Changing box length, box height and mass(wtf? it really shouldn't) affect its value. That means the DI we see in AC is based on mass and pitch inertia alone. Not yaw, not roll.
Mass does affect the yaw dynamic index...
e.g. Yaw DI = k^2 / ab, given that k^2 = Iz / m
As far as I can tell AC wants the input for car.ini as INERTIA=width,height,length (whole vehicle values i.e. not track,height,wheelbase).
At least that's what every good mod seems to use (except in cases like the AC Cobra which uses a lower height value in car.ini. I assume that this is due to the fact that it doesn't have a roof and the windowscreen would only count for 1% of the cars overall mass or something).
Wonder who will drive the 2nd toro rosso car next season.. Also can't help but feel sad for bianchi. Stuck in that red turd in the back of the grid with almost no room to show any kind of skill. If ferrari won't move him to at least to sauber next season then his career is done imho.
Pierre Gasly, Carlos Sainz Jr. or Alex Lynn. Take your pick.
That first setup was annoying but ok, not so complicated. I thought i've calibrated the wheel properly, but MX5 is giving me only 90 degrees of rotation to each side, is that normal? The feeling and FFB is pretty much awfull if this is all there is to it. All aids off etc..
Nah he gets paid by Audi and Toyota for his other racing. He is driving for free (so was Koba). He has driven for Kolles (Tech. Dir.) before though and was teammates with Albers (Team Prin.) in that drive.
that stiffer ARBs increase weight transfer. But I've been taught that weight transfer is a function of Centripetal acceleration, car weight, c.g height and track width. Confused here
The total weight transfer equation is always true irrespective of suspension design and damping. Stiffer roll bars increase the lateral load split (i.e the difference between the force applied to the outside and inside wheels)
For an example, if you put a stiffer rear anti roll bar on, the calculated effects for a right hand turn using just sprung and unsprung mass calculations would be:
LF load decrease
RF load increase
LR load increase
RR load decrease
Your overall load transfer from mah/T would be the same, but a larger percentage of that load is applied to the left rear tyre along with the rear transferring more total load than the front. (due to the load split decrease on the front and increase on the rear).
It makes sence for them to do it, but I think we'll hear even more tracklimits whining now during the F1 and car races there. Though when I think about it, when they put down tarmac in the Parabolica, that means the Lesmo bends might be in for a change too? It's a similar kind of situation for bikes there as it is (or rather was) with the Parabolica with just gravel there.
don't think they need it at Lesmo. The run up to it isn't so high speed so any bikeist falling off is unlikely to find the barrier anyway
Is Kimi's race engineer actually retarded. Okay, Kimi did a terrible lap but that makes the race engineer triple over-retarded for not sending him out on softs.