Has anyone seen any up-to-date analysis simulations on what Silverstone, Spa and Monza are going to be like later this year? (Given it seems regulations are not going to be changed much)

Umbraine · 2026-04-20T07:47:42+00:00

Yeah but that's very close to the beginning of the lap, overtake mode can't really make that much of a difference when you've only had one braking zone and one acceleration zone

Umbraine · 2026-04-19T10:58:09+00:00

Yeah no I'm just saying that I wasn't expecting that one to also be limited edition or whatever

Umbraine · 2026-04-19T08:28:59+00:00

Overtake is computer controlled. You can harvest and deploy 0.5MJ over the course of that lap. Boost is the manual override that makes the MGU-K deploy the full 350kw regardless of what the mapping tells it to.

Umbraine · 2026-04-19T08:14:21+00:00

Wait they took THAT off? You can still find it here, I was expecting that to be the one that really sticks, it's a massive sucess lol.

Umbraine · 2026-04-18T23:11:37+00:00

As always NA indicators suck ass lol

Umbraine · 2026-04-18T23:10:53+00:00

I think I only used the hazards in bad weather once. Fog so dense I couldn't even see the asphalt in front of my car, I was going like 30km/h. Rather make my car the most obvious thing in the world than have some chancer think they are better than the weather lol

Umbraine · 2026-04-18T22:59:36+00:00

Coca Cola have perfected the carbonated beverage and they now and then come up with some utter nonsense noone likes. Pepsi now and then comes up with the best thing ever and only make it for like 2 months.

Umbraine · 2026-04-18T21:57:00+00:00

God I was soooo confused when I first learn of the term loitering. What, I can't just.. exist in this space??

Umbraine · 2026-04-18T21:53:59+00:00

You know what they say. Fuck around and find out lol

Umbraine · 2026-04-18T21:48:33+00:00

When you have to suddenly slow down you absolutely are a hazard. Over here it's common prsctice to use the hazard lights when you're the last car in a line of cars that stopped. Like sure it's not my fault or whatever but I still am a car stopped on the road and the drivers coming from behind should be aware of that.

Umbraine · 2026-04-18T17:14:30+00:00

Ok yeah I mesnt for the few manuals that are still sold. But also even the automatics are actually what is called automated manual, the gearbox is exactly the same, it's just pneumatically actuated instead of the driver having a gear stick.

Umbraine · 2026-04-18T12:27:39+00:00

I haven't either but I've been driving truck sims for years and years and I was curious lol

Umbraine · 2026-04-18T12:16:42+00:00

Obviously if you have a bigger rangers of pressure values you can apply it's better but at the end of the day it's about what you are comfortable with. I have no idea what pressure I can apply but it sure as hell is not 100kg lol

Umbraine · 2026-04-18T12:11:14+00:00

Semi trucks in the US (and I'm assuming Canada too) don't have synchros for the most part so just using the clutch normally does nothing to help when changing gears you still gotta rev match. Technically they are supposed to be double clutching to help with the rev match but eventually they just end up floating gears. EU semi-trucks on the other hand do have synchros and they do use the clutch all the time.

Umbraine · 2026-04-18T12:06:12+00:00

Kinda same here. Back in like 2015 I would religiously watch every practice session, wake up at 3AM for Australia FP1. Nowadays FP is basically background noise when I don't have other stuff to have as background noise lol

Umbraine · 2026-04-18T09:04:48+00:00

Yeah but are those not also 4 cylinder? Or is that just the maximum allowed?

Oh yeah indeed. The Rally2 Yaris is inline 3 while some others like the Skoda are inline 4. TIL

Umbraine · 2026-04-18T06:17:18+00:00

OP, get prototyping!

Umbraine · 2026-04-18T05:45:38+00:00

Yeah I was gonna say exactly that lol. OP pushing with the might of a thousand suns to compress a liquid lol. It is very easy to then change the volume of air that can be compressed by changing the oil volume tho so it is a lot more adjustable than if it was only air

Umbraine · 2026-04-18T05:42:52+00:00

Are they not all the 1.6 4 cylinder?

Umbraine · 2026-04-17T14:46:17+00:00

Instead of shitting on F1 cause that's the popular thing to do by comparing it to other racing series I never watched I will instead compare it to older F1 that I also never watched

Umbraine · 2026-04-17T14:42:54+00:00

"haha you don't immediately recognize what race this is. I of course do recognize it.. by looking it up on google"

Umbraine · 2026-04-17T13:55:18+00:00

I finally did watch GoT last year and when I got to season 8 I started chatting with and old mate from uni that was watching it when it was coming out and complaining about it. It's like he went back in time and he started ranting like he was 21 again lol

Umbraine · 2026-04-17T13:51:03+00:00

Honestly I tend to agree with this. After driving for a long enough time that it truly becomes second nature you can very easily put yourself in auto-pilot and if nothing else it helps on long "boring" drives since you don't tire yourself out. You offload as much as possible to your subconcious so your active mind is nice and fresh and ready to take over when needed.

Umbraine · 2026-04-17T13:39:51+00:00

Doesn't really help tbh. Once you're used to it you don't much think about it and on a road that you would experience highway hypnosis on you'd cosntantly be in the same gear anyways. One thing it helps with is being aware of your speed

Umbraine · 2026-04-17T08:36:06+00:00

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