Quote from Luke.S :

whats elementary schoo? and fugly is a cross between two words. One of my mates went to brandshatch once and he videoed it and i thought silverstones facilitys looked better.

I'm not sure I agree with Not Sure.

Quote from Luke.S :

it does? lol i know an F1 grid has 21 cars theres about. I peosonally think silverstone is the best facilitys of a track i've ever been too. It's the only one And i think the plans for the new pit garage is fugly.

Does your mother know you spell like that? Surely you have at least graduated from elementary school and have basic spelling and grammar skills.

The current F1 field has 22 cars. 11 teams x 2 cars each = 22.

If you've only personally been to one F1 circuit, you really aren't in any position to judge Silverstone's infrastructure relative to other F1 venues.

Quote from detail :

Spa track lost the GP, because the revenue can't cover all the expenses.

Huh? As far as I'm aware Spa has a contract to host the Belgian GP for a few more years at least. They just finished a huge renovation of the pits/paddock complex and a resurfacing of the circuit as well. Why would they spend all that money if they're going to lose the race?

As far as Silverstone goes, I honestly care more about the reprofiling of the circuit itself than the new pits/paddock complex. Hopefully they'll put Club back to the way it was before 1991. If necessary I'm sure they can increase the runoff rather than emasculating a formerly-great corner. And I hope they get rid off the Luffield complex mess at the end of the lap too, because it spoils the flow of what is mostly a very fast flowing track. Sector 1 is great.

Open up the exit of Stowe, get rid of the Vale left-hander to fix Club, and turn the Luffield complex into a single fast left-hander leading to Woodcote. Those changes would put Silverstone right up there with Spa and Suzuka.

Quote from niall09 :

There is no such word as "aren't"

What are you talking about? "Aren't" is a word. It's a contraction of "are not". It's in the dictionary; it's a word.

Sound mods, new textures, stuff like that are just fine. The server won't notice them and you won't be kicked.

It doesn't seem very timely at all. I won't buy it until I see some concrete evidence.

Yes, in most cars. A few cars like the BF1, FO8, FOX, XRR and FXR have auto-cut on upshift and thus do not require lifting.

Please try to keep small questions like this in one thread. You already started your help thread; put all your questions in that one.

The .zip file finishes downloading about .1 of a second after it begins. There's no data in it.

Is the server overloaded?

EDIT: Nevermind, found it elsewhere.

Last edited by Lateralus, Tue 4 Mar 2008, 19:32.

Quote from samjh :

Where do you find it?

It's between T3 and T4 at FE Green. After the chicane at the start of the lap, there's a short straight and a fairly tight left-hander, then another left-hander. This bit is between these two lefts.

Quote from Luke.S :

lol and now for the mid race show. Drifting at 300mph btw racer y your 2 posts away from 1000 posts congrats you officially have no life lol.

:rolleyes: He has less than half the number of posts per day than you do.

I'd agree that it isn't cheating per se, but .1 is signficant when trying for a WR, especially on a short circuit like AS2.

They probably just finished watching The Fast And The Furious. Hopefully the driver sustained severe testicular trauma, thereby rendering him unable to add his Stupid to the gene pool.

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_8401030

Quote :

Speeding teens survive plunge off cliff
By Joey Bunch
The Denver Post

Three 16-year-olds were injured when their sedan flipped on a sharp curve and tumbled into a ravine off U.S. 36 in Boulder County this afternoon.
The driver was attempting a drag-racing maneuver called a drift, according to the Colorado State Patrol. A drift involves a fast-moving driver slamming on his brake and skidding his car sideways around a sharp curve.
In this case, the driver went over the guard rail backwards and flipped two and half times down a 200-foot embankment.
"He apparently didn't do it very well," Trooper Gilbert Mares said of the driver's attempted drift.
All three teens were wearing seat belts, but the driver was airlifted to St. Anthony's Hospital in Denver with serious injuries.
His two passengers were taken by ambulance to Longmont United Hospital with minor to moderate injuries, Mares aid.
Though the case is still under investigation, the driver will likely be charged with reckless driving "at a minimum," Mares said.

Trooper Mares is clearly a genius. I can't believe the CSP hasn't promoted him for his crack investigative skills.

Quote from samjh :

Rosberg has put on record that he is going to stick by Williams.

I think he meant years from now, when both Rosberg's (end of 2009) and Massa's (end of 2010) contracts will have expired.

Quote from samjh :

My gut feeling is that Vettel will eventually replace either Heidfeld or Kubica at BMW, probably Heidfeld.

Well the way things are going currently it'll be Kubica. Heidfeld usually outperformed his teammate in 2007. Nick's really quite underrated, IMO. I think he's sort of overlooked because he's quiet and unobjectionable. He just does his job without complaining or stirring up trouble.

That said, I hope Kubica steps it up this year because I want him to do well too.

HLVC should have invalidated the lap because he was facing backwards on the circuit. If he had just stayed wide on entry to get a bit of extra room, that would have been fine. It is normal for drivers starting a qualifying lap to take a different line through the final corner in order to gain a bit of extra speed.

Quote from JO53PHS :

The moral of the story is

Don't tell people what's what if you don't even know what it is yourself.

Well, in my defense:

Quote :

Trillion = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (one million million million) - increasingly rare meaning in English language

So he was technically correct, while I was practically correct. So I'd say we tied. If anyone objects, pistols at dawn.

Hmm, interesting. I did not know that.

Quote from Woz :

Or a billion has very different meanings between US and UK, US is 1000 million while UK is 1 million million.

Um, no. That isn't true at all. A thousand million = one billion. A million million = one trillion. This is the case everywhere, except for a few silly places which don't use a base 10 number system.

Just a small suggestion:

In the upper-right corner near the # of laps and current position, it would be nice to have listed the current fastest lap of the race and the name of the driver who set it. Currently the only way to know this information is to constantly watch the chat for the announcement, which is obviously less than ideal.

Of course, it should be optional for the people who don't want more stuff on their screen.

Last edited by Lateralus, Fri 29 Feb 2008, 23:00.

Quote from Woz :

I take it you mean 180F (87C) as it is not possible to boil water to 180C.

This has frighteningly little to do with traction control, but this statement is incorrect. It's very possible to heat liquid water up to and past 180C, but only at very high pressures. This is the principle behind pressure cookers - the superheated liquid cooks food more quickly because it's much hotter than 100C.

Quote from Dennis93 :

what does that to do with search?

Oh! Oh! I know!

Nothing at all.

Quote from eXSsnl :

You guys are lovely, I hope to race with you all once. I really do!

Indeed they are. They're all correct, whereas you are completely wrong.

Even easier than starting a new thread is just typing the damn word into a search box.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teamspeak

Quote from atlantian :

castrol GTX in the engine and mix in clutch fluid into your gas tank when you next refill...

Never do this.

The only ones who do this are the same type of people who spray WD-40 on themselves because of joint pain, or who claim they were abducted and probed by Martian flying saucers.

Morons, in other words.

Quote from STROBE :

the first years of the 7-Up green cars and the early years in B&H colours were cool.

Totally. The '97 Jordan with the snake theme and the '98 and '99 with the hornet were some of coolest paint jobs I've ever seen on an F1 car.