Stealing my thunder!

Quote from RasmusL :

Monocoque front with spaceframe rear seems to be the standard across Formula Students today. When MRT was made, spaceframe all the way

Materials aren't as tightly regulated though, some cars last year had a carbon fibre front.

Anyway I'm no artist, probably won't get anything good out of trying XD.

Quite a lot of cars have a carbon front, and the big teams go for a full carbon monocoque, but they have considerably more money/support than us. Graz estimate the worth of their car as a few hundred thousand Euros, and we spend <£30k. Considering we beat them in 2009 (though neither of us finished last year) I don't think we're doing too bad.

Last edited by spookthehamster, Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:11.

Pretty sure the MRT5 in LFS is a spaceframe car, our car is an aluminium honeycomb monocoque at the front with a spaceframe rear end. Hopefully it'll drive a bit nicer than the MRT too!

We're trying to come up with a livery for our new Formula Student car, and we're having a bit of a colouring in competition here at uni.

For a bit of fun I wondered what's the best anyone here can do, I know how much some of you love skinning cars in LFS.

So head over to the link in my sig and grab one of the renders of our new car from the gallery, fire up Photoshop and post the results! Our colours are black/red/white, so please stick to that. I've attached a few of our quick ideas so far.

Last edited by spookthehamster, Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:20.

Never met a nicer "famous" person than Webber, so it has to be him. Always has the time of day for people and doesn't talk crap or make excuses when he messes up.

I only have IEMs, which are terrible at the gym because they fall out on the treadmill.

One of my friends has a pair of Koss Porta Pros. They sound, look and feel great.

Quote from BlueFlame :

It doesn't matter what it's made out of , the lack of thickness will mean it's gonna flap around, we saw the same thing in F1 when going over chicane kerbs. And you're telling me that THING on the Aston, isn't gonna flop around when it's joined ONLY by the bottom? Granted it's not as tall as I first thought.

You fail to understand my point because closed cockpit cars are FASTER. Fast meaning, top speed. And why you are talking about lift over the roof I have no idea, close cockpit cars are designed to gift downforce on the windscreen section (aswell as everywhere else that an open cockpit car generates downforce from).

Using your logic, Thrust SSC would be a good car if it was an open cockpit with a lower centre of gravity.

That "thing" you're talking about is at least a centimetre thick piece of carbon fibre/honeycomb. It also has a large aspect ratio. Even a few plies on either side would be enough to make it extremely stiff. You are never going to see that wobble in the wind. One reason it's there is to stop the cars from taking off when going sideways, it's got to support a huge amount of pressure.

Quote from TiJay :

They've been discontinued AFAIK. Think their replacement is the T4R or something...?

Spook: That's bloody gorgeous. Truly unique, is it (relatively!) reliable, or a bitch to live with?

It's not been so bad. I had a problem with the gearbox/clutch which I got ripped off on (I don't have the space to take a gearbox out at home) but otherwise it's fine... aside from a non-functioning passenger window and dash clock.

Gets about 30mpg on a motorway at 70-75, which is lower than it should have got new. Also it only has 75hp, but I honestly don't care as it's such a nice place to be.

The governing body of NASCAR has finally seen the light and announced a switch to fuel injection with McLaren ECUs in 2012. It's good to see them make at least a few changes to keep the cars relevant to current road technology.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/89436

I'm sure there will be a few jokes about the lack of technology in NASCAR, but before you make them: You're wrong. Carburettors may be old school, but the engines in NASCAR are operating at similar MEP values to those in F1. Yes, the cars may be completely detached from reality, and there are areas that could do with updating; but the level of engineering in aerodynamics and other areas is huge.

A few more photos of mine from a while ago.






Thankfully I missed the worst of the snow, but it wasn't too bad in it.

Quote from three_jump :

The Renault must have quite the heat shielding... I wonder if this is really a working system for hot races like Bahrain etc. Guess that was also the first thought the design engineer had so it's probably ok afterall

It gets bloody hot everywhere inside the engine cover of an F1 car, so they're used to dealing with heat. The only "cool" place is outside or in the cockpit, and even that can be 50+C.

Quote from Intrepid :

Perfectly expectable move by a broadcaster. WRC have to survive, and if someone offers them a deal, they would be stupid not to take it.

We don't have free to air broadcasting at all in the UK anyway, so any broadcasting costs the viewer money.

Of course everyone has to pay their TV license, but ESPN is another extra cost which isn't available to everyone.

If WRC want to survive, they shouldn't look for short term solutions (cash for this deal) for long term problems (declining viewers)

Source

Great, another step towards failure. If they want WRC to maintain its viewers and fans, it needs to be available for free.

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Have you got a bigger version of that bottom image?

http://twitpic.com/2zksqa

Someone's staying calm about the championship

Quote from tristancliffe :

Ah, you must have completed an R&D Test in a practice session before quitting.

Yep, how stupid of me...

Also annoying is that it doesn't have my name as an option, yet it does have options such as "Tiberius" and "McLovin"

Just went to continue my game, only to be told that my save file is corrupted.

Great.

Christ, you get through cars faster than I do. Reading that made me realise how crazy I must sound.

One thing I noticed which bothers me more than it should: In real life the RB6 has a separate display from the steering wheel, but in the game it's integrated within the wheel.

Surprised nobody had posted this (I think)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dm1PWu-tlQ

Radio is bloody annoying.

Quote from CSF :

Then pushed more after.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elyxIhMW_No

A video of what you're showing us out of context. Webber is at the right of the track long before Massa comes along. Schuey waited for Barichello to get close then pushed him over.

Quote from 5haz :

Good really to see manufacturer interest in WRC still, now bring back night stages...

Watch the IRC, night stages and the Monte Carlo.

Didn't take as many as normal, but some pictures from Le Mans are on my flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/maaaahtin/

Didn't take as many pictures as I normally do, but I put some of them up on my Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/maaaahtin/

Last year the weather was pretty good. I don't remember ever needing to put the waterproofs on.