Sudesh
> > Personally, I think the
> > physics in GPL are seriously hosed. Real race cars do not roll that much
> > in the corner. Nor are supensions that soft.
> These are almost exactly the kind of words I used in the thread 'Is GPL
> Arcade?' !
> For those of you who didn't get it at that point (obviously there are
> some!), that was an IRONY. It was targeted towards the people with no
> knowledge of race car dynamics who buy an old BMW 3 series, lower the
> front, stiffen the suspension all around to the point of rigidity, spray
> some signal color over the body and then they have a racecar that makes
> you see a doctor for spine problems every once in a while, not to
> mention the fact that the chassis shudders just at the thought of
> entering only but the smoothest of corners at more than 20kph.
> Just to make it official what my opinion really is, no irony here. Any
> racecar that does not rely on aerodynamic grip (like the GPL cars) and
> encounters less than perfectly smooth surfaces needs a softer suspension
> which does not throw the whole car around on each bump but just the
> respective wheel. The suspension stiffnes is for such cars a copromise
> between response (harder suspension) and grip (softer suspension).
> -Gregor