Quote from Blackout :

I think I missed the last year French GP, but I imagine a tire is more heavier than small bits of metal and will carry more momentum and force on impact? And did they knew? FIA claim Renault knew exactly what was going on but didn't do anything.

The penalty on Renault is harsh and would not have been given without the accidents we've seen in a week. My heart missed a beat when I saw the wheel finally coming off, and I think the stewards had a similar experience.

I don't really see a difference in getting hit by a spring a part of an exhaust system. Both is dangerous.

I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure that a good driver (and according to some people Alsonso is one of them) can tell the difference between a loose and a damaged tire. You could even see it on the onboard footage that the tire was loose and not damaged.

They did punish him only that hard because of what has happend, not just because of the rules. Sure it's dangerous, but a suspension for the next race is just a big joke.

Edit other example:
Anyone remembering the Nurburgring Race where a mclaren suspension broke at the end of the mainstraight due not changing a heavily flatspotted tire? That was also preventable and since the tire flew away also pretty dangerous. But I can't remember any suspension...

Last edited by three_jump, Sun 26 Jul 2009, 19:13.

Quote from three_jump :

FIA going mental again...

Renault suspended for the next race. That's pure actionism and only be done because of last weeks incidents. And that's just stupid.

Of course Alonso should have stoped (especially if he really had a damaged fuel pump already) the moment he noticed that he had a loose wheelnut, but it has happend before that a driver was sent on track with that (and even lost a wheel, I think it was Hakkinen at British GP) and there was no penalty afterwarts.

A fine and a warning would have been enough. (I guess noone remembered the next GP being in Valencia... Not really a big help to sell at least some tickets... But the Turkey method can be applied on other tracks to I guess.)

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FIA going mental again...

Renault suspended for the next race. That's pure actionism and only be done because of last weeks incidents. And that's just stupid.

Of course Alonso should have stoped (especially if he really had a damaged fuel pump already) the moment he noticed that he had a loose wheelnut, but it has happend before that a driver was sent on track with that (and even lost a wheel, I think it was Hakkinen at British GP) and there was no penalty afterwarts.

A fine and a warning would have been enough. (I guess noone remembered the next GP being in Valencia... Not really a big help to sell at least some tickets... But the Turkey method can be applied on other tracks to I guess.)

we demand pictures !!!

I'll try to drive slower next time

I'm sorry but I just got kicked for too being fast?

(ky2r: if you can draft through the whole oval part you will eventuall get below the split check time)

Here goes the hype / wild guessing again

why are they even allowed to put a driver who has basicly no f1 experience (cut the straight line test bullshit) in the grid?

shame for bourdais though (and how red bull seems to behave in general with drivers (speed) who are not their first choice anymore. that doesn't really speak for the company...)

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Quote from 91mason91 :

scawen i noticed that everytime with Z15 no matter how many reinstalls i do when i press shift+f4 to get out of windowd mode and to go back in it again i have to re calibrate my wheel.

WHy has this happened?
example:

Playing lfs fine
shift+F4
Talk on msn or go on internet.
Back to lfs and press shift+f4 again
Wheel isnt calibrated right?

This happens everytime i repeat this process.

have you locked the calibration?

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Quote from Stefani24 :

Somehow I can't unlock LFS.
It says: Unknown Version.
Unlocking with standard Z and then uprgading works.

thats a patch classic... for some reason scawen always forgets that

Quote from Bass-Driver :

hi i found a bug with the F08
i cant see anything on my steering wheel : like speed enc.
(fxo bug 1.jpg for my view settings )

and when i turn Steer and Driver off (fxo bug 1.2.jpg ) then it shows the speed enc what u normally see on your steeringwheel.

this is since Patch Z

I can't reproduce that with my install (neither t13 nor z15). Could you try it with a fresh install (in a new dir) to see if maybe something went wrong in the patch process?

it seems that only german accounts are involved. can i also assume that these people are in the german forum as well and used the same email?

could it be that the retrieve pw function is bugged?

Quote from DEVIL 007 :

Hi,

I already posted that at the end of Patch Z13 thread.I really see some strange behaviour with my new system on LFS. Its around 10 percent in FPS drop. I changed A64 3200+ to Phenom II X3 720. Its actually a change from single core 2Ghz processor to triple core 2.8 Ghz and the new architecutre is even much faster per clock and using just single core.

I got huge boost in every other game but it somehow struggle. Tried 3 fresh installs and tested various games including LFS and always the same. LFS went down other games so much higher. Not sure what it might be :-(.

Sorry if this wrong thread but I can not ping point to anything then just LFS.

have you tried running without the speed stepping (cool n quiet)? or is there an option to make it game dependent? (i'm not using it, so i can just guess)

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hmm, maybe it's just me, but I don't really get what all the fuss is about.

Bernie is talking about the shortcommings of democracy, like politicans more caring for the next election and being to feared to do anything unpopular but necessary. He's stating that a strong leader (Thatcher etc.) can get it done (for the good or the worse) and thats the better solution instead of doing nothing.

Quote :

He seems to see Hitler as a passive bystander who was too weak to stop the Holocaust.

Pure speculation, imho.

/me goes searching for his flameproof suit

Is there any link on the web to the interview?

Quote from evans :

"Scawen is progressing with feature X and is currently working on getting this or that to work properly. Eric has been reworking South City with huge banners featuring naked girls, so everyone has something to look at while racing. Everything is good and the world is at peace. Love, Devs."

ahm, we exactly had that with the scirocco. scawen announced on what he was working and told us when he hoped to release it. look what happend.

if he says he's on feature X it will become a "we'll get feature X with the next patch, he promised so" and people will start complaining again why it only this feature and when lfs will support klingon. it just doesn't work.

Quote from Becky Rose :

If I was Scawen I would already long ago have been detecting the hardware configs on demo players, these are the potential buyers and I don't see it as an invasion of privacy to know the CPU/GFX/RAM etc of your demo players. If anything such information can only lead to benefit.

Something tells me that Scawen isn't doing this (or maybe he is via the unlock system), because as i've said before he's a bit of a communist when it come to commercial exploitation of hi userbase, but the point being that it's the hardware in use by the demo users which should have the greatest influence over what hardware aspects are implemented - because put simply, that's real data and not hypothesis.

I wonder how other people feel about the collecting of that kind of information. To me I don't see it as an issue, but I know how upset some people can get over 'information'.

unless I'm specificly asked if I want to give out that information I'm strictly against such things. if, then as free option.

I still don't get why MS doesn't let the user choose what stuff he's wants during the installation (like we had till win98)...

This would get rid of most of the problems and spare us some of this bullshit like the "N" versions.

Having said that, I don't want 90% of the pre-installed software (mostly even just trial versions) every new pc comes bundled with.