So, where do those noses come from? What regulation / idea is behind it?

Would be a true shame to see Spa swap with France every now and then, however the Paul Ricard circuit is a sweet one allowing a lot of agressive driving and passing. So that makes up a lot of my FFFFFFFFFFFF. But yeah, they'd better throw out a boring track like Valencia. Spa doesn't generate enough funds: Wallonian governement doesn't subsidise enough and the event itself is not profitable for some reason, I'd not be surprised if corruption had to do with that. Dropping visitors also has to do with the globalisation of F1 I think: such distant locations making it a "too far from their bed show", the casual F1 viewers forgeting about F1, dropping interest due to the high prices (going with your family to a F1 race in Spa is might expensive!), ...

Last edited by GianniC, Fri, 3 Feb 2012 09:51.

Like en engine, on four wheels, with a long lollystick in front of it.

But yeah, if they provide fast and great racing, whatevah.

I find it sweet looking, very slick.

You Americans got weird tastes...

Cool progress for the small Belgian!

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/97160

1. Who will win drivers' world championship: Alonso or Button or Vettel - you just can't say...
2. Which team will win constructors' world championship: Red Bull
3. How do you think Brüno Senna will do in 2012 (rate 1-10): 5
4. How do you think Kimi Räikkönen will do in 2012 (rate 1-10): 8
5. How do you think Nico Hulkenberg will do in 2012 (rate 1-10): 4
6. How do you think Romain Grosjean will do in 2012 (rate 1-10): 5
7. First driver you think will lose his drive during 2012: Pic
8. Will Caterham score points in 2012: no
9. Do you think Massa will win at least one race in 2012? yes
10. Does Kubica drive F1 car before the last race? no
11: Winner of Australian gp: Vettel
12. Winner of American gp: Alonso
13. How many points will the dwc winning driver have at the end of the season: 264

Quote from Juzaa :

FIA has banned the reactive ride height system developed by Lotus. No explanations, nothing but the word that it's banned. It seems like FIA has started actions to ensure that the smaller teams can never rise to the top because even legal innovations will be banned.

On second thought, FIA is probably covering Ferrari's ass. The last season they tried to stop Red Bull with their innovations and now it's Lotus.

It's strange how FIA can give green light to an innovation but when big teams start whining they'll immediately ban the system for no apparent reason.

Very disappointing indeed, also rather fishy. Until two weeks ago the system being made and developped a year ago was all fine, now it suddenl is not?

He did 4th this morning, pretty good run.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/96231

Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Jean-Eric Vergne Red Bull-Renault 1m40.707s 33
2. Jules Bianchi Ferrari 1m42.632s 34
3. Oliver Turvey McLaren-Mercedes 1m43.502s 35
4. Valtteri Bottas Williams-Cosworth 1m43.816s 47
5. Fabio Leimer Sauber-Ferrari 1m44.354s 34
6. Robert Wickens Renault 1m44.579s 29
7. Rodolfo Gonzalez Lotus-Renault 1m45.026s 44
8. Sam Bird Mercedes GP 1m45.564s 12
9. Max Chilton Force India-Mercedes 1m45.714s 42
10. Dani Clos HRT-Cosworth 1m46.922s 39
11. Stefano Coletti Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m47.008s 42
12. Adrian Quaife-Hobbs Virgin-Cosworth 1m47.292s 32

Bottas interview: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/96226

Too bad Rosberg got extended. I'd have signed for Kimi-Schumi in Mercedes. Although Rosberg does deserve it, no doubt about that.

Mr Bean

Damn, RIP Marco. He really was an upcoming talent.

I do wonder how his helmet came lose? Must have been awful lots of power on it

Quote :

d'Ambrosio: been completely dominated by glock, without ever really looking to challenge him, often finds him self behind the HRTs.

Sorry for some bias here, but that's not true.

D'Ambrosio often qualified ahead of Glock, didn't crashed in any races (unlike Glock) and always drove the car without the new Virgin updates since those went to Glock, didn't cause massive blue flag trouble unlike the HRT and... he do is a rookie. Performing equally overall to Glock as a rookie I wouldn't call "being dominated by Glock". Behind the HRTs? Where do you get that from?

Not to mention D'Ambrosio's previous past where he did dominate his GP2 teammates and several highly talented racers.

I think Virgin knows that very well or he wouldn't be racing for Virgin in the first place, seeing they took him above other pilots with more cash. The question more is: will they pick talent again above cash?

It's doubtful he can stay though unless he finds bigger sponsors. Sucks to see how much cash goes to football and other sports but none to our talented Belgian racers. It's strange seeing our national racing history, having Spa, Zolder and so much more to offer.

Going to send back my package and swap for the GTR3RS + clubsport pedal package. The quality isn't bad, don't get me wrong, but I had expected better and an improvement over my old MS Sidewinder FF wheel. This is just too much near the (awesome) quality of my old one.

Going to make myself a new table to mount the wheel on, so I can replace the wheelstand. On itself I'm happy about it, really does its job, but doesn't fit entirely under my desk and as such I sit a bit too far from the screen to be great. Again good quality, but not entirely what I had anticipated.

Good service from Fanatec though, short on words but efficient German style.

Got it working in Firefox, didn't open in IE.

Anyway, seems I should have taken the clubsport pedals and the GT3 wheel. Throttle pedal is very loose which is good, but the cluth blocks halfway and then pushes completely through. Much bigger issue is how the braking pedal is like a rock hard stone; I can't do moderate braking and if I push my full power on the brake needed to have max breaking, then the whole pedal set moves due to the force I have to put on it...

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Arrived today, setting it up now! One problem though:

Someone else can't access www.fanatec.com/support?
It gives a 404 error when I select my wheel...

Good luck Mr. Engel

Quote from Tox Laximus :

So you start a single player race the indestructible scalextric AI ram you off the track, start the race again.

Then you start multiplayer race and get rammed off the track in a multitude of imaginative ways, someone going backwards while playing the awooga horn is the funniest so far.

At first I was very impressed with this game, so much so I bought the S2 then during the next few hours was beat into submission and uninstalled.

Please tell me I'm missing something or there is an older version that plays better, anything to justify buying this game.

The decent servers prevent people from driving backwards, when they try they get auto-pitted or kicked. So all in all it indeed comes down to finding a better server or a better hour to play at where more serious sim racers are up.

You might also want to check out to participate in some leauges; not all of them require you to be a top champion to adhere to a washinglist of rules and skin rules and whatever, eg. The Original LFS League (OLFSL). Gives very good racing, goals to prepare for, new combo's to learn, ect... But not a must to have good online racing in LFS, it can occur in daily public racing too, just got to find the right server and people (like in every game).

Thanks, got an e-mail from UPS later on in the afternoon indeed.

Monday! Monday! Mondaaayyyy!

/takes the whole week off

Any suggestions, options, ... to tweak the wheel for LFS?

Does someone also happen to know with which company they deliver, DHL, UPS, ...?!

Just wanted to drop a note not to forget to follow us on our website, facebook page or forum. We're also easily found on the Official V8 Supercar website, I wonder why...

Shall I give a hint?!
V8 Supercars 2011 Online Season.

Perhaps a visual hint?! Phillips Island race start:

Quote from Bose321 :

Haha, well done! Enjoy the wheel. If there are any questions feel free to PM me.

Do you get payed by Fanatec?

Quote :

Thank you very much or your Fanatec Gameshop order from Wednesday 31 August, 2011!

Now wait impatiently...

Thanks for the feedback everyone!

Quote from Bose321 :

http://www.fanatec.de/webshop/ ... 86d1f0590af5fb725300f5a6f
or
http://www.fanatec.de/webshop/ ... 86d1f0590af5fb725300f5a6f

These are also interesting Bose. Heared some about the Fanatec wheels but didn't really check them yet. Comparable quality to the Logitech ones? 200 euros for the stand, pedals and wheel seems like a great price - better than the DFGT!

Someone has experience with them? eg. are the metal plate for under the pedals required to purchase extra, or any other "get that while you're at it cause it's much better than the standard" advice?

Does LFS support "6+1 Speed gear stick with correct dimensions"?

Last edited by GianniC, Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:30.

Quote from CdnRacer :

How much money are you looking to spend?

~100-200 euros is acceptable.

Thanks for the write up Pärtan, useful information indeed. Though the G25 brings me with the problem of buying second hand, something I do not like to do...

Hi

Looking to buy a new wheel for LFS. I read about the DFGT being the much cheaper and pretty equally as good version of a G27 and with 21 buttons instead of 2. Then again reviews seem to say it has the shifter located on a wrong spot? Should I go for a DFGT or are there other options out there these days?

My one and only wheel before was a MS Sidewinder FF which too bad died out entirely. Such epic quality for its time!

Thank you,

God, I love Spa Francochamps. What a beautiful track. Excellent camera angles also, finally we saw F1 cars having speed also with the plain eye. I mean, you could actually see that they went eg. 180km/h through a turn ect...

Fine race, dropped some pace at the end but nevertheless a very fine race! Lots of paces, some debris, some maths and great show.

This is F1, not those boring Dubai nonsense tracks.