4 SONIA.

My wife.

For the moment, this is making me happy, my new car:

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Quote from minimax :

Can I run in the UFR for this race please

Yes. Please make sure to get some laps in before next week, please!

Quote from Scoop :

Ignore my post above i thought it was this weekend silly me i can defenetly race next weekend

Okie doke.

Sorry to see you go, Vain. You were a great contributor to the series, and your advice was always welcomed and considered. Hope to see you in a race or two in the future!

The video was confusing until it dawned on me, "oh...its about chavs!"

I have found a correlation; when somebody joins from the pits, you get the pit stutter if that person who joined is lagging. Like if you do the de-bug, you see their lag time is .025 or more. Or is it .25?

Yeah, I am working in 2048. Give me a day, since I am becoming too inebriated to properly do a skin today.

Oh, and Danny? Just call me Jay.

See what you think so far. Obviously I need to refine my lining up.

Okay. Well, let me give it a try.

Looks like an SCCA roster!

Could you provide the cow?

Oh yeah, old article. I think I have that issue of Sport Compact Car.

This is why I have a folder for every old .dds file.

Who else read the title and the thought "Please let it be Tom Cruise, PLEASE let it be Tom Cruise..." popped into their heads?

I know one thing, where the 323 (we in the States call it a Protege) lacks in horsepower, it makes up in the suspension. Take a look at the back suspension; it is really set up well.

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BTW, has anybody ever offered a cash prize for a LFS race?

Heh heh...just wait and watch me in the coming months...

Here is a good set for Fern Bay Rallcross long reverse, I gave this set to someone and they were getting 1:22's with it. For the short rallycross, set the final ratio to 4.700. and obviously flip the cambers around for the non reversed combos. What it really comes down to, is finding a rhythm on the rallycross tracks. Blackwood has a great rhythm to it. Also, rely less on brakes and get used to sliding to burn off speed.

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Anyways, mabey somebody could help me out. What exactly is the skidpad for? Is it like more slippery or somthing? I never understood the concept of it.

Quote from AndroidXP :

Simply to test cornering ability in a controlled environment

From some boffin:

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Skidpad is a circular race track with a 300 feet radius (For metric system places, they use 100m radius). The test driver drives the car around the skidpad and slowly increase the driving speed. He/she drives the car until the tires at the outer circle starts to slip/skid. At that point, the test driver obtains the maximum speed the car can travel in a 300 feet radius skidpad. By using this speed, the car magazine can deduce how many g's a car can pull. When a car is moving in a perfect circle, due to Newton's First Law, there must be a force acting perpendicular to the car's motion pointing away from the circle because of the inertia of an object to maintain a straight line movement. This perpendicular force is called the centripetal force and it is defined by mv2/r where r is the radius of the circle. Number of g's is recorded as v2/gr. It is originally defined as how many times of the earth gravity you can feel when a car is turning.
Here is a brief description of the physical phenomenon surrounding a skidpad test. Note that when a car is moving in a circle at a constant speed, the tires are rolling. The rolling action ensures that the tires are momentarily at rest. Thetires are subjected to static friction. However, as v increases, the centripetal force acting on the tires increases. When it exceeds the limiting friction of the car, the tires will be locked and no longer rolling. It will now begin to slip/skid towards the direction point away from the center of the circle. If you are slowly increasing the speed, you will find that you cannot maintain running in a 300 feet skidpad, your car must now turn in a curve that has a radius greater than 300 feet. At the point, when the test driver can't maintain the 300 feet radius circle, the speed is recorded and the number of g's is deduced.
An easy way of deducing limiting friction coefficient is to equate μlfmg and mv2/r. This will imply the limiting friction of your tires is actually equal to the number of g's your car can pull in a skidpad. For example, our Skyline pulls 0.94g on a 300 feet skidpad, so μlf is also 0.94.
The real number is higher than 0.94 (how much higher depends on how fast you are running the skidpad). This is because the car develops yaw angle (ie the angle between the direction of the chassis and the direction the car is traveling) while turning, so the tires loses grip.

If anything, the road tires have too much grip.

so, -1!

Eh, I am torn on that...so +.5

Like the picture...holy ancient Blackwood!

Why not? This would be perfect for leagues, so you could have a pace car for a timed period (let us ten minutes) and then either the pace car has to go to spectate or will be kicked to spectate after set period of time.

This way, you can a full grid without the one person being sh*tbirded, so to say.

A Corrado! Awesome!

Anyone else noticed these? They are all placed where you start to brake, where you say "oh ****!" and brake, where you start turn in, and where you should be at the end of a turn.

And I only noticed this at westhill....

Quote from JTbo :

jayhawk, true that place is where quite wild weather effects tend to happen and seems like those will be even wilder in future.

Eh, I do not feel like arguing about global warming, but this kind of weather is actually normal. What we have had for the past 5-6 years, at least in Wisconsin and Illinois, is low precipitation and above average temps. Just part of the cycle. Nature seems to balance itself out; in January we had above average temperatures, now we pay for it in February and March.

Now its looking more like Minnesota!

JTbo - In alot of the Midwest, we get heavy snowstorms from when the jetstream dips and bring cold air from Canada, then combined with warm, moist air from the Gulf Coast.