i get lots of emails sent to me, does that mean we all get bigger genitalia in S3 ?
sure you're not getting confused with the row about MW2 on the pc?
bad company 2 runs very sweet on the pc
if they manage to make it work at it's first event i'll be seriously impressed, every other team has had to tweak it for a race or two and with the exception of sauber, who are on their second version of it, non of them seem to have got the same benefit out of it as mclaren has.
this is where the testing ban really affects things, just like mclaren trying to introduce their blown diffuser, track time is needed to correlate / replicate the CFD / wind tunnel results. whilst it could result in a car having an advantage that the other teams are unable to relicate it does mean that inovation is rewarded for a while and also that different cars have different strengths.
talking of F ducts can anyone work out just why exactly mercedes is apparently desperate to make their's the most complicated aerodynamic solution since concorde? air intakes in front wing assembly area, fed through rear wing uprights and then through the rear wing to the outlets in the middle? seems to be a lot of convoluted passages to flow the air through given the beauty of the f duct on the mclaren was it's simplicity
look at it this way, the faster you go, the sooner the race is over so it can cool down again 
might be worth giving your oil company a call tris, most of them have someone who can advise on motorsports use.
an other advantage of a "dry" sump is that it's a lot less susceptable to surge as the oil is forced from side to side / front to rear by cornering forces etc.
in a normal "wet" sump there's a danger the oil pickup will at ttimes be out of the oil resulting in a drop in oil preasure / feed, whilst this can be limited with sump baffling a "dry" sump eliminates this by only having a scavanger pump to fill the external tank which which then has it's feed pump to supply the engine. in effect it's the same as some fuel injected cars that have a fuel accumulator in the system to prevent the fuel pump running dry under cornering etc when the fuel level is low.
also in a "dry" sump the oil capacity can be a lot higher than a "wet" system which can be important for endurance events or for engines that have a high oil consumpion, plus this larger oil quantity allows for better control of oil temperature and the fact that the oil system is seprated from the engine allows easier instillation of filters / pumps/ coolers etc.
in a normal "wet" sump there's a danger the oil pickup will at ttimes be out of the oil resulting in a drop in oil preasure / feed, whilst this can be limited with sump baffling a "dry" sump eliminates this by only having a scavanger pump to fill the external tank which which then has it's feed pump to supply the engine. in effect it's the same as some fuel injected cars that have a fuel accumulator in the system to prevent the fuel pump running dry under cornering etc when the fuel level is low.
also in a "dry" sump the oil capacity can be a lot higher than a "wet" system which can be important for endurance events or for engines that have a high oil consumpion, plus this larger oil quantity allows for better control of oil temperature and the fact that the oil system is seprated from the engine allows easier instillation of filters / pumps/ coolers etc.
the setup screen varies from car to car, if you see the one for the indy car it's very comprehensive, especially on the aero side which has far more parameters then LFS.
re the feedback, i sort of know what you mean but after running iracing for a while and altering my profiler etc i was suprised to find how dead LFS felt when i came back to it recently so i suspect both have their sweet spots in settings. also for some reason a lot of the setups for the mazda seem to be designed (either deliberately or accidently) to reduce the amount of feel you get through the wheel. where as the solstice appears to have the fabled feather light US power steering that uk mags moaned about for years and years.
as i've said before and will in the future, to me both sims complement each other both in their aims and in their communities, both have good points and members, both have bad points and members, in particular you will probably see less deliberate bad driving on iracing but conversely the iracing forum makes some of the wildest threads here look like a love in.
re the feedback, i sort of know what you mean but after running iracing for a while and altering my profiler etc i was suprised to find how dead LFS felt when i came back to it recently so i suspect both have their sweet spots in settings. also for some reason a lot of the setups for the mazda seem to be designed (either deliberately or accidently) to reduce the amount of feel you get through the wheel. where as the solstice appears to have the fabled feather light US power steering that uk mags moaned about for years and years.
as i've said before and will in the future, to me both sims complement each other both in their aims and in their communities, both have good points and members, both have bad points and members, in particular you will probably see less deliberate bad driving on iracing but conversely the iracing forum makes some of the wildest threads here look like a love in.
"the flight path was good, but the landing was lousy",
not as you may thing jack roush but mario andretti after launching his lotus 79 over a curb in france 78 and bending the monoque.
not as you may thing jack roush but mario andretti after launching his lotus 79 over a curb in france 78 and bending the monoque.
lol, similar thing happened to me in a hosted multiclass race just before the lotus had it's limiter brought back.
before the race , 33 laps at laguna, everyone was moaning about the limiter syaing that they didn't want it and there was no problem driving carefully to ensure you didn't vlow the engine.
by 15 laps in the only other car left was one poor sod who'd was in the skippy after being the only driver that didn't pick the lotus. then he quit so i did a couple of laps and then quit
i believe in large black monoliths 
remember the fact the scirocco doesn't behave properly is the reason why the new tyre model started developement, if they hadn't landed the VW then they wouldn't have realised just how off the current tyre model is off and we wouldn't be looking forward to what is probably going to be a major advance.
if iracing with their resources find creating an accurate tyre model very time consuming, then i'm sure scawen finds it hard going as well, if the people who complain about the delay in LFS would all like to contribute the same amount as the average iracing subscriber does over just twelve months, in subs and content, to help fund scawen's research then i'm sure he'd appreciate it
one thing is guarented, no matter how long it takes, when it's done it will be done to a good standard. in the mean time stop bleating on about how LFS is dying and how the delay puts off new users, the one thing that more than anything else will put people off and give the impression that LFS is dead is seeing a huge thread full of people complaining that nothing is done as the casual browser won't be bothered to look deaper and appreciate how things are done by the devs.
oh and before anyone accuses me of being an LFS fanboy, take a look at my stats and how little i use LFS these days, i spend most of my time on iracing but i still can appreciate how good LFS is, in fact maybe it's because i use iracing i appreciate, more than a lot of the complainers, just how much of a bargain LFS is and how good a job the devs have done with it and no doubt will continue to do in the future with it in return for very little financial outlay by it's users.
if iracing with their resources find creating an accurate tyre model very time consuming, then i'm sure scawen finds it hard going as well, if the people who complain about the delay in LFS would all like to contribute the same amount as the average iracing subscriber does over just twelve months, in subs and content, to help fund scawen's research then i'm sure he'd appreciate it
one thing is guarented, no matter how long it takes, when it's done it will be done to a good standard. in the mean time stop bleating on about how LFS is dying and how the delay puts off new users, the one thing that more than anything else will put people off and give the impression that LFS is dead is seeing a huge thread full of people complaining that nothing is done as the casual browser won't be bothered to look deaper and appreciate how things are done by the devs.
oh and before anyone accuses me of being an LFS fanboy, take a look at my stats and how little i use LFS these days, i spend most of my time on iracing but i still can appreciate how good LFS is, in fact maybe it's because i use iracing i appreciate, more than a lot of the complainers, just how much of a bargain LFS is and how good a job the devs have done with it and no doubt will continue to do in the future with it in return for very little financial outlay by it's users.
love how the comentators didn't seem to even notice newey was still in his car despite the medical personel by his door 
i suspect the reason cars in iracing (some more than others) respond strangely or react well to strange setups is the same reason why scanwen decided he needed to produce the new tyre model before releasing the scirocco, namely that when real life suspension design and setups are fed into the tyre model it exposes the limitations of the model, i seem to recall that scanwen stated that the reason why he had held back the VW was because the faults were exposed when they had a real car to compare the results against
yeah i know that, just meant it would be interesting to hear his take on the whole F35 scenario, pity they never green lighted the "bombcat" version of the tomcat, could have kept the F14 in service a lot longer.
thankfully with the amount of computer controlled slats, flaps etc available today the military have moved away from swing wings for fighters, nothing like seeing a planes wings swing into a forward position to give the game away that he's getting short of manuvering energy.
of course for low level high speed penetration they still have a lot going for them with good low speed lift when swept forward and a high wingloading when swept back giving a smooth, stable ride at low level
wish my son still did karate, the grandfather of one of his mates there was a lead project engineer on the F14, be nice to see what he made of it
ironic really that for less than what the cost of silent hornets they could have produced a marinised version of the EF2000 and if the decision had been taken early enough all the salt resistent materials could have been designed into all varients of the EF2000 from the start which would have left the RAF and the RN with a standardised fighter
having said that, in the mid 90's the RAF were offered a nice deal on secondhand low milage F15Cs at a price which would have meant a squadron for the eventual price of 1 EF2000
the JSF is a classic case of what happens when you design an airframe to be adaptable to differing specifications for such different requirements that there has to be a large amount of over specification of the base airframe in any varient and at the same time a large amount of derrivative specific components, all of which end up costing as much (if not more) than if two entirely seperate machines had been designed.
the US should have known better after the idea of a single cheap(er) fighter plane resulted in the USAF adopting one proposal that became the F16 and the US navy adopted the other which became the F18 and they were fairly similar in their requirements, far closer than the need for a V/STOl and a conventional jet in the same airframe
having said that, in the mid 90's the RAF were offered a nice deal on secondhand low milage F15Cs at a price which would have meant a squadron for the eventual price of 1 EF2000
the JSF is a classic case of what happens when you design an airframe to be adaptable to differing specifications for such different requirements that there has to be a large amount of over specification of the base airframe in any varient and at the same time a large amount of derrivative specific components, all of which end up costing as much (if not more) than if two entirely seperate machines had been designed.
the US should have known better after the idea of a single cheap(er) fighter plane resulted in the USAF adopting one proposal that became the F16 and the US navy adopted the other which became the F18 and they were fairly similar in their requirements, far closer than the need for a V/STOl and a conventional jet in the same airframe
thank you staggie, i've got tired of posting that on iracing. having said that it appears after a practice session that no auto clutch / blip and H shifter is still the fastest way to go
personally i feel it's not a bad call as it's there on the real car, no matter if it makes it easier or not, iracing push the realism factor so it has to be there
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there's space for all sims providing they're competent (and even some incompetent ones) as they all reward different people with differing tastes / needs.
iracing has real life tracks / cars and bangs out updates every 13 weeks and tweaks / fixes in between, usually good, occasionally flawed but you pay for that level of progression. unless you pay for a hosted session, you have to go with what series / races iracing want you to race but driving standards are normally good due to the licencing system
rfactor has lots of third party content providing an almost limitless supply of real life and fictional cars and tracks, none of which costs after the original sim, some good, some bad. lots of series / races but can be a pain to ensure you have the right content for the race you want and be allowed to join a series, driving standards depend on third parties enforcing rules
LFS has mostly fictional content but that content feels good with consistent quality and until S3 is released any new content / updates comes at no extra cost but the release of any updates is limited and. lots of servers available at any time but frequently most are offering the same car / track combos with other content hardly being used. driving standards depend on third parties.
to compare sims is like comparing soccer,rugby league and rugby union. they're all ball sports, all have their fans and the vast majority of those fans enjoy more than one ball sport, there's only a few fans who insist that any ball sport apart from their prefered sport is the work of the devil
personally i love iracing but i also love LFS and in an ideal world when my health / time allowed, i'd do my serious racing on iracing and fun driving on LFS whilst using rfactor for single player driving of cars / tracks that aren't available elsewhere.
P.S. just because i've concentrated on these 3 (as they're PC sims and the ones that usually end up in this sim's better than that sim threads) doesn't mean i've any less regard for forza 3, GT5, GTR etc
iracing has real life tracks / cars and bangs out updates every 13 weeks and tweaks / fixes in between, usually good, occasionally flawed but you pay for that level of progression. unless you pay for a hosted session, you have to go with what series / races iracing want you to race but driving standards are normally good due to the licencing system
rfactor has lots of third party content providing an almost limitless supply of real life and fictional cars and tracks, none of which costs after the original sim, some good, some bad. lots of series / races but can be a pain to ensure you have the right content for the race you want and be allowed to join a series, driving standards depend on third parties enforcing rules
LFS has mostly fictional content but that content feels good with consistent quality and until S3 is released any new content / updates comes at no extra cost but the release of any updates is limited and. lots of servers available at any time but frequently most are offering the same car / track combos with other content hardly being used. driving standards depend on third parties.
to compare sims is like comparing soccer,rugby league and rugby union. they're all ball sports, all have their fans and the vast majority of those fans enjoy more than one ball sport, there's only a few fans who insist that any ball sport apart from their prefered sport is the work of the devil
personally i love iracing but i also love LFS and in an ideal world when my health / time allowed, i'd do my serious racing on iracing and fun driving on LFS whilst using rfactor for single player driving of cars / tracks that aren't available elsewhere.
P.S. just because i've concentrated on these 3 (as they're PC sims and the ones that usually end up in this sim's better than that sim threads) doesn't mean i've any less regard for forza 3, GT5, GTR etc
nice post, especially for a first post
+1 though i thought the same when i was just 6 when they landed on the moon and it's taken a while to get to this stage
but if you really want it you'll find a way, some way, any way to raise the cash, after all who needs a house ?
i usually find the mazda pretty easy to catch slides in. as long as you react fairly quickly you can either get it back in line or hold a long slide, it's just the initial correction to stop it developing into a spin that's got to be done quickly
thats why i jumped at the offer on 12 month subs in (i think) june. get it out of the way then i won't miss it and at least the $30 credit will make feel good when i want to buy new content.
P.S. after battling with health etc i finally did a race yesterday for the first time in 9 months
week 13 mixed martial, got talked into it by a bunch of aussies, knew i was going to be slow but kept nose fairly clean and finished 9th out of 12 after loosing 2 spots on last lap to be fair if you watch the early ISR programs darin and shaun look like they're being held hostage and being forced to present the show at gun point. and some of the proffesional presenters on the smaller TV channels aren't much better.
it's a pity iracing didn't just get ISR to host the show for them or get a proper presenter in rather than doing it from within their own staff. at the very least they should get someone with jessica's "atributes" to take your mind off the wooden performances
what i find interesting is how small the gap between the two HRT cars is, if as stated / thought by a lot of people (myself included) yamamoto is only there because of his sponsorship money rather than outright speed it either means that senna isn't that quick a driver either or the HRT is really easy to drive at its (low) limits or yamamoto is better than he's given credit for.
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