how's it feel now? was talking with a couple of australians about it the other day and how none of us have tried it for quite a while. out of all the road cars this is one i'd expect to really benefit from the new tyre model when it's released as i'm sure most of the handling issues are due to the current tyres not coping with both rear wheels always turning at the same speed and producing stange grip / slip charectoristics.
lewis, kubica, suttil and others have said that nick is faster than them in sim racing, which must be bloody fast given how fast "L. Hamilton" was when he ran the williams at lime rock in iracing.
lewis has always said that nick is his true real life hero because of how he's got on with his life so it's nice to see him taking it further and hopefully it'll give his father a chance to actually just enjoy the "thats my son" side of things rather than all the preasure he placed on himself and lewis when he was is manager.
lewis has always said that nick is his true real life hero because of how he's got on with his life so it's nice to see him taking it further and hopefully it'll give his father a chance to actually just enjoy the "thats my son" side of things rather than all the preasure he placed on himself and lewis when he was is manager.
there's a post on another forum where they point out the perspective on those pics are all slightly different, when they're overlaid and zoomed in there's about a 6% difference in how wide the wheel rims appear despite them all being the same diameter so you can't draw any definative conclusions from the pictures.
track still isn't complete, same as lime rock, until the track side objects have all been completed it's not worth them going back, the only reason daytona is getting a rescan this year is because everything's finished
i thought that was the point of a carb, to suck 
when you're viewing another car or do you mean when your viewing / driving your own?
the steering wheel does move when you're in your own car / the car who's driver saved the replay, the only time it appears fixed is when you're viewing another car or if you have the steering wheel unchecked in the graphics options and the car still requires the wheel to be there to present instruments (as in the williams. ford V8 supercar etc).
i assume the idea of the wheel not moving when viewing other drivers is the same as why you can't see their throttle / brake / steering imputs etc, i.e. to keep secret what their control inputs are.
have a look in the options / controls screen, on the left side under the steering adjustment there is a brake force curve adjustment, try adjusting that, the auto measurement feature is ok to start with but a little bit of tweaking can help tailor it to your personal taste.
if you find you need a different value for each car tick the "custom contorls" box at the bottom left then you can set it for each car
the reason why petrov isn't up to the job yet is the same reason why williams decided to keep barichello rather than hulkenberg, one year's experience in F1 does not make you sufficently knowlageable to develope the car, especially now that testing is so restricted. renault can not afford to go down any routes in development that does not work and similarly they can't afford to reject a possibility just becasue at first it doesn't seem to be beneficial. the trick is seperating the one from the other and certain drivers have the ability to do this more reliably than others, williams always rated heidfeld's feedback on developments and admitted it's one area they struggled with after he left. senna might possibly be faster than heidfeld in an equal car but it's very likely that heidfeld would ensure his car was substantially faster than senna's by the fifth race if they both developed a car seperately.
also with the points system the way it is and changes in the regs, the ability to bring a car home will count for a lot, petrov had this last season in some races but senna made a ofof mistakes through pushing past what the car was capable of. it maybe that in a more capable car he'd be a better finisher but when coupled with petrov's habit last year of hindering his race prospects through crashes im qualifying / practice it's too much of a gamble to have both of them in a team at once, thats why teams tend to like one steady driver alongside a more "advetureous" driver.
ideally from renault's poit of view, heidfeld will develope the car and bring it home in races whilst petrov will build on the flair he showed last year and be challenging at the front.
of course the worst case scenario from testing is if senna and heidfeld are both faster than petrov !
also with the points system the way it is and changes in the regs, the ability to bring a car home will count for a lot, petrov had this last season in some races but senna made a ofof mistakes through pushing past what the car was capable of. it maybe that in a more capable car he'd be a better finisher but when coupled with petrov's habit last year of hindering his race prospects through crashes im qualifying / practice it's too much of a gamble to have both of them in a team at once, thats why teams tend to like one steady driver alongside a more "advetureous" driver.
ideally from renault's poit of view, heidfeld will develope the car and bring it home in races whilst petrov will build on the flair he showed last year and be challenging at the front.
of course the worst case scenario from testing is if senna and heidfeld are both faster than petrov !
+1, take time to get used to your wheel first, no point wasting some subs on learning to drive again, once your as fast with a wheel as you were before you can think about iracing.
the point is that with only one test completed, renault desperately need someone who has experience of developing a car, heidfeld has a good reputation for that plus after driving in BMW with kubica and being very similar in speed they probably share a love of the same charectoristics in a car so assuming the renault was designed to work for kubica, it should work for heidfeld.
knowing how quirky history is, this could well turn out to be the year heidfeld wins the championship now after being in kubica's shadow at BMW
knowing how quirky history is, this could well turn out to be the year heidfeld wins the championship now after being in kubica's shadow at BMW
lol every time i use one of my cards for iracing they phone me about it, trouble is they sometimes take a few hours so it can be when you're asleep, no answer and they'll send a bloody text which wouldn't be a problem but i've got a long text tone as i don't always hear it in work so it always wakes me up.
best bit is if you don't reply to text they assume the transactions ok, so if i get mugged and they take my wallet and phone and try to buy something dodgy i've got to pray they reply to the text and ask the payment to be blocked
love dave kaemmer's blog about Q circles, first time i've found mathematics that entertaining
http://www.iracing.com/news/bl ... -crop-circles-of-iracing/
best bit is if you don't reply to text they assume the transactions ok, so if i get mugged and they take my wallet and phone and try to buy something dodgy i've got to pray they reply to the text and ask the payment to be blocked
love dave kaemmer's blog about Q circles, first time i've found mathematics that entertaining
http://www.iracing.com/news/bl ... -crop-circles-of-iracing/
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typical i took a premier sports sub out to watch some of the conference games (plus a little bit of the sub goes to your team) and planne dto scrap it but now i've discovered they've got the UK's NASCAR coverage for this season so i'll have to keep it now.
not sure if thats a
or a 
not sure if thats a
or a ok so in your first quote you say you know it's a cooler vent just you called it an exhaust yet in the second you still say it's a fake unified exhaust vent to throw the opposition
oh and for your information it's in exactly the same place as the 2010 mclaren's gearbox / hydraulics cooler exhaust vent, have a look it appeared fairly early on in 2010
on board footage from first car down the stage after kubica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... p;feature=player_embedded
awfull lot of armco with exposed ends on the stage, easy to see how it happened
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... p;feature=player_embedded
awfull lot of armco with exposed ends on the stage, easy to see how it happened
thats the exhaust vent for the hydraulic / gearboc cooling, you can follow the flow from the secondary air intakes to the coller assy ontop of the box and then the carbon fibre duct to vet the air. there reason it looks strange with the body on is there is a fairly large air gap all round it to hent hot air from the engine etc (not engine exhaust)
haven't you heard?
to increase the WRC's green credentials they are going to base the 2013 cars on full size versions of these,
http://www.onedirt.com/news/if ... -it-top-hamster-dragster/
obviously crew training has to start in plenty of time
as mclaren themselves have said, the engine and exhaust are dummies to keep the main parts of the design secret for as long as possible, they're hinting that some areas of the car may be quite radically different to how the launch car looked and haven't ruled out that it may have forward exhausts
looking at that view and the angle of the "false floor" on the nose and the low sections of the side pods it looks like they may be trying to direct the air from below the nose over the side pods and direct it to the rear wing assembly
it's the nose that intrigues me, looks like they've created a false floor / splitter arangement between the wing supports that runs back to the main tub
interesting nose assembly and shape of top of the sidepods
wonder if they'll carry a driver out as well
different
well at least we know where the exhausts are pointing
well at least we know where the exhausts are pointing
my first thought was a bad joke now getting worse but given how artificial the whole rear wing idea is then making it only available for those 600 m at the end of the main straight sort of makes sense,
basically their saying you have to have got a conventional "tow" onto the straight to get into the 1 sec window and then you'll get an enhanced slipstream effect just as you come towards the braking area, rough calculations seem to show that if you allow say 100m for the braking area that means at 300 kph you'll have about 6 seconds of lower wing before you start slowing.
a speed increase of 18 kph gives you an advantage of just 30 m travelled in that time compared to the car in front if you ignore the time it takes to gain that speed advantage. 1 second behind at 300 kph puts you aprox 80 meters behind the car in front so you won't get there unless you are a fair bit closer, say at most 2 tenths behind when you enter the overtaking zone which is where abouts a tow that is almost good enough in the past has often left a car, just that bit short of the time to attempt a pass. obviously if the wing gives a greater speed increase then it's easier but at these figures the best you could achive with 18kph and 2 tenths behind is probably less than a car length lead when you start to brake.
add in the fact that being at the end of the straight makes positioning for the corner important so a leading driver can defend by going to the inside and it's actually looking like it may require a good run onto the straight followed by a good tow that gets you under the other car's gearbox and then being brave enough to make the pass and defend whilst being on the outside line for the bend. this may, just may, actually produce some good driving rather than totally artifical passing.
basically their saying you have to have got a conventional "tow" onto the straight to get into the 1 sec window and then you'll get an enhanced slipstream effect just as you come towards the braking area, rough calculations seem to show that if you allow say 100m for the braking area that means at 300 kph you'll have about 6 seconds of lower wing before you start slowing.
a speed increase of 18 kph gives you an advantage of just 30 m travelled in that time compared to the car in front if you ignore the time it takes to gain that speed advantage. 1 second behind at 300 kph puts you aprox 80 meters behind the car in front so you won't get there unless you are a fair bit closer, say at most 2 tenths behind when you enter the overtaking zone which is where abouts a tow that is almost good enough in the past has often left a car, just that bit short of the time to attempt a pass. obviously if the wing gives a greater speed increase then it's easier but at these figures the best you could achive with 18kph and 2 tenths behind is probably less than a car length lead when you start to brake.
add in the fact that being at the end of the straight makes positioning for the corner important so a leading driver can defend by going to the inside and it's actually looking like it may require a good run onto the straight followed by a good tow that gets you under the other car's gearbox and then being brave enough to make the pass and defend whilst being on the outside line for the bend. this may, just may, actually produce some good driving rather than totally artifical passing.
gut feeling is to support team lotus, apart from the fact that lotus cars have never made single seaters for racing i just don;t like the way proton were quite happy to ride the publicity of team lotus last year when it suited them before deciding to jump on the band wagon and buy a team to run under the lotus name in F1.
if i have to search for a hard fact for team lotus to deserve the name, they were given one of colin chapman's caps by his family in a glass case to be opened in the event of victory, that'll do for me as i feel team lotus reflects the spirit of the old team rather than the offshoot of a huge corporation.
if i have to search for a hard fact for team lotus to deserve the name, they were given one of colin chapman's caps by his family in a glass case to be opened in the event of victory, that'll do for me as i feel team lotus reflects the spirit of the old team rather than the offshoot of a huge corporation.
i've changed my mind about the weight distribution ruling for 2011. wasn't happy about it at first as it seemed to be there to stiffle designers but it makes sense once it's explained, it's just for 2011 to ensure that one team doesn't get lucky and by chance get a distribution that suits the pirelli's far better than anyone else whilst no one's really got any solid information to work on.
next season when everyone's done some serious running on the actual race tyres, they'll be free to go with what ever distribution they want.
next season when everyone's done some serious running on the actual race tyres, they'll be free to go with what ever distribution they want.
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