Comments on: New Abu Dhabi F1 track video

By: abdulla

abdulla — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:07:43 +0000

How can u guys say such things like camel race & other racist things,,, and how can the admin of the site allows this ?

By: pSynrg

pSynrg — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:29:28 +0000

Hey Brian, maybe it will all become better if you were to move to Spain with a few tins of shoe polish…

By: pSynrg

pSynrg — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:37:04 +0000

You would know then Elliott that this could still be rendered in realtime on a high-end PC – assuming of course that all the usual tricks are employed in order to achieve a high frame rate with an illusion of raytracing and complex high polygonal models. Especially with the latest generation of video cards with hardware tesselation, sophisticated geometry instancing and massive numbers of shaders faking it…
I understand the nature of raytracing and if this demo is indeed (fully) raytraced then it’s a pretty poor effort. Although certainly more impressive than the recent rFactor demo

By: Michel S.

Michel S. — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:25:17 +0000

The U.A.E. does not have a good track record in their treatment of manual labourers, yes, but starving children?

By: Spud

Spud — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:08:00 +0000

I think the track and facilities look brilliant.
I just hope the racing does it justice.

Although the championship will probably have been decided by then.

Could be good though.

By: ajokay

ajokay — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:36:12 +0000

I still don’t understand why they’ve put a chicane before the first haipin. Surely it would aid overtaking if it was a straight, fast run into the hairpin

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:18:07 +0000

They never look this fast on my TV…

By: PrisonerMonkeys

PrisonerMonkeys — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:22:58 +0000

way too many hairpins

What, all two of them? Sure they’re one after the other, but they’re designed to work together. The chicane and the big hairpin at the far end of the circuit will be important, because they affect the speed at which the driver emerges onto the back straight. If they take it wrongly, it will be easier for drivers to pass them going into the second hairpin.

By: chunter

chunter — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:14:56 +0000

Note the unnecessary wreck, way too many hairpins, Valencia-like tunnel for no reason, the video makes it look narrow, and finally, it’s still shaped like a rifle.

By: Bartholomew

Bartholomew — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:24:19 +0000

I apologise for being so picky and negative.This story in particular is about the pride that the racetrack promoters have in their achievements.
The track and infrstructures look great – congratulations for a work well done.
And the video is dinamite !