bet they won't give anything to those that couldn't even register for the race

still that's the point of these tests, to find problems so end result is probably good

Quote from JJ72 :

diesel not so much, but have a thing for diesel electric locomotives.

if you like diesel locomotives then there's only one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBkQQftn-AM

especially when the driver gets a bitcarried away

oh and here's how it works

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

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now that's a hard crash !!

wow so iracing and mclaren are releasing a "lite" version of mclaren's atlas telemetry analyser with iracing specific manuals written by mclaren

http://www.iracing.com/inracin ... ine-racing-data-analysis/

this is so good

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You just posted the same topic in the Iracing forum don't you

guilty

bruno senna in a renault F1 at spa with his blackberry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... p;feature=player_embedded

just been reported his body has been buried at sea, presumably to avoid his grave becoming a shrine whilst repecting his religion's need for a prompt burrial.

on the other hand it could mean he's not dead but is just looking forward to spending the rest of his life as a guest in very uncomfortable suroundings with no one worrying about his wealthfare

just forget him, he's so clueless i'm not even convinced he's actually got an iracing account. if he genuinely has then he seems to be grasping at any available excuse why he can't move up to higher class licences rather than consider it may actually be a lot to do with his own driving.

Quote from funRacer[83] :

not when you want to level up on one or two days. Then you have too look for the sr.. And no I don´t care if you think you shouldn't´t level up in one day.. .

have some patience, us early members took at least 9 months and a week to get to class A, now you're moaning because you can't level up in a couple of days in week 13, best a rookie can do is go to class D in week 13 as there's no higher races to complete MPR with (unless you're planning to get enough SR to get to D 4.0 to run class C) , if you are higher then you shouldn't really be leaving it till week 13 to get promoted.

either way anyone who expects rookie races to be incident free is living in a dream world but you can avoid them if you drive with some brains, start from the pits, don't get /let anyone get close to you, ignore the race result. if promotion, rather than a championship, is what you're after then it's easy to stay safer.

and before you say it's not realisitic, ask any real world racer on here what those black X on a yellow box mean when you first start racing, their aim is to get signatures on their licences which means being safe on track, start hitting cars as a real life rookie and you have to answer some questions.

exactly, may be they should change it so you earn SR dollars and buy your next licence but you pay for any damage, people might get it then.

apart from anything else it teaches you to use your eyes, if you spectate road races as often as i do you notice that's one of the biggest differences between the lower licence class drivers and the higher licence class drivers, the lower guys always seem to get caught up in other's accidents' the higher class get through unmarked quite often.

i'v lost count of the number of rookie, D or even C class drivers i've seen hit a car thats been stationary for 4 or 5 seconds despite it being in full view and getting yellow flags, and of course they then have a go at the other car for not clearing the track, the next race the same driver will try to go past a car at full race speed and then moan because it moves as the driver tries to clear the track and they can't react in time.

SR isn't broken, in real life doesn't matter who's fault it is, each driver pays for his own damage, same on iracing except you pay in SR.

as boothy said, week13. anyone thats been with iracing for more than 1 season will learn not to rely on week 13 for SR, unless you are very very carefull in the road series there's little or no chance of improving, no one in their right mind would drop into a rookie race to boost SR durring the regular 12 weeks yet so many seem to expect the driving to be magically better in week 13.

since fast track came in there's no great panic over SR anyway, just wait till week 1 starts and then grab the SR / MPR as quick as possible and then you're sorted

no worries, just though someone may need the link and like you may have missed it, great podcast though

yep it's a great track with a nasty sting in the tail with the tigher bends towards the end of the lap, williams is fantastic round there

no surprise how popular 7 is, read somewhere that it's by far the most popular choice between 0 and 9, there was some scientific reason behind it but i can't remember it as it was about 25 years ago

yep, still okyama looked good before it went down

all the skippies will need reskinning though, one of my side pods was on the nose now

Quote from Storm_Cloud :

This month's podcast for Motorsport magazine is a hour in the company of Dario Franchitti. Lots of interesting stuff about Di Resta, mid 90s DTM, late 90s Champcar and so on.

Quote from tinvek :

might be worth indy fans listening to this

it's from march but still agree with you, it's well wortha listen

site back up, updates available

download quick at moment as presumably not many people realise it's available

incident points aren't blame dependent, think of them as real world racing damage, doesn't matter who causes a crash, everyone pays for their own damage, there are some inconsistencies though in how hard you have to hit / be hit to get them.

boosting SR though TT doesn't take long at lower licence levels, just don;t stop once you've done the required number of laps for a TT (10?) run clean for the full 30 mins in each session. apart from anything else it's good practice in running a decent race distance

might be worth indy fans listening to this

http://www.motorsportmagazine. ... st-with-dario-franchitti/

acording to what both mclaren and bridgestone said last year both button and hamilton are both easy and hard on tyres. button is easy on the "tread" but hard on the carcass as his smooth style generates a lot of carcass heat but not much surface heating whilst hamilton is hard on the "tread" and easy on the carcass due to his more "edgy" style, depending on the nature of the car, track etc, this can lead to a different driver having problems and also explains why button has at times struggled to have his tyres at opperating temp on a restart.

more importantly, will the rumours of vettel's kers system being cooked by him in qualifying prove to be true ?

and if so how much will it hurt him at the start ?

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

If you've ever watched a romantic comedy you would know that the two people that hate each other at the start always end up together at the end...

oh god, think what the kids will look like

not to mention how much they'll argue when they're teanagers

Quote from tristancliffe :

These real men didn't use h-shifts and clutches through choice!! If they were around at the time, and made cars faster, then I have no doubt Clark, Hill, Chapman, steward, Fittipaldi, Senna, Rosberg, Fangio, Brabham et al would have used them.

exactly not one of the drivers that were in F1 when wings first appeared opted to spend the rest of their career only driving F1 cars without wings, most of the drivers tris mentions drove F1 cars with downforce generators of some form, senna drove paddle shift cars when he had the chance, some of the cars in moss' era had preselector gearboxes so they didn't have to take a hand off the wheel when changing down for a corner, chapman attempted to develope a "2 pedal" car in the mid 70's with the lotus "queerbox", firstly on the 76 and briefly on the 78 but the gearbox couldn't be made reliable enough to race though ronnie peterson loved it as he already had some experience of left foot braking. in fangio's era mercedes fitted their sports car with an airbrake to improve braking and the drivers soon learned that if they left it raised they had more grip through the corners so even back then drivers used anything that made them faster or made driving easier.


there's no way to remove all the high tech from F1 without completely revamping every formula under it if you want F1 to be the top of the single seater performance pyramid.

to be fair to him, barichello's not exactly seconds ahead of him is he ?

anyone else getting time out (error 2) when trying to join a game ?

renault have said they were both suspension failures, just down to how the parts seperate under the loads on them at the time that causes the failures to look substantially different