Community Picture Thread # 5

[Beana]

A community picture thread

The community Pictures thread is a nice little home for you to come and share your pictures, either of you or something else, example something you are interested in.

Be aware that this is not an open invite to post anything you wish, so no silly pictures and no videos, we have other threads for those.

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[Beana]

I will start it off.... hey!!! IS has me Hugging bunnies!!!! LOL

We had to edit the picture of my friend since shes not a member here...

[InsanitySorrow]

[Citrus]

I'll have to dig through my archive to find a good mugshot. It's not like I have many...

Nice pic, by the way. I like the bunny. It reminds me of this.

[_echo]

Duno if i ever posted this one, but if so, here it is again.

[donnato]

Echo that`s great,you`ve got the spoon, now, where`s that JELLO... Edited February 17, 2011 by donnato

[Jheuloh]

You called?

[Khettienna]

You called?

RUN! It's a trap! He's got a spoon!

[Beana]

Eeeep!! Spoon! Lol!

elParedon thanks for making me spit milk all over lol

[Jheuloh]

Jello sammich is now Jello sammich with spilled milk?

[_echo]

Actually:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrStENrKZa8

[Lanceor]

In case anyone's wondering who this crazy guy called Lanceor looks like, here's a pic from a few years ago when I was still in Sydney:

[Citrus]

That's a cool picture. Trackday or amateur racing driver*?

*If you are better than an amateur racing driver, my apologies.

[Lanceor]

I competed in amateur racing at the time. Sprints would be more accurate - we were competing for lap times rather than track position.

After coming second to someone who had twice the racing budget, I decided that I had achieved what I set out to do and stopped racing before it bankrupted me.

[WillieSea]

Nice picture, and yeah, smart move on quitting before bankrupcy!

I probably should find a new pic of myself...

[Citrus]

I competed in amateur racing at the time. Sprints would be more accurate - we were competing for lap times rather than track position.

After coming second to someone who had twice the racing budget, I decided that I had achieved what I set out to do and stopped racing before it bankrupted me.

Which car did you drive? It sure was a smart idea to quit before you ran out of money. I'm also sure you'd beat him if you both had the same budget

This be me. I don't know why I was laughing but I do look strange...

[ub3rman123]

This be me. I don't know why I was laughing but I do look strange...

..Norm McDonald?

[Meo]

elParedon... do you have a miniature person strapped to your back?

[DarkRider]

elParedon... do you have a miniature person strapped to your back?

That's his little shoulder devil...tells him to do bad things.

[Citrus]

elParedon... do you have a miniature person strapped to your back?

No, she's full size.

That's his little shoulder devil...tells him to do bad things.

It's a big devil and she doesn't boss me around. It's my young sister .

[Lanceor]

elParedon - that's a very interesting handle you have for that claymore.

I was driving an MX-5, or a Miata as it was know in the Americas. It was hopelessly underpowered (around 100 kW / 130 bhp) but its cornering speed is phenomenal (faster than a Porsche 911).

I think the #1 guy was slightly faster, but we were very closely matched at the beginning of the season before he installed some expensive mods. He was more of an instinctive "Senna style" driver whereas I was a more calculated "Prost style" driver. I think I had a slight advantage in dry conditions but he'd lap the field as soon as it rained.

Anyway, here's one racing action shot. I'll post more in a spoiler tag if anyone's interested.

Edited February 20, 2011 by Lanceor

[Citrus]

The car looks great. If you have more pics, I wouldn't mind seeing them . I'm a bit of a petrolhead ...

[Lanceor]

Lots of racing pics with commentary. Spoiler tag just in case you don't like racing.

One of the earliest photos before my car became heavily modified. At the time, the only modifications were the racing seat, racing harness and rollover bar.

From the amount of body roll, you can see that I handn't upgraded my suspension at the time. In later photos, you'll see the car sits a lot flatter after I added stiffer springs, dampers and sway bars.

Once again, I need stiffer springs!

I spun out at the twisty back section at Wakefield. In this section, it was necessary to keep accelerating around the corners to keep the rear tyres squashed into the tarmac. Because I entered too fast, I had to lift off the gas, causing oversteer and ultimately a spin.

This orange monster had about three times the horsepower I did but I had much faster cornering speeds. Our lap times were quite similar.

Early in the morning before the racing begins, all competitors queue up for scrutineering. The scrutineers check that all the cars meet safety regulations.

With experience, it is possible to get within a few centimeters of the apex, even while the car is sliding around at about 130 km/h.

The ripple strips at Oran Park are very low and flat (most of them at least) so I simply just drive over them. This means I can increase the corner radius by a couple of feet, saving around 0.1 seconds per corner per lap!

The guy in car number 78 is Rodd, my chief rival in the NSW Supersprints. We were always very closely matched, but he seemed just a little quicker more often than not.

I would describe his driving style as "instinctive", and his car control skills are most evident when it was raining. By comparison, I had a very "calculated" driving style, analysing braking and turn-in points down to within centimeters.

Racing him was always fun.

Reducing weight is the cheapest performance modification you can make. Less weight makes the car accelerate faster. It will also handle and brake better as the tyres and suspension are under less load. I found that every 20kg of weight reduced would lower my Wakefield lap time by about 0.1s.

This photo shows what APPLY_HILIGHT can do for textures.

[Citrus]

Great pics. I specially liked the one where we see the stripped down MX-5 and the one with the Mk1 MX-5 on the background.

I can see you raced with lots of other different cars. Must have been lots of fun, regardless of all the problems you might have ran into during your racing career.

One day I'd like to have a car just to take out to the track. Not necessarily to race with it but at least to attend some trackdays.

[Matth]

Guess I should jump on and get a picture of myself.

Too bad I got no good pictures of myself I do, however, got a 'lil picture of me on Snowboard.

Mind you, this was after 6 houres going down and I was rather tired, hence it looks like I am half asleep there And yeah, I love my green/lime colored pants! You always know who it is when something green crashes besides you!

Perhaps one day, I'll have a picture of myself

Cheers,

Matth