well you obstruct them in the corners. So slow cornering speed when it comes to real racing isn't actually nearly the disadvantage of slow straight line speed. Hamilton had a car that was quicker than most down the straight and had a horsepower boost that he could use to squirt past non KERS cars at critical times. If you don't realise that in real racing conditions this isn't a major advantage then you know nothing about racing. Racing is ALL about track position.

Quote from DevilDare :

Like i said even if Hamilton would of finished in 6th he still drove better than Ferraris did....

What's your point?? I seriously don't get why you care so much about comments being made in a sport that you're not involved in, in any way. Are you a member of the McLaren team? No, so why do Ferrari comments upset you so much and make you just as guilty of being biased and hate driven than the people you accuse of being Hamilton haters.

Quote from DevilDare :

18th to 6th in one of a shittiest cars on the track,.

Hmmm.. So shitty that he actually had the seventh fastest car on the grid on that track according to the F1 speed trap stats (see here) and most of the cars he passed didn't have the advantage of KERS, with it's 80hp advantage.

To be honest I don't think too much can be read in to Hamiltons finishing position. He did seem to drive the car very well considering it's alleged performance issues, but then the race had a lot of incidents and many cars had obvious performance disadvantages. I'd like to see how everybody pans out in a race with less crashes and all cars with KERS. Then it would be possible to make judgements on individuals drivers race performances. Other than that it's comparing Apples with Oranges and only bias will dictate peoples opinions.

Quote from Blackout :

Q3 is the only time which matters, and there he was the fastest. I'd bet on the dumb explanation.

Actually I knew that, I must have miss read the results. For some reason I thought he set a slower time in Q3.

So not so much the "dumb" explanation, but the "blind" one

Quote from SidiousX :

This song sums me up.....

What are you some kind of spammer pratt?? Thanks for posting a link to a f*cking unclosable annoying pop up !!!

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Maybe I'm being dumb, but looking at the F1 website how did Button qualifiy in front of Barrichello? His times are slower... even in the sector time break down he is slower in every sector than Rubinho. Guess I'll just wait to see the repeat.

Interesting to note, the Brawns are pretty much the slowest cars on the grid ,(top speed), by quite a margin, yet they are still able to set quicker lap times. Might make for some interesting start/finish line battles out of the last corner.

Depends on my mood:

If I need cheering up this never fails:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_JXc1Yoh70

If I'm angry then this helps:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp6G0ThWEqM

Others are too embarasing to post

Given that the only negative you've stated is boredom and not much of a career path, I voted money.

Having been made unemployed 3 times in my life, I have learned one thing about jobs. If you can't find one that really gives you life affirming satisfaction, (highly improbable realistically), then take the money while you can because you never know how long you'll have a job and how long it might take you to get another one. Unfortunately, in the UK you pretty much have to look after yourself, (unless you're happy to live in dodgy areas in relatively poor accomodation and have it paid by the state), and that means having savings to get you through the rough patches. Jobs for life are gone and employers are not interested in training people any more, and fewer and fewer are interested in offering career progression in any meaningful way.

In an ideal world, I'd rather have job satisfaction. But given the reality of the world I'd rather gain my "life satisfaction" outside my job and just use work as a means to an end. Even so, I wouldn't put up with a sh*t job for money, I have my limits.

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Quote from DeadWolfBones :

http://www.wtwta.com/2009/03/2 ... -wild-things-are-trailer/

So excited.

hmmm kay

Actually it reminds me a bit of "The Dark Crystal", which I remember thinking was pretty cool as a kid.

Quote from Bob Smith :

What to keep in the car? I find seats useful, but everything else a pure luxury and the added mass is only slowing the car down and burning more fuel. Want that 20% stiffer sports suspension? Just throw away 20% of the car!

You know, I just realised that I completely mis-read the title of the thread. I thought it said "what you keep in the car".

I bought her a card then went over and cooked her a Sunday Roast for lunch. The least I can do really all things considered.

Pretty much nothing really. Except the "tool kit" that came with the car; an electronic tyre pressure gauge; some L plates; one of those fake chamis leather cleaning sponge things and a road map I don't carry anything in the car. Should I ever break down I'll just ring the AA. Thinking about it though, I guess I should get myself a warning triangle. I had to replace a tyre on a motorway in Brazil one time and it was bloody scary. The big lorries all use the hard shoulder over there and they have extremely bad brakes.