Quote from spanks :

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VFGTB9VX

ROLLING STARTS IN ROAD CARS IN HOSTED RACING!

So awesome

I can't believe it has been possible this whole time and they haven't implemented it into the official series. Wtf

spanks can you or any other american explain to me why rolling starts are so prevelant in road racing on your side of the pond? not being critical, just wondering why when most of the motoring world uses standing starts for most of it's racing

still gets me seeing people refer to 13.50 GMt as morning because of their timezone

well they said thursday so i suspect the down time's for the cars and hopefully they'll sort out the celtic logo at the same time

and this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYYEeSpY1Kw

mazda feels so different and in a nice way love the looks of the new wings on it aswell, the rear wing definately gives more aerogrip at higher speeds. mosport is brilliant, i can understand what the fuss about it now and the smoke and dust makes such a distance with road racing, less chance of being suprised by a wreck over the top of a crest now.

and you know what? in 1 way i'm kind of glad the HUD isn'tt available as it means everyone has to work that bit harder and use their brains to find the missing time. if iracing gave us a telemetry screen with splits for each lap when we were in the garage i'd be happy without a HUD

Quote from el pibe :

i think this will be a great bet that sutil will crash under the tunnel coz he saw a flashback of kimi crashing him in monaco.... =)

if he manages to crash under the tunnel it'll be pretty impressive

to be fair to them, whilst they should have realised that 0.9RC was in use, they went by the publishers own information so it's partly their fault aswell.

oh and Mosport is fantastic

possibly, unless they have decided the dlll for this is ok. tough i know but the fact its under the heading of security should tell people enough about why they've clamped down, there must be a concern about an exploit / cheat / hack there. i'd assume they'll authorise it soon if it's currently not valid

coulthard seems happily surprised by it, especially the way the new barrier has allowed them to do away with the large runoffs which gave most new circuits that "lost on an airfiled" feeling though he's not a fan of the pit exit (but as he admits he did have a bit of trouble with pit lanes early on in his career )

article on iracing news

http://www.inracingnews.com/fo ... d-a-with-david-coulthard/

and that pit entrance of his

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xl6QV85N7g

Quote from samjh :

I think it started with Michael Schumacher. It's particularly rampant within Ferrari.

as far as i know mansell was the first to become (in)famous for using it though once again there is a ferrari link. it's most prelevant in drivers who don't speak english as a first language, hence why mansell used it a lot
(sorry couldn't resist that bit)

got the new content preordered, with credits for content recently purchased they cost me just under $7.00

p.s. anyone else finding the forums off line at the moment? tried on both my pcs and getting an error

Last edited by tinvek, Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:35.

just to state my position, i'm totally against any form of racism and i took great delight when i heard about the BNP candidate that got a taste of his own policies and was totally confused in the proccess to be told in mold by a scouser to "f**k off back to england, the scouser of course was a flint resident who's accent for some reason is very very reminisent of a liverpool resident.

however i was disappointed at how the program was allowed to run. what was needed last night was for questiontime to run to it's normal agenda of audience questions based on the current news / concerns so it would become apparent how the BNP is a one trick pony instead all we got, apart from the homosexual question, was a whole hour on the BNP's "racist" policies which may have played into their hands by allowing them to campaign in the northern seats they are currently targeting on the platform of how the southerners in power are all under the control of imigrants

who knows could be a case of poacher turned game keeper, plus he has got experience of rallying as well and being french i'd like to think he understands about how important le mans type racing is.

whats confused me after watching the highlights on match of the day is that before the attack that led to the goal, the red ball is clear visable sitting in the back of the liverpool goal. so why the hell didn't the keeper just give it to a steward when he had time and how the hell did it end up moving from the back of the goal to where it was when it caused the goal? maybe its a red version of this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... U7KMY&feature=related

just to add if that kid is a liverpool fan then his emotions when he launched the ball on the pitch and then saw it cause liverpool to conceed a goal must have been like the copilot in mephis bell when he sneaks into the tail turret and shoots down a ME109 before seeing it hit another B17

EDIT: from 1.45 in this clip if you don't know the film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU5TKCxZ0s4

Last edited by tinvek, Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:22.

i cant wait to see the vid of rafa's reaction, i expect he'll be easy to spot, just under the mushroom cloud. anyone in northwest see him in the daily post complaining about gerard and torres getting injurred on international duty? thats what you have a squad for to cover injurries,it's good job he's kept alonso and keane hap ..... oh ok we wont say anymore about that then.

as a neutral i'd realy like to see liverpool win the premiership just to add a different name to the trophey but his continual bleating always manages to turn me off them, they were asking for trouble ever since one player said in an interview that "we'll win the title as long as torres and gerrard play in every game"

and it's an "in your pocket" price reduction. $3 dollars is not really here or there and you'll save more than that the first time you buy a car or track with the new lower prices. im actually very tempted by the 2 year subscription price, sure it may go down in price again but its currently not much more than a 12 month one was last month and once it's bought you'll soon forget about the cost and the only costs will be for content

can you imagine it if there are 3 or four cars fighting for position and all pitting at the same time? just needs the first one out of the pits to cock it up into the tunnel and they'll all be boxed in

it was a scenario made for piquet really, block the rest of the field in so alonso is the only car on track, can you imagine the row if webber crashed there with the 2 brawns in the pits?

actually knowing webber's look its more likley he'll be winning the race by 40 secs and when leaving the pits after his last stop the tunnel will collapse on him

Quote from bbman :

Somebody please tell Tilke he doesn't have to draw straight with a ruler - no better, beat it into him, preferably with a bat...

personally im now praying that the track surface has a very low level of grip to open it up a bit. mind you if they had an unprecedented rainstorm the pit exit could be very interested, first time an f1 race has been won by a white water raft

going off topic, nice pic of the lotus 80 in your id 5haz

going back on topic, hopefully with all the different combinations, the F1 cars will miss that chicane and just run down to the hairpin (and did you see that comment on youtube thats its got the longest back straight in the world? feel free to comment on that )

Quote from Gav190 :

Barichello is pretty much guaranteed not to win in Brazil, something will fail or blow up, it always does when he's leading in Brazil.

knowing his luck if he's winning when everyone else is dodging stray dogs he'll hit a stray elephant from the local zoo

the money off nascar must have helped them with this decission

btw did you see tims post asking for someone to wreck him? i wonder who was the lucky sod who did it to help and now finds they're on display in the nascar hall of fame.

if you could just see the track and not the surroundings you'd swear its a street circuit very disapointing on first view hopefully it'll be better with a full on f1 lap

good for you tris

actually this attitude is what seperates the top people in most fields from the rest, the actual need or craving for success and the effort they are prepared to put in to achieve it plus often how much effort their parents or partners are prepared to put in to satisfy their craving to see their loved one succeed, others often with less talent can't be bothered to put the effort in, be it extra preperation of car and driver, the applications and presentations to find sponsors or even just deciding to sell which is most important, a fancy road car or a more competative race car. perry mcarthy was the classic example of a driver who gambled everything on financing his desire to be at the highest level, lewis hamilton's father at one point was holding down 3 seperate jobs to finance his sons racing, schumacher would go to his local kart track as often as he could if it was raining just to practice his control in slippy conditions, mcarthy may not have been a champion but he had the need to try and be the best (and was the black stig) lauda came back form his accident in 76 probably a bit too early but he needed to be in that car, similary jonny herbert came back after his F3000 crash into his first F1 drive before he was able to do himself justice just because he had the desire to do it. and there are plenty of cases of drivers who may not have had the greatest natural talent but made themselves great through application and hard work.



it's the same in other worlds, i know of at least one local (to me) footballer who could have been a succesfull professional, he was at a lower league club and acording to their development coach had a lot more talent than another player who went on to play in the premiership but instead this local guy was to concerned with enjoying himself and getting drunk etc, these days he's on the dole. ever wondered why people like richard branson crop up again and again with new businesses? it's the need to make money, to prove they can still do it, peter jones off the dragon's den, made a fortune early in life, lost it and clawed his way back to where he is now and both of them haven't got to where they are now by settling for a 9 - 5 job with a comfortable wage, which doesn't stretch them or their abilities

EDIT: just to add this is why i'm doing what i do and live like i do despite haing an IQ pushing 150, i just can't be bothered and to put it bluntly am lazy and will always opt for the course of least effort / confrontation even if it means i loose.

on the other hand the small field races can let you feel your way into a series without finding yourself in the middle of a pack of hard chargers who give you no mercy

agreed tris, i think part of the problem with button is that when they listen to his radio transmissions in a race where he's off the front runner's pace, he always sounds like he's about to burst into tears or jump out of the car and lie on the floor having a tantrum.

most people who follow racing know he's pretty laid back but the radio unfortunatly creates an entirely different image of him for the casual tv fan

EDIT: just to add, from the point of keeping everything exciting i'd prefer button not to finsh in the points and barachello and vettel to finsh in the top 2, that order for sentimental reasons, other way round to close it even further.