[PITS]Project International Touring Series presented by SNAIL SundaysPS4
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- Alex_ONeil
Here Are some of the pics and videos from the F1 race in Austin!!
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- HazardLvL4
Love the pictures Alex!
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- Ch11chcftzp
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- Alex_ONeil
It won't let me upload the video files for some reason, any ideas? do they need to be a certain format?
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- flip_jj
Not that one. There's one moment where you go OOB and lift through the back straight and only gets back on the gas after Alex and Aero are through. I'll dig it up when I get home.
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- Chadbaseball15
@Alex ONeill Do they sound as terrible as they do on tv?
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Main reason I did not attend this year. I straight up told COTA that too In the survey they asked me to fill out. Not their fault, but I still hate it.
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No, they aren't as ear piercingly loud as they used to be (V8's) but at least you don't need ear protection. you still can't talk to the person next to you while they go by so they are still pretty loud.
They had the Masters Historic cars running as a support race (F1 cars dating from '73 to '83),they were louder but not by very much.
All of the videos were of practice laps from P1 to P3. The qualifying laps were way faster. Hamilton broke the COTA lap record in qualifying.
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- Chadbaseball15
Yeah, these teams just keep getting faster with the current combination.
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- aerolite
Not sure i agree with your comment about the indy cars, Fittipaldi and Mansell both came from F1 and won Indy car and numerous other ex F1 guys have done well. Ya, there have been some that haven't done very well but that seems to be more of a recent thing. Lets turn it around, the only guy I can think of off the top of my head is Michael Andretti going to McLaren F1 and that didn't work out so well, mind you, I believe he might have had Senna as a teammate!
I have attended live F1 races every decade now since the sixties, the first one was the 1967 Canadian GP at Mosport. The only thing I remember was how crazy loud the cars were and that my hero, Jim Clark, retired from the race. I can't say I have ever heard a bad sounding F1 car, just that some have been crazy hard on the ears. The V8's have always seemed the loudest to me, particularly in 2006, they just wailed and really hurt your ears if you weren't wearing protection, but with ears muffled, they sounded great. My last live F1 was the inaugural COTA in 2012, again V8's and you had to have earplugs. One of the coolest sounding F1 years for me was '86, when they were running twin turbo V6's, man those things sounded great. I still remember standing by the fence, at the right hand kink after start finish line at Montreal in practice, when they came by for the first time. You could hear them accelerating down the straight and the sound building and building until those turbo's went rushing by with this god almighty roar/scream, it literally took your breath away. My wife will still tell you to this day, how she stood there in disbelief that anything could make a sound like that!
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Flip, for once Aero is right.....it was a Penalty. If it wasn't for my penalties in the first race, I would have been right at the front with the zoomies. Twenty seconds of no throttle in a race like this will kill you every time. I still support using the in game penalty system though. I paid for my mistakes which is the way it should be.
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- flip_jj
Since F1 places a great emphasis on efficiency, having more noise doesn't make sense, since noise is energy that is being wasted.
Back in the 80's I'd be deaf for a week after going to the Brazilian GP, those cars were insane. But they were also running on about 10 engines a weekend, so it's a different world now.
Yes, F1 was insane in the 70's and 80's but that is gone and is never coming back. No way BMW makes an engine that lasts 4 laps in qualy mode, that just isn't feasible anymore.
But although the racing could be improved drastically with less aero and more mechanical grip from the tyres (which suck because that's what FOM asked Pirelli to do, not because they can't make good tyres), there is plenty of action in every race. For people that only want to see who wins, then yes, F1 kinda sucks right now. For people that like racing, that understand it's a team sport where the driver is just the most visible one, then this era has been really good, as all the ones before have been as well, at least in my view.
I loved the 80's racing, but I rather see cars that almost never break down with drivers that do about a million things every lap to take care of the car, with the pit guys making sure that the driver/car combo are absolutely maximising the potential they have, every single lap, every time.
We race in a very comfy way and we know how effing hard it is to run lap after lap after lap in the same pace, getting .1 every lap, taking care of the tyres, fuel, track position, strategy, etc.
And I believe F1 drivers would take some time to get used to the racing (oval is a different animal), but most of them would be competitive. Hell, Max Chilton was rotten poop in F1 and did very ok for himself in Indy Lights.
I started in the 80's (would be hard to start in the 60's, having been born in '76), and in 86 my dad and I got into the track and I found one huge piece of Mansell's Williams and my dad didn't let me take it home (he knew he would be the one carrying it, I was 10). Still pissed at that, after all these years...
But yeah, the sound was insane. Those beasts sounded like they wanted to eat your children.
I also saw Indy when they went to Rio in the 90's and I've never thought the oval was even close to being as insane as F1. Although the distance Paul Tracy passed from the wall was insane. He was about 2 feet closer than anyone else and obviously my favourite from the first lap.
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You guys need to sleep once in a while. I too love that car. Aero hates it so you know where my vote will go. Except for the Ariel, I think its one of my faves.
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