I would love to see Ant. Davidson back in F1. He is probably one of the most underrated drivers in the past few years.

I am a mac user. But I would say no to a mac version of LFS simply because given the already slow rate of development, I don't want the dev spend precious time on converting LFS for mac.

A very good video of Vettel's defending/overtaking style. He has a tendency to squeeze other drivers to his right. (remind me of a certain seven times champion)

http://vimeo.com/13647047

I think Kobayashi has a lot of promise. He drove brilliantly in the last couple of race and his overtaking/defending skills is pretty good.

I would love to see him in a top team.

I am not saying Vettel shouldn't be in F1, but he really needs to learn how to "RACE".

People tend to forget this is Vettel's fourth season in F1 already. Hamilton only started in 10 more GP than Vettel, but look at how mature Hamilton has become compared to Vettel.

I really liked (notice the past tense) Vettel when he was in STR. He drove brilliantly like a future champion. But when he does have a car that is capable of winning the championship, he drives like a complete idiot, ruining others' race in the process. I think the past two years has shown that Vettel can handle the pressure, and unless he can improve in that area he will never be a world champion.

Vettel just proved he can't overtake AGAIN. Knocked Liuzzi's front wing off.

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You thought after Turkey Vettel would have learnt from his mistakes. It is a very fine line between being aggressive and being an idiot.

Quote from PaulC2K :

Yeah, i realised the issue the next day or something, i just couldnt quite work out what i was supposed to be looking out for at the time.

I havent kept up with things in here, but has anyone mentioned the F1 sites technical report on the Red Bull wing done almost immediately after Hungary?

http://www.formula1.com/news/technical/2010/835/780.html
Surely that last bit is absolute nonsense? The same weekend the FIA came out with the following:
So the FIA have now change the rules to allow them to test upto 100kg, the F1 site claims RB have had their wings tested at 200kg and it cleared, and yet everyone can see with their own eyes how much that front wing bows under load.
Surely the F1 site is talking out of its rectum? I dont see why they'd test it at 4x the limit, or how the hell it'd pass either. If it was and did, then whats the point of the F1 going to 100kg when clearly 200kg isnt enough to highlight what the RB wing is doing?? It all seems odd.

http://scarbsf1.wordpress.com/ ... %93-red-bulls-front-wing/
This guy got some very good articles on F1 aero. He writes for the magazine Race Car engineering.

http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php ... item.php?fes_art_id=41748

Quote :

"This time, good old Niki has missed out on a fine opportunity to keep his mouth shut"

I used to like Ferrari, but as this season progresses, I am starting to hate that team. Ferrari used to dominate F1, but now they have become just a bunch of crying babies. They are always complaining when they aren't winning, and it seems they can't take any criticism.

Ferrari has criticised the new teams numerous times, complaining they shouldn't be in F1 (which in my opinion is totally bulls**t. The new teams are doing an incredible job, to be only 2-3s off the pace, when they didn't even have a car a year ago). Although the new teams are lacking in performance, at least they try their best every week and keep their mouths shut. Ferrari has shown how unsportsman-like they are this season with all their bitching and team orders. Frankly it's just embarrassing to see a historic name to be acting like this. I really hope they get penalised for their team order.

Quote from PaulC2K :

I have to admit im struggling to understand where the issue stems from, the images are fairly clear and appear to be quite obvious in their differences where other circumstances (such as fuel load, braking stage, camera angle... all which have been used to dismiss the initial photos) wouldnt create the extremes shown in those photos.

But what i dont get is that the Red Bull & Ferrari wings are mounted in a significantly lower position to begin with, if you look at the center of the front wing, and compare its distance to the floor, and do the same for the endplates, that difference between teams is probably undetectable from photos that size. So this 'flex' issue surely cant be detectable on them.
The significant difference between the clearance isnt from flex, its the fact that the RBR & SF wing in its entirety is positioned a couple of inches lower than on the McLaren & Mercedes. That instantly makes the images a little misleading at first glance, and harder to see any irregularity between them when trying to account for that difference.

Obviously the location the wings are at is above board, so what is it about these photos that shows something which has Mclaren baffled by how they're achieving such results? All im seeing is wings mounted lower which makes them closer to the track, and that has sod all to do with flex. The endplates seem to be the focus, but are they refering to the amount of bow across the whole wing being unusually large under high speed, or something completely different? The most significant difference in the photos is how high the whole wing is mounted, and for images so small nothing seems to be too obvious.

I genuinely cant quite grasp which specific item the fuss is about, theres obviously something there as Whitmarsh & Lowe arent newbies and they seem stumpt to how its done in a legal capacity.

The problem is not the mounting of their front wing, otherwise they would fail the scrutineering straight away. The current rule states the front wing must not bend over XXmm under a XXkg (I am not sure of the exact figures) to make sure it has enough clearance. However when the cars are going 150mph the front wings are taking a much higher load than they were subjected to during scrutineering (downforce is far greater than FIA's wing bending test). Most team produce their wing as stiff as possible to make sure they pass the test. But what Red Bull and Ferrari are making their wing just strong enough to pass the test, but weak enough for it to bend when the wing is producing a great amount of downforce. The result is a wing that wouldn't fail scrutineering, yet still bends under high speed which gives them a significant performance advantage.

Jonathan Legard is REALLY annoying. he seriously won't shut the heck up. and he is always talking rubbish and state the obvious. AND he never let Martin speaks.

this stream is great.
http://atdhe.net/19765/watch-24-hours-of-le-mans

Hows the Acura going?

They are now thinking about stopping the leak with nuke.

http://thenextweb.com/shareabl ... irs-youre-gonna-want-one/


this article is on digg.

He is WORSE than James. At least James had something interesting to say. Jonathan was playing "state the obvious".

I am re-watching the race.

GOSH JONATHAN IS REALLY ANNOYING! the guy just wont shut up.

sighh. I am running out of patient

Hamilton vs Schumi.

I have been waiting since 2007 for this!

Jonathan LEGARD: WEBBER COMING ON THE INSIDE OF KOVALAIEN.

SHUT UP! Hekki is like 6s slower per lap than the red bulls. This guy is so much worst than James Allen. He is always talking about crap and Martin never get a chance to speak as a result. I hate him.

Bernie PLEASE install sprinklers on all the race tracks.

Whoa this is an AWESOME race. what an exciting start.

Can't believe Alonso made such a rookie mistake.

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