Scawen is remarkably patient with the community, from what I have seen of his posts. Most of us are returning the favour.
Might be DTM or endurance for Buemi, but I can see JA continuing with HRT now it is the Spanish national team.
We're not ex-GPL people - we are GPL people! There is still an active community and plenty of leagues. Crucially, there is also somehow a very well organised mod system. With no formal basis, there are "official" 65, 66 and 69 mods, a GT mod and all sorts.
Would it burn quickly enough though to rev at 10,000rpm?
Cylinders would end up caramelised quite quickly too.
Cylinders would end up caramelised quite quickly too.
By the way, for everyone who enjoyed the original post, this is required reading:
www.halfbakery.com
www.halfbakery.com
I had my 330d remapped and the gains were significant. I could match a remapped 330i (not much gain from that as it is normally aspirated); and we were racing - down to the UK Kart Meet 
Had a good chat with the guy that did it, both before and during. He said there were a couple of reasons why the map is not ultimately powerful out of the box:
a) Differentiation. The 325d, 330d and 335d have the same basic engine but with some different parts. Despite this, manufacturers know what they want the engine to produce for each flavour and the map helps them to do that
b) Lowest common denominator. All 330ds are the same spec across Europe, so they have to work safely across different countries with varying qualities of fuel. Also, not everyone looks after their cars properly (servicing, warm up, cool down etc) so some margin is built in for that. For example, not everyone will let their turbo diesels idle for a short while before switching off, thus allowing the turbo to cool a little.
As for the original post; it could work, provided that on the way back to the engine the exhaust gases ran through a refrigerated greenhouse, but power to weight might be compromised.
Had a good chat with the guy that did it, both before and during. He said there were a couple of reasons why the map is not ultimately powerful out of the box:
a) Differentiation. The 325d, 330d and 335d have the same basic engine but with some different parts. Despite this, manufacturers know what they want the engine to produce for each flavour and the map helps them to do that
b) Lowest common denominator. All 330ds are the same spec across Europe, so they have to work safely across different countries with varying qualities of fuel. Also, not everyone looks after their cars properly (servicing, warm up, cool down etc) so some margin is built in for that. For example, not everyone will let their turbo diesels idle for a short while before switching off, thus allowing the turbo to cool a little.
As for the original post; it could work, provided that on the way back to the engine the exhaust gases ran through a refrigerated greenhouse, but power to weight might be compromised.
Also, any of these people who won't give money to Murdoch on "moral" grounds are hypocrites if they drink Coca Cola, or wear trainers, or buy goods and services from any number of multinational corporations that are cash rich, but morally bankrupt.
It will no doubt find it's way onto the Sky internet player, which is available to subscribers and works quite well as the quality is scaleable.
You could add Brundle to that list. Smashed his ankles to pieces in his first year, which up to that point had been pretty stellar considering the car he was driving.
If you want to conspire a result secretly, so even the drivers are unaware, then you would fake a problem at the last stop. They had a good 15 second gap they could have dropped him into. Webber has a 10-12 second lead. Job done.
Lauda was up and around quite quickly and back in the car within 6 weeks. Robert will, depending on how bad the nerve damage was, have to relearn how to use his hand. It's not a relevant comparison. Neither is Massa though - that was a head injury.
Quite apart from that, he has not done any training apart from physiotherapthy for nearly a year and much of that time has been spent in hospital. It will take months to get back into good enough shape to do serious F1 driving, by which time he could be nearly 2 years out of the car. I think he only did one test on Pirelli and the tyres have evolved a great deal since then.
He has a long way to go. I very much doubt he would walk into a Red Bull, McLaren or Ferrari straight away.
Quite apart from that, he has not done any training apart from physiotherapthy for nearly a year and much of that time has been spent in hospital. It will take months to get back into good enough shape to do serious F1 driving, by which time he could be nearly 2 years out of the car. I think he only did one test on Pirelli and the tyres have evolved a great deal since then.
He has a long way to go. I very much doubt he would walk into a Red Bull, McLaren or Ferrari straight away.
Don't encourage him.
So, if he was only slower than Webber until he was overtaken, how did he finish 16.9 seconds behind? Wormhole perhaps?
You're quite clearly tying yourself up in knots with this conspiracy theory. I'm sure you'll keep going though.
Um....
Sky do a tremendous job of their sports coverage. There's nothing wrong with the BBC coverage right now, but if they don't want to do it then Sky is the only other broadcaster who can do it properly.
I see Brundle has moved for more money. Who wouldn't? Makes the BBC/Sky choice when they are both live pretty simple.
I see Brundle has moved for more money. Who wouldn't? Makes the BBC/Sky choice when they are both live pretty simple.
So you saw the gearbox after the race. What was the oil level in it?
Probably cheaper to just download and arcade emulator and find a version Super Sprint.
Fuel loads? Tyre choice? Test programme? Time of day the laps were set?
Can't draw any meaningful conclusions from those times.
Can't draw any meaningful conclusions from those times.
Racing incident. Both could have done more to avoid it. At first glance I thought it was clearly Massa'a fault, but the in car convinced me it was more 50-50.
Dull race. I got up early and watched the Senna movie on Blu ray (recent birthday present) to get all fired up and then not much happened.
One problem we have these days is that the cars are a bit easy to drive. If they had way more power than grip then it would be more difficult to knock out the metronomic lap times that you get these days. There's too much that is easy flat for the front runners so a 4 second gap becomes unassailable.
Dull race. I got up early and watched the Senna movie on Blu ray (recent birthday present) to get all fired up and then not much happened.
One problem we have these days is that the cars are a bit easy to drive. If they had way more power than grip then it would be more difficult to knock out the metronomic lap times that you get these days. There's too much that is easy flat for the front runners so a 4 second gap becomes unassailable.
Prost wasn't punished for turning in on Senna in 1990. He knew exactly where Senna was because he turned for an apex 20 yards before the corner!
It's just so inconsistent!
It's just so inconsistent!
Probably also worth pointing out that the kerbs are not on the track. The limits of the track are defined by the two white lines and the kerbs are beyond those.
There was plenty of track to the left he could have used. They have to have something there, or the drivers will take more liberties. Hitting walls, tyre barriers and even gravel traps also cause a fair bit of damage, but they all have their place.
He's admitted he was at fault and accepted the penalty. He'll start 4th to 6th on the grid. It's really not a massive deal.
It doesn't matter why they are waving. Yellow doesn't mean "take your own view of the situation and if you feel it is safe then crank open DRS anyway". Drivers cannot use their own judgment in these situations.
Between the marshal post and the green light is a yellow zone, regardless of lights on the dashboard, radio comms and so on.
If F1 2011 is anything to go by then Tristan is dead right - there's nothing even remotely similar.
It's all to do with gradient and camber. If you laid out Eau Rouge completely flat then it would look the same as it does now on a map but would be totally different to drive.
It's all to do with gradient and camber. If you laid out Eau Rouge completely flat then it would look the same as it does now on a map but would be totally different to drive.
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