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[chiuey]

So Ferrari President has been mouthing off again about how he wants a third car blah blah blah, and it got me thinking. In the English premier league, they have a "reserve" team that plays in a league in mirroring to the main teams in the premier league. Now obviously players graduate to the first teams or are sent to "sub-leagues" (kinda like farm teams) on loan to gain experience. And all this gave me an ideal.

now GP2 Europe generally races at the tracks with F1 cars at European GP weekend events right? What if they have a rookie league, which each F1 team would provide a car to a customer or partner team with funding or support from their partner F1 team. These customer teams in teh rookie league could fielded one car that allows a young driver (with no prior race experience in F1) to race 10 or 20 laps on Sunday morning under the exact same rules as the Full time F1 drivers? I know none of this helps in terms of cost saving but it might create some more revenue and can be kinda used as testing for their partner F1 teams? Just a random thought.

[mads]

Kimi Raikkonen has crashed out of the Arctic Rally on the second stage.

The Red Bull driver lost control of his Citroen C4 WRC on a right-hand corner in SS2 and hit a tree. It is hoped he and co-driver Kaj Lindstrom can return under superally regulations tomorrow.

Raikkonen had made a strong start to his first ever competitive outing in the C4 WRC, posting a time just five seconds shy of Citroen World Rally Team driver Dani Sordo on the event's opening 11.27km test.

A member of the Arctic Rally organising team said: "From what we hear, Kimi has hit the tree and knocked it down. We will have to wait and see what is the damage to the car.

"Maybe it's possible for them to come back tomorrow - we hope so."

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he has this habit of hitting trees and rolling in rallies

[mads]

he has this habit of hitting trees and rolling in rallies

he's back on track

[AErrorist]

Axis of Oversteer

CAMPOS META IS OUT!

One of the two 2010 Formula 1 rookie teams everyone has concerns about, Campos-Meta F1 has run out of options. Adrian Campos has sold what was left of the operation to ex A1-GP patron Tony Teixeira, fresh from that series' bust. Campos would stay on as team manager if the team can convince FOTA it has the proper funding for the season, on Monday in Paris.



You knew it was getting desperate when to attract sponsors, Campos was said to be courting a 31 year old woman as a team mate to Bruno Senna, who must now wonder what he got himself into.

http://axisofoverste...s-in-towel.html

[Dr. Jimmmah!]

Axis of Oversteer

CAMPOS META IS OUT!



http://axisofoverste...s-in-towel.html

Your move, USF1.

[Shi]

damn Mosley picking shitty teams

[DrDickAction]

Wonder if Stefan will get the spot

[1357]

USF1 should try to get Senna.

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can't find any other sites reporting this?
i hope not, senna is getting screwed over for a second season

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Each of the 13 Formula One teams have received a bill of almost €60,000 (US$83,000) to pay for the FIA's technology improvements for the coming season.

Last year, race stewards were criticised for making poor decisions regarding on-track actions by drivers. To help them, the FIA has told the teams that each car must be fitted with an ultra-sensitive GPS system that will be able to accurately track the cars' position to within one metre.

The data will be sent to the race director and will be used by the stewards to judge rule breaking. The technology is likely to be used in examining such infractions as cutting chicanes, ignoring flags, illegal overtaking, impeding rivals and touching pit-exit white lines.

Germany's Auto Motor und Sport reports that the total cost of the new technology is €750,000 (over US$1 million).

wonder what system they're running, my company makes ultra sensitive GPS stuff...

[Dr. Jimmmah!]

wonder what system they're running, my company makes ultra sensitive GPS stuff...

What sort of precision can you achieve? I may be interested for some of my research...

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What sort of precision can you achieve? I may be interested for some of my research...

with laser augmentation, millimeter accuracy
without, sub meter in hand held units in real time (post processed 1/2 a meter or so), couple centimeters on the higher end units in rtk...

don't expect to spend any less than at least $10k for a basic system off the top of my head...the millimeter shit is $100k's...

[Dr. Jimmmah!]

with laser augmentation, millimeter accuracy
without, sub meter in hand held units in real time (post processed 1/2 a meter or so), couple centimeters on the higher end units in rtk...

don't expect to spend any less than at least $10k for a basic system off the top of my head...the millimeter shit is $100k's...

Our applications call for non-optical, but I'm interested in what accuracy companies are advertising these days for real-time processing applications. Could you get me a spec sheet or anything?

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Our applications call for non-optical, but I'm interested in what accuracy companies are advertising these days for real-time processing applications. Could you get me a spec sheet or anything?

sent you a pm

[DrDickAction]

with laser augmentation, millimeter accuracy
without, sub meter in hand held units in real time (post processed 1/2 a meter or so), couple centimeters on the higher end units in rtk...

don't expect to spend any less than at least $10k for a basic system off the top of my head...the millimeter shit is $100k's...

Pretty incredible. You guys work for the DOD much?

[DrDickAction]

USF1 should try to get Senna.

if USF1 had senna and nick, they'd be my favorite team.

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Pretty incredible. You guys work for the DOD much?

nope, different applications...

[Nacho]

with laser augmentation, millimeter accuracy
without, sub meter in hand held units in real time (post processed 1/2 a meter or so), couple centimeters on the higher end units in rtk...

don't expect to spend any less than at least $10k for a basic system off the top of my head...the millimeter shit is $100k's...

I thought the GPS accuracy was scrambled for non-military applications.

[Shi]

I thought the GPS accuracy was scrambled for non-military applications.

they've stopped doing that for a long time though haven't they?

[DrDickAction]

I thought the GPS accuracy was scrambled for non-military applications.

Yep, I remember having an engineer from Rockwell (one of the cool/scary parts about growing up in SoCal in the 80s was defense...my dad developed protective coatings for aircraft carriers, my friends dads developed control software for nuclear subs, etc.) talking to my calc class in high school. Limited to accuracy within a 100 meters initially, which was eventually lifted limited to 1 meter (thank you Mr. Clinton).

[DrDickAction]

they've stopped doing that for a long time though haven't they?

Yeah, they increased accuracy a lot during the Clinton administration, not 100% sure if the limits today are legislatively or scientifically limited.

[DrDickAction]

I'm sure Elmer knows a lot more about this than I do though

[chiuey]

Yeah, they increased accuracy a lot during the Clinton administration, not 100% sure if the limits today are legislatively or scientifically limited.

Actually now that you mention that, a lot of hi tech stuff became more readily available to the public during the Clinton administration...

ie. THE INTERNET, GPS, LCD monitors? Mobile Phones?

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I thought the GPS accuracy was scrambled for non-military applications.

if i remember correctly, that was lifted years ago... there are certain channels/carrier waves that are still locked for military use though (i think), addiationally, the satellites are being upgraded to put out more civilian carrier signals with better accuracy (each satellite system puts out like 6 or something different signals with different accuracies and different information, so its not just like it's putting out a single signal telling you where it is)

but we also use the russian glonass system (most if not all our units accept gps+glonass, even the hand held ones) and our top of the line receiver can accept signals from the european galileo system they're launching...

so basically while your car gps uses 4-5 satellites and is roughly about 20-25 feet in accuracy because that's "good enough" for gps navigation, our receivers in theory can get up to 36+ satellites signals at the same time... between gps and glonass, it averages like 8-12 signals on regular usage

gps - 24 active satellites (max of 32, but only 24 are used at a time)
glonass - 19 active satellites (max of 24 once fully fuctional of the top of my head)
galileo - 30 active satellites (once fully deployed in the next 5+ years, currently they have like 1 or 2 up)