*Speculation* - Release date is known now

[DEVIL 007]

Hi guys,

I just notice today this link.

http://213.202.247.220/index.php?sid=&p=game

There must be a reason why devs cant release that patch earlier.Maybe due to Intel or BMW-Sauber.Some type of agreement.
So we will get that patch 21st or 22nd.

Well I am still lucky seeing myself playing next weekend with all these new features:)

[Hyperactive]

There would be no sense to release a patch and start new competition on same day.

Btw. I had a dream where Scawen send me an SMS that they patch is releases tomorrow ;)

[Rappa Z]

I know when it will come. In 2006.

[deggis]

Let's try to keep this hullaballoo speculation in one thread... :shrug:

[BigDave2967]

Sorry, but that's not the release date, only the Devs know, so going into speculation would just be a waste of time, getting hyped up over nothing.

Only time will tell.

[Screeny]

imagine the challenge they talk about will be held on lfs.
all prices will go to some of us, isn't that unfair? :D

€: this all fits just so well together. now even the airport-intel-ad makes sense.

[ste_]

Speculation that it's known? Well, duh...

so it definitely might be released on the 21st or 22nd?

[NotAnIllusion]

I didn't quite understand from the site.. What exactly is the Intel Racing Tour?

[afastest]

I didn't quite understand from the site.. What exactly is the Intel Racing Tour?

It doesn't tell. It says drive F1 BMW on a virtual course. Not much info other than that, and it will start on 22th.

[kamkorPL]

It could be as well online flash game or something.

[VorTeX3k]

Yes, could be. BUT: why is lfs in this intel-airport spot? Why is this BMW Sauber F1 car the "news" for yesterday?

It all fits together..

[colcob]

Erm, babelfished from the main page:

Cordially welcomely with the Intel® Racing route! The season 2006 promises again much tension and is called running. And in this year for the first time the BMW start cleanly F1 team in the king class of the engine haven - with support of Intel, since end of last yearly of official enterprise partners of the BMW cleanly F1 team. Prove your abilities as formula to 1 pilot: take to place in the new boliden of nod Heidfeld and Jacques Villeneuve and take part in you in the Intel Racing route 2006. Come to one of our numerous stops of the Intel Racing route and drive yourselves you into our rank list of the Top pilots. We invite the ten best drivers of the season to a large conclusion vent, on which the winner of the Intel Racing route 2006 is determined. As main price a BMW M6 signs. On-line Game And who would like still something to practice or to one of the route stops not come can, our on-line Game offers nevertheless 1 Feeling to formula - attractive prices expect the best drivers also here. Register equivalent now and give yourselves you to rubber.

Now the bold bit, I translate as meaning, if you cant make it to one of the stops on the tour or want to practice, you can buy the game at 'attractive prices' ie. get an LFS licence, and expect the best drivers online (that's US!).

Here's the URL http://www.intel.com/deutsch/racingtour/index.htm?iid=deuHPAGE+Main_Racing_tour , perhaps one of our native german speakers to do a better job on the translation.

[NotAnIllusion]

So did I get this right.. it's an electronic league, on a virtual course (doesn't say where), with a BMW F1 car. There's a pic of one such car on the LFS website, and Intel already is involved indirectly with LFS by presenting the LFS EPS races (from lfsnews.net).

Hmm :scratchch

[colcob]

Not exactly. Browsing around that site with my incredibly basic grasp of german and ability to look at pictures, its a simulator tour going round various german cities, featuring F1 cockpits and presumably a version of LFS running on them. Click on events to see the cities and a mockup of the simulator pods.
The prize for the top driver on the simulator tour is an actual BMW M6.
There is also an 'Online Game' which I suspect will be basically a hotlap competition, the prizes for which seem to be Fujitsu Siemens laptops (see the connection again folks).

[Falkowski83]

Well, if it will really feature LFS, expect this to be the gratest hotlap war ever!

I mean... Even if it is not for the M6, but a laptop is already a great prize!

[farcar]

I babelfished some more of that website and it came out a bit like one of mitsufumi's posts (http://forum.rscnet.org/showthread.php?t=247661) :D

"They would like to sit once even in the cockpit formula 1 of a car? Then you come to the stops of the Intel® Racing route. We regard as you original reproductions of the current car of let us nod to Heidfeld and Jacques Villeneuve ready! Measure with other pilots on a virtual racing course in hot head on head running."

[Tukko]

Now the bold bit, I translate as meaning, if you cant make it to one of the stops on the tour or want to practice, you can buy the game at 'attractive prices' ie. get an LFS licence, and expect the best drivers online (that's US!).

Here's the URL http://www.intel.com/deutsch/racingtour/index.htm?iid=deuHPAGE+Main_Racing_tour , perhaps one of our native german speakers to do a better job on the translation.
hmm my german is rusty but it didnt say anything about buying the game, just that there's also attractive prizes in online game too for those who can't make it to the tour.

I don't really think this online game has nothing to do with LFS.. maybe some flash game or something :shrug: *speculates*

[Bean0]

I'm thinking that the date of the 22nd relates to the next F1 race at Imola, also the first European race of the season.

It would seem sensible for BMW-Sauber to showcase their new competition in front of the corporate types that will be invited along. Maybe the drivers will set benchmark times for our 'aliens' to beat.

Who knows...maybe if we watch closely we might see the Devs mulling around on the grid or in the pre-race build up. :shrug:

[Sp3cTr3]

I dont think the patch will come out on the 22nd. How would they have a competition on the same day as the patch is released?? It would atleast have to be released on the 21st for Intel to get prepped

[farcar]

I'm thinking that the date of the 22nd relates to the next F1 race at Imola, also the first European race of the season.

It would seem sensible for BMW-Sauber to showcase their new competition in front of the corporate types that will be invited along. Maybe the drivers will set benchmark times for our 'aliens' to beat.

Who knows...maybe if we watch closely we might see the Devs mulling around on the grid or in the pre-race build up. :shrug:

I don't think it would make much a difference to the corporate types if they released a patch to a bunch of geeks keeping vigil on an internet forum before they got to see it themselves. :D

[LRB_Aly]

I dont think the patch will come out on the 22nd. How would they have a competition on the same day as the patch is released?? It would atleast have to be released on the 21st for Intel to get prepped

Maybe patch is finished and the Intel guys already have it to prepare themselfes?

[hrtburnout]

wir vergeben pro Monat an den jeweils schnellsten Fahrer aktuelle PCs und Notebooks von Fujitsu Siemens Computers. Ob Sie der Glückliche sind, sehen Sie in unserer

Fujitsu Siemens ehh? Didn't Vykos have a deal with them?

[SamH]

Perhaps Scawen/Eric/Victor have helped BMW/Sauber develop their online sim, having been approached as the most viable and attractive collection of programmers, suited to the task - with their track-building skills, and physics/aerodynamics implementation. A bespoke sim, specific to BMW/Sauber is a win for BMW/Sauber. And of course, we LFSers reap benefits of the exchange too.

[danowat]

Maybe patch is finished and the Intel guys already have it to prepare themselfes?

Makes sense seeing as historically they release on Friday afternoons, and the 21st is a Friday :shrug:

Dan,

[LRB_Aly]

Makes sense seeing as historically they release on Friday afternoons, and the 21st is a Friday :shrug:

Dan,

he he and the 21st is also my birthday :)

[Fordman]

There is one man that confirm all of this, and he isn't a Developer :D

Intel ( EPS Germany League )+ LFS + Fugitsu Computers = VYKOS :D

[CharlieP]

Sorry if it's been posted before....

http://driventoperform.intel.com/eng/race/germany/default.aspx

HAve you already seen this ?

[NotAnIllusion]

He is a beta tester though, so he'd essentially be leaking info. Not guna happen methinks.

@CharlieP, yes it has been posted before ;)

:p

[Fordman]

He is a beta tester though, so he'd essentially be leaking info. Not guna happen methinks.

@CharlieP, yes it has been posted before ;)

:p

But thats in English, and holy crap, you actually a breif clip of the LFS Sound :D

[SamH]

Vykos is noticeable by his absence in these threads, I'd say. Very very few posts on a topic I am quite sure he'd be very keen to elaborate on, IF he "could". Therefore I think it's reasonable to conclude.. Vykos is our man :thumb:

[nutty boy]

We've all got to hunt vykos down and force him to tell us the answers to our questions.

[ajp71]

Sorry to spoil the fun but wasn't there a video of one of those simulators with a PS2?

[ajp71]

We've all got to hunt vykos down and force him to tell us the answers to our questions.
He's just posted in the other thread but it doesn't really tell much apart from bashing nK :(

[Hyperactive]

He's just posted in the other thread but it doesn't really tell much apart from bashing nK :(

All he said was that there is no Ford emblems or other stuff on the nk pro site, even though the cars are formula fords. Not bashing.

But let's not go there ;)

And why don't you believe me when I tell you thatI have seen the release date in my dream!!! It's ... hmm, tomorrow :D :D

[colcob]

To be fair, he doesnt bash nK, he just points out that their formula fords aren't officially licensed FF's, but non-branded replicas. Just as LFS's FO8 is an non-branded replica of a formula Nippon, or whatever.

Clearly, in the case of the BMW-Sauber F1 car, is a fully licensed up tie-in with Intel and the team, which is presumably the distinctionhe was trying to make.

[Vykos69]

thx colcob ;)

[SamH]

He's just posted in the other thread but it doesn't really tell much apart from bashing nK :(
Following on from what I said yesterday about transposed patriotism, and what we believe we know about Vykos' close involvement in current LFS developments, I'd say this is an inevitability.

[ajp71]

To be fair, he doesnt bash nK, he just points out that their formula fords aren't officially licensed FF's, but non-branded replicas. Just as LFS's FO8 is an non-branded replica of a formula Nippon, or whatever.


It's not quite the same the cars in nK are precise copies of real cars made using real data but renamed. LFS cars are loosley based on real cars.

But this is not the point he needant have brought nK up how the **** can you accuse me of being a forum troll always bringing up nK when three Beta testers (Kid, Don + Vykos) spend all their time ripping it apart. If the LFS community can't stop ripping apart its rivals then I'm seriously going to think twice about whether I want to be part of it.

[ajp71]

Following on from what I said yesterday about transposed patriotism, and what we believe we know about Vykos' close involvement in current LFS developments, I'd say this is an inevitability.

Still bringing it up randomly just to have a little stab at it wtf is the point in that? Sure it may not be the worst bash in the world but it's just annoying. If you go to any other sims forum you don't find posts picking at LFS so why should this forum be any different?

[SamH]

Was nK mentioned in this thread before you mentioned Vykos? If so, I sure didn't notice.

[Vykos69]

It's not quite the same the cars in nK are precise copies of real cars made using real data but renamed. LFS cars are loosley based on real cars.

But this is not the point he needant have brought nK up how the **** can you accuse me of being a forum troll always bringing up nK when three Beta testers (Kid, Don + Vykos) spend all their time ripping it apart. If the LFS community can't stop ripping apart its rivals then I'm seriously going to think twice about whether I want to be part of it.
The real cars in LFS are exact counterparts of their real world brothers (RaceAbout, MRT). So if there is a BMW-Sauber in LFS, then it will be an as real as possible BMW-Sauber as the real one. Including all the needed data etc. Is that so difficult to see?

[SamH]

The real cars in LFS are exact counterparts of their real world brothers (RaceAbout, MRT). So if there is a BMW-Sauber in LFS, then it will be an as real as possible BMW-Sauber as the real one. Including all the needed data etc. Is that so difficult to see?
Something tells me my theory 1 is right :D

[ajp71]

@Colcob - Yeah I suppose I brought nK up here but only after Kid, Don and Vykos had all mentioned it in the other thread.

Is that so difficult to see?

Yes because the BMW Sauber team are not going to allow any technical details about their cars to float around on the internet. They are a professional racing team and could not afford to let their rivals get hold of this. Also the chances are their cars are as bent as hell (just like all the other teams) so they ain't likely to send any think that shows them in a bad light.

[Hyperactive]

Well, the car (if it is going to be in LFS) will probably be slightly more user friendly, than a full blown F1 car with all the miniscule aero parts and stuff technical widgets. I am not saying that the LFS model would be a simple model, more than it won't have all the 0.01% accuracies in electronics and such.

And the data you think they could get from LFS isn't even closely as precise and real that it could help other teams.

Btw. that render at lfs.net must be fake. There isn't license plates on the car :D :D

[Fordman]

Yes because the BMW Sauber team are not going to allow any technical details about their cars to float around on the internet.

But if that car is in LFS, then it will be properly licensed from them, therefore their "info" will not be floating around the net, it would of been supplied to the LFS Dev Team :shrug: ( I am guessing this is how it works )

[steeflawson]

Strange link for a strange game ??
and its not LFS i think :shrug:
http://driventoperform.intel.com/eng/race/italy/default.aspx

[Madman_CZ]

Still bringing it up randomly just to have a little stab at it wtf is the point in that? Sure it may not be the worst bash in the world but it's just annoying. If you go to any other sims forum you don't find posts picking at LFS so why should this forum be any different?

i think people should have respect for other sims, like a driver would have for a fellow driver.... team for a team. You dont see ferrari saying mclaren are crap, worthless bunch of fuitcakes. do you s neither should be said about NKPRO... ok nkpro has its share of problems but so has any sim any game infact. People need to learn to respect other peoples work and other sims rather than just bash them about with stupid comments.

I personally tried nkpro, and decided at this current stage in development it isnt the game for me.. end of story i dont go around on forums shouting my thoughts!!!!

mad

[SamH]

@Colcob - Yeah I suppose I brought nK up here but only after Kid, Don and Vykos had all mentioned it in the other thread.
That was me, not Colcob.. and yours isn't any excuse. I'm really not meaning to sound mean, but I have to say your obsession with NOT being subjected to any subjective and negative inferences regarding nK in an official LFS environment is beginning to really annoy me. It's gonna happen, and there's no more appropriate place for it to occur than here. You're not on to a winner by complaining about it.
Yes because the BMW Sauber team are not going to allow any technical details about their cars to float around on the internet. They are a professional racing team and could not afford to let their rivals get hold of this. Also the chances are their cars are as bent as hell (just like all the other teams) so they ain't likely to send any think that shows them in a bad light.
I think you're on to a loser here too. It seems quite plain to me that you're stating your opinions as if they're facts while Vykos, bless him, is trying to state his facts as if they're just opinions. I think you should listen to what Vykos says regarding LFS developments. He knows what he's talking about. I feel it in my bones.

Sorry an' all that, but.. things are as they are, not as you wish they would be, on both counts.

[Blackout]

Yes because the BMW Sauber team are not going to allow any technical details about their cars to float around on the internet.

What kind of data? If you can see engine specs that isnt going to harm enyone. You cant see the engine, how its made or what it does. You dont need any data wich would be top secret in LFS.

edit. oh, and they could give old/false data to devs too :)

[J.B.]

It's not quite the same the cars in nK are precise copies of real cars made using real data but renamed. LFS cars are loosley based on real cars.



Not true. The FTarget is a real Dallara F3, The other cars are no more real than LFS' cars.

[SkyNet]

The real cars in LFS are exact counterparts of their real world brothers (RaceAbout, MRT). So if there is a BMW-Sauber in LFS, then it will be an as real as possible BMW-Sauber as the real one. Including all the needed data etc. Is that so difficult to see?

Well to be honest vykos, but how would we suppose to know that?

[colcob]

The thing is that F1 is so close, and so technical these days, that the kind of basic information required to create a reasonable sim model just isnt 'trade secret' enough to be worth that much.
You need the weight distribution (which doesnt vary much between cars anyway), a rough engine torque curve (which again doesnt vary that much between teams, and peak power is worked out by F1 pundits anyway from trap speeds etc.), some suspension geometry which can be interpolated from photographs anyway, some rough tyre data, and some rough aero coefficients.

To get a reasonable sim model, none of the data needs to be accurate to the nth degree, just within the bounds of variation in a typical F1 car, so there is no risk of giving away info to competitors that they would find useful in any way.

The secrets are in how they get their cars to acheive those parameters, not the parameters themselves.

[Hyperactive]

The secrets are in how they get their cars to acheive those parameters, not the parameters themselves.

Exactly. And getting these out from pure 3d model in LFS or through some f1perf app isn't just possible :)

[SamH]

i think people should have respect for other sims, like a driver would have for a fellow driver.... team for a team. You dont see ferrari saying mclaren are crap, worthless bunch of fuitcakes. do you s neither should be said about NKPRO... ok nkpro has its share of problems but so has any sim any game infact. People need to learn to respect other peoples work and other sims rather than just bash them about with stupid comments.

I personally tried nkpro, and decided at this current stage in development it isnt the game for me.. end of story i dont go around on forums shouting my thoughts!!!!

mad
This is why you will probably NEVER hear a negative word said by ANY of the 3 LFS developers, against nKPro.

I'm not a dev, and neither is Vykos, nor Don, nor Kid. They're supporters. Supporters are under NO obligation to be restrained in their comments about the competition. Compare it with F1. On one side of the pit wall are a group of professional, responsible engineers and drivers. On the other side of the wall, you'll find us. We can cheer whichever team we want, and say whatever we want about any of the others.

[ajp71]

Colcob that's what I was trying to say others have been saying that they reckon Sauber will be giving car specific data, they will only be giving general values to get the sim in the right ball park. Even nK may not have been given specific data from the F3 team just slightly generalised data.

Sorry if I'm moaning or whatever but I've already accepted that if I mention nK on this forum I'll get called a troll so I don't expect others to start ripping it apart.

[Hyperactive]

@ajp Could you post an example of what woul something specific data? Suspension geometrics? Suspension components with exatch measurements and graphs/calculations that show how the suspension behaves in certain situation?

[ajp71]

@ajp Could you post an example of what woul something specific data? Suspension geometrics? Suspension components with exatch measurements and graphs/calculations that show how the suspension behaves in certain situation?

Data logging files, precise measurements of pretty much anything, details of how the clutch/gearbox is actually constructed, engine mapping info, traction control software, car setups etc.

In fact almost anything that couldn't be gathered from reading the technical regulations. I see BMW Sauber and LFS as more of a PR relationship I don't think either will actually share each others technology.

[SamH]

I agree with Madman - I tried nK, it didn't "grab" me immediately but I might go back and try it again. I have no desire to act like a teenage fanboy and rubbish all the other sims just for the sake of it. I don't have any emotional investment in LFS at all, and I like it like that.
That's entirely your prerogative. And those who feel differently have an equal right to express their views, or withhold them, as they feel fit.

As time passes, I find myself having MORE emotional attachment to LFS. That's me. I'm also by nature a reactionary, which means that as more people try to oppress others' expressions regarding nKPro on the OFFICIAL LFS forums, I will complain about that oppression.

I hereby formally lodge my objection to those who are trying to repress me, while I declare my devotion to LFS. Don't repress me! :D

[Vykos69]

Well to be honest vykos, but how would we suppose to know that?
Simple: You know how exact the Devs work.

[tristancliffe]

People will rip nK to pieces here. I quite like nK (bugs aside), but it IS the lesser simulation, and on a forum such as this it's not exactly going to get glowing remarks...

[ajp71]

which means that as more people try to oppress others' expressions regarding nKPro on the OFFICIAL LFS forums, I will complain about that oppression.

But not complain that the same people bashing nK for having the same bugs as LFS also bitch about anyone posting fair but pro-nK thoughts as being forum trolls?

[BWX232]

Intel Friday Night Games
Which the ESL for the broad Gaming scene is, is the EPS (ESL pro Series) for the it haven professionals. It is the proof for the fact that Gaming develops to the professional trend sport. In the context of the ESL pro Series Intel presents the German championship. Country widely in different categories with eleven Intel Friday Night Games live before public the German masters in the electronic sport are determined. In the last three years scarcely 600,000 EUR prize money were paid off. The tournament plays are WarCraft III: The Frozen of thrones, Live for speed, Fifa 2004 and Counter Strike. These point plays are professionally moderated, analyzed and transferred live in the InterNet. The plays visit 300 it haven fans on the average. With the last three ESL pro Series Finals altogether 120,000 spectators were counted. The number of on-line visitors is far higher. On the Friday of the Games Convention of this year again some the best more eSportler with the Intel Friday Night Games based themselves.

:shrug:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.intel.com/cd/corporate/pressroom/emea/deu/241084.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522live%2Bfor%2Bspeed%2522%2Bsite:w ww.intel.com%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe% 3Doff%26rls%3DGGLJ,GGLJ:2006-10,GGLJ:en




On Friday, 20 August 2004 then o'clock the starting signal falls into the fifth season of the ESL pro Series starting from 12. With the first Intel Friday Night Games of this season begins also the fight for the fifth German ESL eSL-Meistertitel in the disciplines Warcraft III, Fifa 2004, Live for speed and Counter Strike. This will be endowed in the new season with in the meantime altogether 100,000 EURO prize money
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.intel.com/cd/corporate/pressroom/emea/deu/archive/2004/169438.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522live%2Bfor%2Bspeed%2522%2Bsite:w ww.intel.com%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe% 3Doff%26rls%3DGGLJ,GGLJ:2006-10,GGLJ:en

Seeds planted?
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22live+for+speed%22+site:www.intel.com&num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-10,GGLJ:en&filter=0

[SamH]

But not complain that the same people bashing nK for having the same bugs as LFS also bitch about anyone posting fair but pro-nK thoughts as being forum trolls?
Some people are going to perceive you this way, on here. You're in the lion's den, while posting on the LFS forum. Some people are going to be translating your pro-nK stance as anti-LFS. I've always believed we're responsible for the way others perceive us, but I concede that we can't be responsible for all possible inferences.

[Hyperactive]

Data logging files, precise measurements of pretty much anything, details of how the clutch/gearbox is actually constructed, engine mapping info, traction control software, car setups etc.

In fact almost anything that couldn't be gathered from reading the technical regulations. I see BMW Sauber and LFS as more of a PR relationship I don't think either will actually share each others technology.

I don't think the devs are even interested how the new gearbox of the bmw sauber works (like getting the location of each bolt and bearing...). All the info they need is that how it handles in certain situations and what kind parametres are involved. The RAC is not 100% true in the view of mechanical engineering because it would not make any more real or better.

But in a way this whole speculation is a bit too early. No one has even driven the damn thing :)

I expect the F1 car (if it is going to be in LFS) to be as realistic as the RAC is for example. But I hope it is 100% like the real thing with all the fancy eletronics included.

[ajp71]

OK enough about nK bashing nK, being pro-nK being anti-LFS etc. could we please just get back to discussing the updates and spamming the forum :D. Seems the atmosphere here has changed since the updates thread was locked.

[ajp71]

@Hyperactive - your last post sums it up precisely the devs couldn't really give a toss how a clutch works seeing as atm we don't seem to have much of a gearbox simulation ;)

Really don't know how we came to this disscusion. We need another cryptic update to liven things up on here :)

[K.David]

We should be seeing the next update in about two hours' time :laola:
And I'm happy if the patch comes out on friday or saturday... won't screw my studying:D

[Mazz4200]

3 Days

[Taavi(EST)]

We should be seeing the next update in about two hours' time
And I'm happy if the patch comes out on friday or saturday... won't screw my studying

w0rd

[SamH]

LFS World just went offline!?!?

[csimpok]

Strange link for a strange game ??
and its not LFS i think :shrug:
http://driventoperform.intel.com/eng/race/italy/default.aspx

Oh maybe this will be the new LFS? (with patch R)
Well, the high nose bug and low grip issue surely disappeared :shrug:

[DEVIL 007]

Hi all,
I will not comment the nK pro thingy but can we please get back to the topic.You are hijacking my thread guys:)

[SamH]

http://www.liveforspeed.net/countdown/

[ajp71]

LFS World just went offline!?!?

Because of demand for the main page? a new video and cmx viewer hav ejust appeared :)

[ajp71]

Is there a way to get this video to loop as a screensaver? :D

[spankmeyer]

We get signal!

[steeflawson]

Oh maybe this will be the new LFS? (with patch R)
Well, the high nose bug and low grip issue surely disappeared :shrug:

Right .... Not only that !! all disapearded :D

[Hyperactive]

We get signal!

Beep ... beep ... pipippipipipipppppi

"It something big"

"Aaaarghs!"

Huge fireballs fly around, places go kaboom and you can feel as the devs eat your organs with a broad smile on their face

[Shotglass]

We get signal!

main screen turn on !

[riffman12]

I'm scared cuz i bet Ferrari and Red Bull and such are going to find me and steal my BMW F1 sets =-0

what if they torture me into giving them my ride height and tire pressures?!