Quote from thisnameistaken :

The only way I'm getting into a motorsport rag is if I put on a bikini and some lippy and sit on a pile of tyres.

I don't think a man in a dress would turn any heads at a sports event in the UK, let alone make it into a magazine.

However, if you were completely sober while doing it, that would be a story.

Those screenshots Kartracer posted are actually pretty damn nice. Well, except for the one with the radical amidst the astroturf.

Quote from ajp71 :

I could whip up a story about how a race proven class winning single seater team has been using LFS for driver training and car setup purposes (and so could other forum members) without actually being factually incorrect at all. (...)

Yeah, but at least we would all know that Tristan is a fanboy and would take his hymns of praise with a pinch of salt.

Woudn't that mean he just violated the NDA, though?

Quote from The Moose :

Just spent an interesting few days driving iRacing. The sim itself is good (though nothing insanely good like i was expecting)

Now, how exactly did you manage to try it out?

A maximum of 12 or 14 racers is an appalingly low number, I must say. Very disappointing.

Quote from Lotesdelere :

Yes that's what I think, the classic noob mistake that even the best F1 drivers can do.

Read my post again, I don't blame Sutil and I'm not saying it was Sutil's fault. It's obviously Raikkonen's fault but Sutil's late braking mistake might be an explanation of Raikkonen's fault.
Many huge accidents already happened here in the past. Cars are doing about 300 km/h before the braking point and there is no safe place where to go.

I get it. Just wasn't sure if you were wanting to say that Sutil braked too early and a little confused by the term "caused". I'd say the cause for Kimi's error was his driving and not Sutil's error.

But yes, judging by Kimi's overall performance on Sunday it's not entirely unlikely that he did indeed make a noobish mistake there.

Quote from Intrepid :

(...) when he clearly was the best driver out there on SUnday

Doesn't seem so clear to me, tbh.

Best drivers out there to me were Kubica, Webber, Vettel and Sutil.

Quote from Lotesdelere :

To me it looks like Sutil missed his braking point thus he was a bit too long for the corner. Raikkonen realized it too late and tried to compensate by braking harder but he lost it because of the bumps on the track at this place.

Attached screenshot is showing Sutil countersteering into the corner before being touched by Raikkonen.

Video of the accident:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E98DEXVK
MPEG2 PS Interlaced

Look closely at the video and you'll see Sutil's mistake.

Notice that I'm not saying it was Sutil's fault. But Sutil did a mistake which is, in my opinion, the cause of Raikkonen's mistake. This is very common in racing, you can even test that in LFS, if you take a corner a bit wide there are 80% of chances that the car just behind you is going to do the same thing. Most of the time people look at the car in front of them instead of looking at the track which is the only reference.

I don't get it. From the footage it looks as though Sutil was braking a little too late and thus got into the little drift at turn-in. Kimi lost it way before that and was sliding widly by the time Sutil counter steered and then, bam, hit him. So how could Sutil's error have caused Kimi's error? Or are you saying it was the classical noob-mistake of following the driver in front of him instead of driving "his" line and using "his" braking points? That would be entirely Kimi's fault then.

http://www.wige-iptv.com/cms/livecast/24h/live7-8.asx

Or this one. It should be a higher quality stream.

Problem with watching english commentary and german stream is the german commentary. Would be cool if they only had pure race sound and no commentary.

Not as far as I know.

Here's alink to the German stream, though (which has only been working on and off, so far, but should be alright tomorrow, when the race actually starts:

http://www.sportauto-online.de/24h-Rennen/video

It was a crash between an Opel Astra GTC (the second racecamp Astra #106, in case that means anything to you) and a BMW M3 CSL (#57). The Astra flipped over in that accident and both cars are probably totalled, or at least the Astra is. But apparantly both drivers are more or less uninjured. The Astra driver (Peter Pangert) was brought to the Hospital in Adenau for a check up, though.

Edit: Source.

A somehow boring qualifying. That format needs to be changed asap.

Very disappointed with Heidfeld again. He's probably on more fuel than Kubica as always, but it seems he just doesn't get along with the car this year.

Good job by Massa, Kovalainen, Webber and Trulli. And Vettel will hopefully finish a race for once.

Quote from spiderbait90 :

Well, 2 out of 4 werent his fault, although, chances are it would still have been 3/4 DNF's.

That's true. I didn't mean to say he's shite or anything, just that he's been incredibly unlucky so far.

Quote from BlakjeKaas :

Vettel on the other hand only finished one race.. =(

Actually, Vettel finished every single race -- just earlier than most everybody else.

Seriously, though, Vettel is the only driver, I think, who didn't finish one single race this eason. He had an accident in Australia, his hydraulics gave up in Malaysia, had an accident in Bahrain and one in Spain. Can't get much worse than that.

Seems quite obvious that Renault did improve the most of all teams, even if Alonso will pit earlier than everybody else. When asked why they have improved so much, Briatore said: "Because we didn't improve before."

It's definitely good to see Renault being up there, although we'll still have to wait how Alonso's strategy will work out.

I'm a little disappointed that Heidfeld is so slow. I hope he's on more fuel, but judging by what Theißen said, he's probably not. I wonder what his problem is. Kudos to Kubica, though. He seems to be the driver who has improved most over the last year.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Don't ask!

Is it crap?

The car is provided by the organiser, if I'm not mistaken.

Quote from J.B. :

MS 1991 Benetton results: 5, 6, 6, ret, ret
NP in the same races: 6, 5, 11, 7, 4

Looks like MS beat NP twice then.

Quote from Mustafur :

and who is likeable?

Well, I like different things about different drivers, but if I had to choose one, it would probably be Heidfeld overall. Also Vettel usually comes across as a nice person.

The problem is, that here in Germany, the media naturally focus on german drivers, so the broadcasting channel RTL usually only talks to Heidfeld, Rosberg, Vettel, Sutil and Glock. If it wasn't for this forum, I'd probably never have known about Coulthards refreshing bluntness for example. So, if I say Heidfeld and Vettel, that's basically only my choice out of the five Tschermenns. I don't know enough about all the others (except for Alonso, maybe, which probably has to do with the fact that he keeps exposing himself).

And yes, Scarlett Johansson is right up there with Heidfeld and Vettel. Except Vettel is better looking, but if Scarlett had more facial hair, she'd probably come in slightly in front of Nick.

Well, all the mid field teams have one quick experienced driver and one with virtually no experience -- except for Red Bull, of course, which has two old men. So the results are not surprising really.

We'll see how Glock, Nakajima and Piquet develop over the season, but I don't expect much of anyone of them, tbh. Maybe Glock will be a little better than the other two.

And if Schumi had been at least vaguely likeable I would have suffered much less from all the media hype back then...

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Those LH's hand gestures where really moronic, i respected the guy before, but now..
And "monkeys at the back", i've heard about that, that was really his official statement?

Well, to be fair, most drivers in F1 today are no different. Most of them are little kids in a grown-up body. It has probably to do with the fact that they have done nothing else besides racing since they were five years old. And I'd imagine it's really hard to grow up mentally if your constantly being told that you're the best driver of the world if you win -- and worth nothing if you lose. They're usually brought up to be ego-maniacs. Admittedly, some are able to hide it better than others.

Quote from lizardfolk :

But I agree with deggis. If Schumacher even has some remote interest in competing in another series, it'll definitely be either MotoGP or DTM.

DTM I seriously doubt. When Ralf was rumoured to start in DTM, Michael advised him not to do it, saying: "I believe that Ralf and I are not talented enough to be really fast in a DTM car. (...) You have to work just as hard in DTM as in Formula 1, but you have a car that doesn't progress and that you can't tune to your needs as exact as an F1 car."

To me that sounds as though he's not to keen on DTM.

MotoGP, I'm not so sure, but I doubt he'll really do it.