Afborro:
We seem to have pretty much the same ideas on how to go about in developing a mod. Your most recent post confirms this even more than before.
As for the rumour about BMW not allowing ISI to use the model because of secrets, I think that is a fairytale as well. We would be lucky to have a model that matches the behaviour of your "standard variety 600kg 700bhp single seater" category of vehicle.
While this may sound contratictory to what I have been saying in the past it really isn't.
What I mean is that; if you take a Champ Car, or an F1 car, or an Indy Car and put it on a track and watch it, laptimes will be different, but the _behaviour_ of the car will be pretty much the same. This is from the inertial properties that they have in common (give or take 1%, 2% or even 10%).
F1.06 and F1.05 changes these, and does it quite drastically too, towards pitch and yaw instability.
Now the aerodynamics are a mystery even to experts (simply because the system of cause and effect is so complex it cant be expressed in simple form but has to be simulated or even experimented). It is easy enough to figure out what the variables in the simplified ISI model mean. But impossible to come up with even an estimate. Unless you have multiple sets of telemetry and knowledge of the (VERY FEW!!) changes between the sets.
So the fact that F1.06 changes any but the most most basic lift vs drag ratio just seems like a random noise on the hdv.
But I will round off by taking a step back.
We have been running the F1.05 for a whole season and while frustrating in some situations, it has provided a good racing platform.
It is possible that another car can provide a better platform but at the end of the day it doesn't really matter...
I started expressing these views on the nervousness of the F1.0x and sort of expected people to agree. After all, we all watch f1, I thought to myself. But the fact that people don't agree can mean one of two things:
1) Either I am blind when watching laps.
2) Or everyone else is.
Simple deductive logic.
The intresting (and rather neat) thing about the two very different alternatives is that they both share the same solution:
- Just drop it noob!
Don't get me wrong. I am not crossed or anything. I just feel I have been through the key points of my argument. So I am pitting the car until the vote.
-"Winning is like a drug...I can't settle for second or third in no circumstances whatsoever"
(Ayrton Senna)