Newsgroup: it.comp.giochi.simulatori
Titolo: [GPL] piccoli aneddoti

Stasera sono un po' depresso...
...alura, girovagando per siti vari, sono incappato in queste cose
quà. Ve le propongo.
“[Jim Clark] was the quickest man in the team and yet his car would
have less tyre wear, less brake wear and more fuel left at the end of
the race than any of the others. He was light on the cars and he had a
mechanical sympathy for things.” 
-- Bob Dance (Chief Racing Mechanic, Team Lotus) 
“Approach the corner always with the aim to exit the corner quickly” 
-- Mike Laskey 
Jim Clark: “ ...one of the great things in motor racing is
concentration. Accidents aren't caused by speed as everyone thinks. I
think they are caused by lack of concentration! Quite often on the
track when I want to go faster I don't drive any faster, I just
concentrate harder, which makes me go faster. By concentrating on the
braking, by concentrating on the way through the corner, by
concentrating on the amount of throttle open - power I can get on out
of the corner - just by concentrating that little bit harder all
round.” 
“Pedro [Diniz] admits that [his trainer] has reined him in
psychologically – a process begun by a book written by golfer Tom
Kite. In it, Kite states that there is no such thing as natural
talent; there are only those who assert themselves better. This book
has been the foundation of Pedro’s belief that, ‘If you work hard and
put yourself in the right place at the right time, you can do
anything’. ... He knows, although he would never admit it, that he
isn’t God’s gift to motor racing, but he’s forced himself to within a
whisker of being mega by sheer determination.” 
The one who gets on the throttle first usually wins, because all we do
is drag race between the corners.
-- Carroll Smith (paraphrased) 
”He (Clark) was so unpunishing with his car. Take brake pads. We used
to replace them after four or five races on his car because it was
embarassing. Graham (Hill) might go through two sets per meeting.”
-- Alan McCall 
Alison Hine: “[trail braking] takes a good setup, a deft touch on
brake, throttle and steering, and a lot of practice. I use a setup
with brake balance fairly far forward (usually 58 to 60% on the front
wheels) and trail brake to rotate the car. The rate and smoothness
with which you trail off the brake (i.e. smoothly release brake
pressure as you turn the car into the corner) is critical, and is
probably one of the most difficult and subtle things to learn in GPL.”
Tim Sharp: “Some drivers brake hard enough in a straight line to slow
their car down for the corner, but then they totally release the brake
or go to the throttle before they get to the apex of the corner. They
transfer the weight off the front tires and onto the rear wheels just
when they need their steering the most. This can cause the car to go
into an understeer skid. In order to keep the weight on the front and
the tire contact patches expanded for optimal steering, you should use
trail braking. Trail braking is simply continuing to apply a
diminishing percentage of braking until you complete your turn into
the apex. The transition from trail braking to the apex and the
application of throttle to the track-out point should be smooth and
seamless so as not to upset the chassis.” 
Ricardo Nunnini: Never take your foot completely off the brake until
you reach the throttle application point. From the turn in point to
the throttle application point, use a relatively constant amount of
brake pressure and small dabs of throttle to balance the car. Just
before you get to the throttle application point, release the car from
the corner by pressing the throttle and then - afterwards - fully
releasing the brake. 
Jim Clark: “I know I am inclined to go into a corner earlier than most
people. By that I meant that ... most people run deep into a corner
before turning the wheels to go round. In this way you can complete
all your braking in a straight line, as everyone recommends you do;
but I prefer to cut into the corner early and, even with my brakes
still on, to set up the car earlier. In this way I almost make a false
apex because I get the power on early and try to drift the car through
the true apex and continue with this sliding until I am set up for the
next bit of straight.” 
Alison Hine on cornering: “I use a little trail braking going into
most corners to rotate the car into the corner, try to balance the car
on the throttle through the middle of the corner, using a touch of
left foot braking if necessary to tuck the nose down to the apex, and
then try to get the car straight for the exit so I can mash the
throttle as early as possible. Of course, in most slower corners, you
have to feed in the power carefully, keeping the tires right at their
peak slip ratio, waiting for that moment when they can take full
throttle and you can nail it. When you get it right, it’s an
absolutely delicious feeling.” (Alison's use of left foot braking in
mid-corner is, I think, not a routine thing, but rather something you
do if you've overcooked the corner slightly and you feel the front
understeering away from the apex. A quick dab of the brakes can often
transfer enough load to the fronts to give them just enough stick to
correct the problem - at the expense of a little lap time.) 
Stirling Moss on fast cornering: “A racing car is always in an
attitude at corners, never pointing directly fore-and-aft in its line
of travel as a road car would be in normal motoring. The racing car is
sliding, to some degree, nearly all the time, but to be quick the best
drivers try to do the slides and drifts with the least drag possible
at moments when drag doesn't matter. One can put the car into a Kriste
- a broadside as in ski-ing - to slow it into corners. But once one
has presented the car to a very high-speed corner it's rather like
throwing a dart - when it has left your hand you can't do a thing
about its path. If you present a car accurately to such a corner it
will track through in a long drift on a virtually predestined
trajectory. You can make tiny adjustments, but once you have presented
it to the corner you can only adjust the trim, not make major changes
of direction - not if you are on the limit. Steering is used to
present the car, then to compensate for the throttle, because as one
opens the throttle, and car starts to slide you may have to use the
steering wheel to compensate - to balance the power. I would describe
the steering wheel as the presenter and balancer really.” 
...there are drivers who continually want to alter something. No
matter what the designers or mechanics do it is never quite right, and
I find that those drivers seldom, if ever, are vying for the front row
on the starting grid; in fact, they are often not even the fastest man
in the team.
-- Denis Jenkinson 
Alan McCall: “We only changed Jimmy's new Lotus 49 twice during the
whole 1967 season. At the German GP I tightened the very small rear
bar up half an inch to reduce the understeer. He did one lap, came in,
and asked for it to be changed back. At Silverstone for the British
GP, it was decided to give the front wheel more negative camber to
help him round 180mph Woodcote where it was pushing a bit towards the
grass. We went up from a quarter to a third of a degree ... I was the
first to get to his car after the race and he jumped out put his arm
round my shoulder, but he didn't say hello, good car or anything - he
just said: "That was a mistake, get it out of the front, will you...".
And he'd just won the Grand Prix!” 

Ciao,
posso avere gli indirizzi dei siti da cui hai preso queste dichiarazioni?
Grazie
Giovanni

posso avere gli indirizzi dei siti da cui hai preso queste dichiarazioni?
Capperi, le ho cercate per tutto il week end ma non sono più riuscito
a trovare il sito (vengono tutti da un unico sito).
:-(
Quando lo trovo posto il link sul ng.
E la cosa brutta è che me ne servono molti altri perché sto scrivendo
una cosa e vorrei mettere alcune di queste frasi intercalate nel
testo... ma anche di Senna, Prost, Nuvolari, un po' tutti, insomma.
Sai mica se esiste un sito o qualcosa che raccoglie questo genere di
informazioni?
Ciao!
Ryz
A squealing tire is a happy tire
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Cmq, sono partito da questo sito, l'altra sera:
http://www.simracing.com/alison/gpl/
Ciaů!
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Prova questi:
http://www.formula1news.it/default.htm
http://www.ddavid.com/formula1/index1.htm
Non so se trovi virgolettati, ma i contenuti non mancano...
ciao
giovanni
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Non so se trovi virgolettati, ma i contenuti non mancano...
Grazie!!!
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