Alright enuf about batteries This is the kind of car that thrills me as well. They were built to last. An old local friend brought his RR to enter the Louis Vuitton Cup in China several years ago & it completed except that he had to do a makeshift repair along the road in some village! http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C117180/ I wouldn't dare to ask about the price though but some period looking cars are quite cheap. This is pretty nice as a daily user too but LHD. There's only one RR Corniche drophead left here. http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C93432/
obviously not when changing gear i guess unless u do some left footed heel toe? what exaclt is trailbraking n when do u do it?
does this work for you? http://www.omgsoysauce.com/10432/when-a-mexican-drug-lord-gets-busted/ if not try from here.. http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=357707 its nuts! they have golden machine guns..cash everywhere..lion as pets..zoo in their own backyard.
guns and lots of cash, you sure these are not pictures of MP's house? was there a yacht in the swimming pool?
yes it is a hokkien phrase commonly used in xiang qi(chinese chess) where the horse (same as knight in western chess) cannot move in its usual L shape manner because the longer limb of the L pathway is blocked by another piece, often from the same side.
Oh. That's no good & if the battery revolution that take out the petrols like what watches did will be depressing. I have a vision that cars in future should be floating on magnetic fields & powered by some propulsion afterburners without the need for tyres. Hence, no more recycling of used rubbers.
I'm hardly a driver yet but personally I feel that driver involvement in new Ferraris (and most other cars too actually) has been plummeting. With all that fancy electronic gizmos, the car's doing most of the work. You're just there to look smug and point the car in the general direction. I used to read stories about drivers wrestling their cars around the racetrack. Clipping the apex was an accomplishment in itself. Now all I hear is pin-point precision and the ease of putting it around a track. Fast. F1 IMHO is heading in the correct general direction by removing TC and launch control and such. Winning's now up to the driver and not the electronic aids. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
i'll use left foot braking when i do not want my car weight distribution to lurch to the front (and cause the rear to lift up and lose rear traction). Especially when you are at the limit, and a lifting of the rear will result in unpredictable car dynamics or a spin. At the track at Sepang, at the transition of turn5 into turn6, when the car is still deciding whether it wants to over or understeer, and you have perhaps entered too fast, and need to shave speed. At that moment if you use your right to brake, you may spin out. So, using left foot to brake is a must at that point. Other areas would be perhaps you are wide open throttle at turn 3, but due to tyres degradation or wet track or unsettling of bumps, you are losing traction at high speed. You'll need to use LFB to slow down too or you'll spin out. Similar for 12-13 transition. I put a cushion to the left of my left knee, so that my left foot can align to the brake pedal on daily driving. If not, you will need to gek your left leg to keep it in position, and after a while your bong will feel tired. So a cushion helps. Initially, aim to brake only on the left side of the brake pedal, leave the right side clear for your "instinctive right foot braking", in case your right foot needs to come in and do the proper braking, as we're driving in traffic, and braking is not a joke. After about a week, you should have re-wired your brain and switched the instinctive braking to your left, or, both feet. After about 2 weeks, your left foot should be calibrated enough to have 10, 15, 20 positions of depression. As opposed to the original 2 positions of on-off for clutching. In a manual car, you use LFB only when you do not need to clutch in. If you do need to clutch in, you should use your right foot to simultaneously depress both the brake and the accel pedals. Either with the heel and toe together, or with the big toe-little toe portions of the front of your feet. The above on LFB is not something i've read or picked up anywhere, but is something I've thought through on my own in isolation, so could be inaccurate..
I think we are coming to a point where performance gains from here on will be miniscule but at great $$$ cost. The next 599 replacement will probably have performance like the Mclaren F1 (shows you what a great car that was) or even better. So I think the exotic makers will then have to focus on the total experience and feel rather than play the numbers game for boasting rights.
Excellent post! I tried LFB on my manual cars & it felt like I pulled the seat ejector lever was a lot easier using right foot on both pedals though. Either way will require a lot of practice & best to do it in very light traffic.... Btw, does it help in timing on the track? or makes every corners smoother
