All News: Ray Bryden
Legends, Lost and Found
March 5th, 2011 by DavidP
I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to be in Paris in the early 1920’s and by chance wind up at a party at 27 Rue De Fleurus suddenly in the company of Hemingway, Picasso, Matisse, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and the rest of the artists, writers, and poets who socialized together and … Read the Rest »
ROWA: Goddess of Filenames
December 21st, 2010 by DavidP
The world will not end on December 21, 2012. That momentous occasion will occur sometime the day before, on December 20, 2012. The story of this revelation begins with my breakfast, for when I was about to ingest my toasted English muffin, I noticed the image of a god-like figure in the toasted pattern of … Read the Rest »
Knobs Explained
November 13th, 2010 by DavidP
Extracting the maximum performance from the fiendishly complex new Williams-Toyota FW31 figures to be a major challenge. Luckily there are some simple things to remember when dealing with the few controls available for in-sim adjustment of the car set-up. First don’t be distracted by the colors of the buttons – they are meant to keep … Read the Rest »
The Falcon
October 26th, 2010 by DavidP
Once upon a basement dreary, between iRace stats I query Over many an impatient, frantic lap of Zandvoort dune While I plodded, quickly lapping, suddenly there came a tapping As of someone gently rapping, tapping out a silly tune ‘Tis some visitor I muttered, tapping like some crazy loon Pulling me from my cocoon. Presently … Read the Rest »
My Netflix Queue is ‘Going Faster’
September 18th, 2010 by Jaime Baker
I’m in the doghouse at home. Perhaps I deserve it. I convinced the family we needed to subscribe to Netflix because of the streaming movies we could watch on our new DVD player, and also get a steady stream of DVD’s sent to the house to watch at will. Of course I had an ulterior … Read the Rest »
My Netflix Queue is 'Going Faster'
September 18th, 2010 by DavidP
I’m in the doghouse at home. Perhaps I deserve it. I convinced the family we needed to subscribe to Netflix because of the streaming movies we could watch on our new DVD player, and also get a steady stream of DVD’s sent to the house to watch at will. Of course I had an ulterior … Read the Rest »
Hot and Tired
July 3rd, 2010 by DavidP
I have always been confused by sim racers who complain about the tire temperatures being meaningless and wrong in iRacing, as I have always had the opposite experience since they tweaked the tire model last year. In fact, I find that reading the tire temperatures is vital when trying to tweak a setup. There are … Read the Rest »
Sim Racing Setup Advice from a Blockhead
June 5th, 2010 by DavidP
William Blake said that only blockheads copy each other, but obviously he’s never tried to set up a racecar, real or simulated. While working on setting-up the Dallara for the iRacing.com Indy 500 event, I was struck by some of the detailed advice Dale Jr had made on the iRacing forums about setting up the … Read the Rest »
Sim Racing’s Code of Uncertainty
March 27th, 2010 by Jaime Baker
A cop pulls over Heisenberg, and asks him “Do you know how fast you were going?” and he answered “No, but I know where I am.” It’s a geeky scientist joke about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle which states the more precisely you know the location of something, the less you know about its velocity, and … Read the Rest »
Sim Racing's Code of Uncertainty
March 27th, 2010 by DavidP
A cop pulls over Heisenberg, and asks him “Do you know how fast you were going?” and he answered “No, but I know where I am.” It’s a geeky scientist joke about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle which states the more precisely you know the location of something, the less you know about its velocity, and … Read the Rest »