| Author | Message | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Intermediate Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 1571 Registered: 8-2002 |
Rijk, very informative, thank you... Matt, before you walk away, can you peel my dream off the bottom of your shoe...?  i know there's almost no chance at all, but hope breeds drive (no pun intended)... Even if i could just drive one, once, i just want to know what's like... Some people wanna climb Mt. Everest- i just want a few laps around something hairy in something that tops out at 240+... | ||
| Matt Lemus (Mlemus)
Intermediate Member Username: Mlemus Post Number: 1565 Registered: 8-2002 |
DES, If your not in F-1 now, you are too late. F-1 guys are starting about 19 or 20 now. | ||
| Rijk Rietveld (Rijk365gtb4)
Junior Member Username: Rijk365gtb4 Post Number: 117 Registered: 1-2002 |
The new M3 sequential gearbox paddles turm with the steering wheel, also the Alfa's buttons are fixed to the steering wheel. Porsche tiptronic buttons are on top of the steering wheel. Whatever it is you can get used to it | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Intermediate Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 1552 Registered: 8-2002 |
LOL, Kenny, it's a play on words, meant to be heard as 6 speed... | ||
| KCCK (Kenneth)
Member Username: Kenneth Post Number: 314 Registered: 10-2002 |
Des, Heathly? Your chosen name is SICKspeed!! | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Intermediate Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 1551 Registered: 8-2002 |
You're right, Kenny... but round isn't too accurate, either... Let's say... healthy. | ||
| KCCK (Kenneth)
Member Username: Kenneth Post Number: 311 Registered: 10-2002 |
Des, I think "round" might be more appropriate. You might be "round", but I don't think anybody will call you "thick". | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Intermediate Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 1550 Registered: 8-2002 |
Not so much corpulent, Kenny, LOL, more like rotund, i guess... or thick... yeah, i like the word thick... | ||
| KCCK (Kenneth)
Member Username: Kenneth Post Number: 307 Registered: 10-2002 |
Des, From what you have intimated, do I take it that you are reasonably corpulent? | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Intermediate Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 1542 Registered: 8-2002 |
Mark, telling me i won't be able to fit into a Formula 1 racecar is defamatory enough- my dreams are crushed...  Seriously, so in the movie Driven, Stallone wasn't getting into a real F1 car...? Please don't tell me i'm too big, it's only been my life's dream to go 240 mph... | ||
| Dave Mills (360dave)
Junior Member Username: 360dave Post Number: 79 Registered: 1-2002 |
I've had several high-speed drives in the car. Drove for about 1/2hr at 130 up I-5; top speed about 145; about 130-5 on the track. Dave - wouldn't fit in a F1 car either... | ||
| Mark Collins (Markcollins)
Junior Member Username: Markcollins Post Number: 108 Registered: 7-2002 |
Now Des, I don't want to say anything defamatory on line you understand but it would appear that you may be both vertically and girthilly challenged for the role in question (enter smiley face here!) | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Intermediate Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 1537 Registered: 8-2002 |
So Mark, you're telling me that i'm too tall and too fat to drive a Formula1 racecar...? Dave, what's the fastest you've gone in it...? | ||
| Dave Mills (360dave)
Junior Member Username: 360dave Post Number: 78 Registered: 1-2002 |
Thanks DES, yep GOT FEAR. Somehow it seems appropriate. That pic was last year up at Tahoe, I guess it's about time to drive up that way again and see how far I get before I have to stop... Dave | ||
| Mark Collins (Markcollins)
Junior Member Username: Markcollins Post Number: 106 Registered: 7-2002 |
Des umm..only 5'11, fancy a cut and shut job to get down to around 5'6" or less! 200lb's yes well, time to diet I think, I havn;t looked recently but I beleive the average is around 125lbs | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Intermediate Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 1505 Registered: 8-2002 |
Mark, i'm only 5'11", but i'm over 200 pounds... Would that create a problem...? (well over 200 lbs. ) | ||
| Mark Collins (Markcollins)
Junior Member Username: Markcollins Post Number: 105 Registered: 7-2002 |
Des It's an all up weight for car and driver....600KG,s I think, the smaller the better for the driver really then they can move ballast around to car ot create better balance, also if you're too tall you could restrict the airflow into the engine | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Intermediate Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 1504 Registered: 8-2002 |
Um... since this thread partly has to do with F1- is there a weight requirement to be a driver...? | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Intermediate Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 1502 Registered: 8-2002 |
Hans, do you think, if i was a Formula 1 racecar driver, they'd let me use my own gloves or i'd have to use their big winter construction gloves...? | ||
| Hans E. Hansen (4re_gt4)
Member Username: 4re_gt4 Post Number: 828 Registered: 4-2002 |
Those guys have to be freaking magicians to tweak all those knobs and buttons at speed, and with thick gloves on too. | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Intermediate Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 1490 Registered: 8-2002 |
Those little things below the white buttons...? They look like pieces of paper...! | ||
| Matt Lemus (Mlemus)
Intermediate Member Username: Mlemus Post Number: 1510 Registered: 8-2002 |
You can see the clutch paddle. the up and down are behind the cross member to the wheel | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Intermediate Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 1484 Registered: 8-2002 |
Where are the paddles...? | ||
| Matt Lemus (Mlemus)
Intermediate Member Username: Mlemus Post Number: 1509 Registered: 8-2002 |
From the 1997 Ferrari F310B  | ||
| Matt Lemus (Mlemus)
Intermediate Member Username: Mlemus Post Number: 1508 Registered: 8-2002 |
The clutch lever is on the wheel as well. Right below the upshift paddle. | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Intermediate Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 1483 Registered: 8-2002 |
By the way, Dave, that's an awesome-looking car you've got there... Does your plate read GOT FEAR...? LOL, too cool... | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Intermediate Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 1482 Registered: 8-2002 |
Thanks, Dave... i guess that makes the most sense, as far as both cars are concerned, except when the racecar goes into a hairpin turn- i don't know, i've never done it, so i guess i'd have to feel it out, first hand (no pun intended) to make that call... Again, Thank you... | ||
| Dave Mills (360dave)
Junior Member Username: 360dave Post Number: 77 Registered: 1-2002 |
If you're asking what they actually do, the paddles in a 360 are in a fixed position, regardless of where the wheel is. My understanding is on the F1 cars the paddles turn with the wheel. As far as which makes more sense, I'm pretty comfortable with the way I use my 360 - on the road. When I race (not my Ferrari) I keep my hands in the same place on the wheel all the time. The paddles should be there. When I drive on the street, my hands are moving around on the wheel a bit more, and are usually in the general location of 9 and 3 (or at least I can remember where 9 and 3 are...) Dave | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Intermediate Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 1478 Registered: 8-2002 |
i know some of you are going to see this as a trivial, if not frivolous question, since you drive cars or have driven cars with F1 transmissions, but i haven't... i can't seem to work it out, in my head, what makes more sense: In a Ferrari (road car or F1 car), do the F1 paddle-shifters turn when you turn the steering wheel, or do they always stay at 3 & 9 o'clock...? Thanks in advance, for the clarification... |