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SurfaceUnits
01-09-12, 08:57 PM
http://benchmarkreviews.com/images/reviews/input_devices/SRW-S1/SteelSeries_Simraceway_SRW-S1_Steering_Wheel_Front_Face.jpg

High Sided
01-13-12, 10:50 PM
new lotus colors aren't to shabby looking...

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/382689_10150575558561136_64928111135_11110288_1207 158347_n.jpg
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/381851_10150577239961136_64928111135_11114155_1518 440465_n.jpg
http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/394150_10150577240066136_64928111135_11114157_1840 178080_n.jpg
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/378685_10150577239871136_64928111135_11114154_9594 80256_n.jpg

Methanolandbrats
01-13-12, 11:11 PM
Not bad. The Lotus paint scheme hides many of the cars lines. :thumbup:

grungex
01-13-12, 11:37 PM
Holy crap, that's hideous. I never imagined they would be able to make an uglier car than the last Dallara, silly me.

Methanolandbrats
01-13-12, 11:50 PM
Holy crap, that's hideous. I never imagined they would be able to make an uglier car than the last Dallara, silly me.

Aw, it's looks frakable in black, just like a fat girl. :gomer:

JohnHKart
01-14-12, 01:07 AM
I was re reading Bill Simpsons book , which made me think, it's an absolute travesty and tragedy that Indy Cars he was racing in the early and mid 70s looked so damn good , and 40 years later they are ugly as sin

SurfaceUnits
01-14-12, 03:03 AM
I was re reading Bill Simpsons book , which made me think, it's an absolute travesty and tragedy that Indy Cars he was racing in the early and mid 70s looked so damn good , and 40 years later they are ugly as sin

THe IRl oisnt real open wheel racing, theirfour they don't need a real OWR car

devilmaster
01-14-12, 03:21 AM
shoulda just used this...

1E0PFLbGXyA

Rex Karz
01-14-12, 08:39 AM
http://www.lotusespritturbo.com/Lotus_79_Peterson_1978.jpg

That sound you hear is Colin Chapman puking in his grave.

G.
01-14-12, 08:52 AM
new lotus colors aren't to shabby looking...


Can't wait to see them on a race car! :thumbup:

MoCartt
01-14-12, 08:54 AM
Not bad. The Lotus paint scheme hides many of the cars lines. :thumbup:

I think it would look even better in Invisible Stealth CIA Clear.

Too much junk in that trunk!

:yuck:

chop456
01-14-12, 10:25 AM
Looks great. The only thing it needs it to be pushed out the back of a C-17 from 30,000 ft above the Atlantic. :thumbup:

SurfaceUnits
01-14-12, 11:16 AM
count me as a 98%er

Rogue Leader
01-14-12, 12:22 PM
I have to admit it does look way less bad with black hiding all the badness

Chief
01-14-12, 12:31 PM
I'm trying really hard to like it...but it's visibly unbalanced and ugly.

Why can't the dumb MFer's put a sidepod on the stupid thing and lose that ghastly airbox? It's the old Dallara with a new skin. I HATE it, it's just stupid. :thumdown:

stroker
01-14-12, 01:01 PM
They got some serious friggin' tire blistering going on in one of those shots...

the weebler
01-14-12, 01:06 PM
I'm trying really hard to like it...but it's visibly unbalanced and ugly.

Why can't the dumb MFer's put a sidepod on the stupid thing and lose that ghastly airbox? It's the old Dallara with a new skin. I HATE it, it's just stupid. :thumdown:

That freaking huge under tray has to go. Other than that :thumbup:. :gomer:

Methanolandbrats
01-14-12, 09:02 PM
It is a lump of ****, no doubt about it. JC Whitney wing, nerf bar bulges at the rear, goddamn spatula undertray, same hideous lawn dart nose. :yuck:]
I wonder how many hours the colonic commitee spent on that?

G.
01-14-12, 10:53 PM
Looks great. The only thing it needs it to be pushed out the back of a C-17 from 30,000 ft above the Atlantic. :thumbup:

You think it would get as much lift as the old POS?

eiregosod
01-14-12, 11:31 PM
massive identity crisis not being dealt with very well by the indycar top brass.

only hope is the car races well. Otherwise the awesome power of the Indy 500 is going to be outweighed by the awesome power of "limited" in Indycar LLC

eiregosod
01-14-12, 11:33 PM
They got some serious friggin' tire blistering going on in one of those shots...

possibly due to the flexing chassis.

devilmaster
01-15-12, 12:22 AM
Looks great. The only thing it needs it to be pushed out the back of a C-17 from 30,000 ft above the Atlantic. :thumbup:

I've always loved you.

http://www.theblackninja.com/images/movie/blues_brothers/blues_brothers_crazy_nazis_always_loved_you.png

Al Czervik
01-15-12, 12:48 AM
new lotus colors aren't to shabby looking...

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/382689_10150575558561136_64928111135_11110288_1207 158347_n.jpg
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/381851_10150577239961136_64928111135_11114155_1518 440465_n.jpg
http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/394150_10150577240066136_64928111135_11114157_1840 178080_n.jpg
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/378685_10150577239871136_64928111135_11114154_9594 80256_n.jpg

How many things are on that pos that are not designed to make it go faster?

datachicane
01-15-12, 04:10 AM
new lotus colors aren't to shabby looking...

Can't wait to see them on a race car! :thumbup:

:D :rofl: :rofl:

Ziggy
01-15-12, 10:25 AM
How in the world could they come up with this ugly car?

No paint job is going to make it better

RTKar
01-15-12, 10:55 AM
I can smell the excess Testors glue, it looks like something a ten year old put together with leftover parts from 3 or 4 model kits.

Methanolandbrats
01-15-12, 11:06 AM
The nerf pods are hideous. The only reason they are there is so the ride-buying hacks won't have rubber to rubber contact when they bump and there will be less chance repeating the Vegas Brouhaha.

SteveH
01-15-12, 11:28 AM
I can smell the excess Testors glue

I'm pretty sure that sniffing glue was a prerequisite to its design.

aportinga
01-15-12, 12:47 PM
I've been watching racing for 4 decades now and that design is the worst of any series I have ever seen.

Anyone who accepts it or considers it good looking probably owns a Pontiac Aztec, considers Golden Corral fine dining, has a fat wife, and never made it past a GED in terms of education.

That about covers 80% of Indiana no?

G.
01-15-12, 01:23 PM
No paint job is going to make it better

Ventura's Thermite paint??




(/obscure reference)
:gomer:

Mary
01-15-12, 05:03 PM
The little piggies are playing with mom's lipstick again.

Mary

Gnam
01-16-12, 02:31 AM
Looks great. The only thing it needs is to be pushed out the back of a C-17 from 30,000 ft above the Atlantic. :thumbup:

+1

:laugh: @ devilmaster

NismoZ
01-16-12, 07:03 PM
Are these not V-6 turbos? Why the big-ass scoop?:confused:

Andrew Longman
01-16-12, 07:20 PM
I can't decide if they look bloated like a corpse or melting like some sort of Dali painting.

Epic fail.

Fail.

I can't really come to grips that it looks worse than the old Dallara darts.

And this is all that will be left of Indycar racing for the foreseeable future. It will really be unwatchable. I mean I don't think I can even sleep through it.

Not that I watched much of it anyway, but now I will avoid it like 9bra wonder infomercials

Indy
01-16-12, 09:44 PM
I've been watching racing for 4 decades now and that design is the worst of any series I have ever seen.

Anyone who accepts it or considers it good looking probably owns a Pontiac Aztec, considers Golden Corral fine dining, has a fat wife, and never made it past a GED in terms of education.

That about covers 80% of Indiana no?

HeY!!! My wiFf aInt faT.

Indy
01-16-12, 09:46 PM
How in the world could they come up with this ugly car?

Somehow or another this abomination makes it easier for someone to suck at the Hulman tit, that's how.

SteveH
01-16-12, 10:28 PM
Now with more front wing!

https://p.twimg.com/AjTmf9pCEAESTqp.jpg:large

Rex Karz
01-16-12, 10:54 PM
Now with more front wing!

https://p.twimg.com/AjTmf9pCEAESTqp.jpg:large

Add some nerf bars and you've got a bumper car. :vomitsmilie

gerhard911
01-16-12, 11:23 PM
How in holy he|| does a SPEC car come off the drawing board SO BAD it needs that kind of crap tacked on ??? What a friggin' joke :shakehead

Spicoli
01-16-12, 11:42 PM
I've been watching racing for 4 decades now and that design is the worst of any series I have ever seen.

Anyone who accepts it or considers it good looking probably owns a Pontiac Aztec, considers Golden Corral fine dining, has a fat wife, and never made it past a GED in terms of education.

That about covers 80% of Indiana no?

95%

morgahorse
01-16-12, 11:49 PM
After seeing these pics I'm ashamed I live in Indiana.

Gnam
01-17-12, 12:55 AM
Now with more front wing!
:rofl: Got wing?

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/7480/0183097.jpg


Too bad they don't race in Japan no more. They'd be a big hit with the bosozoku crowd.
http://www.offcamber.net/forums/showthread.php?t=16984

NismoZ
01-17-12, 09:26 AM
Wow! Our town needs new snowplows for cul-de-sacs. I was thinking...just MAYbe...? You know, just in case things don't work out in Indy.

NismoZ
01-17-12, 09:32 AM
Anybody find a shot of Keke in the pink Excita Atlantic car sideways on 3 wheels? Now THAT'S the kind of front end they need! Goin' to my archives!

NismoZ
01-17-12, 09:43 AM
Or Howdy Holmes in that Jiffy Mixer March 79B. Now THAT was a bumper cart! I don't recall too many of those vaulting one another.

Don Quixote
01-17-12, 09:55 AM
http://www.crankandpiston.com/brain/media/2011/05/arrows-a22-wing.jpg

MoCartt
01-17-12, 10:03 AM
Just pull that sucker up next to the rig, put the dinner and salad plates on the front 'wing' and serve 'em up. Gotta be good for the crew...less tables to set up.

:thumbup:

NismoZ
01-17-12, 12:22 PM
Yeah, no safety issue there. I'm sure when that baby breaks off it'll just veer to one side.:shakehead

Spicoli
01-17-12, 02:59 PM
How in holy he|| does a SPEC car come off the drawing board SO BAD it needs that kind of crap tacked on ??? What a friggin' joke :shakehead

You know, when you wrote this it really stuck with me. And this truly is the bottom line: What moron come up with this garbage, and what moron fanbase is going to "accept" it?:shakehead

I get this vision of some idiot reject designer from F1 came over on a slow boat and met with the gomerati in some basement somewhere and drew this thing out while on a meth buzz or something. Only in a vaccuum of stupidity could this ever have been hatched.

And the status response over on the IRL faboi's boards is to "accept it"???:rolleyes:

Why? :yuck:

NismoZ
01-17-12, 03:30 PM
So, do we just tack on these 48 to 1,002 that got the red flag?:D We are SO bad! But, remember...one of these things is gonna win INDY!!:rofl:

Methanolandbrats
01-17-12, 04:09 PM
The teams don't want to buy aero kits, so the easiest way to bring innovation back to Mindy would be to allow the teams complete freedom to cut stuff off. :gomer:

MoCartt
01-17-12, 05:40 PM
And the status response over on the IRL faboi's boards is to "accept it"???:rolleyes:

Why? :yuck:

They aren't just accepting it...they are in love with it.


The teams don't want to buy aero kits, so the easiest way to bring innovation back to Mindy would be to allow the teams complete freedom to cut stuff off. :gomer:

If you cut off too much...it's back to the irl flyin' circus. It looks like that wing not only provides too-much-needed frontal down force but also the extra weight it must provide to the front end.

As usual...another IRL/Indycar SNAFU!

Gnam
01-17-12, 06:03 PM
Now that the car is nailed to the track, do they have a lap time?

How does its speed compare to the older spec cars Lola, DP-01, Dallara?
Surely it's faster.

gerhard911
01-17-12, 06:19 PM
Surely it's faster.

Surely you jest :)

High Sided
01-17-12, 07:11 PM
i love the mirrors! ;)

cameraman
01-17-12, 07:29 PM
Wow! Our town needs new snowplows for cul-de-sacs

I doubt that thing has a sharp enough turning radius to work in cul-de-sacs.

Chief
01-17-12, 08:08 PM
Will Phillips sez this baby was tricked out and certified oval ready in the NC windtunnel.

Where are the crash test results and the yaw airborne tests when one of them front barndoors catch air? Will admitted the old car had a flying problem....

Rex Karz
01-17-12, 11:04 PM
Mindy carz don't done go off flyin'. :gomer:

TrueBrit
01-18-12, 12:57 PM
Good god that is awful looking...

NismoZ
01-24-12, 12:40 AM
Yeah, makes that Rolex Corvette thing look:cool: