Quote from March Hare :

Is it stupid to use one general set for all the tracks?

No it's not stupid at all, for all the reasons you stated

I tend to do the same, find a set I feel gives me great confidence to do consistent laps then use it on all tracks. The only thing I do is adjust brake balance/max pressure and camber angles for each location (i.e. a version of the same set for WE, FE BL, SO and AS tracks.

I just adjust brake balance/ max pressure to ensure the car is stable on the selected track under braking, and the camber angle I adjust to get my desired temp profile accross the tyre after 5 or so laps.

If you are under 1 sec from WR pace then a specific setup for that track will help, but for most of us having a car that handles well is more important and that can be achieved with one setup and minor variations having said that I mostly race the road cars, throw aero into the equation and it probably is abit more complicated.

Quote from [DUcK] :

Just try to give alot of racing room, and on starts don't try anything desperate, because with the lag you won't get away with it... Trust me, I know

That's my excuse for lame racecraft!

1. AI
2. Aero

Quote from SamH :

I swear, if I ever find out who it is who does it, I'm banning them outright with no opportunity for reprieve.

Can you do it statistically?

Just analyse the first race of every track change that has many spectators and few drivers - should not need too much historical data to figure out the culprit unless its several

There isn't really any such thing as an ideal setup, your setup looks reasonable

Having said that you will probably evolve the way you like your setup over time as your driving style develops, if you are now managing to go around some high speed corners abit quicker than before you might try slightly higher camber angles. Other than that it is pretty much personal taste i.e. what gives you the most confidence.

If you can identify any area's that you are not happy with when driving i.e. corner entry, trail braking, apex, corner exit, etc and what it feels like (oversteer, understeer, unstable, etc), I'm sure someone could help you out plenty of setup wizard about in lfs.

Everything has cycles it's leading up to xmas (some working more) and alot have just finished all thier exams (so have been studying more, and now will be partying more)

Plenty of aussies around anyway, it's just that they are all on drift servers

LFS is a niche game and Australia just doesn't have the poplulation other regions have so we will always struggle with numbers I guess I suggest we all get out there and spam other aussie car/game related forums about LFS

Quote from RudiTurbo :

I really hope S2 full will be released soon and we can be sure that our hotlaps will have a long life until S3, so we could really push for them and hopefully the online handicaps will be gone too

You mean a long life like 1 to 2 years? oh wait... sry couldn't resist

Quote from tristancliffe :

even if you come from China, who produce some of the smelliest people in the world!

That post made me laugh

O/T btw did you know that chinese people think we westerners stink also it has to do with the differences in our diets mostly

As to biggie not racing online much, alot of the older LFSers dont anymore doesnt mean he doesnt have racecraft just means he doesnt find the public servers as fun as hotlapping, that view can easily be understood at times.

Looking at his LFSWorld stats we see he has:
finished 634 races
been 1st in 402 of those
second in 124
and third in 54 that means he is on the podium 90+% of the time appears his racecraft is just fine

Anyway I have great respect for both of them and for that matter sidi and tristian and jtbo and J.B. and Gunn and well anyone that has been here longer than 5 mins

Last edited by Glenn67, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 23:03.

Quote from Leprekaun :

Ah! but sir, you stated in your signature that you find it hard to make a post without the word volvo in it . What you have revealed is that, true, the letters of the word Volvo do exist in your post but they have not been put together in succession to form a word so your post still stands in contradiction with your statement

No not a crontradicition it just shows that the thousnads of dollars he is spending on thearapy is finaly working

Quote from Stang70Fastback :

I'll have them rotated, but the fronts don't really have that much tread left anyway (and usually, on a Subaru, ALL the tires have to be within 1/16").

I never ever let the fronts have less tred than the rears, thats asking for trouble personally think that is all your problem was. Low tred on the fronts in the wet means they probably aquaplaned on a slightly oily surface.

Quote from JTbo :

You can get even a bus to handle on track if you have resources, it does not mean that your average bus is any good at all on track.

hehe and you know all about buses big brick like things on wheels

I'm fairly calm in RL and in LFS most times doesn't mean some things don't get under my skin but I just tend to shrug them off quickly

The one thing that does irritate me, since you talk about rural drivers Mike is those that are on a wide open road and I am criusing along chillin out at a little over the speed limit and then some impaitent git sits on my bumper when he could just as easily sit back a hundred meters or so and enjoy the trip or he could hang back until a suitable safe time to overtake and zoom by. But no he wants to sit on my bumper

Some guy did that a few weeks ago, so I just lifted off the throttle slowed down 20km/h then sped up again. Had to do that three times before the guy got it lol Why some people feel they need to be 10m off your bumper on a wide open stretch of road is beyond me

Glad too hear it

Having blip on or off being faster or slower depends on your braking technique and the way you set up your brakes so there is not one answer.

Personally I have it off and do manual blipping. As you learn to trail brake more you will find you need to use the throttle to balance the car anyways.

Fastest way to downshift for me in FWD cars and in RWD cars but to a lesser extent is to hold the throttle full open for the split second you down shift and apply brakes. That helps keep the car balanced in the initial braking phase with quite alot of engine braking. Then I find in the RWD cars (especially road cars while using the clutch pack with low preload settings) that picking up the throttle again before you come off the brakes entirely helps keep the car balanced in the transition phase.

Quote from R34king :

ok thanks guys and Damo74 it dosnt even turn on nice mini Fenchy and yea ill just continue on i get upset real easy

You can get the data back most times it just depends on how much money you've got and are willing to spend

One way is find a second hand drive that is identical that still works, swap all the electronic boards accross and you may get a resurected drive.

I've had another occassion were a system no longer recognised a hard drive because of bad sectors. Believe it or not, I was able to retrieve the data still by putting the hard drive in the freezer for 30min before trying to boot it again

So don't believe your average tech if they say nothing can be done. Things can be done but it can also cost alot.

Quote from JTbo :

However my Volvo beats Viper any day, in running costs but I'm sure that race is pretty even

Your one deluded sick puppy

Many people tell you that?

Quote from axus :

By the way, as you're a keen LX driver...

Thanks for the set Axus I'll give it a thorough testing

Hmm I'd love to join a league one day, but it aint going to be any time soon as I work 7 days a week with several days a week out of town too. So LFS time is quite spasmodic and will be for some time yet. When life returns to some semblance of normality, probably sometime in 2020 when S3 is released I'll definately be giving it a go

Don't know if you remember me from S1 days I used to race under the name Oz-GBK or Leo we had some fun times on the track back then cya on track again sometime.

Going faster is mostly a mind thing, your doing what feels comfortable and safe. As a consequence you can find yourself in a rut not being able to improve been there many times myself

You could improve the most in sector 2, coner at end of straight need to aim for minimum of 110km you can take it at 111 - 112 with practise. Same with the second chicane take it a few km/h faster.

You do get on the gas early which is good and obviously have taken to heart the slow in fast out principle. But I'd say your being a tad coservitive in the braking and transition zones.

To get yourself out of a rut I'd recommend you to force yourself to overdrive. i.e. aim to have the minimum apex speed a few km/h above what you currently are comfortable with and attempt to brake a little later than you do now. Don't worry about lap time or safe driving while you do this, the aim is to try discover where you can go faster.

After you have done a number of laps like this return to trying to get a fast clean lap, I guarantee you, you will find a few more tenths after some perseverence

Oh and don't listen to SparkyDave about RHD in the XFG LHD is faster arround BL1 - ask [Duck] if you don't belive

Last edited by Glenn67, Tue 20 Nov 2007, 10:45.

Quote from axus :

It's a bit oversteery at first if you're used to the normal LX4 setups you're likely to come across. But it's bloody fast. Works well on most tracks with a few tweaks.

I've been driving the LX's mostly lately, and have been using Todd's sets for the LX4 which you posted, I find them very good to drive

You don't happen to have some really nice sets for the LX6 as well, pretty please Lx6 is my favorite car in LFS at the moment

I voted the second option but if I had a clutch and H shifter and was on a server where there were other people using similar equipment I would be all for the challenge and realism option currently I just have a momo though

Maybe in a year or two when I stop working 7 days a week I'll make myself a cockpit with clutch, three screen setup etc, that would be my ultimate long term goal

Quote from the_angry_angel :

There are patent / licencing issues when it comes to "ghost mode". I believe they've been discussed here, and definately at RSC previously.

Well it wouldn't be a ghost mode it would be a parallel universe mode or concurent qualify/race mode

Seems like a good compromise to me I'm one of those that would just prefer no mid race joins ever but understand why most don't like that so qualifying concurently in a parallel universe is a good compromise

Just found this old video footage of a V8Supercar race in 1994 in the wet around the Adelaide circiut and thought it was worth sharing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... etu5E&feature=related

Quote from ACCAkut :

favourite supercar of all times is the F40 for me. V8, twinturbo

Listen to the F40 go by then hear the F50 GT1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... YuD6k&feature=related

About 200m off shore spear fishing, when a large sea lion came from nowhere flashing past the front of my face blocking out everything (nearly shat my pants )

Several near misses and some that hit in way of car accidents.

1. Travelling down a gravel road when some speeding Sweedish tourists coming the other way didn't see us and overracted when they did. Ended up going side ways into a ditch rolling there rental car several times before coming to a rest just in front of us

2. Pulled up at a set of lights that was just over the crest of a hill. Looked in my review mirror to see a speeding car slam on his brakes directly behind me! He ended up going sideways and flipping his car to end up ahead of us on the median strip (close miss)

3. Coming around a bend doing about 150km/h in the middle of nowhere at 3am in the morning to find a herd of cattle directly in front of us sleeping in the middle of the road had no time to slow down so picked a path through them and shut my eyes. made it somehow.

4. Going for one of my many drives along country roads when younger late at night, going much too fast with a layer of fog settling in thinking it looked cool as it was about roof hieght of the car. Came around a bend to be met by 3 horses that were loose on the road. Slammed on the brakes got a bit sideways but managed to pull up with just a few meters to spare.

List goes on but I will stop boring you could talk all day about accidents and near misses in cars lol

For me it would have to be the Lamborghini Miura, since the early 80's when I saw one up close and personal and had a long chat to the lucky mechanic that had just drove it accross the nullabough sitting on 160mph most of the way for it's new owner, the new owner had a factory full of cars next door to were I worked at the time. There are better cars sure but that's the one that grabed me most. They look much better irl than in photo or on camera also

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... 47xbk&feature=related

Last edited by Glenn67, Sun 18 Nov 2007, 09:53.