hmmm i wonder how many of them will " be protesting for justice and against poverty" when it's raining and there's nothing left to steal
now where was the worlds third biggest producer of opium in the 1990s? i can't quite remember .
some parts of the NTM are good, if they could just sort the preasures / temps / wear out then i'd be pretty happy with it.
i was talking with a driver today and he pointed out that now you can feel the squirm in the tyres in the high speed corners at watkins glen in the LMP, what else was interesting is that someone was saying that in the skippy they're a bit slower on the NTM and couldn't get below 59s and then a certain driver from NZ who drives in a certain australian race series came in and completly blew everyone away with a 57s lap on his third lap which does tend to suggest that some real world drivers are picking up on steering feedback etc from the NTM that sim only drivers may be missing on.
whilst in no way near the standard of real world racers, the feel in particular is an improvement for me, i did a race at laguna in the LMP and on the run to T1 i could feel first one front wheel and then the other just starting to grab as i pushed the braking to the limit, by comparison i drove the DP after and it felt like there was no actual feedback from the tyres.
hopefully as this season progresses we'll get updates to the NTM on cars as they develope it, in the mean time i'm waiting for a powerfull road car to get the NTM, hopefully the vette, so we can do proper comparisons.
i was talking with a driver today and he pointed out that now you can feel the squirm in the tyres in the high speed corners at watkins glen in the LMP, what else was interesting is that someone was saying that in the skippy they're a bit slower on the NTM and couldn't get below 59s and then a certain driver from NZ who drives in a certain australian race series came in and completly blew everyone away with a 57s lap on his third lap which does tend to suggest that some real world drivers are picking up on steering feedback etc from the NTM that sim only drivers may be missing on.
whilst in no way near the standard of real world racers, the feel in particular is an improvement for me, i did a race at laguna in the LMP and on the run to T1 i could feel first one front wheel and then the other just starting to grab as i pushed the braking to the limit, by comparison i drove the DP after and it felt like there was no actual feedback from the tyres.
hopefully as this season progresses we'll get updates to the NTM on cars as they develope it, in the mean time i'm waiting for a powerfull road car to get the NTM, hopefully the vette, so we can do proper comparisons.
you do realise you're comparing him to senna
must admit i wasn't keen on the itunes idea but it is stupidly easy to keep everything upto date on your iphone with it and despite the scaremongers it doesn't try to take over your pc, far from it, in fact i wish it was a little bit more grabbing to save me linking folders to it.
if she'd ended up upside down we'd have found out
agree 100% about BBC and F1, to continue what i said earlier, i'd be happy with a licence fee that was reduced in real terms if the BBC stuck to just making news / current affairs, state occasions etc, anything else it either bought in out of it's (hopefully reduced budget) or if it wanted to make them itself, had to decide if they're commercially viable with sales ( dr who being a good example with it's merchandise, overseas sales, licencing etc, god know how many BBC fails that pays for). torchwood is a role model for this, BBC gave it a small budget and the show never really showed it's true potential in first 2 series, third series they had money from other networks and it became better, now with most of the funding from a commercial channel, it has the budget it needs and the BBC has a better show for less cost.
don;t forget the ford has been in development for a long time, quite possibly it's actually been "running" for a while and has been developed alongside the NTM as that progressed
you could say the same for state education, maybe all schools should be commercial only, then parents could choose how much to spend on their education rather than people with no children having to fund it, my son's left primary school, i've no interest in primary education, why should i help fund the state's near monopoly on it?
more topically, why not make universities completely commercially funded, if you want to use them, pay for them, don't force them to be subsidised by tax payers
the BBC has it's faults, look at my earlier post, but compared to how much of our money gets spent on other things we have no choice over it's a drop in the ocean
(just to add i don't believe in the arguments about education, just used them as examples of how you can apply the BBc licence fee argument to other areas)
more topically, why not make universities completely commercially funded, if you want to use them, pay for them, don't force them to be subsidised by tax payers
the BBC has it's faults, look at my earlier post, but compared to how much of our money gets spent on other things we have no choice over it's a drop in the ocean
(just to add i don't believe in the arguments about education, just used them as examples of how you can apply the BBc licence fee argument to other areas)
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sort of know what you mean, not a true figure as football looks like a minority interest if you take sky's viewing figures but at the same time it'll be interesting to see how F1 compares to football.
F1 is very keen on stating it's the worlds most popular TV sport but i'm guessing that in most countries at best it comes second to at least one other sport, it's like someone winning the F1 championship without winning a single race just because they score in every country no matter that they're 5 laps behind in every race.
lets be honest if you took the total spectator attendance figures for all uk circuits for all meetings in a year, you'd probably find one weekends football attendances would be larger. motorsport is a minority interest, even those figures that were bandied about for the RAC in the group B era of 2 million spectators have to be takes with a pinch of salt, in theory that meant one in 30 of the uk population went and watched it, in practice a large part of that number were people who watched it at many venues, in 1984 i would have counted as 12 people.
surprised at you saying that intrepid, i thought that you of all people would realise that the BBC shows hardly any motorsport, all it does is go out of it's way to make people think that F1 is motorsport and that nothing else matters.
to say that the F1 coverage gives it a monopoly is like saying that because it covers wimbledon it has a monopoly on all ball sports and is normally the argument used by those who don't see the need for any coverage of GP2, GP3, NASCAR, indycar, BTCC, WTCC, IRL, WRC, ALMS, ISC, grand am, formula 2, formula 3, superleague, legends racing, fun cup, formula renault, porsche supercup, GT1, brit GT, ma5da mx5's, etc etc etc etc not to mention karting
re licence fee, i'd have thought the current murdoch situation is the best argument ever why you should have a non commercial channel funded by the tax payers for news / investigative journalism at least.
having said that the BBC has become stupidly oversized, any major story and you get a national news journalist and a specialist news journalist with their crew, a local news journalist with their crew, national radio journalists with their crew and local radio journalists with a phone and a recorder. also maybe BBC should stop producing all the populist crap like eastenders etc unless they are commercially viable through sales to other channels / merchandising (unfortunatly this probably saves eastenders
), concentrate on news and current affairs and then buy in any other programs according to it's budget
having said that the BBC has become stupidly oversized, any major story and you get a national news journalist and a specialist news journalist with their crew, a local news journalist with their crew, national radio journalists with their crew and local radio journalists with a phone and a recorder. also maybe BBC should stop producing all the populist crap like eastenders etc unless they are commercially viable through sales to other channels / merchandising (unfortunatly this probably saves eastenders
), concentrate on news and current affairs and then buy in any other programs according to it's budgetBBC could have reduced their costs by not taking jake, eddie, martin, david etc. 5 lives radio / red button coverage is far better. not to mention the fact they apparently paid not to coverr the support races, why not cover them on bloody bbc 3 or 4 or even on the red button rather than spend even more money on opting out?
anyway it looks like the teams aren't too happy about it and want more details off bernie, i'd imagine the viewing figure will be vastly smaller than the BBCs and i'd always understood that it was because of this that part of the conditions said the coverage had to be "free to air" (yes i know the arguments intrepid but i'm using the phrase in it's commonly understood meaning)
personally the cost won't be an issue as i already have sky sports but i do not fancy sky covering it unless they actually manage to not show commercials or at least do them P.I.P.
anyway it looks like the teams aren't too happy about it and want more details off bernie, i'd imagine the viewing figure will be vastly smaller than the BBCs and i'd always understood that it was because of this that part of the conditions said the coverage had to be "free to air" (yes i know the arguments intrepid but i'm using the phrase in it's commonly understood meaning)
personally the cost won't be an issue as i already have sky sports but i do not fancy sky covering it unless they actually manage to not show commercials or at least do them P.I.P.
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so vettel's leading the championship because he's a great driver but the cars the reason he can't pass? equally valid to say that alonso and hamilton are great drivers because they can pass but they're behind in the championship because their cars are poor,
difference is whilst hamilton and (especially) alonso find overtaking easier than their team mates mark webber manages to pass in an identical car to vettel so according to your argument red bull must be giving webber a better car. guess that means vettel's red bulls number 2 driver.
don;t forget they said the NTM on the 2011 class B was an early "work in progress" release, i wouldn't be surprised if dave makes the tyres wear faster after he's studies the feedback
er actually the cars in the 70's used to have an onboard battery and starter, generally the cosworths had a small chance of firing before the battery failed but as the batteries became lighter it got to the stage where the battery could only turn the engine a couple of revs so eventually the requirement was dropped
if it wasn't so sad it would be quite funny to see how some people ( and i don't mean on here) will now by their earlier arguments have to persuade the US to declare war on all christians and right wing parties 
what is scary is what happened to the wheel after it hit the canopy, given how low the canopy is (i.e.) on the ground) and the wheel was doing 140mph, any guesses how far away the wheel went after it was deflected?
1 mile !!!!!!
1 mile !!!!!!
came in here expecting to see a load of insults from audi fans at a peugeot driver given how rare fire is these days in F1 i'm surprised this hasn't happened earlier, off shore power boats went with the F16 canopy quite a few years ago and it's made a huge difference to their safety record. the FIA seem bent on making F1 a non fatality sport no matter how impossible that maybe and given how drivers drivers are these days walking away from impacts that should at the very least result in major fractures, the head is the only area left for them to worry about.
i'm not a lover of loosing open cockpits but these days there's so much driver protection each side of their heads that maybe it would actually allow the spectator to see more of the driver.
biggest downsides i'd have thought will be that aero efficiency will improve so we're probably looking for a further power reduction to reduce speed (though they might use some lateral thinking and control top speed with a aero drag fittment which could improve slip streaming) and how will they cope with dirty windscreens or wet weather? F1 pitstops are too short for pit crews to clean like in prototype or GT racing, a wiper probably won't work on such a tight curvature and even a rip off may be awkward given the shape. then there will be the problem of heat build up, sitting in a small green house in the middle east in fire proofs is not a good way to stay cool, F1 cockpits are already very hot, fighter cockpits are uncomfortably hot in sunshine, put the two together and it could easily be unbearable. and of course at some point, no matter how unlikely, someone will end up upside down with the car jammed in a barriers/ tyres with enough room for a driver to crawl out but not enough for the canopy to be removed and there will be a fire.
on balance i'd say F1 is pretty safe these days, driver's helmets and crash protection does an incredible job already, so we probably don't need this given the potential problems and how it would fundementally alter the look of the cars.
i'm not a lover of loosing open cockpits but these days there's so much driver protection each side of their heads that maybe it would actually allow the spectator to see more of the driver.
biggest downsides i'd have thought will be that aero efficiency will improve so we're probably looking for a further power reduction to reduce speed (though they might use some lateral thinking and control top speed with a aero drag fittment which could improve slip streaming) and how will they cope with dirty windscreens or wet weather? F1 pitstops are too short for pit crews to clean like in prototype or GT racing, a wiper probably won't work on such a tight curvature and even a rip off may be awkward given the shape. then there will be the problem of heat build up, sitting in a small green house in the middle east in fire proofs is not a good way to stay cool, F1 cockpits are already very hot, fighter cockpits are uncomfortably hot in sunshine, put the two together and it could easily be unbearable. and of course at some point, no matter how unlikely, someone will end up upside down with the car jammed in a barriers/ tyres with enough room for a driver to crawl out but not enough for the canopy to be removed and there will be a fire.
on balance i'd say F1 is pretty safe these days, driver's helmets and crash protection does an incredible job already, so we probably don't need this given the potential problems and how it would fundementally alter the look of the cars.
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