Quote from mr grady :

perhaps im being a tad cynical here, but if scott speed had been doing what lewis has been doing, on, and off track, i wonder if you would have posted that?

Yes, I would have. It's got absolutely nothing to do with nationality.

I'm pretty neutral when it comes to the racers themselves. I only really dislike those that have bad media attitudes. Otherwise, I see it as a competition, and i'm glad to see ANYBODY succeed. Sure, there are some racers I favor over others, but I don't sit there and hope anybody drops out because I don't like them.

Lewis seems like a nice guy, but I think he's being a bit too welcome to all this media attention he's receiving. That's all.

I think people also dislike him (not me, but PEOPLE) because he's currently number one for the championship, and has only won TWO races.

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

Sorry but I really cannot understand how you don't see 9 podiums in a rookie season as not special. Not only that but the fact he is leading the double world champion who is driving the exact same car. I'm wondering what Hamilton has to do to prove himself to some people. Even if he wins the title this year you will still be hearing 'oh but FA is still adapting to the team and the tyres' well Lewis is adapting to all those things, plus F1. GP2 isnt that similar to F1.

I think that people dislike Lewis mainly because he's started in an A class car. I know that's primarily the reason I dislike him.

I also dislike him because of all the media attention he's receiving, and while I do realize he can't really control them, he could be a bit more humble about it i'd say. They portray him as the second coming of Senna, and he really seems to just soak it all up and play the part.

He's a great sportsman when it comes to the tarmac, but he needs to lose this mental media stigma he's been carrying.

I thought 'twas a good example of the excitement Formula One is still capable of.

Was half expecting Massa to make it back to the pole

Great race imo. Wasn't very tense on the track, but in the pits, it was killer!

Yeah, same here.

I'm colour blind green, so I often times have a hard time differentiating which blip is mine in the mass of orange yellow and black dots. I don't have trouble if i'm say out in the open, but my vision deficiency gets considerably worse when there's a bundle of different colours all clumped together in one spot on the track.

I say make it something that's a less common colour deficiency, like blue, or even maybe make your car a rectangle, while everybody else's is a triangle.

Quote from amp88 :

BBC weather report for the area has no rain forecast, sadly.

I'm thinking that the wind may very well make up for it though.

There were quite a few people running rather wide in quite a few places, even after two days of practice.

Quote from Primoz :

Cehck the topic title? he wants this to be the top speed test track.

-1 for me, top speed tracks are useless.

I thought he meant that the local name for the strip was "the top speed".

My mistake :\

Quote from bbman :

That would defeat the sense of putting it in in the first place... Or do you voluntarily handicap yourself in other things as well?

Why would there being more smoke be a handicap?

It's purely eye candy.

I was thinking, it'd be really useful if when you receive an LFS world message, you get an in game message announcing to you that you have an unread message.

Would make communicating via LFS World much more feasible and useful.

Quote from deggis :

I guess WRC in Eurosport is as good as it gets...

Despite Finland being a real rally country, we have only 30 min per day coverage - on free national channels, with pay-tv you get more (still extremely crappy coverage though). Don't have cable so no Eurosport for me...

I think it's more about the whole sport being extremely boring and lacking the competition than the actual coverage. Though I hate the way FIA tries to make WRC more mainstream and sexy than rally actually is.

My main issue is how eurosport seems to set up cameras in certain corners, and then they'll just show one camera at a time. I really wish they'd follow the individual DRIVERS.

Since the WRC is in their summer intercession, I figured i'd spend some time trying to find some better WRC coverage than the shit that Eurosport puts out.

It feels like when I watch a rally on eurosport, i'm just watching the highlights. They don't actually follow the individual cars through the stage, they follow ALL the cars through the stage at ONCE.

I'm trying to find something where they'll show you a brief overview of each stage BEFORE the stage is run, then they'll follow the individual cars, one by one, through the stage.

So they'd do something like give a few minutes to describe the stage and its turns, then say Loeb was up. They'd show video of ONLY Loeb on the stage.

Once he's finished, they'd show Marcus and ONLY Marcus run the stage, etc etc.

I realize that this would be hard to do, since there's usually more than one cars on the stage at once, but I figure it wouldn't be too difficult to do if the video was a little less than live. Like, once Loeb finishes, show all the video of Marcus, even though some of it is dated (IE was shot while loeb was still on the stage).

Anybody know of anywhere I could find coverage like this? I just really feel that the current WRC coverage on Eurosport is really lacking. I'd love to see somebody give WRC a proper hour of airtime, just like any other racing series.

Make the cybercafe computers only capable of joining lan games, then put the server on the same network as the cybercafe computers, but give ONLY the server access to the internet.

And I have a feeling you just want LFS working for her ASAP so you can get a tad closer to this lady friend of yours:shhh:

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I've been having a bit of trouble recovering from having two tires slip into the grass. I see people do it just fine, but for me, it seems like tire + grass = spin.

What I try to do is just snap the throttle shut, and slowly try to steer back onto the track (assuming the track is clear), with copious amounts of countersteer to combat spinnage.

I'm wondering, how do you guys do it?

Quote from scania :

I wants this track in LFS

Drag strip methinks.

Quote from squidhead :

if it would be ther 30 seconds that would be realistic, yes...but it would slow down your PC, and make the track a big cloud...how do you expect to drive if somebody drifted and left a cloud in a chicane for example?

It'd obviously be a client side setting...

Wouldn't make much sense to have that be a server option, now would it :P??

Quote from hiroshima guy :

What do they do to the computer?Put the antidote here too!

It deletes everything, there is no "antidote".

Quote from morcs :

30 mph into a stopped vehicle seemed like a pretty good recreation of a typical motorbike crash to me :|

Not that fast, I agree, but I thought it'd be good enough for practice.

If you have no experience with electronics, then don't bother.

While i'm no racing expert, I saw the move to be, while a little on the aggressive and desperate side, perfectly fine. Sure, he probably could have and should have waited till a proper overtaking spot, instead of diving down the inside of a chicane, and it was fairly obvious that he did it out of desperation rather than "omg i'm a better racer so i'll use my supreme racing skill to pass", but it happened, nick went off, no collision, get over it :\

Watching a torrent I downloaded, and I JUST saw that crash. Haven't finished the race yet, so i'm hoping Vizo comes out of it ok. Still isn't moving as far as I can see.

But holy shit, this whole race is just one big mess. The Zuber Glock starting crash, Vizo's spectacular crash, and then a pitcrewman gets run over?

:P

EDIT: Oops, DP.

Quote from deggis :

I'm more curious that how internet advertising can still work so well, especially concerning that nowadays every semi-nerd stage user has ad-blockers and stuff.

You can't believe how many retards there are in Mid Western America who will click every single one of those "free ipod" adverts on youtube....

Quote from theirishnoob :

google makes it mone y by selling whats known simple as keywords


you buy them in the google auction ( ee.g if your site is a sim racing site you buy the rights to use sim and racing on there search engine ) you psaythem what you per click on your sites name , ofcourse now they give away mainly free advertising for you because the morepopular it gets the more mone yit Also makes from adverts

Um... I've never heard that, at all...

I think i've got it. What I tried today, was instead of trying to "do" it, I tried to just "notice" it when I turned, and I noticed that no matter how hard I tried NOT to use it when I turned, it just came second nature.

I did a few little tests too, I drove at some pretty good speed (maybe 30 mph) into the back of a parked van, and tried to use accentuate my turn with an excessive amount of countersteering. I've noticed that if you TRY to be excessive with it, it becomes allot easier to stably take sharp turns.

Feeling allot more confident in my street riding now, thanks guys

Quote from Gentlefoot :

I don't think countersteering is as important on light bikes with narrow tyres like mopeds and dirtbikes. Get on a 180-200KG sportsbike and the thing will hardly turn with all that weight and big wide tyres unless you get your weight positioned and countersteer.

I'll try to get better on my bike then so that when I have the money to upgrade to a sportsbike or a dualsport, I won't be left staring down the face of an irate learning curve.

Quote from Leprekaun :

Well m8, have to say, don't ever just "assume" everything is ok. I hope you get well but make it a lesson so that you check that everything is ok and there is no risk of danger.

Yeah, it really was a stupid mistake of me to make. Really kicking myself about it.

Well, I would be if I could :P

I was working on my dirtbike today, was inside of the airbox trying to troubleshoot some stuff, turned it on to see how it reved open carb, and well...

Stupid me forgot that the bike was in gear, and holding the clutch while starting is just second nature for me. So, clutch held, I started the bike, gave it some revs to see how the top end sounded, SLAMMED THE CLUTCH SHUT WHILE REVVING IT (because I thought it was in neutral), and the bike SHOOTS out while i'm still holding the bars, I drop it and hope the engine stalls, and well, murphy's law kicks in, and the tire spins up and rips the skin off of my foot, and does so till my friend pulls the key.

My foot's stopped hurting, and is all dressed up, but no LFS for me now . It hurts to bend my foot, as the skin ripped off right at the joint. Don't you just LOVE road rash?

Hopefully this heals soon, so I can get to practicing for the next Gentlefoot Cup race. This'll be my second one missed too

Wouldn't have been so bad if my bike had street tires :ashamed:

EDIT: Btw, wasn't sitting on the bike when this happened, which is why I lost control of it.

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