Outrun

No.

Long Beach.

hungrygreen_gsr

Yes. 12 years as a fire fighter. Happened a few days before their anniversary too.

Edit: for falcon's happiness.

falcongsr

please add an o

BauleyCivic

So I haven't played a sim racing game in about 4 years but this assetto corsa looks pretty cool...someone explain it to me

BauleyCivic

TFW you're a 45 year old british businessman worth $70m and drive Alonso's F1 cars

An interview with Simon Dolan: business mogul and racing fanatic -

Tim2179

iTrader: (2)

This is just like watching your videos from Autobahn

njn63

Thanks Rico.

BauleyCivic

falcongsr

FOM has been doing massive takedowns of any games/mods that have F1 content.

buttheds

BauleyCivic

Unlicensed Formula 1 mods ordered to be removed | PC Gamer

I can see how they can order that on games that they licensed (F1 2013, 2014) but good luck tracking down mods for rFactor type games.

SovXietday

Add me to that list.

Used to have a CBR600. One day was cruising through town in 3rd gear, revmatched to 2nd getting ready to turn up an offstreet. Throttle hung at the top of my rev match and when I dropped the bike into 2nd and let the clutch out I pulled an unexpected wheelie.

Longest 3 seconds of my life as I grabbed at everything trying to get the bike to stop accelerating. Finally just gave up and grabbed the clutch, and coasted to a stop with the bike slamming off redline. Gathered myself and very carefully road it home. Replaced the throttle cable, but never felt comfortable after that and sold it a month later.

My wife wants to get a cruising bike, but I'm really just not interested.

Outrun

For all you smart people in here...


F1: Haas embarks on 2017 recruitment drive





Tuesday, 12 April 2016

RACER staff

Haas has begun a recruitment drive to bolster its staffing numbers as it accelerates its preparations for the 2017 Formula 1 season.

The American newcomer has made an impressive start to the season, with Romain Grosjean's sixth in the Australian Grand Prix and fifth in Bahrain helping the team to fifth in F1's constructors' championship so far. Haas has all components teams do not have to design themselves supplied by Ferrari, plus access to the Scuderia's wind tunnel and latest specification of engine. The model has so far proved to be a success and that partnership is set to continue, according to Haas team boss Gunther Steiner.

However, in order to accelerate its plans for 2017 plans – when the regulations will feature significant bodywork changes – Haas is looking from aerodynamicists as well as aero performance engineers and analysts.

"It will be the same," said Steiner of his team's cooperation with Ferrari. "We just need more people. With more people, we can get more done. It is the result of the 2017 car. We need to put pressure on to develop the 2017 car now."

Steiner said the team will continue to use the Ferrari wind tunnel in an arrangement that will "be exactly the same as this year."

He added: "The scale model goes back to Dallara and when we go testing, we will go to Ferrari."

Steiner said the new staff will be based in Italy and once recruitment is finished, the team's total manpower will rise to just over 180 people.

"We have Haas Italia," said Steiner. "We have some offices in Dallara which we rent so they will be based there.

"The staffing numbers are going up but not by a lot. Some are for vacant positions which we didn't fill last year."

Outrun

Too many pics in the article, which can be viewed at the link below:
Special Feature: Ayrton Senna's first bitter rivalry

Special Feature: Ayrton Senna's first bitter rivalry



By: Andrew van Leeuwen, News Editor

11 hours ago


Long before he locked horns with the likes of Alain Prost in Formula 1, Ayrton Senna endured his first fierce rivalry in Formula Ford. Andrew van Leeuwen sat down with Senna's first bitter rival, Rick Morris.

Chances are you haven’t heard of Rick Morris. A career Formula Ford racer, Morris might not be a household name. But back in the early 1980s, Morris was the thorn in Ayrton Senna's side.

The year was 1981. Senna, having relocated to the UK from Brazil to chase his F1 dream, was signed up as Van Diemen’s lead factory driver for its Formula Ford 1600 campaign.

By then, Briton Rick Morris had already become a staple of the European Formula Ford scene. What started as a one-off race with Motor Racing Stables had led to Morris buying a £400 Formula Ford in the early 1970s, before he was drafted into the Hawke factory team in 1975.

After a brief stint with PRS, Morris was lured over to Royale for the 1980 season to work alongside young gun engineer Pat Symonds – now of Williams fame. Morris was then promoted to full factory status for 1981 – where his primary target was to take it to Van Diemen and their new Brazilian karting guru Ayrton Senna.

“I spent the year battling with Alfonso Toledano and Senna,” recalls Morris. “My car was better on the faster circuits; I won the Thruxton races, I won two of the Silverstone Grand Prix races, and I beat Ayrton both times at Brands.

“We had a lot of wheel-banging. He was an absolute arsehole during that year. Completely self-centred. ‘You blocked me Rick’… ‘I didn’t mean to Ayrton’.

"We used to call him Harry, because his mechanic Paddy, a legendary Van Diemen mechanic with very long hair, started calling him Harry.

“Ayrton was such a funny bugger. He wouldn’t test in the morning when it was cold. His gloves were always inside out sitting on the radiator.”

A lesson in determination

According to Morris, racing against Senna was a relentless endeavour. Between the Brazilian’s natural talent, and his commitment to his craft, Senna didn’t let up. And Morris had to learn to play along if he wanted to compete.

“Van Diemen had this thing where they could always use the Snetterton circuit at half past five when everyone else had pissed off home, and they had it for half an hour or 45 minutes. So they were going around and around,” explains Morris.

“But that taught me a lot. There was the old Russell Corner; it was a flat-out chicane with kerbs either side. I figured that if the car wasn’t too stiffly sprung, you could go through there flat. It hurt your ****, because the car was bouncing over the kerbs, but it meant I could stay with the Van Diemens.

“They always left me behind on the hairpin before the bridge, particularly Ayrton with his karting experience. He was great off that corner, but I couldn’t do it, I just didn’t have the traction in the Royale. But I’d get him through Coram, and I’d get him through Russell, then I could stay in the tow onto the straight.

“It taught me that there is always a way. If you’re determined enough, you’ll find a way.”

Rocky relationship

While it was Senna who ultimately came out on top in 1981, (Morris: “I was leading that for most of the year, then I had an accident which f####d me up”), the rivalry with the Englishman left a bad taste in the Brazilian’s mouth.

What irked Senna most was that Morris wasn’t a professional. He was a family man, well into his 20s, with a day job. Senna, meanwhile, had already dedicated his life to motorsport – and didn’t take kindly to being pushed to the limit by a part-timer.

“When I was dicing with Ayrton, I won the Brands round before the Festival. I had a photo of him being really pissed off. He later signed it for me, and said ‘I really f###ing hated that!’” recalls Morris. “He didn’t feel like anybody should be giving him any grief.”

Once they weren’t racing against each other, however, Morris and Senna’s relationship changed.

“We did eventually become friends, but only after the 1981 season had finished and Ayrton had moved on to FF2000.

“The friendship came through Mauricio Gugelmin. He and I, we were great mates. He was very talented too, but a completely different temperament to Ayrton. Even though we were bashing the hell out of each other, Mauricio and I were mates. He wasn’t the sort of guy that would come over and say ‘you f###ing c###’, he was a nice guy.

“He was living with Ayrton, they had a house near Virginia Water in the UK. So I spent a lot of time with Ayrton during 1982; he was doing FF2000, and if the races didn’t clash he would come to our 1600 races with Gugelmin.

“Ayrton was still making his mark then, but people started giving him things. I remember he won a race in a Mercedes somewhere, and was given a 190 2.3 16-valve thing. I still remember he came up to me at Brands when we were racing 1600s, and the joy on his face… ‘Rick, come and look at this. They gave me this. You have to see it’.

“Anyway, I have photos of my son Stevie, who was born in 1981, sitting on Ayrton’s shoulders in the paddock in ’82. Ayrton has a big smile on his face, he liked kids. His wife actually came over with him in ’81, Liliane, but she didn’t like the cold. They divorced soon after. She was a lovely girl, but she was very quiet. And Ayrton wasn’t thinking about his wife, all he thought about was racing. He was very self-centred…”

Was it obvious, even at that stage, just how good he would go on to be?

“Yeah, but you had plenty of these kids coming in,” says Morris. “He was obviously the best of the ones there at the time, but I didn’t realise he was going to become the legend that he was.”

The good old days

The best part of four decades after beginning his career, Morris is still racing. He regularly commutes from the UK to South Africa where he races contemporary Formula Ford, and he recently travelled to Australia to race as part of a 50-car historic FF grid at the Phillip Island Classic.

But he also acknowledges that the motor racing world has changed.

The late 1970s/early 1980s were heady days for junior open-wheeler racing. Categories like Formula Ford didn’t have a control chassis, which meant manufacturers actually had genuine factory teams and employed young drivers.

It was an arms race, but it meant genuine opportunities for young talent to develop without always having to bring a huge budget.

“We used to live with the cars," says Morris. "I spent a lot of time as a works and development driver for Hawke, for PRS, for Reynard, and for Royale… and we were testing a couple of times a week.

“Not that I ever did it full-time; I used to have a job as well, to pay the mortgage. It was a bit different.

“In my days, it was all about talent. You couldn’t buy a better engine, you couldn’t buy a better car. The cars were so simple. The engineering was very basic.

“I started with no money at all; I grew up in a council estate. But the nice thing was, if you made an impact, and you were seen to be potentially good, the manufacturers had the money coming in, the engine builders wanted to lend you engines, so you could make your way.”

njn63

Outrun

I bet a lot of Sauber people might apply.

Tim2179

iTrader: (2)

Alonso will sit out Chiner.

#timetoretire #tooold

falcongsr

no decision til thursday

no sleep til brooklyn

Tim2179

iTrader: (2)

It's thursday in china. they're two days ahead ya know.

falcongsr

when did MD legalize it

...esteban

Clairvoyant Tim ITT.

falcongsr

he's probably not wrong

cracked rib and whatnot

...esteban

Not a true champion doe.

...esteban

Can someone tell Honda that a 4-door hatchback is called a wagon?

...esteban

Also, who wants to talk Fourier Series/Series Expansions with me?

njn63

No because they're not.

Look overseas where wagons and 5 door hatchbacks are offered of the same vehicle for differences:
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/...t-drive-review