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Hackign

Hackign

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Found another F1 league thing. A lot more options as you can choose your 2 drivers, chassis, engine and fuel.

Get 100 million to spend, but all the top stuff is 60+ million.

My team at the moment is

Driver1: Senna (12M)

Driver2: Other HRT guy(10M)

Chassis: Sauber(41M)

Engine: Torro Rosso(27M)

Fuel: McLaren (10M)

You get points for everything. I couldn't justify the outlay of 70M to buy a top driver, so I'm trying to go for teams that should finish the race. I expect nothing from my drivers at all.

http://www.f1racemanager.com/editteam.asp

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mexos

mexos

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I saw it on Sutton Image's twitter feed, loltacular if true.

If it's true I can see them running light to look fast for the sponsors, & retiring about mid distance with hydraulic (everyone's favorite excuse for a failure they'd prefer to keep quiet) problems.

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marsh

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Erm........didn't they have *cough* Hydraulic problems in testing? along with various bits falling off the car?

On an unrelated note, I wonder if the cost of buying an old F1 car has come down in light of the global meltdown? there was a guy with a nasty old arrows parked in his garage that he bought for 10K once in a magazine some time ago. Had an engine and the running gear, that sort of cash is unheard of even now?

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gone fishin

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Erm........didn't they have *cough* Hydraulic problems in testing? along with various bits falling off the car?

On an unrelated note, I wonder if the cost of buying an old F1 car has come down in light of the global meltdown? there was a guy with a nasty old arrows parked in his garage that he bought for 10K once in a magazine some time ago. Had an engine and the running gear, that sort of cash is unheard of even now?

They are still ridiculously priced, but I have seen early 90s Ferraris and McLarens for sale... but the pricing mostly seems to have changed to "on application".

http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/classi...php/carno/62630

Get Alesi's Ferrari!!

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Wilbo

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According to Wikipedia, the 2005 Honda 3.0 V10 had 980 bhp.... So surprising that their 2.4 V8 was comparatively rubbish. Mind you, they banned variable valve timing for the V8s, which was possibly Honda's strength...

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Seems the Ferrari wheel's are legal.

Interesting analysis of the cars after testing by Heidfeld. It's sounding good for RBR again, promising for Ferrari as well, but oh dear on Virgin, doesn't sound promising.

Ferrari:

- Ferrari impressed more during the Jerez test.

- In Jerez the balance of the car was neutral, while in Barcelona the car had a slight tendency to understeer (this could be explained by the nature of the Barcelona track, which provokes understeer, while Jerez provokes oversteer.)

- The car has a lot of downforce.

- The car is stable in fast corners, which gives the drivers confidence.

- Sudden over- or understeer can be correctly easily by the drivers, even on high fuel.

Red Bull:

- Without looking at the lap times, the Red Bull looked to be the best car after its updates.

- It is almost frightening how good the Red Bull is.

- Red Bull has "sandbagged" in Barcelona; they haven't shown their full potential.

- He has seldom seen a car that is so well balanced, both is fast and slow corners.

- No other car has as much downforce in fast corners than the Red Bull.

- No other car brake as late and as long into the corners as the Red Bull.

- No other car is as good over the kerbs as the Red Bull.

- The Red Bull swinged the less on/after a bumpy track.

- They have worked a lot on the suspension and damping.

- The car has very little over- and understeer.

- Vettel and Webber can very easily drive the car on the limit.

McLaren:

- Before the updates the car was very nervous when driving over bumps.

- The car was very "pitch senstive"; it had extreme reactions under breaking and acceleration (tail stepping out and such).

- After the updates, the car was transformed in terms of handling.

- It over- and understeers a bit too much still.

- The car is tuned very stiff also in slow corners.

Sauber:

- The most stiffly tuned car.

- It jumps very much on uneven ground.

- Looks like a car that is difficult to drive.

- For Kobayashi, he always worries that he just flies of.

- But the car seems to be fast.

- Much will depend on whether Sauber can maintain that level.

Toro Rosso:

- Suprisingly good.

- The car oversteers a bit too much, but still driveable, due to which the tyres won't be destroyed.

Williams:

- Almsot in all aspects average; nowhere it is particularly good or particularly bad.

- Tuned very soft, which makes it good to drive in slow corners and over the kerbs, but slows it down in fast corners.

- The Williams is the car that rolls the most in turn 9, the fast righthander.

Renault:

- Improved a lot with it updates.

- The car is very nervous, or has to be driven nervous and aggressive.

- Suffers quite a lot from over- and understeer, but still controllable.

Force India:

- The car goes very well in fast corners.

- A bit nervous, but might be partly due to the aggressive driving style of Sutil

Newcomers:

- The balance of the Virgin is a disaster.

- Lotus looks much more balanced.

- Lotus has more downforce, but less grip and poor traction.

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