I decided to check this forum today after having not touched LFS for a few years. I did not take a break due to impatience or hard feelings but I just had a hard time finding a decent race on a regular basis after CTRA quit.
For old times sake, I upgraded to S3 in a heartbeat. It may be pricy for just one track but this is a project that I still consider to be worth supporting. I hope to be able to find some decent racing around here.
I hope new content and the new tyre model will be there in the near future but I don't really care about the Scirocco but that's just me. (VW hater, not looking forward to drive a Golf in a tracksuit).
I wouldn't take that too seriously. Luca is allways crying over something he has no control over and Bernie just says silly things to get people takling. (remember the medals?)
A more passionate response would have made better TV indeed but I think he was just wise enough to know Vettel did not need him to make himself look like an arse on stage (as he did).
There is just not much in it, pointing the finger when the legality of the move was not in question and was being handled at the time.
Sounds pretty far fetched to me and quite vulnerable for being exposed in a crash.
If it does flex in a way that it does not in the FIA test then I guess it's made in a way that it only flexes when there is a considerable force pushing it backwards.
-The FIA test is by weight
-The bending is under severe drag.
By itself this would be a racing incident but he has had way too many incidents. This one was actually the least agressive one I can rember from him but it happens way to often.
His deliberate move into Perez in Monaco was banworthy in my book as was his move on Lewis in Spa last year. Returning to the track into Lewis as he did in Valencia also showed he is the most disrespectfull driver I have seen since I started watching F1 in 1995.
I hope the day comes that his sponsors realise it does not do them any favours being associated with an antisocial POS.
If depth perception by stereoscopic vision was that important, there would not be any sim racing at the level it exists now.
I have quite an eye-dominance issue which means I have virtually no depth perception (apart from juding distance by using common sense). I must admit I do not even know what people mean when they talk about judging depth without moving their heads.
This might be an issue when catching a ball but not for driving.
With the limited sight to left and right in a race car, I doubt if that would be a real issue.
With the above I am not trying to say it's not a very tragic injury, just giving my view on how the effect on racing racing might be limited.
I do not really see the benefit from such a design apart from aerodynamics. The narrow front track will not absorb any roll forces so this is all up to the rear. I can imagine this thing will have some traction issues comming out of the corners.
Apexing and passing could be tricky if the driver forgets to think about the actual width of the car aswell.
It would be a nice work around if it would. I can imagine there would not be any Bernie rights involved in commentary without visual feed as the commentators just tell what they see and think.
Great, that means I can basically still have BBC coverage and might even escape commercial breaks by changing to the german RTL coverage (assuming the breaks are not in sync).