Just some more info you could add into the OP...

Circuit info:

Laps: 56
Circuit length: 5.451 km (3.387 miles)
Race length: 305.066 km (189.559 miles)
Turns: 16
Direction: Clockwise


Most wins by single constructor: Ferrari (3)

Lap Record: 1:32.238
Lap Record Driver: Michael Schumacher
Lap Record Team: Ferrari
Lap Record Year: 2004

Last year's results:

1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes
2 Felipe Massa Ferrari
3 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari
4 Fernando Alonso Renault
5 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber
6 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber
7 Timo Glock Toyota
8 Nelson Piquet Jr. Renault
9 Sebastian Vettel Toro Rosso-Ferrari
10 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault
11 Rubens Barrichello Honda
12 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota
13 Sébastien Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari
14 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault
15 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota
16 Jenson Button Honda
17 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari
Ret Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes
Ret Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari
Ret Jarno Trulli Toyota

Review of Chinese Grand Prix 2004-2008

Onboard Lap from 2006


Now, what's going to happen with the diffusers today?

Flick the map over to Sunday u ... scroller at the bottom.

I'm 99.9% sure it won't happen, but if the diffusers are ruled illegal and the teams running them are excluded from the previous races - rather than just having their points taken away - the points will look like this:

1. Alonso 11.5
2. Heidfeld 9
3. Buemi 8
4. Bourdais 8
5. Webber 6
6. Sutil 5
7. Hamilton 3
8. Fisichella 3
9. Massa 2.5
10. Piquet 1
11. Vettel 1
12. Raikonen 0.5

1. Torro Rosso 16
2. Renault 12.5
3. BMW 9
4. Force India 8
5. Red Bull 7
6. McLaren 3
7. Ferrari 3

Of course, if they just lose their points it'll look like this:

1. Heidfeld 4
2. Alonso 4
3. Buemi 2
4. Webber 1.5
5. Hamilton 1
6. Bourdais 1

1. BMW 4
2. Renault 4
3. Torro Rosso 3
4. Red Bull 1.5
5. McLaren 1

Last edited by Timdpr, Wed 15 Apr 2009, 06:40.

Quote from Shotglass :

wth website is down... and i was looking forward to this after all the comments

Working for me.

BTW, you can poke the poor guy in the eye!

Quote from amp88 :

I had a friend once who had all these posters, videos, books and magazines about tractors. He was crazy about them. Every time he saw one he had to tell me the make and model number. One day we went to a display show where he actually got hit by a tractor in the show. The farmer driving it was so sorry, he couldn't apologise enough. My mate wasn't injured too much but he totally gave up on tractors. He sold all his old stuff and wasn't interested in them at all. A few months later we were down the pub having a pint. We heard this clang from behind the bar and the barman cried out for help. He'd accidentally pierced the pipes for the cooling system and a toxic gas was spewing out into the room. At this, my mate ran up to the pipe, sucked all the gas in then ran outside and blew it all into the atmosphere. Everyone inside was totally stunned by this so we asked him how he could do it and not get hurt. "Well, I'm an ex-tractor fan", he said.

Took me a couple of seconds, but when I got it :clapclap:

Quote from senn :

LOL that was awesome well done. Shame i don't speak French tho :P

I don't think you need to

When I saw the guy driving towards the city, I thought "Oh! The bet! "

Quote from mrrrco :

Hi all

I've made a short animation film with my friends...there's a lot of car action in it ! And zombies ! You can watch it here : http://www.imovstudios.com It's free !
I hope you'll like it, don't hesitate to spread it where you want..

Cheers

-mrco

No words can describe the awesome.

No words.

Brilliant animation, brilliantly drawn, brilliant storyline, brilliant everything!

Quote from jasonmatthews :

I don't think they are particularly fast, though I did see an awesome crash today when I went there, the kid broke the steering column clean off

Meh, I did that on a straight once! Well, it kinda collapsed just before the turn in point to a flat corner after a long straight. Never braked so hard in my life!

Sounds like a great deal, £40 for 2 hours karting, but the track is a 5-6 hour drive away...mabye not this year. Can we have one near Yorkshire please!

Quote from Velocity. :

Is it the case that only the guy that registered the team can do this?

IIRC, yes.

GL with your team!

Last edited by Timdpr, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 15:41.

I know it was a while ago, but Vinny, the skin is already uploaded to lfsworld - it has already been resized and uploaded. Other people will download that skin on lfsworld, so as long as your skin in your skins folder is the same name, you can have it any size/design, and people will see the skin that was uploaded to lfsworld, not the one from your skins folder you can see.

On that same principle, if someone you don't like asks you to upload their skin, you can write 'I'm a cock' (or words to that effect) all over it, then upload it. They will see their super-cool skin in their skins folder, but everyone else will see their cock skin. (I didn't mean 'cock skin' like that! :schwitz

Very good for your first video, but I agree with Squid, mabye a bit too much for your first time. It was good in theory, your camera angles were very nice, but they weren't done too well - jerky etc. Practice and experience is what you need!

I think you made it fit with the music pretty well, too.

Quote from buck77 :

POLE POSITION, ONE VICTORY, ONE SECOND PLACE, ONE FASTAST LAP...

I'm happy! \o/
This was me for LFSBC...

Congratz, Murray, for the last race!!!

Well done!

You might want to post that in the post-race thread though

Last edited by JO53PHS, Sat 11 Apr 2009, 21:30. Reason : Posts Moved from Pre to Post race discussion thread

Quote from Timdpr :

Car Number: 616
Driver's LFS UserName: Timdpr
Class (LFSBC or NDRC): LFSBC
Car Selection (RB4 or FXO or XRT): RB4

Confirmed car - RB4

Quote from Mp3 Astra :

God, I hate these videos. Trying insanely hard to be awesome and viral, but end up only being viral.

I gave this one a try and closed it after 4 minutes.

Each to their own. I don't think the unicorn video's are SecretAgentBob's best videos, but I still loved 'em!

Some of his videos are insanely awesome!

Quote from Jertje :

Trying not to sound like a dick here, but aren't most of you a little young to "miss" Lotus? Can't really miss what you haven't conciously experienced, or? ;p

I see what you mean...I know a lot about Lotus though, and I'm interpreting 'Which team do you miss the most' as 'Which team would you most like back in F1'.

Quote from MAGGOT :

+1.

+2

Mabye I'll vote for Jaguar too, since it seems to be multiple choice.

But yeah, definately Lotus!

Damn you, I've just spent my morning watching all of SecretAgentBob's videos! I'd really recommend it though, they are mind-bogglingly awesome.

LFS: Mirror's Edge

Well that's what I think it looks like!

Nah, only kidding, I trust you to make the fairest decision deko!

Oh Kerry.

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Quote from boosterfire :

So, as we're not gifted with comfortable European F1 viewing times, and that I didn't want to get up at 4AM to watch this, I recorded it, and watched it afterward. The race was pretty funny to watch until it was stopped. Then, for some reason, it took until the end of time for the stewards to take a decision. I mean, from the time the red flag was waved to the time the race was officially over, at least 45 minutes must have passed. That's just silly. There's only so much that can be said about the current situation.

"Let's see. It's pitch dark, there are whales on the track, and the drivers actually need a scuba because their cockpits are flooded. Shall we continue?"

They were having problems with the finishing positions - where to count the laps back to and actually finding where the drivers finished. It was complicated, and probably the reason for the big delay. I think they were hoping for a restart - just one lap under the SC would have simplified matters a great deal - but I'm not sure it was ever possible.

EDIT: Feck, .exe scrapped. It didn't help much anyway - just saved ~2 minutes of your time. Sorry.

Last edited by Timdpr, Tue 7 Apr 2009, 21:07.

The new standard indeed!

I am truly in awe of you Lynce, and frankly a lot of people owe you a great deal! Thank you so much for these, seriously.

+1 for the .exe, though I'm not going to be waiting for it before I install these, I'm downloading straight away!

How many surrealists does it take to screw a lightbulb?
Two: one to hold the giraffe, and one to fill the bathtub with brightly colored power tools. :doh:


This is worth the read:

The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet,8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US railroad. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by he same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing. Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England ,because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England ) for their legions. The roads have been used ever since. And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome , they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are handed a Specification Procedure/ Process and wonder 'What horse's ass came up with it? you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' asses.)
Now, the twist to the story. When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds. So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass.
And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important? Ancient horse's asses control almost everything....and CURRENT Horses Asses are controlling everything else!!

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/74226

An update on Steven. He came out of his coma on the 5th Jan, and is beginning rehabilitation. Still a long way to go, but fingers crossed.