I tried the NTM and my opignon about iRacing didint change. I hate it, in iRacing I always feel like I have to battle with the car for it to stay on the road, I can't brake properly and I have the overall sence that many things are wrong. When I finally manage to be in the zone then there's the irating problem, no one races, everyone act as if they are scared of lossing irating points which makes the racing really boring and unnatural. LFS is still the best simulation out there, it's the only place where I can try to overtake someone and know that he/she won't do something stupid out of fear of a collision.

Quote from Mustafur :

I just wanted to test how far he was going to defend hes point.

I tend not to listen(or give any credit) to people who thinks villeneuve was not as fast as the top drivers xD

anyone know why heidfeld's car "exploded"?

a drifting is not a crime sticker..... in my days it was skateboarding is not a crime, funny how things evolve xD

look better yeah. Give them more money? nop, they might even loose some if they want to sign Webber again because if he finished second in the WDC he'd probably want a bigger contract.

Quote from Keling :

You don't need a NFS-HP style 600hp+ patrol car to pull over a driver who happened to cross the double yellow line by mistake. Even if the suspect does get crazy and want a hot run, 9 times out of 10 he/she doesn't know much about sporty driving. Performance is not important at all in most cases.

At $21500 you can buy a Impreza WRX. At $25000 (Impala's Price) 400hp Mustang V8 is available. But those cars won't help much in patrolling.

a 21500$ wrx?? in canada the 2.5i is 21000$, wrx is 38000$ and the STi is 41000$

Quote from Mustafur :

looking ahead to Canada, the race that fueled high degredation tyres happening in the first place.

I expect some drivers to purposely avoid qualifying to conserve tyre here.

i predict a 5 stopper a possibility.

Overtaking will be a ridiculous maximum, with a double DRS zone on areas that are quite easy to overtake without any Aids.

nah the weather here has been horrible since april, chances are it will either rain or it won't be too hot unlike last year xD

comment on the redbull video : don't you love idiots xD

glad I've miss the race, F1 is nothing but a joke this year, they introduce the DSR and bring back the kers to help overtaking but as soon as there is a contact the driver gets a penality, it's pure bs

I guess you are right whiskey, with one exception : ice --> abs does not give you any more control then non abs in any situation simply because there just not enough control/grip to begin with rendering pretty much everything useless (when you hit an ice pad and the tyres looses all their grip theres not much to do but wait until you they regain some)

bought my first car during last winter! an 01 civic with no abs (crappy brakes in general) and average winter tyres. Let me tell you that without abs I have way more control over braking/handling in snow/ice condition then I had in my mom's civic(with abs). Now that the snow is gone i've been able to check for a difference between abs and non abs on a dry road : pretty unexistant =/ --> about the same braking distance, I can brake in a curve in both cars without any problems. My opignion stays the same, abs is an useless piece of technology for anyone who really knows how to drive which, in quebec atleast, means... about 15% of the population .

P.S. ABS do work in reverse on a civic, I've tried it during last winter

Quote from Dennis93 :

For sure, but since when was right foot braking EVER anything he had to do? and H-shifter? afaik he has never driven a formula car with H-shifter, thus left foot braking.

Okay sure you need a great fitness condition to drive a formula 1 car at a competitive level i totally agree, but you have paddle shift a clutch that kicks in automatically, where as in Nascar, you have to use the clutch for upshift/downshift/getting out of the pits, and the power band in a nascar is something that you should never ever joke around with, these cars will do full on burn outs in 4th gear if you dare to, and there is no downforce so the faster you go the lesser grip you have.

And since the car has the same ammount of torgue and weight as the atlantic cruiser ships i believe Lewis is gonna have a harder time than Tony, no doubt.

Lewis is one of my favourite drivers in formula 1, even my dad used to be mechanic on his Go-Kart back in the days.
No need to tell me what's what

As a recall(atleast on road course) most of the nascar drivers don't use the clutch to downshift, they just rev match. I've even seem some of them use left foot braking.

Imo it's gonna be a challenge for both drivers but I think the adaptation will be alot harder for Stewart. I base my opignon of this on a video I saw some time ago about button and a supercar v8 driver that swapped car, while Button was fast almost instantly, it took a while for the v8 driver to adapt(ok it was on a road course but still)

OMG pure awesomeness, best race in the last 10 years, godlike performance from Webber!

LOL at the replay of petrov's car breaking, gotta love how you can hear the car slowly die then completly stop xD

LOL @ Webber --> that's what you get for not using option tyres to "compensate" the kers problems --> He could not aim for the pole without the kers why not use a set of option tyres to atleast pass Q1.

Quote from Kova. :

It's the hub holder who fail on both Renault.

For Petrov, it totally exploded.
But for Heidfeld, it exploded on the interior, and a fragment became stuck on brake disc.

Edit : After checking on french RF1 forum, it comes from a faulty suspension arm, from a batch of pieces never used, which caused it.

Thx for the detailed information!

0.1 between Vettel and Hamilton, tomorrow race is promising

looks more like a tyre explosion then a suspension failure to me --> you can see some smoke coming out of the side of the tyre, then is blows and then the suspension "collapse"

edit : just saw heidfeld video could it be brake problems for the renault cars?

Last edited by Kazu2799, Sat, 9 Apr 2011 06:07.

Quote from Mustafur :

Call me a hater, but the V10s sounded better(more revs).

True the BMW V10 engine was awesome but imagine a really high reving V12(which I guess can be achieved nowadays) how awesome would that sound

Quote from Hyperactive :

Words of wisdom from mr E himself:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/89976

Never been fan of the new engines either, for various reasons.

So people watch F1 for Ferrari and engine sound.... then why the hell did they ban the V12 engines

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... mynxw&feature=related --> now thats noise!

Last edited by Kazu2799, Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:39.

Quote from Tomhah :

Only because you're all poor doesnt mean iRacing is worse.
Its better than lfs.

And yeah, I just said that. New tyre-physics coming to iRacing soon as well. Oh, and it actually comes.

sure sure rich boy enjoy crappy racing in a crappy racing game

i'm with turkey on that one. iRacing sucks, badly.
I can't help to feel that there is something wrong when racing on iracing especially on the braking (and that's something i'm really good at in LFS).

The sr rating is totally retarded : Yay I got a 4x because some retard rear ended me!! or better yet I slightly rubbed the guy infront of me (the kind of hit that wouldn't even scratch the paint) and I get a 4x because the netcode is broken. But the very worst part of the sr rating is that it kills the race because you always have it in the back of your mind --> you can't go a little beyond your limit in the risk of going in the grass and loosing point even if you don't loose control.

Another thing about iracing is the general level of skill. Not speed wise but racing wise. People on iracing have absolutly no idea how to react when they either overtake or get overtaken, I can't count the number of time some retard I was overtaking ended up slamming me when I was on the inside, it feels like there's aboslutly no race ethics.

Last edited by Kazu2799, Wed, 2 Feb 2011 04:56.

Quote from Timo1992 :

Webber and Vettel make Alonso World Champion.

If Alonso finishes first or second hes de champion, if he finishes third and Webber doesn't win Alonso is the champion. It's still far from being over. Go Alonso, go Vettel!

hamilton with new tyres, webber and vettel close to eachother, thats gonna be interesting (too bad F1 is too retarded to use nascar's safety car rules, theres like 4 cars between 2nd and 3rd...)

wet setup or not, imo it's a question going all out with nothing to loose versus playing the championship. With that said, Hulkenberg did an amazing job, sadly he has no chance of winning tomorrow if it's a dry race (except something really bad happens in the back xD)

Omg pure awesomeness by hulkenberg!!!