isn't it though... sometimes i think the GFX looked even more real than the real side
Posted on 08/05/2009 7:57:45 PM PDT by Chode
Impressive stuff.
Thanks for the link!
That was freakin’ unbelievable!!
isn't it though... sometimes i think the GFX looked even more real than the real side
Hope the multiplayer is as good. I would like to go up against more serious cyber-racers. Forza is a great game but there are usually just dorks on there that are more interested in knocking you off the track than they are in actually racing yiou. They need more tracks too.
no moderators i take it
Gene Haas has ‘no regrets’ over setting up American Formula 1 team
Gene Haas insists he has “no regrets so far” on entering Formula 1 despite the logistical headache in starting up a new American team.
Haas has turned to Ferrari to provide a considerable number of parts to build his two cars but that does not mean the project, the headquarters of which is based in the United States, is without its difficulties.
He is convinced come the start of next season and his team’s debut, it will not simply be making up the numbers.
“Our biggest hope is to show up at the show and run reliably,” said Haas, in conversation with AUTOSPORT.
“That’s the number one goal, to be able to get the personnel to the race venues, to get the pit equipment to show up at the same time, and get our personnel in hotels.
“There are a lot of logistics that go on in there, and that all has to happen before you can actually run a race car.
“But there are no regrets so far, with another of our goals to actually show you can survive in F1 without the drama some of the other teams go through.
“From everything I’ve seen, we’re going to be fine. We’re not going to wind up going to the poor house.”
DIETER RENCKEN: Behind the scenes of America’s new F1 team
Haas said the design and build of the car is on schedule, adding: “We know by sometime in August/September you have to have all the data.
“First of all you have to get the data from Ferrari and what they’re doing with their engines because you build your car around it, so all that data needs to be hard copied on paper and then we can start building our chassis.
“Right now we’re running some of our ideas in the wind tunnel and we have CFD, simulations and we’re learning, one step at a time.
“Once we get the final hard data, say like, where Ferrari suspension parts are going, that’s when we can finalise our design.”
The tie-up with Ferrari is saving Haas considerable time, money and effort, and the fact the Scuderia’s car is again proving strong on track is a considerable boost.
“I’m absolutely delighted they are challenging again,” said Haas, one half of the successful NASCAR partnership with Tony Stewart.
“But in this business it’s always cat and mouse, and one is always ahead of the other. We know Ferrari is not going to be behind forever.
“From our perspective, obviously we’re going to use their engines and transmissions.
“We have the FIA list of what we can purchase from them, with our aim to purchase as much as we can from Ferrari to build our car.
“We have some other suppliers who are going to help us with parts that we have to produce ourselves. If there’s stuff we can engineer ourselves then we’ll do it.”
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/119018?source=mostpopular
Raining a Monaco FP2 in waiting, Hammy resigns for $50 Million a year till 2018!!!
a=at
And talk of bringing back Refueling in 2017...
refueling, everything old is new again...
Are Bell Bottoms back yet/again ?
i still have a couple three pairs in a trunk somewhere... 8^)
It is a beautiful track, even in its modern shortened form!
Here is a classic lap from 1978: F1 Austria 78 onboard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr5HG1J845Y
and from 1987: E. Cheever and P. Tambay at Osterreichring in Renault RE40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTJZUNTMeZo
10 posted on Thursday, June 18, 2015 10:29:31 PM by MrShoop
the FISH???
Formula 1: US-Qatari investors ‘to bid’ for sport
The Miami Dolphins American football team owner Stephen Ross is reportedly working with investors from Qatar to buy a stake in Formula 1 racing.
RSE Ventures and Qatar Sports Investments plan a bid for CVC Capital Partners’ 35.5% stake in the holding company that owns F1.
The Financial Times and Reuters said the deal could be worth up to $8bn, and help build F1’s presence in the US.
CVC declined to comment, while RSE said “we can’t comment at this time”.
RSE was founded by property billionaire Ross, whose company has been in talks with ex-England footballer David Beckham about bringing a Major League Soccer team to Miami.
F1 currently only has one race in the United States on its calendar, in Texas.
But the sport may have a better chance of building a stronger American presence with the backing of a businessman already established in the US sports industry.
CVC, whose interests in F1 are looked after by Bernie Ecclestone, has been F1’s biggest shareholder for about a decade, although in the last few years it has reduced its stake. In 2012, CVC came close to floating the sport’s holding company on the Singapore stock market.
The firm has also held talks with US-based Liberty Media and Discovery Communications about a sale.
Reuters said that CVC and the potential bidding consortium have appointed investment banks to advise on a deal, suggesting that talks could be at an advanced stage.
Qatar Sports Investments, which own the Paris St-Germain football club, was not available for comment.
F1 gets weirder by the day. Ross is not a bad guy as far as NFL owners go, but as far as I know he isn’t a car guy or racing fan of note. There are a lot of other billionaires who are big time car enthusiasts that I’d rather see own F1....Jim Glickenhaus, Laurence Stroll or Ralph Lauren for starters.
i heard that
Would be a big mistake to invest in it. F1 is on the downhill slide and it is because of their stupid turbo V-6 hybrid “power units”. I have literally seen go kart races where the engines sounded better.
What these idiots fail to remember is racing is entertainment. For entertainment to succeed you have to have several sensory inputs that are stimulating to the human species. The two most important with racing are visual and sound. You take away one of them, sound, and you have removed 50% of two most important stimulants.
I think that is why Formula E will never be a commericial success. The cars are purdy, flashy, not very fast and sound like grandpa’s Hoveround.
Bring back the normally aspirated V-8’s or v-10’s that (cheaper than todays PU’s) scream like a banshee, reduce the incredibly complicated chassis regs opening it up so more teams can afford competitive cars and the sport(really industry) will thrive.
there you go thinking of yourself(and me) again! you have no compassion for the planet and homosexuals and all the other sh!t the left loves and adores... remember, speed kills
WOW!
anybody got $150K i can borrow???
https://www.yahoo.com/autos/s/yes-buy-v10-formula-1-car-now-193049853.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma
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