Well, yesterday I had a flash of inspiration and motivation to start a skin of LFS, a thing that I never did with a good program (when the XRT was available on Demo, I used to do some bad liveries on Photofiltre, and did like, only three or four, then I quitted skinning), and yesterday, when I got bored from failure on FBM, thought of doing skins again; but now on GIMP.

I wanted a new skin for me anyway, since I have started playing BATracer (some of you here know it, I guess, already seen known faces there, like Yuri Laszlo and Christian Zorner here) I started to do liveries for it. Is waaaay easier do a great livery on a 500x200 2D image, rather than a complex and compressed 2048² 3D image, so I never tried the skins after started doing liveries for BATracer. So then, I asked Kruithoff if he could do a private skin for me, and he did a great one (I still owe you one, dude!), but I had to try atleast once.

So, did a simply paintjob, and tried to avoid the connected parts, because I don't have the patience that you guys do (LOL³³³) and I'm still working on the logotypes and stuff...

If you guys wanna criticize it, and do some suggestions, I would love to hear...

Thanks!

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Quote from hrtburnout :

Why is that? I haven't heard of them before.

IndyCar and NASCAR, respectively.

Quote from wild :

Could you possibly explain?

Vatanen was a World Rally Champion and Todt has led many teams to success in various series. The Stig has what driven a few laps around the top gear track? That makes him understand more of motorsport?

One is a parlamentary today, and the another, executive. The Stig still being a driver.

And why you took so seriously the opinion? Everyone here have the sense that is a joke, ZOMG.

Last edited by HalleMarques, Sat 1 Aug 2009, 17:38.

Quote from Senninha25 :

Mole, your skins are very good, the only problem is your rock bottom-level self-esteem about them. cheer up mate!

Agreed, that skin was awesome. The problem is, that sometimes people get outta reality about the design. Look at real Formula BMW cars, they are not designed like F1s, with fixed themes, lots of big-fish sponsors and these stuff, they are simply cars with a few sponsors, and a simply design. Basically is what I wanted on my private, that is off-topic right now, but damn, that livery was great!

I wanted it private.

And your skins are great anyway, d00d. You can make better ones.

Quote from Falcon140 :

Private skin requested by Halle Marques:



Based on the helmet Takai_Blue included with LFS.

Simply awesome skin... Loved it!!!

Quote from Zay :

I dont know why everybody thinks she is so great.

Like you said on the part that I've deleted, she is a woman. And hot. That is the main reasons that the fools thinks she is so great.

Is the best server to watch races on LFS Remote. I'm so tired of XFG/XRG...

IMHO, and a n00b one, I guess that Danica is not the kind of driver that win races. And Formula One do not need this kind of drivers, for god sake. Jaime Alguersuari was enough to my eyes!

But we have to agree, she is a good seller. Because when you Peak, you win.

Quote from Bob Smith :

The stig. Just imagine the press conferences.

I was going to post his name. He understands more of motorsports than all of the guys that are being named to sit on the throne.

We need less politics and more racing. Long life to Balestre.

What a bump...

Quote from lizardfolk :

A race in Australia would be good as well.

Quote from DieKolkrabe :

Nascar, Bathurst. YES

Would be great, the problem is the transportation. Bathurst, Motegi, Eurospeedway Oval, all of these would be great tracks, but 43 (or 43+) cars to send there would take time and lots of money. =/

Quote from 5haz :

Oh for ****s sake, now everyones gone into hyperactive mode, thats ridiculous.

Can't anyone accept that accidents will always happen? How long before they start banning drivers for spinning, or getting a bit of a slide on?

It's just do gooding, thats all it is.

[2] Totally agreed.

Stay in the mid point between totalitarism and NASCAR (no penalties for intentional bumps) is the enough. Now, a mistake made in pits is taken as a ban? OMG...

But, anyway, dunno Alonso's side, but Piquet wouldn't score in Valencia anyways...

Quote from Zdenek CZE :

Felipe Massa remains in the Budapest hospital in an artificial sleep, which is based on the available reports in the same state as last night. Further examination did not, fortunately, no injury to the brain and no complications are expected.

Flew to Budapest Massa family including pregnant wife Anna, and father Rafael Luiz Antonio. Felipe and Anna Rafaela expected child in November.

His doctor (and the responsible of the medical part of Brazilian GP) said to brazilian TV that sometimes he wakes up from his sleep and exams are made on him. There is no risk of death, according him.

Edit:

Quote from Töki (HUN) :

Mark Gene, the test pilot.

What a pity for Badoer, will never race for Ferrari... XD

Quote from Shotglass :

anybody whos mental age is greater than 6?

He is actually right. Overtakes are beautiful, for sure. Great starts too, battles. But what you remember from Canada '07, for example?

Quote from BlueFlame :

Who doesn't want crashes? That's part of the excitement of motorsport.....

Bump & Grind baby.


Massa's crash wasn't a racing incident, therefore not a crash reletive to motorsport really... It could of happened on the road really.

Nelson Piquet said the same once. The excitement of the race is the crashes - And he is right. I just don't like when a driver gets hurt.

And the headshot was more like physics, rather than motorsport itself.

Quote from JJ72 :

The only outcome of a JV comeback will be nothing by proving his critics wrong to be honest, although I do like him as a personality.

He is simply not good enough to be given so many opportunities in F1.

Maybe if he stayed on Williams on 98... Dunno what was happening that time, I was too child that age.

OMG, loved the teaser. Wish i could be one of the street cars...

Quote from bunder9999 :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C0I7Ef4gQI

Just love this ad... And the ending is great.

Quote from lizardfolk :

You must have been soaked tea lol. I also remember the mass exodus after Villeneuve crashed lol. He really still has a lot of fans. He got a lot of Canadians into CASCAR

Like the Brazilians. In mid-90's we just had Barrichello (on F1, of course) and we had to had some faith on him. The problem is the brazilian media is very mean sometimes, and bad, for losers. Today Barrichello in Brazil, is infortunately, a joke.

Quote from lizardfolk :

I like NASCAR at montreal. I wish sprint cup would go there. But hey, let's have montreal rain again

I'm a NASCAR fan, by the way you might have realised that I'm kinda a newbie on motorsport, I guess you have to agree with me that a ALMS would fit better than Sprint Cup. That's atleast racional.

Quote from TFalke55 :

it is a spring, and if you remember the cartoons, springs can bounce... the spring fell of the BrawnGP with about 180kph... with such a speed it can keep on bouncing for a while.

Wasn't a maleable spring like you see on cartoons. They don't even exist that way, or atleast in Industrial Mechanics I haven't seen springs that loose.

I saw the video that shows the spring pulling out of Barrica's car just once, and don't remember if there was any car in that part that could carry with contact or wind the spring to make it fly again. And remember, the spring pulled out in the start of that "uphill" (edit: I GUESS!), and Massa got hit in the middle of it.

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Quote from tristancliffe :

The onboard data recording doesn't show (to us) brake pressure, merely brakes on or off. It's never shown how a driver uses the brakes, only when he does so.

He obviously hit the brake pedal, but caught some of the throttle with his foot, which pressed it a bit (but not 100%). He probably wasn't in a condition to allow him more accurate control of his feet.

As he hits the wall, and breaks the brake lines, the pressure falls away to nothing and the light goes off. The pedal will then go to the floor, allowing his foot (which I guess is pressing like mad because of the pain (and maybe brain injuries causing his leg to spasm a bit, but I hope not)) to fully press the throttle.

I've seen the pictures and videos, and I hope that he's okay soon. James Allen is saying (on twitter) not to pay attention to the Sky News story about him being in a life threatening condition, which I suppose is a good thing.

Quote from NotAnIllusion :

Brakes are shown only fully on or off, I think it was the previous GP they said that on the commentary.

Well, I can only remember once when I saw Michael Schumacher doing a "Punta-taco" (dunno if it applies, because the clutch was on Steering Wheel) and that only a part of the brakes was pressed, I'm almost sure.

And NotAnIllusion, infortunately the race narrator in Brazil is such a d... He only says bull...

Jack, I noticed that too, but I'm not sure that he pressed the brakes. I guess is something like a electronic control, or with the impact, the brain (lol) ordered him to press brake, w/e, just Massa and/or Ferrari know that right now.

The strange about the brakes is that it comes to 0% to 100% instantly, that makes me think that it was not pressed by driver, and the throttle wasn't pressed fully too like brake was.

Quote from DeKo :

http://img.mtv3.fi/mn_kuvat/mt ... kilpailut/2009/755343.jpg

Ouch. Dont look if you are squemish.

The most sad thing is the despair on his face. That's really bad... :sorry:

Soon Ferrari will publish their official situation and declarations. Hope that good news come with it.

According to the brazilian TV, that is covering what's going with Massa, Luca Badoer will race in his place. Like Intrepid said, he's on a surgery now to remove a part of a bone from his eye and work on the concussion.

I'm not a Massa fan, but good luck for him, get better fast. ^^