Quote from Intrepid :

I wonder where he 'learnt' to use huge snap understeer in the wet, and use the outside line to gain optimum grip????

He explain that on an interview for the Spanish TV.

When he was young racing on karts almost every race were on wet (always raining at Asturias, north of Spain), and he got confortable with the wet track

It's nice to see how his line on the wet it's so different to the other drivers. He uses to make a longer straight braking line and then take the turn very closed understeering to get the wheel returning soon to the centre and on gas again

He said too that the optimum line on dry has much less grip when wet cause of the rubber

Quote from amp88 :

He did go round the outside later on in the end here (however...Schumacher was on the Bridgestone wets which were shockingly bad, so it's not a true indication by any means).

Yeah! that's true... anyway that few minutes are just nice to see, so Hungaroring can sometimes (I mean rain :tilt give nice moments

Quote from thisnameistaken :

The Hungarian GP is alright when it rains, but even when it doesn't at least they have the best looking girls at that race.

Hungaroring 2006, Alonso just kiking over the wet track

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=F5C6Xy2SeVM

He almost overtake Schumacher by the outside, that was an incredible race

RAC, although I love it
MRT, almost imposible to recover from a fail
FO8, but it's a intensive course on right foot control

Quote from xaotik :

Balki Bartokomous: Now we are so happy, we do the Dance of Joy!

:ices_rofl

Quote from Fabri91 :

Switzerland?

I have another doubt

When I created my driver profile I had chosen two features from a list (such as "Consistent driver", "mechanical sympathy", etc...)

Where can I see which of those I've chosen? I don't remember it
How those features work with the driving style setup?

Anyway... some advice on qualy strategies?

Quote from Stang70Fastback :

John Stewart: "The latest news to come out of the Middle East: PENIS THEFT! ... PENIS THEFT!"

Congo Middle East?
Have that John Stewart ever seen a map?

If pee means receiving a blowjob then yeah... I got that shiver at least twice a day

How can I know when will be the next race? Since dates are ficticious I don't know where to find the real date for the next session

Quote from J@tko :

OMG - ive just thought of my Fantasy F1 team:

Fisichella: 8th
Button: No idea
Toyota (chassis and oil): 6th and ?
Super Aguri: 10th

That's pretty good

Bourdais out, Barrichelo out
I'm facing a big epic fail this week :irked:

Quote from spiderbait90 :

Did honda take their cars on a visit to the zoo during the break, and hit some elephants... cos that nose is the WORST nose i have seen since the Walrus thing williams did.

RIDE THE WALRUS!!!!

I love that one

I also think that Alonso was lighter than the others in the Q3 , anyway it's good to see if he can scare Ferrari and McLaren (also BMW) a little .

Alonso himself after the qualy told that his strategy it's not the best (I suppose from that he's low fuel). He also told that the car were understeering a lot.

Just wondering if the improvements of the Renault and the Alonso return has something in common

I've read some of the info... I have to find out how to set up the car and driver correctly for races, but I'll try to do my best

Quote from tristancliffe :

Erm, no. My MX-5 is a road car. I have a much better vehicle for racing (in my opinion).

Yup, I know... only asking if you will race your MX-5 too
Anyway, have luck and report us another victory!

Quote from tristancliffe :

plus Nippon Challenge (MX-5 vs RX-7)

Sounds great!

Will you race that too?

Quote from Mustafur :

Don't take anything from practise times.

Only a little excuse to give the thread a little bump

1 Kimi Raikkonen 1 Ferrari Ferrari Bridgestone 00:01'20''649
2 Felipe Massa 2 Ferrari Ferrari Bridgestone 00:01'20''699 00'00''050
3 Lewis Hamilton 22 McLaren Mercedes Bridgestone 00:01'21''192 00'00''543
4 Robert Kubica 4 BMW-Sauber BMW Bridgestone 00:01'21''568 00'00''919
5 Heikki Kovalainen 23 McLaren Mercedes Bridgestone 00:01'21''758 00'01''109
6 Fernando Alonso 5 Renault Renault Bridgestone 00:01'21''933 00'01''284
7 Nelson Piquet Jr 6 Renault Renault Bridgestone 00:01'21''936 00'01''287
8 David Coulthard 9 Red Bull Renault Bridgestone 00:01'22''118 00'01''469
9 Nick Heidfeld 3 BMW-Sauber BMW Bridgestone 00:01'22''278 00'01''629
10 Jenson Button 16 Honda Honda Bridgestone 00:01'22''632 00'01''983
11 Timo Glock 12 Toyota Toyota Bridgestone 00:01'23''002 00'02''353
12 Nico Rosberg 6 Williams Toyota Bridgestone 00:01'23''003 00'02''354
13 Mark Webber 10 Red Bull Renault Bridgestone 00:01'23''015 00'02''366
14 Jarno Trulli 11 Toyota Toyota Bridgestone 00:01'23''141 00'02''492
15 Kazuki Nakajima 8 Williams Toyota Bridgestone 00:01'23''153 00'02''504
16 Adrian Sutil 20 Force India Ferrari Bridgestone 00:01'23''156 00'02''507
17 Giancarlo Fisichella 21 Force India Ferrari Bridgestone 00:01'23''196 00'02''547
18 Rubens Barrichello 17 Honda Honda Bridgestone 00:01'23''353 00'02''704
19 Sebastien Bourdais 14 Toro Rosso Ferrari Bridgestone 00:01'23''952 00'03''303
20 Sebastian Vettel 15 Toro Rosso Ferrari Bridgestone 00:01'24''082 00'03''433
21 Takuma Sato 18 Super Aguri Honda Bridgestone 00:01'24''278 00'03''629
22 Anthony Davidson 19 Super Aguri Honda Bridgestone 00:01'25''068 00'04''419



It seems Renault got a improvement in their performance, also great time for Coulthard

Quote from flymike91 :

You're being disrespectful of all American people.

Here you have a free geographic class :

U.S.
America

Quote from Kid222 :

We're running A1 GP game and we need at least 5 more people. So feel free to join.
CLICK
Or enter the number "26362" into the box. The game password is "liveforspeed".

I'm in!

Although I have no idea what is this about

Quote from tristancliffe :

That's just silly modern thinking. If safety of the soldiers was that important, why have soldiers? Some people are going to have to learn that soldiers have volunteered their lives for the cause. By all means try and reduce wrecklessness on the part of the mission commander, and try not to send them out with defective equipment (which is a different topic), but they are there to fight to the death if needs be.

Then what's the difference between an army you describe and a bunch of kamikazes or immolating-terrorist?
One thing is soldiers volunteering their lives (in the meaning they know they'll risk them for sure) and another (very different) is that governments can then use those lives whatever they like to .

Quote from tristancliffe :

The military only really gets involved in environmental disasters because governments haven't put in place proper measures to deal with them.

Agree, but, you know, sometimes shit happens and then someone have to fix things

Quote from tristancliffe :

The fact that untrained (in environmental terms) squaddies are better at sorting out this problem is a rather sad reflection of the abilities of the so called environemental organisations who waste so much energy bleating on about why we shouldn't use tissues, and then hide under a desk when something important happens.

In such situations (big disasters) everyone is helpful, don't mind if medic, soldier, student, whatever... But (and now think as a military chief) you have a whole team of people trained at obeying (that's their primary training if you ask me). Won't you use it in case of emergency at your country if they are doing nothing specific?

Quote from tristancliffe :

Yes. That's what they sign up for - to be used by the powers that be in a military capacity, either to police dangerous regions, fight invaders, or defend our country.

They don't sign up to have an easy life, to make their own decisions about what is right or wrong, or to be a bit cool. Well, some sign up to be cool, but don't last long.

What else are a countries military for if it isn't being used to fight wars, regimes etc?

Don't mess my words

Do you really think that soldiers are just pawns in a chess table?
Only there to die for a bigger cause?

They're not there to die. Indeed the safety of the soldiers must be a primary requirement in every mission. If that's compromised then the commander (or whatever, never learned the military grades :tilt will face a judgement.

By the way, military forces can make a lot of productive work in case of natural disasters, and, sadly, here at Spain we know it very well for the Prestige petrolship disaster .

Quote from wien :

Mastering may not the the whole truth, but this isn't it either. I don't want to make this thread into another one of "those", but any digital signal with sufficient sampling frequency (and dynamic range) is indistinguishable from the original analogue signal. Feel free to argue that CDs have insufficient sampling frequency, but I won't agree with you.

Even and odd order harmonics

Don't really know if that's applicable at CD's vs Vinyl, but it really makes a difference betwen tube guitar amplifiers (analog) and solid state amplifiers (digital)

Quote from NitroNitrous :

You would like it or not, but soldiers are for that

Do you really think that soldiers are just pawns in a chess table?
Only there to die for a bigger cause?

I don't think that to die will be a soldier work. Obviously is one of the risks, but anyway... what I wanted to point is that U.S. are leting his soldiers die for the liberation of a country that (probably) will not be liberated.. so killing them for nothing.... That, or maybe there are some powerful motivations to keep them there...

So would never the U.S. government kill 5.000 of our people?

Get rid of those old and sh¡tty 22 pence and buy yourself a shiny and brand new 5 pence