Germany believed in their tactics, their shape, their manager and their team mates.

Brazil believed in Neymar.

It's not a tickling competition. It was a tough fight but at stages you get put in a position where you have to decide to back out or crash. That's what happened to Vettel.

The crying on the raqdio was quite amusing but it was just heat of the battle stuff which they were both laughing about afterwards.

I thought Tim Howard was exceptional

It's more to do with driving style, how Vettel hit the sweet spot with the blown exhaust and how now he has struggled to change now the cars are fundamentally different. Ricciardo drove a car with much less downforce than Vettel last year and he had no preconception about what a front running car can do. Vettel was also extremely good at handling the fragile Pirellis, but they have gone more coservative now and that advantage has also been curtailed.

I think he'll figure it out. There's no question he's a top class peddler.

Agreed - looks fine. Got a lot more to worry about at the apex than slightly jagged curves!

Misleading headline, spin, extrapolation of evidence to meet the author's agenda.

Check. Check. Check.

I'm looking forward to reading Racer X's expose of his own post.

Vettel has been with Red Bull for ages, but the cars are so different I would argue that such experience is less valuable - Ricciardo is right on the money.

Raikkonen's dead funny though, so results don't matter.

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While I believe that setups are useless without a driver able to handle it, it is a massive violation of trust and sporting behaviour to do so, so on principle, setups should be secured in such a way that it keeps the sharing system simple, yet breaks the ability to read them.

I think I've heard an alleged part of the reason setup stealing has become such a problem is the length of time since a patch that changed the memory values or whatever so those coders have had time to develop these apps.

No matter what, this issue needs to be resolved or it will really kill leagues. It has harmed the team-based events, as teams can use stint replays to get setups and examine strategies. It kills public practice since you can also get replays from there. That public practice used to be vital to keeping series interest up and helping new teams get some help and see what they might have to do for driving lines etc.

Good points, as always. I do recall that in the good old days when I was racing in leagues of friends (like OWRL), practice servers would be busy but we shared setups. That has dropped away so little happens publically online, but in some ways this is also due to the obsession with GT endurance racing, as it becomes a team setup rather than a personal one, which makes it more difficult to share.

On the other hand, in real racing teams will examine TV footage, sound analysis, speed data etc to get lots of info on what other teams are doing. Maybe that goes too far in LFS now?

Quote from undertaker00 :

Thats it for him on this WC.
Stunishing player, but like human he is totaly shit.

Not that it should be any mitigation whatsoever. You can forgive burping the national anthem (or whatever Gazza did) if it is a great player, but this puts a third step over the line.

Time for Victim FC to get their Suarez shirts out again

The Raikkonen - Alonso gap is significant

Woo Hoo!

Epic on GPL.

A lot will depend on how Williams treats its tyres. Given the warm up issues the undercut might not work for Rosberg so he will probably have to get past on track.

Quote from Mustafur :

Manual ERS would be horrible imo, its a big chunk of the lap at available power it would be a huge mind **** getting used to it.

It's not supposed to be easy

Plus the extra wear on the clutch, the extra time taken, the confusion by people having to find a grid slot with no previous reference.

Just keep cutting the aero and upping the power. Remove car to pit live telemetry except for safety related engine sensor stuff. Oh, and make all the ERS power delivery manual, like KERS.

More interested in the progress report rather than the patch - will appreciate the work done more when I get my hands on a Rift

Depends on the car, but from tests I did I found some fuel still used. My 330d did around 600mpg downhill off throttle.

i did a back to back with my current car on the same slope. In gear it did 98mpg, coasting was 85mpg.

Coasting has an advantage of not having engine braking, so you can go faster and further without pressing the throttle. Whether that translates to lower overall mog would depend on the slope, speed and whatnot.

Quote from Mustangman759 :

U S A! still p'd about Landon though

Me too! He was very popular at Everton during his loan spells.

He's signed a contract. If he wants to leave but City say no then he should still provide the club with £300,000 worth of effort, ability and attitude every week. If he doesn't and agitates for a move, gets his agent to run his mouth off and disrupt the squad then most clubs in the world would have to face financial reality and sell him on.

City aren't in financial reality and it would do the game good for player / agent power to be reined in every now and then as at the end of the day whether it comes via the TV companies, gate receipts or sponsors it is our money. The fans deserve a little more respect.

GP2 is usually the best actual racing of the F1 weekend.

Regarding Coletti, they interviewed Button after qualifying and he mentioned how you can pull moves at Monaco, but if you do then eventually it ends in disaster and that's what happened to Coletti. Shame because he was driving well, but you always have to rely on the other driver at Monaco

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So you mean that chiptunning seriously will lower the lifespan of the engine? It's a car I want to drive a lot, and hopefully will have til it dies (it's economically and I like it) (and I though 300 000+ km was/is a good range for a car) :/

Look after it and it will look after you. The clutch / flywheel is probably the component under most additional stress.

One thing all turbodiesel drivers should do, chipped or not, is to let the car idle for 30s to 60s before you switch off at the end of a journey (let the turbo cool) and for the love of God do not rev the engine then switch it off.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

I'm with Fordman. Don't get the Ring, never have.

It's the right turns, isn't it?

Quote from Hyperactive :

Nordschleife is just so fun to drive. I drove it first in gpl 16 years ago and it was fun then and still is.

It's a good placeholder until the full IOM TT Course is finished in GPL (still being worked on - last update was April) and then converted.

Quote from sinbad :

Yeah nice one. Well done.

Thanks.

Quote from sinbad :

Why would he say that if there's no truth at all to it?

That would be called lying. The world is not made of chocolate drops and candy canes.

Quote from The Very End :

Yeah the services will be as before, once every year to make sure everything is allright :]

But speaking of the 1.6L engine which now currently produces 116HP, is it withing reasonable margins "safe" to increase it as much as up to 150? (There seems to be even higher but Im not going to even botter about that, I don't want to ruin me car). The car is pretty new, from 2011 and I bought it in feb. Done around 20 000km's so far.

Lastly, on these regular services, wouldn't they find the chip, and then hand my ass over to the incuranse company? Or will they never check this? From what I'v understood it is close to impossible to be caught for tuning, at least here in Norway.

If you plug a box in, then simply remove it prior to a service or just after a crash . If the software is rewritten then I can only comment on my experience which is that BMW drove my car so knew it was there but couldn't find it.