Quote from nilo :

First, you have to buy a Windows licence (or be a pirate).
Then you have to install and maintain it on your system. It does not only cost several GB of harddisk space, most mac users don't want or even are not able to install/use Windows properly.

A copy of XP costs <£50, as a Mac user I'd rather pay that than push the price up for everyone else even by a penny. They don't need the Mac parts, so why should they pay?

For someone who has any sort of computer skill (which most LFS players will have) installing and maintaining Windows is extremely easy. Apple provides complete instructions for the installation process and partitioning using Boot Camp Utility is a breeze. As for maintaining, download free AV, firewall and spyware utilities and run them every month or so.

I think when you say "most mac users are not able to install/use Windows" what you really mean is "I'm too stupid to work it out and I own a Mac, so that must mean everyone else is stupid too". Any user of any OS can use a "foreign" OS perfectly well after about a day.

Also as others have said, LFS is very CPU intensive (with a full grid of AI cars even I see my fps drop below 40 on my iMac). Having something else eating the CPU is not a good idea. Also, there would be compatability issues with controllers and FFB under OS X.

I love Safari in OS X (haven't tried the new beta) but the windows version is pretty bad. It won't work with my mouse's back button so I chucked it almost instantly.

GPS is fairly accurate, often more so than some cars. As someone else said, a car can over-read by up to 10% (though they are not allowed to under-read). It can be know how bad your speedo can be, a friend of mine has an oldish car that reads 80 at 70.

Quote from duke_toaster :

I would have red flagged it, it should have been red flagged, if there is a major accident it should be red flagged.

That crash, while spectacular, was not as major as it seemed. A red flag is used when it's going to take a considerable amount of time to prepare the track for racing again, such as a multi-car crash (think Spa a few years ago).

The FIA often uses a pace car where a red flag should be used, but I think under today's circumstances a pace car was fair.

Also, red light is red light. It doesn't matter if it should have been green or not, the fact is they drove through a red light while others waited and were rightly punished.

It was a great race, today has been a good motorsports day.

That was much more than straight line speed. Stoner was holding Rossi well in the corners. As others said, Rossi's brakes into the first corner out-did Stoner's speed on the main straight. Stoner was much faster through left-hand corners and was consistently getting the power on smoother and earlier.

To say that it was purely due to Ducati being fast is nonsense, Stoner is a great racer and it's time to admit that Rossi isn't quite the god he has been.

No surprise from Hamilton, but good job anyway.

Biggest surprises of the race for me were the Super Aguri drivers. Davidson making it up to 3rd (!) and Sato overtaking Alonso on the brakes into the last chicane. It reminded me of the few races for BAR where Sato was very fast, before he became an unreliable mess.

Bremgarten was dangerous back then, it'll be dangerous now.

Apparently it has only passed through one level of parliament, and in the past the "upper house" has voted down similar proposals.

I'd be glad to see racing back in Switzerland, there are so many Swiss teams, it's a bit unfair they never get to race at home.

Quote from Bob Smith :

I've been dying to race LRFs properly for two years and you're bored already?

Actually, yes. I like to change the classes I race every day. Some days I like TBO, some days I like LRF, some days (shock horror) I want to play on the oval (but I usually get bored after one race).

The LRF and TBO classes are a lot of fun, but it was the same car/track combos for the entire lot.

Jesus, that's not the point!

The point is I fancied a quick race in a different car, and I wondered if anyone else did.

Fair enough, what about a larger track?

FO8 at AS Historic

Are you, like me, tired of testing in the TBO and LRF classes? I love them, but I've been aching for something faster.

I found an empty server with BF1 at SO Long, I'd love it if people could join, so I can witness the carnage of 32 BF1s.

That Celica looks amazing.

These are all ending in a few hours, get them while they're hot and fresh!

http://video.google.com/videop ... 004234752212560&hl=en

I will have you.

There's a reason the headphones don't need to go that low...

That's not a drift, that's a mistake.

Drifting should be banned at the 'Ring. It is at most (if not all) track days in this country. It's too dangerous on an open track like that.

Yes, the shipping price is the same for Holland, but it could take up to 14 days to deliver. For £3 it could be there in 3 days.

Rich, not running out of money, but more would always be nice.

I've just put all my games up on eBay, starting at £1. I don't really play games much anymore, so they were just sitting unused.

The games are:

PC:
Unreal 2
Battlefield Vietnam
Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 3
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Command & Conquer: Generals
Call of Duty
Worms 2 and Worms Armageddon
Delta Force Xtreme
Rise of Nations
GT Legends

Mac:
Halo: Combat Evolved

All my items

Grado headphones are amazing, get whichever pair you can afford and you won't be disappointed, even the cheapest ones are fantastic.

Sony and Sennheiser are overrated, as with most well-known brands (BOSE especially)

I posted a thread quite a while ago with some ideas for HUD improvements and it met with warm reception, I still think some of my ideas should be implemented in some way.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=10485

Get rid of the exhaust, put a single (and smaller) one on.
Get rid of the nitrous.
Get rid of the tail lights.
Get rid of the underglow.
Put a roll cage in.
Put some real track shocks/springs in instead of whatever has been used to lower it.
Put some racing harnesses in.
Get new wheels/tyres.

Et voila, you have a track day car.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/h ... t/formula_one/6642777.stm

I think it's good news, street races often make for interesting racing and fewer new tracks made by a certain Mr Tilke is always a good thing.

I have a feeling you'd be very disappointed if we actually got an RX 7, because it wouldn't be the amazing supercar FnF has told you it is. It would be just like driving the XRT.

http://cp_www.tripod.com/rotary/images/pg23_14b.jpg A real RX 7.

Quote from XRRoy :

My favorite BTCC cars were the RS 500 Sierra's. For example this vid of the 88 season with Soper and Rouse: http://www.rsownersclub.co.uk/video/btcc.wmv

That's what I want. Awesome cars, great racing and proper circuits (Brands Hatch GP, Indy is way too small for these cars)

They didn't steal a car, another Gumballer picked them up.

I'd like to see the Gumball banned, but I fear it would be difficult to ban it without also banning "proper" road rallies like the World Cup Rally.