I watched a bit of the "Little League World Series" last summer (yes, that's 14 year olds on TV playing baseball....) and don't really understand the rules - it was quite confusing. I think the one thing the Americans do very well (as I think they said on TG last week) is the Americans are very good at making boring sports exciting - I went to a basketball game a couple of years ago and it was amazing.

Cannot correctly capitalise Portuguese.

Quote from Yuri Laszlo :

Well, those things usually give a higher temperature given they have been exposed to the sun for several hours, but it's not very far from truth! It hasn't rained in a week here, but the humidity levels are very high. Parts of the state had official readings of 42ºC in the past days.

Ouch (literal meaning of smiley there )

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Meanwhile in my town...
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NOT FAHRENHEIT :bananadea

Really? That would be one of the hottest non-desert temperatures ever recorded on earth, that's all

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Ted Kravitz on Twitter: "Just spoke to A Newey, post box slot is primarily for cooling: driver and other parts. He denies it gives RB8 any aero benefit. Newey also says might be exhaust controversy if someone races in Oz with a different interpretation and that he wants to stay at Red Bull.."

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Is a fat Scot

I think the on-track advertising has been suggested before and agreed upon that it's in principle a good idea, but there are just worries about mass downloads every time they change. As for car skins, I think quite a few teams/drivers are indeed sponsored by some companies

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For me that's freezing - I don't do cold weather Wanna swap Phil?!

Quote from JO53PHS :

Even as someone who lives in the same country as you, I can tell you that is not a particularly cold weather forecast. Sunday and Monday are borderline T-shirt weather

Yes but you are strange.

Still no snow and getting pretty cold here

Quote from Becky Rose :

If you are not specifying the technology that may be used the solution is not to limit aerodynamics, instead, you must increase the available mechanical grip. This in turn raises cornering speeds which results in the need for smaller engines which in turn improves the mechanical grip to aerodynamic grip ratio.

In short, fatter tyres and smaller engines and problem solved.

But only lateral grip, not longitudinal. Longer braking zones and lots of wheelspin = better

Quote from Gunn :

You may, but I don't. It's a word I use myself daily in fact, but it is universally socially unacceptable whereas the other word is clearly not. It is certainly not a word suitable for a all ages racing forum. And that's all the debate you will get out of me.

Fair enough

I completely agree on the c front if not necessarily on the s front. We'll just agree to disagree. Now back to pictures

Quote from Gunn :

Whenever I see an image posted with the "C" word in it I'm going to impose a six month ban the member who posted it. I don't do infractions, so don't push your luck.

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**seriously, why post this shit? (image removed by moderator)

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1) When I post a message on this forum, I will do my very best to write in a polite manner and not use foul language and / or insult an individual or group of people.

Don't mean to be a complete boring arse (maybe I get very cranky when I'm tired) but isn't that a bit hypocritical? I'd class the s word in the same category as the c word.

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I always thought it was because the drivers thought it was a mickey-mouse circuit.

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And they're keeping Valencia? WHY!

I'm assuming it's perhaps as obvious to you as it is to me, but $$$.

French GP to alternate with Belgium

Quote from ACCAkut :

Apparently they go another route of green racing, by use of a Hydrogen Rotary. Which in my eyes is realistic since its their masterpeice atm, and they were developing in that direction already (the Furai was basicely a Courage LMP1 chassis with a mindboggling hull)

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I'm not knocking people running current servers but does anyone else think that newer add-on control systems are distracting from an earlier sim ethos?
As Beano said in an earlier post why would you want to disappear to the pits just because of a spin? I was on a server a while back, was knocked into a spin/slide and couldn't believe I ended up spectated and being told off. Sim racing should be about total concentration on the track, clipping points, awareness of cars around you and the such , some of these servers now you can't see the bloody track because of a sea of glaring irrelevant text. Just wondering if LFS has lost it's more mature/older racers because of things like this.

We have a winner.

Airio is brilliant in the fact it can do so many things to help admins run servers, it has so many different functions that you can do whatever you want with it. Sadly several people seem to think that this means their server has to have EVERYTHING Airio has to offer and so it goes about spamming people screens with various things, e.g. "You made contact with JO53PHS [UFB] @ 5,5 - YES I KNOW THAT, I CAN SEE.

I think I got into LFS just as CTRA was in its heyday and I thought it was brilliant. I don't think anything quite on the same scale is possible at the moment (what with LFS "dying") but LFS is craving for a max-2 class (probably TBO/STD) non-tiered server with a half-decent reporting system.

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