any working steams out there?

any updates?

Primoz is quick!

Trouble for Second Pugeot!!!!

First Pugeot Troubles!! GEAR SHIFT...

:eek: i dunno. Going to check now.

This may be Pugeot's year. 3 cars with dominating pace. Audi's been not up to their top tier self, see 12hr seabring...

Quote from BenjiMC :

i have a feeling the audis were on race setup. Or at least sand baging. The pescis wont be able to keep up, the only petrol car with the pace to beat the diesels at all is the lola aston martin.

Ditto. I believe their Q-times will emulate their race times a lot closer than the Pug.

Could be a great fight in the works!

Sounds like "Where the Streets Have No Name" to me...

Not my favorite of your videos but nicely done none the less!

Where do you drive? Because I need to stay far away from there.

Nice video

Edit - Excellent video!

Last edited by srdsprinter, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 23:38.

Ricardo Zonta's Pug (number 2 in the standings) has backed into a wall. Apparently a bit of work to fix for Saturday.

Session stopped. (for an Aston?)

Last edited by srdsprinter, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 18:45.

F430 crashed, backed into a wall. Not sure if that's the cause of delay of which you speak.

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

Came across the video on youtube just now, I didn't know the story so I thought it was a fatal accident, it looked like he hit the concrete wall roof first, and the last time I saw one like that was in the IRL and the guy died instantly.

Greg Moore I believe you were thinking of. He raced in CART still.

Hats off to Pug for building a tank of a car.


On topic,

At least the production vette C6 ZO6 now has a 7.0 liter. When they first allowed it (to fight the Viper's 8ltr V10), the production C5 only had a 6.0, making it rediculous.

Quote from Danke :

I'll try not to turn this into the improvement suggestions thread...

I agree on the ovals, Stu. One of the complaints voiced in this thread about iracing content is that it's targeted at the American market. I don't mind.

If LFS were to add more "American-ized" content (a few short ovals, maybe a stock car), I probably wouldn't even consider iracing.

This thread has survived some extended OT's, so one more will be fine.

Lol, I agree, I'm not complaining about the targeting at all, and more oval content would only make LFS more popular.

That said, without some big gaps in the current content offering filled(think LMP, MR GTR, Classics, tracks, interiors, etc), I'd be disappointed if LFS went after that market.

I'm the same way, if it weren't for the off-line grip, Legends car, and the SR8 Radical, I would have no desire for iracing either.

If it weren't for just a few unique features, i think the appeal of iracing (to our LFS audience) would be very limited.

Marc Gene's practice crash, earlier this moth:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BKaFSygXMT8

Top first into concrete... :eek:

Quote from Fischfix :

true, drafting at the moment has not much to do what drafting should be like. (aero-push/drag) also what i miss, and this is imo the most important thing: when you have a damaged front wing, you should not be able to go the same speed as someone without damage. and of course there are tons of improvements to suggest and make/implement into the game before we really need another BIG oval.
but what could be implemented with the actual "aero model" (which is none) would be a short-track like bristol or martinsville as drafting does not play a big role there if at all... but... thats off topic and suggested a quadrizillion times and flamed a quadrizillion times

Agreed, Legends cars, and late-models a la irental are not as aero dependant as typical Stock cars.

Legends cars are race on ovals 1/4mile up to maybe 3/4miles (also in road racing events including 25 hours of thunderhill). Late models probably rarely go onto oval tracks 1 mile or more. Either way, aero is important, but there is not the kind of drafting or speeds we see on our huge oval.

So yes, similar cars would be a nice addition, but it would need to include some small ovals. And as hard as content is to come by here at LFS, ovals and oval cars would start a huge poo-storm within the community (although Scawen's recent language packs have been atempts to broaden the market appeal of LFS :eek: )

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So what truely justifies the price of iracing? What is communications with the dev team like? How will the progress take place (ie seperate test patch testers?).

The initial content does seem really low to justify the pricing.

That and never having ownership/control of the software really is making it hard for me to warm up to it.

Update:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/68220

Turn 1 aerial crash from a Lola Mazda. Driver is OK.

Apparently this happend after spinning off, not from aerodynamics like the Pug or the Mercedes before it.

Quote :

Noda's Kruse-run Lola-Mazda spun through the fast first corner, and the car took off when it hit the gravel while sideways.

Mulsanne Corner technical piece on why the cars are flipping sideways now:
http://www.mulsannescorner.com/newsmay08.html

Today as well??

Marc Gene had a nasty crash in the Pug earlier this month.

Pug's are flying! 2 3:18's now... Very Very Quick.

Thanks for the linkage!

Quote from ajp71 :

Is the Radical running this year a privately run SR8? Not to be confused with the SR9 works car which is a conventional prototype rather than a nominally road legal, steel spaceframe bike (derived) engined sports racing car like the SR8.

No the Radical is still the SR9 afaik. They did fairly well last year I believe, but le mans is tough regardless of the class.

So the big one is this weekend. Should be very exciting to see all the new hardware out there. Anybody going? Anybody excited?

I'm going out on a limb and say Audi pull out the 8th win in a row (if you include the "Bentley"). That said, Peugot looks stronger than ever.

My biggest hope is that the race isn't marred by a questionable extended SC period under rain again.

Anyone see Marc Gene's lurid crash of his 908? Scary stuff, glad he's alright.

[aside] Also, this sadly marks another year where LFS has no LMP style car, one would be a welcome addition. Radical now has had a car in Le Mans for 2 years(?), and with the existing ties with iRental and the SR8, it's not too far fetched to imagine irental will get it soon too. Hopefully we will get one sooner or later for some awesome multi-class endurance racing.[/aside]

Last edited by srdsprinter, Sun 15 Jun 2008, 13:55.

Except lots of professional racers are obligated to promote their own game (i.e. I doubt EA/NASCAR is going to allow Dale Earnhardt Jr to promote irental even if he does fully support it).

The more I think about it, the more off-putting it is that I would have to wait weeks or months (and 15-30 extra $s) to race the SR8 Radical if I ever subscribed.

Lastly, I really do have to agree with one of Monty's points, it's 2008 (halfway through no less). Sim racing (as a whole) does not have terribly much to show from the past 3 years. irental promises to bring at least a little of what's been missing for very long, and Hopefully LFS will match and again surpass what irental offers.

Lol... if Hamilton hadn't been the luckiest boy in Monaco last race this would have been 2 very very disappointing showings in a row.

Ah well.

Grats to BMW, that would have been a very neat race if it weren't for Hamilton.

It seems that the irregular pricing scheme and race structure is a godsendt in terms of LFS fans.

Based off the early reviews, if iracing had a traditional pricing structure, it would be a very easy sell.

Awesome

I'd love to see it.