5.- GRAND PRIX DE DAYTONA

[Ivo Simons]

Xose can you change DAYOTNA in the thread titel?
It annoys the crap out of me.

 

[John Westerlund]

I'm sure we won't have any cutting discussion at the end of this race

Does it count as a cut if you are on your roof sliding over the grass? :tongue:

 

[Christopher Aponte]

Does it count as a cut if you are on your roof sliding over the grass? :tongue:

that is the new driving style for Daytona

 

[David Garcia]

Does it count as a cut if you are on your roof sliding over the grass? :tongue:

LOL, depends on if you win a position or not.

 

[Lucas Degen]

My hotlap Daytona

Had a great practice evening with the team. He're my hotlap.

 

[Christopher Aponte]

LOL, depends on if you win a position or not.

hmmm...by reading this I think David has this in mind

 

[David Garcia]

OMG! :banana: Exactly I was meaning that one Chrisopher! LOL ahahahaha!

Cool Lap Lucas!

 

[Eckhart von Glan]

nice song here by Chris Rea, but seems to be about the car rather than the track:


Diamond dream when the sun don't shine
I close my eyes to see
Twelve wild horses in silver chains
Calling out to me

Oh Daytona
Shine your light on me
Oh Daytona
Shine your light on me

Now she ain't easy so you take good care
Or she will scream down on your lust
She can please you like no other
Or she can leave you eating dust

Oh Daytona
Shine your light on me
Burning passion heat my day
Let me sit inside your wonder

Cloudless daydream, oh dance of dances
To have tamed the sound of thunder

Oh Daytona
Shine your light on me
Oh Daytona
Shine your light on me

 

[Lucas Degen]

Bad news for tonights race on Daytona.. Rain & Thunder. You don't want that on a fast oval like Daytona.. Need to work on a new carsetting. http://twitpic.com/1hgm0w

 

[Roland Ehnström]

Fun in the sun? Nope, fun in the rain! :thunder: :rain: :umbrella:

 

[Christopher Aponte]

That's Florida......1 hour it is nice and sunny, next hour is heavy rain with thunderstorms.....(capital of lightning )

 

[Mikko Korkiakoski]

Please explain to me why the race forecast is incorrect.
Here's a correct forecast.
http://www.myweather2.com/Motor-Racing/United-States-of-America/Daytona-International-Speedway.aspx



I'd like to know because it's not the first time our "real weather" is completely different to the actual real weather.

 

[Ivo Simons]

I think i see the problem the forecast is based on Valencia.

 

[Xosé Estrada]

Please explain to me why the race forecast is incorrect.
Here's a correct forecast.
http://www.myweather2.com/Motor-Racing/United-States-of-America/Daytona-International-Speedway.aspx

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I'd like to know because it's not the first time our "real weather" is completely different to the actual real weather.

I don't know how many times I explained this before. It's in the rules, I made 3 posts explaining it, answered to all threads realted... but again

We use real climate models (in this case Valencia one, as is shown in the website, because there is no daytona) to generate , but this does not means the weather will match, our weather is fictional, independent from real world.

Thanks.

 

[Mikko Korkiakoski]

Yeah so it seems...somebody needs to correct that asap.

 

[Xosé Estrada]

There is no weather model for Daytona, so I used most similar clima to that zone, Mediterranean.

 

[Mikko Korkiakoski]

Well forecast for Valencia is still only light drizzle to light rain so how come we got thunderstorms.

http://www.myweather2.com/Motor-Racing/Spain/Valencia-Circuit.aspx

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Reading is an art :thumb:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fictional

 

[Xosé Estrada]

You are not understanding how it works Mikko.

Our forecast has nothing to do with real forecast in the tracks, never had.

It has only to do with CLIMATE



And from each clima statistic values of temp/rain/variability in each part of the year, it generates a fictional clima that matches into the general profile of the region in that season.

Hope is more clear now

 

[Mikko Korkiakoski]

Yes it is clear but I don't understand why we don't use real world forecasts when they are available. More than that I'm just very dissappointed that we will have a "down to luck" race. Thunderstorms on ovals combined with our kill-your-car anticuts are terrible combination. I'm just waiting for all those incident reports...