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.

It means nothing as they can hint at what the data shows safe in the knowledge that it will never be published and is probably open to interpretation anyway.

Quote from Kristi :

I meant, turn the VSync on with 60hz and limit FPS to 55.

That's what I have and it's fine.

0.7.0 is terrific, the Karrussell seems quite bumpy now, doesn't feel quite right in the 312T, but that's three seconds out of 7 min so I'll forgive that.

I'd avoid plug in boxes. You cannot assume that the map in your car is currently the most powerful it can handle as cars are tuned for many reasons, such as providing sufficient safety margin to the lowest common denominator (eg quality of fuel, quality and regularity of servicing etc) and also to help differentiate between models (E46 Beemers from 323 to 335 used to all have 3L with only minor hardware differences except for the 335). My experience:

I had a 330d with 184hp. Met a chap called Colin in a carpark in Swindon. He plugged in diagnostics and tested the engine. He sent the results to his engineer in Germany whilst we went for a cup of tea. He sent back a map tuned based my engines diagnostic results - actually he sent three. Colin plugged in the most extreme map and we went for a spin to check the car was happy on it, not putting out a lot of black smoke etc. It was fine, so I stuck with the most powerful one and handed over the best 300 quid I ever spent.

The car was transformed. Lag was reduced, power was up across the range. In the old state, it would run out of puff at 4,000rpm, but it became very free after that and just kept building up to the redline. Happened to be running in convoy with a 330i after that and whilst I was still getting 40+mpg the 330i could not pull an inch on me anywhere.

Go for it, but just keep up the servicing because it does reduce the safety margins. I noticed no reduction in mpg (not using the computer, but tested by filling it up and driving my normal commuter route, just quicker)

Maybe they'll have to run special single lap qually rules for Monaco so everyone goes one at a time.

Personally I don't think it was deliberate, although that judgment may be clouded by the identity and reaction of the "victim".

Perhaps Nico did it because you're black, Lewis?

"Waaah waaah. I want more money and have already exhausted all other reasons to get a massive payrise when I signed a new contract last year."

City are one of the few clubs in the world that can stick him in the reserves until his contract runs out at 35. That would pay them back in the long run as it would take a little power away from the players.

FFS - just beat the 49 best time by 10 sec on 0.5.0

Quote from Keling :

That's kinda weird. Usually slow tracks are easy to improvise on. Fast but narrow tracks like TT are more like nightmare material.

Improvise and memorise are different though.

Quote from Intrepid :

For me, it's about letting your rain 'do its thing'. Don't worry too much.

Think about it for a moment. How many normal circuits have you memorized? I could probably do the entire F1 grid in my head, 20-30 kart circuits and a whole bunch of others. Maybe a 200 miles or so. if you drove each track successively you could probably do a 100 miles before you even come close to making a wrong turn. That's an astonishing feat and far outweighs learning the Nord.

I think, like others have said maybe compartmentalise the track. See it as three of four separate entities, and just put the laps in. Your brain is much better at memorising stuff like this.

Exactly. I have no problems with Nord after training on GPL all those years ago. Like any other track, it just gets to be a rhythm rather than remembering pacenotes.

If you lot are moaning about Nordy, just wait until someone sticks IOM TT or Targa Florio on AC! I'm fine on TT, but TF was a nightmare to learn in GPL as most of the trackside objects, buildings and whatnot were very samey.

Quote from Hyperactive :

If you are having trouble learning the ring my advice is to just get the fastest car, add all downforce and just drive around the track until you are sure you know where the turns go and how fast they are. Back in gpl when I was learning the track I used to know the first one third of the track kinda well, second third was ok with few scary horrible mistakes but the third portion was always pure guesswork. Then someone made gpl trainer thingy for gpl which allowed you to start on the track at certain points. So I finally learned enough to drive a lap without leaving safety margins on the table just in case there is a corner coming I don't remember. In gpl it helped because every corner was a challenge.

In rfactor the track was somewhat different so I just took some F1 car and used that to learn the track. You get tons of laps plus the car has lots of safety margin in it. It turns really well, it brakes really really well and as such you will not spin in some of those corners that will catch you out in the slower less grippy cars. After that you know where the turns go and you only really need to watch out for those fast bends that are flatout in F1 but not in more normal cars.

The Tatuus is good for training. Single seater so good view and insane grip to power ratio and bags of turn in response so if you spot a corner late you can still make it. Still very quick (7:04). Watch for the crests though.

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Btw, from what sim's do you know the track this well.. I drove it on GT4 and GT5 for some time, but not for a few years..

Grand Prix Legends

Is the answer Fig Newtons?

Haven't tried the 458, but the 312 is brilliant at the Ring. No idea if that means it's realistic though.

Looks silly and also apparently made little difference and has now been removed. Don't see how it would work anyway - the problem with turbo cars is the energy coming out of the exhaust is reduced which makes them quieter.

Or... have the 500 as part of series, but have a separate LFSCART classification and award normal points just for those.

Say two non-entrants finish in the first two places, then a LFSCART entry finishes third. Give him 1st place points.

Not that I'm in favour of oval. I recall the last time I did LFSCART (08 maybe) the driving standards on ovals were appalling. Actually, not the driving standards, but the unbelievable arrogance of oval "experts" - one of whom ran me off the track because apparently I wasn't allowed to overtake two cars in one go.

Jealous!

I would participate depending on the scheduling.

My theory.

We have S2. All obligations met by the developers in return for my £24.

S3 will turn up at some point. Someone may still be around to buy it when it does.